skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Edit: I just looked at this and other articles. They all say to be aware of how isolated 2020 and 2021 are due to the stimulus. I believe it is bad faith to put 43% as the number when for every other year, the number is usually below 25%.

EDIT: This to me is another indicator of the narrative pushing and stat specifying that muddies the waters.

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It would be quite helpful if the net worth/wealth of individuals who don’t pay either is given as well. When that 43% figure is pointed out. Generally people only think of lower economic class people. Not situations like the previous president not paying taxes for a number of years.

Otherwise all these stats still do not change my original point that they all muddy the waters and people assume the stats are only referring to lower income individuals or “leeches” who are of lower socioeconomic levels too.
Facebook will count one person as two on its platform
What does a "sum of zero" mean, in "dollars paid to the US government overall"?
Furthermore refining old battery material into new feedstock is far less energy intensive than getting it out of the ground in the first place.
Cloudflare needs to innovate more in order to properly be in a position to do long-term battle with Google and AWS.

Their overhead cost is a concern. As a free service provider to many sites that use them for encryption, they're possibly primarily benefiting (CDN-Wise) from Google's encryption assertions made in Chrome.

A few well-publicized system outages for CloudFlare right now would devastate their entire business model... It's happened.

In order to be independently competitive truly, Cloud Flare would need to probably quickly develop a new mobile phone OS, web browser, and scale their cloud hosting to market prominence very quickly in order to be able to preserve their current market share over the long term, which is a very very steep mountain to climb right now.

It's a very steep mountain to climb, because Google already has the aforementioned things in place, and AWS is firmly embedded with customers that don't want to face huge costs in refactoring apps.

CloudFlare needs to battle Google on many fronts to gain a proper foothold. If I was in leadership, I'd recommend a partnership with a struggling mobile phone company like RIM or Nokia, and possibly with Mozilla on the browser front. Reassuring users about and being committed to upholding personal privacy would be another solid move, and then getting rid of the "utility metered" approach to charging for cloud hosting and introducing simple monthly and annual rates with easier services would likely be ideal moves to ensuring proper growth and market share into the future.

This is the chess game that wins from my perspective... As companies like AWS and Azure develop more and more micro-service and licensing-locked cloud platform apps, it becomes harder and much more costly for those same customers to migrate anywhere else like CloudFlare. This is also why competing with giants is a dangerous game. CloudFlare would need to put a lot on the line to compete.

The smartest hosting customers often stay liquid in terms of which platform they can leverage and migrate to through chess in development, but the process of getting locked into one host platform is now a very real threat. Overall success has always been a chess game to me. Informed and carefully planned strategy, and conservation of resources, always works best.
I use Vimium's hint navigation. Works great for most sites.
Readable version for older computers:

https://nitter.kavin.rocks/stevesi/status/144944350678354329...
Progressivism, in this context, can be defined as "the idea of progress in which advancements in science, technology, economic development and social organization are vital to the improvement of the human condition"[1]. In particular is reflects the sort of 1939 World's Fair enthrallment with technology and the post-WWII "we can science our way out of all our problems" attitudes.

The "World of Tomorrow" of the late 30s Progressivism definitely informed Fascism. See e.g https://brill.com/view/journals/fasc/8/2/article-p179_179.xm...

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressivism
Great news! It was a real issue that so much RL research relied on non-free software. It was a problem that a big pile of money could solve, so I'm glad someone with a big pile of money did :)
Before you can make this claim, you'll need to put your definition of merit out there, and additionally defend that the 10% we're talking about here truly has this meritorious status.
Squid Game minigames in pure CSS
Super cool project!

At first I was thinking how hard it must to get value from the confidence reading in real-time. But I was imagining looking at readings while riding a wave. That was silly of me. I guess you use it while paddling, don't you.

One thought, would etiquette allow you to change the links to smile.amazon.com/... ?

Maybe even suggest Surfrider?

https://www.surfrider.org/coastal-blog/entry/give-a-gift-wit... /
Another perspective: by owning your house, you are vulnerable to a risk of fire, or the house market crashing.

Everyone should give me ownership of their house so that I can kindly take care or this terrible risk on their behalf.
Conjecture:

This magnetic “tunnel” is a galactic anyon from the quasar at the center of the (younger) Milky Way. We’re seeing the crazy, tangled field of that quasar “inflated” when it extinguished.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anyon

Conjecture 2:

We’ve systematically failed to measure the binding force of these large structures on the galaxy — as the galaxy “flying apart” would require inputting energy to “inflate” this tube further.
Indeed, the sec and the company probably want to know about you, hence the 13D. There's also a bit where you can only hold a certain portion of a bank before being designated a bank-holding company.

I don't know what scrutiny that brings, but Warren Buffett has been careful not to get Berkshire Hathaway designated it. I believe the limit is/was 10%, but then you could ask the Federal Reserve for a higher limit, which they did because of Bank of America or Wells Fargo I believe?
I don't know a tremendous amount about it, but from what Buffett was describing, it wasn't the fed asking them about their bank holdings, they were asking the bank about them.
Another related question is how many Americans will be part of the top 10% sometime during their lives?
Coalition of 25 press freedom organizations call for end to Assange prosecution
Hard to say how this will play out. When I say "machines", I mean a combination of hardware and software. And these machines will be "machines that build machines". Including new software.
pravda.ru

and some foruns we cant name. like 4**
> For instance, I am currently running at least 6 browser engine instances as I type this, probably more than that, and I just am not experiencing a meaningful performance hit

Repeat after me: your computer is not the same as everyone else's computer. As a programmer, your computer is statistically significantly better than the average user's. If you're running 6 browser engine instances without noticing, it's almost certainly way better.

My wife's laptop is an almost decade-old Thinkpad x230 tablet. Looking on eBay, I see that most of the available x230's have Intel Core i7-3520M[1] processors (22nm, 2c/4t, 2.9 GHz base clock, 5 MB L3), and my machine has 4 GB of RAM. You willing to bet that you could run 5 Electron instances on that machine without any noticeable slowdowns, especially when doing something like running a sixth browser for web browsing?

According to Mozilla's hardware report as of the time of this comment, the median Firefox user's machine has two physical cores[2]. 8GB of RAM, sure, but a full quarter still have only 4GB. The most popular graphics vendor is Intel integrated graphics. And so on.

You want to post your machine specs?

[1] https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/64893/i...

[2] https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/hardware
Tests aren’t enough: Case study after adding type hints to urllib3
It is customary in cases like this not to delete the erroneous comment but rather to add an [UPDATE] tag at the end to add a correction. This keeps the original thread of the conversation intact. There is no shame in making mistakes. Everyone does it.
Can you cite an algorithm that today needs to be licensed for use? All the underlying algorothms anyone is going to be using are going to be publicly available. I don't pay a severance to Markov, Poisson, or Bayes.
Can anyone explain why this wouldn't work? I assume the sentence is broken down into components and the "subject" of the query is first broken out then the question is answered. But the result is not internally consistent:

> Where is the oldest tree in the world?

> the oldest tree in the world is the bristlecone pine in the forests of the Sierra Nevada

> Where is the second oldest tree in the world?

> Redwood Forest

(Actually, it's Gran Abuelo Alerce Costero National Park, Chile but many websites have blinders that prevent them from recognizing anything that's not in North America or Europe and thus list the now-dead General Sherman in Redwood Forest as the second oldest, but we'll let it pass.)

> What is the oldest tree in the world?

> the bristlecone pine in the forests of the Sierra Nevada

(So far, so good)

> What is the second oldest tree in the world?

> The eucalyptus tree
Yes thank you. I know what I'm going to say goes against the millennial / Protestant Work Ethic hustle pr0n... but not _everything_ needs to be monetized. (Given a comfortable base salary. Hustling side projects or side gigs because you're not making enough money is another thing...)
I didn't say that was the start? Did you read the thread or what I was responding to?
Yes, it's a good idea to know the implicit rules for constructors and assignment operators in C++.

No, it's not a bad idea to be as explicit as possible all the time when writing code, because code is for humans first, and computers second.

I always found =delete to be very nice documentation of what I can expect of a struct, class etc in terms of valid uses.

And C++ is huge - assuming all the people on your team understand all of it, and the corners and implicit behaviors is really not a great idea. So you should remove any potential source of confusion, or ambiguity in a source tree - as much as possible.
Similarly, if you make only $2M/yr and live in a golden penthouse in downtown Manhattan, you’re barely scraping by. Why doesn’t anyone think of these poor souls?
How about the right to a decent life? You don't see the decimation of the middle class as a problem for a democracy?

I'm not sure what you're getting at, technically you may have a point (I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt here) but at the end of the day when all resources are owned by a few, things start to break down.
>Do you not hear how privileged this sounds?

You'll reach a lot more people without that kind of language. I for one almost instantly dismiss anyone who talks like that. I didn't even read the rest of your post.
this times 10x

The media, pundits, and politicians only focus on the sticker price, not what people are actually paying, which is often much lower. http://greyenlightenment.com/2021/10/17/why-healthcare-is-so...

We hear about patients being stuck with $6000 bill but did said patient actually pay 6k? Absolutely not, even if uninsured.

also they ignore the role of employer healthcare, or how the NHS is paid for by higher taxes, so Americans are effectively paying less for healthcare in this regard.

So much misinformation and misleading info in the healthcare debate, driven by partisan politics.
Yeah, I’d love to see some serverless php support since the language is made for that paradigm.
"Money spent" != "income". The other 50% is deficit spending.
Advanced keyboard shortcut tutorial for knotend (flowchart editor) [Video]
Yes, but it was still a crash. But for some reason the usual doomsayers who love to predict market crashes are not satisfied with it. They are still waiting for a repeat of 2008.
This applies to function parameters and return values: you almost never want to use a bool. Instead you want to use an enum with two values. Booleans are hard to read in most cases. Obviously there are trivial cases where this isn't the case (eg bool isDigit(char) is completely fine).

Contrived example:

bool connectToHost(string hostname, bool useSsl);

First problem: if it fails, why does it fail? Some will be tempted to throw an exception. Better is to return some kind of status.

Second problem: you add another version of SSL, now what? If you'd used an enum, it's just another value. If not, you now need to retrofit it.

Better version:

absl::Status connect(string hostname, EncryptionType encType);

People will often make mistakes when a function has 3 or more booleans and put the wrong value in the wrong parameter. With strongly typed arguments, this becomes a compiler error.

People will extend booleans to add a third value. In Java, for example:

Optional<Boolean> foo

But it doesn't end there. As I like to say, for when three values for your boolean just aren't enough:

@nullable Optional<Boolean> foo

Just start with enums.
In locations that have taxi stands like airports and large hotels, passengers are required to take the next taxi in line. You can't pick and choose.
haha should have used tether.
power consumption. When the power goes out, the laptop stays on longer than my desktop sized UPS.

obviously space. I don't even know where I'd put a desktop.

silence. I am not a fan of fans. I have a relatively "under-powered" CPU/GPU which is good enough. I am not a gamer. Although I'd love to have a 64GB+ RAM laptop, an ultra-thick AMD gaming laptop won't work for me. Liquid cooling is not in my future.

flexible small thin devices. Plug and play. Our computing experience is not limited to a solitary grey box. Our phones, laptops, and small board computers (ie. raspberry pi) are still running after decades in some cases. A hardware "upgrade" is plugging in monitors, mice, keyboards, and other cabled/wireless devices into other various devices. I don't have to take apart a dusty grey box in order to swap things around.
asked: "what would apple present today?"

got: "Apple would unveil a new Macbook Pro"
Why Can’t I Find the Right Data?
I would argue that some of the larger minecraft servers are much closer to the metaverse than this. They often have 'hub' servers where you can teleport to different worlds with different rulesets. Creative servers for artistic expression, survival servers for gameplay, and any number of other more niche rulesets. It's not unusual for servers to host several hundred people.
Apple gets to dictate both what display server and what graphics hardware macOS users get to use. Linux distros necessarily face integration issues that Apple has never had to.

You're right that it still sucks, but this isn't a matter of Wayland being insufficiently 'advanced'. This is about relationships between enterprises as much as it is about technical challenges.
Surveillance, Privacy Concerns of Infrastructure Bill Impaired Driving Sensors
$ ls -lh /usr/bin/dd

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 79K Dec 5 2020 /usr/bin/dd*
Maybe it would be feasible now, since Unity introduced the new job system, a scriptable render pipeline, and HPC# (high performance C#) with the Burst compiler. But these features didn't exist when Teardown started development, and right now they still seem to have some warts (the DOTS stack still seems to be a bit unstable and subject to frequent change)
Sincerely, as a person between 25 to 35 years old, i don't know how to get out my social bubble outside friends, family, or co-workers instroducing me new people, specially as an introverted and "interested in things"[1] kind of person.

[1]: Here I'm talking about the spectrum between those who are interested in other people and other who are interested in things.
Within an admittedly fairly wide margin of error, yes.

I'm open to, and often am, wrong, but I know of no other, more accurate, less corruptible system.
This is one of those things that is true, kind of, but inaccurate.

Generally, we don't have government moratoriums on eviction when the economy hits new highs, nor do we need massive government spending for things like unemployment benefits.
Ask HN: Where to find opportunities to practice z/OS CICS development?
Hi all. I've been assessing the feasibility of getting into COBOL/CICS development, since this market seems to be really active on my country and I'm also a bit sick of current trends on software development.

However, I'm having some trouble on finding an opportunity of getting access to a mainframe for practice.

Could anyone give me some ideas/directions? I totally consider paying for such access, naturally.

PS: suggestions/advice are welcome as well, as I'm still just thinking about taking this path. Besides, I think I'm well aware of what I'll eventually encounter in terms of code quality and maintainability -- I've been working with 'older' languages and legacy projects for some time now and I feel less unhappy this away.
This is just MBA speak. They wanted to build a new format that would take a while for the competitor to figure out how to copy. And they wanted that new format to help them gain market share against a key competitor.
Or we could just stop exporting almonds to other countries.

https://www.motherjones.com/wp-content/uploads/LA-vs-Exports...
This is an odd line of reasoning.

It's like responding to "Joe didn't pay for his main course at the restaurant" with "yeah but he paid for some of the appetizers."
Also a somewhat flexible definition of the word ‘framework’ it seems.
> You can follow me on Twitter as I continue to share my journey, building small side projects from my home office.

How important is building a "personal brand" in the success of side projects? I see he has 1000 followers on Twitter (whereas I just barely dusted off the twitter account I made in 2016 and I have 2 followers). I had a few "dud" side projects in the past (in the sense that they didn't make money; they were still fun to make and scratched a creative itch) and I still have creative sparks to make more, but I can't help but think I need a lot more Twitter followers in order to boost visibility of my future side projects. Anyone have more insight?
It’s also just a simple strategy to avoid the tax burden until necessary.
South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com
Relatively objective coverage of China
Let us know how it went! I'm away from all the Macs I have access to atm
I'm not sure if the point of the article was that the top 10% control corporations. I think they were more trying to point out the extreme wealth inequality in this country.
For me, usually the answer is a software bug, a missing feature, a misdocumented feature, a hyped technology or a mixture of the above.
Regarding a few skills, Rota interestingly has similar advice for mathematicians: https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~cahn/life/gian-carlo-rota-10-l...

"5 Every mathematician has only a few tricks

A long time ago an older and well known number theorist made some disparaging remarks about Paul Erdos' work. You admire contributions to mathematics as much as I do, and I felt annoyed when the older mathematician flatly and definitively stated that all of Erdos' work could be reduced to a few tricks which Erdos repeatedly relied on in his proofs. What the number theorist did not realize is that other mathematicians, even the very best, also rely on a few tricks which they use over and over. Take Hilbert. The second volume of Hilbert's collected papers contains Hilbert's papers in invariant theory. I have made a point of reading some of these papers with care. It is sad to note that some of Hilbert's beautiful results have been completely forgotten. But on reading the proofs of Hilbert's striking and deep theorems in invariant theory, it was surprising to verify that Hilbert's proofs relied on the same few tricks. Even Hilbert had only a few tricks!"
> People have always cleaned their food before cooking and eating it, we just do that better now.

Is that true? What I've read of sanitation doesn't seem to suggest that. Even so, it's not a minor matter of degree. We understand germs and sanitation.

> The idea is that the longer a food is around the more likely it is that any problems with it can be understood and countered. For example, we now understand how and why to prevent pellagra by treating corn with alkali before consumption. The most obvious target of this methodology are recently introduced industrial foods such as white cane sugar, high fructose corn syrup, vegetable oils, and hydrogenated fats. Meat and root vegetables are in turn older and more reliable than the grains you mention.

We don't need to go back 1,000 years for that. Just eat whole (i.e., unprocessed or less-processed) foods. We didn't learn about e coli and pellagra in 900 CE, but in probably in the last century or so.
Your experience is a bit unusual. We saw measurable improvement from edge caching. Argo routing gave us about 200ms back on TTFB where we thought it was worthwhile. We could of course set up our own edge caching with another provider (we also use Cloudfront a lot), but that doesn’t make Cloudflare bad for providing the same service. Similarly, Cloudflare isn’t bad if they provide a fast DNS alternative to Google’s fast DNS—and the mix of features isn’t identical.
Testing a claim about the muslim call to prayer with open data
At this rate, tether will continue to be continue to be worth $1.00 https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/

You might think this rate will change, but 0% up/down is the current rate.
Why would life expectancy or quality of life have an impact on the stock market? Literally the only thing that matters is future cash flows of public companies.
Wondering what that looks like after taxes.
Honestly, that still doesn't really answer my question.

I can run OpenSCAD locally and there's never a lag like that when I pan/tilt/zoom the camera. I could understand if that lag occurs in this web app if OpenSCAD wasn't actually running in the browser but instead as an instance on a server, but the page you linked to doesn't state whether that's what's happening.

Or maybe it's just an approach to "bake" the model into an image to save resources or prevent potential freezes?

I'm not criticizing it but am just curious about the reasoning.
Single use zoning lives due to NIMBY and voter/pol tunnel vision. The former stays forever while the latter is in play.
Yes, but as another poster pointed out, their problem was that they owed their counterparty money. The courts ruled that early accidental repayment of a debt did not have to be returned.

If they wired me 6 billion dollars, I would not get to keep it.
100% of the USDs that the federal government spends originate from the federal government. Money doesn't grow on taxpayers.
Fair enough, though I think the point of contention is that 10% of Americans have 89% of the say, which means the remaining 11% gets divvied up amongst 90% of people, which isn't a lot per-person, comparatively.

But generally yeah, I do think everyone does get to participate, and that's a Good thing.
Few health effects in wildlife exposed to low levels of radiation from Fukushima
You should add an update to the 43% comment as well to say that percent is only true for 2020 and 2021. Every other year it is usually below 25%. Including going into the future with their simulation. I find a technically correct statistic that helps the same narrative as the incorrect/wrong stat is possibly even worse.

Like the sibling said. It should be an update or edit. Not a change of the comment entirely.

Hope you can make that change as there are a lot of comments that have replied to you.

Cheers for acknowledging you made a mistake. Like many others. That is sometimes hard for me to admit.