skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see that. It seems it's all about income and corporate tax. There are certainly some changes that could be made around capital gains.

They started taxing alcohol in my state to recover from a disaster and decided to keep taxing it. They didn't previously tax gains from property sales, now they do. They started a state income tax that they promised would only be about .5%, now it's over 6x that and they are talking about raising it more. Federal gas tax has stagnated, but many states have substantially increase fuel taxes. The property rates increase despite the promise that money from casinos will reduce property taxes. Taxes on cigarettes have substantially increased over the years and have simply become punitive. Sales tax previously excluded the first $10k of a vehicle purchase, but not anymore. The list goes on and on.

The promise is that the tax money will be used to fix some issue and that there will be no need to extend it, yet those promises are consistently broken. They are always looking for new taxes, expanding the current ones, and yet we still face the same issues and budget shortfalls.
If they were outside the legal system, they could retaliate in any way they see fit. You would have to commit a trail-of-tears esque genocide to claim their land
Our society makes more sense when you realize that politicians don't actually care about whether policies work or not.
> When Karpov's team sent him a blueberry yogurt during a game without any request for one by Karpov, the Korchnoi team protested, claiming it could be some kind of code. They later said this was intended as a parody of earlier protests, but it was taken seriously at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Chess_Championship_1978

> On the 25th move of game 2, a waiter delivered a tray with a glass of violet colored yogurt to Karpov. After the game Leeuwerik sent a letter to Schmid protesting the yogurt. 'It is clear that a cunningly arranged distribution of edible items to one player during the game, emanating from one delegation or the other, could convey a kind of code message'. Although the letter was almost certainly tongue-in-cheek, Baturinsky took it seriously and suggested that the binoculars Leeuwerik used during the game might also convey a coded message to Korchnoi.

https://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/78kk$$01.htm

It's also used a plot point in the musical Chess - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_(musical)
You just need a high enough barrier to entry or real consequences to deter malicious behavior. Spam & scams work because there's no downside; if they had to pay a fee to open an account every time they get banned for spam they'll move on very quickly.
I disagree here as someone who writes code for a living. In my experience, managers who write code often do so at the expense of something that's a more important part of their job that they don't want to be doing.

Many managers are promoted engineers who feel more comfortable with code than people management. So when they don't want to hold 1:1s, don't want to deal with an interpersonal problem on the team, don't feel comfortable escalating an issue to management, etc... they instead pick up tickets and start writing code as a way to kind of procrastinate. This is bad because the organizational structure is such that the manager is often much better equipped to deal with such issues than the dev team, so they can go unaddressed.
> If you live on an area with electrified rail transit (which is where we ought to be going) but effectively no EVs that's surprising. Where is this?

Railway lines in poorer or second-world (ex-USSR) countries were sometimes electrified since it ensured the most flexible and reliable fuel supply: you could run trains not only from oil, but also coal, gas, nuclear or hydroelectric power. Compared to diesel, the locomotives are cheaper, faster, quieter, and more powerful, and the operating costs for trains and track are lower. The ride quality is better, and it still felt "modern" to make the upgrade in the mid-20th century.

Sort by percentage electrified length on [1] and you have Ethiopia, Armenia, Montenegro, Georgia, Bulgaria, India, Poland, Azerbaijan, North Korea, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Morocco, Ukraine, South Africa, North Macedonia etc all with a significant proportion of their rail networks electrified.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_rail_tran...
> The top comment mentions people hiding posts from pages they don't follow - alternatively, that's called showing brand new content you haven't seen before.

These were people who had already been sorted into echo chambers. Turning off the algorithm sent data to them they had already learned to hide. I'd be interested to see how this same experiment fared with completely new user. Maybe we'll run across a new tribe in the Amazon or something so we can try this out.
Yes, or not much more difficult. This is a well studied subject: http://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/31877/
The dongle you need to convert USB-C to 3.5mm audio is less than $10 on AWS. You could have used your cans without fear of running out of battery power.
ECJ orders Poland to pay daily penalty payment of one million euros
Notably missing the best monospaced font.

http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/
>Americans will be able to understand for once that there isn't a race issue in the US, but an economical one.

Incorrect: there has been an inextricable link between race and economics in America by design, virtually since its inception. From slavery to Jim Crow to stolen land to redlining to mass incarceration and so on. The economic legacy from that history doesn't just evaporate and, in any case, redlining and other systems of disenfranchisement still exist.

>race divides are just distractions for the "peasantry"

Somewhat correct. It is true that race has been the basis on which less-well off members of the majority population have been convinced to accept their own economic disenfrachisement in exchange for some illusory sense of superiority and modest preferential treatment. They were sold the idea that economic empowerment is not what they should desire, but separation from and dominion over those who are "inferior".

So, for poor and working class members of the majority, it's a distraction. For minorities on the receiving end, it's reality.
Yes, but it had made the front page at the time, which already guarantees quite a lot of attention.
> since anyone can become a validator

By this reasoning, there is no central authority in the dollar system since anyone could become chair of the federal reserve. The odds for an individual without specific hardware to actually mine (and then becoming a validator) a single block are extremely thin. (Granted it's more likely than becoming the chair of the Fed, but less likely than becoming the head of the central bank of Malta for a citizen of that country …)
I'm quite happy about the move to USB-C and changed all my stuff to it as soon as possible. 5 years ago I had several micro usb and mini usb chargers, some of them broken. On a regular base I had to buy new chargers and cables. The MagSafe power supply cables broke easily (but yes, the port was nice). Now there's just one cable for everything, I still have 2 phone fast chargers but both actually work. Also I can just charge my phone without searching for the charger and the laptop can be connected to screen/keyboard with just 1 USB-C cable.

After all, Apple were also the first to sell Desktops without Floppy or Optical drive.
Thank you, I stand corrected. Still, a good step in the right direction.
And, it wasn't Scholz' first rodeo.
"John was responsible for production having been deleted" because of the systems and processes he did or did not put in place. At a high enough level of abstraction, this is all that matters.

Jony was responsible for the Touch Bar.

Anyway, some evidence: "For years, Apple Chief Design Officer Jony Ive has expressed a desire for the iPhone to appear like a single sheet of glass", suggesting that this could have been part of a larger overall design direction. (https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-unlikely-to-make-big-chan...)

I'd be willing to bet that they mocked up MacBooks with full touchscreen keyboards.

Further, I don't think it's a coincidence that I don't mind typing an email (core C-level activity) on an iPad on-screen keyboard, but I'd find it infuriating to try to code on.
Microflown makes one, it uses very small temperature differences. You can look for acoustic particle velocity sensor to find more about how they work. I can't remember the paper, otherwise I'd provide a better link.
https://www.microflown.com/products/standard-probes

This PDF may be helpful
http://past.isma-isaac.be/downloads/isma2010/papers/isma2010...
I'd guess it depends on how narrow or wide you define the "desirable" group. Research from dating sites often conclude that women select for the top 20% of men whilst largely ignoring everybody else.

I imagine such a "top" man to be handsome, sociable, strong, economically successful or at least stable, funny, and whatever other quality women select for.

The chance for such men to go unnoticed and unclaimed until they are 30-40 y/o has to be close to zero. Almost all female attention is channeled to them, and they're unlikely to be passive themselves. The market should be efficient here. Do you know of any hot successful men that are single due to not being discovered?

If you widen the selection criteria to the best 50% of men, you're likely right that some of them in their 30s go "undiscovered". Yet it's questionable whether this is so in large numbers as time still matters:

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/08/20/a-profi...

In the age group of 30-49, 27% of men are single. Half of them want to be single and are not on the market, so that leaves 13.5% of remaining "supply".

So a single woman in this same age group looking for a man finds 86.5% of men unavailable or not interested. Did the market perfectly select the "best" 86.5% already? No, human affairs are complex, but we also should not look away from basic dynamics. Nature finds a way, whether we like it or not.

In my country (Netherlands) already from age 20, only 20% of men is single. It's unlikely that all remain with this same partner for life, but this is to point out that selection start early, and almost all "supply" is immediately taken. I don't know if the market is efficient, but it sure is fast. When trying to find your first partner in your 30s, you're a decade too late if you have high standards. In your 40s, most people have a family with kids that might be up to 10 years old, so "late" doesn't even begin to express it.
not at all. I see polticial/pundits accounts getting 2-5x more likes, retweets, etc. comapred to a year ago. Covid, increaed poltical division, culture wars etc. have really amplified usage.
OK, all I remember is that many people have complaints about Go executables being huge. How does this affect it?
> I mean, it's sort of a false dichotomy -- it's omitting a "default speed" for writing boilerplate that is neither enhanced nor impeded.

I'm not sure. I think that understanding is omitting a "default amount" of boilerplate that will have to be written regardless of one's individual preference that is really a function of the language / framework of choice, the existing codebase and the problem at hand.

Removing that boilerplate would be ideal but is not always possible given limited resources, time constraints and the usual inability to make sweeping changes to the codebase

So we settle for the second best solution which is to automate away that tedious process (or short of that provide developers with tools to get it out of the way faster) so we can all focus on "real work"
Normal? As far as I can tell, yes. I'm about 3 years into my own career, but as far as I can tell from basically every career conversation I've had, that seems to be the way for larger companies, and seems to be the well-defined path.

As a side note, this appears to be the way for many other technical careers as well. For example, I know a prototyping engineer that bemoans a similar path. The more responsibilities you have, the more you delegate, and it snowballs.

As for "ok", that's entirely up to you. If you enjoy it and find fulfillment, then I think it is. I have a co-worker who's been with the same team for around 10 years, is at a manager level, but is perfectly happy to stay at the individual-contributor role. It's really about where you find the joy.

As for switching to another job, you probably wouldn't go through the LeetCode stuff, if you didn't want to. You'd likely move straight to manager, where your skills are currently. I imagine they'd be smart to not waste your time and just look at your resume.
wlroots are not used by the two main desktops, so to get basic features like screenshots you need to support 3 different ways already.
Discussed at the time:

Open Source Maintainers Owe You Nothing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16631476 - March 2018 (26 comments)
This is all true. You make very good points.

My parent said:

> And this is why genetic diversity is a good thing.

I guess what I meant was: genetic diversity is a good thing. But this particular case is not a great example for illustrating why.
This post details intentional abuse of Chrome's dominant browser position to push the AMP technology onto the web.

> Google throttles the load time of non-AMP ads by giving them artificial one-second delays in order to give Google AMP a “nice comparative boost.” Throttling non-AMP ads slows down header bidding, which Google then uses to denigrate header bidding for being too slow.

Antitrust behaviour indeed.
I think that's wishful thinking on the timeline and a very hopeful outlook for technology to save us. It also doesnt answer the question of if some of the byproducts are only useful for burning. If I remember right, gasoline was originally considered a byproduct.
Intel Unveils 12th Gen Intel Core, World’s Best Gaming Processor, I9-12900K
Walmart.com (during Black Friday) would beg to differ. LinkedIn might want a word too. I'm sure every language has its success story(ies) along with a long list of failures. Shopify and Stripe are successful with Rails! JavaScript is no different here.
Hi, I was recently trying to make some improvements to the build for XQuartz, which in turn was so I could make some changes to XQuartz and fix some issues with recent macOS changes too.

While I made some progress, it took much longer than I anticipated. I wonder if there's demand enough for X server on macOS to justify this work? Additionally, I'd have to find some funds to support my work as well, if I were to continue.
Yesterday, I was disgusted to see framers putting up a house that clearly plagiarized the entire internal structure of my own. Same joint interfaces, same structural idioms when dealing with things like staircases, windows, and rafters, same fasteners, same adhesives, even the building materials! Aside from the most general aspects of the layout, it was exactly the same right down to the inch! People have no professional integrity these days.
Tesla iOS app 4.2.1 brings remote live Sentry cam access, reveals new colors
Projects of course. They don't have to adhere to some theoretical waterfall process, and anecdotally never have. There's Kanban, and any informal process a group of cross-functional people may come up with. In fact, it's much more important to make something that works, than copying some task-list because it's said to have worked somewhere else.

Incidentally, and this is going to shake up the "Agile" world going forward, is the missing piece, the link to management (budgets and trust really!) and innovation (the creative spark!). That should be less about process, and much more about culture and learning. That has remained elusive and underappreciated.

Google Design Sprint may be the closest "process", though will still depend more on the mentioned above.

With a great team, it anyway depends on the people. Though, the experience and output also depends on who you ask. Which is why great teams may get split up, for good reasons but also bad reasons at the same time.

Though try put the most brilliant people together. They will annoy eachother into oblivion. So it's about the art of building diverse teams and mixing with what's mentioned above, because nothing thrives in a vacuum.
If you don’t want to budge on remote part-time you should find out early in the process if that’s a deal-breaker. You can ask about policies or whether other people in the group work remotely without insisting. It’s not an unusual thing to ask about these days. If the company has a hard “everyone in the office” rule then you can pass.

When looking for a job you need to do some research. You want to find out about salary and benefits, work conditions, etc. You should have that information before spending time in interviews. Once the company expressed interest by making an offer you are in a position to negotiate.

My point is to avoid filtering or creating obstacles early in the process, when you are not in a strong position yet. It’s a sales tactic. If the company wants you they will probably have some flexibility. How much they will accommodate depends on how valuable they perceive you as.

I worked expect many companies will want you working in person for a while so you can integrate with the team and company, and so you can show your manager and team that you can deliver without a lot of direct supervision.
Oops. Should have been "trackpoint" and not trackball. It's a pimoroni trackpoint breakout board.
I think also news didn't leak out right away about what was going on the Soviet Union, particularly when WWII was raging and the crimes of the Germans and Japanese were front and center.
It's also interesting that a single mutation can cause this lack of tusks. That reinforces another concept for me - the ability to adapt is also important and has been selected for. Meaning simple genes to define structure are preferable to complex sets of them.

On a related note, if "ability to evolve" is a characteristic that can be selected for that would explain why all complex life uses sexual reproduction. Mixing genes offers such advantages that most everything that can't do it is still basically bacteria.
Disclaimer: I work for the Wikimedia foundation but this is just my personal opinion.

I'm pretty sure that Wikimedia would never sell such a service.

This is about access to content and network resources. Definitely not about access to user's browsing histories.

In my experience, user privacy is taken very seriously by Wikimedia's staff and leadership. The privacy policies/practices[1] are top-notch and not just a gesture or PR/appearance management.

[1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2018/05/21/wikimedia-fo...
I'm also guessing, but I suspect that the sharp rise of mobile was a contributing factor. Mobile can have good throughput but not so good latency so packing more per request makes a lot of sense.

At one place I worked we actually made two BFF (backend-for-frontend) servers that took one client request, made many within datacenter requests, put a single response together and sent it all back. We had one for mobile and one for web. We only had one datacenter region so made sense for global users regardless of throughput.
My grandfather recently died and left behind collections that we sold off. When you spend your life collecting things you really do build yourself around it. I was very excited and volunteered to take his national geographic collection until I realized that it would essentially take two entire rooms full of boxes with no walking space. His coin and stamp collections were also massive, heavy filing cabinets. Even selling them off is a massive chore, much less going through them to try and see where to continue it.
It's too bad there is not a gene for making the tusk highly radioactive or shoot out like rockets at the poachers. I guess that's asking a lot of evolution - it's already done a lot for us.
Correct. Fixed above now.
Yes it's not very shinning there. I would also throw the error instead of printing the error to the console and returning undefined.
"On September 20, a group of internet sleuths calling themselves DRASTIC (short for Decentralized Radical Autonomous Search Team Investigating COVID-19) released a leaked $14 million grant proposal that EcoHealth Alliance had submitted in 2018 to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

It proposed partnering with the Wuhan Institute of Virology and constructing SARS-related bat coronaviruses into which they would insert “human-specific cleavage sites” as a way to “evaluate growth potential” of the pathogens. Perhaps not surprisingly, DARPA rejected the proposal, assessing that it failed to fully address the risks of gain-of-function research.

The leaked grant proposal struck a number of scientists and researchers as significant for one reason. One distinctive segment of SARS-CoV-2’s genetic code is a furin cleavage site that makes the virus more infectious by allowing it to efficiently enter human cells. That is just the feature that EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology had proposed to engineer in the 2018 grant proposal. “If I applied for funding to paint Central Park purple and was denied, but then a year later we woke up to find Central Park painted purple, I’d be a prime suspect,” said Jamie Metzl, a former executive vice president of the Asia Society, who sits on the World Health Organization’s advisory committee on human genome editing and has been calling for a transparent investigation into COVID-19’s origins."
The Amish are ~0.1% of America's population.

Is there any vaguely-homogenious 0.1% of America's population that could stand alone outside of American society, when you start requiring mega-scale social systems like a first-world legal system and military? I'm thinking "no".
The residency system needs to go. This is the major bottleneck. Too much innovation is held back because the supply of doctors is just too constrained via education through apprenticeship. If the only profitable job in life science is medicine (the physician track), then all those equally talented people who lose the rat race for one reason or other would be forced to seek other careers.
Now if we could just get them to drop the .NET nonsense, things could then possibly return to being as stable as NT4 used to be.
Wayland as a `screencopy` protocol and the `wlroots` library packages it for other compositors to use.

Is the issue that compositors don't implement the `screencopy` protocol themselves or use the implementation provided by wlroots?

Ref: https://wayland.app/protocols/wlr-screencopy-unstable-v1
USB-C is supposed to be rated for many times more insertion cycles than USB-A which is a big bonus in it’s favour, that said they do tend to get perceivably looser over time.
List of newly launched products: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/codenam...
Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28605584

Amazon’s new Kindle Paperwhite (theverge.com)

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Yeah, it's definitely a sad comedy, especially when the LC questions they are testing on are usually the exact things that developers should be using an established library for instead of implementing themselves.

I also think that all hiring depends on internal politics, to which the candidate usually has no insight.

Luckily my wife and I have learned to laugh about it.
The Codeless CTO (2019)
The threshold of originality is clearly being reached some of the time:

> Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments (twitter.com/mitsuhiko)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27710287