skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup. We live in an Age of Miracles.

~30 years ago I had a bone marrow transplant. I lived in an isolation bubble for a month. 95% mortality rate in the first year. A year of recovery.

Today, treating my original disease is practically an outpatient therapy.

To say nothing of immunotherapy replacing chemotherapies. My buddy had a late stage solid organ tumor. Cured with immunotherapy. For a condition that was absolutely fatal just a few months prior.

I could go on and on.
To me that seems like planned obsolescence. Networking a printer using a raspberry pi (or similar) means it will stay up to date, regardless of vendor EOLing it or not.

I have a printer that does wifi, but it is stuck forever at 802.11g, meaning it will degrade my wifi network and add something like a 10ms (best case) latency.

I am just old-fashioned. I understand the comfort of connecting the printer to wifi and being up and running. I will probably never do it if I have the option, since I hate having to replace a printer I like. The only downside of my lexmark is that it is slow compared to modern black and white lasers. But then again it is more than half as old as I am.
Wow. A humbling article. I've been reading a lot about evolutionary biology and genetics and fancied I had a good enough understanding of how DNA worked physically. Apparently not!
> the article does not say that "the wealth taxes generated less revenue than the ordinary income taxes would have."

The loss of income tax revenue from the departure of the wealthy was twice as much as the revenue generated from the wealth tax from all of those who didn't leave. Therefore the tax was a net negative, hurting French finances to the tune of 7 billion euros of lost revenue as a result of the tax[2]

"The revenue it raised was rather paltry; only a few billion euros at its peak, or about 1% of France’s total revenue from all taxes. At least 10,000 wealthy people left the country to avoid paying the tax; most moved to neighboring Belgium, which has a large French-speaking population. When these individuals left, France lost not only their wealth tax revenue but their income taxes and other taxes as well. French economist Eric Pichet estimates that this ended up costing the French government almost twice as much revenue as the total yielded by the wealth tax."[1]

> Those who are extremely wealthy actually do not tend to pay much in income taxes, especially outside of the US

In France they certainly do, but they did not pay much in wealth taxes due to the difficulty in collecting the tax.

And here we have the main problem. Perhaps there is debate about how many tax refugees left and how much capital left the country -- that's fine.

But is the purpose of the tax to hurt the rich or is the purpose of the tax to raise money?

There is no debate about how much money the tax raised, regardless of whether you agree with Pichet's study. The money raised is known and was just 5.2 billion euros in 2015[2]. For all of France - a nation whose 2015 GDP was 2.2 Trillion euros. And this was a tax valued at 0.5% for all wealth above 1.3 million and an extra 1% for wealth above 10 million euros (so two rates of .5% and 1.5%). So even if you disagree that the net effect was negative because you don't agree with Pichet's methodology, there is no disputing the tax was ineffective at raising money.

[1] https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/france-tried-soaking-the-rich-it...

[2] https://www.investorschronicle.co.uk/education/2021/02/11/le...
Too bad you can't change out the soldered on RAM. Thus still not buying even if adobe keeps up the "no photoshop on Linux" bs forever
In theory yes but in reality Earth rotates and orbits the Sun. Any particular observer outside our solar system has a very low probability of catching any one of those beams at the moment it's photons are reaching them.

There's also little chance of those beams will ever hit the same observer. The inverse square law also means that a potential observer would need to be in a relatively small radius from our system.
If anyone thinks that $5.7B is a real number, they should see what would happen if this wallet tried to sell even $1B of its tokens.
We should implement a digital central bank currency and use it to implement a progressive consumption tax. Vats are great.
> I imagine Google makes use of optimizations only possible in Chrome

and by intentionally crippling performance in other browsers https://archive.vn/2019.04.15-165942/https://twitter.com/joh...
Did you wipe the drive? If not, there is probably a hidden OEM partition that Windows uses to install all that OEM stuff back after fresh installs.
From my own experience I can very much believe an SSRI could have an effect on the immune system and/or the respiratory system.

I was a heavy cigarette smoker in my 20s, and over those years, I experienced worsening asthma and also worsening anxiety and depression.

Eventually I was prescribed an SSRI (Zoloft), and found that not only did my mood change, my asthma completely abated, even though I was still smoking just as much.

After a few months I decided I didn't like all that the SSRI was doing to my psyche, so when the prescription finished I tapered off it, and sure enough the asthma returned a few months later.

I've never enquired much as to what what was going on - I didn't speak to doctors or other people about it. But the correlation between SSRI intake and asthma abatement was very clear.

(And yes I know it was very stupid to be smoking as an asthmatic - I quit completely the following year and have stayed off them for coming-on 15 years. I've also been mostly asthma-free in that time, though it returned for a few months about 7 years ago, after a period of intense career-related stress, but then cleared up after I undertook some healing work that included both immune-system support and emotional healing.)
Maybe they generate the downgrade patches as the upgrade patches arrive - but before they're applied? During that period one would expect the network to be the bottleneck in all but the most extreme circumstances. [edit] And it should be possible to do incrementally.
> So even if there is a proof of P=NP with quantum computers

That doesn't really even make sense as a sentence. A quantum computer is neither a Turing machine nor a non-deterministic Turing machine.

I guess what you're trying to say is that even if someone proved/disproved BQP=NP it would leave P=NP open.
> Well, it's free to use right now....

From copilot "additional telemetry"

> If you use GitHub Copilot, the GitHub Copilot extension/plugin will collect usage information about events generated by interacting with the integrated development environment (IDE). These events include GitHub Copilot performance, features used, and suggestions accepted, modified and accepted, or dismissed. This information may include personal data, including your User Personal Information

So, not really free is it?
As far as I know, every sort of margin loan or pledged asset line of credit is indexed against the daily SOFR, LIBOR, or a similar benchmark (onto which the lenders add their profit margin, which is usually negotiable if you throw enough money at them). If you know any with fixed interest rates let me know, that'd be a helluva deal!
The submitter submitted it that way ("Ancient Xinjiang mummies are not of Indo-European origin"). We've reverted it now.

"Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Just like everything is securities fraud!
hey, at least those googlers all passed leetcode.
1. Name one other perk government gave poor, or middle class, homeowners. If you are lucky, and hard working, you might end up being a homeowner. You will appreciate a reasonable tax bill when you arn't spunky, and making money, later in life.

2. Not all of us are budding business owners--excuse me Start-ups. We don't have business deductions, or anything else fancy. We fill out the short form.

3. I saw my father cry twice. Once at his mother's funeral, and yes when he opened that ever increasing property tax bill in the 70's.

4. People have no idea how county officials wasted those funds in the 70's. There were pet political projects, and just waste.

5. America was different back then. Most stuff was made here. Blaming Prop 13 is misdirected.

6. There's a part of me that wants to let the youngsters have their wish. I will sit back and watch homes being snatched up by wealthy foreigners, and corporations.

They will buy up those homes, and we be in the same spot.
The linked article is a proposal but at least when I tried Go a couple of weeks ago, it did not use that approach and to the best of my knowledge that proposal has not yet been implemented. Instead as of now Go uses the straight forward approach of generating one implementation for every instantiation just like C++ compilers do.

The upside is there is no runtime cost to using generics, the downside is there is significant compile time and link time cost to generics.
They are useful if you really know what you're doing.

Someone who tends to only use the autorouter in a bad way probably wouldn't do much better doing it by hand anyway as they wouldn't be aware of the pitfalls.

They'd still end up with 500 vias, traces all over the place, bad placement and not doing any pinswapping anyway
I wonder if perhaps "install time" contains "download time", and by taking some average internet connection speed, they're estimating that they save more in download time than they cost in actual install+downgrade patch time?

This would mean, if you have a fast link, the experience is somewhat worse, but if you have a slow link, the experience is better.

Just a total guess though.
The nerve encoding for the auditory nerve has been decoded in 1970s. We now have devices that are able to directly tap into the auditory nerve, called cochlear implants. I presume the procedure would be similar to that.
Yeah only they're allowed to do that https://web.archive.org/web/19970429012543/http://www.au.af....
MBP era, I owned the first of the Aluminium unibody Macbook's which were released around 2008 which had a removable body with a tab.
But what if I told you I wrote it fast?

… as a top level comment said, this is optimizing for the wrong problem.
I'd have thought background tab would be written to it's domain-partitioned bit of the cache before being unloaded. I'm very surprised you lose the current state. To be honest, that sounds like a bug.
A rare triple pun. Well played.
Why not. If all players/dice have an equal chance of rolling highest, then...?
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When I read "CDC investigators quickly began hunting for a common source, sampling soil, water, and various products from in and around the four patients' homes." I also thought of House (though it was usually his assistants invading people's homes...)

I'm not sure what you mean by 'a healthcare system' (you may by thinking of the UK or Canada, I guess) but the US certainly has a large Federal health establishment; the United States Public Health Service started in 1798. The US DHHS has 79,000 employees, including a thousand researchers and a $1.2T annual budget; the CDC (of which 'Epidemic Intelligence Service', founded 1951, is just a part) is only one of DHHS' 14 agencies.

I'm sure all of the for-profit hospitals in the US greatly appreciate that taxpayer-funded, non-interfering cornucopia of information. Imagine what it could do if it had the right to put educational programming on national television (ad-free, for free) ... without presidential interference.
You'd be surprised what people can do. Not in Germany, but in Cyprus which is issuing EU certificates with the same as well there is an active case of a doctor who allegedly was adding people to the system without actually vaccinating them because they were against vaccination but wanted to get a pass issued. He would then throw away the dose after entering the batch number in the system. The case broke out when one of the fake pass holders got sick and had to be intubated, at which point he told the doctors about the scum he was involved in.

https://cyprus-mail.com/2021/08/14/coronavirus-new-remand-fo...
Academia and any sort of formal education is a waste of money. Math is difficult because of the notation used. The random guy who shows up in any ML/AI thread and starts talking about how useless it is because it’s not AGI. How stupid every hiring process is, especially anything involving testing technical competency.
I remember thinking it was absolutely genius when they first released it on the 2008 Alu Unibody Macbooks. I found that in practice I never ever used it.
Summary: Instead of downloading both the forward delta and the backward delta as part of the update, the system computes the backward delta and stores it on disk.
I know about the Amazon case. The stock price was linked to expected future profits. Which will be taxed.

The stock price can deviate for a time from the current profits, but it will inevitably move back to what the overall profit is.

The reason is simple. The gains in value of a company are when (revenue > expenses), i.e. it comes from profit.

> Taxes on corporate income are not taxes on the capital gains of those who hold corporate stock.

Yes they are, because they reduce the value of the stock (and hence the capital gains) by the same amount. There's no free lunch.
At least 6 threads here claiming selective breeding is really just evolution and it is a semantic issue. Would any experts please step up and clarify this?
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“Doesn’t have a healthcare system”?
Well it makes sense if that person is a manager of the project or not?

You on the other side are the manager of your time. So if you answer "can't do, I am overbooked" it's as much of an directive for the other side.

Edit: Given you work for more then one project.
This reads like dealing with a hardware compromised machine. At some point, why even bother?
It's so strange how people are looking to truly foreign substances / drugs (from ivermectin to bleach to SSRIs now) compared to a vaccine, which is basically just a bunch of mRNA and a few preservatives.

That is, a bunch of stuff that is basically already floating around in our bodies / cells.
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Yes I wiped the drive. I didn't use any OEM partition to reinstall. I used the latest Windows ISO, including October updates that comes directly from Microsoft. This is a known issue that is well documented. You can find the HP stuff in the Windows Update catalog, as well as other OEM providers.
To make it faster to pump out go which is maybe > 50 noise with it's poor language features and it's anemic standard library that does not even have abs.
I’m pretty sure a big percent of Congress has never worked a normal job in their lives nor created any jobs.
Glad to see this being spoken about! I’ve been assisting with data analysis for an eclectic group of people (who funded this study).

Been really disheartening to watch the politics around alternative treatments. Personally, I expect this to be attacked as well, but am hopeful! The stuff really does seem effective, particularly when combined with other drugs...
so are doing surgery and lawyering also essential skills then? what about underwater welding? we should teach kids that skill too from early on, it’s super important everyone can do that too, since you expect everyone to know how to write software.
tl;dr The US is a major natural gas producer from fracking, but we don't have capacity to export processed LNG and collect those fat wads of Asian cash.

Related, China is in a brownout/blackout condition because electrical producers have low and fixed govt-mandated sales price caps, but coal costs more to import than the cap. So they shutdown their plant.

HN Marxists don't seem to understand that when you screw with business owners, they just shut down and walk away.

China imports about 50% of energy and 50% of food, so is much more fragile than generally understood.

The wildcard is that Xi is a clone of Mao, who was ok with half the population dying to advance "the cause." The problem is that Xi needs to kill only retired people, not youths. (During the Mao period, some families ate their children - "Where's brother? What's that smell from the kitchen?")

Japan is in as bad a state now in terms of minerals and oil as WW2, so that's something to keep in mind. It's hard to believe they don't have viable iron deposits, since iron is the most common metal on earth - talk about unlucky geography.

It makes sense Japan is building aircraft carriers and subs again, with both the China threat and mineral depletion requiring imports being existential threats.

https://www.britannica.com/place/Japan/Resources-and-power

Australia should be alarmed since they have all the resources and none of the defense capabilty to defend it.

China has enough troop carriers now to easily invade Australia. (I've talked to Aussie soldiers and they've admitted even Indonesia could invade them, so they were travelling there to learn the language and customs first-hand.)
How did the water level increase since 1944? For it to now reduce to that same level

Was it man made intervention?
Yeah, not a great headline, though they did say it was 60 million light years away, which at least alludes to the truth.
https://ham.stackexchange.com/questions/10556/do-fcc-regulat...
I didn't realize that was a joke. Try being funny next time? To start, avoid sarcasm online, because it really doesn't work.
I certainly don't recall it as being seamless; Clojure is a very different language from Java, and the interop code I've seen doesn't look like the kind of Clojure anyone would write otherwise, hence the comparison to CFFI which has the same impedance issues.

But it's all JVM bytecode, so ofcourse it's going to be somewhat smoother.
Apart from the interesting subject, I'm very impressed by the data visualization. Appears to be R and something called GViz but may be experts here can confirm if it's right? The visualization is so good that I'm tempted to learn more about genetic data processing just to try out the viz!
good, people are finally getting the message to stop accepting leetcode style interviews.
Aussie was demonstrating how an individual could have more male ancestors than female ancestors. And his very simple example did in fact provide the 3:2 ratio that was previously mentioned.
Am I the only one who found it noticeable that they called the third die "olive"? It's definitely a color I've heard before, but in this context I would have just expected them to say "green" since that's far more common. Even if they used the same exact graphics, I find it hard to believe anyone would have objected by saying "that's olive, not green!"
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The notion that women wear low cut tops without regard to attention from men is patently ridiculous. That is the sole reason for it. It’s intended to attract men (or women, depending on orientation) the wearer deems desirable. If such a person looks, mission accomplished. If a less than desirable person looks, they’re creeping. There is absolutely no other reason. It does not serve any clothing purpose as far as functionality, ie. warmth or cooling. The comparison to showing off your face or whatever else is simply not valid. Unless you practice a religion that forbids you from showing body
parts, you have no choice but to show your face, etc. You do, however, have a choice about revealing a large portion of your breasts. To do so is not inviting physical assault, as is often the claim. But it is definitely aimed at inciting attraction to potential physical encounters with the intended targets.
Spoiler: 52 page PDF about military weather operations. Seems interesting if a bit of a different direction for the topic. Military ops are "allowed" but in a military context...though a NOAA buddy cop showdown against a rogue USAF weather ops team wouldn't exactly sound boring.
Only if you don't file any permits, correct? I'm not aware of anywhere that won't reassess on major improvements. Which is partly why SF Bay area housing is so terrible - none of the owners want to trigger a reassessment, as in many cases it may increase their tax bill 10x.
Huge props to the hilarious polishing cloth teardown, complete with American Psycho quote, shade thrown at what else you could get for $19, and how it's actually two polishing cloths if you cut it in half.
https://react-table.tanstack.com/

React Table is very good, in that it manages the table layout and rendering but allows you to fully customize the look of it.
This is the correct differentiation. One possible selection mechanism of evolution is selective breeding. Others are predators, changes in the habitat etc.
My new life goal is to write an action film in which a rag-tag band of meteorologists takes on an arch-villain who seeks to change the weather to enrich himself and control the world. These meteorologists initially realize something is up because the villain has hijacked the GFS to distract from his plot. The climactic (or climatic?) scene will involve using a Hurricane Hunter to parachute into the villain’s lair to put a stop to the scheme using the full force of the NOAA, which will probably involve weaponized weather balloons. At some point the villain will ask: “How many divisions does the NOAA have?”

The tagline: “Justice is in the forecast.”
The most useful definition (for engineering) is that "code" changes/defines how the program executes. Your YAML shopping list changes your path through the shop, so it is code.

For non-trivial programs the configuration space is so large that it's impractical to test every single configuration during development, so instead the operators are expected to test before putting into production.
I'm pretty sure you're being downvoted because you're being incoherent, not because of anything you've suggested.
Interesting point on culture that most companies have tech blog titles in the form of "How we did X" but Microsoft's is "How Microsoft did X"
The cited article has zero information on what percentage of Washingtonians die with more than $2,000,000 estate value.

Drawing a conclusion that it is "almost nobody" is completely unwarranted.
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This aligns with my own ideas, though not directly. Even without a lying, quasi evil govt, society is still to blame.

Designing and forcing folks to live in a society that so idolizes power and money, while seemingly purposefully alienating people from each other and forcing down wages, what would one expect to happen?

In both our examples, the government has failed its people, and they act like it's so egregious that people would do such a thing.
But what you call "spyware" can be beneficial to other people. I for one welcomed when several OEM apps were automatically installed through Windows Update, because my laptop has some features accessible only by those OEM apps.

That said, I recognize that it might be better to give users a choice. But then again, isn't a group policy exactly designed to tackle this problem? Good defaults for normal people, and customizability for power users.
So without engaging the ongoing absurd debate about HTML or CSS… can you really say that SVG isn’t code? Forget what “most” would say. In your heart of hearts, can you write <path d="…anything at all"/> and not consider it code? What a disappointing pissing contest.
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