skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an attractive narative but doesn't stand up to even initial scrutiny. Where does an engineering degree from a decent public school fit? What about a law degree from an ivy? Where do you place a teaching degree from a small private or religious university?
No downloads and the ability to easily and quickly jump into the action, especially useful for multiplayer or social games.
Settlement agreements are contracts. No one would agree (hmm, funny word, right) to a settlement if it wasn't legally binding.
There are some benefits that are hard to evaluate. For example a higher education that promotes critical thinking and allows one to have a good understanding of reality, can save you millions of dollars on snake oils of all kinds and useless drugs. I think considering only salary prospects is a bit shallow.
I only smoke weed in my own home, as do most of my (adult) friends. Are stoners blowing weed smoke into your windows?
When trump called Taiwan's president, many American news outlets castigated him for endangering the united states by breaking Norms. Goes to show how manipulative the reporting is.
WebGPU is a less chatty API than WebGL. You can kick off a huge amount of GPU computation with just a couple of function calls. The overhead of the function calls themselves is usually not a big issue. That said, I know there has been work in Chrome to make these calls more efficient for WebGL and I think the overhead is actually small.
A.30 seems to be one of the very minor lineages: https://cov-lineages.org/lineage.html?lineage=A.30 compared to others https://cov-lineages.org/lineage_list.html
No, because as you get more wealthy the disincentive from sin tax negated by the fact that it isn't a sliding scale.

In reality is it gatekeeping on vices by the wealthy. If you are wealthy, nobody cares about your vices.
Thanks for making this, looks like you indeed can do a lot of fun things with this! Setup was very easy. But it seems IPv6 addresses are not formatted correctly, it should be http://[IP]:port.

Also, have you thought about adding support for websockets (not that I actually need this but I guess it might be fun)?
You guys should advertise the Postgres+Postgrest thing more prominently, I've been looking through your materials this morning and the Postgrest part wasn't clear. I would have been more apt to choose Supabase immediately since it seems like I wouldn't encounter vendor lock in, which was the main concern.
> But it is _very_ important to make these benefits transparent and clear, otherwise we end up in the situation we now face

I strongly disagree on the causality here. The red state subsidies are a blue team talking point. To the extent the reality gets through to the red team, it's anticonvincing because the main thing they feel they're missing is self determination.

Telling them to be appreciative of federal welfare, and they can get even more of it (eg UBI), is the exact opposite of what they want. They want purpose, hence the attraction to regressive ideologies promising that there is purpose to their suffering. Purpose cannot be provided by overt direct subsidies - it can only come from the feeling of earning one's way, regardless of the truth of the matter (eg how the metagame industries suffice). By extension this means revitalization of rural economies, no matter how artificial. Then again after decades of ZIRP what does "artificial" even mean?
The problem with US politicians is that they are sold out to the private sector. This is a problem that would obviously not exist if there was no private sector, or if it was weaker, which is the "what if" of the discussion.

Sure, then we could elect politicians that are bad in different ways, but then this becomes a discussion against socialism, which is not what I'm intending here. I'm only talking about socialism hypothetically. My point is that we can't ignore capitalism's shortcomings. We have to understand what having profit as a main motivator leads to, so we can deal with it.
"printing" money does not cause inflation. Low interest rates can cause credit expansion, they don't necessarily cause inflation.

Inflation rate higher than the deposit interest rate (negative real interest rate) is causes the wealth transfer.

"Savers", in reality, lenders have always had a way out in this situation: investing.

As in every investment boom, there are Ponzi schemes and during this one it happens to be Bitcoin.
I don't think a semicolon is right here. Are you proposing this?

"He spent a sabbatical conducting field work on Trinidad and Tobago; and in Suriname."

That sounds very odd indeed — I wouldn't say the sentence with a semicolon-sized gap in it and reading it with one is jarring.

There's nothing wrong with the original sentence. When I read and say it I do so with the same cadence as "He spent a sabbatical conducting field work on Bermuda and in Suriname." The "and" in Trinidad and Tobago is just coincidence — it's not part of the sentence structure. If a reader doesn't know that Trinidad and Tobago is a place then perhaps the sentence's "in x and y and on z" would provoke them into finding this out.
Taxes are not just "somewhat contributory", there are studies that show that taxes do decrease smoking significantly.
I think that people who like JavaScript are happy with getting the abstractions you mentioned.

If building a vercel for PHP was such an obvious idea, I imagine someone would jump on it.
Finding prior art to invalidate a patent doesn't make the plaintiff's lawsuit frivolous, so they probably wouldn't be awarded atty's fees. If the court didn't invalidate the patent, then you are now stuck in a serious litigation where the plaintiff has no reason to settle.
>> It's a pretty compelling option - spend less than the connection fee to get free electricity. The biggest problem is that you have to size your system for cloudiest days in the dead of winter - which means massive batteries and lots of extra panels.

Or alternatively have a manageable demand side so you can minimize your demand on bad weather days. Definitely 8KW system - everyone messes up kW and kWh.
"It's pretty much impossible for a billionaire to "consume" their fortune"

So what?

If someone uses some tax loopholes and then buys a few exotic cars, I can work up a little outrage about that. Maybe get mad about the loophole. Same if they are hoarding a bunch of stuff -- empty apartment buildings or something.

But if they had to pay $1M for a Ferrari, and $900K of that was taxes that I might benefit from, it's hard for me to maintain that outrage.
And if they had to pay 1000% tax on that empty apartment building (nobody else is using it, it must count as consumption, right?), then that could make a sizeable tax payment.

In fact, this is starting to sound better and better. Anything not being rented out counts as the owner renting it, and paying consumption taxes. That'll get more stock in the housing market, fast. Probably need to sort out some accounting about how to treat depreciation vs renting vs buying.

The main point is to tax people for consuming or wasting stuff.
The fact that over 40% of Americans are still not fully vaccinated and thousands of people per day are still dying needlessly proves that people actually aren't good at filtering out bullshit.
You can read more here on the original RSC announcement: https://reactjs.org/blog/2020/12/21/data-fetching-with-react.... RSC are still experimental, and as mentioned, this demo has some client-side functionality (upvotes).
They are worthmore than every car company combined. If they start making as many cars as Toyota will they be worth 10x as much as all companies combined?
I'd wonder if sin taxes are naturally regressive, since higher pleasures (service, entertainment, exotic goods, travel, etc) come from being relatively wealthy, where so-called sinful pleasures are ones with a very low bar to entry.
> Also there's no guarantee that whatever type you observe in your particular binding.pry experiment is the only one the function receives.

I honestly don't see many methods where it expects a user but it can also receive a shipment or a billingInfo where tons of callers just pass all sorts of stuff to it as they feel like, and me as a dev have to keep wondering what the param is. That's not common at all because most Ruby devs just don't operate that way (Why would they? That's pretty insane). Yes it's easier to shoot yourself in the foot in Ruby but that doesn't mean we all design crap code.

Static type people say your dynamic code is always littered with dozens of if param.type == 'user' else if param.type == 'baboon' etc etc. I rarely stumble into this in real life. I'd like to see some real examples (there's enough python/js/ruby open source code for us to make an intelligent discussion)
I don't think what a16z is doing, a crypto hedge fund, is similar to what Sequoia is doing here with its Sequoia Fund, a mutual fund of post-IPO portfolio companies.

Indeed, I don't see this as a hedge fund, a limited partnership of investors that uses high risk methods, such as investing with borrowed money, in hopes of realizing large capital gains. Generally hedge funds are private investments. Sequoia Fund is an open-ended liquid portfolio made up of public positions in a selection of our enduring companies. They even calls themselves a mutual fund.

Sequoia Fund is a mutual fund that has been advised by Ruane, Cunniff & Goldfarb L.P. since its inception on July 15, 1970.

Mutual, not hedge.
Clearly "what's bad for you" is subjective given that there was a time when many would have said that masturbation causes self-harm.

The other issue is that sin taxes just don't work. They don't stop people from partaking at all. These taxes are just a money grab.
Venezuela, once one of the richest coutries on Earth with more oil than Saudi Arabia thought this way too.

Turned out great for them. By all metrics they should be Western Europe level rich and yet many young kids find it more profitable to mine coins in runescape 12 hours a day rather than actually get a job, strange how that happens hey, if only they printed more Bolivar this all could have been avoided?
Brilliant analogy!

I speculate confusion about the term originally came from the word “debt”. For a layman it tends to be associated with an extremely narrow definition.
More like pesticides and pollution killing their spawning locations.
> Not even close. I can evaluate the likelyhood of my partner being compromised. I can’t evaluate the likelyhood of a gateway I may not even know about being compromised.

Why? It is your partner that is deciding to use what is essentially a Signal client installed on a remote server controlled by Element. If it is true that you are able to estimate this likelihood for your partner, this fact should already have been accounted for in the calculation.
Because eliminating vice is not a proper role for government? Because choosing among the vices to tax is..I don't know, bad? I prefer legislators having to balance asking for new initiatives with having to pay for them with universal taxes. But hey, let's just take from smokers and billionaires rather than actually have to make the case for our next government boondoogle.
There's a 52-home community in Alberta that provides ~all of their winter heating by storing heat in the ground throughout the summer:

https://www.dlsc.ca/borehole.htm

It gets up to nearly 80C, but took a few years of operation to get there.

The website covers it really well and I'd recommend checking it out.
I want to add:

10 years out, that selection criteria (VP's, governors, senators, former presidential candidates) would (as far as I can tell) have missed Trump, Obama, W. Bush, Clinton (narrowly), H.W. Bush, Carter, Ford, Kennedy, Eisenhower, Truman, F.D. Roosevelt, Hoover, Coolidge, Harding, Wilson, Taft, and T. Roosevelt, so 17/21 of the people who actually became president.
Thanks that is a great point I hadn't considered. I suppose strictly speaking it is not renewable when you use it like that, but still pretty clean.
IBM Learn Serverless
Yeah, modern UX designers need to come down out of the clouds and pay attention to how people actually do work. It isn't just Apple either. Mozilla is doing the same thing with Firefox. The entire industry seems to have their heads screwed on backwards. Second to HR they are the people I trust the least.
I was not aware of this, thank you.
You shouldn't have been looking for specific technology training is the short answer. I'm not aware of any company that would allow you to pay for employment while you were a drain... sounds like you should have gone to a vocational institution like Devry.
> Allen left Facebook soon after that for a data scientist job at the Democratic National Committee.

So...a propoganda arm for the Democratic Party?
If someone has their Twitter set on private (only followers can see content), but they accept most/all follow requests, would you consider their content in category 1 (private) or category 2 (public)?
It is not part of Next.js 12 – still working on it!
Well this is really neat. As an engineer at a tiny startup "How do I do X in <our nascent internal tooling>" is a common refrain. I'm already pitching this internally - if this significantly cuts down on the time I spent writing up directions for people (and the time they spend being confused by my incomplete directions), it'll be worth its weight in gold. :)
The only difference between a mercenary and a terrorist is that the former is a US citizen, isn’t it?
> You don't die a horrible death from parking.

You do die a horrible death from eviction because you had to choose between getting a warrant issued due to unpaid parking tickets, or paying rent. Money is a zero-sum game.

> "Poor" is not a permanent state.

Statistically it basically is, but as you say that's another topic. Either way it doesn't matter, because if I am poor now and you slap me with a parking fine that's 0.4% of my income, I'm going to suffer. While that SAME fine isn't going to have an impact on the quality of life of someone making just 2x what I'm making.

> we'd see rich people smoking because the tax doesn't impact them

Yes. This is why I don't believe that the tax had anything to do with reducing smoking rates. I think people stopped smoking because they realized they were going to die from cancer, not because it got expensive.

Meanwhile, 10% of households are DEEPLY effected by this, some of them to the point of maybe staying in poverty due to smoking.

You DO see very rich people ignoring fines because it doesn't cost them an appreciable amount:

https://www.insidehook.com/daily_brief/news-opinion/jeff-bez...

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/steve-jobs-car-apple-ceo-l...
I also think C++ is uniquely bad for this. There are maybe other languages that would fare better, perhaps even C.

For example, CoreFoundation has a C API... that would be a bit of a test of a C-only framework world.

You can see however that's missing the convenience of Obj-C.

I hope Swift will be successful. It is nice to use (most of the time).
The great thing about geothermal is that it's 24/7 dispatchable without expensive added storage. That would make it a great companion to solar and wind energy in place of natural gas. Even 5-10% of total power on an absolute basis from geothermal could be more valuable than it appears by adding stability to the grid without fossil fuels. Drilling into geothermal would make sense if it were cheaper than adding grid-scale battery storage for nighttime use.

The energy flow from the Earth's core is small in a percentage sense, but keep in mind that humanity's energy use is actually tiny when measured on planetary or cosmic scales. Here's the total solar surface area we'd need, for scale:

https://www.axionpower.com/knowledge/power-world-with-solar/

Cover much of New Mexico with solar PV and you could power all of global industrial civilization (ignoring storage).
So I'm thinking precisely of situations like that when I say taxes are better than bans. I have pretty tame vices (I don't really care about vibrators or cigarettes, for example).

But take for example suburban single-family homes. We know they are significantly worse for the environment than urban apartment living - they are harder to heat & cool, require more invasive utility work, lead to car-driven transportation instead of mass transit, and destroy natural habitats. Nevertheless, I want to live in a house, not an apartment. And if the government were to tax them according to their true environmental impact and costs, I'd suck it up and pay the tax, getting a more unpleasant but higher-paying job if necessary. (They don't currently, and I'm enjoying the sweet subsidy of our unsustainable lifestyle.)

There are other things like say soda that are unhealthy, and a tax has been proposed on them. I cut back my soda consumption because it got expensive, but sometimes I really want to relax with an IBC or Jarrito or Mexican Coke, so I'll suck it up and buy a 12-pack. That's exactly the point of a tax: cut back people's default consumption because it gets expensive, while still giving them the option of purchasing if they really want it.
Javascript also has `let`. It's basically like var, but doesn't get hoisted. And can't be unassigned once assigned.
My impresion is that a lot of the projects that come up aren't in the embedded or systems domain and end up being Rust for the sake of Rust whether it's the best tool for the job or not.
I used to use it religiously before switching to Linux - It's the single piece of software that made sysadmin tasks even bearable on Windows. I still miss some of its convenience features on Linux. I've heard they even have a good dark theme now, which was the one and only thing on my wishlist (well, besides fixing all the drag&drop bugs, but I've been most of those are Microsoft's fault).
Does that mean modern monetary policy is not a Ponzi scheme because it has a nuclear military?
For most people, privacy is a nice-to-have thing. When it's just nice to have, Signal checks that box.

If your life depended on it, you would be foolish to depend solely on Signal.

How nice it is that encryption has emerged from the dark corners of life and death to become a fashion accessory. But for those that still exist in the world beyond fashion, your criticism seems naive.
1. Reddit admins have the ability to give free gold. As another poster said, they also manipulate votes directly and create the illusion of user guided content.

2. The non-profit publisher question wasn't answered.

3. Chosing to moderate via users is still moderation.
Not every test will tell you which variant it is, but they do some extra testing here and there to track which variants are spreading.
I think what is comforting for a lot of people is that they can write isomorphic code that mostly automatically works on the frontend and backend.

IMO React is also an amazing abstraction and I like writing components better than stitching together HTML or other template/DSL based systems.
I've got it, we need kernel-level anti-cheat...
I guess this is more of a general question, but for who are all these Apache products? For example, there are 50 products in the big data category (https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?category#big-data). Granted, some are "in the attic", and stuff like that. But still. Is this solving common problems in big companies that I don't know about?
> Here in Seattle, we have no income tax.

We're (Washington) adding a 0.85% payroll (more or less income) tax for most workers in 2022.

> We also don't charge any taxes on things like transit, groceries, healthcare, rent, and utilities.

Groceries: Uncooked foodstuffs are tax-exempt. But alcohol, toilet paper, and diapers are taxed.

Rent: We have property taxes and those are definitely passed through to renters by landlords.

Utilities: There are taxes on both SCL (electricity) and SPU (water and trash) services. They're just included in the prices shown on your bills.

> It's a bit ironic that such a progressive town has found a way to push so many taxes on poor people in an attempt to help them.

Washington as a whole (and to some extent Seattle) is really more libertarian than progressive. There are more progressives in Seattle than elsewhere in the state, but for some reason our image is more progressive than the reality.
Sorting a Dependency Graph in Go
Context is the discussion about e2e encryption. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
the results in the paper suggest, the mutations facilitate viral mechanisms of entry and antibody evasion.

efficacy of Oxford, Pfizer, and hetero-innoculation with both were examined, indications were given of reduced efficacy of either vaccine alone vs CoV A.30. The combination of both vaccines[hetero-inocculation] was associated with higher efficacy vs A.30

the mutations appear in vitro; to confer inhibition of vaccine induced antibody binding; enhanced cellular entry; enhanced pulmonary[lung] trophicity[targeting]

relative efficacies of moderna; Johnson&johnson; vs Oxford; Pfizer were not examined.
This is already being done in some countries (e.g., the Netherlands), but it is just a (necessary) part of the puzzle.

The existing housing stock needs solutions too, and installing heat pumps in older terrace housing is far from ideal due to noise pollution, cost, lack of space, and a limit to what can be done in terms of insulation. Geothermal plants can be used to provide district heating, which is a much better fit for certain types of houses.
Ottr: A Serverless Public Key Infrastructure Framework
I mean, the child is still the agent of change in that scenario— and it's perfectly possible for it to go the other way too, where no change occurs and the parent and child end up resenting each other over it.

I don't know if I'm necessarily making a value judgment either way here, but I don't think "get to them through their young kids" should be considered a general-purpose strategy for effecting societal change... and fear of this kind of thing is exactly what breeds mistrust in public education, parents pulling their kids out of sex ed, etc etc.
The Signal protocol (which WhatsApp still uses, I presume) is very good. WhatsApp can't MITM it.

Element, on the other hand, is MITM by design.
I got words that do exist, for example "high-performance motor"[1] and "retrogradeness"

[1]https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/sxFD

That's fine, I guess, for a silly website - but it's not hard for me to imagine a company taking this idea, "AI/ML created X" and selling X's, even copyrighting them... when X already exists in the real world
Yup. We are not here for that kind of manipulative nonsense. Take it somewhere else.

The same point could have been made without that garbage, and would have been better for it.
I think one of Apple's priorities is memory safety for their systems programming language. Probably too hard to get Obj-C there, and that's before you get to Swift's nice syntax and modern type system. Unfortunately Swift does introduce some type system handcuffs, which I don't like, but overall it seems good.
Krebs on Security: FBI Raids Chinese Point-of-Sale Giant Pax Technology
Text in photos saved to the Camera Roll can be searched by Spotlight.

Even with Siri disabled, the option for "Siri & Search" defaults to on for all apps, including indexing of app data. This isn't specific to OCR, so is an existing issue with Apple's harvesting of data in iOS apps. But at least it can be turned off, one app at a time, with about 5 clicks per app = 100 clicks for 20 apps.
I can report that they do actually happen in the real world. I've signed two contracts in the past year that had consideration of $1 written into them (and actually made the $1 payment). Are they necessary? I have no idea, but real lawyers wrote the contracts and apparently thought it was good to have that in there.
Jet packs will certainly kill fewer pedestrians in rural areas because a falling jet pack will have a much harder time finding a pedestrian to hit. Win-win scenario!