skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s actually the second iteration of the Magsafe 1 charger, FYI — the original was just a chunkier version of Magsafe 2/3. I liked the cylindrical version as well and I’ve always wondered why they did away with it.
> Would it tax loans?

“introduce tax on debt creation (when the bank gives you the money).”

> If not, how do you tax billionaires who never sell their stock and just get loans with their stock as collateral.

Depending on how serious you are about taxing gross transfers, giving a collateral interest is also a transfer of interest in money, so you could tax that, too. Valuing the collateral interest could be tricky, though.
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You may be right.

A programmer's job bridges the informal and the formal. Previous automation practically always was about helping you work with the formal end. A tool that can bridge the informal and the formal on its own is new. That was my first point and most basically why I'm suspicious of dismissals. These developments don't have to 100% substitute for a current human programmer to change the economics of what talents are rewarded.
> no effect on a company's balance sheet

Selling masses of stock to pay the tax will push the value of the stock down. That has a large effect on the company's ability to raise capital.

As for the entrepreneur, he'll have much less capital to invest.

It's a fantasy that one can extract endless billions from a company and its investors without consequences.
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I suspect M1X’s excellent memory bandwidth is related to the lack of replaceable memory. x86 CPUs can, as far as I know, max out the bandwidth of their DIMMs, and they don’t get anywhere near the bandwidth of M1X. And integrated design can do better.

Complaining about the price of Apple’s RAM seems reasonable, but complaining that they didn’t choose DDR5 DIMMs when they appear to have chosen something better seems silly.
"The Catcher in the Rye" is a terrible, harmful book. I have no pretenses that that book is the romantic, rebellious, subversive story it pretends to be. What it is, is a stereotype cartoon of being mad (this is the proper, polite term, euphemisms like "mentally unwell" are insulting). The outcome, is when you hear about a patient with a disagreement with his psychiatrist, you always take sides against the patient. So that you never accept the testimony of that patient. The moral of the story of "the Catcher in the Rye" is contempt.

Readers of that book treat any imperfection in your mental health---for instance, side effects of a pill a patient is taking against their will, such as temporary brain damage, which can easily make said patient seem off kilter---as a plot twist, like "oh, he's not 100% sane like I am, it's like in the Catcher in the Rye, my favorite book, in the end you find out it was all lies, and that's what this is."

Factually, in the Middle Ages, fools (the mad) were considered more truthful, and their testimony more reliable, than that of the sane. Recall the saying, "only a fool can speak the truth in court." In part this is because they had a harder time keeping their lies consistent, so they had to just tell the truth.

I would burn "the Catcher in the Rye."
I'm quite impressed with their huge collection of similarly simple tools for other popular formats, available from a dropdown at top right. Like a whole collection of Swiss army knives.
The policy says that quite a bit of data is sent to Apple, but theoretically decoupled from the user:

> To Make Suggestions and Search Results More Relevant, Some Information Is Sent to Apple and Not Associated with You. When you use Siri Suggestions, Look Up, Visual Look Up, or type in Search, Spotlight, Safari search, or #images search in Messages, any information sent to Apple does not identify you, and is associated with a 15-minute random, rotating device-generated identifier. Your device may send information such as location, topics of interest (for example, cooking or basketball), your search queries, including visual search queries, suggestions you have selected, apps you use, and related device usage data to Apple. This information does not include search results that show files or content on your device. If you subscribe to music or video subscription services, the names of these services and the type of subscription may be sent to Apple. Your account name, number, and password will not be sent to Apple. This information is used to process your request and provide more relevant suggestions and search results, and is not linked to your Apple ID, email address, or other data Apple may have from your use of other Apple services. Aggregated information may be used to improve other Apple products and services. Common search queries may be shared with a web search engine to improve search results.
Do you even know what the Stasi did or are you just throwing scary buzzwords around? Hint: it had nothing to do with injections.
The thing is, it is really foolish to make economic policy based on what, as the economist Brad deLong likes to call our East African Plain Ape brain, thinks of as fair. That's just atavistic sentiment. If you run an economy based on these types of emotions, you will end up with a terrible economy in which people are worse off.

Instead, we want to make economic policy based on what will do the most good, not what we think of as being "fair" or "equitable".

The idea of "fairness" says you should shut down gifted programs because they don't support "equity" -- another name for fairness. The smart policy is to have gifted programs even if the result does not seem fair to you. Because that improves living standards for everyone. Having those people drive innovation in the economy is a good thing, even if they are not racially balanced according to whatever bucket system you are using. Constantly worrying that someone else might have more than you is a great way to create an impoverished society, even though that is what the Plains Ape brain worries about.

Now we already disproportionately tax people -- quite a bit. There is no need to disincentivize entrepreneurship in order to satisfy our base instincts for "fairness". If you want to raise marginal rates -- fine, do that. If you want to eliminate the preferential tax treatment for long term capital gains, fine, do that. I'm happy treating all income the same and taxing it according to a single progressive rate. But I would not support taxing paper wealth or unrealized gains merely as a result of repricing of assets. There are other tax reforms that are less harmful to capital formation.
Dunno. I have a large plain (onscroll is not listened to) table in Chrome, and it does constant re-layouts during scrolling. It looks like Chrome does some optimization where it only paints portion of the table and when you scroll, it will paint the new portion only when you scroll just slow enough (and does re-layout whenever this happens, I guess). Otherwise you see just white space. It causes huge CPU load too.

Firefox does not do this, and has smooth scrolling as a result with little CPU load.

Sometimes some optimizations just don't work out.
You don't mention any problem. You just restated what it does, not why.
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Also, Imagine if someone built an oven that was supposed to last 100 years in 1973. It would have been thrown in the trash by 1999 anywyay because it would have been so ugly that almost no one would be willing to keep it in their house.

I think the design from this era will hold up a lot better than that era but most things will not be used for 100 years on this point alone.
Strains change by definition, which is exactly why there's no cure to Influenza
Tuskless elephants probably due to hunting have a better chance of passing their genes.

Which makes it eligible for "Natural Selection"
Sandboxed Lua with a quick timeout would be great.
it makes it all the more important to decide who you get funding from too, since control dissipates more. this would be interesting.
For what it’s worth, I’ve had pretty good luck styling checkboxes and radio buttons (e.g. with appearance: none), however I’ve had pretty though luck styling selects. My best shots at custom selects have involved multiple backgrounds, css masks with linear gradients, etc. As for the options list, I’ve never even tried.
>If you want to deal with Government spending, then reign in pensions, and secure the Southern Border.

And stop spending a trillion dollars a year on a global military empire and sprawling police state comprised of dozens of 3-letter agencies.
This should really be taken up with the legislators of given states.

If anyone has any form letter they recommend, I can add it to a website I'm working on: https://vocalvoters.com/
If you take issue with this generalization, then you should also take issue with the parent comment's note that 'we' aren't taking it seriously enough.

Some people, cities, states, are being extremely cautious. Some are not. I moved from Bay Area California to bum fuck Florida during COVID, and it's like being in a different timeline.
If a committee can reject their initiatives, how are they going to implement them?

> it's worth considering that not everything great is good, so perhaps a braking or governance system (in the sense of an engine) is worth requiring on any enterprise sufficiently large to become a juggernaut.

Yeah, let's just throw SpaceX in the trash heap. Nevermind that NASA, the organization run by committee, has failed to make space accessible and routine.

The "braking system" is already in place. It's the free market. Once the "juggernaut" fails to please the customers, it goes down the tubes.
> Well, one workaround would be to treat securitization of shares (eg for a loan) as a taxable event. This is a common (and currently legal) tax avoidance strategy.

I suspect it would be harder to stop this strategy than it might seem, because someone could happen to make me a large personal loan at a low interest rate when I happened to have a large portfolio with them. If the numbers are big enough, it makes sense to do.

If you treated all loans as income, but got a deduction for making payments... Maybe you could make it work. Although, that's kind of rough for mortgage and auto loans.
And failing to tax corporations appropriately is unfair to all citizens.
Interesting but there's no alternative presented. Any large software project typically has a fixed api that can't be drastically changed due to backward compatibility.

No reason to tie it to Unix either, other than it being ubiquitous.
> Only the future will tell if we manage to solve problems faster than we are creating new ones.

We've already accumulated a ton of technical debt, just like so much feature packed bowl of spaghetti software. Were cars worth it, the long commutes and destruction of neighborhoods versus the independence? People seem to miss the way things used to be. And the debt from the last 75 years of frantic building is still accumulating - crowded roads, car-only subdivisions full of low-income folks living five to a house because you can't get to work without a car, etc. A similar argument can be made about computers - the personal alienation and the impersonal bureaucracies versus the huge increase in available information, but with the possibility of a future nightmare of totalitarian surveillance and control.

I didn't mean to argue with anything you said. Perhaps I just see the situation as more acute. I like my tech debt analogy. Just like bad code it is not just about the current problems, but also the future problems we've already baked into the system.
Yeah, this was less surprising than the menus-hidden-behind-the-notch behavior.
> Because I've been using it for weeks and it makes me read these types of comments as "I don't understand the value of the internet" or "what's the purpose of owning a phone".

And yet apart from making this very inaccurate comparison you haven't made any argument for why such a thing as Copilot would be useful to anyone. How do you personally find Copilot useful? And why do you think someone whose job demands more than copy/pasting boilerplate code should try Copilot? The onus is on you to convince the skeptics.
Here's an interactive 33ly radius model: https://gruze.org/fly_10pc/ - left click + drag, mousewheel, right click.

Could be more efficient, but this interactive does the trick; shows how loaded our neighborhood is.

Going to hamburger menu -> settings -> show labels brings it to a crawl, though filtering objects helps that a bunch.

Showing only stars with known planets is rather interesting.
Extracting the money from them will mean less investment. It's simple mathematics. You take away a billion from an investor, then a billion is not invested.

Even worse, you're taking the money away from the most effective investors.
Oh no. What will we ever do?!? /s
Was shocked to hear the ceo at at my last job say he was expecting to be able to access ring camera feeds soon (2018, safety-related startup).

Why would anyone pay for these things to publish a feed from your front door to anyone Amazon wants to share it with?
That doesn’t make any sense, presuming you meant “collateralize.”

I put up $100k of stock for a $100k loan, I do nothing, turn around and pay the money back, and now I have a tax bill? If I repeat this process, I can have an infinite tax liability with no realized gain or net income. Am I missing something?
You are not alone. I prefer handwritten SQL over abstractions like ORMs.
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Given it is hard to understand SQL once jt reaches 100-200 lines, anything that bloats it just pure evil :)
One of my favorite papers from long ago was "Dating Events in the Vicinity of Leap Seconds" published by the National Bureau of Standards, the precursor of NIST.
“As we divest from policing…”

They lost me right there.
i always thought this was going to be exactly what i wanted but haven't spent a ton of effort on it. over a decade ago i tried an emagin z800 heads up display for a bit and it was... ok. i have lots of good mounting gear so i should probably try it. i also tried projecting onto the ceiling some for media & it didn't quite click like i expected.
I don't think we can have conversation. To me, the numbers are secondary to their effects, that is kind of the thesis of the function finance paper too.

Concretely stuff like UBI and a JG at least in the first order takes away a power of employers now amount of nominal inequality can give back. And if the limits to spending are real and not nominal, and rich people don't spend their wealth so much, taxing them hardly makes a difference w.r.t those constraints. Conversely, if they do spend it, easy to levy consumption taxes will be less recessive.

If you want to continue to the debate, I think need to you get more precise about what exactly is bad about the nominal inequality you speak of. I think that is the only way to reconcile our analytical frames.
NOFI, just to understand if we talk the same thing here, you mean to say that a trace that traces the time it took the product you use to do a query that goes through three different backend services is private data that is owned by you and can only be collected by your consent. Not so much because you are against collecting that information, you may very well accept it to be collected, but because technically the data is collected from your premises and under your usage and thus requires consent as it would otherwise not be generated if not for you. To protect your rights in situations where the data collected would be less harmless, the rules must be strictly enforced. Correct?
Walmart didn't go from mom and pop store to national corporation without an IPO.

I'm going by wiki data here, which says they had 18 stores and annual revenue of 9 million in 1968. If they had stayed private they were probably clearing a million dollars a year, give or take. To get from there to billions they had to raise outside money, specifically by selling stock and debt to someone else. That is by definition "not owning it anymore" because they're selling (some of) it to raise funding.

Like I said, there are no mom and pop billionaires. To get from millionaire to billionaire requires outside money. And yes, that includes tech companies. I know tech founders like to write false hagiographies for themselves after the fact about starting XYZ in a garage, but dig far enough and you usually find it was more like "garage + 25 million from Sequoia Capital," like Google.
We’ll when musk started both those companies he wouldn’t be affected by this tax. In fact it wouldn’t have hit him until a few years ago and he hasn’t given either company money in longer than that.

And Steve jobs did t inject money into apple when they were creating the iPhone.

So you’re entire point has been pretty much invalidated
Because there's more to creating effective public policy than just forcing people to do what "the scientists" say.
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I didn't comment on what was best or what kept people engaged or happy, I made the point that facebook does have narrative control, they decide on the algorithm. They don't give users that option.
Email client startups are always doomed to get acquihired.
In my experience they could do better. Ex: TikTok, Snap, and Airbnb all make ~25% higher offers than FB for L5 and L6 engineers.
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What strawman? If anything, I am using reductio ad absurdum to show how your argument is asinine. You have yet to answer the question of why you think killing people is more acceptable than killing elephants. Or you could, you know, admit your statement is nonsense.
Not to mention inside cameras. Double plus good.
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But hey, she's now "naturally immune" to it, which is equivalent to having been vaccinated for it, right? Right? /sarcasm

The "natural immunity" I gained by suffering through chickenpox before that vaccine was available now means I risk getting shingles at some point in the future
> In fact, I'd personally murder a family of pigs if it was the only way I'd ever be able to eat pork steaks again. They're that delicious, and I am that selfish.

> Life isn't nice. It's brutal, short, and sprinkled with periods of happiness and ecstasy. It's always been that way, and it'll be that way long after we're gone.

Then I assume you similarly have no issue with poaching, for all the same reasons?
Hopefully it's because they have morals and don't want to work for an immoral company (or any FAANG).
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You can do this all in CSS, if you’re willing to restyle all the table elements to use grid. I demoed this at my last job, and it worked pretty well. (This has its own trade offs)
Site has issue, I was to choose PT Mono or cousine while Cousine was in fact PT Mono as well (said so in the code, only the header and buttons to choose said Cousine). Same for Fira Mono against Source Code Pro. That's 2 times in 15 tries, on safari mobile.
I think you're talking about a different problem, though that one could also be helped with the right tool.

After setting up the array, once could answer questions like "where is that darn squeak coming from!", and even characterize the undesirable noise, both spatially and spectrally. You could also measure how effective noise isolation materials are, but I don't see what the spatial information gets you.

However, if weaknesses due to "perimeter gasketing, frame, door leaf, or wall construction" result in some sort of localized noise, then a system like this would certainly pinpoint it.
Yeah, knowing when to ask questions is itself a skill. I didn’t mean to insinuate in my comment anything negative towards junior engineers or imply I hate when they ask questions. But I’d say knowing how to read code and understand it on your own vs recognizing when something is almost unknowable without asking someone is a hallmark of a more mature engineer. But I stand by my insinuation that people aren’t deliberately hoarding knowledge, they just learned what they know effectively (via primary sources and doing) rather than through hearsay or lectures. Or they “know how to know”, they seemingly know everything because they know how to find answers to any question.

What you say about business logic is definitely true. In general the more something is an “emergent” property or itself only a high level concept (eg “Why do we use Mesos?” “How do we implement load shedding?”) the better it is to ask. The more implementation specific (“Why won’t this compile? What does this error mean?”) the worse it is. It’s not only about the time to find something out but also how it can be found out - whether it’s a web search or codebase search away, or not. The other problem is the senior people you ask may not always know the answer of the top of their head, and in answering your question will have to answer it themselves - typically you want to avoid that too.

For one I would always be more than happy to truthfully answer a mentee’s question regarding if they are asking too much.
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> When people talk about the "lab leak theory", usually they mean it was being studied in a lab.

If by "studied" you mean manipulated either mechnically or by crossing with other strains or viruses (ie. GoF research.)
Here’s an overview of why dark matter is the leading theory: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rNFzvii8LtCL5joJo/dark-matte...
Companies don’t do this anymore because S&P and other index creators will refuse to add your company to their indexes if you have multiple share classes. It’s much better to be part of an index than to retain founder control, for shareholders.

https://www.ft.com/content/993e4c11-8729-3168-a280-69e1d400b...
It's 30-40,000 automobile deaths a year, which is bad enough.

If it were a million, I certainly hope the government would step in. And if you drove anyway, illegally, knowing that it caused a million deaths a year, it would reveal you to be an anti-science grandma killer, yes.
That would consume a significant amount of spectrum, like on the order of 200,000 kHz or 0.2 mHz.
I didn't say a mob killed people in a public building, I said people took multiple blocks around the state capitol and 6 people were killed.

Many in different ways, the one example I listed was just one tragedy of several.

> resulting in 6 people's deaths, 2 being black teenagers their "security" mistook for a drive by shooter, gunning them down.

https://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2020/06/night-of-gunfire-...

I can find you all of them eventually, I think there's at least 6 instances of people dying and each one is a tragedy.

They died because of a stupid political stunt that accomplished nothing. The people who organized it sieged land and explicitly made political demands.
I mean, the headline of this post is literally about divesting Ring access from police, so I'm not sure why that's much of a surprise.
> and on-call.

Every intern should shadow an on-call person for a day.

Tells you right away of the company has this Saas/Ops thing figured out.
The fabs in AZ are them fishing for ultra massive government handouts.

I'll believe it when I see it if the things actually start producing chips within a couple decades.
I seem to recall reading somewhere that 'content-visibility' has a performance penalty, because the browser effectively sticks intersection observers on the elements marked with content-visibility:auto; so that setting content-visibility:auto on, say, thousands of table rows delays page render. But now I can't find where I saw that.
Oh wow, a blast from the past, I haven't heard about anyone using Outlook since like 2003...