skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I simply disagree that an economic incentive is necessary or useful for people with extreme wealth. Already rich people who are primarily motivated by the accumulation of wealth are unlikely to have some unique skill that society needs in our active labour force. If our tax structure made them more likely to retire early, our workforce would not be starved of useful skill.

Genuinely smart people with genuinely valuable skill (like Musk or Jobs) would work equally hard whether their offspring were set to inherit 10 million or 10 billion dollars.
Humans have a natural desire for fairness, so it is reasonable to want a tax system where the rich (who benefit most from society) pay a similar amount in taxes to the average person, as a proportion of their wealth.

The median family's net worth[0] in the US is about $120k, and the median household federal tax burden[1] is about $10k per year, which equates to an 8.3% annual wealth tax. Unfortunately I don't think anyone is proposing such a tax for billionaires in the US, which just shows how one-sided the Overton window is there.

[0] https://dqydj.com/average-median-top-net-worth-percentiles/

[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trov...
John McCarthy talks a bit about it here: http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/robotandbaby.html
It’s like saying “I think all music rock stars could improve their music by doing X.”

That statement could be interesting if you’re a rockstar. If not, then not so much.
How so? The functionality was problematic particularly in relation to multi-layer design compliance.
For analog electrical simulation there's SPICE. Kicad has a spice tool built in, but I haven't used it. It has some improvements in Kicad 6. I use LTSpice.

For digital or systems simulation there's Renode. You have to recreate the system in Renode,there's no Kicad integration.
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What kind of things do you talk about with radio stations so far away?
My guess:

First, there has to be meaningful enforcement against abusive pages that deny users a meaningful choice (e.g. by requiring extra clicks or waits to say no). noyb.eu is working on that (and accepts donations).

Once that is done and the popups offer a meaningful single-click yes/no choice, users have to learn that the "no" button now actually works instead of leading to a labyrinth that wastes your time.

Once that has happened, it's likely that the consent rate will be very low, at which point sites may start not showing those popups and simply assuming a no, which they're allowed to do already, they just prefer to try for the quick yes...
I _think_ even just seeing Oxygen (in O2 form) should be fairly suggestive, because it's not stable in the presence of a whole bunch of other things.
This is what the billionaires should be doing with their money.
https://web.dev/content-visibility/ has a nice blog post about "content-visibility" and "contain".
Modified and created are the same thing.

When people talk about the "lab leak theory", usually they mean it was being studied in a lab.
A couple past threads:

“The Robot and the Baby” by John McCarthy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6996391 - Jan 2014 (28 comments)

John McCarthy: The Robot and the Baby - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3151892 - Oct 2011 (9 comments)
We do look 40 years back and laugh at people thinking that artificial intelligence will be easy.
If you want to upgrade, we can bolt one onto a Spot for you.

https://youtu.be/0cu2bT6fdZY
I'm not buying a laptop unless it includes DVI-I, DVI-D, VGA, Mini DisplayPort, Mini HDMI, and Micro HDMI.
It's telling that with all those complaints, the website does not list any clearly better alternatives. (before someone says TOML: https://hitchdev.com/strictyaml/why-not/toml/)
My point is huge companies can engage can have negative effects on competition even if they eventually fall.

How many businesses has Amazon whipped out in the retail space by leaning on the profits from the cloud division?

Just the other day we saw documents from the DOJ’s lawsuit against Google for anticompetitive behavior. In the those documents we saw internal communication about a desire for Google to use their dominance in the browser space to create the web into a walled garden [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28974798
This is wonderful news, I do wonder whether the 2021 MBP would work properly with DIY battery replacement ?!

newer iPhones notoriously don't like DIY battery / screen replacements, and they disable features such as battery health with a DIY replacement.
> (While researching this comment, I found that Indiana has at least 8 different time zones, so ... good luck with that.)

This is kind of the weakness with the IANA time zone classification. This defines time zones as the set of clocks that have shared the same time since 1970, so every time an Indiana county decided it wanted to move from Eastern to Central or vice versa, it got split into its own timezone. It reflects a level of precision that is perhaps greater than Indianans themselves actually keep.

[Also, FWIW, Indiana does observe DST now.]
I just use JSON and related tooling instead. Because YAML is a superset of JSON, all yaml parsers also parse JSON.
The next big challenge for data is organizational
Git: To Fast Forward or Squash?
End Amazon’s Surveillance Partnership with Police
I think these types of articles get written after people realize how massive testing makes real refactoring harder, not easier.

To them the problem must be the way people refactor because it can't be the way things are tested.
AirKey&Key: Book a room with a typewriter in it

KeyLift: Someone will drive you a typewriter

Jammable: Instead of an actual typed page, you get a hosted JPEG of your typed page and an NFT
MagSafe isn't just about the convenience of it. It may not help you or have helped you but it's helped many people (including me) and even if it didn't, it provided peace of mind.

But the key reason for it is that it's a dedicated power port. That means that port is designed for that. You don't waste money allowing your laptop to be charged from any of the four USB-C ports. Like, who needs that?

Worse, those ports weren't identical leading to the advice to always charge from one side to avoid overheating.

I do find HDMI to be a bit of a strange choice however. I don't mind USB-C to HDMI/DP cables for this. Like you say, more monitors support DP passthrough over USB-C if not full TB.

The HDMI port is also 2.0 not 2.1. The difference? 2.0 can run 4K @ 60Hz. 2.1 can run 4K @ 120Hz. 120Hz continues to have poor support under OSX but it's clearly the future.

As for the SD card, I don't really use this either but this is aimed at photo and video professionals. Why not just connect the camera? Easy. Because you need to keep using the camera so it's far quicker just to swap out the cards and start copying.

A modern digital photo or video setup will have a camera with 2 SD card slots. The camera will write the same to both cards. When swapped out, one will be kept separately as backup. The other will be copied onto another device, which then may also copy that offsite. This way you immediately get 3-4 backups in 2-3 locations, which is a lot of redundancy.
Wait, nuclear energy is actually bad and electron is actually good?

What is your reasoning behind nuclear energy is bad? Asking as a Canadian who gets 60% of their power needs met by Candu reactors.
Burn it all down and go back to INI files!

(Kidding.)

(Mostly.)
> Hard to justify the utility of the WWVB station with the coexistence of 4 going on 5 independent GPS systems.

All those GNSS systems use the same frequencies that can easily be jammed:

* https://gssc.esa.int/navipedia/index.php/GNSS_signal

Even the US government themselves recognizes the importance of resiliency:

* https://insidegnss.com/dot-report-on-backup-pnt-technologies...

* https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/us-dot-releases...
I am appreciative they did that. I hope the USB-C ports on the laptop can handle the highest charging available today (~100 watts, not the new spec 200+ watts).
San Francisco to Require Proof of Vaccination to Poop on the Sidewalk
I've always said I would never consider Facebook because almost everything they do is so out of line with my priorities (I do acknowledge their massive contribution to the broader machine learning research community).

But I wonder if it's now one of those "greedy when everyone is fearful" moments, when they've had so much bad press that they would actually have some good jobs to offer.

Personally, I bet the whole thing is overstated and they still have a big lineup of very well qualified candidates. I don't expect it is easy to get hired there. But as more people dump on them, trying to work there looks more and more attractive to me.
I do not understand how mating with a 1st or 2nd cousin affects the ratio of females to males. Could you explain?
Why do you think this requires public liquidity?
Looking to the future of quantum cloud computing
If JSON supported comments it would be perfect.
It's less useful for individual components - I can already represent those with pads without affecting readability of the schematic too much. But I sometimes would like to carve out a chunk of stuff onto a separate board, and connect it with, say, a ribbon cable, yet keep it on the same schematic sheet, or at least within the same project. That is not doable in KiCAD 5 at least.
Disagreed. This really is natural selection and not artificial selection.

The poachers aren't selectively breeding for elephants without tusks. Quite the opposite. You are correct that it's a tautology - the elephants remaining are the ones without tusks - but that's exactly how natural selection works.
Correct. And, It’s a terrible time for a job search. Everyone, their mom and grandma- are out looking for a job
Combine it with fzf and you can choose the depth level dynamically:

tree: aliased to echo '2\n3\n4\n5' | fzf --preview='exa -l -T -L {} --git-ignore' --reverse --preview-window down:99% --bind 'j:down,k:up,q:cancel,enter:cancel'
So when is John Carmack going to leave Facebook completely?
Some observations:

1. Whatever happened to increasing tax rates, like pretty much every other country? Why these weird gimmicks?

2. A much greater cause of elite wealth accumulation is running deficits. Deficits are when you want to spend on social welfare but don't have the courage to pay for it with taxes. So you make both sides happy and increase spending while running up deficits. The reason we've seen this astronomical increase in top incomes is because of massive deficit spending.

3. Any tax bill targeting billionaires is going to fail since they can give up US citizenship and offshore whatever they want. If you are serious about soaking the rich, you need controls on capital flight. But that goes against the neoliberal project of globalization. Commitment to that project is going to make any soak-the-rich effort not work. It will end up hitting the upper middle class that can't offshore -- they are the real targets.

4. Envy-based politics don't work. There is a dangerous game being played here. You want to inculcate solidarity and national purpose, but again that goes against the liberal project that only tells us who we are supposed to hate based on their race and/or class.

5. If you have a low interest rate policy, then you are going to make a lot of billionaires much richer via capital appreciation. That's not the fault of the billionaires. If you want to reduce that, then raise interest rates. All these billionaires will become much poorer. Because this is all just paper wealth.

6. The Original Sin of the left is trying to mess with prices instead of incomes. Tax incomes, not repricing of wealth.
That airport example... not sure if trolling.
While possible, 'official' supercomputer rankings are independently by the top500 organization.

It's entirely possible this is nothing more than Chinese propagada designed to undermine the imminent Exascale success from the USA.
Facebook shareholder lawsuit lands on Zuckerberg's desk
Now if only the rest of the Macbook was DIY friendly; where I could upgrade my RAM to 64GB and NVME ~1TB without giving up my left kidney.
Since no one's mentioned his Keith-ness yet:

His autobiography "Life" is pretty readable. To me at least, the ghost writer managed to make it sound like him.

He discloses that he uses a non-standard tuning, which is why the average bar band has had a hard time with it these 50 years.
Is it possible to do that after taking outside investment? I always assumed share classes like that had to be set up at the beginning.
Not directly related to the post, but I have seen theories online that suggest that Gram Parsons actually wrote Wild Horses (not just recorded it first). Or at least that he was heavily involved. Maybe there are some big Stones fans in here that could share their impression.
The probability of finding prey animals is low near a beach. This is bad if you’re a predator and need to find food. However it is also good if you want to sleep because the probability of being found by a predator is low.

There are several other things that make a beach inconvenient for hunting, e.g. large open spaces which compromise stalking behaviors, sand/water slows you down, tall skinny palm trees equipped with coconuts that serve as projectiles which land predators can’t climb but primates can.

I would imagine that there’s a similar explanation related to ease of hunting that could explain why rain sounds are calming.
Oh good I'm glad I'm not the only one who has started it and not managed to get through the whole thing in one go. It's very good, but very dense. I should also finish reading it at some point...
One past thread and a bit:

No: Body: Wants: To: Write: – YAML - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17360088 - June 2018 (71 comments)

Nobody Wants to Write YAML - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24638883 - Sept 2020 (1 comment)
I don't really see a problem. There would just be a new equilibrium. Pay salary->increased burn->lower valuation. The valuations are mostly detached from reality currently, it would bring it more in line.
Define "those things," and then tell me what "those things" would be defined at before, say, live search came along. Because however you would have defined search boxes would not have allowed for the development of live search.

Iteration is what brings us progress that we enjoy, while also bringing with it the headache of reinventing the wheel over and over again. Both go hand in hand.
It is nice that the proto files are unambiguous that trace time is represented as unix epoch nanos, and it is declared `fixed64` the way Jesus intended, but it's too bad the specification made it to 1.0 without simply mandating that timestamps are always in unix epoch nanos. Having uncertainty about the precision of timestamps has caused and will continue to cause loads of bugs. If there is some language platform out there that can't figure out the time in nanos, that language platform should simply be ignored.
It seems to have worked out just fine in most of Europe where everybody has access to healthcare.
Prominent Covid-19 vaccine skeptics to meet in Anchorage this week
The issue Greenspun is on about is "should the government subsidize the carding process". They don't for liquor licensing, so why for COVID?

Also, for the front-line staff, the key is to be able to say "don't crab at me, it's the law. Take it up with your MLA".

Personal experience is that I love "Can I talk to your boss". Never lost that one!
Most people aren’t researching deep into stuff. Most people are taking cues. Sort of justifiable given how complex the world is.

That’s not a dig at either side though — it’s a dig at both. I’m for vaccines but I’ve heard “just look at the science!” from both sides and I know they’re both equally uninformed, because that is not how you determine credibility. It’s the dumbest line I hear consistently.
Has anyone done the same for raft consensus?
I don't think the point is another configuration language, much as it is to use real programming languages where appropriate. By using TOML you'd make the tasks where YAML is used even more cumbersome to write...
You shouldn’t scan two-factor authentication QR codes
Human perform meta analysis of the language. We can think about the language. The AI as of yet cannot.
I have a contrarian view of Steve that completely goes against the current zeigeist - ala he was evil, squeezed employees, drove them to exhaustion, believed in voodoo magic health potions and was a total asshole. But then no one dares to ask - despite all this, how did he inspire so many to follow him, to look up to him and to worship him? Usually that's scapegoated with "He had that magic aura". This is totally unfair. He loved many people, had an excellent taste in design, changed his mind often, was sympathetic to people that he trusted, pushed back hard on things he knew sucked and generally kept Apple away from the rifraff endeavors of HP/Compaq/Dell/IBM and took risks.

I think Walter Isaacson did a massive disservice by not focusing on things he was uniquely good at, but instead built a largely negative narrative around him; squandered an opportunity to show his work ethic, his approach and how he inspired people. I recommend reading "Becoming Steve Jobs" instead by Schendler and Tetzeli. One of the best moments in the book is when Steve wanted the I-beams to be absolutely perfect in the new office building.

It would be better if we pick out good things about any accomplished personalities and try to benefit from them, instead of dishing out vile hatred that is oh-so-common at discussion boards like this.
I'll still take code that works in practise over code that works in theory, any day. Turning an idea into practise is not easy and often involves lots of edge cases nobody ever talks about because they aren't the "interesting" part of the solution. I suspect people overestimate how workable some of these theoretically better systems are in reality.
Presumably, almost all of the rows are tagged with "display:none" then? From the timings I did in the past, rendering tables with thousands of rows and a many columns can take whole seconds.
Dammit, now I need to work on that sky scorching tech (pulls pencil from behind ear…)
It means I didn't want to get too specific about the amount involved. But I can see there's lots of interest in this question.

I wonder actually if something like https://www.levels.fyi could be built or exists but for ad-supported websites (side project idea?). It'd be really useful for people to understand more broadly "if you create site of type x and it gets y amount of traffic you can expect this level of ad revenue".

One reason the amount involved in my case would only be so useful is that sites can wildly vary (by as much as 100x I'm told) in how much $ per visit is generated (the industry term is "RPM").
I would call all that you described as Agile, sorry.

> 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.
> That should be less about process, and much more about culture and learning

That pretty much describes the manifesto.

If you are saying regimented Scrum implemented by a rigid command hierarchy that assigns stories and demands story points per sprint. Well, those management hierarchies existed in the pre-scrum project world in spades, just as it exists now. Those management systems do not want to allow creative engineers, they want factory workers who they can measure the relative output and remove the lowest performers. They exist outside of any 'process' framework, or manifesto or the lack of one.

What probably writers of the manifesto did not completely see, is these management structures signing up for their manifesto trainings, then turning around and doing what they always did.
> Prop 13 disincentivizes building housing.

I didn't think we reached the point where people are arguing that things that make housing more valuable disincentivize building more homes - but here we are.

It is zoning restrictions, EIR, etc., that disincentivize housing.
I agree with you, microsoft needed its Swift/SwiftUI Kotlin/Compose moment, they missed it, just like they missed the smartphone train, just like they missed the cloud native train
Everyone in this thread is talking about how to properly tax. How about we remove taxes all together. Everything should be private other than roads.
You are not wrong. The only thing I would add to that is the wealthy invariably means simply "much richer than me". In particular it is obscene to see that the people who most hate billionaires and agitate for their punishment are, for the most part, millionaires. The whole movement is rooted in envy, transparently disguised as virtue.
It's not just about weight, it's about density. Spodumene is about twice the weight if fresh cut wood on a ft^3 basis. A truck load of 80k Spodumene is going to be putting it's weight down over a much smaller foot print, and wear & tear on a road doesn't necessarily scale linearly so it's going to wear the roads significantly faster than wood. In my area there are highways where cargo trailers can't drive. The highways they're allowed on require more frequent maintenance.

The issue isn't a show-stopper, but you can't just say "it's a two lane highway, that's enough" and "we already have heavy loads on the road, it will be fine". The are more variables to account for when determining the infrastructure necessary for large industrial operations.
Moby Dick – the complete story – in less than 25 seconds
I pair program with a guy who completely refuses to use the keyboard unless there is no other option. He uses the mouse to cut/copy/paste everything possible. He is not handicapped. It is frustrating for me to pair program with him because of that.

He will spend an extra 3-5 seconds using his mouse in order to avoid typing.

Perhaps he is the target market.
I’m familiar with the staccato accent (first time I heard was an angry train station janitor in Bohumín :D) but what’s the hard “y” sound? I’d known of tvrdé y/ý and měkké i/í depending on some consonant but I think you’re talking about something different (and interesting!)
Inflation adjusted the stock market has grown at 7% per year. I'm not sure what the proper return rate to assume is, but 6% doesn't seem far off it and that's before eating into the principle because none of us will live forever
A classical-based zettascale computer could be impossible and might be irresponsible given the massive power required.

My bet is Intel will achieve this with greatly reduced precision for ML training (FP8 or something) and declare 'victory'.
neovim being first class is rather nice :)
Brazil had such a tax for a long time. It was sub-1%, and was largely agreed as a bad model, since it led to lower liquidity, drying of credit markets, lower consumption, cash hoarding, etc. So not necessarily a great idea.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249882612_The_Econo...
AirKey&Key actually sounds kind of interesting. Rent a place that's set up as a writer's retreat. (I mean, that's not so different from Airbnb where you just bring you own laptop, but the idea seems interesting.)
What if you want to transmit TV?
+1 Andale Mono, which isn't here.

Played through the game (on MacOS), came here to ask if we could add a custom font into the game so I could put Andale Mono there.

Fantasque Sans Mono on Github sends to:

https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/fantasque-sans-mono

Andale Mono is bundled with MacOS, and for Windows is here:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/mscorefonts/files/MS%20Core...

And for Linux, here:

http://mscorefonts2.sourceforge.net
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> Any tax bill targeting billionaires is going to fail since they can give up US citizenship and offshore whatever they want.

But they'll also get taxed out the wazoo when they do so, so it won't really avoid the problem causing them to leave in the first place.