skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like the poachers are scientists now.
Buffet has aggressively written about and commented on the need for higher taxes on people like himself.
I wonder if this works on GitHub issues.

Thanks.
Or the business needs a non-technical solution. A good CTO helps a business to not invest time and money into a technical direction that doesn't make sense. It's more advantageous to end up late on a javascript framework that maintains significant activity and market share than it is to be one of the first to migrate on to the hottest new one that then fades into obscurity a year later.
Any good synonyms for 'thanks in advance' to mix it up? "Look forward to your thoughts" etc.
If you're extremely frugal, have a very small family (no kids or at most one) and live in a world where inflation doesn't exist, $1M would last you (and I'm being VERY generous) for about 20 years. If you're 40 now then your future will be $0 at 60, which happens to be the time where the really expensive stuff kicks in (like health issues and insurance). So, nope, 1M is not enough to stop worrying about money; neither 2-3M, about 5M+ is where you can retire and coast on that if you manage it wisely.
> which is why you demanded that I define it for you, presumably so you could poke holes in whatever definition I provided

Not really. Your original use of the word implied the definition you were using, and my comment was merely to point out that it's the wrong definition (in my opinion, obviously).

In this context it makes more sense to include the intention, because the evolution itself in this case is not something we artificially induced.

The elephants, for example, might have evolved to have green tusks instead, which would have made them not attractive to poachers. They could have grown wings that would made them more difficult to be hunted. The point is, poaching might be artificial, but the elephants responded to a threat (coming from humans or not) with a completely random and natural process.
Colloquially in the north "native" is ubiquitous.
I am a little confused why we are talking about CTO and not CIO (chief information officer). I thought the latter is the role responsible for information systems.

Although for years we have been told that CIO means "career is over" and was a dead role. Which I never fully understood.
I went first initial, middle initial, first three letters of last name. If that doesn’t work for you I’d just try different combinations of your names letters until you get something available.
I wonder what rate of adverse effects will be considered acceptable for a drug administered to people known to have the virus? For vaccines, our tolerance seems very low. I suspect we don’t actually think prevention is better than a cure.
Have you spent any time at all looking into this? Their yearly report lists what they've been spending the money on, including large projects.

The project with the highest level of growth of all the Wikimedia projects is Wikidata, which is focused on bringing semantic content into the other projects (a pretty decent number of articles generate their content panel from wikidata). Check out the list of visualizers that use wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/Visualize_data/.... I'm quite a fan of reasonator, myself: https://reasonator.toolforge.org/?q=Q42
That skews the tree shape, but the odds of each baby are still ~50/50 so the overall population numbers should be stable.
Looks lovely, mate!

Any Kangaroo() function so far???
Imagine you had the problem, what do I name my baby? What are things you would google? Where are communities you would hang out?
I would start by posting in Reddit communities for expectant parents, and for people interested in naming. For example:
https://www.reddit.com/r/namenerds/
Now remove the Google Analytics too
The physicality is essential.

The typewriter is the most unforgiving writing device known to man. There is no erasing, like on the computer. You can't just try out sentences willy-nilly and Backspace your way to something decent. When you inevitably make a mistake, a typo, or a bad turn of phrase, it's there, and even if you type something else over it, it'll always be there.

Paper has dimensions, which means paper has edges. Edges which your typewriter is happy to ignore until the moment when, looking up from your small black sailboat, you find them looming over you like the god-damn Cliffs of Dover. On the computer, whenever you find yourself playing margin chicken, your words get automatically teleported to safety. The machine does it every single time, magically, perfectly, trivially. Not so, with the typewriter. If you fail to ensure that the last word on a line really and truly fits there, or if you discover, too late, that a line break would've been real nice about two words in the past, well, there ain't no magic coming to kiss it all better. The responsibility, and the blame, is all on you.

What about the pen or pencil? You've got edges there too, and even worse, you have to draw all the letters using your knobbly, callused old fingers. You might think that writing with pen or pencil is primitive, repetitive, and exhausting, which is all true---but it also represents a form of writing that's nearly entirely free from constraints. It's so easy to write in whatever size letters you want. Whatever font. Whatever spacing. Even whatever color. Switch it up, or around, or back, according to your whims, your audience, or just the time of day. Draw diagrams. Make notes. Sign names. Use cursive, drop caps, small caps, big caps, triple underlines, and weird foreign accents. Anything you can imagine, dude. You're free.

In this day and age, anyone who writes on a typewriter is taking a stand. They're saying: Shackle me. I want to hear the chains clatter and feel the metal bite. I want to think, think, think about my words, and then I want to stamp them onto dead trees for the rest of living memory. I want to remember the old rituals, and commune with the ghosts of the past, and the present. I want to call back the remnants of the Golden Age and I want to hold them in my hands for just a moment. I want to do the hard thing, because it is hard, because I am hard.
Opaque Types Let You Think Locally
Have you seen how nimbly DJI drones handle even incredibly strong gusts? Presumably, this is at least as capable.
> You mention making living from it.
Can you tel me your MRR?
South America's second-largest river retreats to lowest levels in 77 years
Are we going to ask this for every Unicode character pair? They have answered all these questions in the design document: https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/refs/heads/master/des...

They thought about generics for 12 years. It's unlikely that someone who thought about it for 3 minutes on Hacker News has some epiphany that wasn't taken into consideration.
"Saying that you have to code to be a CTO is like saying that, in order to design a skyscraper, you have start as a cement mixer, then work your way up to girder riveting before finally hanging drywall and installing windows before they let you design the building."

This type of argument from analogy isn't very persuasive to me. Software developers aren't really like cement mixers and CTO's aren't really like architects. They are different jobs. Thus, while, "You don't do X in Y" may be true, it's not necessarily relevant to the discussion. And, it would probably help if the person leading a team of cement mixers was himself an expert cement mixer.
“This significantly reduces the amount of shares he would have to liquidate to cover his take burden.”

Well dang I’m so relieved that it’s a measurably less severe amount of bullshit.
> Modern societies are not capital constrained, so capital formation is superfluous

So modern economies are not constrained for money, since money is just paper you can print.

But we are not talking about financial capital, but real capital. E.g. entrepeneurs taking big risks to start businesses instead of just getting some cushy sinecure. And the problem is that although the government can print money, Elon Musk can't. He has to risk his own money and his own time, in order to place big bets. He is the one working 14 hour days, creating new fields, while everyone else tells him it's a crazy idea that will never work.

As you start to punish those people and become angry at them for succeeding (ignoring the massive survival bias) they start saying screw it, and don't make those big bets, or move to a different country and place big bets there.

And it is the ability to organize production in innovative ways that is scarce in the society, not paper and ink to create money. So we should focus our economy on rewarding and encourgaging that type of entrepeneurship, and fostering the growth of productive ecosystems, because that creates the surplus wealth that gives value to the government's paper and ink.
You can say “don’t paint this yet” if it’s not within the viewport. In addition to ‘contain’ there’s also ‘content-visibility’.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/content-vis...
Quantum Cheshire cats could have a travelling grin
Why don't we tax the dead? Seriously, they aren't going to object! Why shouldn't we?

Who we tax, and what way, is entirely a choice made by a society. I routinely pay sales tax out of the income that I paid income tax on, and pay extra tax when I buy alcohol- those are all decisions made by society that they were the socially correct way to pay for everything we jointly need as a society. That's all taxes are.

The modern estate tax was created in 1916. In 1906, then President TR gave a speech supporting this kind of tax as a way to try and reduce the power of dynastic wealth- to keep American society from being ossified, and to make sure that the current generation of talented people could amass wealth too.

The modern income tax was created in 1909 as part of an attempt to clear the way for prohibition- a significant part of the Federal budget was paid for with alcohol taxes, and they needed to replace that hole in the budget[1]. For the first three decades it hit only a tiny percentage of the richest, until World War Two when it was expanded and covered a greater percentage of the population, as the Federal government massively expanded and needed more money to pay for its massive size[2].

But those were all the results of political choices, and taxing the dead makes just as much sense.

[1]: Similarly, women's suffrage was also, at least in the US, largely a proxy battle over prohibition- it seems to have been a widely held assumption of everyone in politics in 1910 that as soon as women's suffrage was achieved prohibition would follow immediately afterwards (in fact, prohibition passed two years before women's suffrage). This is why the largest anti-suffrage organization had as its honorary chairwoman Mrs. Adolphus Busch, matriarch of the Budweiser fortune.

[2]: Adam Tooze's book _The Deluge_ has as its basic thesis that the US Government was too small, and had too limited state capacity, which was a major cause of all of the problems of the 1920's and 1930's.
It really, really is. YAML is horrifically complex even for people writing it, and even moreso reading it.
Can you as a human? If you can't do it a parser can't do it either.
To answer my own question, I suppose both roles (CIO and CTO) benefit from having coding experience, maybe CTO more than CIO assuming a CTO is supposed to be "closer to the technology engineering".
That may be the case, but this article is about Americans. If we're opening up to the world, then just as well you actually have three options: move to a different country.
To be fair, the narrative in the media changed just a little, coincidentally at the same time.
> The results, published Wednesday in the journal Lancet Global Health, were so strong that independent experts monitoring the study recommended stopping it early because the results were clear.
> Epic Games is a privately held company, and not traded on established securities markets or readily available on secondary markets.

So this law would lead to a proliferation of privately held companies as billionaires avoid the stock market and other tradable covered assets?
In what sense Unix clock is UTC? Unix clock is to a first approximation defined as number of second that have passed since a particular fixed point in time. As such, timezone considerations are pretty much immaterial to what Unix clock is.

This definition of Unix clock is only mostly correct, due to its treatment of leap seconds, but the way they are treated in Unix clock is not like how they are treated in UTC anyway (some Unix seconds last 2 SI seconds), so in this sense, Unix clock is not UTC either.
I think current co-pilot is less useful for person who entirely knows the language and libraries.

Right know I see more use for people who understand the language and libraries, but are frequently Googling ”how do I do xyz in P” (because they can’t recall certain things).
I like what Chris Lattner said about language design in Lex Fridman podcast, that you know when you're doing something right because it "feels" right. Rust has a bunch of syntactic sugar which gets critised in many languages, but to me things like error returns with ? "feels" right. Love Go as well, and the error handling makes a lot of sense in concept but it just doesn't "feel" nice to look at or use.

I like there's a language that has such a strong vision, but dealing in absolutes has drawbacks, a little sytactic sugar would make error handling a lot nicer.
Huh. In over 95% of the cases, I always chose the font on the right hand side, the one that was named in the text of the demo. It almost always seemed crisper and cleaner to me.

I wonder why?
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So if you make improvements to your house over the course of a year, and/or the property value in the region goes way up, you could face an unpayable tax bill and lose your house. I don't have much sympathy for renters complaining about gentrification, but property tax laws like this are hot garbage.

Sounds like a great way to import rich people and exploit poor people by capping their level of home value.

Thanks for all that hard work on the house, sorry it's getting repo'd and auctioned. Next time, don't try to make a place to live so high quality!

Property tax should be paid on square footage of the boundaries. Impose a property sales tax with progressive residency penalties or some other extractive mechanism, but have the common decency to let people invest in and improve their own homes.
This sounds like a huge self-rationalization to me. While there have been great leaders who don't know how to code, comparing it to a designer knowing how to mix cement is a terrible analogy. Coding is a fundamental skill in the 21st century, like writing or being able to do basic arithmetic. It's not like asking a designer to rivet girders, it's like expecting a designer to know geometry. Coding is simply a bunch of logical constructs expressed in a way that can be translated into machine code.

Imagine hiring a CTO that didn't know how to read and write. In the 21st century, where almost every aspect our lives is dependent on computers, having some knowledge of software engineering should be considered a basic skill.
You already pay property taxes on your property each year. It is a non-trivial percentage of the house's value (~1% where I live).

Property taxes are also essential tools against speculation, since your asset naturally depreciates, and the more you bid it up, the more you pay (as a counter example where speculation rules the day because property taxes are absent, see China).
Can you be a "VP of Sales" without ever doing any sales? Can you be a head chef without ever cooking?

Sure, you can be immensely impactful being a people leader and a conduit between business and tech without ever having written any code. But you can't call yourself CTO if you haven't written any software yourself without diluting the meaning of the title to homeopathic levels.
Prions are not mirrored but misfolded proteins.
> And it’s hard to point to anything recent, except maybe AirPods Pro and recent software releases, where Apple really knocked it out of the park.

I mean… the evolution of Apple’s in house chips are absolutely park-knocker-outters, and the thing that makes me bullish about the company’s future. It alone may be enough to secure a front runner position when it comes time to transition to AR.

They would benefit again from an iconoclastic head of product, but the new laptops and stability improvements introduced in Monterrey suggest that bench is stronger than a lot of people think.
Why is the NOAA hosting this site? Also, the last update was in 2001.
One thing HN has been really good at is keeping spam like that out. You’ll see it occasionally on “new” but it’s gone just as fast.
Both Micrometer and using log4j2 with a log collector (we're using fluent-bit) already support writing to multiple downstream endpoints though, so not a clear win for OTel.
Maybe it's an Indian thing but I generally end most of my emails with "Awaiting your reply..." and sure enough I always get a reply.

I guess when you end with that, it makes it clear that I'm waiting for the other person to reply to me.

We also write "please do the needful" and "please advise" a lot in our emails too :/
My response is US-centric, but most hospital projects do have an acoustics consultant involved. Improvements have been made, but not nearly enough. Challenges include the need for sound absorption to be porous, but this is at odds with cleanability. Increased focus has been on patient room doors, which are increasingly sliders. They work well when they're closed, but the challenges include getting a good bottom seal when the threshold has to accommodate beds and equipment being rolled in and out. Hospital equipment manufacturers are also improving the sounds of their equipment, away from the cheap piezo beepers.

Schools very often have acoustics reviews, although more often in cities than rural areas. Classrooms in addition to auditoria, gyms and common areas. Standards exist for those too.

Office buildings are hit or miss. The developer may hire us for a base building review. Tenants' architects hire us as they design their workplaces. There's a lot of push and pull to find a balance of the modern open ceiling industrial aesthetic and glass conference rooms with reasonable acoustical goals.
SSRIs are pretty serious, which is why you should probably just get vaccinated instead.
You do realize that viral immunity is possible without vaccination, right?
Our society never was good at holding rich and powerful people/industries accountable for the damage they have done.
He disliked annotations but used Spring?

Is that not ironic?
It's meant to be a souped-up autocomplete. You don't quite remember how to do a common thing, and instead of having to go look it up, the IDE suggests it for you and you can keep doing what you're doing. A bunch of small instances of that can save you lots of time.
Slightly closer to compare the ops and infrastructure folks to the cement mixers (still a terrible analogy). Your devs are already designing software. Code is a blueprint. So yeah, if you want to design a skyscraper, you should understand building design.
Consider the source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_National_Interest
> You don't tax the dead.

Why not? If someone owes a bunch of taxes when they die, their estate should still be on the hook for it. I don't see any reason that money owed to the government should go to someone's heirs instead just because they happened to die at a specific time
Yeah, but you don't need to "reach for not just high end desktop chips, but for server-class workstation hardware to really beat the M1 Max". Low-market CPU's for desktop will like the Ryzen 5 3600 (newegg for 240$) surpass it on CPU bench. Likely they also surpass it on on raytracing as well. And chips like the AMD Ryzen 7 4800H, which is a "big laptop" CPU, also beat it. The M1 Pro 10 manages to best that, but not by a huge margin on passmark.

None of them beat an actual, modern, mid-market desktop CPU. And none of those compare to the likes of the threadripper.

The test results are amazing, the exposition here is simply inaccurate. Again, you don't need a "server-class highend workstation" CPU to best the M1 in raw performance. Nothing on the planet beats the m1 in tpd/performance. That's amazing enough on its own.
Dunno about the sample size, but sounds like "1/3rd of hospitalizations prevented" to me.

Though it's like... isn't the vaccine in the initial phases like "80+% of hospitalizations prevented"? I guess it's good to have all these options but would be nice to just get good vaccine coverage.
Bouncing around languages and ecosystems is pretty common, isn't it?
I mean, I'm obviously intensely skeptical that such a thing will happen at all, much less within ten years.

But I guess we'll find out eventually! And if mine does become the "640k ought to be enough for anybody" quote of this decade, then I suppose there are worse kinds of fame.
the former (web+backend), we're part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
Copilot is used by human programmers. It's not cloning entire programs, little bits of programs that are curated and assembled into something new are easily going to past the test of transformativity. You go into court with that argument, and the other side will just point out that you have no way of showing the entire program you're complaining about was written by machine.

You seem to be arguing that if it includes any copyright code at all, the whole program is thus an infringement. You will be laughed out of court with that. I'm sorry, but I really don't think you've thought your argument through.
Not Czech, but Prague based. Yes, there is a lively tech community, somewhat harder to enjoy if you don't speak Czech or are an extreme introvert. Still lots of oursourcing companies but also many startups/international companies. At the workplace it is common to speak English, not hard at all to get a job.
I'm a VPE at group level for a sizable conglomerate. From what I experience myself or through observation, I can say that "codeless CTO" is fine BUT if you can't code, you better don't be a jerk.

Good at coding = respect. Good attitude = respect. Not coding + jerk = no respect from team.

Also, it depends on the team. If you don't know about code, and your team is not mature enough, you're at disadvantage. You can't tell if a feature really takes 2 weeks to develop. You can't tell if the team are optimizing for local maxima at the expense of long term. You can't tell if the product is a pile of hacks on top of hacks.

I agree you don't need to be the best coder in the room, but you should be aware of critical technical decisions.
16% > 11% represents a 31% decrease in the absolute number of hospitalizations. That's nearly a ONE THIRD improvement in the hospitalization rate. In places where hospitals are at or near capacity, that would make a huge difference.

Or were you trying to make a statement about the statistical validity of the result, because the outcomes differ by 5%? Because that's not how statistics work. A well constructed study of sufficient size can provide detect arbitrarily small differences in outcomes--you just need a bigger study size, the smaller the difference you want to detect. You would learn about this any 101-level statistics course, and a lot more useful information, too.
> - Tax capital gains >1m a year as regular income.

It sounds fair, but aren't lower capital gains taxes used to encourage investment? And if we get rid of that incentive on income > $1 million (at least, can they still offset losses?), then would that lead to some adverse consequence (like much lower investment overall as direct income generation becomes preferred at that point)?