skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a naturalized US citizen whose family doesn't own a home anywhere on Earth and is actively trying to build wealth- FUCK NO to heavier taxes.

Y'all got yours, now what - screw me?

I want to build my wealth - give people like me a 5 year tax break or something instead. I can't afford to live where I work (California) unless I'm willing to live in a shitty area with high crime and terrible schools.
> That said, it's a really interesting problem figuring out how to teach people what Alexa can/can't do. How do you tell your users "we built a feature so now you can set subscription orders!"

Did you know there is a setting to turn the did you know stuff off?

Did you know that this setting even used to work at one point in time?

Its frustrating that companies can't get it into their head that users may not want to know.

Also they have my email, and could send that kind of shit there so no excuses for updating the system to ignore the "follow up recommendations" setting.
> consumers are, frankly, ignorant

It's not ignorance, it's way too willful for that.

We know about local taxes, safety standards, patent and trademark licensing and the human and ecological damage caused by irresponsibly sourced materials... but happily ignore all of it because we save 30% off the co-branded resale imports, and 80% off the branded original.

It's not ignorance, it's the unadulterated marriage of consumerism and capitalism. Calculated greed.
They meant run ads on tvs about what alexa can do.
cybersecurity treats include secret orders by governments to comply to any requests?
China's mysterious hypersonic test may take a page from DARPA's past
Ah, I figured the housewife comment would wreak some havoc, but I can’t really think of a better way to describe. There is no emotional or romantic attachment. If anything, it is friendly, at best. Nothing to really read between the lines on this. It’s a transactional, platonic relationship.
Thanks, appreciate it. Honestly, the switch from little endian to big endian within the same compressed blocks is incredibly confusing and is probably one of the things that is so weird about the Deflate specification. I had to read that part of the spec over and over again, and compare it to other people's blog posts (made harder because some people write bits from Right to Left???)

I personally think it's easiest if you write bits Left to right, from LSB to MSB, which fits how humans write words, but i also get that when you're programming, you tend to think of MSB being on the left and LSB on the right (for bit twiddling operations)

So I can see why people would write bits right to left too, to fit how you program, but frankly I don't think that is any easier to read on paper.
Being deeply in debt on fixed rate interest loans is a good way to make money during an inflationary period. The balances on the loans evaporate while wages increase relative to interest payments.
HQoS Scheduling Structure
It’s fashionable. It’s dogma. It’s ideology. It’s ultimately self-destructive. I only hope we don’t go down with it.
This kind of analysis may make sense with an employee who handles cash like a bartender or a waitress but I'd think twice about applying it to a trusted position like personal assistant.
This is absolutely true. When I turn kitchen upside down while making one simple dish. Cleaning up fast afterwards is not my awesome superpower, its bare minimum necessity to live amicably in house :-)
Disclaimer: I'm not an expert. At all.

I don't think it checks what the CPU is doing at all. It just makes software able to check if the platform is signed by the manufacturer.

The way I understand it is that the keys are burned into the TPM at time of manufacture, and there is no way to extract those keys, software can only ask the TPM to encrypt/decrypt/sign/verify certain data using the keys.

The TPM can then be used to verify certain operations, eg to retrieve the key for an encrypted hard drive.

But it's all a trojan horse because the manufacturer is the one who controls the keys, not the user.

It's "trusted" in the sense that the platform is "trusted" by the manufacturer, not the user.
I don't think the fault is in Home Assistant either, the fault is in the mountain of shitty hardware thag just won't cooperate.

Home Assistant does its best to compensate for the bullshit and they're doing an amazing job. Autodiscovery is a godsent and when it works, it's easily the best way to get any home automation system set up.

But if autodiscovery fails, honestly, the process is unnecessarily painful. You need to enter a lot of information and mess with settings to get things working reliably because the vendor decided to change the API between hardware revision or send invalid JSON at random.
You can target taxes such that they don't hit poor people.
I've seen many pilots of my commercial aircraft (737 typically but A320 as well) do walk arounds. I even heard one say "I saw something funny hanging from the <something> so the maintainence crew has to come back and repair it."
I haven't seen any actual evidence that Taylor is giving kickbacks to McDonald's. I've only a lot of insinuation and accusation of such a kickback, because the accusers don't seem to consider other possibilities. One possible reason other than a kickback: McDonald's wants the machines to error on the side of food safety and don't trust their own employees to not fuck it up.
Past results don't guarantee future outcomes
AT&T, Verizon Propose 5G Limits to Break Air-Safety Standoff
I'd bet it's because the Python library is actually just a thin wrapper around a C library.

You can do that in node too via NAPI or you could compile to wasm and run there instead.
"Rudolf Caracciola's record (in the 1937 Mercedes-Benz W125) of 432.7 km/h (268 mph) over the flying kilometre on 28 January 1938, remained the fastest ever officially timed speed on a public road until broken on 5 November 2017 by Koenigsegg"

that's insane
IMO, This is the biggest problem with WFH. I personally have avoided all internship/development programs since COVID started at my company because I know it will just make my life harder and be frustrating on both sides.

We're already starting to feel the effects of the reduced talent pipeline especially as we get deeper into the Great Resignation.
How do you explain then that even 10 bits aren't enough for a colour space like Rec.2020, which doesn't even feature all colours ?
This is kind of my mentality. I want to buy a house to live and die in it I don’t care if price goes up or down I just want my own place. Can someone explain why a market crash would be bad for someone like me who was poised to buy when the pandemic priced me out of the market? Why do I car if someone has multiple houses loses all their investments? This is a genuine question I would like to understand. Thanks
There are none, obviously.
Housecleaning is a very common stand alone service, and grocery shopping/delivery is fairly easy now too.

Do you really want an individual, or just a service?
Reminded me of this fussy house from "There Will Come Soft Rains"

https://www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_There%20Will%20Come%20So...
No problem. I was loose with my lingo earlier; it’s not called a multi-region bucket but rather a multi-region S3 access point (hence the behavior described). More here: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/features/multi-region-access-point...
I can only guess, but I suppose the context in which they would trigger something like this would be that some of their accounts get hijacked to send things to a bunch of email addresses, which later turn out to be links to zero-day exploits attribuable to state-sponsored attackers, so they warn the recipients of those emails. But it's got to be a relatively scattershot warning - Google doesn't really know how vigilant you are. A friend of mine working for an NGO got the Gmail warning back in 2012 and upgraded a few overdue things.
> The problem with raising property taxes is that it equally impacts people who aren't speculating. You have to pay the same amount even if you only bought a house because you needed somewhere to live.

Property taxes is simply rent you pay to your locality based on the value of your property. But it acts to reduce speculation because you have to pay it whether you are using the property or just holding it for the appreciation.

> because then people move money into things that aren't subject to property tax, like stocks.

And they aren't keeping it in real estate...so at least we don't have to compete with Bob Speculator when trying to buy a house.

> Their existing savings will be the same percentage of the house as it was before, because the nominal housing prices are staying the same -- inflation offset by higher interest rates.

But then why did I save for that downpayment in the first place? If I saved $200k over 10 years...and then houses double to $2 million while I go from making $100k to $250k/year...well, I was really stupid those first 10 years. And not only that, but my downpayment of 20% is no longer viable...I have to pay 40% to make the loan officer comfortable with the loan. Ugh, now I need to save $800k. Ugh. Maybe I can save that in the next 10 years with my higher salary.

> If you want to make it easier to buy a house, fix zoning so we can build more housing.

Yes, because every mega city in the world that has focused on density is affordable? Yes, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Paris are plenty dense, but they are not affordable by any measure of the word. Zoning isn't the only thing that needs to be done, you need to deal with the speculators, and you need a sane inflation rate so that people can afford to buy those houses eventually.
SIMD.js was abandoned in browsers but you can use SIMD in WASM.
If they had to build Harriers, they could. I wonder what 1970s Harriers, with upgraded comms, radar and weapons would be like? Maybe 'good enough' in a lot of situations. If they didn't spend 20 years integrating some overly complicated 'Meatverse Helmet' etc. i.e. they took a 'build it now' wartime footing ... I wonder what they could build ...
My sincere apologies for getting a little introspective (I'm British)! I did make at least one Mustang and Lightnings - beautiful aircraft all, and rather a lot of {B(n): n ∈ (US bomber designations)}. My Enola Gay was pretty decent. I made it with undercart down and with unusual foresight, I used plasticine and a ball bearing to weight the nose behind the cockpit so it sat correctly (bloody tricycle undercarriage - honestly, aero designers have no idea what trials they put modellers through 8)

The ball bearing in question was given to me by a friend in West Germany, whose dad was a ociffer in the Royal Tank Regiment. It was a ball bearing from a Chieftain tank (probably mark I - this was 1976ish). I still have one of the really big BBs from one of those beasts somewhere - it's about 2.5" diameter. This one was about 0.5" so it fitted inside the fuselage.

From memory, I made two Musties. One was nearly all silver with some black upper surfaces and another was the original UK build. I didn't realise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_P-51_Mustang that it was oriniated from here.

What a cracking gift from our mates over the seas. That aircraft was an absolute belter. Not quite as pretty as a Spitfire (depending on your point of view, but that oval wing shape on the Spit is pretty iconic) but could give an FW 190 a right good kicking with a decent run up. The Mustie had a brilliant cockpit design from day one that started with the canopy - huge visibility. Later Spits and other fighters copied that, I think.

Later on the Lightning (US) and the Mosquitto (UK) showed what happens if you make the fighter a bit bigger and deploy seriously manly weaponry on a platform that has much longer legs. Our Mossies were counted as two kills by the Axis, if they managed to shoot one down.
Depends on your requirements. Something lowest common denominator like LTO2 is still useful, cheap, reliable and the drives are also cheap and reliable.

You can always feed your LTO2 tape into a LTOx drive and get the data back.

Obviously you have to be fairly patient, but for my use case (once a week on my third tier of backup) it's good and gives peace of mind that I can put in a fireproof safe.

Primary backups are still on the cloud though - S3 Glacier is a good option.
Is a vegan diet healthier than eating meat and dairy?
That's black and white thinking, though. The answer isn't "freeze taxes forever v. kick the grandparents out by making their taxes go up faster than their social security checks."
Bad logic. If the governance e.g., TA is not manipulating market e.g. giving this sort of subsidies in case of failure then market could find the right place. Instead of behind the scene talks, a measurable study would be done and then fabs would be finding a suitable place to establish. I am not saying Samsung has not done studies on the location. Just pointing out the fallacy in the dangerous logic.
Well, also large numbers of French, Germans, and Italians commute into CH every day, attacking your own citizens is considered bad.
No there is clearly a way if it wasn't about constitutionality in the first place
Also. Property tax in Texas is high relative to other states. So it makes sense to give Samsung a break on Ad Valorum taxes (not that a corporation with sufficient lawyers would pay them anyway.) They'll just make up the difference by stiffing it to the owners of all the new houses near the plant.

I can't imagine Samsung would put a plant in a 3rd world country like Texas unless they were getting significant tax deferrals from the state.
The Iomega click of death! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_of_death#Iomega_Zip_driv...
I grew up in Texas, and disagreements about the harm certain content (exactly which varies) can do to society, in or out of classrooms, could become heated in a hurry.

I believe it's appropriate to err on the side of openness, and keep context in mind. That hasn't always been popular.
Lists vs. Fractals
to build an old house like the old one will be impossible because you can't put asbestos in your walls and and have to comply with other build codes that were introduced over the last 120 years.
Yes, and validation as well.

If backups are not tested by actually retrieving data on a regular basis, you might get a nasty surprise.

The Legato NetWorker bug which resulted in 64 bit XFS inodes not getting backed up bit Pixar very hard back in the day (LGTpa40680).
Repair is nowhere near fundamental enough to be considered a right. There is a reason it's not in the Constitution. The other rights give people the ability to repair things.
Tax Brackets. Taxes need to target only those wealthy enough who are already in the game. I don't get why people don't understand that.
You can pick up a second hand HPE deskside server with a tape drive included for $200-$300. Might only be LTO2 but that's still 400Gb of rock solid storage for no money.
That doesn't sound right if you're talking about multiple people (ex: family with two kids and you want a room for each).
I think the sound would get to me after a while.
It varies based on her schedule. We aim for 25-30 hours per week. There is a lot of downtime on her end, which I am fine with.
I called someone today and they appeared to be using a generic call screening service that offers exactly this feature - a computerized voice asks you to enter a random number to be connected.
Your job is “super stressful and emotionally taxing?” Why do Wall Streeters always grossly overestimate their jobs? Managing money is really not that hard especially in the past 10 years. Even monkeys can do it.
>Hard to blame ARIN there

I wasn't blaming anyone. If that's the impression I gave, then I communicated poorly.

Just expressing my frustration WRT the inability to get an IPv6 block for myself.

It shouldn't be this hard.
You have been sorely misled
What’s the concern with sit-on toilets? I get that conceptually it’s kind of gross, but it’s not like germs will seep through your buttcheeks. Doorknobs seem worse since you’re likely to then touch your face.
Made an account just to say how cool this project is! There is a lot you can do with this. I like the marketplace feature a lot.
Disclaimer- Wife works as a consultant for them [0]

I would recommend you consider platforms that do all the hunting, vetting and training for you. This gives you some liability protection as well as saves you the hassle of looking and interviewing multiple people.

The platform I have in mind does all that, and has a pay as you go model, dealing with US based VAs.

The costs are in line with what others recommend, starting at 30$/hour. They only hire VAs who have more than 3 years of experience being an EA/PA so it should fit the bill. Plus you can always change or get more VAs as you need, depending on the skill set required for that task.

From what I know, most of the clients are CEOs who want much of their non essential chores (calendar management, email management, personal shopping etc) taken care of. And once you train one VA, they document it and you don’t have to train new ones anymore.

[0] https://www.hibyron.com
For "purpose built tape tools", tar and dd are fine. tar is a bit easier to restore. If you are running Windows, well, don't run Windows as Microsoft have removed all the built-in tape stuff they used to supply with Windows Server and all the alternatives either cost money or are hideously complicated.

Debian + old HPE server + tape drive + tar. Job done.
Right. You got in late, and... you're going to catch up, how?

I'd really like to understand your wealth accumulation algorithm here because, having lived in CA, I wrote a bunch of programs to model my family's guessed at expected inflation, house appreciation, income appreciation, and tax scenarios, and I bailed.

The people ahead of you are not going to let you climb that ladder, is what I decided. Twenty-five years later, yup.

And I won that game. Survivor bias for sure, but now I'm sitting on what I didn't expect: prime real-estate for CA remote workers + retirees.
What about carbon capture in the soil? Genuine question, I'm not at all familiar with the science.
You're right about backward compatibility - and yet so many things break anyway. And many web apps of the past only worked on Internet Explorer (much in the way that modern web apps only work on Chrome.)

However, the thing that broke Tuesday's app on Wednesday was probably a library or framework change.
Obvious counter-move by a company that actually punishes employees taking paternity / maternity leave - punish employees having children.
My take is that the difference here that makes this socially acceptable is that there is a large reduction in total cost when the employee uses the office printer. If an employee uses a printer, the cost is the ink and paper. If the employee did it themselves, they would either need to take a special trip to a print shop or invest in a printer themselves. The total cost of the latter is much higher, maybe $5-$10 of the employee's time vs $0.03-$0.05 in ink and paper. We imagine whether the employer would be willing to make this trade (give $0.05 so the employee would gain $5) and assume the employer would, so the "theft" isn't really a theft.

On the other hand, buying a $470 cake with your boss's money is no more efficient than paying yourself. It's "just" stealing.
To answer your first question, the relative timezone at which this article has been posted helps triggers the local anger regarding climate change and our politicians taking the piss of it for profit.

To answer your second question, I doubt it, and if it does, it's probably an insignificant joke.
Please read what you wrote. Does it make sense to you?
How do you think extended family housing complexes fit into this story? It's a norm in many cultures and for much or human history but an oddity in the US. Of course you can use as loose a definition of family as you like.
Of course. It's all security theater at best/Microsoft bigcorp DRM at worst.

It does mean that your average attacker won't be able to decrypt your laptop, but you could have easily done that without a TPM.
I'm not sure if you realize it but connection reuse and pipelining are not the same thing. Curl does connection reuse with HTTP/1.1 but not pipelining. Connection reuse is what was described up-thread, using a single connection to convey many requests and responses. Pipelining is a step further where the client pushes multiple requests down the connection before receiving responses.

Pipelining is problematic with HTTP/1.1 because servers are allowed to close a connection to signal the end of a response, rather than announcing the Content-Length in the response header. The 1.1 protocol also requires that responses to pipelined requests come in the same order as the original requests. This is awkward and most servers do not bother to parallelize request processing and response writing. Even if the client sends requests back-to-back, the responses will come with delays between them.

With HTTP/1.1 curl (like most clients) will do non-pipelined connection reuse. They push one request, read one response, then push the next request, etc. The network traffic will be small bursts with gaps between them, as each request-response cycle takes at least a round-trip delay. This is still faster than using independent connections, where extra TCP connection setup happens per request, and this is even more significant for HTTPS.
I would be a total brand whore if there was one single brand that offered all the smart devices I wanted. I love Lutron but they don't offer garage door openers or smart plugs so I'm stuck with Meross for those. Nothing wrong with Meross but they don't offer switches without neutral, yada yada. First world problems I suppose.
I think people are more discussing what the law should be in the modern age than what the law currently is.
Another solution if you can't use exceptions is to have something like a valid() method that the user can call to verify that the object has been correctly initialized. Unlike an init() method, calling valid() is entire optional. If the caller is sure that the constructor arguments have been correct, they don't need to call valid(). Note that you can still use assertions inside the class.

Anyways, for small classes like this one literally anything is better than implicitly forcing the user to allocate on the heap. The author should have pointed out the massive drawbacks of this approach.
Exactly. Around here say you get old and need a nursing home they(public health) will asses all you own. If you have a house they will say gosh we are very sorry. It looks like you own a house, a boat, a property or what ever and this guy over here has nothing. You can afford private care so look into that. The public spaces goes to those who most need it and if you have assets then you don’t need it you can pay elsewhere. They say but that isn’t fair I saved my whole life and was going to give my assets to my children. Who cares not public health. I’ve seen this countless times working in a care home. They are told to sell their house and pay for their own bills while the broke person is subsidized. The secret is to give your children your assets before you need to ask for help or expect to be told to look for private care. Private care is about $6000-$10000 per month. Once you spend all your money you now qualify for subsidized care.
Giant sloths were a thing
The incident occurred around 10:00 GMT in the Mediterranean[1] so I don’t think it was dark out.

[1](https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-59323895)
The documentation say this is based on JackTrip, code here: https://github.com/jacktrip/jacktrip
Yes. Backend dev is “clean” relatively speaking, which is why most devs prefer it. Frontend you will always be dealing with someone else’s obscure framework.
SafeButler (YC S17) Is Hiring Marketing Manager
This is true. Though HN is very big about tone and very little about content.

GP would benefit from running their thought through http://www.textinflator.com/ and then posting.