skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From your article:

> These are the exact same states with the lowest and highest balance of payment ratios, respectively. It is hypocritical to decry the tax code for taxing high-income states more than low income states while intentionally designing tax policies with that effect.

The above is an example of a tax code that is progressive. Plenty of red-leaning folks, including Rand Paul or KY, want a flat tax. The very progressiveness that helps their states is what they attack:

> As a lower-income state, Kentucky receives the full benefit of federal programs like Medicare, but pays relatively little in income or payroll taxes, so it gets much more than it pays in. And that is actually how the social safety net is supposed to work. We want individuals who for whatever reason are hurting financially to receive support from the more fortunate, which necessarily implies large transfers from rich states like New Jersey to lower-income states like Kentucky.

> What’s not OK is when states that are huge net beneficiaries of progressive taxation and the social safety net preen and posture about self-reliance and the evils of big government. It’s even worse when they assert some kind of moral superiority over the metropolitan areas that pay their bills.

* https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/14/opinion/kentucky-tornado-...

* https://archive.md/ExBqu

The The Hill article linked to also references ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council), which also is pushing for a non-progressive flat tax:

* https://www.alec.org/model-policy/flat-tax-option-act/

ALEC, while labeled as "non-partisan", certainly has clear leaning (as it's original under §History illustrate):

> ALEC has produced model bills on a broad range of issues, such as reducing regulation and individual and corporate taxation, combating illegal immigration, loosening environmental regulations, tightening voter identification rules, weakening labor unions, and opposing gun control.[8][9][10][11]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Legislative_Exchange_...
incredible business answer..
Robot = traffic light in South African
Aerospace isn't necessarily like that for a number of reasons. A large driver of cost is quality control. For example, when a custom part is manufactured it needs to go through a number of tests, some of the raw material needs to be kept and tracked for future testing, etc. When they get shipped they have to be be tracked and handled differently, sometimes accelerometers are placed on the cargo to measure any shocks, etc. They need to be stored in a bonded warehouse, often climate controlled throughout its life. All of that control, testing and documentation adds to the cost even after R&D is a sunk cost.
I think the title needs to say “iOS” in there.
As of May of this year, IDA Free is a lot less broken now, so they are making some progress. It's no longer ancient and it has the same "cloud based" Hex-Rays that the Home version does, albeit only for x64.
Lying to the feds is itself a crime https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1001
This reads like "Old man yells at cloud" satire, but he's not wrong on calling out that internet has become heavily commercialized.

I think we'd be much worse off if that hadn't happened though.

Imagine if you still needed $xx,000 to get a production-ready website off the ground instead of, say, $5 and an AWS account.

Imagine if users couldn't rate the places they favorite and had to rely on biased reviews from newspapers or TV shows to tell us where to eat

Imagine if you had to buy a piece of overpriced and under-engineered hardware to watch TV instead of buying an overpriced and satsifactorily-engineered router/internet gateway/wireless access point and stream literally everything through it

Imagine if we had to print maps instead of using Google Maps on our phones that can give us mostly-accurate departure notifications before we head out

Imagine if we still needed to use ActiveX/DCOM for websites to do anything meaningful with our machines instead of using web workers, websockets, XHRs, and all of the awesome async client-server abstractions that we have today

Personally, I'm excited for Web 3.0, as from my understanding, it will make it much easier for people to use their machine's spare CPU cycles to pay for services they actually use and get paid to host services they like. This way we don't have to rely on so much of the web being powered by advertisers and tracking.
So I also have a custom printf, but there is a limitation: if you ask gcc to check it with "__attribute__((__format__ (__printf__", then you are forced into using gcc's idea of what the printf format string syntax.

How can I have strict type checking, but a user defined format string?
It's true on an individual level too: someone who is very sick will stay at home, but someone with a mild head cold will still go out.

There's going to be a negative correlation between severity and something like "velocity" of infected persons.
What I'm taking away from this thread is that even apart from aphantasia or its absence, there's probably a wide gradient or even multidimensional space of visualization capacities.

If I try to "look" at an elephant in my imagination:

* I "see" an elephant's head and shoulders at a kind of oblique angle. It's far less real than external vision and significantly less real than dream or hypnagogic imagery.

* The colours feel real, but there is very far from a photorealistic level of detail. It's not hazy or anything, it's just that my brain won't flesh out a piece until I force it to by focusing on that specific part. "Head of an elephant" is not a fine-grained enough part.

* The experience of parts being unresolved is a kind of vague sense of an approximate shape/size/colour/texture off at some vector relative to my focus or to the scene. There's a blob over there shaped sorta like a trunk, and it feels this way and is kind of grey. The background is a sort of straw/blue savanna kind of scene with literally no detail.

* There doesn't tend to be a lot of motion, and I don't think I'm ever surprised by things like a visualization 'winking' at me. If there's motion it tends to be small repetitive things like gentle swaying, or a kind of 0.5–1fps discontinuous scene update.

It feels like mostly my capacity for visual imagination comes from the same circuits that are able to recognize external images. The elephant imagery is in barely more detail than I imagine I need to identify whether a thing I'm looking at fits "elephant" or not and to determine whether or not to be surprised by the details of that elephant's visual presentation.

It seems like people with aphantasia can't project that model into their awareness in a generative way. It also seems like there are people with quite a bit more ability to embellish those models than I have.
Which lockdowns in our hemisphere had the goal of stopping the virus? All I know about (or have been part of) never stated that goal, only goal was to break waves and avoid overload of health care systems, which most at least helped with.

And then it goes on because measures are reduced, and zero-covid never was a goal... would even go so far that some few countries pretty successfully did zero-covid strategies and stopped their virus, though sure, that is a pretty futile thing if the world is not "globally" doing this and you are likely not isolating forever/completely - so we just start to live with it.
I don’t think there will ever be a FOSS OS for consumers that is the préfèred option.

There is too many moving targets to ever be “done” and chasing those customers is profitable and requires money. That’s the perfect domain of a business.

I’m ok with this too. As another comment mentioned, once upon a time you couldn’t unzip a file with outpaying. Now it’s standardized and free (as in freedom and beer). Let apple and google and Microsoft fight and spend money tweaking the gui just right and bundling in whatever crap they want. FOSS community will lag behind and pick up the tail freeing everyone not on the bleeding edge.

Imagine if things like unzipping wasn’t free in 2021? How much shittier phones and services would be. Hell even Niche projects like the oculus quest would be a mess without basic tools being ubiquitous.

Unlike some FOSS supporters, I’m ok with commercial interests in software. 2021 might not be free, but it’s still in the making - if 2020 is free, everyone can help build the best 2021 from a more level playing field when we can stand on the free shoulders of giants.

Ps: companies should donate more to open source software development and protection and maintenance.
I'm in love with #9. Looks like you have a good handle on the situation. The rest proves you're going places.
Oh excellent, I made a chat bot for work and that's really going to cut down on our costs, as I was sending the entire prompt for every answer.
>This is an unfair take. [...] because he knew the HN crowd was going to go on yet another Electron rant-fest. [...]

Bundling all legitimate criticism as a "rant-fest" is an unfair take.
I developed my own website to show the climate consequences per country: https://howhotwillitget.com

And try to educate those around me bit by bit.
I may have to try out Tomoe some time. I used Moleskine long ago but eventually moved away to Leuchtturm 1917 notebooks. I find their paper works really well for my fountain pen usage. I even write on both sides of each page, something I avoided on cheaper notebooks.
It seems to be an electron app, which explains the size. It's quite feature rich though.
I think I've done my best to go all in. You can judge for yourself from the following timeline:

2008: After a couple grueling winters in Canada's oil field, I come to the conclusion that switching off fossil fuels is going to be the defining project of the coming century and that it might be the best place to apply my natural talent at math and science.

2009: Begin studying Sustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering (undergraduate program) with dreams of leveraging the clout an engineer has towards advancing the technology that underpins our way of life.

2014: Graduate, start looking for clean energy jobs

2015: Take a job in telecoms, continue trying to break into the renewable energy industry

2017: Give up on breaking into the renewable energy industry. Rethink my initial assessment that the limiting factor for switching off fossil fuels is brain power. Come to the conclusion that it's really lacking capital and initiative.

2019: Co-found a startup in the horticultural space, with ambitious plans to make local food and medicinals production easier whatever climate disruptions happen. Keep the day job to ensure reliable capital.

2020: Join a second greenhouse start-up in a less directly involved capacity.

2021: The first startup fails (not official yet, but my partner and I have agreed to pursue other projects).

I tell people this and some say it sounds pretty depressing, but none of it has ever made me feel depressed. I guess I don't question that I'm doing my best, so I've never felt like giving up; though I've definitely had to acknowledge I was barking up the wrong tree a few times.

Gordon White, whose work on this subject I follow, says it's important to distinguish the rescue mission from the salvage mission. There are aspects of modern life that are worth rescuing, but most are just worth salvaging, they're tools that can be used to get through the coming times. From that perspective, I've never felt particularly bad about taking part in modern society, because I see myself as getting out as many resources as possible for building what comes after. My attempts at building anything have so far been fruitless, but I don't feel as though I'm playing the wrong game as it were. Christianity has a similar sentiment, 'in this world but not of it', and that resonates as well. I participate in a modern western lifestyle, I even enjoy many aspects of it. But I don't think it's the only thing worth trying and I won't mourn its passing to the same degree as most.
>You seem to have confused iOS devices with Macs.

"macOS on ARM is very clearly a descendant of the way iOS works. It's just macOS userspace on top of an ARM XNU kernel, which was already a thing. The way the boot process works, etc. is clearly iOS plus their new fancy Boot Policy stuff for supporting multiple OSes and custom kernels." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28181976

I think after M1 it will be more and more confusing to see them too much separately.
SpaceX F9 has 106 successful launches after their last failure.

Ariane 5 has 106 launches since their last full failure. (1 partial failure in there.)

Of course, F9 is a little smaller, everything other than Delta IV Heavy is a little smaller, so your statement including "with that much payload capacity" is true by construction.
I'd argue it's slightly different--

- no brown m&m's specifically calls out no brown m&ms in a list of requirements, and uses it as a canary for reading comprehension.

- a misspelling is an "obvious" problem, but I suspect not called out anywhere as a specific requirement.

"No brown m&ms" catches when people aren't paying detailed attention to your (presumably reasonably scoped) requirements doc.

Asking people to catch all "obvious" problems holds them accountable to an unbounded guessing game, and you're far more likely to catch people out, simply because of differences in where they choose to focus.
You hate your job – what next? The two writers exploring toxic productivity
For what they believe to be the greater good is exactly what is the issue. I believe the greater good would’ve been to just advise people to be safe and stay home if sick. Acting like people have the plague when they have cold symptoms and most people will just experience minor cold symptoms (especially if they’re vaccinated or already had it), I don’t believe is good. Covid is novel, the common cold probably once was as well.

I’d argue a majority of people just don’t care. They don’t care they have to wear one, will stop wearing one as soon as they don’t have to.
> - I wanted a form to register new types, so it could work for user-defined types;

> - the C pre-processor knows nothing about lists that can be expanded multiple times;

I'm actually working on both features as Clang extensions.

#repeat, a preprocessor directive to loop, can be combined with _Pragma(push_macro/pop_macro) to create lists by redefining a macro.

and currently #increment, though I think I want to expand on this so that other macros can be redefined more easily to create lists via push/pop macro.

The reason push_macro/pop_macro pragmas can't work, is the macro has to be undefined and redefined, and the value then pushed onto a stack in the compiler.

and you can't redefine a macro in the body of another macro directly.

so I've been thinking about maybe a _Pragma(redefine_macro(MacroToRedefine, NewValueForRedefinedMacro))

but I don't want it to be limited to the _Pragma area of the compiler, I want it to be eventually standardized.

I've been talking to a friend at WG14 who suggested making it a "Preprocessor Expression, like `__has_c_attribute` and `defined()`

So that's the area I've been working on recently for the Increment/Redefine PE lately.
Trying to read the entrails into another poster's personality in response to a not very inflammatory comment is just plain gross. A pity, I was interested in reading Inventing the Future, but this sort of classless rude behavior has changed my mind.
I think where that analogy breaks down some is that this is mostly about what's happening in urban Europe, where SUVs and off-road vehicles are exceedingly rare. They're so rare that you notice them on the odd occasion of passing one (for me maybe every few weeks?) and I don't know anyone who has one.
I was with you for the first paragraph, but the second makes a number of concrete statements about the virus that are contrary to what I've heard elsewhere, so I'd second the ask for sources.
See now you've gone and boxed yourself into the typical HN corner...

The people making those recommendations are experts in the field and have all read the relevant research. Weighting the good studies vs. the bad ones, measuring evidence, etc. They literally exist to give guidance on world health matters based on the spectrum of results from all these different researchers.

And here you are, telling me that in your opinion, we should ignore their assessment and only trust these few specific papers that you choose to emphasize. (At least you've stopped advocating for ivermectin now?)

A bit of a paradox to get people to rely on your opinion when you've previously said we shouldn't rely on opinions isn't it? Or is it just that you don't like the WHO's opinion on World Health issues because they might be in the pocket of "big surgical mask".
Where are you moving from? I just moved to greater boston and I love it.

Where I live has just the right level of density -- you see people around at all times of day, but it's still peaceful at night. And almost everything I do is walkable.
If you don't know what you're looking for, it works well. If you know exactly what you want, specific keywords etc., good luck because it's gone from the mildly condescending "Did you mean..." corrections to "Yeah I am going to ignore all that, I bet what you really want to find is some ads."
Which definition of our? Seems like it was found just fine. It didn't get the attention it needed until after it was publicly disclosed, however.

The distinction is that even with a magic 100% infallible bug finding service, if the fixes don't get the attention they need, even with this magic service is, the problem's still going to be around. (While this perfect infallible service doesn't actually exist, fuzzers do find bugs in a semi-automated fashion. Still, getting someone to pay attention to the reports is an uphill battle due to false positives.)
Ha. We’ve all done that a time or two.
Prediction - nerds will drum up any FUD related to omicron to postpone return to the office. I am seeing it in my company already - in the today's tech virtual townhall "omicron is going to hit hard, so why go back to the office in Jan" was the most upvoted comment in the stream.
> A mild strain of covid that is contagious, leads to natural immunity and doesn’t require a vaccine is an absolute win win for the world.

No. Covid reeinfects. There's only a short-lived immunity. Covid is not a cold. If it doesn't get your the first or the second or the third time it will get you the 15th time.

Long term damage is not getting enough attention.

In decades maybe we get a mild covid.

> Way too many comments and articles that try and keep the fear train running full steam.

And they should. 2 years in and in a month we are back to 2020 measures and public health policies have barely improved.
I'm no fan of Chinese IP theft, but it is not true that the British did nothing to protect their IP. When Francis Lowell [1] went to Britain to learn about cotton mills, he could find nothing printed, and I believe it was illegal to take notes out of the country. At any rate, he was searched when he left, but he had studied the machinery and memorized plans for it. When he got back, he built the first textile mill in the US.

I think publishers in the young United States, having no copyright laws on sheet music, blatantly copied sheet music from British publishers. However, I'm not able to find a source on that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Cabot_Lowell
> The sooner you replace delta with omicron in a country, should this continue to hold up, the better.

You think you want that, but this also increases the chances of Omicron evolving into something worse, like picking up genetic fragments from a haemorrhagic virus, or being able to cross the blood-brain barrier.

The 2nd wave of the Spanish flu was deadlier than the first: being infected by an earlier variant doesn't automatically make one immune from subsequent variants, especially when given maximum genetic resources and time to work with by letting it run rampant. The ideal scenario would be making COVID extinct ASAP.
> Just wear a mask in indoor public places until the pandemic is over.

I'm fully vaccinated, so why should I? And when will the pandemic "be over"? Covid is here forever and ever. As long as we keep testing at the level we do, we will always find new variants and always see "spikes" of cases every single winter.

When, specifically, do the states with mask mandates remove them? Why not today? What makes a month better? Or a year? Or never?

Pushing for masks at this stage is arguing we wear masks forever. That isn't a world I care to live in.
I find this attitude completely elitist and counter productive. Why shouldn’t Linux be for everybody, usable on every type of device? Why should we need to rely on proprietary software for our day-to-day tasks? Don’t you think there is benefit to this?
selection pressure is for increasing reproduction. covid spreads before it kills. unless we get radically depopulated this pressure is nonexistant
For me one killer feature is how MacOS treats every text field equally. I can use the Emacs style Ctrl-A/E/K/etc shortcut keys anywhere I enter text and it works[1]! To me it's deeply ironic that this is a feature in MacOS but not Linux (unless you count the terminal).

[1] With the exception of websites and SPAs that rebind these keys to something else. I really don't like sites that do this.
Managing multiple micro-services and integrations
>They are going to cling to these gains for as long as possible, which is going to influence downstream prices for years to come.

They will get undercut by somebody new who doesn't care about making up for last years profit loss? How does Under Armour come out of somebodies basement to take on Nike? It might take a little time, but if somebody is overcharging just because they can, and they sell a commodity product, competition will arise.

Luxury goods and marketing taxes may last longer.

Shipping costs will go down someday. If inflation flatlines for a decade, then this happens again in a decade. Maybe this years inflation is catch up for the last decade of flatness.
There are two primary factors driving virus evolution - not killing the host and defeating the host's immune system. Killing the host, at least with humans, is an evolutionary dead end, since we go out of our way to quarantine the body and destroy or permanently confine it.

In humans, viruses typically evolve to be less severe and more infectious over time.

There's significant evidence that omicron is less severe. At some point we should see an equilibrium reached with the coronaviruses, and the hope is that it'll be as mild as seasonal colds. Omicron could be a significant leap in that direction.

https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-hea...
Go 1.18 Beta 1 is released
Once again, you’re comparing the compressed instructions without telling anyone that that’s what you’re doing, because you are convinced that the compressed instructions will never be performant on a mobile or desktop core. The foundation disagrees, and every manufacturer competing in mobile-class RISC-V chips disagrees. Even if you think that they are wrong, that is the plan they are going forward with. Real world RISC-V chips targeted at the mobile space support the compressed instruction. Even if you think that they are wrong to do so, the support is there. So what you are doing is refusing to compile for the instruction set the chips actually support, instead targeting what you think they should be doing instead, and then declaring that the code density is worse. This is nonsense.
The test was composed of apparently:

Participants completed an online test to measure distinct aspects of intelligence, including planning and reasoning, working memory, attention and emotion processing.

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The wights given to the categories is not certain. But emotion processing is probably an area they are lacking in which is why they chose those fields of study in the first place probably.
What benefit will he have?