skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mask resistance is what's dependent on the precautionary principle.

The science is pretty clear. "Mask distribution and promotion was a scalable and effective method to reduce symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections." - https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abi9069
I think a breadth of reading material provides intrinsic value that a myopic “does this provide a financial reward” kind of view does not. Indeed, I think the former probably ends up outperforming the latter financially in the long run when paired with good career choices.

Why? Breadth of material read encourages critical thinking, empathy, and consideration of view points not your own. As long as the material is challenging to read (develops your reading level) and well-written (spurs your imagination and ability to consider other viewpoints even if you disagree).
The bad thing with tech debt is that it has a very high interest rate. The good thing is that you can just delete the software and the tech debt will be gone.
So if you do not have market fit, you can take a lot of debt. But if you do gain users/customers it will cost you a lot - even if you rewrite from scratch to fix all debt that will cost you too.
There are some important things that SQLite does not do.

It is not client/server; a process must be able to fopen() the database file. NFS and SMB are options that can convey access to remote systems, but performance will not likely be good.

Only a single process can write to the database at any time; it does not support concurrent writers.

The backup tools do not support point-in-time recovery to a specific past time.

If your application can live with these limitations, then it does have some wonderful features.
> Other countries get a bill in the mail for how much taxes are owed. It's entirely reasonable to be disappointed with the IRS.

No it's not. The IRS didn't make it that way, Congress did (bought and paid for by Intuit & Co.).
It's a value statement. You can't put away the specific political affiliations in this discussion. Examples:

"Putting aside the Uyghur genocide and one party system of China, who are you to say China should change any of their behavior?"

"Putting aside banning Christianity and subjugating women to be objects of their family and murdering journalists and activists in their embassy, who are we to wish Saudi Arabia would change their political behavior?"

I'm a lifelong Texan, and it's possible I will remain such. The Texas GOP is an embarrassment to enlightenment. As I've stated elsewhere in the thread, I wish we had more political parties so that "reasonable conservatives" had a party that incorporated good faith debate and values in their platform rather than hatred of the "other" and performative outrage.

That's why we need Texas to flip.

If you're a conservative or otherwise a GOP voter and live in Texas, I'd be interested in what drives you to that decision, though it may be off-topic for HN.
We might be talking of different cameras my bad, I was referring to this tilt zoom one that looked interesting.

https://www.arducam.com/product/arducam-12mp-pan-tilt-zoom-p...
You are suggesting that leadership decisions in China follow public opinion? Surely it is the other way around. The whole point of this story is that the CCP retains an iron grip on what the public does or doesn't learn.
> I know with use-package you'd do all this in the macro with config and init, but especially when it comes to dependent packages I prefer having things flat as opposed to nesting them.
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> My config is apparently 333 lines but a lot of that is whitespace and comments for grouping

The reason I like `use-package` even for global concerns (I actually have a `(use-package emacs)` e even though that's pretty much entirely global setqs) is it provides some grouping structure and encourages keeping each item in the proper place.

`:ensure` is also pretty much essential as that's what does the bringing-up (ensuring the package being enabled and configured is actually installed locally).
Swap control and alt so that you can hit Control with your thumb. The thumb is much stronger than the pinky.
+1 for use-package being the only thing that's missing. I'm delighted at how nice this guy makes Emacs look and work with only built-ins (ido in Emacs 27, and fido-veritcal in Emacs 28 go a long way to increasing Emacs' ergonomics imo) but since they're reaching for some installed packages, might as well throw use-package in there to foster further growth.

(If I'm not mistaken, use-package almost made it into upstream Emacs, but they're blocked because one company won't give away the copyright for one contributor to use-package to enable it to be added to Emacs. For the larger Emacs community, I hope that happens soon!)
Closest thing I've seen at a reasonable price point: https://docs.v1engineering.com/mpcnc/intro/
1 - I have already paid tax on the money.
2 - In making the investment, I stand to lose (or gain)
3 - The lost money is not an expense

Given all of this, I expect that the capital gain rate is specified as lower to encourage me to invest.

If the capital gain rate were higher than the income rate, I would not make risky investments. I could use my money to invest in my own business -- where I have expenses available. And, take an income. Any loss would then be an expense.

I just wouldn't invest in other business.

How would you encourage investment behavior?
I can see where a guaranteed double bonus for four years is nice, but it doesn't seem to add up to much, competitively speaking. If you are a top-10% engineers, Meta will just pay out whatever you are leaving on the table with respect to RSUs etc plus a handsome signing bonus, just to get you on the team. Also, it just seems small compared to what the overall comp must be at Apple (I've never worked there, just guessing). If they give T5-6 engineers RSU packages worth 1-2 million over 4 years, and given that their share price has tripled in the last 18 months, anyone who has been there long enough to be worth retaining is making a hell of a lot more than $180k by 2026.
Does anyone know if Ketamine is more effective for depression than Psilocybin/classical psychedelics? Is it being used in place of psychedelics because it is already schedule 3 or is there a different reason?
Two things worth bringing up.

I’m unconvinced book banning is as big a deal on the left. The one example you bring up was apparently attacked across the board in Canada and the other two are non government institutions, the last one literally being the family of the author.

Maybe more importantly though I’m unconvinced that book restrictions are actually universally illegitimate, but certainly some motivations are. If as the article claims it is mostly multicultural books being attacked despite similar books in terms of sex being left alone, then that is worse than books being restricted because people feel they’re racist because racism is bad. I would for example completely support restricting middle schoolers access to books supporting “race science” at least without the proper context being provided
If you're experienced you'd download and install all the dependencies, perhaps via "/opt", where a local package-manager would not interfere.

But honestly? If you're new to using Linux then you should use the supported approach by your system. If you're running Debian, for example, "apt install emacs". If you're running CentOS "yum install emacs".

Trying to do things outside the confines of the package-manager seems like an odd-constraint. I can appreciate it might make some sense, but when there are so many dependencies installed - fetching/building/installing them all one at a time is going to be very fiddly and annoying, even for a somewhat-experienced user.
I'm not confident that all kids could be like you, though. Even as an adult, I'd find it pretty disturbing if I were flipping through a book I liked, starting to identify with the main character, and then turned a page to see some side characters discussing their graphic sex fantasies about her.
Indeed, a world ruled by feudal lords and corporate fiefs still possesses as little liberty as one ruled by a centralized empire.
The horrible part is that we're teaching kids to destroy ideas that contradict our ethos instead of using our intellect to overcome them. You don't defeat fascism by killing all the fascists, you defeat it by showing people liberty and egalitarianism is superior.

Quick note, I'm not 100% against killing fascists. There's a time and a place for anything (eg: d-day).
The telemetry is an interesting reminder; I wonder how difficult it would be to modify/reverse-engineer W11 to spit out garbage telemetry? Gigabytes and gigabytes of the stuff, just give MS the same garbage they give us.
The US political system guarantees exactly 2 parties, who predictably waste most of their time on "enemy of my enemy".
It seems that you’d use an ITIN if you have to report income to the IRS and are not eligible for a SSN

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/individual-taxpayer-identifi...

> What is an ITIN?
An Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) is a tax processing number issued by the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS issues ITINs to individuals who are required to have a U.S. taxpayer identification number but who do not have, and are not eligible to obtain, a Social Security number (SSN) from the Social Security Administration (SSA).
I use SQLite exclusively on a high performance crypto sniper project - https://bsctrader.app and I could not be happier with it.

Performs much better then postgres in terms of query latency which is ultra important for the domain we operate in.

I take machine level backups every 2 hours, so in the event of an outage, just boot the disk image on a new vm and it's off.

I would never do this on my professional job due to the stigma, but for this side project, it has been incredible
Something similar happened with my father. He upgraded his laptop to w11 and now his microphone is incredibly finicky and will only capture his voice making if he's sitting exactly in front of the middle of the computer. This makes the mic useless for my father's base use case : have video calls where both he and my mother speak on the same computer. They now have to turn the computer around to fact the person who's speaking. The same computer with the same mic worked perfectly fine with w10.
Maybe hindsight bias? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindsight_bias
I think this gets at an insightful issue - In Flickr's heyday, much of its userbase was professional, aspiring, and amateur photographers who were effectively power users. They viewed Flickr as something like an extension of Lightroom, so they used it for storage but also curated their public profile, lists, etc in a sort of proto-Instagram way.

When Flickr repositioned post Yahoo acquisition, it felt like it was aiming for more of a Google Photos-type use-case that was very passive and "it just works", which felt very different from how it had been popular before. I think history bears out that this was a poor decision, we don't really have major players now that glue those styles of usage together like Flickr did. I think it just required a higher level of effort in both the software and the users, and once Flickr pushed away the audience that enjoyed that level of effort to try to acquire a more set-and-forget audience it lost the first and failed to appeal much to the second.

I think the old core Flickr userbase often went to 500px, which I don't like as much but is closer to Flickr in the good old days.
To the folks saying that the "IRS doesn't care about the crime, they just want the money" I think you have it backwards. This whole system is set up as a trap for criminals.

The idea is that they don't want you to pay so that they can prosecute you for tax fraud, which in many cases is a much easier charge to prove. For instance, why prove theft of property when you can instead demonstrate that you own the property and didn't pay taxes for it?

If a crime is committed the state will get their cut in the end anyways.

They have to make it possible for you to pay without incriminating yourself so that you can be charged for not doing so. This is one tax they would rather you not pay.
It was "sitcom" startups[0], something like "uber for dogs". I guess some of web3 qualifies, but I don't think something like Ethereum would fit that category at all.

0 - http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html
Of course it does. The tax code is a law written by humans, which means it’s a set of emotional value judgements written in dry enough language that we can pretend what you said is true.
the hn crowd really needs to stop amplifying these authors with buzzwords in the title sort of things.
This just seems like a rehash of old themes and a bit of blogspam. Is there an original idea in here?
A blockchain of NFTs!
No, I don't feel the same way about Junk email. I can go through it at my leisure and there's history there. Carriers potentially blocking calls is just some black box deciding what's "safe" for me.

There are issues with mail servers being blacklisted and they can't send emails to me. But there's actual visibility to that. You can look up mail server IP's and get to the root issue of why you're blacklisted.

Honestly I'd rather the government focus on the endless junk mail I receive to my home than anything. I spend more time sorting that rather than hitting decline on my phone.
What would a managed sqlite even look like? I can't tell if this is a real response or not...
Overall I agree with this except:

The beginning of the smartphone is very easy to pin down. The release of the original iPhone on June 29th 2007.

Eh, there was 15 years between IBM Simon and the iPhone.
But that’s not really how it works. Build systems exist in a complex domain — whether we like it or not, that complexity can’t really be hidden away, it will leak one way or another.
In retrospect we should have made it unsigned, but set the epoch at the Big Bang.
I think Bill Long needs to be added to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Long

Done.
> 2. Look into the process of cultivating your own mushrooms at home - it’s ultimately very easy to produce your own medicine

there's only 3 states where it is illegal to have those mushroom spores and I'm in one of them....
be wary of any person talking about you're going to have this big distributed consensus, based on some kind of buy-in to something, without first finding out who has the most buy-in, and just what it takes to overcome their %.
I believe the original intention of the leetcode interview is to let the employer gauge the thought processes, communication style, and problem solving approach of the candidate, more so than strictly the candidate's ability to get the absolute hyperoptimal solution.

But it has been corrupted. Demonstrating your thought processes, communication style, and problem solving approach is still a factor. But being able to quickly get the hyperoptimal solution in 20 minutes usually trumps everything else and often becomes the single make-or-break factor.
Yikes. So it’s just, what—some kind of sharing site? That makes it useless for backup.
"The first thing to understand about US politics is that almost 40% of the population is evangelical. There can be no constructive political discourse with that type of demographic skew."

Again, I don't think that the 'irrational beliefs' of evangelicals are unique to them, so as I said before if that's the point it also fails.
2016 article. 2009 leak.
So, on the high end at least, this more or less doubles the bonus for a senior engineer doing their job. Real money, perhaps enough to change your mind about leaving, but not life changing.

On the low end, more than you had, but also perhaps less persuasive.
Wasn't trying to suggest you should be dissatisfied with everything about the IRS, but it seemed you were implying the IRS shouldn't get "a lot of grief", which in my opinion they should.
Consider that lots of companies have relatively small market caps relative to their profit mandate, and yet they still provide a crucial value to their customers.

GE with a workforce of over 174,000 employees sells 75 billion dollars in goods and services, yet has a price to sales ratio of 1.37.
I wonder if periodically getting a new ITIN is a method of preventing identity theft.
The volume has nothing to do with the confirmation time, it's a constant no matter if it's 1 or 10000 transactions. Avalanche, Algorand, Polygon and more fits the bill of very fast transactions, in case you're interested in looking into the matter further.
>Which, IMHO, violates the Fifth Amendment, as any compelled testimony shouldn't be admissible against you, but of course our jurists gave the government a pass on that.

Don't think so. It's not any compelled testimony. The Fifth only covers compelled testimony against one self, not against others. There are some limited exceptions like lawyers, doctors, spouses but the IRS is not covered under it. You can be compelled to testify against your friend(if the information doesn't incriminate yourself), the Fifth doesn't protect against that.
They actually use more than three now. The basic architecture is that computers are organized in "strings". Each string is doubled. If the two don't agree, the result is chucked, and the system reboots. Each of these "strings" then participates in a quorum. The result is extreme reliability, with relatively fast convergence.
No you've got it wrong. There is a federal law against possession and sale of marijuana; it's legality at the state level is irrelevant at the federal level. The police officers who beat Rodney King were convicted in federal court of civil rights violations; they weren't charged with assault.

There is no general federal law against murder. There are some specific federal laws against murder on federal property, or against federal employees, or committing a terrorist act, or a few other very limited situations.

https://uscode.house.gov/
It's a lot more toxic to HN users than to the general public. They pay well, they're making a lot of money, and they have lots of interesting problems to solve. It doesn't seem like much of a mystery to me why so many would want to work for them.
> It is about tendency and attempt to make it a norm/legalize to sell personal computers without respecting right of the owner to have a full control over their own computer. If owner cannot fully control own computer this computer cannot be called 'personal' anymore.

I have bad news about Intel CPUs.

>[Intel] processors are running a closed-source variation of the open-source MINIX 3. We don't know exactly what version or how it's been modified since we don't have the source code. We do know that with it there Neither Linux nor any other operating system have final control of the x86 platform.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/minix-intels-hidden-in-chip-op...
Spouses too.
Still, I would not want to be surrounded by people that despise me.

You obviously are the main protagonist in the article. Who never seems to have had a problem with being in that position.
I think a good starting point is to look at the wiki https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BuildingEmacs but Emacs should run on ARM, I've heard of people using it on a Raspberry Pi
"Permissionless data" is actively harmful to people who do not want their data put into an immutable datastore. It smacks of "moderation-free content" which is simply a nonstarter.

If web3 is truly about privacy and data portability, then 90% of the people working on DeFi should shift their efforts to making a better browser, possibly one that incorporates IPFS natively and quickly.
I see it as a valuable tool I use for my work.

I paid for a license when I was self employed and my current employer has a procurement deal with TechSmith and bought me a license for my work laptop.
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Between a hygiene rock and a hygienic hard place
If your goal is to try out emacs on that system by working on files that you have inside it, you could install emacs on something else and then use the built-in TRAMP functionality to work on that system remotely, as if it was local. It works transparently over SSH.

Might be an easy way to do it without changing too much on your restricted linux box.
In JS you would also need to check if the key exists first (so you can add it). I think the minimal example would be:

const groupByAge = {}
for (const person in people) {
if (!groupByAge[person.age]) {
groupByAge[person.age] = []
}
groupByAge[person.age].push(person)
}

IMO it is a very nice change to now be able to write:

const groupByAge = people.groupBy(p => p.age)
As I discovered many years ago when our infra was only in US-EAST1, failures were also easier to explain since many, many other companies would be offline as well. It made it more of an "Internet problem" than our own company's problem. For whatever reason, customers were far more likely to accept those kinds of outages.
2021 was the year clean energy finally faced its mining problem
This is what I've gathered, though I may be wrong:

The implementation of foreign policy wasn't readily be farmed out to bureaucrats (by extension, neither could responsibility for its failures). Politicians were forced to be more cognizant of it.

There was generally a consensus that the country should exist, that it should be looking out primarily for its own interests, and that it should avoid foreign entanglements. This made foreign policy decisions much simpler. No such popular consensus exists today.
Maybe an NFS mount or something that handles back ups automatically? Scripting to handle an automatic restore of the database?

Maybe a heroku that knows about your database file and automatically loads the latest version for you?

I kind of feel like GP is a troll comment, as there's no real value add for a managed SQLite.
I’m not sure where you’re sourcing this, but courts can totally force you to share incriminating information. They cannot compel you to testify against yourself.

As a more mundane example, a court can grant a search warrant compelling you to turn over your computer so that police can look for proof of suspected criminal activity. Likewise, they can get a court order compelling the IRS to hand over your tax returns.
Oh. The comment I see is a bit longer than just the bit you quoted.
Can't believe that guy's like "I'm Satoshi" goes to court
The interesting thing here isn't a clock, it's the novel power harvesting device. There simply happens to be a clock tied to the output end of the shaft.

You could get some random highly-accurate clock and put that on instead, or you could put a wheel with an arrow on it, and it would be no more or less interesting.
Phones and snail mail have been supplanted by equivalent Internet services, and both are trying to stay alive/relevant by selling out to annoying commercial interests.

Telegrams gave way to phones, but it was never possible to spam someone with telegrams, and they had a cost per word.
i'm past the editing window, maybe dang can help