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I've done a few collaborative code review and pair programming sessions and find them a much better use of time than take home assignments or whiteboard problems.

One of the best was given a PR to review with the context, "this was from a junior engineer and you're a new senior, how would you review it?"
That is factually untrue.

https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/xbox-phil-spencer-bethesda...
What does "can overflow for every single row" mean in this context?
"And at the community health center Mary's Center in Washington, D.C., half of the COVID-19 Response Team tested positive for the virus over the past few weeks."

Mary's Center serves a population with low income, and probably sees bunches of small children. If you really want to catch COVID, Mary's Center is probably a great place to volunteer.
I do think advanced scrutiny of government owned companies is a good thing. I also think allowing Comcast to continue to compete with EPB was also a good thing.

I don't think Comcast is in a position to claim victimhood, nor is EPB. However, I would be interested in seeing this type of accounting being enforced for companies that receive grants and significant tax breaks/advantages and have localized enforced monopolies, such as Comcast and several other large companies.
It's basically shameful how the maintainers refuse to even entertain the thought of allowing query hints. These kinds of articles and anecdotes come up again and again, yet seemingly no movement whatsoever on the blanket ban on query hints in Postgres. (See https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/OptimizerHintsDiscussion)

Postgres generally is great -- so many great features and optimizations and more added all the time. But its query optimizer still messes up, often. It's absolutely not the engineering marvel some would have you believe.
"Legal immigrant" just means you're in the country legally, which in addition to naturalized immigrants (i.e. new citizens) includes permanent residents (i.e. green card), student/work visas, spouse/fiancé visas, etc.
> but the key point is that a transaction that no one was reasonably expected to report is now reportable and must be documented.

If the transaction is marked as commercial in the app.
Does an Arizona fab of TSMC count as an American fab?
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> Even worse, the article's source appears to be six individuals affiliated with six different companies representing 0.0001% of the US workforce. None of their claims are verified or even investigated for accuracy.

They're not the BLS. If you're expecting that level of coverage then there's virtually no news stories aside from whatever government stats came out that day.
Paying to own is already a thing of the past for music and movie content. How is this different?
I meant the overhead in accounting, paperwork etc. I would argue the "tax burden" goes beyond just the financial to also include the paperwork etc.

For a person on the cusp, making a $600 a year may help. Now, erode that with the additional costs of filing (both financial and time) can make it no longer worthwhile.
I'm a big fan of CyberChef. One of its most useful features is "magic" and turning on "intensive mode". This will automatically detect the encoding used and can often detect 2-3 levels of encoding.
I think you miss the point of the article - it's to broadcast to the world businesses have significant worker shortages as a function of society is getting sick. Therefore a lot of the things that people would expect are not viable right now (flight cancellations, classes cancelled, hospital staffing issues, delivery issues, etc).

Just because it doesn't mention families doesn't mean that there is some strange weird deliberate bias.
Is this going to mean huge pay bumps for ATVI employees more in line with what Microsoft pays tech employees?
The northern part of the Turnpike corridor and the Sopranos give a misleading picture of the whole state.

My grandfather was a South Jersey farm boy who grew up to become a professor of entomology in the Rutgers ag school by the 1930s. He saw the postwar suburban expansion eat up much of that farmland first hand in his work with the ag extension program's pest control officers, and he often lamented how much first-rate farmland was being "wasted" growing a crop of houses.
Increasing prices is standard business practice. None of the negative adjectives you applied are true.

Anyone that accuses you of being any of those things for increasing your price is just trying to rip YOU off and you should consider getting rid of them as a customer.
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(Between those two comments, Microsoft bought Activision Blizzard)
Well sure but that's exactly my point - anybody with some education. It wasn't until around the 1600s, being generous (really the 1800s), that it even started to become common knowledge or taught in schools (or that the western world even had wide-spread education at all). The default, uneducated assumption is that the earth is flat and there must be water above the dome that is the sky, because it rains - this is what I meant by "phenomenology" - they're just describing the phenomena of the earth - which is after all a natural place for human beings to start out if not educated.

So the "earth is flat" is almost not a conspiracy, it's just a lack of education. "Someone is fooling us into thinking the earth is round" is the conspiracy part.
Cant have them sent to college addresses, which really sucks. College students are probably some of the ones that should have it most, especially since testing at a lot of campuses is incredibly lackluster. Really hope they can whitelist university owned addresses
they make money but they lack control, e.g. MS can't decide how software/apps are distributed, what is trusted and what not, how apps are glued together, that's a huge miss, plus the 30% cut Apple and Google apply to payments, MS is missing out on a lot of money, and MS stores pale in comparison. Not that I support this model of distributing software, I prefer the old desktop model of downloading from internet, but don't think MS is making much money just because of patents.
The conspiracy theorist in me suspects this acquisition is a way for a disgraced ownership and upper-level management to golden-parachute out of the company without having to just quit.

Simply quitting would be seen as a sign of failure and would leave a lot of their performance-based compensation behind... But getting bought, that's a different story.
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> having antibodies doesn't mean anything

Not sure how to address this, of course it means a great deal. As a proxy for exposure and coupled with studies that show impact of known exposure towards immunity, its great evidence. Whether someone was harmed by their infection is a moot point for those who've gone through it.

In a place like Australia with only a small fraction of the population having exposure its no wonder the statistics of their hospitalizations look as they do. In my own state hospitalizations have started decouple from vaccine status due to the high degree of natural immunity and that was before Omicron.

If the delta of whatever you are measuring is 90%+ dependent on a single age group then perhaps the guidance should reflect that. Frankly you aren't attempting to honestly address my points.
I was definitely worried for the US Digital Services team when I heard President Biden promise a website that would within a few weeks handle test orders for millions of households. But using USPS infrastructure was definitely the obvious and right solution, considering how many critical and secure online services USPS.com already handles, like change of address and informed delivery (i.e. scans of physical mail emailed to you daily)
There's no contradiction here. It's obvious that when the U.S. criticizes Chinese behavior, they do it in furtherance of some goal. Since power is a zero-sum game, assuming that it is happening, it follows then that stopping it would be beneficial to the U.S. and thus harmful for China. (If you're saying it isn't happening, then obviously China can't do anything to stop it, but at that point you're dealing with reverse conspiracy theories)

Now, why should China do such a thing, that will (from first principles) only harm it? It's possible to arrive at such conclusions, but only from the perspective of what is best for the U.S., not China.

The debate over the Uyghurs is actually just one large state trying to get the leg up on the other. People mustn't allow themselves to be used as pawns in a cynical game between others.
In 1970 countries agreed to give at least 0.7% of GNI [0] and the US has been giving severely less than that for decades: only 0.17%

[0] - https://www.oecd.org/development/stats/the07odagnitarget-ahi...

[1] - https://w3.unece.org/SDG/en/Indicator?id=72
So I had a sister that got sick, she took a test, not COVID. She was still sick a little while later, another test another negative. She finally took a third one and that returned a COVID positive test.

In the meantime my children have been sick for a little while, and we got one of them tested and it was negative; however right before they got sick we had interaction with someone who had a positive COVID test shortly thereafter.

I am starting to wonder at the efficacy of the tests and is it that they just can't catch Omnicron as well? Are my kids really just sick with some other random thing despite dozens of people in our social circle getting COVID?

I'm just wondering at this point if there is a reason for the mass testing, because it doesn't really let you know anything except whether or not you have COVID and you'll get better or get worse. I can understand in hospitals or something like that, but in the general population I am failing to understand as it seems Omicron is incredibly virulent, and you can spread before you have symptoms, so what is the end game with the mass testing?
Haven't run it, but based on the query plan in the first picture, PostgreSQL already does that part kind of right. It precalculates it for all accounts and then does a three-way hash join.
You could say the same thing about Disney, Netflix, HBO, Apple TV, Amazon prime, etc.

The thing about subscriptions is that consumers tend to buy multiple.
> a static ad more akin to a billboard than a tracking device

The sad part is that you assume that modern day billboards aren't tracking you. All you need is a camera, a tiny computer and some AI. Once walked by a fully electronic billboard where the slideshow crashed, the log it displayed listed everything it could identify about people passing by, age, gender, height, hair color, emotional state, ... .
I hold Microsoft shares because I think they have a special talent for doubling down on a good investment. Microsoft has no problems investing $$$ into risky but plausible product lines. They bombed Windows Phone, but their sass offerings were in a perfect place to take advantage of 2020.
The ones new to them can still experience the wonder of discovering these articles for the first time.
My father in-law plows roads for the city during the winter. He was forced to take time off work and pay for a covid test out of pocket because he coughed during a lunch break at the station between routes.

Why did he cough? Choked on a peanut in his lunch.

Thankfully the union made sure he was reimbursed for his missed time - but I (anecdotally) know plenty of other people who were forced to stay home for some ridiculous reason or another. Another one off the top of my head was a spouse that tested positive on a rapid test, he tested negative, and neither of them had any symptoms at all but he was forced to quarantine. PCR test for the spouse ended up coming back negative - the rapid test was a false positive. Both missed 5 days of work with no union to fight for either of their wages.

I've heard way too many stories like this to think this "sick worker crisis" is nothing but self-inflicted hysteria on the part of businesses.
No, because this only applies to commercial transactions (and PayPal always asks you to specify whether a transaction is personal or commercial in nature).
Pardon, but your argument does not appear to be coherent. Your example in particular does not seem connected to your thesis in any way. I would suggest reformulating an argument that does not depend on a hazy refutation of physics.
If you pay someone as a business, they eat the transaction fees. If they have you pay as a “friend”, then the customer pays additional fees, increasing the total cost of the transaction. Any business doing that is breaking the terms of use. I can imagine it only a matter of time until they start suspending customer accounts for not flagging such transactions.
lol how was the Diablo 2 re-release. Seriously has been upsetting to watch their fall.
This is why I don't use this kind of payment gateways.
Mostly no, since PostgreSQL 12
$1500 Android phone is giving me some Ballmer-era level laughs.
You are just agreeing with the OP here. The point is that prison is useful for some things, eg protecting others, changing behavior etc. But if there is no free will, then it makes no sense to say prison is for vengeance.

These discussions are always interestingly recursive, since if I do not believe in free will then my own view on free will is itself not a free choice. And yet I still feel strongly that my not believing in free will appears to be my free choice.
I don't think the opinion about the source is appropriate on Hacker News, but I can concur the child care problem is real and difficult.

My child's classroom closed for a week because of a positive case. My child tested negative, so she can still potentially get sick which would cause _another_ closure plus she would have to quarantine for 10 days. There are 8 kids in the classroom, so I could be looking at losing 7*5+10 days of child care before this is over.
"Fairly easy" is never language I would use to describe showing/proving anything to the IRS
Visa/Plaid very recently

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/visa-and-plaid-abandon-merger...
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you might not love, but not to mention it's weird to say the least, after all UML was a way to visualize code and its abstractions.

it could be said that it is another symptom of our field of study: things are forgotten very quickly.
Just configure into an LLC? How much does this cost with attorney fees and filing ?

Not a trivial amount especially for people making some money on side.
I have a TrueNAS machine that hosts Nextcloud. All datasets are backed up to B2 with E2EE. Nextcloud has wonderful iOS integration. No other photo backup app I've seen backs up live photos and can restore to the camera roll. Monthly cost is low and no one else has the private keys.

I'm not close enough to the end to worry about posterity. If I die tomorrow then my keys are lost and all of my data is entropy. I expect to be motivated to have my data pass on in legacy but that will only happen if I have a kid who is willing to accept maintenance of familial digital archives. We're the first generation.
One solution is for black and gray hats to make a coordinated effort to regularly publish conversations between officials and promoters of these policies.

When their conversations with their mistresses become frequently public, they will change their attitudes.
The primary cost center for the US Government - and a rapidly expanding one - are entitlements, not wars and certainly not the tiny foreign aid budget (and of course the US should not repeat the mistakes of Iraq / Afghanistan).

Entitlement costs already dwarf defense spending, and it's going to get a lot more dramatic over the next 20 years.

Entitlement costs aka the people getting money.

> Instead people take out loans and go into debt to keep up

Well that certainly depends on who you're talking about. US households at the median and above are in decent debt shape, including debt interest expenses in relation to household disposable income. The payday loan context trap for the working poor is still every bit as bad as it has ever been.

The biggest household financial threat right now are real consumer prices - including rent/housing, education, energy - rising considerably faster than wages.
Considering GPS was originally created for military purposes, I find it fascinating that the largest holes are over the north and south poles. The northern polar region is where the US-launched missiles and bombers would travel. Does the lesser orbital coverage in that area not negatively affect GPS precision?
Only true if the landlord was actually hiding their rental income in the first place.
I guess I'll have to wait another 5 years before going back to having a pocket computer.

It's just not ready, and won't be for a while. I guess not many people want a full blown Linux pc in their pockets. A shame really
I am laughing my ass off because that tweet you quote is by a woman who drives me absolutely up the wall.

For a brief time I was intimidated by her combination of pretty and smart, except that the more I looked the more I saw that being born female can really be a chance to live life on tutorial island.

For the life of me I can't see how she thinks that Eliezer Yudkowsky is an evil genius frame controller, still thinks he is the greatest thinker of the 21st century, but the main talent I think he has is that he can always see the Emperor's Clothes even if he goes to a naked people party.
Further, even if he could, that doesn't force states to make it legal anyway (as far as i know).
You make a good point about context and information. Part of the work in making a book is writing all the captions to tell the story. I think we've all looked through a box of old photos from our childhoods and wondered, "who is that?" "where was this taken and when?"

The books we've made through Blurb look high quality to me. They offer several choices for the type of paper at different price points, but I didn't do any research on that. We went with Blurb because it has some relationship with Flickr for pricing and an interface to import our photos from those already organized albums (see "Prints" from the drop-down menu on Flickr). It used to have a decent web app for creating a book. Now you have to download and install their Windows-only desktop app, but it's good.
Me & my wife are using onedrive to send everything to the cloud (basic plan).

Once we're close to filling up available storage, I turn on my local server which downloads it into its RAID disks (then I turn it off afterwards). I wipe my & my wife's onedrives and we repeat the process.

Once a year, usually around Christmas, we're sitting together and choosing photos that we want to print and put into family album.
> It's hard to imagine writing and drawing a hundred pages while drunk

Stephen King notoriously was a drunk and an addict for many years, and he is on record saying he barely remembers writing "Cujo", which was an international bestseller and won multiple awards.

Many stellar artists struggled with addiction, while still producing art.
Of course. Never stated otherwise. However what TSMC does is arguably more easily replicate-able by another foundry (say Samsung or Intel) than the EUV machine.

That being said, my main point wasn't to say that ASML has an exclusive monopoly over EUVs and therefore all chips... far from it. I was only illustrating the complexity of the supply chain. Many different entities have monopolies and the landscape constantly shifts.
On the other end of the spectrum is Sony. Of the several times I've called in seeking a refund due to a game's (lack of) performance, only twice have I reached a live person within the 60-minutes I allotted to wait in the phone queue. Their chat support is also terrible, responding with generic "We don't offer refunds"-type messages regardless of the issue.
While I agree that this happens often (I did it very early on!), just posting "try instead X" is fairly pointless and possibly against HN guidelines:

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
I run a very small business through PayPal. This won't change anything for me. I'll get a 1099 form telling me what I already know.

At the same time, I frequent a web forum for musicians, many of whom buy and sell instruments. I don't think most of them are thinking of it as a business, but simply enjoy trying different gear and flipping one piece to finance the next one. Many musicians also earn a certain amount of cash income.

"Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by ignorance." Discussions of tax reporting and the new PayPal rule seem to express as much confusion as annoyance. There is a widespread belief that cash income is not meant to be taxed. I think this might be due to a number of reasons, notably the fact that most people don't do their own taxes any more. Your obligations end with handing a sheaf of papers to an expert, who works on your return and (hopefully) hands a check back to you at the end. Also for this reason they don't see a difference between reportage and taxation -- a rise in reportage is equivalent to a tax increase. And they don't understand marginal taxation, so they assume $600 means they have to send $600 to the IRS.

On the other hand, those of us who really did run businesses qua businesses, and filled out our own Schedule C's (even through TurboTax), see exactly what goes into the calculation and what comes out the other end. There's a place for 1099 income but also for non-1099 income. We were already paying those taxes.

A minor disruption is that people will have to manage their personal affairs more like businesses, most notably maintaining records of their purchases so they're not on the hook for the entire sale. Buying a guitar for $600 and selling it for $601 gets you a 1099 for $601, but you only owe your marginal tax rate times one dollar. Still, knowing the cost basis so you can work it out correctly requires keeping records.
Microsoft just purchased a bunch of has-been IPs that still have great amount of nostalgia.

When Zenimax was acquired, it was coming off a couple of failed fallout games, a meh ESO and delayed Elder scrolls 6. Similarly, Activision-Blizzard has been in the midst of COD and Overwatch losing their gaming monopoly to Fortnite, Blizzard failing to create a good game for about 5 years and the big workplace lawsuit.

It feels like Microsoft is taking on the challenge of reviving these companies back to being the powerhouses of old. In that sense it is a big challenge and not as simple as just buying the future of gaming.

If they wanted to do that, they'd probably try to buy Naughty Dog or Fortnite.

It's like acquiring Fiat Chrysler or General motors. Still big names, but clearly not the 'brands of the decade'. You wouldn't buy them to form a monopoly. You'd buy them to revive the brand.