skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never had a problem ultimately resolving errors by the IRS. I'm sure that's not universally true, and it does take forever.

Respond immediately if you are notified of an issue. If you are actively working to resolve the issue that will help avoid getting in a situation where wages are garnished or liens issued.

Do everything in writing, sent by registered postal mail. Nothing they tell you over the phone is official.

Keep copies of everything related to the issue forever.
I don't think hardware is the limiting factor -- OS/400 runs on a pretty standard RISC platform, same POWER chips that run AIX and Linux. Has some special tagged memory extensions, but nothing too radical, and not a hard requirement for a system like it.

The hard part is developing software to use it. I don't think you can really port existing OSes and software to use a single-level store environment. It's a different language than the one we speak. Seems this has been a general problem for persistent memory, to really use it 100% you need new software designed for it.
Aren't there usually a limited number of sick days?

My previous jobs have all given me a grand total of 2 sick days plus 2 personal days. Anything beyond that would have cut into vacation days.
> The investors will be demanding the results eventually.

I wish I had time to dig into Activision's financials to get a better feel on this.

They earned $2B last quarter, with over $500m going to Cost of Revenue. For a software company, I'm guessing a lot of this is in multiplayer gaming infrastructure. Cost of Revenue is another $716m, with half going to R&D (engineering) and half going to G&A (rent, administration, etc.).

In other words, if Microsoft can absorb the Cost of Revenue into Azure and optimize the G&A a bit, they can increase quarterly revenue by almost 33%. That's $10B/year. Plus, putting Activision's back catalog on GamePass might drive up GamePass subscriber count/retention and back catalog sales (see the first article linked below).

It would be tough to show this as hugely profitable over the short term, but I think they could model out a 5 year ROI very very easily.

> I also suspect that game pass will make them focus on GAS games (service games) with microtransactions, optimised for profit instead of fun.

I'm not a subscriber, but as a casual follower of GamePass I haven't seen it drive more MTX. On the contrary, it seems to have opened the door to more niche-y games that would have a hard time finding an audience elsewhere.

These two articles give developer quotes that are very interesting insights into both gamer behavior and the economics of putting a game on GamePass:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2021/03/19/game-pass...

https://www.gameinformer.com/2021/03/24/deathloop-dev-opens-...

Yes, these are probably MSFT sponsored and it's not all roses, but even if there's a core of truth to them it's encouraging.
> You mean like social security numbers, which tell anyone where you were born, down to a fairly limited range of zipcodes?

Indeed, I want none of that. I wish I could ask the SS to delete my registration and let me deal with the consequences.

> You think the guys in black helicopters are going to let a pesky little thing like "get the state's drivers license database" stop them

It may be nothing much, but anything that can make the work of a potential abusive government HARDER should be done.

> particularly when there's already a national clearing house system so states don't issue duplicate licenses, licenses to people who owe money or have had their license revoked, etc?

And you nail it: with the system I proposed, there would be duplicates, and people owning money etc. It'd be messy. And that's good: because that's where freedom is often found, in messy systems.
And did you know that you need to add or remove hydrogen ions to change the pH of a solution? Anyway, back to the conversation we were having
A click bait title for Calico, which, yes, is researching aging, but also has built a serious pipeline of therapies for a range of diseases, including major deals with AbbVie and others.

https://www.calicolabs.com/
I don't think that would be the best option. There is nothing wrong with figuring out that we don't have true free will - however you want to define it - and still behave in everyday life as if we have it. It might just be a useful abstraction.
Throwing money at Ninja is really an example of poor execution.

What makes Twitch successful is not any one streamer. It's an ecosystem. Raiding is huge on Twitch for streamers supporting other streamers.

You don't build a forest by planting one very large tree. A forest is everything from the tallest tree to the undergrowth.

> do you really think a bunch of obscure streamers nobody watches having drops would have made a bigger difference?

I absolutely do. You see this on Twitch whenever a popular game has drops and the viewer numbers go through the roof. Sure there are a bunch of AFK viewers just wanting the drops but this is a game of numbers. Some are real people. Some will stay.

On the streamer income side, I really don't think you can overestimate how huge of an impact Twitch Prime has on Twitch.
Nah, it's all about MUMPS.
Not in every case. Some DBs allow you to reference the results and use the result reference in subsequent queries. As a result, data stays in the DB until you're actually ready to pull it.

Or of course, you can just use temp tables.
No issues, you can just go online and order a free box of 7 tests every 24 hours and they'll be delivered, also for free.

You don't even need an account: all you need is an email to receive a verification link.
he is right that BTC is not a hedge. very highly correlated with the SS&P 500 to the downside.
Informal "sick outs" are fairly common labor actions in the US. Most companies don't require any proof of actual sickness for short absences.
Totally legit, though vcoins is probably a more reliable site since fakes do exist (modern and contemporary).

The Roman span was enormous and long lived. They also heavily used coinage and had traveling mints. The coinage was eventually debased but there's ~500 years to cover and their "pennies" are everywhere. There's also not too much of a demand for them compared to the amount produced.

Right now US coinage is valuable so we hang onto it but if everyone just tossed their coins tomorrow, there would be plenty for future generations to have a few a piece.
I've not yet heard this allegation, do you have a relevant link?

Edit: found it, never mind.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/01/chamath-palihapitiya...
The big difference with Game Pass is that the $10 gets me all those games just for that month, whereas my Steam library is full of games I've bought over the years, usually for <$10/each. If I were to have paid $10/mo over the same period of time, I would have paid significantly more -- and I'd have to keep paying it in order to play those games.

I subscribe to Game Pass occasionally and it sucks every time to lose access to all the games I'm playing. It becomes a balancing act of "I can buy this game for $30 or I can play it (and others) for 3 months at the same price... but what if I want to play it again in the future?" Like most rental models, most times it's easier and cheaper to just buy the game upfront if you can afford it, especially when it's on sale, which is easy to predict (and be notified of) on stores like Steam.
Possibly A/B tests or referrer
I guess I was able to give foundation a pass on that simply because of the fact that there is by definition no way to express an unknown branch of mathematics. The sin of hackers was that we knew at the time what mid 90s hacking offense looked like. We don't know what a new branch of math in the year 10,000 dependent on many branches ofath also unknown to us in the year 2020 looks like or what tools and processes mathematicians would use to help them manage that complexity. At that point is sort of give the writers/vfx carte blanche to make it at least look really sweet since accuracy is off the table anyway.
Prof G's Web3 Rebuttal
> Representatives do reflect the will of the people who elected them.

First, this is false. Policy in the US is dictated by campaign contributions, not voter sentiment.

Take a wildly popular idea, like universal background checks for firearm purchases. This enjoys something like 80-90% support among both Republican and Democratic voters, but it will never get through Congress, because of the NRA.

Second, "the people who elected them" is not itself representative of society as a whole. The US Senate and the US Presidency are decided by mechanisms that intentionally award oversized representation to certain geographical areas. There are only ten states with a population higher than Los Angeles County, but those states still get two Senators.

So American democracy is built to reflect the will of the monied, and the will of small population centers. Most of us are not rich, and most of us live in dense population centers. This means our system of government is giving us the exact opposite outcome we should be looking for.
The Web3 Debate: Rebutting Prof G's Web3 Rebuttal
The Autism Phenome Project: Toward Identifying Meaningful Subgroups of Autism
They blocked Comcast from merging with Time Warner Cable. By “they” I’m referring to AT&T and Verizon (the two biggest telecom providers in the US), who were afraid of a third telecom provider establishing a national footprint and potentially challenging them across wireless and wireline. By preventing the merger through their immense political connections, they keep both Comcast and TWC as regional players who are much easier to monopolize.

So even the antitrust that goes through usually only goes through because powerful (often monopolistic) forces want to block a merger, not because it’s what’s objectively best for competition.
I haven't read a real book in years. I'm not killing trees. I can bring along loads of 'books' with me everywhere I go without breaking my back. I can read them in the dark. And I could care less about 'turning the page'
https://archive.fo/6PEJO
I forgot to add that if one is to set SPF/DMARC records to show the domain is not used for email then there should be the same TXT records set on a wildcard DNS entry to match spoofed non-apex records.

* 4h in txt "v=spf1 -all"
* 4h in mx 0 .
*._domainkey 4h in txt "v=DKIM1; p="
> And it's really nice that they're actually using the physical address for this instead of the given email address.

It's a little problematic if, say, four roommates share an address.
Chrome has such a market dominance that it effectively determines what 'fully featured' means. Regardless of what the specs say, if something works a certain way in Chrome the layman's expectation is that it should work the same way in every other browser.

> What keeps developers from building an open source alternative?

Well I can't speak for all software developers but I can tell you that for me the juice to squeeze ratio isn't in a good place. I already have a job and it takes up most of my time. The open source movement has turned out to be unsustainable in my eyes since its ideological roots are easily subverted by the project sponsors. Meanwhile commercial closed source software is only viable if you can find paying customers. Virtually no one is willing to shell out for a web browser since there are highly useful 'free' alternatives. Certainly I find it troubling that virtually all the data in the world is being collected, collated, and sold. Most folks don't seem to care enough about the privacy concerns to open up their wallets though. Google has effectively 'won' the browser wars barring a government solution. So why should I or any other software engineer enter into a David v. Goliath fight for virtually no pay or appreciation when I could go work on the next big web app and make a small fortune instead?
Thanks, I created a Patreon account just to support him :-)

For anyone who is still hesitant: Just do it, it feels so good to put your money where you mouth is ;-)
RedHat still offers Konqueror (Safari's father, and Chrome's grandfather) in their repositories. I think that would likely be a better base to revive a community browser.

After some discussion of suckless.org last week, I decided to load "surf," the suckless webkit browser, on OpenBSD.

The URL appears to be specified only on the command line, not in the GUI (the Ctrl-G sequence in the manual page does not appear to work). I can't get it to accept a self-signed cert (easy in any other browser). No back/forward button in the default GUI, and I can't get them to come up.

Browsers are hard, and they require a funded and dedicated organization to maintain them.
Because we stomped on Microsoft for providing a web browser?
I am a co-author. I would be pleased to answer questions.
The result of these campaigns if successful, would likely be key-escrow rather than banning encryption. With that the risk of criminal abuse is negligible.

Instead the risks are added complexity creating opportunities for bugs, and having to trust everyone with decryption access to not abuse that. It is possible to control that access technologically. For example, by requiring two separate keyholders (or in general N ot of M) keyholders before being able to decrypt any messages.

Those downsides matter, but they are scary for abuse by governments, nation state adversaries, and NSA type hackers. The downsides do not make criminals more scary.
I haven't had any real contact to speak of with MongoDB in years, so my previous comment was uncalled for. I'm sorry for that strong sentence. Not to excuse that kind of claim, but I was indeed strongly triggered by SergeAx comment.

I've heard that MongoDB has improved a lot over the years, so I really shouldn't have said that.
Tonga volcano eruption created puzzling ripples in Earth’s atmosphere
I am a synth fan, and I agree with some of what's presented in the article. I think the author's approach overcomplicates things though. Subtractive synthesis is pretty intuitive. I started with a Korg Poly 800. The onboard battery was dead which meant no patch storage and no sound because everything was zeroed out by default. The guy at the music store showed me how to create a quick patch and get some sound out of it.

Other than this brief demo, I knew nothing about synthesis at the time and didn't even have a manual. Turns out, it wasn't really needed because the process was simple and the front panel clearly explained what everything did.

My advice would be yes, start with subtractive synthesis but don't feel guilty about using a preset. Pretty soon you'll know your way around the basics. You can always go to the manual or other patches for reference. I think there is little value in front-loading a lot of knowledge that you will soon forget.

Front panel of Poly 800: http://bristol.sourceforge.net/poly800.shtml
Can you tell me a bit more as to why Google was so messy? The blog post doesn't go into details. Thank you.
medical devices, at least, can be really rewarding work.
In exchange for that monopoly they have a universal delivery mandate. Amazon pays them $3 to essentially tape a $10 bill to parcels and deliver them to rural communities.

It’s a vital service like mass transit or roads.
Remix vs. Next.js
It makes sense once you accept that a browser engine is roughly equivalent in scale and goals of the userland for a modern desktop OS.
The answer to this question is the same answer to: Why did Chrome displace Firefox?
I share the feeling that we have to wait but there are some form factor complications that won't go away.

Full blown Linux applications need a keyboard. Even if they are reworked as touch friendly (I think GNOME is working on that, Canonical did) when the use cases swing toward typing a lot then we need a keyboard. There are foldable keyboards that fit into a pocket but the two of them start to become bulky. They probably belong to a bag and a bag could accommodate a tablet (10" screen) plus a keyboard of that size.

If one moves between multiple houses each one equipped with monitors and keyboard, it could be OK as a low power desktop replacement. I don't think I'm able to do my work on that though. Not enough RAM. It could be OK as an emergency device, but again, so is my tablet and my Bluetooth keyboard. BTW, my tablet runs Ubuntu 16.04 in a container (same kernel as Android.) Too bad Samsung discontinued Linux for Dex.
Does anyone know if "18F" was involved with this?

The 18F group is the US Government's "elite" IT-team, including web programming.

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If it wasn't 18F, who did it?
Open source developers, who work for free, are discovering they have power
Not that I disagree with your point, but the opposite of

> Also having the optimizer decide to do something bad off hours is not a good situation again hints or plan locking would help here.

Can also happen when you force a particular query plan, only for it to turn to treacle when some assumption you made about the data suddenly breaks.

As with most things there's no free lunch.
This smells like the printer cartridge problem that HP and others have, where, if you replace the cartridge with non-HP, the printer will lock up and cease to function...
Fascinating! And this subject certainly has political implications!
Locked out of 'God Mode', runners are hacking their treadmills
PostgreSQL doesn't even cache its own byte code, it replans every time!
Yes. But the perception is King was assassinated for and during his civil rights efforts. That simply not the case. To believe otherwise is to malign history.
The difference is between "I'm calling [to tell you I'm] out sick" and "I'm calling in [to tell you I'll be out because I'm] sick."
He was clearly trolling the media. Honestly, some of the sports media are so bad that I don't really blame sports figures from trolling them. It was done in usual Kyrie style, though.
No it's not. Maybe in Hungary but not all the time. Do check your bill for a service entry, which is typically 10%.
Excellent! Two updates since it was written: use main rather than master for the default branch; use git switch to change or create branches.
RSV isn't currently killing ~1800k Americans a day.
In this case denormalizing the data right into the runs table would likely give you better, but more importantly more predictable performance.
No one wants to say this, but presumably the government purchasing 1 billion tests for this program reduced the retail supply a lot.
Yes, that section is poorly written.

More generally, the assumptions about what things were uncertain and what could be taken as exact were poorly motivated. The author should wither justify them with real-world constraints ("satellites can host atomic clocks but destroyers can't" -- not obvious!) or explicitly announce the assumptions as unjustified, but he shouldn't make it seem like the assumptions could have been reasoned to by the reader.

I also was disappointed the author used circles/spheres and guesses for the timing offset rather than the much more edifying choice of hyperbolas. Just as you can think of a sphere as points reachable by the end of a rope of fixed length tied to a post, you can think about a hyperbola as the points reachable by tying separate ropes to two posts and spooling out equal amounts of rope.
So... Why not support the ones that just remove it? Because you're implicitly legitimizing advertising practices (albeit at a hgher cost) by supporting these yokels.
We're software engineers not marketing folk who just want to check a box.

There's a difference between "have a feature just because other databases have it" and "this is a very useful feature that would have its own PostgreSQL-isms and also we got this idea because other databases have it". The query planner isn't infallible, so being able to hint queries to not accidentally use a temporary table that just can't fit in ram isn't just copying a feature "just because everyone else has it".
Why is it not good in the long term?
Research shows ordinary voters have zero influence.
Why would Microsoft want to participate in that scheme, though?
If you look at the actual testing data for antigen tests [0], the LoD for them is very high compared with PCR. This means a person needs a high viral load for tests to be effective. For example, the BinaxNOW kits require 140.6 TCID50/mL [1] vs 0.012 TCID50/mL for a PCR test (I picked a random one here) [2]. The FlowFlex tests are even worse, requiring 2500 TCID50/mL [3]. I personally purchased a few of the Lucira tests (not affiliated I promise) because they're more similar to an at-home PCR (they use LAMP) and so the LoD is lower (0.9 TCID50/mL) [4].

[0] https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/coronavirus-disease-2019...

[1] (pdf) https://www.fda.gov/media/141570/download

[2] (pdf) https://www.fda.gov/media/142193/download

[3] (pdf) https://www.fda.gov/media/152698/download

[4] (pdf) https://www.fda.gov/media/147494/download
How about I distribute a set of pictures with instructions on where to paste them in The Hobbit? That's like a patch or an ad-blocker. Seems fine to me.
*repercussions not reproductions
Well, should get them anyways I suppose!
And the deluxe version gives you everything?

No, what they usually give you is actual customization options because in the full-priced standard edition those do not exist anymore.

As character customization has by now been apparently redefined as being wholesale "cosmetic" and thus locked behind an deluxe version up sale, MTX spending and FOMO season pass grinding.

It's a sorry state for AAA and increasingly even mid-tier developed games.

Often enough it directly affects gameplay, instead of playing with/against individual other people, which in many games used to be recognizable by their character customization choices, too often multiplayer now ends up looking like the clone wars.

As the only people that stick out with their customization are those that spend money on having any choice other but the one default choice.
You can see how many users currently viewing this usps page at https://analytics.usa.gov/
I think you'd have to shift the age groups up significantly to say anything useful about conservative leaning people, maybe do mid 40's and 60's or something like that.
The business requirement is one shipment per household. Roommates are members of a household as defined.
The web is too complex, and also a moving target. You don't just write a browser and be done with it.

Are you prepared to devote your entire life to it? Why not?
Does our state smell like urine? Yes, yes it does, clean bacteria-free urine

https://www.cc.com/video/u11ezi/the-daily-show-with-jon-stew...
Microsoft has been understandably eyeing that 30% on all digital goods sales Apple gets for years now. They missed the boat on the Windows store, but they'll do just about anything to keep a similar financial structure on the Xbox side.
I wouldn't be too sure to be honest, only companies with a big game platorm can compete with Valve being able to subsidize these and sell them at cost or less, because most game purchases one them will be through steam.
The talk about this being a predecessor to an Apple-Silicon-class laptop chip is interesting, especially in light of the MS/Qualcomm deal [1].

[1] https://www.extremetech.com/computing/329311-report-windows-...
They also have a number of competitive disadvantages, they have to pre-fund their pension plans, as well as the fact that they are required to service remote addresses that private companies don't, since they aren't profitable.

And that's not even touching on the point that looking at the postal service as a private business is completely asinine. No one looks at the military or schools as a private business that needs to make a profit.
We are not at the mercy of Mozilla

It's Chrome/Chromium-variants vs Safari

Firefox lost the war many years ago

Opera was the best browser imo, i wish it took off, nowadays it's just a chromium variant; wich is sad