skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are several states that tax your income based on the location of your employer even if you do not live or work in that state. New York being the most prominent example since they actually changed their policy during Covid. (Presumably to capture the lost tax revenue from people living in New Jersey who stopped commuting into NYC and started working from home instead.)

> But a handful of states take a different, more aggressive approach. They use special rules to tax remote workers based on the location of their employer’s office — even if the employee doesn’t physically work at that location, according to the Tax Foundation.

> Six states took this approach before Covid-19 upended office work: Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Nebraska, New York and Pennsylvania. But now, that policy is facing fresh scrutiny since many people weren’t telecommuting by choice during the pandemic but were forced to work from home because their offices had closed.

> The State of New York has so far said that it will continue the policy despite the pandemic. If you don’t live in New York, but your “primary office” is there, “your days telecommuting during the pandemic are considered worked in the state” unless your employer has a formal office at your remote work location, the state revenue department says on its website.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/12/your-money/taxes/2020-tax...
He also cited the seismic stability.
Yes I should not be dismissive. It does sound really fun. I guess what I really meant to say is: it's interesting how everyone has their own perceived fun-vs-convenience tradeoff for old technology. To me, even though curating/maintaining the collection of players and CDs sounds fun, dealing with scratched CDs and a skipping discman does not seem worth it. But I also like to buy hard copies of math/CS textbooks even though they are ridiculously expensive, heavy, and don't have ctrl+F.
Ukraine's inner strength has really been on display, and the morale differential is impressive.

It's fascinating to see what's happening within RUS as well.

https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1502723221371731976
> To get ahead of misinformation and spread its messaging, the Biden administration on Thursday briefed 30 top TikTok stars on key information regarding the war in Ukraine, The Washington Post reports.

Is it no less a dystopia if the Ministry of Truth performs fun dance videos?
My current role involves analyzing and understanding customer-provided SQL. Although vanilla SQL is not Turing complete, in the past I’ve definitely decided to deprioritize thinking about certain approaches due to growing complexity and because they “smelled” like the Halting problem.

Going farther back, I’ve seen a handful of instances where someone was looking for help trying to solve a graph problem, until it was pointed out that it could be reduced to an NP-complete problem. Unfortunately I can’t recall the details.
It's been a while, but seems like many people wanted something simpler like MongoDB for a NoSQL document database. CouchDBs map/reduce queries were hard to get people's heads around, many people didn't need attachments, etc.
You do have a great imagination!
If these companies have been accurately summarized in the media, I would consider these very different. The mortgage companies were holding loans on a lot of individual houses, etc with concrete utility that were in actual use, where replacement stock was unavailable.

In Evergrande's case they seem to have giant projects that are earmarked as investment speculation as opposed to intended primary dwellings or immediately rentable. It is entirely possible that whole districts of buildings are never of enough utility to draw residents at any price above maintenance.

A company can go broke with either mistake but if a government knows the need for the collateral mortgaged actually exists then bounds from the macroeconomic situation apply so their shoveling of money will have an end.
AFAIK it's called employer of record.
Oooo where to begin?

* Hades (really anything by Supergiant Games) is a masterpiece. Bastion is a must as well if you like the combat.

* Celeste is the best platform I’ve played in the last decade. The soundtrack is also incredible. I’ve got the vinyl box set on my shelf next to me as I type this.

* Not for Broadcast is a trip but may not be for you, just depends on your taste. It’s a “propaganda simulator” akin to Papers, Please and such. Check out the trailer you’ll understand it immediately. It’s wild haha

* Outer Wilds was the most challenging and fulfilling game I’ve played in years. Beautiful score, powerful and rich story. Don’t look anything up about the story/puzzles. It’s hard, you really have to think, but it’s very much beatable. It’s kind of a crazy “Groundhog Day in space.”

* Hollow Knight is a beautiful 2D metroidvania. Highly stylized, lots of awards.

* Death’s Door is a recent isometric metroidvania I’ve been enjoying a lot.

* Stardew Valley is a beautiful spiritual successor to Harvest Moon if that’s your jam. You can easily lose track of time playing it and the game’s lore/stories are surprisingly through. LOTS to uncover in a very relaxing, low stakes package.

* Wildermyth is a charming D&D-like RPG. I got a nice 20-30hrs out of it and plan on doing more. Has a quirky humor about it.

* Disco Elysium is…just play it.

The list goes on. I can throw up more if you want haha. What do you typically enjoy?
Spin is a documentary capturing a number of similar conversations captured from satellite feeds before/after the actual "show".

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_(1995_film)

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uock08dy19s
I feel like this is supposed to be an insult, but I really don't know what the difference is between "someone wants me to do something for them" and "someone wants me to do something for them in a shop". There are plenty of opportunities for socialising that aren't "when everyone is trying to get stuff done".
YouTube and Google and their attitude is the problem. And that we don't have many popular alternatives.

Our tech overlords are the equivalent of Kings now, above the law. And their attitude to humanity stinks.
I recall desert places, particularly LV, treating and reusing their sewer water quite efficiently. In such places, the real water loss is whatever is sprayed onto the ground.
Here in Perth a good third or more of my electricity is keeping the house cool so some of that is going to average out. We don't have saunas but we do have hot water.

There's going to be an obvious error of margin either side of my napkin calculations but I think the order of magnitude is in the ballpark.
GitHub also has a code search now: https://cs.github.com
I just looked like someone who was not worth their time. I never did have more than $100 in the account, and dealing with me might have cost them more than they made on me since I didn't pay any fees except for the one time I overdrafted.
Comfort of Bloated Web
>>They just need to crowdsource a few more billions and persuade neighboring countries to recognize them.

The billions will be needed to bootstrap their infrastructure.
One of missing pieces in education is surfacing problems, deadends and struggles of different sorts. Shame because it’s such an insightful part, often allows grasping underlying reason for why things are the way they are.
How would you explain affirmative action on the basis of race today, in this context?
https://comebackalive.org.ua/donate/ worked for me. I tried the original url last night and ran into problems. Note you need to use UAH currency. $250 was 7336.23 UAH .. sorta sticker shock!
>This is a weird, awkward solution to a problem which is far better solved cryptographically (eg, by paired SSL certs).

Sure, client/server certificates are great. But as soon as there's a BGP hiccup/attack, a fire at the relevant data center, a moron with a backhoe, among other eventualities, you're screwed.

Autonomous vehicles (as well as those with drivers) need to be, as the name says, autonomous. Not dependent on some online resource.

I'll say it again: Vehicles should not be dependent/accessible/updateable over the Internet. Full stop.
Finland is an entire country, but it also has a population smaller than Toronto or Dallas.
Related links I've added to judyrecords.com/info

https://www.law.com/therecorder/2022/03/10/bowing-to-pressur...

https://firstamendmentcoalition.org/2022/02/fac-letter-to-ca...

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21409065/response-to-...
When an article starts with chernobyl as example of what mistakes we're likely to make when building a new plant today, it makes me itch to just close the tab and dismiss the opinion of the person who linked it.

Not sure why I even bothered digging into it, but for example one later point is also misleading: "uranium resources will be depleted by the end of this century".

I think I found the source (not that they link it, that would be too easy, but by ducking around for this number):

> the total identified amount of conventional uranium stock, which can be mined for less than USD 130 per kg, [was found] to be about 4.7 million tonnes. Based on the 2004 nuclear electricity generation rate of demand the amount is sufficient for 85 years, the study states. Fast reactor technology would lengthen this period to over 2500 years.

> However, world uranium resources in total are considered to be much higher. Based on geological evidence and knowledge of uranium in phosphates the study considers more than 35 million tonnes is available for exploitation.

https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/global-uranium-resource...

I'm not sure how the "city of vienna" can read this and summarize it down to say that we'll plainly run out of uranium by 2100. That's just not what the source says. Maybe that's what makes this "reference" "handy" for people with a certain preexisting opinion?

The same bullet point continues with some other interesting claims, let alone the rest of the page, but let me quickly close that tab before I feel inclined to go down more of these rabbit holes...
I heard somewhere that telegraph is a legitimate form of communication for some official routes - unless they aren't specifically prohibited. Has anyone tried this? I would reallt like to force my bank to respond to my telegraphs... or pony express letters
And if they don't have nukes, any country with 'real[politik] sovereignty' can knock them out at any time.
They don't lack expertise but they will be lacking money and access to some specialised components and assemblies in the future. That said I doubt they're going to abandon their space program. I guess their launch platforms will remain stagnant and focus R&D money on things that are vital for them, like anything related to the new nuclear weapons race.
Beyond the meta of it being old/mature and thus not continually piercing the tech newsspace with releases etc.

Querying in a more ad-hoc way (vs. building indexes ahead of time and querying by key, etc) is a bit janky / not 1st class (I think mango addresses this but not entirely sure).

The runtime being erlang? It certainly seemed to be the cause of some issues when I tried to run it in WSL, or atleast my lack of knowledge with erlang made diagnosing it more trouble.

The JS query server engine is/was fairly old (I think it might have jumped to a more recent version of Spidermonkey at some point), and hooked up in a way that, while more modular, limits the performance (documents have to be serialized to/from the engine in another process, rather than just natively passed in)

The authorization model is... unique.
You can limit down to a doc/field level who can submit changes via validate_doc_update(...) in a design doc.
So allowing those with a reviewer role to only be able to edit a notes field on a document, while the user in the author field has full access to the other fields is possible.
But read access is at the database level, as in you can either read the db, or not.

The way around this for having "private" storage is enabling a feature to make a db per user automatically and assign them rights, but this is more complicated to manage client side (two dbs to talk to) and replication even more of a nightmare if stuff needs to be shareable instead of just private.
Yeah agreed that's really cool. Closest I've seen is Apollo client, but to your point you have a lot less fine grained control.
> Here's the thing: retail banking margin is actually quite low and customer support is expensive.

Is this because banks don't need retail money any more, since instead of acting as intermediaries between savers and borrowers, they now act as intermediaries between the Federal Reserve and borrowers, and only take savings because they're required to by law?
Let’s assume you are not trolling (lol) and give an answer. I think they use Nuance, so the accent handling and language support should be pretty good and improving steadily with time. But yes at any given time it will be possible for a troll to find some human language somewhere on earth that is not supported, no doubt. Imagined problems.
Sad to read this. Their OccuSync tech is really good and us/europe has nothing approaching its capabilities. Maybe someone will finally wake up and create a competitive fpv video system
What's your point? You're saying you could apply 7th grade algebra to this problem and make these cars considerably safer, but that the people working on it now just don't bother? Because they're evil? Or what?

I don't know what to say.
Side question, what are some good free VSt or LMMS resources?

It has been a while since I last did music production, but I'm currently so bored of the web development process and it's the year of the tiger so might as well pick up my teen and early 20s love again. My soul demands it
I got a lot of pleasure from Usenet / Nutnews back in the day.

I sometimes wonder if I should try to find an NNTP feed and a version of rn (1) and check it out again.
3D Scanning Uncovers an Inca Water System Hidden Beneath the Machu Picchu Jungle
It is less about being cheap and more about being predictable.

Getting consistent funding for new projects is hard when every other project in history has over run both costs and time widely.
Here’s is my weird tip. I’ve done it in reverse, meaning I gained weight by eating faster. In my 20’s I was very skinny, I tried many things for gaining weight, then someone told me I should eat faster. In the past twenty or so years I’ve gained 30 kilos and am actually overweight now.

TLDR: eat slowly, your brain feels stomach is full with small portion.
I think the issue is not the geeks grasp of science and objectivity, but the cultures democratization of the talking space to include vast numbers on un-rational and subjective thinkers on equal status with educated and more objective thinkers.

Politics and the funding of state actions seems to be enacted highly subjectively according to power plays and vested interests, with minimal impact from rational geeks.

This is the defining issue of our times in my opinion, the reason climate change is the barely mitigated disaster it's turning into.

We only get a small fraction of the possible benefits of science as a race, because so much of our potential is wasted or actively worked against.
This doesn't work if the author doesn't care.

Perhaps a weighted surfacing of the "uncool" numbers. If a certain number of 'considered authentic' users mark it as such that starts to become visible on a post, and on the overall 'karma' of the author's profile.

The idea being if the author DOES care, and sees they're getting marked as 'uncool' then they have a chance to self-censor/edit/adapt. But if the authosr doesn't care then the audience still has a chance to see what some sort of 'curated' members have said about the content, and that the author's overall rating has potential to take a hit for it.

Any system can be gamed, of course, but the lack of clear options for contributing negatives about content is how we've gotten into this mess. Sole up/down votes are not enough.
The Lost Generations
Agree, I think Biden is in the headline as he just spoke on this during the annual 'state of the union' speech but has a small bit part
Feds actively restrict the domestic energy industry which increases demand for Saudi energy.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/24/biden-administration-pausing...

No real surprise, as Biden promised to restrict USA energy while campaigning.
https://joebiden.com/9-key-elements-of-joe-bidens-plan-for-a...
What stores in the US don't show prices? I think you're conflating that with taxes not being included in advertised prices. That is common, but it's not like the tax rate is arbitrary, you can calculate exactly what you'll pay from the prevailing tax rate and the price on the shelf.
No, it's not sarcasm — I would appreciate it if you would be a little more generous when interpreting my remark. The proliferation problem is exacerbated incrementally by every additional plant in every additional country — including this one. The issue is not Finland in particular developing nuclear weapons, but any country developing nuclear weapons — especially a country governed by an autocracy. Or a country that might be governed by an autocracy in the future — the last few years have raised the urgency of the problem of democratic backsliding, which we need to figure out how to avert.
I created a short book that was written and illustrated by AI. Here's the first line:

> Let me tell you, death is boring.

I hadn't read that line in about a year, so it was cool to look back at.
Yeah but now they are commuting 10-20 hrs extra a week. That’s a lot of time to do laundry and make dinner
I agree. They should be considered employees, and be given the same benefits as employees. However, Uber doesn't agree, it says all of its drivers are contractors. So I'll continue saying that Uber's employees aren't the ones doing the driving, at Uber's own admission.
It never really occurred to me that transmutation is a reputable field of scientific study nowadays.
My guess is CS1 is often the first time a student has been given a problem they have to actually reason about to solve (rather than follow a script).

This is hard to understand and adapt to and stresses out students that have been trained (for years) to learn the expected script.

You eventually get to this level in math, but only way later in post graduate work (unless you’re exceptional).

I think there’s likely a benefit in explicitly tackling this directly for young/new students, it might help them see the bigger picture. At least the earnest ones struggling to do well anyway.
But that would dim the display. Selectively illuminating the sensor would boost display brightness.
Is it possible to add the https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/postgis/postgis-performance
benchmark to the next big tests?
FWIW this is how banks work. You always have shares. Sometimes they just pretend they are dollars.

I am not a customer of one, but I assume that using a CU instead of a bank is like using Linux on your desktop instead of Windows.
> it's on the other party to defend their attention/focus.

Conducting communication as an adversarial process is *going to fail*.
I feel like the whole of the 1990s was devoted to this. How to serialize an object and then what network protocol should be used? But increasingly over time, between 2000 to 2005, developers found it was easier to simply tunnel over port 80/443. In 2006 Pete Lacey wrote a satire about SOAP, which is funny but also accurate, and look at how late people are to discover that you can tunnel over HTTP:

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/xml/soap/simple

I was puzzled, at the time, why the industry was cluttering HTTP in this way. Why not establish a clean protocol for this?

But people kept getting distracted by something that seemed like maybe it would solve the problem.

Dave Winer used to be a very big deal, having created crucial technologies for Apple back in the 1980s and 1990s, and he was initially horrified by JSON. This post is somewhat infamous:

http://scripting.com/2006/12/20.html#godBlessTheReinventers

"... and damn, IT'S NOT EVEN XML!"

He was very angry that anyone would try to introduce a new serialization language, other than XML.

My point is, the need for a clear a clean RPG protocol, but the industry has failed, again and again, to figure out how to do this. Over and over again, when the industry gets serious about it, they come up with something too complex and too burdensome.

Partly, the goal was often too ambitious. In particular, the idea of having a universal process for serializing an object, and then deserializing it in any language, so you can serialize an object in C# and then deserialize it in Java and the whole process is invisible to you because it happens automatically -- this turned out to be beyond the ability of the tech industry, partly because the major tech players didn't want to cooperate, but also because it is a very difficult problem.
>I thought that was already solved by the No Surprises Act that went into effect this January.

Are you serious? Is this a real act? We need an act of congress to not be surprised by health care?
Time for small claims court!
I wonder if that mentality was a residual aspect of a time when empty calories weren’t so prevalent and food costs were a higher percentage of the monthly budget.
I'd never heard of that acronym before myself.

Insecure = no access control/authorization

Direct Object reference = URL

https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Insecure_Dire...

"Direct Object Reference is fundamentally a Access Control problem."
In Germany that would be seen as fraudulent employment, because they work 100% of the time for one client. and it is de-facto employment. It depends on the country of course.
... does it happen to be your own domain with a wildcard email inbox?
Animals spread Covid. Was anyone expecting the world to wait for every animal to be vaccinated as well?

Lockdowns are a delay strategy until vaccines are available.
The worse thing is to let academia control conference funding.
Dumb question incoming… Why not formalize TypeScript into the ECMAScript spec?
> Why can't we say that all human behavior is explained by game theory?

We can. But game theory turns on the parameters of the payoff matrix, and those are "hidden variables" that are hard to measure. But they are constrained by ESS requirements, which is the thing that makes game-theory non-vacuous. It's analogous to saying that weather is explained by fluid dynamics.
Sure, but let's build 150% of total needed capacity as renewables, and burn coal for the 5 days a year we still need to.
It really depends on ones interpretation, and that definitely shouldn't be derived by a monarch.

Islam used to have a very solid legal system but it has not developed past the late Khilafa ages.

One you have a religious manuscript, and submissive population, you can pull off whatever shit you want and you can always find an obscure religious passage to support your claim. MBS is such a disgrace for all humanity, not just Islam, and I dare wish to see Hijaz is outside the control of Aal-Saaud.
It should perhaps be mentioned that Spektr-RG is not on the ISS, it's in a halo orbit around L2 (like Webb):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spektr-RG
Also useful for tracking?
The longer term idea would be to make it into a non-dead, non-barren place. The main purpose would be to take the first step towards protecting human civilization against being completely wiped out in a planet-scale disaster, whether human-caused (nuclear war) or natural (supervolcano, giant asteroid hit)
1080p version on YT [0]

Also a pretty harrowing account of Russia's tactics in Chechnya (NSFW) [1]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKcmNGvaDUs

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bHQujjarpc
Here's a more fleshed out project:

https://prospera.hn/
Ignoring the type declarations gives some freedom to type checkers to decide what meaning they have, but it also makes them useless to the runtime. I think that's a shame. Could JavaScript engines not benefit from the type information? PHP does.