skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> this isn't about seizing property

Eh, this is a fine line. If Henry had his way we'd have a 100% tax on land, which means unimproved land is now worthless since you can't make any profit off it. A true LVT tax is effectively the same as a seizure of your unimproved land, as its entire value has been collapsed.
Maybe they cancelled their Wix subscription...

(kidding)
The satellite imagery industry is quite small in terms of the people who work in it. I love and respect the people who have built the same products that I am indirectly critiquing in this piece.

This is a cool industry, because most of the effort is going toward things like monitoring the effects of climate change, or mapping natural disasters in real time to support crisis response, or illuminating human rights violations around the world. Rooting against the people working on that is icky.

In my opinion, we're all competing against obscurity (who buys satellite data today?!), not each other.
Spot on. They said they're increasing the number of validators, but ultimately the biggest issue with how they implemented this was that they put so many multisig keys in the same spot. They could have 100,000 validators, if 50,001 multisig keys are on their server, and they need a simple majority, it's just as vulnerable.

They did say that they are expanding the amount of individual entities holding multisig keys, so they seem to realize this was a bad idea.
No. That is not how Chomsky uses the word "we." Chomsky is clearly saying "we" in the sense of what Ukraine ought to do.
its not the grind minset, thats reality. time has a cost.
Yeah, I usually recommend freetaxusa but it sucks for putting in trade data.
They're an illegal taxi company. The rides are NOT better.
What solutions?
Here's something very similar to what you're thinking of.[0]
There's a low cost alternative if you'd like to experiment.[1]

[0] https://shop.hak5.org/products/usb-rubber-ducky-deluxe

[1] https://sequr.be/blog/2021/02/attiny85-rubber-ducky/
And you are welcome to it. But don't be surprised that few other people also desire that service, or that no companies are rushing to provide it for you.
I just want to run a VM on an iPad. I don't consider the iPad or Apple to be the best device to protect my privacy, but it is the most comfortable tablet/portable experience. What I read last, was that Google is adding it's "Tensor" processors to its Nexus phones, and Android 13 will allow running full VMs as "apps" within Android. That's what we want to happen on the Apple side.

I don't like Android or iOS fully. I want the freedom of a full Linux distro. I think we're going to transition to that over many years. The next step is Linux (Android) running Linux in a VM. Once Apple sees that expect a competing technology on the iPad. Then we'll have real tablet development machines. It will take years more for Linux desktop environments to gain a tablet experience as comfortable as iOS. :\
You say it's "always free", but a cousin comment in this thread a few levels up claims it as "$13.50".
The only thing that I keep having to switch back to Google for is the tight integration with maps (hours for local store?) and the little context sensitive details that they have custom code for (movies, metronome, etc). Other than that I have been using Kagi 100% and am pretty satisfied.

Although I wish they had a nicer dark theme.
Yes they were shocked. And it is simply because even the most fundamental laws of security (eg security is not scheduled via obscurity) have flown and fly over the heads of architects. They don’t understand software beyond the smallest of kernels which dominate execution time. They don’t understand that attackers need one weakness to exploit a system. They don’t know how to objectively analyze systems to prioritize their weaknesses (eg seeing how the coexistence and sharing between mutually untrusting software is a potential threat).

That’s why the biggest computer architecture breakdown came from outside the comp arch community.
>Consensus is law

No; the law is the law. What exactly do you intend the content of the statement 'consensus is law' to be? The world 'law' has a meaning, and it's distinct from the meaning of 'consensus'.

The whole idea that you'll replace the existing legal structures with some consensus of transaction miners is some apocalyptic nerdvana with no basis in the real world.
How do you know the other compiler is "clean"? That just begs the question. Also, different compilers could produce different, equally valid instructions, such as debug vs. release builds.

There are malware analysts who are good at finding sophisticated malware in binaries. They could probably locate suspicious code that could be obfuscated malicious code.

Other than that, if you can't trust any of the compiler vendors (which makes things like checksums on an HTTPS website useless), you'll have to write your own. What about the firmware of the machine you're writing your clean code on? Taking this argument to its logical conclusion makes the idea of developing even simple software astronomically expensive.
The team voted, but they don't have real authority here. Could they vote to not make the decision? Could they vote to depose the manager and replace them with another teammate?

Your real problem is that the manager might be incompetent.
The article is about shareholder value, not profitability. Anyway, that aside, the article was specifically written to address the people writing Elon Musk's off as "...a self-absorbed corporate carnival barker..." which is a conversation happening within the context of the Twitter takeover attempt; hence, "managerial excellence". Musk's choice to share the article clearly demonstrates that he believes his ability to drive shareholder value to be a defence of his "managerial" credentials.

Whether his intentions for taking over Twitter are altruistic or not, I don't know, personally I don't think it's profit driven (but definitely wouldn't describe it as altruistic...) but defending your managerial ability on the basis that you're a producer of shareholder value in a conversation about the ability to run a "global free speech platform" is nonsensical and undermines any proclamation he makes about his intentions.
Sure there will be a few people acting irrationally; such people already exist and act irrationally.

Most people will say “meh” unless it affects their daily lives.
This is the kind of thing I would never come up with and if I did I would never think it would be possible to implement. There are some seriously ingenious people out there.
> tjader: but nonfree software is very clearly beyond the line of unjustifiable evil for him

> Stallman: "we consider them all equally unethical."

This is my whole point in a nutshell; unethical and evil are NOT synonymous words and you keep treating them that way. Wage theft is unethical and should be criminal. Slavery is evil.
Another reason to stick to simple index funds, and if you want to play stocks do it in a tax privileged account so you don’t have to bother with the paperwork.
This is a well-known mode of attack and some anti-virus software have protections against it:
https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/weaponized-usb-devices/26495/
The case could be made for either. On a technical level, Apple is depreciating their desktop APIs in favor of their mobile-first solutions (like Metal) as well as encouraging developers to target iPad/iOS first, then port to desktop later (with Catalyst). Hell, they even switched Mac hardware to closer resemble iDevice internals with their Apple Silicon switch. You can't really blame them, since mobile is their moneymaker and it's only natural for them to want to cater to them first, but it's hard to deny that MacOS is converging with mobile workflows and not the other way around.
Katherine is correct, shutting down public schools was sheer foolishness for COVID.

This extreme safetyism is a recent development. No US schools were shutdown during the height of the Hong Kong flu in 1968-69. Not only that, but the University of Illinois at the time housed 1000 freshmen men on cots in a single large room (the Armory) at the time in the fall of each year. Those people were moved into a normal dorm in the Spring semester when space became available due to flunk-outs.

Admittedly, COVID-19 was probably worse (1 million dead in US vs 100,000 for Hong Kong flu) but the actual numbers are probably much closer, given recent trends to over count for financial reward reasons.
Levine is really in peak form covering this Elon Twitter battle
I am not concerned about much of anything these days but some years this would be a non-starter for me, other years not a problem.
This should prove to everyone that Google is an extension of the US Government. Just like Apple, Twitter and every other Silicon Valley company.
And what about if a popular song with some controversial lyrics gets targeted? The artist or the uploader is compelled to censor something - or worse - change the message of the song to something not agreed upon by the community who made it popular. Allowing user edits to published content should always be carefully considered.
Russia’s military is now on full display in Google Maps satellite view
Sticking your head in the sand doesn’t make a problem go away. Face life with openness.
Yeah, apartments and condos are probably going to need supply upgrades... but the normal use case for charging IME is: park, and plug in overnight. With sufficiently smart EVSEs, you should be able to limit the charge rate to not have to worry about exceeding your electrical service, even with 2 cars.

Most gas stations shouldn't have car chargers, because even with fast chargers, who really wants to be spending 30-60 minutes at one? Fast chargers should be at restaurants and other places people will naturally want to be for a bit of time. Only gas stations that should have chargers are really things like truck stops, where they already have some amenities.
PAYING to do your taxes is another scam we allow upon ourselves.
Hate to remind you but we're a third of the way through 2022.
I would vote against Musk's bid, but that's because I think the offer was clearly a publicity stunt. He wanted it to be rejected so he someone would listen to him complain able the board.

He's at least $50 off from making a genuine offer. Or, $150 per share, if he wants to back up that claim about not caring about the economics.
Ironically iPadOS has much better offerings for on device development than any Android tablet, with exception of Samsung's Dex.
Whenever I hear someone say “if X captures 1% of the market, that’s $Y Billion” I can’t help but feel like that’s backwards: If X captured $Y Billion of revenue then it’ll have 1% marketshare. Capturing 1% marketshare is not equally easy in all markets, it’s much harder to capture 1% of a very large market. There’s no hard-and-fast rule that “surely anyone working hard enough will get at least 1% marketshare”.
How does a company like McDonalds scale up the effort required to remove the concept of scalding liquid from the culture? Does every corporation have its own team to manage it? Are there 3rd party brokerages they can contact to manage it? Is there just a private listserv they can email to get the word out to the media? Is all of this taught in business or public relations school, or must participants be initiated into a gentlemen’s agreement by less visible means?
The battle of the L1s: Who are Ethereum's top contenders?
On the one hand, I think it's sensible to assume we'll find something better or more suitable, but in the other hand, we're dealing with fundamental physics, not consumer preference or any sort of abstraction away from function.

To produce food, we will need carbon. Structural materials will likely be steel or iron alloys. Energy storage works best with lithium for practical engineering reasons, and it's highly unlikely some other element will replace it.

The advantage of basic, high availability elements is you can pick up the raw material and process it almost anywhere. The distribution of elements is predictable, so unless you have a huge supply of unobtainium, it's better to use things you can scrounge on the way to or where you're going.

In a multi-species interstellar civilization, it's also reasonable to think that other starfaring technology will share similarity with your own - having a stockpile of lithium might mean you have a basic trade good.
Be careful about trying to reason from first principles on stuff like this. Poison pill plans are bog-standard settled corporate law. The legal principle is that the board has the right (/duty) to judge the value of the company, and the courts, in most circumstances, don't second-guess it. The board can (and routinely does) decide that offers to acquire the company must be routed through the board.

Plans like this are why Microsoft doesn't own Yahoo, and why Carl Icahn didn't buy Netflix.
Costco employees are unionized. They are also insanely fast and very good. You cannot hire someone with those skills off the street, and the Costco wage scale reflects that -- a 5th year employee can easily earn double what an entry level worker makes.

That wage scale is carefully negotiated between the union and the company to divide the value created by lower labor turnover and increased specialization/experience. The cost of the union is relatively low compared to the value created by having well-trained workers. It is likely that equally skilled workers could attain the same (or better) pay working for an equally enlightened corporation, but that would be a rather unstable setup.
"points" are just a way to avoid being held accountable. If we were to use hours (even buckets of hours, aka: 1, 2, 4, 8 hrs) we'd be better off. It'd be more transparent and while it may differ between team members, we can hold people to account who over / under deliver based on their estimations. The entire point is to estimate velocity (supposedly), so why not have a feedback mechanism that's let engineers learn to estimate better; instead of using an abstraction.

I for reference, have multiple agile certifications and just don't understand.
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... and all you have to do is get hundreds of different organizations to agree to do something that nobody has managed to convince any of them to do. The template you propose is imaginable, yes, but logistically unlikely.
Eric has more money than he ever imagined or his family could spend in many lifetimes.

He is genuinely interested in improved the application of S&T in everyday life and the government. He comes from a background of an industry executive, not academic or government.
A properly maintained aircraft is safe at any age. However, some aircraft have fatigue life limits on either the airframe as a whole or parts that are cost-prohibitive to replace on an old aircraft, such as wing spars. Talk to your (future) mechanic, who can look up ADs (airworthiness directives) and other limitations.

Do make sure you look into operating costs (maintenance, insurance, fuel, etc -- and some of these are fixed costs even if the aircraft hardly flies at all) before you buy something!
The earliest reference to daemon in computing that I could find is from 1962 (a year before Corbato's use in the stackexchange discussion). The Daemon spacecraft computer (Data Adaptive Evaluator and Monitor) was named after the "deity of Greek mythology who served as a guardian over the lives and fortunes of men."

This computer system is interesting because it proposed using a TV-type monitor to display all the significant data in the space vehicle cockpit, way back in 1962. It took 35 years for this to become a reality with the Space Shuttle's MEDS display (1998).

This was published in Aviation Week: https://archive.org/details/Aviation_Week_1962-05-21/page/n3...
But we must also be careful not to get into Russel's teapot territory in the course of our hypothesizing.
when are they going to add translation?
Interesting as I've seen a few search engine start ups that seem to scrape other search engine results, depending on your definition of scraping. My definition would be a user agent that doesn't uniquely identify itself that isn't using an authorised API.
> most people thought was that Twitter was stupid and would never get off the ground. I mean, who'd want a service where you can write only an amount of characters so short you can say nothing of substance?

This isn't how I recall the start of twitter. Since the transmission medium was sms/text messages, the character limit was due to what many characters could be sent in a single sms.

Twitter was seen as a genius application that allowed for sending group sms.

What it grew into, while stubbornly retaining the character limit baffled many people...
This seems like a bit of a strange take to me.

LTU was hardly about DSLs or even particular languages, though of course that came up on and off. It was fundamentally a place with discussions on PL theory and related stuff, with the front page being predominantly about current papers. So, the success of Javascript/drop in DSL popularity seem like a strange reason for LTU to stop being useful.
Beautiful testimony, thank you for sharing! God bless and happy Easter to you too.
Yes, as in who knows this component more in-depth than anyone else in the company and is best able to solve any problem with it?
> Simple example: Social Security is 6.2% on the employer and employee (up to a cap). So if you have a nominal income of $100,000, the employer is really paying you $106,200 and sending $12,400 to the Federal government.

> Can't we just call this what it is?

You seem to be under the impression that in the absence of the employer side of the FICA tax, you would be compensated the full $6,200. This however is not the case. It is almost certainly true that you would in fact see very little if that portion went away tomorrow due to how tax incidence works and how your salary is determined.
The Thinkpad range has become very broad. You have to buy a really high-end one to get good quality.

But the other problem we've seen over the last few years is that you can order one and have no idea when it will actually arrive. Apple, on the other hand, has been rock solid with their delivery estimates (current China lockdown situation may change that - too early to tell).
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This post is starting to fill up with what sounds like a kind of hopelessness mixed with anger against Agile. It's possible to do sprints, pointing, demos, and retros well, but you have to own it as the engineering team.

This means understanding and adapting the process to your needs. Agree on your definition of done. Set boundaries for pointing. Prevent confusing or unfinished stories from being point. Communicate how you work to the greater org, and get buy in. Use retros to constantly iterate and improve your process.
I see a couple comments here that don't understand why Lithium is a good choice.

Batteries push electrons around a circuit. This is powered by a redox reaction, with half of the reaction occurring on each terminal. One half of the reaction produces electrons, the other half consumes electrons, and these electrons travel from where they are produced (the oxidation half-reaction) to where they are consumed (the reduction half-reaction).

However, one half reaction simply produced electrons forever, it would accumulate a positive charge. So something inside the battery has to also move charge around to balance things out. This thing that moves should have a positive charge, and move in the same direction as the electrons, except through the battery instead of through the circuit. Your electron moves from the battery anode (-) through the circuit to the battery cathode (+), and something else with a positive charge also moves from the battery anode (-) to the battery cathode (+), except it moves through the battery instead of moving through the circuit.

In other words, a positive ion. Lithium is the smallest positive ion you can normally work with.

You'd think hydrogen would be smaller, but it actually forms a hydronium ion in aqueous solution. Hydrogen fuel cells are a lot like batteries that use hydrogen + oxygen, but the chemistry of hydrogen fuel cells make them not suitable as batteries, and hydrogen is hard to store. I'm sure I'm getting some of this wrong, I did study some very basic electrochemistry in college, so I would encourage people interested in electrochemistry to read more about it or even do simple experiments at home (it's surprisingly easy).
I could be wrong, but I though SpaceX catches its entire rocket (all stages) now with rafts/boats, doesn't it? What does this add over that already-implemented system?

Wouldn't blimps be a far better tech to keep the net aloft?
Huge upvote for freetaxusa. My wife was worried that it wouldn't be as good so we did our taxes one year on both services simultaneously. TurboTax's interface was so bad it took almost twice as long to complete the same work and the refund was the same.

Why would I pay for a worse interface? We don't have trivial taxes either, we have our own business and investment income. TurboTax was way worse about not letting us skip over stuff we don't have. It creates single question pages one after another instead of just sticking them in a list so you can skim through them all at once and select only the relevant ones.
I somewhat agree, lurking in this post is a strawman of a 10x programmer, who demonstrates negative qualities, but that might not be who a 10x programmer really is, or someone else’s own definition of a 10x programmer.

I still bookmarked the post because after stripping away the negative 10x stuff there is good material on how to be a quality team member.
And lo, OP read The Manifesto, so as truly to understand Agile, and was therefore enlightened.

- The Agile Prayer
Unfortunately (or fortunately) there certainly are 10x engineers, and if they happen to be your coworkers, that's the most amazing thing in life. It's the difference between handing a task over to someone, and finding next day that it's done in amazing quality and finding they haven't made any progress at all.

And in my experience, these people usually are not braggarts or have huge egos, they are just really good at solving problems expediently.

Some make a great career out of it, many get stuck in the trenches.