skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Hunter Biden laptop story was a fake scandal made up by political hack “journalists” to (try to) swing an election, dropped on the electorate with no corroboration and no expert analysis, handed to them by people directly working for the president’s campaign who had a history of promoting Russian propaganda. Reputable media outlets tried to corroborate the story, could not, and decided not to publish anything about it until after they could do their routine due diligence. The NY Post – not a reputable media outlet – instead jumped at the chance to score political points without concern for corroboration.

The supposed “scandal” is that the candidate’s son tried to set up a meeting between his boss and his father, which meeting either never happened or was no more than a few minutes long, and never demonstrated any whiff of illegality or even unethical behavior by the candidate. That is hinted at by some (apparently real) emails which were obtained by an unknown method [but note the company had been hacked by Russian military intelligence in the recent past] and then placed on a hard drive by unknown actors for unknown reasons, along with a highly suspicious (and now impossible to validate, because the hard drive was handled so sloppily) story about a laptop abandoned to a legally blind repair shop owner. This hard drive eventually found its way to Steve Bannon and Rudy Giuliani.

“Unqualified relative of a powerful/famous person with mediocre talent/skills talks up his importance and connections to get a fancy job” is an everyday occurrence in the USA (and around the world). As an obvious example, look at George W. Bush’s entire pre-presidential career (or thousands of family/friends of Governors, Senators, CEOs, ...). It’s a bummer that we can’t all have a famous dad to put on our resumés, but unless some actual corrupt dealing happens, there’s nothing unusual or scandalous about this. But despite there being no serious story here, it has been repeated ad nauseam by every hack propaganda rag for the past year and a half to the point that millions of faithful conspiracy theorists are convinced of its significance.

Meanwhile the (now former) president’s son in law was having his bankrupt family business bailed out by oil sheikhs to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars (and more recently has been put in charge of a $2 billion investment fund) as direct payback for altering US government policy to help those patrons, and nobody involved in this laptop story batted an eye. (Not to mention, the former president himself spent his whole term in office shaking down everyone he could for cash and political favors, including the US federal government and various foreign leaders.) What a joke.
The problem with something like this is that it's a moving target.

People in 2000 were saying visual editors couldn't match hand-written code, and were right at the time. But I would happily use today's visual editors instead of hand-writing 2000s websites, using only the tools available in 2000, if all I wanted was a 2000-level website.

But so far, every time we've made things more powerful - even if it makes it easier to have a good visual editor - it's also pushed the frontier of what a bespoke experience can give you.
Antiques dealer bought priceless 2 000 y/o Roman bust at thrift store for $35
The default style for the web kind of sucks though, so that's a bit of an issue. It also doesn't include a rich set of "widgets" that you get with Qt and GTK, so you often need to provide your own.

Also both Qt and GTK support styling with CSS by the way.
The idea of an emergency fund is for unexpected expenses like car repairs or a medical bill. The primary use of SNAP is to supplement an employed person’s income so they are able to afford food.
From a quick glance, the blog post seems to be based on the following paper involving the same author: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.10934

The point of the post is how graph NNs are limited in capability, so I’m not sure graph NN surveys are the best references (sibling comment) for the main punchline, though they might certainly contain many important details.
60% of the US has access to "good" healthcare. Why is it ok to throw the under 40% under the bus?
There's no way in hell an NHS GP would agree to see me just for a physical without some very specific major problem actually in evidence.

If you never want to see your GP again then yeah petition for the UK system.
> A group of billionares? Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy?

How do you propose to allocate your newly found resources in a way that is not zero-sum?

That's impossible.

Furthermore, if you're proposing to follow the study authors' hypotheticals, and distribute on the basis of sex, race, etc, such distribution would be inherently biased and discriminatory.

The only rational conclusion is the one held by the majority here on YC, the majority of study participants, and myself: the authors are either lying or confused, the hypotheticals are zero-sum, and whatever identity groups that the authors think deserve to be marginalized (men, "white" people, etc) will lose out in their hypothetical resource distribution schemes.

> It really is the entire point of the study. Ironic.

The only thing the study proved that is you start by treating their errant false assumptions as fact, the intended result follows.
> but that's not a thing here at least

By using http you are assuming your "here" (where ever that is) is the same as where your readers are.

And if your "here" is in the US then hotel WiFi providers in the US are well known to have done MiTM to insert ads.
Americans can fix the subsidized water distribution. Why allow people in the Middle east to purchase US hay at a discount? Charge fair market price.
> Having used NoScript with temporary allowances, it's glaringly obvious how much of the web doesn't show anything without JS enabled.

Counterpoint: I generally browse with JS disabled and there's a strong association between sites for which this is existentially problematic and sites whose content or utility are garbage.

> If there's a trend to not make everything render on the client, I'm not noticing it.

This trend is not so strong as suggested. Far from server-rendered websites being "fetishized", this remains the standard.

I recommend SPA-first development to all my competitors. Crystallising architecture around the front-end is one of those anti-patterns my grandmother warned me about. "You'll struggle to pivot," she said. "Spikes, prototypes and reimplementations are much easier to develop in proximity to business logic and persistence schema." What a wise lady. See also: nosql and microservices.
Black person here, and yes, this is a pretty good way to look at it. I think perhaps you can see two extremes, the theoretical annoyed white person who just wants things to not be complicated at all, and the going too far naive liberal who wants to call out everything.

And the answer is always "It's never an easy answer. You have to do your homework. And it might change, and it might get uncomfortable. Too bad."
HTML is no code. Stop stacking random crap ontop of other random crap. At the end of the day you still have to enter your idea into the computer and the more frameworks you use the more likely it is to break/confuse you/someone else.
I am not an accountant nor someone who benefits from these deductions, but I'm casually interested. From what I've seen, a few:
1. Charity can be meaningfully different from chipping in $200 to something if you can afford to pay for large parts of a program, meaning things can have your name on them, or you can get events that you care about hosted at your church while saving on your taxes.
2. Tax advantaged accounts everywhere. Max out all retirement of course, but also education accounts for your four kids. Then I think there's some interesting tax advantages to whole life insurance, but I don't know which end those come on.
3. Structuring more of your life as a business. For example, I use my affordable car almost exclusively for work but it's not worth the trouble to track it for deductions because I still do best with standard deduction. Once you pass that, may as well track everything. And you should buy a large SUV instead of a minivan for your family so you can use the more favorable depreciation schedule that encourages SUV use over minivan and car use. Deduct your laptop and phone and phone plan because if you're making a lot of money, there's almost no chance you're using those for personal stuff more than for business. Probably some travel and dining fit as deductions too. Clothing, maybe? This is all completely legitimate (well, maybe it's not because of my ignorance on particular applications, but the spirit is consistent with how deductions work.)

You also may have the ability to structure some of your income as business appreciation so as to not pay taxes yet. True, it's still trapped until you pay taxes, but it's still resources you have available to you that haven't yet caused you to suffer tax expenditures. As a rule, you should never volunteer taxes that you can legally defer.

It'll all add up, though probably not to an overwhelming amount. My impression is that a lot of the exaggerations of low tax rates come from very slimy accounting driven by agendas (to say nothing of expressing taxes in a given year as a fraction of total accumulated wealth.)
> The young should not pay for the healthcare of the elderly.

I take an alternative view. When you're young, the payments you make into Medicare taxes are to take care of you later when you need it. A long-term HSA of sorts.
I postulate that it's practically equivalent to determine whether someone succeeds through luck or skill, and actually succeeding through skill. And also that succeeding through skill is possible.
I don't see it. It reads like "AVATAR" to me, even though this is the first time I am seeing the new logo and I read these comments before looking at the logo.

Are we reading it differently? I see that there is some additional space on the top before the "R", but I think that when I am reading it I might be looking mainly at the bottom 75% of the logo, and it looks fine there so maybe that's why it still looks fine to me?

Alternatively, having seen the first movie a couple of times and having seen the original logo a couple of times, maybe I am so used to the word "Avatar" from the original logo that even if I try to read the new logo as "AVATA R" I still read it as "AVATAR"?

On the other hand, there is a company in Norway (and I think they are in several other countries also), called "BDO" and even though I know about their company from having heard about it several times and having even attended a couple of business presentations that they have held, I consistently misread their logo as "LBDO". You can see their logo on the Norwegian website, it has the letters "BDO" on it in blue, with an L-looking shape in red surrounding the front and underside of the letters; https://www.bdo.no/nb-no/home-no . So it seems that familiarity is not always enough to read a logo the way that it was intended to be read.
If one landlord raises the rent, this will tend to make renters go to other landlords who are not raising the rent. But if the taxes are increased on all the landlords, they will likely all raise their rents together and renters can't simply go to another landlord who isn't raising the rent to avoid the increase.

Its actually much more complicated then that, depending on factors such as the propensity of landlords to cease renting out units if their profit decreases, the propensity of renters to shift to smaller dwellings in the face of rent increases, etc.
Not really. I lose the presets, but I play music from a USB stick anyway. It's far, far less trouble than coming back from a trip and finding your car dead in the airport parking lot. Many times I've also discovered a dead battery in the morning because the door wasn't closed all the way and the interior light was on. Ugh.

Having a separate "tender battery" for car-is-off power needs is a fine idea. Another idea is for a battery voltage monitor that will cut off the battery if the voltage starts to drop.
Most of Eastern Europe, including EU countries. Romania is the one that I know the laws best, police can stop you without any reason and detain you for identification if you don't have an ID on you (and fine you for that).
> The web is a monster success

I mean it works, the tech is a hot mess. I don't want to restart the whole binary vs text discussion
The world bloats storage by 50% which harm user experience and ecology. That's a lot of regress while all it take is one symbolic dollar for a lifetime license..
Only thing Preview is weak at is filling out PDFs. I often have to place my own text boxes by hand and when text boxes are recognized the entered text is often oddly formatted.
NYC Mayor Defends Decision Arrest Woman Selling Mangos on a Subway Platform
SMB is SMB, I don't think that needs elaboration.

For git just set the origin to ssh somewhere one of your other computers (preferably one that's always on and has a public IP) and keep your stuff in it.
Yup. Especially when (as it happens in these spaces) the loud people aren't the actual subjects of discussion, so you get this weird lack of skin-in-the-game.

I cannot emphasize enough the harm that can come from this and how easily it is exploited.
As someone that enjoys being able to eat, I think that agricultural subsidies are far better than the alternative.
Perhaps it's 10km range, more precise and visual targeting on moving vehicles vs close range and/or fixed position targeting.
There is a switchblade 600 with even more range and more payload which can be used anti-armor.

Also, mortars and other artillery are subject to a counter-battery fire.
There is no particular difficulty in getting the effect you're hearing from the analog device digitally -- it just requires an implementation other than the most simplistic possible, and most things don't bother because changing the speed is a weird effect to begin with.
What's up? Software bugs.
Microsoft Defender Considered Malware
All Linux machines at work now run "Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection" (mdatp).

We have seen software crashing because files that were expected to be there were suddenly moved to "quarantine" by mdatp. On another occasion a job that moves thousands of small files to another directory took hours instead of seconds to complete. The mdatp daemon was running at 100% CPU and scanning all files for "threats". The "solution" IT Operations implemented was that they added the affected directories to some ignore-list in the mdatp configuration.

Yesterday, a shell script that uses sort just crashed because it was missing /tmp/sortFhe4A. It turned out that MDATP moved the file while the sort process was running. The file contained alphanumeric identifiers. Some combination of bytes in on of sort's tempfiles apparently resembled the signature of some stupid vbscript malware.
In all cases it was false alarm. Duh..

Lessons learned: Microsoft Defender renders Linux machines unusable.
Instead of protecting against threats this piece of junk is outright malware.
In a high-tax US state like California the top marginal income tax is about 47%. This covers no health care unless you are over 65, disabled, or are below the medicaid threshold, which is low.

There is also a lower rate om capital gains such as stock or real estate, sales (like a VAT), gas tax, vehicle tax, utility tax, phone tax, cable internet tax, etc.

Plus, of course, employers are paying some extra payroll taxes per employee.
> I remember when I was momentarily the most senior dev at one of these jobs, once the lead had left, and I decided to just use SQL where it made sense. Not only did this cut down on lines of code and method calls, but those queries ended up being significantly faster, reducing page load time.

That's so familiar. I've also been trough this more times than I'd like to admit. Often five or six files of ActiveRecord code that could be reduced to a View.

However I don't think it's just desire to change databases, there's also a lot of resistance against using different languages. SQL is bad, it's ugly, it's old. I see the same sentiment against Bash in younger developers too. They don't want to take the time to learn, so they just reject it.
It doesn't work in private mode.
If it kept businesses alive it was probably worth it. Small businesses take a long time to establish themselves but can be snuffed out pretty quickly. Many of my friends with such businesses barely made it and the PPP loans were crucial in getting them through the pandemic.
I agree with you on an individual level, and that it is unhealthy to care too much about someone around you getting a break that you didn't get yourself... But that breaks down really quickly on a societal level. Our society is organized around at least a semblance of fairness. So for example even if you pay your taxes and you probably wouldn't mind if your neighbor got away with not paying as much as you do... but you'd probably be pretty pissed if every other person you know just does not pay anything and gets away with it. It breaks down confidence in the system.

In morocco for example, that feeling of unfairness just leads to people doing everything to make their situation better when they get the occasion, because everyone does it. It got slowly but surely worse and worse, and we are now left with a population that is much more cynical and disillusioned than it was a few decades ago.

Just as an example, if your building permit is stuck in approval hell and the local official offers you to pay 1000dirhams to speed the process up, does it really hurt anyone? No, but it makes the entire process seem futile for everyone else, even if it maybe shouldn't.

I think that's a bit similar to the student loan debate, and if anything the loan forgiveness looks much much more shameless to me. Because at the end of the day, college graduates are statistically doing better than a lot of the people that are asked to foot the bill. The proposal is also completely self serving, with almost 0 benefits (a supposed cash injection to the economy isn't one) to anyone else. It's so contrary to everything that is being pushed for right now too, because it's just giving an already privileged population another privilege that is usually very rarely granted.
The purpose of the “stimulus” funds wasn’t to give what was needed to the people who needed it. The purpose was to smooth out the economic whiplash. We knew there would be an enormous temporary dip in demand, but that structurally (long term) we’d still need all our businesses and couldn’t really afford for them to go bankrupt.

The money was supposed to be given to those who could spend it, to help keep all our small/medium/large businesses as healthy as possible.
This chart is well know, has kt been reproduced on other datasets?
If you follow this specific thread, the discussion looks like this

>>>> Person complaining about how his previous state-run health care system was awful

>>> Person replying that your current plan will still be there, no one will force you to take the state run plan

>> Person commenting on how funding for the bill will kill it

> Response that funding will come from the money that companies were paying on health plans.

So if everything in this one thread is true, then

- Companies will continue to offer the health plan they currently offer

- The state will provide a single payer health plan

- The money that companies currently pay on health plans will pay for both of those, with no increase in cost to the employee

Clearly that's not realistic.
A part of the reason is idiotic programs like 421a
Never forget that Walter Duranty and the NY Times got a Pulitzer for "reporting" on the Holodomor in Ukraine -- without ever mentioning the forced famine or deaths of millions.
I’ll also chip in to say this was by design

I have 0 or negative AGI while sometimes having gross income/earnings/gains in the millions I got auto-sent several stimulus checks of the max size, because Congress wrote it based on having an “AGI of $75000 and lower” or similar number. AGI is after most tax deductions

Back to the by design part, the primary goal was to keep velocity in the economy high, and that means getting it to people with a high spend

Fairness is not a factor at all

Our economy works from velocity not whether one has money. Hoarding is worse than spending, not saying that poorer people would hoard just how its not a factor. It was designed to make maximum spending

Someone prewrote it for congress they knew what they were doing while congress was just scared
One big difference between websites/webapps and native apps is that your app is also often your sales page - or at least made with the same technology.

You could dress up the box and the press kit for your system-toolkit-using desktop app, but now all that is done on the web, and everyone still wants to stand out. The late-stage desktop app era even saw this creep into those, after all: MS Office's ribbon, Apple's brushed metal, etc.
I bet you think claims of gender dysphoria are unsubstantiated too right?
Mobile support comes from the chips (SOC) that the phones are using. Hardware codec support is a major differentiating factor for mobile chips. It has a huge impact on power usage, e.g. decoding video or audio in hardware could be 10x more efficient.

It's common that the manufacturer doesn't actually get a patent license, they get "indemnity". If someone were to sue you, the chip manufacturer would handle it, because they have their own patents and have cross-licensed with the others in the pool. You may have to pay the chip manufacturer for the indemnity in addition to the chip costs, i.e. "paying protection money". "That's a nice restaurant you have there, it would be a shame if someone set it on fire. We can protect you from bad people like that."
What does a "check up" mean?

There's no way my insurance would pay for random "I don't think anything's wrong but I want to look for something anyway" outside of yearly physicals either.
If you own your home and are married the rate comes down until you make >500.

I live in NY, not NYC and pay ~18%, or ~22% with property tax.
I'm not touching my portfolio. I might rebalance it at some point. 50% global index funds, 16% emerging markets/global small cap/nordics. The whole point of passive investing is you make a philosophical decision not to get spooked when people get spooked.

On the side of this, I also have a couple of single-company bets I made many years ago and won't adjust further.

I expect to be underwater for a couple of years, anything better than that would be a pleasant surprise.

A good time to increase the contributions.
Totally agree with you as well. I’m just saying that two minutes vs 20 for coleslaw isn’t quite right. A mandolin can process quite a bit, too.

I absolutely loath cutting julienne carrots in a kitchen and the robot croupe is great at that for sure. Potatoes, too. But some things wouldn’t save a lot of time really, like slicing cucumbers which would be faster to do with a knife and cutting board.
This is exactly the reason I am so skeptical of the cloud. I don't care how easy it is to stand up VMs, containers, k8s, etc. What I need to know is how hard is it to lug my data to my application and vice a versa. My feelings on this are so strong as I work mostly on database read-heavy applications.