skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work with a bunch of highly skilled immigrants. They live in Texas, Kentucky, Colorado, and a bunch of other places. Now that remote work is prevalent, people are moving to all sorts of places.
He literally said he was buying it to fix the bot problem. It's not like he was unaware that bots existed on twitter.
That was my first one, and I thought I was safe afterwards. But then I saw the description on the test command, and I really couldn't help myself. I had to do it.

~Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never....~
Plane failed to descend as pilots reportedly fell asleep during flight
The horse would be Apple putting out a public statement they want to have Linux on Macs. A few comments from developers that they made it on purpose so that other OSes could be booted on Macs is similar, but not even close.
Thanks for the plug! See also https://blog.beeminder.com/competitors
Similar to you but in 2001 with Windows 98 and Visual C++.
I began to learn to code with C++ under Windows. The nightmares.

Resedit -> ResHacker

Apple Script -> VBScript

Now, heck, the OS for hackers (9front) it's dumb easier on design and C programming. And, before, Linux with {Perl and/or TCL}/TK made casual coding zillions times easier than Win32.
Most fake meats I eat like impossible have macros very close to real meat. And for the junkier cuts like nuggets often slightly better.
They are salty though so I try to avoid adding extra salt to other parts of the dish
That's a funny story. I have a similar anecdote where I was asked to crack a zip file in a saga related to a dispute with a vendor who gave us a password protected zip file with the deliverables but not the password.

Those were wild times.
>Platforming bigots won't actually prevent bigots from deplatforming subaltern groups when they have the power to do so.

Well if you had legal protections for speech on online public spaces (twitter, youtube, FB, IG and so on) and a strong court system, that would actually protect subaltern groups from being deplatformed, yes.

It's a lot easier for the "bigots" (though I would have chosen the word zealots myself) to deplatform subaltern groups when that's an accepted method of dealing with dissent, as opposed to being something that's just not done.

The (quite common) view you're espousing of "We should censor and deplatform exactly the set of people *I* find morally abhorrent" stinks of "This is classic "I'm right, so political systems should cater to me."" type thinking.

For what it's worth I think Tate is an absolute piece of shit.
There is a paper on two-legged animals learning different methods of walking: https://youtu.be/pgaEE27nsQw (or https://youtu.be/FahK9srJq10 for the slightly better known "music video" version).

Soda Constructor's wikipedia page also links to a 3D applet named "Springs World 3D", I was playing with that one back in the day.
That's really interesting, I didn't know that. Makes me wonder how many herbicides / insecticides are like this for sure
On the subject of cars, the effect is far more pronounced in Canada vs the southern US.

Every time I go down south I'm struck by the sheer variety of year models and colors. When I return to Canada and spend a few hours on the 401 or visit the Maritimes, most cars are white/silver/gray/black and they're all made in the last 10 years.

The age thing I understand (salt damage), but the lack of color doesn't make any sense.
Yeah, my property taxes have gone up a lot in the last few years. I live in a suburb of Austin. They lower the tax rate occasionally, but not nearly enough to offset the rise in home valuations.
To think someone would waste company resources on launching a crypto mining process. The nerve!
Not working yet. Nuclear paywall on this site, also.
> A recent post on Reddit's main economic forum included a 2018 graphic that shows Texans pay more taxes than Californians unless they are in the top 1 percent.

Quality journalism right here.
Key phrase here being “recently bought.” Get back to us after you’ve had to replace the roof, had a water main burst, or something of that nature that requires you to cough up $10K+ all at once. The mortgage is the _minimum_ monthly payment, not the maximum.
If one cheated with one of the other twins and had a kid, would a genetic test be able to tell?
Who's stopping you from giving examples in a docstring?
How would income tax affect roads? That's what the gas tax is for.
We moved when I was about two weeks old, but a lot of my family is in that area (on both sides of the river). The area is struggling economically, but it has some historical and scenic charm.
You install a driver under Windows 98-> BSOD. It happened to me with he chipset ones. The official CD from the OEM.

On Linux distros and BSD's, a proper KDE setup from 3.5.10 times was light years ahead of Windows 98 and even Windows XP with Konqueror blending the file manager, the shell and the browser.
There are plenty of exploits that can be used to determine that you transacted with Starbucks, regardless of your payment technology. The idea is simple, you don’t do a direct attack on the technology, you collect information from tangential sources which are not protected by anything on chain.

1. Someone can physically observe you

2. Someone can observe the surveillance camera footage

3. Your device may be compromised

4. The network you are using may be compromised

5. Starbucks may divulge that transaction to others

6. Someone may compel Starbucks to divulge the information

7. Someone may physically steal your private keys while in the Starbucks

8. You might tell the barista your real name

Etc.

Now Starbucks is perfectly legal and nobody cares that you bought a coffee, so nobody does this. But if it were $50m worth of illegal drugs, someone may assign some resources to doing so.

Anyone who engages in crime for profit is inherently interacting with other people, and eventually, hoping to turn those tokens into physical wealth.

Crypto isn’t the first pseudoanonymous currency. The way you catch a drug dealer that uses monero is exactly the same way you catch one that uses cash.
I notice that, nowadays, startups are emphasizing "work/life balance" much more than they used to. I'm sure part of that is because of the pandemic, which created strange new realities, where companies that had previously been workaholic and office-centric were forced to change by the historic events of the last 2 years.

But also, I think the trend had started before the pandemic. They heyday of valorizing a workaholic, 24/7 lifestyle was awhile ago, in the years after the 2008 crisis, when young people were trying to start their careers in very difficult economic conditions.

As one data point, which I think suggests the change, I've noticed how the comments have been changing, in regards to my book "How To Destroy A Tech Startup In Three Easy Steps" which describes events that happened in 2015. When the book first came out, some people said "Lawrence should not have stayed so long at such a dysfunctional startup" but everyone who read the book seem to know about such workaholic startups. But lately the comments have been more doubtful. A recent comment on Amazon:

"Working regularly till 2-3AM? I've never seen that even among startups in co-working spaces. The boss screaming at employees at video calls, yet everyone just takes it and nobody immediately quits?"

I don't know who wrote that, but if they've truly never seen such things, that suggests to me that they've been working at places that have a healthy work/life balance, and I think such places (in the startup world) are more common now than 7 years ago.

I created the first rough draft of the book simply by copying-and-pasting text from Slack messages and email. Even after editing, 80% of the final copy was based on text written at the time of the incidents. There are no exaggerations in the book. And yet I think the culture I describe is fading away (which is probably a good thing).

The last few startups I've consulted with have all emphasized work/life balance, and I'd like to think that startups in general are moving towards supporting a more sustainable lifestyle for their employees.

Having said that, I recognize, the world will always have ambitious people who work 100 hours a week because they are trying to get ahead. The question, always, is whether such people have a right to ask others to also work 100 hours a week.
As a citizen of the US, I like having a vibrant tech economy here in the US and I love working with brilliant people, so I would like it if everyone educated in our world class universities could stay here if they wanted. Also as a citizen of the US who likes stability in the US, I like that the children of elites all over the world come to the US for university and many return to their native countries with a fondness for the US from their time in our universities.

As a citizen of the world, I think there's tremendous value in distributing knowledge and our best ideals all over the world.
> compared to where we live now

Which is?
You're basing that assertion on what data? If that's really the case, our schools need to do a better job of prioritizing entrants into STEM classes -- talk to a prospective CS student at Stanford or Berkeley and ask them how easy it is to get into the program, for example.
I am glad FreeBSD exists. Not every commercial venture has the luxury to release their source code, even if they wanted to. If you're writing software for banks or defense, the source needs to be closed.

FreeBSD enables these companies to exist and while consumer grade drivers are not available, many things in FreeBSD are rock solid. Thanks to commercial contributions.
Or do what a ton of wealthy people do in Texas (Michael Dell most famously?) and apply for and receive asinine “agricultural” exemptions for your property taxes that slash your land tax rate by 95% for things like letting cattle occasionally graze or preserving land in the suburbs for deer hunting.
I was not aware of this distribution. Thanks, I'll look it over.

This gives me pause:

"The source for the ROM is not publicly available, and proprietary apps are included."
Housing is cheaper (to buy) because the taxes on it are high
Ironically, the illustrated abridgement of the WIPP report that I first read about this is no longer available from wipp.energy.gov: https://web.archive.org/web/20060925110959/http://www.wipp.e...

(thanks, tineye, for 'sort by oldest' and keeping 404ed results)
In my experience the flavor is not especially close to a real smoking - which is a cooking/preservation technique - not just a flavoring.
If you're not hand-rolling your own resistors are you really trying?
You put some real effort into the example. It's the opposite approach of how I did it, yet works just as well. Thanks!
Understanding StableSwap (Curve)
I'm probably only a couple years behind you, as my first shell access was '94 but I had no way to do graphical stuff. Eventually I installed Slackware disksets in '95 and could run Mosaic under X, but needless to say, 4MB of RAM was not really sufficient to do anything.

Funny, on that page there's also a quip about "why does everybody feel like their homepage need to have a 100kb image to slow down page loads to a crawl?"
Mostly through family reunion which is completely irrelevant to the issue discussed here.

The US has the most nonsensical immigration laws for skilled workers of the developed world. Even Japan or Korea are pretty straightforward in comparison.
I don't think he was suggesting it as a widespread solution, more of a personal decision making model.
This particular use case is trying to strongly type the "Flux Standard Action" object shape. An object _may_ have a `payload` field for its data, _may_ have an `error` field that indicates this action represents an error, and _may_ have a `meta` field that provides additional descriptive information.

This isn't part of the Redux core package, but it's a convention the community adopted shortly after Redux became popular. Redux Toolkit uses that as the standard structure for an action object. `createAction` defaults to just `{type, payload}`, but you can optionally provide a callback that adds the other `meta` and `error` fields. So yes, there's some additional complexity here because of the optional field contents, and this type is telling TS what the final type should look like based on which fields exist.

Note that as an end user, you normally don't even call `createAction` yourself - it's automatically called as part of our `createSlice` API. What end users normally write is:

export const counterSlice = createSlice({
name: 'counter',
// `createSlice` will infer the state type from the `initialState` argument
initialState,
reducers: {
increment: state => {
state.value += 1
},
// Use the PayloadAction type to declare the contents of `action.payload`
incrementByAmount: (state, action: PayloadAction<number>) => {
// `action.payload` is now a `number`
state.value += action.payload
}
}
})
Yes, however due to there being significantly more poor people than rich people, especially tech workers, there will be antagonizing behavior in the future. There will be country-wide instability, and even if you're rich, a comparatively rich country like in Europe or the US will be substantially more stable than one with a higher degree of income inequality.
> Edit: Turns out this still uses gpg? I think?

Nope, it uses your SSH agent. It's super confusing because the git config key is `gpg.format` (which you set to `ssh`), but I promise it works without GPG installed.

I suspect this confusing name is because when support for signing commits was originally added to git it only supported GPG, and a bad choice on the parameter name was made.
Yes, I wrote it just for fun. It was a kind of challenge for me, both resolving issues and describing them in detail to let new people in town learn how issues can be resolved. Last time I wrote anything that long was my diploma thesis 20+ years go. :-) This work took me nearly four months to accomplish.
> by compromising on the biggest decision (marriage) of your life.

I don’t see how that’s a compromise though? The cultural expectations are just different for folks from India: no parent from France is expecting their kid who decided to move to another country to be with a French person, and 90% of immigrants from India end up marrying another immigrant from India, even if they more to the US in their early twenties.
Judging by the high quantity and quality of Canadian engineers I've worked with in America, I think Canada welcomes foreign engineers because all their domestic engineers already left for America.
>such a book can just be a long article posted for free on the net.

Possibly! I don't feel comfortable jumping to that conclusion without at least taking a look at what the authors actually say in the book though.

>People already posted various fragments and other people are not impressed.

Most people are probably reacting to the title and description, which may likely even be chosen by the publisher, not the authors.
Even in DVD times I bought the full Debian release on DVD. 4. 3 for binaries, 1 for the sources. 20 EUR (~$20). A bargain.
Release (YC W20) Is Hiring a Senior Product Manager
I get the metaphor, but this is a myth. A frog, like you, will absolutely jump out of the water as soon as the temperature gets uncomfortable, let alone lethal.
From what I heard, at least some companies that use FreeBSD in their products do give back and upstream at least bits of their code (like Sony, NetApp, ...). Probably mostly improvements to existing kernel subsystems, maybe not drivers, if the hardware isn't freely available... but they still participate in development. At the end of the day, it is in their interest as it lessens the maintenance burden of forward-porting everything to every new kernel version.
Don't forget the "kilo" investors, who may only own a few dozen or hundreds of homes ;)

Being curious about what those numbers actually look like, I found a CoreLogic report[1] from earlier this year which states:

> Figure 3 shows different investor classes have maintained their shares through Q1 2022. Small investors (those who own fewer than 10 properties) were responsible for nearly half (48%) of all investor purchases during the first quarter of the year. Medium investors (those with 11 – 100 properties) purchased 31% of investor properties, large investors (those with 101 – 1,000 properties) accounted for 9% of home purchases and mega investors (those with over 1,000 properties) represented 12% of all purchases.

So it sounds like roughly half of investor purchases (not quite that) are from those owning at most 10 properties. Would be interesting to see how well these numbers extrapolate out over time; from this limited Q1 perspective it sounds like the majority of purchases are by medium/large/mega investors.

[1] https://www.corelogic.com/intelligence/single-family-investo...
"Despite" or "Because"? If income tax is replaced with regressive consumption taxes, wouldn't you expect a bottom-heavier tax base?
Once I figured out I could drag and rotate, it started making more sense!
https://www.gwern.net/
That is literally the announcement.
Tax revenues are fungible. The government might like to claim otherwise, but push comes to shove and emergency funding is needed, it will come from somewhere.
I live in Texas and I can confirm the roads here are horrible except for streets high end businesses or expensive houses. Even highways are bad.
> I have never seen the benefit of leaving signed overflow undefined

The benefit is that architectures are free to implement it with saturating arithmetic.
It just makes the rich people move away. We call it blight, white flight, and gentrification as it cycles around.
My car uses ABS for it and the light goes out after something like 10 seconds of non detection above 30 mph.
At the end of the day no matter what you eat, life consumes life. Even for photosynthetic organisms, often times they perform behaviors that preclude other life forms from having abundance after the first are established (e.g. black walnut trees poison the ground around them). If you eat nothing but plants there's no reason to act all high and mighty, your life still depends on the sacrifice of other life. All farmland destroys local environments. You are removing biodiversity and introducing a mono culture by definition. Then there's also this idea of the human bias towards consciousness. We are conscious individuals and we are biased towards other forms of conscious life; only Jain monks or other highly spiritual people seem to care about not stepping on insects anywhere they walk.

All you can ask at the end of the day is that all life is treated with humane respect. It doesn't really matter then whether your protein comes from a chicken or a bean if both are grown in such a way to limit harm to these life forms and to the wider environment. Short of living in the woods and homesteading, its hard to avoid widespread environmental damage to produce the things you need for modern life.
Agreed! From the article:

How do library developers debug their highly dynamic and heavy use of conditional types, overloads?

Don’t do that. It dramatically increases compile time and results in a maintenance nightmare. Keep types primitive.

In my own code I use type unions of primitives and/or named types. For objects I use interfaces. With that I am able to provides types for about 98% of my code. That left over 2% is generally for extending the global Array type or extending an event.
Read the source report for better info: https://itep.org/whopays/
`// I am so, so sorry for this code.`

Nice.
Low quality HN post right there.
If this is true this would be particularly damning

>Zatko’s complaint says he believed the Indian government had forced Twitter to put one of its agents on the payroll, with access to user data at a time of intense protests in the country. The complaint said supporting information for that claim has gone to the National Security Division of the Justice Department and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Another person familiar with the matter agreed that the employee was probably an agent.[1]

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2022/t...
The Past, Present, and Future of Work
This should get the attention of politicians who are probably the most active users of Twitter. Having their contacts, coms, and metadata such as phone location exposed and collected by adversaries is probably a concern for them and our entire political system. Recall how J Edgar Hoover was collecting dirt of every politician to blackmail them to keep his agency funded without oversight. Twitter would have been a wet dream for him.
I originally thought the cause of this would be a principle akin to how the U.S. spends more per capita on healthcare compared to countries with socialized systems, but looks like the study says the reason is regressive tax systems focused on consumption (sales and excise) taxes.
In 1995, 14 wolves were released into the wild in Yellowstone National Park
That depends on the flight regime. If the big drones are at high altitude and/or moving fast then a small drone will never have the performance or sensors to achieve an intercept. So we need fast missiles or directed energy weapons fired from large, expensive platforms (which could be manned or unmanned, operating on land, sea, or air).

AI piloting technology remains very primitive. We don't have anything yet that can cope well with a dynamic air combat environment involving multiple unpredictable threats, EW, countermeasures, and complex ROE. That's just total science fiction today so we can expect to have humans in the loop at some level for many years to come.
The article mentioned a Reddit post without linking to the post, but I think I found it:

https://old.reddit.com/r/economy/comments/wjkqdx/low_taxes_f...
I'm still an outsider (recent immigrant to Canada) but my impression of right vs left politicians here reminds me very much of Dems vs Reps in the US.

When the right obtains power, they incrementally and consistently put the pieces in place to ensure that the quality of gov-provided services decreases over time. Then when the left obtains power, they simply maintain status quo, never improving or fixing the problems created by the previous administration.

And of course, we have issues where practically no one shows up to vote and a widely-disliked premier gets a majority government, a premier who will continue to ensure the gov-funded options get worse.
I was surprised to see that Washington state is actually considered the most tax-regressive state, a product of having no income tax...

Washington did pass a law to impose a 7% long-term capital gains tax on earnings >250k, but it was struck down in a lawsuit and is now being appealed to the state supreme court: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/washingto...
> Being able to write complex types in a syntax that more closely resembles JavaScript

Yikes. This is how you end up in preprocessor hell. Macros are generally not a good thing. (Fyi: TS types are already Turing-complete which is arguably a mistake.)

> Being able to debug types, not console output

Eh. It's not like Java has a "type debugger." Why is this needed? Why are your types so complex? Weird ask.

> More comprehensive documentation on writing advanced types

Really beating the same drum here.

> A typescript specification

What does this mean? We have a pretty clear typescript spec[1].

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/blob/main/doc/spec-A...