skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess if you have no position then your commenting makes no sense and probably you should not bother.

If what it seems is that you want society to vote on how much to steal from me, my point is a flat income tax is the most fair and straightforwards, and eliminate as many exceptions as you can.

But given my knowledge of this situation that’s impossible and it won’t happen, so good luck with your wealth taxes.
The war has definitely changed it in my home city of Edmonton. Tinder has been flooded with fresh arrivals from Ukraine, almost all women. Edmonton is historically a terrible place to be a single dude. Thanks Putin.
I thought I’d like the OpenComms but the Bluetooth stuff seems flaky. Not sure if this is everyone or just me, but if you pair them to 2 devices (e.g. a phone and a laptop), then shut down one of those, the Aftershokz will beep every few seconds thereafter to let you know you lost the connection, even while you’re using the other audio source.

It’s crazy: shut the laptop and walk away to listen to a podcast on your phone and they just beep beep beep.
I'm pretty pleased with my Samsung Galaxy Tab S8+. The stylus feels nice and the performance is good. I can even run 3d games like Warhammer 40k mechanicus and it's not too much of a downgrade from pc graphics. All this whole being super thin. Removable SD card is also great. There's some rough edges: chiefly the stylus only charges in one orientation. And Samsung preloads it with a bunch of crap. But I'd prefer it over a iPad any day.
There's nothing difficult about the scenario you're describing at all. I don't have example code for that specific scenario, but I do have an example of the following scenario:

A calls B, which calls an external service. B returns function D, which can be used to cancel the request. When B fails to return within five seconds, A calls D to cancel the request, then calls E to write an error message to stdout.

The test for this scenario checks that the request was made, the request was cancelled, and the error was written to stdout. You can see that test here:

https://github.com/jamesshore/livestream/blob/2020-09-22-end...
Argonne National Lab Issues Lithium-Sulfur Battery Research Update
There's a theory for it.
https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths
> It’s not the bundling that’s the problem, it’s dropping prices of a single product in a single market to destroy competition in that space while staying afloat with VC or other revenue streams/products.

The same could be said of open-source software. Most open-source software are clones of commercial products, supported by free labor, and provided at $0. The most successful ones undermine their commercial counterpart and may go so far as to destroy a previously commercially-viable industry.

As an example, do you think Linux should be regulated out of existence because its provided at a unsustainably low cost with respect to the competition? If Linux didn't exist, commercial Unix could still be a competitive market. Linux's expansion has also resulted in the deterioration of the consumer OS market, where there had previously been AmigaOS, AtariTOS, VMS, Solaris, BeOS, etc. Linux is also backed by a cartel of commercial supporters that influence what gets added, what gets supported, and what gets kept out. Obviously, these decisions affect what hardware and software consumers would consider purchasing/supporting.
This is a good way of explaining how the iron law of beurocracy appears to those on the ground as creep sets in. The first series of changes (security, legal, expense guidelines) seem to be reasonable solutions because they directly effect the output of the business and could expose huge liability.

The pernicious part happens when those ancillary functions become conflated with the business itself, at which point it is far too tempting to further expand the beurocracy to service those functions (i.e. auditors). My sense is that the most despised rules in most organizations are such second-order attempts to service the beurocracy.

An common example might be the procurement department, whose purpose was originally to facilitate and track purchases for the business. Maybe at first they managed and distributed credit cards to employees. However, this is still inconvenient when employees make innevitable mistakes. Instead of dealing with this inconvenience, credit cards are eventually taken away from employees and an online procurement portal is set up and/or people are expected to file reimbursement paperwork after trips. Now the beurocracy has effectively shifted its own burdens onto individual employees while making the process slower, more complex, and more expensive. Despite all of this procurement will now be considered a core pillar of the business because executives look at all that sunk cost and fallaciously conclude that the procurement beurocrats are indespensible.

Meanwhile, there isn't really a similar mechanism at play to protect people doing the actual work.
That’s now on GitHub.
WebKit has a closed source component that ships alongside Safari, which is entirely closed source.
I think for engineers the difference is that they (good ones anyway) don’t think so much about what other engineers might think, but rather about what future them will think when encountering the same thing again in two years.
Snakes on a Radar is always a fun list to peruse.
https://www.statnews.com/2015/11/11/flu-shots-reduce-effecti...

It’s becoming increasingly evident that vaccinating annually as has been the suggestion for decades may in fact cause vaccines to become less effective for you personally over time which can be bad if you develop another health condition that puts you at high risk or as you age generally. The theory is that it is due to negative interference:

“The idea is that the antibodies produced in year one may neutralize some of the vaccine in year two’s shot before it can trigger a full immune response, explained Dr. John Treanor, a vaccine expert at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York.”
Show HN: Have voice-only virtual coffees with fellow HN'ers
I'm running several voice-only virtual coffee events on the Discord server in the URL, only for today. The rules are pretty simple:
1. Wait for the "event" to start (see times at the end)
2. If there are no tables with 1 participant, join any one.
3. If there is a table with 1 participant, join that one.
4. When the event ends, all the voice channels are deleted and you have to wait till the next event starts.

I initially wanted to build my own web app but then I realised it would be so much easier to just leverage Discord's infrastructure. I also built a bot in a couple hundred lines of Go code (love the language!) to bulk create/delete voice channels.

I intentionally left it super basic to validate if there's a need. I personally would love to have virtual networking events, but then again I know I'm somewhat odd as I come from a sales background.

If you're interested/want to take part in more of these events, check out my profile where I have some contact options.

Anyway, here's the times (each lasts 1 hour):
- 8 AM GMT / 1.30 PM IST / 12 AM PST
- 11 AM GMT / 4.30 PM IST / 3 AM PST
- 2 PM GMT / 7.30 PM IST / 6 AM PST
- 5 PM GMT / 10.30 PM IST / 9 AM PST
- 8 PM GMT / 1.30 AM IST / 12 PM PST
- 11 PM GMT / 4.30 AM IST / 3 PM PST
PhotoRoom (YC S20) is hiring an API developer (OpenAPI, Python, React) in Paris
posix vi, ovi and nvi lack an X command
More of a Mastodon hype (outlier, FOMO) event being touted as a trend
> The lack of explanation is typically because the engineers working on changes have the context for why a change is needed, so don't include an explanation.

Part of which is because the engineers are working on an unreleased feature that they’d like to put up “quietly”.
I run a game studio and we often hire people that worked in other industries before. In fact most of our staff have no prior professional games experience.

When I see people fail to transition its because they aren’t willing to put in the work to switch industries:

1. Learn some games relevant skills after hours to show that you are prepared and not expecting us to train you from scratch (unity or unreal are most common). The tools are free for personal and there are tons of free online tutorials. Build a small game — can be very small like a breakout clone. This will show the initiative you took on your own and what skills you’ve developed.

2. Don’t expect us to pay you as much as you’re making in your past industry because your skills may not translate and we will be taking a risk on an unproven gun.

If you go into the interview with those two it’s a no-brainer for us, but we also are a small indie studio so ymmv at a larger place.
> This is the elephant in the room that most consumer goods companies don’t want to talk about

If it was just companies not wanting to talk about this, things would be fine. Problem is that neither policymakers, nor common citizens want to talk about this apart from a miniscule minority. This includes the overwhelming majority of those who claim to espouse eco-friendly values and to be willing to make lifestyle changes to stick to them. If you're not buying less new things, including e.g. doing a house renovation using new materials, you're almost certainly far less eco-friendly than the less wealthy who can't afford these things in the first place. One might try to placate their conscience by buying indulgences in the form of donations to climate causes but this doesn't really work.

Even what's commonly thought to be the biggest elephant in the room, "having kids is the worst thing you can do for the environment", is all but a sibling of the "making things is extremely bad" elephant, as the former is bad only because of the latter. If youre raising your kids in the woods living off the land like hunter-gatherers, or if you're raising them at the wealth level of the average Sierra Leonean child, having one isn't bad for the environment all.
The windows do not have to be the glazed variety.

I once had lunch with someone in whose group I had summer interned as an undergrad, and he had occasion to complain that in the meantime he had been kicked upstairs (to write "strategy" white papers for distribution back in $HOME_COUNTRY). When I pointed out that we were in Silicon Valley, and he could surely find a new post with responsibilities, probably even just by asking loudly in this very restaurant, he looked at me in horror, and replied, sure, there are many other companies here — but they're all American, so which among them would even dream of giving him two months paid vacation?

(IIRC, he gained another two weeks every five years...)
I guess what they mean is moving to static memory allocation, not to the heap. That is something done rather frequently when proofing embedded C code, because it's simply to easy to mess up manual memory management. Only reason to move from stack to heap would be for huge data structures not give stackoverflow, something that can be hard to test for.
Where are you getting 'they can't really change anything about what behavior people engage in?' from?
> I've seen code with so much mocked that many unit tests failed to test anything other than behaviour of mocks.

One example of this was a test that passed because of the expected behavior as determined by a mock, but the code failed in the staging environment because the underlying library changed its method signature to take some parameters in a different order.

To me, this basically was a signal that that particular test and tests like it were essentially useless in determining whether the code was really in a working state.
Felt like April 1 while going through this.
No, generally one must provide evidence from the IRS of 5 years worth of tax compliance in order to relinquish.

The majority of US taxes go towards Social Security, healthcare (Medicare), benefits for US veterans/federal employees, etc.[1] Most of these systems are not available to "US persons" who haven't lived/worked in the USA. Those that have worked there will see their US benefits decreased by amounts paid into non-US tax systems.

[1] https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/where-do-our-fe...
I think the difference of treatment just brings different attack vectors. Monetary scams for instance, especially through subscriptions are more common on iOS. Apple taking 30% just means less incentives for them to drastically deal with those, as they still get a cut of the money passing by.

On the other hand browsers being much more capable on macos also means way less native apps to download/install, which allows to greatly reduce the attack surface IMHO. You can tell family members to just never execute anything (I don’t use windows, so nothing to say about antiviruses)

As a side not, the “just works” also often translates to “tough luck”. There’s still a number of times where I put down my iPad to take my android phone because it’s just much simpler. Some of these pains would be alleviated if I used Apple services absolutely everywhere in my life, just as Sony products would make sense if your housewold was 100% filled with Sony products in the 90s. But That’s really not a choice I’m willing to make.
IBM mainframes are big-endian, including both IBM mainframe Linux (z/Linux) and the traditional mainframe operating systems (z/OS, z/VM, VSEn, z/TPF)
Samsung Dex keeps on getting better. Which is surprising because no one uses it.
Looking forward to Vulkan video adding AV1 extensions and Firefox starting using Vulkan video through ffmpeg instead of VA-API.
Lots of defi protocols are looking to provide what they perceive as solutions to lack of leverage including decentralized identity, undercollateralized lending, and uncollateralized stablecoin issuance. Credit boom and bust cycles are a natural feature of unregulated markets, and realistically any defi tech that wants to compete needs to embrace these while maintaining an ability to smoothly wind down during credit crunches.
I have a good friend who is a talented artist. We tend to look for styles that let us produce game content or marry existing content to the aesthetic with minimal extra work. Specifically, picking a good style and using shaders to achieve it can mean the ability to drop in Asset Store assets or models from other marketplaces and get them looking bespoke without much trouble. For Pine Tar, this meant my friend making a halftone shader that we could apply to all our materials.

Another option which I'm using on my current project is to go minimalistic and lean into typography and procedural visuals, so I don't need portraits or specific custom textures. This can work well for games like Wordle, where the game is meant to be front and center and the audience isn't looking for some heavy-weight theme.
Last year, I came up with my own "Completely Scientific, 100% Accurate Compatibility Survey" which aimed to make first dates more fun than you get by asking the same old introductory questions (eg "6. What's a movie that you're at least a little bit embarrassed to admit you like?" and "4. Pete Davidson: Hot or Not?"). It also allowed me to ask a bunch of questions that could be weird to ask in a different context that I can glean a lot of useful info from (eg "7. What is one thing you want to do in the local area that you haven't done yet?" and "2. What are your favorite cuisines (up to three)?").

Only got to use it once though. She agreed to a second date, then cancelled last minute and ghosted me. So, IDK, maybe don't try this.
>They could easily detect it most of the time, and probably do, but choose to serve those kids anyway.

Seems ridiculous to push this responsibility on companies and app engineers. It isn't society's job to child proof the world for distracted children. Parents and guardians have to take the reigns and deal with discipline issues directly.
It used to be that ex-citizens needed to pay taxes on US sources for 10 years. In 2008 it switched to having to pay a worldwide capital gains tax. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renunciation_of_citizenship#Ta...

I believe that someone renouncing citizenship specifically to avoid paying US taxes, for example, to not fund the war machine, is subject to the Reed Amendment and may be denied entry into the US. As the above link points out, this is nearly unenforceable.

In practice, I believe most US citizens living overseas pay no actual taxes to the US. The Foreign Earned Income Exclusion excludes "your foreign earnings from income up to an amount that is adjusted annually for inflation ($107,600 for 2020, $108,700 for 2021, $112,000 for 2022, and $120,000 for 2023)." - https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/fore... and a number of countries have a bilateral agreement with the US to prevent double taxation.

> which you benefit from via your citizenship and US passport

The large majority of "accidental Americans" don't have a US passport, and may even be surprised that they have US citizenship.

] The very first such [private letter request] request came from a British citizen who stated that he was unaware of his U.S. citizenship; Willard Yates, a retired tax attorney then with the IRS' Office of Associate Chief Council (International) who handled that PLR request, initially expressed disbelief at the possibility that anyone could be unaware of their U.S. citizenship, but states that later, "after working a bunch of 877 PLRs, I realized we didn’t know anything about anything when it came to U.S. citizens working overseas, accidental or otherwise." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidental_American

For these people the benefits are minuscule compared with the negatives, like loss of access to local banking
services should the bank not want to deal with FATCA, the expense of finding an accountant who can handle both sets of taxes, and the difficulty of dealing with capital gains, retirement accounts, etc. which may be tax-free in one's home country but not the US, or which may be subject to double taxation.
I wish you the best of luck with this. I work in computer graphics in the film/tv/video industry rather than games. I work with several people who are former game developers. They all got out because the work was horrible. They loved graphics and rendering, but couldn’t stand the work conditions. As one coworker said, “One day I went into the office and realized I was the only person over 35 working there. Everyone else had left because of the work conditions, and I realized it was time for me to go, too.” So just go in understanding the conditions.

Another coworker said that until you’re more established they give you the shittiest jobs. One person who did an internship over the summer while getting their master’s degree was tasked with getting the intro screen (where you select which game you want to play) working. It took them about 2 days, but because they weren’t a senior engineer, the company never gave them anything else to work on. They spent most of their internship (after trying and failing to get the company to give them other work) surfing the web.
Utah is working on metering all urban secondary water use (sprinklers) where traditionally it has been unmetered leading to waste.
Isn’t the point of those monitors that they are standardised to sound like a median domestic audio system? That feels like the opposite of having exceptional sound.
You should define “malware”. There is wide variety of apps that harm users to different degrees, and I’m not sure we’re sharing the same definitions of what the App Store is supposed to protect their users from.
This is one of those hedonic treadmill words. Whatever you choose will have a bunch of 'non-profit', think tank, 'institute', Murdoch press releases nudging negative connotations.

It's illegal to teach critical reasoning in Texas. Until things like that get fixed no name change will immunize the public from corporate propaganda
I just configured an iPad Pro and total is: $3,026.00.

I can't imagine being stuck with iPad's OS after spending $3,300 with tax for a tablet. This is bonkers.
Traditional anti-trust (the kind we haven’t seen for at least 30 years now) is about preventing companies from creating monopolies - which requires proactive steps BEFORE they become a monopoly not when they go to purchase their last competitor.

That said, afaik the beats acquisition wasn’t about headphones as much as the streaming service… digital music is a market that apple was the largest player in for a long time (may still be idk?).

Rim and microsoft were squeezed out by android, That wasn’t an inevitable outcome - it was the result of google buying android. Google staying entrenched as the top search engine may also have something to do with their ownership of android.

You can pick apart some of my examples, sure, but if even one of those is true then of the hundreds (thousands?) of companies acquired by faang you must know that a good percentage of those would be viable stable workplaces… they were purchased usually because of that exact threat! and then repeat that for every industry in the economy with large players in it…
https://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-4903.221.2/pexpe...

The kernel can boot on the rPI
Oh God! Its alive!

But honestly, it probably has less bugs than the "real" php implementation.
Interesting. Probably don’t run mac on it as compatibility is challenging for a solid user experience

>I should stop doing my research in the last hours before WWDC so I’d have time to revise this post instead of uploading my first draft

But then you don’t get to humblebrag about it. Roll eyes.
Buy a windows machine?
Bit of nuance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidental_American#Tax_obliga... asserts:

> Tax compliance is not required for renunciation of US citizenship, but only to formally exit the US tax system after expatriation. Consular officials will not inquire about a person's tax status during the renunciation interview, nor is a potential renunciant required to supply a Social Security Number at any point during the process. The common but mistaken belief that tax compliance is required prior to renunciation is encouraged by the US tax preparation industry, often at great cost to unsuspecting Accidental Americans. It appears, however, that a significant number of former US citizens have renounced without any attempt at tax compliance.
Ads or a subscription service. Not that complicated. With that many eyeballs you don’t need to be a genius to make money off it.
I typically write tests and code in a way that I test the functional core of the code without testing the imperative shell part of it (at least for the unit tests). But we also test our code by provisioning a local VM that not only deploys the code as it would be deployed on a production instance; it also installs and configures dependencies for the code.

For example, installing a DB store and populating it with test data. Our integration/functional tests will then run queries against the code and check whether the DB store was updated as expected, we got the appropriate API response from the call to it, and whether we get expected output from the logs. This way, we're not using mocks that may not be updated depending on the state of the production environment. We're using the same code that we use to deploy services in production, but just putting anything on the same VM rather than having them on different machines accessible through a separate endpoint.
I've thought for some time now that something like two iPads that can work together as a single computer with a 180 degree hinge in the middle could be a very effective computer. One could be an extended keyboard, or they could work together to be an extended display, or you could fold one back and use the other exclusively.

Seems like Lenovo may have had the same idea, only with a different OS.

I'd still like to try the idea with a pair of iPads, although I realize that would also require some pretty deep custom software at the OS level.