skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Hebrew word for Pomegranate is Rimon.

The Hebrew word for grenade is Rimon.

The arrested individual was reported as being Azerbaijani with an Israeli passport.
>...there's no such thing as "no negotiations with terrorists" no matter public rhetoric or legislation.

I've heard this as well. A professor was flying into a less than stable area or Afghanistan and for some reason they were descending just like a normal commercial flight.

"What are you doing, we're going to get shot down!". He was used to a steep descent or a spiral to the runway to minimize the risk of getting hit.

They then explained they had a deal with the local warlord. The military provided barrels of used oil from all their ground vehicles, and in exchange they don't fire on the airplanes as they takeoff or land. The warlord burns the oil for heating, and the military doesn't need to deal with (hopefully correctly) disposing of large quantities of used oil.
That's a great idea, thank you :-)
That's literally one of the purposes of the tax system. It's to encourage and discourage behavior.
Or perhaps it's psychologically easier to live in denial in the face of hopelessness, especially if you have small children.
Business investigative journalism. This is a growing field.

Forensic accounting firms.

Consulting firms (the biggies) do the same sort of thing.

Due diligence for M&A law firms.

Research Associates, Inc. (they do background checks)
27999 Clemens Rd.
Westlake, OH 44145
(800) 255-9693

MBO Partners

Lexis/Nexis does this sort of thing.

State licensing commissions (law, real estate, business) also have investigators

Hang out a shingle

PI

dangerzonejobs.com
> but when it comes to say Starcraft, which is a beautiful one person creation

Wait, huh? Are we thinking of the same Starcraft? Is there a different program or utility with the same name as the videogame? Because the videogame was absolutely not a single-person creation.
> Because they have some kind of accreditation body that monitors and approves the schools with established standards and approved/documented practices, whereas homeschool does not?

There are "accredited" homeschool programs, and the "accreditation" means probably about as much as it does for "accredited" private schools, many of whom don't even bother.

Elsewhere in the comments I mentioned the Baltimore public school system, where clearly whatever "accreditation" it has is completely and utterly worthless.

Heck, even my ABET accredited university, although overall of high quality, had a few teachers that taught me nothing at all and who had no checks on their failure to teach.
Depends on how much they make that doesn’t need to go back into the business, but sure. Most startups fail, most don’t turn a profit for several years. I would venture to say most people who skip the 9 to 5 for a few years to pursue their passion return with ~5 years of missed retirement contributions.
Microservices [video] [humor] [2020]
Gattaca is here.
The Issue with ATS in Apple's macOS and iOS
What's so special about food? Why is it cultural appropriation to wear African clothes, but not appropriation to cook African food? Both are important parts of their culture.
It's funny because if you live west of UTC, broken timestamps always say December 31, 1969 because of the timezone offset.
> I gave them my DNA. I want diseases to be cured.

These are two independent statements with no connection whatsoever.

"I gave up my right to bear arms to stop wars in the world"
Show HN: Misgif – AI Generated GIFs
Happy Halloween HN!

Excited to share Misgif, a new AI powered app I've been working on over the last few weeks. Put yourself in your favorites movies, TV shows, and more. Under the hood, it uses standard deepfake tech paired with some GANs to clean the frames.

Let me know what you think!
The rich hire tutors or send their kids to $25k-$75k/yr private school. Or both.
I can’t believe a real human just complained about not being free to supress others human rights (I definitely can believe it)
I still find the HDMI port a curious anachronism. I don't think carrying an USB-C HDMI adapter is too much of a burden and when it's not connected to a monitor on that port, it's just a waste of resources.

And I only ever use the HDMI port for presenting at external events (because meeting rooms these days have network-aware displays or USB-C docks connected to them).
Presumably this standardizes a category of expense reimbursement which is not subject to federal and state taxes.
I checked with incognito - HN sets 0 cookies.

When logged in I do get 4 cookies

- user (technical)
- _ga (Google analytics? Source doesn't include any)
- ajs_anonymous_id (Dunno. Searching around brings up atlassian jira cookie...)
- ph_phc_.................._posthog (PostHog?)

Anyways, the site is superlean and hn.js is such a short script.

I think other 3 could be related to parent site. user cookie only scoped to news.
Someone I'm close to is an exec in the architecture and engineering industry and during covid told me that companies are going to go back to office because of the nightmare dealing with these kinds of issues.

He made the point that, what happens if your employee gets hurt working from home? It's a silly example but the employer could be liable for some reason since the employer could have failed to provide a "safe working environment".

Not sure if this actually could happen in reality, but an employer has to think about these possibilities and determine the risk (and mgmt overhead) of remote vs in person
Office costs are easily 10x that. Meanwhile, should employers also reimburse employees for commuting costs? Why not? Those costs probably exceed the wfh costs to the employees.

Does CA require the reimbursement of commuting costs? If not, is it not fair to view this new requirement as a backdoor way to increase return-to-office pressure?
Halloween Logic (Gates)
I urge you to step back and look at your comment, which is essentially "tracking as a business model is morally justified because it means that poor people can use Google", and think about other, potentially significantly more efficient, ways that this problem might be solved without needing to preserve the bottom-of-the-barrel status quo.
The comment I replied to specific medical insurance.

When governments restrict insurers underwriting criteria, they are providing a subsidy from one subset of the population to another. I think those are best accounted for as taxes and government benefits.
> Again this is just not true - the revenue and profit of casual games dwarfs competitive games.

This is actually very, very true. Most esports departments are not incredibly profitable (I actually worked for one of the biggest esports gaming companies for a long time and it was a constant source of friction how much money was spent on esports versus the return on it).

At the end of the day, cheating is a dopamine hit: killing the whole lobby in 2-seconds by holding down a button makes people feel good and you can't fight against that without some pretty drastic measures.
If you sell 40m consoles in a cycle, and an xbox controller costs about $60, so lets assume $20 profit to MSFT and you sell an average of 1.5 extra controllers per console sale.. that is $1.2b of profit at stake over the course of the total console cycle. That's over something like five years and they probably get a lot of those profits anyway. But it's not nothing!

I a hundred million dollars of profit per year a big deal to MSFT? No of course not. But imagine you are in charge of the peripherals division, or even all of XBox. Then I think it is not unrealistic.
Rar used to be the option of choice when you had file upload size limits, then you could use multivolume.

7z does this now, so it is legacy stuff I come across I use RAR for. I am not aware of any advantage for RAR over 7z. I rarely have to use multivolume these days anyways.
It's heartbreaking, but not entirely true. The UK purchased the archipelago for $3M, a detail that was left out of the article.
> but uniforms (and related) that are deductible

Not after 2017, I think?
My partner who works from home has a NDA which means nobody is allowed to even be in the same room while she is working.

That room is more than wanted...
Fully remote work has always benefited the employer more than the employee, at least financially. Before the pandemic closed my employer's local office space (we were all told just to work from home), part of the employer's budget for each employee included infrastructure costs (office space, furniture, internet access, maybe food, beverages, etc). My salary did not change when I became fully remote, so the company realized significant savings by telling one hundred to just work from home.

Now, if a company has always been fully remote, then, yes, this sort of thing is ultimately going to hurt the employee because the company needs to recuperate those unplanned costs.

Personally, as a fully remote employee, I don't how to feel about this. Sure, I'd love my employer to offset some of my utility costs, but I also don't want them to assume that means they can control their use (which is their right in the context of an office space).
"legal" structures, sure -- but it's certainly not uncommon for people to casually adopt different names in different contexts, especially in online communities. Your mother doesn't call you "h2odragon". I wouldn't demand that you get permission from a judge for you to call yourself that here.
I agree. Have the product team facilitate communications between customers and engineers and guide efforts towards development that has the biggest returns. Sadly I don’t really ever see it functioning that way anymore.
Yeah, there are a number of people out there who only want to teach their kids what's in the Bible. We should all be so lucky as to be a bunch of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidts.

Obviously I'm presenting an extreme example, but society at large has a vested interest in ensuring that children, broadly, are educated. I'm not saying there are no problems with regulations, but I hate how the "deregulate everything!" crowd conveniently ignores the reasons those regulations were created in the first place.
Thank you! "Time Till Open Source Alternative" is a pretty interesting concept!
Are you sure it only applies to northern Europeans? The linked article states the genetic variant is found all over the planet, although it's less frequent in Africa.
> I don't think they ever got a nibble from that. It turns out that the population of amateur astronomers willing to drive long distances to dark spots isn't all that large.

That's quite surprising to me as a person who occasionally will drive long distances just to see the dark night sky without a telescope. But I guess any group looks well populated from the inside. I suppose amateur astronomers with good equipment can get quite nice views where they live, though.
Best news in the world for SEOs. Worst news in the world for people searching on Google for solutions to obscure technology issues or looking for coupon codes.
For tax purposes AFAIK. It also has a terrible record on GDPR: https://www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/dpc-data-protecti...
That's long been a pretty questionable deduction unless it really is a dedicated space for work purposes. (Also, relatively few people in the US itemize today after the 2018 tax changes.)
> dunno, I read it apolitically. Normal working-class people don’t give a shit about any of this stuff

The fiercest culture warriors I know are working-class folk. They do in fact, give a shit about this stuff, no matter where they fall on the political spectrum. I blame the increased polarization.

The irony is that people who claim to be against culture wars - like the author - are they themselves actively engaging in a culture war while feigning neutrality. The truth is that they are simply against one perspective, which betrays either a lack of self-awareness, or bad faith.
It's not clear to me this takes automatic effect, and actually states "If you agree to this consent" - I assume that users are given the option to consent or not?

This seems to be the usual TOS - https://www.23andme.com/privacy/
and it says "We will not share your genetic data ... without your explicit consent."

So the news here is "Drugmakers are set to pay 23andMe to access consumer DNA for consumers that have given their explicit consent to do so". Maybe the fact 23am is getting paid is considered a sour note here, but it doesn't seem this is otherwise underhanded.
Sick to death of Toyota. Despite continuing to advertise them, you can't buy a Toyota hybrid in my province or the three nearby. None of the dealers will accept names on a waiting list at this point as Toyota isn't delivering on even the tiny trickle of vehicles they've promised. They're all using 4-5 year old shuttle vehicles because the dealer can't get stock for themselves. Sales critters are angry because the customer satisfaction surveys they're scored on are coming back overwhelmingly negative because of delivery delays and parts unavailability. Dealers claiming that the official line of supply chain issues is a sham, instead that Toyota saw a lot of vehicles being exported overseas to be flipped for a profit, and is now just sending the domestically produced vehicles directly there instead.
So long as it's just extraction that's cool. There will always be old data around and not having to install a third party app to extract it then I can't see a problem. Allowing extraction doesn't encourage anyone to create more rar archives.

But yes, the only people who use it these days are the people who started using it long ago and just never switched.
> Your setup works for you but what if you and your partner both need to work?

But see, this isn't my problem. The money the company gives you might be a lower pay raise for me and others who don't care

> but that's not everyone's job and living situation.

That's 99.9% of the cases
Fails ABC test. They get to tell you what to do etc. Makes you an employee not a contractor. Already established.
Which BSD? ;) DragonFly has HAMMER2, and the CDDL doesn't seem to be negatively impacting the development and integration of ZFS in FreeBSD.

I too am not a big fan of the GPL, especially if the text of the license is longer than the program itself. But any filesystem (let alone a modern one) is very much a non-trivial feat of engineering; the author should have the full right to protect their (and their users') interests.
What is a "real" web browser? One would assume its an application that takes web content and parses it for user display so they can use it to browse the web...so Edge and Safari would surely be real, right?
I probably meant to say 59 1/2 rather than 55. I often mix those two. 55 is when you can move to those 55+ communities, 59 1/2 is when you can pull from retirement penalty-free. 65 is when social security benefits kick in, including Medicare.
Now-successful founders failed (hard) so you don't have to
> Can you make me a copy?

If you don't mind it being as bad as the the result of a Stable Diffusion image being passed on to a half-trained robot arm, sure: extra limbs, even more of a David Cronenberg vibe than Picasso at his weirdest, mixing with mis-attributed ideas from other images that I've associated with the same labels…
You have an edge in the job market for things you've done before. When you jump into a new language/domain, you're at a disadvantage - it's the exact opposite of having an edge.

Doesn't mean that you shouldn't do it but the question you should be asking yourself is more like which of the two you want to do, whether it's realistic to overcome the disadvantage you're putting yourself at, and whether the switching cost is worth it.

This is assuming that you're considering a language/domain switch; if you want to keep working on whatever you're working now and think that adding Rust or ML to your CV will help you - it probably won't.
Sell?! Where’s your recurring? It’s a subscription model (paid yearly up front), with mandatory upgrades and a brutal depreciation policy
Is there a story here beyond the pandemic? The data really makes it look like homeschooling increased a significant but not mind-blowing amount at the beginning of the pandemic, when parents pulled their kids out of school either because they thought they were unsafe or were upset about mask mandates. Now the rate is gradually declining as some kids return to school and some parents decide it's working well so they'll keep going until their kids are older.

The pandemic is the most obvious cause, and the article notes that "Despite claims that the home-schooling boom is a result of failing public schools, The Post found no correlation between school district quality, as measured by standardized test scores, and home-schooling growth." Obviously test scores are not the only measure of quality, but at least in this article there is no evidence of any cause other than the pandemic. The other possible factor discussed in this comment section, politics, doesn't seem to be relevant either. There is no correlation between homeschooling rates and the politics of the parents or the state.

Also, "fastest-growing" is not very remarkable when the only other categories are public and private. Home-schooling is by far the smallest category, less than 5%, so basically any increase (which has to come from a decrease in at least one of the other categories) will make it the fastest-growing category.

Here are statistics going back further: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d21/tables/dt21_206.10.a.... Homeschooling gradually increased from 1999 to 2012, and then started to decline a bit until the pandemic.
I just thought this is a joke.
Microsoft has been cutting back on the MVP program. They created an alumni program a couple of years ago and sent me another lovely paperweight and renewed my subscriptions, and then just as quickly it was canceled and subscription gone again.

It makes no sense to treat your biggest advocates like this. Weird.
It must be IP because the browser can't access GeoLocation without asking.
Entirely possible. Presumably most people who wear uniforms don't itemize deductions today in any case. The broader point was that people get various random perks that don't get taxed and have various expenses that don't get reimbursed/deducted.
I agree with the sarcastic commenter about downgrading to Web2.
I'm a professional, I buy my own tools whenever possible. Gigabit ethernet, big monitor, nice keyboard, desk, chair, rocket fast machine. I've been remote for 13y. It would be nice to get reimbursed, sure, but also I don't want to deal with the administrivia.
Yudkowsky is way too pretentious and overconfident in my opinion. Also, the idea that these Ayn Rand style gotcha fictions are effective at showing anything other than his poor creative writing skills is laughable.
Scientists engineer plants to turn in color in response to dangerous chemical
I've been having a good time with this vs code plugin for viewing and editing sqlite db files:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=yy0931.v...

I have also found the CHECK constraint on an INTEGER column to serve well as an ENUM:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5299267/how-to-create-en...

For dates I happily use unix epoch integers or iso8601 date strings.
> with an authority figure at the front telling you exactly what to do

This is not an accurate description of school. Maybe, maybe in high school and college you kinda sorta get to something resembling that, but for elementary school and middle school it is nothing at all like your description.

I'll grant you that 40-50 years ago it was a bit more regimented. I'm old too. But I have school age kids in both elementary and middle school, and I have a lot of experience in what their environment looks like. It's very dynamic, lots of hands-on learning opportunities.
Is it possible to damage The Guardian's reputation any further?
:-D thank you!
We will start working on the mobile SDKs soon and Flutter + React Native are highest on the list!
Please also feel free to submit a feature request for this on Github; perhaps a contributor would like to take it up sooner.
Because a DNSSEC attestation is usually public, except if you maybe use NSEC 3 and hide the RR behind some random name.
In the US un-reimbursed business expenses are no longer federally tax deductible unless you fit in some very specific niches. That changed under TCJA in 2017 (effective 2018 tax year) IIRC. [1]

[1] https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tips/jobs-and-career/employe...
I use an external keyboard for my right hand and the laptop keyboard for my left so that the left one can be more straight. So that an inflammation doesn’t worsen. (This is on Ubuntu/Gnome 3 (ugh))

I have tried two external keyboards (on the laptop) but then I had to deal with very annoying input lag from the second plugged in keyboard.
When I see the headline "LLM trains Nvidia on Chip Design" I'll start to worry :-/
That's like saying "it's funny to me that this baby can't drive a car, but we still call it a 'person'".

We've achieved AGI, it's just yet a baby. Only a few years ago, if you wanted a model that could complete a task, you'd have to train a model specific to that task. GPT-4 can do a large variety of tasks without being specifically trained on them, i.e. it's suitable for a wide range of general tasks. Yeah, it sucks at some of them, but focusing on that is short-sighted. Look at the progress made from just a few years ago and where it's going, especially with multimodality and increased compute power.
I'll share my personal answer: it made computers fun again. I was miserable with debugging flaky builds on large dependency trees and "works on my machine" issues. After switching to nix, now I see dependencies as being almost free, and it doesn't feel like I'm taking on a responsibility to fix build issues indefinitely into the future. It's really powerful when you take something that used to be expensive and make it cheap— it changes your perspective and has all sorts of unexpected benefits. So I'll click any link on HN about Nix or NixOS.
:-) thank you! :-)
i agree in part with the parent comment, art can be done for hobby or for work, if the work part is being replaced by generators then art will be confined as an hobby and maybe that will be better for everyone. Stop at all the laundry-multimillionary "art" racket.

btw, regarding copyright use, i don't see how AIs are not in the "fair use" category, they take human-generated content and apply a transformation to it, generating new images. The only problem is that generating images is a million-times quicker and cheaper
I kind of like the idea of a simple tax system, but on the other hand it's one of the best levers that the government has for influencing behavior. As long as the tax incentives correctly line up with the behaviors we want to promote or discourage, I think it can be a really good thing.

That said, I think it should be more on the business than on individuals. Individual taxes should probably be handled nearly entirely automatically for most people, with nothing more than an approval step required.
> We're talking about big tech employees.

Maybe you are. I am talking about all AI fear.

"The premise that AI fear and/or fearmongering is primarily coming from people with a commercial incentive to promote fear, from people attempting to create regulatory capture, is obviously false. The risks of AI have been discussed in literature and media for literally decades, long before anybody had any plausible commercial stake in the promotion of this fear."

Here's the list you've requested: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AIIsACrapshoot