skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It’s interesting that HN is more concerned about the rules changes than the person filing our company’s taxes (or our CFO). This is a topic that is basically glossed over as a non-event between us and those professionals.

You are the one who originally asked why engineers can't be considered a cost center. There is a reason; the R&D tax credit.

> Maybe I have a bad accountant and CFO? Or HN is extrapolating this to mean more than it does.

I am guessing you just do not qualify for the R&D tax credit or it just not worth the paperwork at your scale. For larger companies (and profitable, fast-growing startups that do a lot of the 'develop' part of R&D, which are rare these days, I guess) there is a benefit.

https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/federal/research-and-...

Considering even the tax foundation claims would bring in less than 20k jobs, maybe Congress made the right decision to bring in amortization even if I disagree with what it funds. I do not have numbers for how much it brings it to the federal government but the credit was already known for being difficult for small businesses to use.
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If your critique applies to constructing a large array of scaffolding and glass panels, why doesn't it apply to constructing a large array of scaffolding and photovoltaic panels and wiring and power electronics?
no one could have saw this coming! they cant keep getting away with it
agreed -- i really like python a lot for a first (and long term lang). it reads like english compared to C or Java and you could toss up a website or something like that very quickly with it.
The way this understanding is generally formulated is that "public revelation ended with the death of the last Apostle", but I have not actually encountered this as a formally defined teaching or doctrine.
What are "value types"?
> The results strongly supported a tripartite motivational model of conspiratorial ideation. This model posits that conspiratorial thinking is driven by three key needs: understanding one’s environment (epistemic), feeling secure and safe (existential), and maintaining a superior image of oneself and one’s ingroup (social).

ok, yeah, cool, so what am I supposed to call this if i want to avoid being epistemically, existentially and socially bad?

https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/jekyll-island-c...

want to make sure that i'm not a conspiracy theorist, sounds bad
Affinity fraud is one of the most successful kinds of scams https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affinity_fraud

This one seems to be two in-groups at once. Believers in cryptocurrency and believers in a particular type of Christian god.
>> His views, biased as they may be, match the scientific consensus and are backed up by decades of research.

This is the problem. Just because he is an expert doesn't mean ALL of his views are correct. For instance Dr. Russell Barkley believed earlier in his career that having sugar in the diet will make ADHD symptoms worse. Years later after much more research he found out that he was wrong and that people with ADHD should sip in a bit of sugared water to focus better.

This is the problem with building a cult around a personality. Science is basically built off of hypothesis. Some of which will be proven wrong by much further research.

There is this thing called Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy (CIMT) developed by Edward Taub, a behavioral neuroscientist. There was extreme skepticism and resistance from the established medical and scientific communities. Taub's work challenged the prevailing belief that little could be done to improve function in limbs affected by neurological damage. At the time, it was widely believed that once certain neural pathways were damaged, they could not be repaired or compensated for effectively. Over time, however, through persistent research and clinical trials, CIMT gained evidence-based support and has become a recognized therapy in neurorehabilitation.

My point is that we should not build a cult of personality and take everything an "expert" is saying as absolute truth. He is right about many things. He could be wrong about some things as well. That's not a bad thing. That is how progress is made.

There is research being done by those who have analyzed nomadic tribes and they found high levels of ADHD like characteristics in those tribe members. The study noted that the traits associated with ADHD, such as impulsivity and a short attention span, which are often seen as challenges in modern structured environments like schools and workplaces, might have been beneficial in the unpredictable and varied challenges of a nomadic lifestyle.
I don’t think we have significantly more data, and useful data won’t increase just on a whim. And it’s just one of the very necessary parts.
As an interim step, I'd just like to see an installation system that was designed to minimize the now largest cost of a solar setup: labor.
It most definitely is. A join is a binary operator and hence has only two operands. Joining three tables requires an associativity rule, and joins are left associative. The ability to omit braces could arguably be considered syntactic sugar as well. In other words

a LEFT JOIN b RIGHT JOIN c

is equivalent to

(a LEFT JOIN B) RIGHT JOIN c.

Once you have that, you can flip the RIGHT JOIN by swapping the operands, giving you

c LEFT JOIN (a LEFT JOIN b).
I should check the code first, but my guess is that this is built using webrtc which was primarily created for realtime communication (including audio and video).

So my guess is that such feature can be easily added.

By the way, if you're using chrome, you can take share text directly via the clipboard. So that you can share from your phone, and immediately paste it in your computer, or vice versa.

By using kdeconnect (it has an Android app and a gnome extension), you have this done automatically. This means that you can copy a text in your phone, and paste it in your computer, as well as the other way around.
You're going to need some more caveats for this, I'm afraid.

Most major older cities established a central core in an age where people had taste.
> frequency hopping

That this is possible, and allows to maintain a dual connection to an AP and an ad-hoc connection to another device for AirDrop, sounds amazing. Now I want to learn more about that technique and where/how it can be applied to non-Apple devices!
I'll just tap share -> person
Worrying about reputation rather than character then? Do you give other people such considerations when they're speaking but not yourself, or do you judge other people (like you judge yourself) if you don't get everything 100% clear to someone even when there's inadequate time to do so?

Perhaps needing to learn to forgive yourself for "looking stupid," when there's a reasonable reason that you realize if having enough time you could correct or clarify it; part of the extreme difficulty and hard work to grow when being a conscious individual who feels things strongly-cares a lot.
The Mac Pro does have a rackmount, but that's mostly a box for PCIe devices. If you just want Mac compute and storage, it's not nearly as suitable, and the pricing/unit economics are a mess.
There is a YC startup doing robots for production of solar plants IIRC. Can't remember it's name but they are often on here trying to hire mechanical engineers to build the robots. Not sure if they are just the initial manufacture, or also ongoing maintenance.

Capex might put weight the opex if you are just using robots to clean the panels after construction?
A slightly tweaked “server” version (more ram in the package) of their chip from the previous TSMC node could be an interesting way to use up some non-bleeding-edge capacity.
Millennials in America apparently actually like the monotone look; it’s not just the resale thing. The process of making the house more bland for resale used to be called ‘beige-ing‘ by realtors (estate agents?) in the US; it’s not new, but it wasn’t always white and gray.
Reminds me of Tesla full self driving. It’s not really fully autonomous but we will call it that anyway.
I'm using KDE Connect on my phone, tablet and PCs. It works great to transfer files across devices, and adds some other benefits (clipboard sharing, using the phone as a trackpad or a presentation remote, reading SMS on the PC, etc).
I know some of it was just bulk load and dump migration APIs.

Otherwise it was 30 years ago, so I don't remember at all what was being done. But LN didn't really have a good query language. Sure it's all fun and wizards inside Lotus Notes itself, but one of the failings was that in the database part it wasn't really a database for anything but Lotus Notes.

I believe at the time there was the beginnings of an ODBC interface to it, but it was buggy or insufficient for whatever reason.

So LN wasn't good at sharing information, just like every office product really isn't good at it. Fine for people using UIs and Wizards. I mean, it is a TRAVESTY of possibly billions of dollars or more of wasted money that spreadsheet products and formats aren't trivially readable to get access to the data within them, but that is a rant for another day.

Anyway, so if you wanted to integrate with LN data between rando-system, it was obtuse APIs. A "good" API makes connecting and data marshalling/representation/access pretty easy, along with search/index, etc.

I believe there was locking annoyances that occurred as well when the API was in use. I'm not sure LN was built for multi-user all that well, but again I don't recall the technical limitations. I think a LN database was a single file, so if you're doing API-level mucking with the data, you had to lock it from the LN application/server from doing anything.

All I remember is that Lotus Notes was "meh" on that front. Domino may have improved things, but by then I had moved my C skills to something else.
You've done the same thing in this comment so what makes you think you're the superior specimen?
Because they suspect they may be true.
Minneapolis Suburbs. There’s been a huge apartment building boom, and cities with leftover small town vibes have passed these ordinances.
I take it that it's very difficult to anticipate the scenarios to test.

QA did a good job testing inputs to the orderBeer function. But they forgot to examine the other functions.
As I recall, Jason asks people not to do wholesale site copies in general, but I imagine a great number do.
Redesigning leadership: uncover gaps with McKinsey's 7-S framework
I misread it as everyone and was disappointed when I realized.
Many thanks for this link!
Is /g an abbreviation of /gen?
Yes, this is a common error made by many. You are looking at the residential school not so great days and grouping it in with the actually terrible pre WW2 days. They aren't the same, especially when talking about genocide vs abuse. Even if they were the same 50+ years ago is a very long time ago.

I also worry that you are making the follow up error made by many and trying to use things that happened 50+ years ago now to justify current bad outcomes, when the current bad outcomes stem largely from the utter institutional failure that is indigenous services and the corrupt fiefdoms that are the reserves.
So, getting fatter as I get older is a good thing? /s
Interesting timing, just yesterday I was looking for solutions for file transfer between android and windows. My main issue is how android presents as a very limited mtp device (i think?). Microsoft's phone link works, but only when opening a scrcpy-like screen with the android file manager. Very weird.

If possible I wanted to actually mount the device as a drive. I stumbled upon sshfs-win[0] which mounts sftp shares as drives. Couple that with prim-ftpd[1] and voilà: android mounts as a drive. Tailscale[2] can also make it fairly lan-independent.

Primitive ftpd supposedly starts on boot and keeps running but I found it stopping inconsistently at times, requiring a restart. Still, I'm quite satisfied. I suppose dav could work as well, but no apps popped up on fdroid.

[0] https://github.com/winfsp/sshfs-win

[1] https://github.com/wolpi/prim-ftpd

[2] https://tailscale.com/
Exactly. A huge component of Christianity is separation from the world and standing out against a crowd.

There is certainly a popular folk religion, but this is not the essence of religion.
Yes, to the point that `mc` is wordplay on `nc`.
Markdown lacks prompting for inputs and running javascript but is easier to write and offers a quicker update, preview, deploy cycle. Preview and deploy is often a simple save vs. a build and deploy process. By extending markdown to support prompting for inputs and running javascript, you close some of the gaps and get the best of both worlds.
I actually go to the gym with one of the guys who worked(s) on this copter/drone. Super cool guy
The Mac Pro is enormous (5U) and wildly overpriced. It is absolutely not designed for a large-scale datacenter. You don't even get ECC RAM like back in the Xeon days.
It's not surprising, they prefer machines to people and call humans "stochastic parrots". The more humans are compared to animals, the more justified they feel writing them off as an expense and doing away with them.
I admit the convenience is not the same, but this was already possible with my first Android phone (2011/12ish).

There was an app called "Wifi File Transfer" which would expose a web UI in the local network to download and upload files to the phone's storage.

First I only used it to upload music to my phone (faster than USB1.1 or even USB2).

Then I found out it also works fine when creating a WiFI AP/Hotspot and allowing other peers to connect to it.
> He loved research and got a PhD, but couldn't do the tasks that were expected of a professor and ended up not getting tenure. After that he struggled to hold a job for most of my childhood.

This sounds horrific for both the individuals and their families. Talented individuals with so much to offer not finding their place.

> He would have thrived in the more Wild West academia of Isaac Newton and John Locke.

Yes, I agree. I just don't know how to create a system where the strengths of such individuals are leveraged. If an organization of 100 people is trying to build a bridge and the tasks required are challenging for the 1-5 ADHD individuals in the group, the persons will struggle and the organization will struggle. Both individuals and organizations need to get better at routing those individuals to the right places to leverage their strengths. This is true of anyone but 10x more important for ADHD or other disabilities.

> The things he struggled to do were the accidental complexities of the job of professor, not the truly important aspects of that role.

I have mixed feelings about this because sometimes I have heard people dismiss aspects of work they're not good at as not important. E.g I have had sw engineers claim they solved the problem in their head and writing it down and communicating it to others is not important. At large organizations is just as important unfortunately.
Huh, I guess I live in the EU now…
Yeah! Just like Dropbox can trivially be replaced by FTP, FUSE mounts and CVS……
Can't agree more. Users don't want to run a server or figure any of that out. There is a person near them and they want to share a file quickly.
Red Sea crisis: What it takes to reroute the biggest cargo ships
macOS also lacks some fairly basic server features. Last time I looked the kernel didn't do SYN cookies for example.
Apparently someone read https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Injection_Rejection and didn't realize that it wasn't a best practice.
Still though—we have a picture of what their entry into the server space looks like. The picture is… the pricing/unit economics are a mess. Maybe Apple is just bad at servers, haha. I’m not sure why people are clamoring for them.
From the J.C.Karew book Why We Need to be Wild, it sounds like his violent actions were motivated by frustration over the direction society has taken. He apparently wasn't the type to write a book and do a speaking tour, or start a youth camp, or promote early childhood family education as a way to decrease trauma. In an alternate universe he might have been a catalyst for change away from the path too many of us are on (that of overconsumption; from the book, maybe 1/6 of today's population contributes essentially nothing to changing the earth climate). It is possible and feasible to live wholesome, wonderful lives in small, local social groups with enough good land to support innumerable other life and a seasonal harvest circuit.
If you weren’t enjoying drawing why would you keep it up as a hobby anyway?
Explore options for hobbies and stick with the ones you do find fun and drop the others-that’s totally fine!
If you love working on organisational tasks - try that as a hobby, Marie Kondo your life
I have a bunch of running event t-shirts and they are almost all CANVAS; is that the same as BELLA+CANVAS? Because I love those shirts and wear them everywhere (to my wife’s annoyance).
Nightshade Antidote
Its painfully obvious.
The enshittification of apps is real. But is it bad?
TL;DR Solar chimneys aren’t nearly as promising as modern solar panels as far as energy generation goes. They require tons of money and space in order to operate efficiently.
Like all forms of success, one does not achieve productivity. One declares it.

Ergo the best way to be productive is to choose a definition of “productivity” that aligns with what you already did or what is easy to do or what you plan to do regardless or etc.

Was this worth your time?

Well you learned something about yourself.

Good luck.
Non-paywall version https://archive.ph/KTAIA
Tragic. What's so dangerous about high tension wires is that they look completely safe, they are silent killers. I don't know the situation here but isn't staying inside the vehicle the safest option in most cases? Understanding the situation first is always essential.
För some reason it never managed to send more than 2 files from the computer to the phone. And I was never able to fix it.

On my tablet, however, it works flawlessly.
It is about new Cappella App Translating Baby Needs with AI
Given a big enough n every tribe member will be a dissident. Mathematically it can be shown that as n grows the distance between the average vector and any other vector grows, ie: in the limit everyone is a dissident. Therefore I don't think this notion of God makes any sense.

I recommend you this notebook for an in depth analysis of the phenomenon https://allendowney.github.io/ProbablyOverthinkingIt/gaussia...
Tech unsavvy users probably don't know what that tracking thing is, that's if they are aware of its existance. In fact, even people who are familiar with computers often get it wrong.

Incognito mode always had a rather clear explanation of what it is about. It is somewhat complicated to those who are completely new to it, so I guess it can be misinterpreted, but I see nothing misleading in the explanation. Also, Chrome is not the only browser with that kind of feature and they are all essentially work and are presented the same way.

That some browsers tie it to some kind of tracker blocker actually make things even more confusing because on one hand you have "private/incognito/whatever" tell you that websites can still track you (because it is not what it is designed to do), and then, just below, you have a tracker blocker. So what is really blocked?
I was pleasantly pleased to recently learn Airdrop has no file size limitation! I needed to transfer several 7-9 GB files and thought for sure I'd run into issues but everything moved smooth (and quickly!).
>I get the impression you're stupid

That's a different claim altogether. You're right about how their phrasing directed criticism at the presenter rather than entirely at the company, so you should steer clear of strawmen while you're ahead.
Macroeconomics is not the activity you describe.
Unless it is a game called macroeconomics
How does localsend work exactly? I've read both their website and Github README as well as part of their protocol docs but I still have no idea. How does the initial device discovery work? For file transfer does it use the local wifi, some external server, …?
Someone I know (Gen X I guess) just built a new house and the design is nice enough and the location great. But the unending gray in every room... would not have been my choice.
Client did not pay? Add opacity to the body tag daily
This comment betrays the old and persistent idea that lower status people are inherently shifty and lazy, while higher status people are inherently more virtuous.

I think this is because people are applying survivorship bias. It's really difficult to make it to those status levels while abusing drugs and alcohol. And even if you party hard at the top you must be able to "handle your shit".

Success at the top is a careful dance of social nuance. If you fly to an on-site, get drunk in the hotel bar, and are late to the meeting or smell like booze, you're social status will be impacted unless you're a wizard with social excuses or make up for it in some other way.

So--in a way--the success is the greatest drug test.
This post and the commments it attracts seems more appropriate for /r/atheism. It’s not technology (what about a stripe scam pastor?) and it’s not something interesting that wouldn’t be peddled in gossip journalism.
Because we know the media is lying to us constantly... 'there are WMDs in Iraq'....'Jeffrey Epstein commit suicide'... 'Trump is a Russian agent'...or Obama saying the drinking water in Flint was safe to drink... or how about Vioxx killing hundreds of thousands and the media sweeping that under the rug? Or how about all the October 7th lies that were spread and turned out to be false? Or how liberals/progressives thought COVID risks were 10x worse than it actually was due to their media sources: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/18/briefing/covid-risks-poll... Or that the Hunter Biden laptop was fake...

The media lies to us daily and is never held accountable. No one ever loses their job for lying--usually they are promoted. Dr. Fauci and Trump are both liars, and yet are evangelized by different sides... Even Harvard was run by a liar/plagiarizer.... which should give everyone good reason to take a pause and wonder if they should believe anything the media says when it's consistently so wrong/obviously lying.

Mainstream media just rationalizes whatever the powers that be wants--even if not explicitly requested because there's a revolving door between media/politics. The last press secretary Jen Psaki worked for CNN.. the press secretary before her worked for Fox. Modern media is a complete failure and that is why conspiracy theories are spreading faster than ever. Everyone knows Rachel Maddow lies just as much as Fox News. Objectivity and truth have gone extinct.
Disclaimer: Google employee who doesn't work on this.

My understanding is that incognito mode is a temporary and blank profile that is cleared when you exit. If it actually prohibited cookies a large number of websites wouldn't work as session information is used in all kinds of contexts (not just advertising). AFAIK there's no special treatment for incognito as the site owner shouldn't be able to tell an incognito user from a new never-seen-before user. Each time you exit and relaunch incognito you will get the same behavior as a new user.

There have been tricks over the years for website owners to try and deduce the browser is incognito (e.g. testing available scratch space in the JS file API). In general this is a cat and mouse game where gaps are closed and new fingerprinting methods are developed.

In terms of location tracking, websites are still getting your IP address which can be geo mapped. If they want the location from your browser, you should be getting prompted to allow/block.
> bring the prospect of "true" AI tantalizingly closer

I do think that it’s quite a leap to assume that. It is very good at mimicking, but the same way some parrots can talk, they are endlessly far from human cognition. That jump is very very non-trivial.