skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'd love to know what the "caching reasons" are.

I'm betting it's about the client having the font already cached for greater performance, not particularly about bandwidth cost to Google.
What in the hell? I can't see how anyone thought this was a better choice than letting them go outside of a support window.
For me it's a no brainier, and the answer is yes. Or better: use standard fonts in a creative way.
so don't use chrome.
It would be cool with a car that self heals scratches and maybe even cleans itself.
IIRC :wq always writes to and exits the file, thus updating the timestamp on it. :x (and ZZ) will only write to the file if there are new changes. So there is a difference between the two.

Personally, I just use :wq because muscle memory and that I sometimes find knowing the last time I even opened the file in an editor is a useful thing to know.
CEO of Dopamine here.

We make cars with both gas pedals and break pedals because sometimes you want to go faster and sometime you want to go slower. There are some behaviors that you want to see yourself doing more frequently, and others that you want to see yourself doing less frequently. So we make products to serve both of those use cases.

It can be unnerving to see yourself programable; it affronts our sense of freewill. But once we get to the point that these technologies are possible, the question isn't if to use them, but how. We're trying to lead that conversation. And I am genuinely interested to hear your thoughts on how to use this technology to encourage human thriving.
Yes.

But not for just the reasons given in the link.

When your page uses resources hosted outside your control, you are effectively giving a third-party access to your users. This applies equally to fonts, images from image hosting services, videos from youtube, etc, and especially to Javascript code (including analytics).

At best, you are trading some bandwidth savings for allowing a third-party to analyze your traffic patterns and users in return - maybe that sounds like a good trade to you.

But at worst, your are allowing a third-party (or the people that buy that third-party years from now) to break your site (removing images, etc) at any time, completely outside your control. That is not even considering malicious intent. Google is probably OK right now, but who knows?

TL/DR : Host everything yourself
We cannot expect companies to voluntarily pay more taxes than the minimum, while there are legal loopholes at their disposal.

The solution may mean reducing the tax rate for all companies, closing the loopholes, and then enforcing the law.

But that would require elected government leaders to put their jobs on the line (lowering corporate taxes sounds bad to many voters since corporations have been vilified, even though it has bipartisan support among economists). So it’s unlikely to happen any time soon.
3 C's: cost, convenience, and complexity.

First, price. I think this is the biggest factor. You need a computer (for each TV). I don't think there are too many computers (if any) in the $35-$150 range that can handle smoothly playing HD video and pushing it to an external display. Assuming the machine isn't dedicated and you already own it, it breaks point 2 below.

Second, I haven't seen a good setup for controlling a computer connected to a TV. Granted, I stopped looking a few years ago. For me (and I'd assume most people), "good setup" means ability to turn system on and control it remotely, at a minimum. I'm sure one exists, but it would definitely require even more hardware (cuts into price) and more custom setup.

Third, some people might not have the technical know-how to set up something that meets the above two things. Sure, plenty of us technical people can do it, but it's not hard to understand that we are the minority.

tl;dr there's nothing "wrong" with using a computer and an HDMI cable, but there are plenty of compelling reasons these days to use one of the ultra cheap boxes. They are basically cheap purpose-specific computers, anyway. Ultimately, different people have different needs and priorities.
The original title is "The Polish phrase that will help you through tough
times". Please don't change the title, especially from something that
describes the content quite well to your own sentence that doesn't reflect the
article's topic in the slightest.
Post about why I'm not switching to Firefox for those who care to read it.
https://davityle.github.io/post/why-im-not-switching-to-fire...

tldr; the devtools are so slow and buggy they are unusable
Thank you so much! I tried it just now and that's what I'm looking for. Why isn't this the default on Mac? That black bar looks so out of place :-(
Current discussion: https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/issues/1508

I'm getting around 8k words per second on the smallest Google Cloud instances. You couldn't run spaCy 1 on these instances (or on AWS lambda) due to memory usage problems, especially problems predicting memory usage for long-running processes. This is why we say spaCy 2 is cheaper to run in a cents-per-word sense than spaCy 1. This is the performance measure that we think is most important.

However, users are still reporting performance problems, so I wouldn't call the issue resolved. spaCy 1 managed to avoid depending on numpy during prediction, making it easy to ensure that performance didn't depend on anyone's environment. spaCy 2 currently does use numpy, introducing these questions around configuration. I'm working to fix this by implementing the forward pass entirely in Cython.
And you've got to pay for all your citizen services anyway (renewing passports, etc).
Try the new bose earbuds. Shits on apple airpods
I personally don't know anyone who works in finance, but I doubt that many of them are ashamed of what they do. And I know plenty of people in tech, and most of them are actually proud and well respected by their peers for it. So I guess it's just wishful thinking from the Guardian.
No corporation pays taxes, in reality it’s either customers or shareholders who pay them. The point being Apple still generates maeve taxes for Germany and shouldn’t pay it squat in income tax.
> We've also lost to top-posting and JavaScript.

While certain popular webmail clients push top-posting hard, I still see a lot more inline quoting in professional contexts, even where most users are using a client biased to top posting, than I see top posting.
Regarding (1), ZZ is [hold shift][type zz][release shift], while :x is [hold shift][type :][release shift][type x], so I'd say :x is 1 more action than ZZ, and the timing of the release makes it slower IMO.
The Logitech forum has a link to a reddit thread that contains this gem.

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Copy&Paste, half the letters are cyrillic, half are latin, so it won't be caught by a regular expression
Here's a solution: if you sell your IP to someone else, that other person has to be independent.

This is done a lot in anti-trust settlements. You can sell your IP to Apple Germany, but then Apple Germany is independent and could go sell that/licence that however they see fit. Including selling to competitors of Apple US.

If you're transferring IP but the receiving organisation is basically under your control.... are you really transferring anything?
> Why not simply tax the things which cannot move, transactions involving real people who live in particular places?

that's already happening. Unless you're implying increasing consumption tax (VATS, GST etc), or higher income tax for individuals (payroll tax, capital gains tax etc).

The tax that's "missing" (read: dodged) is corporate income tax - which is a tax on the profits a corporation makes. But if you don't make any profits (read: hide profits using legal schemes), then what _do_ you tax?

To prevent tax-havens, you'd need to impose sanctions against doing business with any entity that is incorporated in said tax haven. But that's a nuclear option, which can cause damage beyond just stopping tax dodge (like harming the citizen of the tax-haven country, since they now cannot import food, for example).
If not "crippled by government", schools and hospitals would be Darwinian shitshows that absolutely guaranteed rising health and income inequality.

I agree that things like fast computers are nice side effects of allowing capitalism to go to work in some arenas, but, in others, you definitely need government to reduce the pernicious effect of unadulterated profit motive.

It's appealing to think to yourself "hey, I make pretty good money, why shouldn't I be able to use that to buy a higher-than average education for my kid?" This is fine--hire a tutor. But taking your tax dollars to a for-profit selective academy that most don't have the option of using contributes to the degradation of public schools that you helplessly claim to be an unavoidable consequence of their being government-run.

Institutions meant to serve all only work when everyone contributes to them. Private, unregulated healthcare and education, by design, only serves those with money. Since health and education are, in the long run, how we generate personal wealth, this scheme is sure to accelerate the widening of inequality.
My bank charges a flat fee of £0.75 per transaction for foreign currency transactions - not a big deal for a normal transaction but pretty significant if you're paying a $0.03 bill every month!
But with a nice caveat: In an event-based system, you can run spaCy 2 with AWS Lambda :). This will be much cheaper than keeping a server warm.
What if one license on one dependency prohibits it from being open sourced?

"Just open source it!" is a knee-jerk reaction with little bearing on the practical realities.
It surely is. The new desktop Skype is electron. why?

I can see why it appeals to front end web devs who feel the need to play at writing desktop apps - but Microsoft of all places, where they have an existing native client, now decide to go backwards and use electron.

Makes sense I guess when you consider their whole revamp of the iOS app took a useful business tool and tried to make it into an app teenagers use to share photographs of their genitals.

Edit:
On Mac at least, you can still get the pre-Electron Skype.

Go to https://www.skype.com/en/get-skype/, pick "Get classic Skype" in the blue button/dropdown combo thing.

You're welcome.
I've gotten nothing but good customer service from them. Over the years I've had an out of warranty mouse and 2 bluetooth speakers replaced with newer versions.
Basically they suck profits into Ireland, by stating in other EU countries that they will pay corporate taxes there; then in Ireland through "IP licensing fees" they paid all the money into a company that was declared not resident on the island for tax purposes, and was basically stateless - so not taxed. That company would then send this money to the various Caribbean shells they use as safes, when necessary, or just hang on it.

When the EU told Ireland to stop this behaviour, Apple was pushed to declare a location for that stateless company; they picked one of the UK Channel Islands, a crown dependency with no taxes, and started funneling money through that. In the process, they got another special deal from the Irish government to keep a chunk of "IP ownership capital" on the island, which resulted in a much lower rate of tax on that money than they would have otherwise had to pay (but ever-so-slightly higher than if they had just put everything in Guernsey, so they could save a bit of face).
It's for searching by app name. Chrome will show up as the best match
Disclosure - CEO of Dopamine

That's the exact same way I feel. There is definitely a end game here where everyone has more autonomy and dignity, and that's the one we're fighting for.
What does 'Income Equality' look like?
I installed an add-on in Firefox called "Disable HTML5 Autoplay". Works great.
I don't understand, why wouldn't the Dropbox employees be entitled to a field they reserved fairly in advance? If anything the Parks and Recs department is at fault for not making rules clearer.

Using money to push others out is poor behavior, but so is using the tired 'how long you've lived in SF' (like one of the people mentioned in that video). Once again 'techie' hate is misguided and most of the scorn should be focused on city hall for poor policy.
Is Kotlin's function not an SAM interface? I'm pretty sure Scala's is.
Funny, I threw the idea 2 days ago on IRC.

> <someone> "regenerative crashing" lol

MIT, please stop spying on #IRC, thanks
> is perceived: as under-regulated, overly powerful companies filled with wealthy tech bros and “brilliant assholes”

I’m not so sure the industry is “perceived” like this, it’s more like old media outlets (especially The Guardian and NYT) relentlessly push this message and this piece is no different.

I get that technology has destroyed their ability to gatekeep messaging, their business model and their prestige but at some point old media attacks become too transparent and probably have the opposite effect as intended. I think technologists have reached that point. I don’t know if the general audience has yet but I’ve never heard anyone complain about “tech bros” in real life (probably because they don’t really exist).
But this is exactly what happens now. And this is what the letter is upset about. He thinks Apple Europe Gmbh. made profit, and Apple's accountants say Apple Paradise Inc. made the profit, and we all think Apple Cupertino made the profit. And I don't see a good way to settle the argument, thus I suggest not having it.

"tax has to be paid where they are created or used"

Yes exactly. When they sell a cool computer for E2000, they have used their brand to sell it, and there tax is collected. The sale took place in an apple store in Berlin. Angela can adjust the tax rate to anything she pleases.

And to create that brand, they had to pay some guy $200K to write jingles, and this transaction is also taxed. This guy works in a spaceship which has landed in San Francisco. Donald can adjust this rate to anything he pleases.

Neither of these ends can easily move to a tax haven. Everything in between happens in the financial equivalent of the cloud. It seems to me a fool's errand to argue about which bits of that cloud were in whose territory.

Anyway I will shut up now!
Direct evaporation is only one part of this. You need to consider the overhead as people tried to get money into the banking system without alerting the government.

AKA, If you started with X money hidden then you don't get to keep 100% of that money if you hand it to other people to deposit.

On top of that people where caught, so actual black money disappearing was much greater than 1%.
> I've never understood why the feature hasn't been added, it seems pretty minor.

I don't want it. I don't like Firefox's approach, I much prefer the shrinking tabs paradigm.
They pay huge amounts of taxes to Germany in VAT and employment taxes. Their income taxes should be paid where they are based, Germany is trying to double dip here. Apples accounting for where profits are located has to be approved by tax authorities.
Ah last I looked was a couple weeks ago, right after the comment basically saying "we tried this before and decided against it", it does look slightly more optimistic.

But even the new comments mention that there isn't a consensus on if they actually want to implement it.

There have been bugzilla issues that seem simple that have been ignored for a literal decade, so I won't celebrate until this actually lands.

If it does I'll probably roll the extension myself if no one beats me to it.
Without a higher power you're left with diads that are impossible to resolve logically.

For example, "the ends justify the means" vs "the ends do not justify the means".

Two people can believe in some ultimate social good (your version of "objective morality"). That doesn't mean they'll get there in the same way (my version of "objective morality").
Wow so in your reality what was reported about money lending one year ago, one week after demonetization still holds? All the money lenders in India went into retirement is it?

Go find an article on what moneylenders are doing today. They are still lending. But from their bank accounts not from under their mattress.

Just blind reactions without knowing how the world works has become very fashionable today.
Apple is the largest corporation in the world by market cap. It does not find itself drifting like a plastic bag in the wind. Apple spends over $5m per year on lobbyists. A sum that no regular business would be able to afford - a form of influence on government that is fundamentally exclusively available to megacorporations like Apple. That's in the US alone where Apple already has extremely favourable tax conditions.

Apple is not guilty of tax avoidance, Apple is guilty of paying legislators to change laws in a way that is fundamentally incompatible with democracy. At a time when the US Federal government is running a deficit Apple's lobbying spending has reached record highs and legislation to reduce corporate taxes are proposing record low rates.

Land of the expensive, home of silent CEO hiding from questions about dodgy tax affairs.
This, plus sanctions on tax havens.
> They aren't, for the most part, doing anything illegal though.

There are many cases where legal != moral, an that's the very point of the article.
What make is this? Just for future reference so I know to never buy a TV from this manufacturer!
> I had an objectively better phone than the iPhone I would go out of business because Apple keeps more of their money in dishonest tax schemes.

why would that happen? unless apple uses their tax dodged profits to directly prevent you from operating, which would be illegal to do in the first place.
I almost subscribed but:

1/ they don't accept Paypal

2/ they insist on typing in a physical address even for electronic subscriptions

Why do they make it hard to love them.
Did you ever use 1200/75 in the reverse mode? You could get the modem to dial e.g. PRESTEL in the UK and train as a 'server' so the speeds were reversed. This gives a 75/1200 connection with 75bps down and 1200bps up, which was useful for uploading files, but meant you had a 75bps speed terminal, slower even than an original IBM selectric teletype, at 135bps!
I don't think most people are looking for actual income equality, just lower income inequality.
What is the incentive to have Google host your fonts anyway? It's something that you'd never want to change or update, and something that requires next to no maintenance.
Did you read the article? The author addresses this exact argument (being able to reuse web dev skills on a desktop app):

> Okay, sure having a plumber cut out a square wheel from a plank is also a lot easier to do than having a woodworker carve a perfectly round wooden wheel, but it is gonna be one hell of a bumpy ride, and square wheels are actually fine, right?
It's not even the cost, but using a HTPC with the common streaming providers has become quite a chore nowadays, with horrible UX.

With Netflix you at least get an app and the possibility to stream with highest quality (4K, HDR, multichannel sound), but the app is extremely basic and clearly only optimized for touch - it doesn't even offer basic keyboard shortcuts beyond start/stop.

You can get a somewhat near-HTPC using Chrome (at least shortcuts work there) and some customizing, but you're stuck with stereo (I'm not sure about 4K/HDR, but the latter is no-go enough for me to not have tried).

The same goes for Amazon Video, except that they don't even have an app outside Android/iOS, so you're stuck with stereo anyway.
And so on. It would be downright embarassing, if it weren't so obvious this is intentional...
I drive a car with low clearance, but that Lamborghini is just ridiculously close to the ground. You’ll scrape the bumper just pulling out a regular drive way. It sure as hell will need to be “self healing” for someone to legitimately be driving that.
Your argument would hold more water if the homelessness issue were not a problem all across coastal cities in California. I don't know what the cause is, but it isn't the technology industry, and I'm not a huge technology induestry booster.
I should have separated that better. Those were 2 different points, although I really didn't like what they told me there and that's the reason why I did not take their offer (very generous) and left. My point was that many don't do that because the money is too good.
Hangouts used to work and I guess they still do on ESR.
How improving CX can benefit SEO
It's still a maker/hobby space thing as far as I can tell. Using Home Assistant with a few relays and an Esp8266 gives you a powerful smart thermostat for a few bucks but isn't the most trivial thing in the world to get going.

https://partofthething.com/thoughts/enlighten-your-old-furna...
It's a pretty weird practice, and I can't come up with a good reason why I think it should be done, but it is. Just not for corporations. That's my point -- not that it's desirable, just that corporations get special treatment here.
> One thing I found out is that you really have to write a library in Java if you want it to be used in both Java and Kotlin. Java -> Kotlin is effectively one-way interop.

Hah. As someone who remembers the early days of Scala - the promise of seamless interop followed by the realisation that a language-idiomatic API requires much more than being able to seamlessly invoke a method - I can't say I'm surprised.

> One thing I did find out was that Kotlin is probably my favorite language. Very similar to Swift, though I wish you could re-open 3rd party classes to make them conform to additional interfaces which you can do with Swift protocols.

Maybe look at Scala; implicit conversions offer an easy-but-somewhat-hacky way to do that, while typeclasses are a very elegant general solution that a lot of libraries are based on these days.
IANAL but it is my understanding that if those tax reduction schemes are legal many companies are legally bound by their stock holders to exploit them, or else be found negligent in their duties.
I feel like in the current political climate it's not that likely.
> slaving away in your shit-town on your minimum wage job

but does that have anything to do with coporate tax dodge? Or is that really a failure in education (which may be due to tax dodges in-so-far as the lack of education funding)?
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We’ve figured out how to ensure quantum computers can be trusted
You can use the equivalent of a mahlstick to guide your tool. Its one of those sticks with padded heads that painters rest their hand on to steady it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maulstick
How long before a Google employee snaps from the brazen entitlement of their non-paying users?

Aside from that, hell yeah! CDN is penny-wise and pound-foolish for so many reasons. That, and if people had to go back to using their own bandwidth, perhaps websites would go back to being slightly less bloated.
Google and Facebook have already taken a good chunk of the fourth estate
TCP Fast Open: In Action with Python
I'll add to this: absolutely no good can come from plugging your TV specifically into the Internet. None. Zero. Nada. Zilch.

As soon as you do you'll get nagged for software updates, you'll get told the privacy policy or the terms of service have changed (which you have to acknowledge) and apps for things like Youtube and Netflix tend to be inferior to those in boxes (eg Roku, AppleTV).

I buy my TV to be a dumb screen. Then I plug a Roku into it. If at some point I decide the Roku isn't working I throw it away and get something else. Worst case I'm out $120.
Consider giving it a try again with the Firefox Beta (or wait for 57 final next week). I switched back from Chrome.