skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're using an old defintion that is very rarely used today. It's now considered archaic, relegated to the dustbin of history. In fact, you're attempting to educate the parent precisely because of how old and out of use that defintion is. Further, it's so out of use, the most common dictionary references to eg first world, are always about level of development / industrialization and not cold war political alignments.

First, second and third world is now drastically more commonly used as a reference to the level of development.
The problem is that money is now immaterial, numbers in a computer somewhere, but we live in a material world. Imagine your city desperately needs to build a new subway station or hospital. It has the civil engineers, the architects, the machinery, the materials and the workers but if there is no money, nothing will get done. How absurd is that?

Money should not be a problem if it's aligned with the reality of our physical world and its limits.

But the resources of the world are being wasted on multiple levels because there's "good money to be made" while important needs are not addressed.
> Automation of jobs and tasks is very real, but completely replacing humans and potentially destroying us all is a joke and only the people who no nothing about AI/brains think this.

Don't be absurd. Brains are simply biochemical computers. The idea of electrical or other types of computers superceding us is perfectly realizable. The only real debate is over the timeline.
Well, there is a difference. Those are FOSS packages being rebuilt and redistributed under the terms that they were licensed under.

AFAIK, Fiddler is not FOSS.
Uh oh, better switch to more cheerful memes.
Fraud is not the fifth estate.
Save abandoned kittens through web cryptomining
You might have missed the conclusion:

All this results in a dynamic camera behaviour that works
95% of the time, while giving you the tools to manually
design the camera’s behaviour in those remaining
situations for gameplay reason or dramatic effect.

No neural net black box will give you this amount of accuracy. Not to mention the ability to manually design exceptions.
Show HN: Tool to add Git commit hashes, tags and version numbers to binaries
This's why we need decentralized networks.
"Sharma is presently a student at San Francisco's "Draper University of Heroes", a for-profit bootcamp for entrepreneurs that is not accredited to award degrees."

You can't make this stuff up...
Ignoring an entire market is how BlackBerry got clobbered by Apple. They didn't see a consumer device company as a threat. I don't know what vectors of attack there are on Apple from the business and research machine market, but someone is going to figure it out.
If you wait for 40 years to buy a new console, instead of getting an Atari 2400 you can get an PS4! Don't get that Atari! Wait to enjoy your life when you're old or dead in the ground!
The same way we fund the government now https://www.usgovernmentdebt.us/us_deficit
Just because some country in the past had it worse doesn't mean our country now doesn't have massive structural issues. A republic requires the trust of its people to function properly, and the fact that this trust is nearly gone in America should be worrying to everyone.
Why would SpaceX want more funding?
Postman doesn't quite fill the niche, because it can't see all http/https traffic (ex: from other non-browser applications). Also, postman can't see anything that happens to the request after it's submitted (ex: by an anti-virus network filter).

Which is not to say that Postman is not good at what it does do.
Fiddler works at a different level, and has an easy way to intercept / inspect SSL requests.

FWIW, I've also had bluescreens on Windows from a certain combination of NPCAP and an Intel Ethernet driver.
That's a bad example: Debian only packages GPL (or compatible) code, and by releasing something as GPL you are giving certain rights to anyone that receives it, including the right to package it. Put another way, Debian already does get permission before packaging anything (they just don't need to ask).
> See the movie Rampage

Which one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rampage
A classic one ! Once I did the same one, just an echo in a php page. It was at the bottom of the page, after the footer. It was a job for a web designer I was helping.

It's his son who saw it. So we removed it before the client (or anyone, it was in production) feedback to us.

Bullet dodged !
Unpopular ideas about blockchains
Hamiltonian Dynamics: Breaking Down a Haskell Project with Physics and HMatrix
The comment I'm responding to called out "What's the bet that Chocolately obtained prior permission from Telerik, Mozilla, Google or any other of the software vendors to redistribute their packages?"

I'm of the opinion that Telerik has the right to license their software as they see fit, including making it not available for packaging in Chocolatey, and legal precedent makes it much more dubious whether or not the existence of an accessible URL makes it legally OK for Chocolatey to package it than I think most people here are acknowledging.

That said, the commenter I replied to also called out Mozilla, and as far as I'm aware, the software of theirs that folks package is FOSS
The Long Con
So basically you are imagining something like Razer's never realised Project Christine [1], but in a blade form factor? I would like that. Also something like that being made by Apple (which has the market power to sustain an add-on ecosystem) would make more sense, whereas Razer would have never had enough traction (hence the project being cancelled).

[1] https://www2.razerzone.com/christine
> The 2008 Bitcoin paper was written by someone with a deep understanding of economics and cryptography. Elon has a background in econ and wrote production-level internet software for Zip2 and X.com / Paypal.

I seriously, desperately hope this is an attempt at satire.
This is basically the model of https://flattr.com/ and a ton of similar things that cropped up around the same time.

I don't know of any that are actually doing well, except for extremely-niche markets. In niches they can be just fine, but that's true for any arrangement (probably even cash-via-homing-pigeon) so I don't think it actually qualifies it as broadly-applicable. I essentially like the idea, but they don't quite work (yet?).
A properly traded cryptocurrency allows anyone to trade at anytime (so long as miners are still going), whereas a central intermediary may not be as liquid. Thus, the cryptocurrency route may include a liquidity premium
As the Romanian government I'd be careful... Romania has a well developed IT sector (especially for a developing country) and they recently pissed off most of the geeks in the country with the new tax code.

I'm also willing to bet that these people as a vast majority weren't voters for the party currently in power.

And the Romanian government is far from having NSA's IT prowess (yes, I know that they botched up quite a few things, but you have to keep in mind that the NSA & US government are playing at an entirely different level than most countries in the world except for maybe China, Russia and 3-4 others). At least on the IT front things the blow back could an order of magnitude bigger than what they're trying to do, clumsily.
> If the UN ...

I don't see how the UN is anything like the U.S. government, in terms of the self-determination of people in NJ. (And of course the UN and U.S. government are unalike in many other ways too, beginning with the fact that one is a sovereign, democratically legitimate government and the other is a multilateral international organization. The UN is more like ISO than it is like the U.S. government.)
> As a trivial example: GDP goes up if I sneak into a car lot one night and set fire to all the cars.

Directly, it doesn't change at all. If it results in people being hired to cleanup and the card being replaced, it does if you consider things one step out, but that might not be the result and, in any case, things get more complicated as you consider more distant effects even if the one step out effects would increase GDP.
> I'm just bemoaning the larger context of copyleft non-adoption.

I rarely bother to use copyleft for my personal open source work, because I'm not typically interested in hiring lawyers to try to enforce compliance. And if I wouldn't pay a lawyer to go after a violator, then I don't personally see much point in using anything more complicated than CC0 or a boring permissive license.

Licensing adds overhead. If I use the GPL, then somebody has to stop and ask themselves, "Hey, can I use reuse 30 lines of this GPLed code in this MIT-licensed project? Do I need to change my project's license? Do I need to ask permission?" Usually I don't care.

However, for certain projects, I am perfectly willing to enforce a copyleft license. In that case, I'm happy to use the GPL 3. It's a good license, and I'm very glad it exists.

I don't feel like anybody else should feel obligated to take my approach. Part of my philosophy here comes from painful personal experience that successfully commercializing code requires years of sacrifice, and 99% of what I write in my free time will never be worth that effort.
I have lived without a car for like a decade. It is shocking how much the world is designed for cars. This winds up being a de facto "screw you" to everyone else, including people reliant on public transit. Many people reliant on public transit are either poor or handicapped (thus can't drive) or both.

I wish this project well. Glad to see it on the front page.
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I'm specifically addressing the comment I replied to, which commented on whether or not Chocolately asked for permission from several companies, including Telerik but also Mozilla, whose software is notably FOSS
True, but staying out as the market continued to rise into 2007 was probably really hard.
The first string of comments says they haven't announced yet (besides on reddit) and nothing on their site claims anything to that affect either.

Also, if the Fed barred any Bitcoin sales/buys with USD (however unlikely) almost all reputable bank would drop those as well, regardless of country. This has been discussed in detail on r/BitcoinMarkets, actually.
VCs get their money from lots of sources, an article I read last year said in one year they received 30% of their funds from pensions[0]. I no longer have access to that article, but I do recall university endowments having a reportable percentage of the pie as well.

Assuming there was some way of defining an index, and there was enough liquidity to make it trackable by a fund, which are major problems for private companies:

By what definition of startup do 2/10 of them get acquired or achieve an IPO?

How would such a fund be more efficient for pensions and endowments than investing in VCs now?

Also, I think this fund would be a disfavored source of funds for founders. The big VC firms are successful in large part because they have access to the best investing options. Securing them as an investor opens doors for future rounds and for prestigious opportunities.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12515731
#define financially independent

That phrase means different things to different people. In some parts of the world, $50k could consider you to be financially independent. $500k in others, and in some parts, you'd need $5m - $50m.

What if I told you it cost $5/day to rent a luxury hotel room with cleaning, full board, and high speed broadband provided as standard?

What if I told you it cost $1500/month for a small studio apartment with no furnishings or anything else?

Both are true, both are real, both require different amounts of money in order to achieve financial independence.

I realise now that I haven't actually answered your question:

> What does your world look like where you'd be too taxed to bother wanting to be financially independent?

Rewriting that to be "What does your world look like where you'd be too taxed to bother generating more wealth?"

There comes a point of diminishing returns. If you work a 40 hour week already and make a decent living at 40-50%, and now get told that anything above that will get taxed at 75%, unless you're going to somehow generate more than double, you're going to spend that time doing more productive things (like spending it with your family).

Arguably, that's a net-positive for society as a whole, but may be a net-negative for the economy/GDP of the country you reside in.
This would be a reasonable opinion if the far right reacted to this event by giving credit to WaPo--if their genuine interest was in the truth and good reporting. Unfortunately truth and good reporting is not their goal, and this entire story will be presented in a very different light on far right sites.
Santa Claus comes from Saint Nicholas, which yes, would be Sfântul Nicolae.
I understand that, what it has to do with my comment though? I think ankhkare disagrees with me on a fundamental level and I'm curious about it.
I completely agree with you — you're preaching to the choir, bud. But "conspiracy theorists" will make an excuse to discredit them, regardless.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15790687. This was a hard tie to break but the other one was posted earlier, so we'll go with that.
psychotherapy is less than 10% effective. In fact, its almost no science.
There is no real PaaS today for this - today, you need to use 3+ services plus write a bunch of glue around workflow.

This is what Mux Video will be (source: Mux founder). If you want low-level atoms for transcoding, origin serving, delivery, security, etc. - use AWS or Zencoder + Fastly or whatever. If you don't want these atoms, but want a single API to everything "video," with decisions made by a team of video experts, use Mux.

We just opened an Early Access program if you want to check it out - https://mux.com/video.
The California Review of Images and Mark Zuckerberg
Yep, Facebook's loyalty is to Facebook. So they haven't so much betrayed the Romanian opposition, as shown the true allegiance they had all along.
Lot's of things horrify me.
Do you think it's a manual process or an automated one? Who is giving the orders, scary to think about.
We changed the url from https://dorinlazar.ro/the-strange-case-of-facebook-censoring..., which we would probably normally prefer as a more original source, but which is down right now.
Wow.

>Despite claims of enormous turnover and traffic, a search showed around only 400 listings in total, many up to four months old.

"A full 10 percent of listings of goods for sale on the site were found to have been placed by Sharma and his chief operating officer and University of Auckland student Dinyar Irani - the company's only two employees - with the pair trying to sell a soft toy and their NCEA schoolbooks.

Alexa analytics, a service providing information on website traffic, shows unusual results for Sell My Good. The vast majority of visitors - 99.96 per cent percent - are reported to have come from only one country: Japan.

Despite this dominance, the site has fewer than a dozen sales listings from Japan, and Google shows the site is only mentioned once in the country's internet domain.
Is there any cryptocurrency that is more liquid than the US Dollar? What cryptocurrency is optimized for liquidity?
Ok, what do you feel about older Broadcom drivers for Linux?

Those drivers are not open source, and did not allow for distribution. So Linux distributions included scripts to download from the public sources (provided by Broadcom), and run the install. The only software "distributed" by the OS provider, was a simple download script (probably less than a couple dozen lines).

If you are Ok with that, then note that that is what Chocolately does. I linked to the actual source code of the Chocolately package in another comment if you want to see what it does.
Oh, man.

I read SpaceX, exactly as written in the title. My brain convolved it with Tesla, and I started reading the comments thinking 'This won't do much to increase Tesla's runway'.

Need... deprogramming... now...
I would love to hear your thoughts and recommendations
These days it is actually pretty easy to casually use liquid cooling for CPU and GPU fans which ends up being significantly quieter.

I have routinely been building nearly silent 99% maxed out gaming/vr rigs with integrated off the shelf liquid cooling units with no tubing or scary liquid interactions needed.
I thought all worker co-ops are owner co-ops? I see "membership" used in all of the numbers I find, so I guess workers counts are much smaller -- but there are tons of them in S.E. Asia.
Is there any technical reason you couldn't have HEVC over RTMP?

Also, what hardware can do real time HEVC encoding?
Firefox over a SOCKS5 proxy done with ssh passes this test if you enable the proxy DNS setting. Creating the proxy is as simple as:

ssh -D 9999 -q -N <your ssh server>

and then configure that in the firefox proxy settings (socks to localhost:9999). If you want a simple way to enable/disable this in firefox I built a minimal extension to do it:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/proxyswitcher...

The defaults in the config already match that ssh line so all you need to do is press the globe button to enable the proxy.
Only if you know how to use a pen+paper.

I didn't learn how to use pen+paper for notekeeping till I was a professional, way out of college. My digital note skills were superior when I was in college (just a simple collection of notes I typed up every now and then during lectures).

Honestly, today's student should do the following:

1. Take pictures of the damn blackboard. Way easier than copying. Cellphones are cheap, everyone has a camera (even if the camera is of shoddy quality, it should work indoors in a lecture hall).

2. "Stream" notes in some format. It doesn't matter what your "streaming" note format is. It was computer keyboard for me, but today I can "stream" notes faster in pen / paper.

3. The most important step: Rewrite your notes into a better organization.

"Streamed" notes have low density and poor value for studying. The importance of "streaming" notes is to have a comprehensive outline of the professor's major points. Many professors provide subtle hints about what the tests are going to look like, so comprehensive note taking is the key to picking up on these hints.

"Organized" notes require conscious effort that takes too long during a lecture (or meeting, or anything really).

4. Ask questions -- Seriously. Professors make mistakes sometimes, but more commonly, the student's brain moves a bit slower as its learning from a lecture. If something smells "fishy", raise your hand and politely ask the professor to explain it better. Most professors are just happy someone is even listening to them, and often will comprehensively answer your question. Win/win for everybody.

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With regards to "secret note taking skills", its really the split between "streaming" notes and "organized" notes. Heck, keep two notebooks for every subject. (Or really, just one "streaming" notebook which you copy into "organized" pages elsewhere). You really should keep the steps separate.
If you look at the DAU graph they sold at pretty much the optimal time.
I don't think it is particularly illegal to lie to a reporter.
Don't think they won't do this in America when necessary.
I've heard of this as well. However, I assume this means that mass turns into kinetic energy specifically, right? And potential energy actually increases with mass? (This isn't something I've heard, it's just the only way I can make sense of things.)
I'm really really interested to find out how they're discovering the DNS server IP addresses I'm using.

The only clue I have is that they're trying to resolve a bunch of fake domain names (which show up as unresolveable in the console).

The webpage has the IP addresses written directly into it (so clearly the data came from the server) which means there's nothing I can investigate (eg, in JS) from my end.

What's going on?
I would too tumblr's day has passed.
Marissa made a huge mistake betting on tumblr.

The pornography and toxic community killed what could have been a strong twitter microblog service.
The left is shooting itself in the foot, by having gun control on its agenda. If Occupy or BLM brought as many guns to their protests as more right-wing protesters do, the police would probably think twice before dispersing them with riot police, beatings, and pepper spray.

At least, that's a theory. It might turn into a bloodbath.
Because it’s yet another poorly executed bumbling failure. People talk like O’Keefe is some American version of Vladislav Surkov playing four dimensional chess and that we are all falling into his little trap. But they’re just too incompetent to warrant the comparison. If they could execute any of their bizarre little pranks then they would maybe deserve some of this and I’d maybe consider them as some kind of threat. But tthey come undone in the most hilarious ways, like leaving a voicemail for one of their marks and forget to hang up and immediately start talking about the scam they are conducting.

https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/935274569778319360

I’d be quite happy for his funders to continue wasting their money on things like this
And this is why Blue Origin will ultimately come out ahead in the private launch race. This, for the most part, is technology that once shown possibly, is possible to replicate.

But what it takes is money, lots and lots of money. Bezos has that....
it is a lot lower than than that. you have to divide by the number of major bitcoin exchanges
Honestly, I don't know what to say to this. It's pretty moronic at every level but...it worked I guess?

Bleh, I'll just go meditate now. No use in getting angry.
Uh, isn't that just abusing their monopoly position? It's not a problem that YouTube grows, it's a problem when they abuse their monopoly position. This is why we (United States of America) have antitrust laws.
If you're comfortable with using KMS already, I recommend checking out SOPS: https://github.com/mozilla/sops

It can be versioned if you use git, access controlled via the KMS access privileges, and easily plugs into other tools because it uses YAML. Simplicity is the killer feature.
There's a header of "American" on this very post, and it's specifically talking about the US, so I'm starting there.

The biggest potential cost of someone in the US, with employer-tied healthcare, seems like medical. You could hit the unlucky jackpot and have a seven-figure+ medical bill over the course of a few years or life. So let's set "able to handle that for yourself and your family" as the baseline for being considered independent, since that's probably bigger risk than, say, "owning but then losing a multimillion-dollar-home to a flood" or somesuch.

But I also don't think this term is generally understood as poorly as you suggest.

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Responding to context complaints aside, you're still talking income tax, not wealth tax. My question was what this hypothetical negative-use wealth tax looks like, since the further-upthread post had suggested taxing wealth instead of using income as one of (several) proxies.

But also, my hours have not increased with my compensation in the manner you suggest. I know that every additional dollar loses 40% or whatever of it, I still would rather have it than not have it. 5%, probably wouldn't care, but would I still want more autonomy and responsibility at work for the sake of more feeling in control? Maybe. Maybe not. There are both financial and non-financial sides there, but if income was the sole basis for choosing our roles, we'd be in a very different-looking world.

So that's why I'm skeptical that a wealth tax would make me give up having big dreams—the personal safety net and toys are still incredibly appealing.
Akitio? Certainly some of their products bear more than a passing resemblance[1] to the Apple towers...

1: https://www.akitio.com/desktop-storage/thunder3-quad-x