skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That means you save $0 compared to current system. (Maybe obvious, but it retains format of the boxes for all the bills.)

You will see the results of the calc are consistent with NYT's, except TaxPlanCalculator.com actually takes you exact info. NYT forces you into buckets -- "married 2 kids" is their only option.

TPC also first out, on Fri night, and budget $0 + server costs!
This. There's a thriving open source ecosystem around iOS that is largely unavailable to macOS developers because of fairly arbitrary and unnecessary API differences in frameworks.

Unifying the API will open a lot of doors for macOS devs to use iOS libraries and provide a boost to macOS development.

I think those thinking about UI convergence are missing the point, and it's doubtful that this is what Apple has in mind. Having unified APIs makes dev life easier, and having official linkages between desktop and mobile apps makes it easier to do things like document sharing between mobile and desktop versions, or sharing of purchases (so you don't have to buy the desktop/mobile version twice).
This is in reference to the issue a few years ago where it was easy to wipe EFI vars via /sys, which would happen if you rm -rf / .[1] Wiping the EFI vars would brick your system.

[1]: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=UEFI-rm-...
He is talking about mining bitcoins, not buying bitcoins.

Most bitcoin hash rate comes from places with low energy costs... its just basic economics.

The only reason this arbitrage is present is because the value of bitcoins is higher than the cost to mine them at the moment. Since the capital investment required to setup a (reasonable large)mining farm is rather high, it is unknown if the investment will pay off over the long term. But a lot of people are betting it will.
That and the whole "how do you make stuff opaque". All the demo show semi-transparent object being added to the real world. Making text legible when you can't fully control the background on which it is display is very hard. My best guess is that if they don't advertise that use-case it is because they don't really feel ready to be judged on it.
I agree. I gave the word "deserves" a second thought when I initially wrote the comment. The proper word is somewhere between "needs" and "deserves", but I don't know what it is. I think most people reading this on HN, probably don't "need" a tax cut but I am betting a decent percentage feel they "deserve" a tax cut if the government has already decided that a tax cut is going to be given out.
I help run clusters about 100 times this size. Things work remarkably wonderful.

Huge database systems require investment in setup and operation.

What is causing problems that need repair?

How much spare space do you keep per node for compactions?

What is your spec on a per Node basis?
> hacks happen less then let's say you're mugged on the street or your bank account is emptied by carders/hackers.

Pretty disingenuous argument.

In absolute numbers, sure. But that is only because everybody walks down the street. Relatively few people use bitcoin so yes, in absolute numbers, perhaps it is true that more people get mugged on the street / bank accounts hacked. If Bitcoin somehow magically became the world's currency du joir, I promise you the number of stolen bitcoin wallets would far exceed the number of emptied bank accounts & muggers.

Oh, and if my bank account is emptied, I call my bank and say "hey bank, some fuckwit hacked my account" and if they are any good, I'll be back in business. No such luck with bitcoin. If my wallet gets emptied, I'm toast.
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> The simple way to solve this is to take them to court. Is there anything more to the story than you trusted them with your money and they kept it?

It seems like the point of the post is to publicize what happened, and make sure other people are aware of the dangers of working with this agency:

> If we don’t tell people what happened, it could happen to someone else.

> We are cutting our losses and doing what we can on a legal front, but we need to warn the community.

The legal system moves slowly; this appears to be their way of holding them accountable for their actions, and for helping others avoid their fate.
I think you have to take those demo videos with a pinch of salt. It's impossible to demo tech like this without wearing the device. Assumedly the field of view is inaccurate as well. What's interesting is that it's a 'light field' and not just a screen, hopefully opening up areas of innovation. Let's see how it pans out once more details are revealed.
Bing maps use Ordnance Survey for the UK, which is far better than Google maps. OpenStreetMap also has better maps than Google.

However, Google has comprehensive streetview and more up-to-date aerial photography.
And the tax evasion (executed by the driver, on behalf of Uber). Without that, would there even be uber ?
I might be an insider but I bought BCH before the pump. The news was everywhere in the crypto space (telegram, tradingview, twitter) last week.

Ps: I don't trade, I'm a hodleur
IANANuclearScientist, but wouldn't the water be constantly circulated inside the pool, bringing the radioactivity of the water to the same level throughout the pool?
> If you take $10,000 USD in cash and put it in the freezer, in a year it would be worth $9,700 of today’s value.

> Yep you read that right. Holding USD means the cash will be “worth” less next year. This is because of a 3% inflation rate.

This math is wrong. The value in today’s dollars will be 10,000 / (10,000 * 1.03) * 10,000 ~= 9,708.74
An interesting read on this: https://np.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3azkqx/til_na...

The short version - pandas are just find for their habitats, and aren't going out of business.

The traits of pandas sound odd, but they're actually common to lots of highly-successful animals. They mate just fine in the wild and are bulk feeders that can easily consume lots of low-efficiency food. Their population hasn't been in any kind of steady decline, but has plummeted twice, each time when large portions of their habitat were destroyed.
And which you could do a few years back by rm-ing files from a virtual device that mapped to BIOS configuration.
Spot on! Thank you. The companies that make electronics “softer” usually provide a better experience to users.

Yes it would be great if everyone went to Shenzhen and made their own iPhone from scratch but I’d much rather Apple handle the details for me and my parents and grandparents...

I’m the only one that would be slightly entertained by the harsh realities of batteries being used under duress.
The UK can do that. The most likely consequence will be the EU not accepting those trade terms. As a consequence, almost all trade with the UK will stop and trade with the UK will effectively be under near embargo due to the high tarrifs from parts of the world (the EU and areas it has trade agreements with).
The article, remarkably, has scant few details on the author's experience with the product. This quote sums up my skepticism:

>instead they were constructed to give visitors who pass through the facility under non-disclosure agreement, a chance to see the magic in action.

It's a controlled environment with purpose-built demos for folks under NDA.

There's no videos, renderings from actual hardware, or substantive critiques on the fidelity of the device's output. The only negative criticism is that it has a rectangular viewport which doesn't fill your field of view. I can't believe that's the only negative thing that could be said about this. Not a single comment on FPS, glitches, or any other problems.

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I could totally see this demo as being fudged. The computations could be happening off-device with video streamed over wifi. We've heard before that Magic Leap has struggled to miniaturize their hardware, with the last version looking like a proton pack...what better way to demo it than to fake the demo?

I want real evidence that the cute hockey puck has a real computer inside, not just anecdotes from an NDAed journalist in a lab environment.
I was not attempting to avoid the topic at hand, as evidenced by my other comment ITT discussing the actual text of the bill. I'm sorry it came across that way. In my attempt to avoid partisanship I usually end up denouncing both "sides", as I think the money in the back room is what decides the law of the land, and which party happens to accept it for a given issue.
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as someone who loves Go, you've piqued my interest. tell us more?
If you're offline a lot you can use OfflineIMAP [1] or say rsync your Maildir.

Something like Mailspring (successor of Nylas N1) also allows for sending an e-mail later during the day.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OfflineIMAP
They haven't unveiled jack shit. Just another bunch of 3D renders. Unveiling your product should mean a little more than some sketches of what you'd like to build.
The free map is 1:250k, but Bing Maps uses the 1:50k I think (it could be the 1:25k though, it's very detailed and has stuff like footpaths). It certainly looks better than the 1:250k.

Have a look at https://binged.it/2BFM0UA

And compare to the OS 1:25k example image: https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/pro...
I had one at home, tinkering around and learning to program in QBASIC on it. I wish I still had it just to experience the certain charm of doing things the way you used to do them, but it sadly stopped consistently booting over a decade ago.
The end of the article talking about where the actual doors are reminds me a problem that we had to solve in a previous job: finding your way ON to the road network.

Take this address, for instance: "9901 Grant St, Thornton, CO 80229" It is a gigantic Walmart parking lot. When you ask a navigation system to get you back on the northbound interstate highway from here, it first needs to get you out of the parking lot and connected back to the road network. A naive system would just find the nearest road and tell you to drive in that direction. In this case, it would happily tell you to simply drive west a couple hundred meters to I-25 and take a right. It doesn't understand that there's a greenbelt and a retaining wall there. It doesn't understand that the correct answer is actually to go the opposite way -- east to Grant and around to an entrance ramp.

Google, by connecting parking lots to the road network has -- perhaps unintentionally -- made this problem go away.
Well sure, you could stare at a blank wall with a bulky headset on, but why not just have a monitor? Also the parent comment didn't seem to be talking about staring at a blank wall. I just don't see how this could be better than an nice wide monitor.
FYI that is a bit of an oversimplification. See the AMT page on TaxPlanCalculator.com/static/AMT.html to see if it really eliminates your AMT in that range.
NoSQL is not a feature, it is the lack of a feature.
> For the same reason your friends will refuse to go to dinner with you if you skip on the bill.

What if you had very little choice on what was ordered for dinner? and ate almost nothing at dinner. You wouldn't want to pay right?
So I tried out a service called "Playstation Vue" a while back, and I'm very inclined to believe that "stream limits are tricky"

There were dozens of times in the 2 months that I had the service that I was unable to stream, because I had hit a "concurrent streams" limit.

Switching between devices, having my browser auto-login (which would take up a "slot"), And the fun bug they had for a while where if I started a stream on my phone, then "cast" it to a chromecast, it would count as 2 streams, and due to a limitation where playstations were given their own dedicated "slots" meant that 2 people couldn't watch on a chromecast at any given time even though I should have had 5 simultaneous streams allowed.

I ended up canceling the service because of it, and I appreciate the limits that Netflix has much more.
So does this prevent iframe hijack and pop-up types of annoying ads? They are the kinds I really really want to stop seeing. Unfortunately uBlock can only block so many.
The incumbent taxi industry is way worse than you describe. Prices aren’t five bucks more, they’re often 2X, with worse drivers due to the lack of a passenger feedback loop. Not to mention that a substantial portion of those profits getting sucked up by the medallion holders, who are much more absentee landlords than Uber or Lyft.

I talked once to someone who honestly thought medallion fees went to pay for driver health insurance and benefits. The status quo was just as exploitive.
I bought an HP UNIX workstation monitor at a computer garage sale around 1995 or 1996 that had 1600x1200 (I think it could even do ~2048 but it flickered like crazy at that resolution) and I used it for years, schlepping it from house to house; it was probably about 5 years old when I got it. It was an absolute beast; weighed about 75 pounds. It required a custom cable to go from VGA to whatever weird composite plus sync connections the monitor had, and in the early days of using it, it required a hand-crafted X configuration file. And, I couldn't see BIOS or boot messages on that monitor because it didn't do the standard VGA/CGA/EGA modes (so I had a spare small monitor just for boot messages). I was excited when the boot messages started using the framebuffer device in Linux because it meant I could finally see my computer booting without a second monitor (though the BIOS messages were still invisible).

So, yeah, there were some awesome workstation monitors back then. Huge price tag, though. I seem to recall looking up what my monitor would have cost new, and it was in the multiple thousands of dollars (I got it for $25, because it had a scratched CRT, which I polished out).
It may be Nike Corporate trying to get a lock on the domain. If it isn't, the new owner must have quite the legal budget.
It's just a counter that has to be implemented properly between dozens of third party partners each with much weaker incentives than you have. It's gonna take a while, especially if you're waiting for things like smart-TV-side apps to get updated.

Sorry, you're right, though, I chose the wrong word: it's not a mainly technically challenge e.g. for scaling, it's a process/implementation/people one.
Certainly criminal. Wrong is an ethical judgment that is up to the individual.

"Tit-for-tat" strategy tends to beat "always cooperate" strategy in simplified social gaming models. People who always obey all laws, regardless of circumstances, are chumps who will inevitably be exploited by those who write the laws and those who selectively enforce them. In general, the law exists for the protection of everyone in society, but there exist exceptions when breaking the law is the right thing to do.

Peaceful, lawful protest is no longer protecting minority voter blocs. Continuing to do it in the expectation that it will eventually work is just as insane as implementing trickle-down economic policy for the Nth time and expecting that it will benefit the middle class this time, when it failed to do so the previous N-1 times.
You'd have better luck analyzing the source rather than the minified output. Relevant code is here: https://github.com/seripap/darkwire-client/blob/master/src/u...
can you elaborate on opting for Sqllite?
Most office workers don't have a large, flat, solid, dark colored wall to look at. The reality of most office environments is that we're looking at co-workers, furniture, plants, windows, artwork, small cubicle walls, etc. If you have to rearrange offices to make AR usable then what's the point? Just give everyone a physical monitor. They're cheap.

I doubt that white walls will work well for AR backgrounds because it's additive light. There won't be enough contrast to make reading comfortable.
Delusions are hard to get rid of. Leave campaigned on lies, voters swallowed them, and the government is now bound to try and live by those lies.

Like all delusions, this will continue to entrench itself against reason. When the negotiators fail to reach their delusional goal, the deluded will formulate a conspiracy narrative to protect their delusion.
Jaguar is owned by an Indian company.
If you are in high-income, it links to a page that tells you how to figure out AMT yourself.
I've been meaning to start giving more money to free software projects I've benefitted from. Sadly, a lot of them don't take donations or they use some convoluted payment processor. I would totally be willing to support a project through something like Patreon and pay something like $3 per minor release and $7 for a major release. This should be a no brainer for smaller companies that can only afford free software but also want that software to be well supported.

Even as an individual, I don't know why I haven't set up donations on my github projects. Some of them have several stars, and you never know who will buy you a beer or a coffee.
Just not on Windows with Firefox. There's still a major rendering bug that makes uMatrix mostly unusable. You can't get to the XHR or frame columns, meaning things like reCAPTCHA aren't usable unless you simply turn off uMatrix for that site.

The current workaround is to open the log and allow/disallow from there. But you can't get to the log button 99% of the time because of the rendering bug.

Not sure if it only affects the Dev Edition of Firefox or not. It certainly doesn't affect the Linux versions, neither Dev or mainline.

Really wish they would fix it. Here's how it looks on reddit, notice how much of it is unreachable: https://i.imgur.com/UHN7AQD.png

I'd love to help, I just don't have the time right now.
No, it takes years of negotiations to change WTO rules, but the rules as they are will apply automatically in the absence of any other deal
The fact that AdBlock receives money to break the very thing they're supposed to fix (at the user's expense) is pretty messed up. Sure, it's better than nothing, but that's really not saying much.

There are better options out there that (currently) give you fine-grain control over what goes into your machine, so there is pretty much no reason to give over that control to a corrupt group.
You could say this about any treaty, any agreement. And technically, a Sovereign Nation, by its very definition, is allowed to do whatever the fuck it wants.

Before 20th century, breaches of treaties were grounds for war. Now we don't do that anymore, we simply cut off trade.

So the U.K would be ostracized, International companies would move out, it would probably face high tariffs on goods (or outright ban) etc.
Apple is reportedly merging iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps as early as next year
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Agreed - if I could spin my experience as a classroom teacher into designing k12 AR productivity tools that would be an amazing career step.
I thought an LLC can elect to be taxed as a pass through entity also (sole proprietorship or partnership-equivalent for tax purposes), so they might also be included.
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Interesting stuff, nice write-up!

I tried to buy it last night and this morning for the ~3K price, and I was blocked by Coinbase. Now it's past the 4K point.

Maybe there's no grand conspiracy, but there's something plasticy about the price movement combined with blocking of new buys at the lower prices (on Coinbase).
The ISP doesn't have costs on each side, the other side is the peer's equipment. And you're just intentionally setting money on fire. You can get more than 16 ports into five rack units, which would result in less amortization on the chassis and less colo per port. And 5U worth of colo is not $1000/month almost anywhere, but that was >75% of your total cost.

Which is still using the numbers where equipment only lasts two years and you're expecting 100% continuous usage from all customers. And even using all these ridiculous numbers it's still only $3.31/month per customer. If we adopted a 10:1 oversubscription rate (which is still conservative) it would be $0.33/month even with you setting money on fire, having the ISP pay for both sides, and using full double redundancy rather than some kind of N+1 or N+M.

Peering is just not a major cost for ISPs.
I agree that the university processes are problematic. But the problem isn't the standard of proof. Universities were treating the Title IX process as something with criminal consequences, e.g. metting out punishments for the sexual assault itself. But if you apply civil standards of proof, you can't mete out punishments. You can only adjudicate rights: "which one of us gets to stay?" Title IX proceedings should be directed at nothing more than adjudicating that issue. There should be no public show, there should be a sealed record, etc.

> Is that the world you want to live in, where a young person's life can be ruined by a single malicious accusation?

The alternative is the world we live in, where a different kind of malicious act (a sexual assault), can force a young person to leave school, or impair her education because she's forced to continue to attend classes with someone who attacked her. For too long, the reaction to accusations of sexual assault was to shift the cost of reduced educational and career opportunities to the victims. The victims were the ones shuffled to different classes, or to different groups in the company, or encouraged to leave the school/company entirely. That's not the world I want to live in either.

You can't ignore the cost of false negatives in order to avoid false positives. In the false positive scenario, a young person is forced to leave school due to a malicious act (a false accusation). In the false negative scenario, a young person is forced to leave school, or continue to go to school with someone who attacked her, due to a malicious act (a sexual assault). Both of those outcomes are bad, and if you're being rational, you're trying to minimize SocialCost(false_positives) + SocialCost(false_negatives).

Setting the burden of proof high to minimize false positives does not minimize the total social cost. Indeed, in a world where sexual assault is far less common than false accusations thereof, it's completely irrational to set the standard in a way that minimizes the cost from false positives at the expense of increasing the cost from false negatives.
I think we'll also see an influx of great Mac apps as lots of engineering talent is currently trained to use UIKit (iOS).
Seems like a much more expensive option than solar hot water heaters. It's $226.7 million for 400MW and "Each 400-MW unit can heat 200,000 homes" so ~1,133$ per home where basic models are selling in Asia for under US$250.

They mention it's going to be plugged into existing heating networks, but temperature of 100C is not all that hot.
The philosophical and political reality of what makes a "real" Bitcoin that people can accept is outside of the question of scarcity. The fact that a Bitcoin can be endlessly "duplicated", at the whims of software developers and/or miners, regardless of how likely or improbable they may be able to be "spent" should definitely give people some pause in their Tulip mania that Bitcoins are not by their nature inherently a scarce commodity. They are scarce only so far as the political reality in which they are transacted continues to keep them scarce.
The screams of a slowly dying business model. This is what I expect them to be very effective at shutting down sharing streams, and then getting a small boost of new subscribers, followed by an increase in the rate at which subscribership goes down. And as the revenue falls, and contracts expire, more and more companies will skip the 'middle man' of the cable provider and offer their stuff on aggregating services like Apple TV, Roku, or Amazon Video.