skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not the point of restricting research, though; the point of it is restricting research done by labs which are not bent on using biological weapons on human victims but allow them to fall into the wrong hands, or carelessly cause an incident with improper handling of the materials.
When I've used it in the past, the offline maps kind) weren't very dependable.

They expired after 30 days (not 30 days of being offline, just 30 days from when you downloaded the map). If you had internet when they expired, the map would refresh and you'd be good for another 30 days. If the 30th day happened to be the first day of your trip, you were SOL until you found wifi.

Some of the other annoyances have been fixed (initially they only supported navigating to addresses, not business names). Some of them haven't (still no walking directions). But if I can't count on the maps to actually be there when I need them, nothing else matters.
If you’re imagining getting work done, I don’t think you understand what transit crowding is like. In cities with busy transit systems, getting a seat is out of the question - the variable is how tightly you’ll be squished against your fellow standees, and whether it will even be possible to squeeze onto the train.

The problem is absolutely being too close to strangers. Still, going to individual cabins is an over-reaction, what we need is longer and more frequent trains so that people can at least have seats and/or room to breathe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7ET4bbkTm0
This is ignoring the fact that most companies do not actually pay the effective rate. When you take deductions and so forth into account the rate is not that far out from the average. You can't just look at one statistic in a vacuum and not look at everything related to it.
yeah, the wikipedia page explains it in far better detail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Server_1.0
> I've often wished a test city/state would be allowed to just do a flat tax

I don't want a flat tax (as in "all income taxed at 15%," let's say) because a flat tax has an unfair impact on people at lower income levels. But, otherwise, I agree with your entire post. Here's my ideal law, with the caveat that I have zero legal training beyond six seasons of Law and Order and four seasons of Suits:

(1) The following marginal rates are established:

(Emphasis here: these numbers are made up for demonstration purposes only.)

- $0 through $13,000: 0%

- $13,001 through $25,000: 5%

- $25,001 through $46,000: 8%

- and so on

(2) All money earned, by whatever means and from whatever source, by a person or legal entity resident in the United States shall be subject to the tax specified above.

(3) The Internal Revenue Service shall, no later than the 15th of April of each calendar year (or the next day following the business day after the 15th of April if the 15th of April falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or federal holiday), prepare and mail to each holder of an EIN, each person for whom any tax or income declaration form (such as W2, 1098, 1099, and similar) has been submitted to the IRS, a statement of what the IRS believes the taxpayer owes or is due as a refund.

(4) If the IRS has notified the taxpayer that the IRS believes the taxpayer is due a refund, the taxpayer may notify the IRS of a financial account located inside the United States into which such refund shall be deposited or may request a paper check for such refund or, under such rules as the Secretary shall provide, make a request for United States Savings Bonds. Any request must be made within five years of the date the taxpayer knew or reasonably should have known that the refund was due, otherwise the refund is the property of the Treasury absent a showing of exigence.

(5) If the IRS has notified the taxpayer that the IRS believes the taxpayer owes additional taxes, the taxpayer shall make payment to the IRS no later than the 15th of July following receipt of said notice (or the next day following the business day after the 15th of July if the 15th of July falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or federal holiday) by providing the IRS with debit instructions for a financial account located inside the United States or via a paper check or other form of transfer of dollars.

(6) In the case that the taxpayer disagrees with a notice provided by the IRS under paragraphs 5 or 6, the taxpayer shall, no later than the 15th of July following receipt of said notice (or the next day following the business day after the 15th of July if the 15th of July falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or federal holiday), file the tax forms designated by the IRS under such rules as the Secretary shall provide, to indicate what the taxpayer believes is the proper tax due or refund owed. If the taxpayer still owes additional tax, the tax payment shall be due at the time of filing. The IRS shall have 120 days to respond, otherwise the taxpayer's submission is deemed valid and binding upon the IRS.

(7) There is no paragraph seven.
BeOS had multithreading back when that was fairly new for consumer hardware. It was great for media purposes but the OS itself wasn't particularly well-developed at that point and Be wouldn't drop its overblown asking price, so Apple went with NeXT, and the rest is history.

BeOS is a really neat little OS. I like it a lot, I often wonder how different things would be if they had taken that direction.
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As someone working on cryptocurrency wallets its a much more difficult task than you think. First you'd have to be compatible with multiple chains, then you have to support multiple contracts on those multiple chains.

Then theres tokens that start out as ERC-20 and eventually want to move to their own chains, which means your wallet is gonna have to be responsible for the swap.

On iOS specifically theres distribution issues where some cryptotokens are allowed and some aren't.

Also one way that wallets make money is by listing fees, so if you don't pay up forget about your coin getting listed. I heard from Vertcoin community that Exodus specifically was asking for 200,000 USD for a listing
> The 320x200 image was stretched to fit the entire 4:3 screen, to something close to 320x240.

Not necessarily close to 320x240. Linearly addressable mode X was 320x240.
I don't really think this statement is worth anything. They knew what they were doing by adding BCH to the platform with absolutely no warning and I find it insulting that they'd think we'd believe that all these Coinbase employees and investors (and their friends and families) wouldn't have been buying tons of BCH immediately before.

Usually don't advocate for more government regulation but it really seems like the SEC could be more useful here.
Really?! I knew it had been used originally, but I assumed it had been rebuilt with something new back when Apple deprecated WebObjects in 2009... I'm amazed they're still using it.
I for one fully support Musk's efforts to hurl himself into space.
Amazon and Whole Foods versus everybody
There's also alternative to the `dialog` called `whiptail`.
> Windows 10, maybe not

Yet.
C++17 Progress in VS 2017 15.5 and 15.6
> In New York the medallion system was introduced when the supply of taxis exceeded demand. Medallions were a way to control supply ...

Regulating supply is about more than fares. Traffic is an externality for the taxi/rideshare company, a 'tragedy of the commons'. I've been in cities where traffic has become much worse due to the large, unregulated influx of rideshare drivers; the cities should auction off slots - which is what medallions are (AFAIK).
It's really popular in the uk for larger companies.
"It's possible that it's very difficult to engineer corn that can resist pests better than anything nature has come up with. Evolution has had billions of years to try all the attack vectors. Widespread commercial use of genetically modified corn seems unlikely."
I bought at about $20... and sold at about $100... heh... in hindsight, that’s even more painful.
Why would it? Webassembly is meant to be close to native code performance. An HTML UI has no reason to be significantly slower than a native UI.
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By late 1999 it was also too late because Microsoft had taken NT4.0 Workstation, put a much better GUI on it and made it even more stable and reliable, and released it as Windows 2000. It was pretty regular to see Windows 2000 workstation machines with uptimes of 25+ days, which was unheard of in the consumer Win95/Win98/Win98SE era. You could actually kill a misbehaving application and not risk crashing the whole OS.
Neat!

I built something like this with a postgres database of transactions, a python script that scrapes the coinmarketcap api, and influxdb + grafana. It works well and suits my needs.
Yes, BUT that was meant to be combined with the closing of multiple loopholes that would prevent companies from paying far less than what they're supposed to. In comparison the Republican bill leaves them open and even has a few of its own.

That's why Obama had such a tough time actually getting something done. Well, that and another obvious factor.
Amazon Brings Web Browsing to Fire TV (via Firefox)
Fully agree. Following suggest coal is still the main source of energy for Chinese miners.

https://qz.com/1055126/photos-china-has-one-of-worlds-larges...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-15/turning-c...
Firefox for Amazon Fire TV debuts with ‘full web’ browsing and YouTube support
Apple Says Poor Performance in Aging iPhones Is Part of Delivering Good UX
Just when we got everything somewhat standardized to use the same application (browser) for all content this stupid separate app for every content producer culture explodes. Seems like three steps back
I have complained about some of these issues, but been ignored. I mentioned that in the blog entry. I really don't think it should be my job to roam around the building, asking people to keep the noise down, take their dogs back, stop hammering etc...

* Edit for typo
Whatever happened to ITeX? (rings bell)
And many others would rather live in the city or closer to the city, but can't afford it.
If it costs you $1 to buy a bitcoin from somewhere with cheap electricity but it takes you $2 worth of electricity to mine one bitcoin, it's a better deal for you to buy the bitcoin. I'm not actually sure what this has to do with it being an arbitrage though, but this is what I got out of the article.

"This means that if I buy Bitcoin from a Chinese miner, what the miner is really doing is wrapping up the difference between my energy cost and theirs ($0.16 /kWh) into a security and selling it to me."

"When I buy Bitcoin, as long as the energy used to mine the token is cheaper then energy I have access to, I’m getting a good deal. Which is the case almost every time thanks to subsidies and difficulty adjustment."
> The photos are not renderings, and the only retouching that was done was to edit out some sensitive IP.

From an update to Ars Technica's article [1], via a Magic Leap spokesperson.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/12/magic-leap-finally-an...
Elon Musk's livelihood doesn't actually depend on anything anymore. That's what being rich means.

That said, I get your point, but I also think separated housing is necessary for my sanity.
Can anyone comment on the rationale behind having 27 engines? IIRC this was a fundamental reason why the Soviet N1 was so consistently unreliable. It seems like probability is kind of a pain in the ass here, no?
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On a PAL/NTSC TV or monitor you preferred non-interlaced modes like 640x272 which had more vertical resolution than horizontal - so it's just readability. Interlaced modes were hard on your eyes because of the flickering.
Argon: dissection of malicious script that popped up on 4chan recently
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In one of his presentations he talks about the stress of commuting with such intensity (“hell”) that I remarked that perhaps he should talk to a guru or a therapist.

Now, I have never commuted in LA, but I have in chicago and Seattle and I can say from deep personal experience that much of the stress of commuting is self inflicted. There are ways to make that time less stressful and less “wasteful” but high intensity people often refuse to see.
It sounds like you may be overgeneralizing your experiences in a particular city. At least here in London, the people you see on trains are a broad crossection of the general public, and are no smellier or less attractive (not sure why this matters?) than anyone you're likely to run into on the street.

So, no, it is not the case that "no-one" likes public transport. I like it fine, and experience none of the issues with it that you seem to. I would generally prefer to get the tube as compared to e.g. an Uber, even if there were no price difference.
Super nit pick:

Is it just me or is it a bit disheartening that they have defined this using the term `thru` which google defines as `informal spelling of through`?

Isn't a legal document about as formal as one can get? I'm just worried it opens opportunity for confusion from the ambiguousness of language.

Slippery slope: Next thing we'll see is a law defining how much of a deduction you get with the money with wings emoji.
Some of those HPUX monitors were gorgeous (and really freaking heavy), but the Sync on Green made them really hard to use on other machines.
oh, I thought wildfire was specifically the bombing that would have caused massive growth of the organism.
China is tracking kitchen knives with QR codes in locked-down Xinjiang
"Patient protection and affordable care act"

"Patriot act"

All "right to work" laws
I don't trust people's due dilligence enough to be okay with this.

Edit: remember when Ebola was never supposed to leave the CDC fascility and a nurse was exposed to it and left the hospital? That's what happens when there's the highest level of scrutinity and security.
At least the supernatural aspects would inject some meaning into what would otherwise be our usually farcical behavior.
Thanks for sharing your perspective, really needed to hear this.
Why do you need a 99.99% from job completion rate? Why not just design for failure and inevitable retries? Almost seems like you grant platform users a false sense of security by making it very reliable but not perfect.
LOL! No phone involved, I meant to imply that the timer on the lights is set too aggressively.
Coinomi supports a surprising number of coins, and I have used it as an intermediary. I'm not sure that I would use it for long-term storage without knowing more about the company.

The Ledger Nano S supports "apps" that can provide compatibility with many coins, and could theoretically support many more. (https://www.ledgerwallet.com/cryptocurrencies)
I think you're correct about stage, but great cinema to me relies on a director's unique point of view. The meaning derived from cinematic storytelling lies entirely in where the camera is placed at that specific moment of the narrative playing out.

Perhaps I'm too narrow-minded, but I fail to see how this tech would create a compelling cinematic experience. Stage, on the other hand, makes complete sense.
They linked to the Kickstarter, which says the campaign raised about $35k.
Most Bitcoin Cash supporters supported Segwit, they just didn’t support Core artificially limiting the block size to force people to use their proprietary solution and then lying about it.
Efficient transit goes hand in hand with density.

Stupidly simple example: Let' imagine we had a network of autonomous Teslas that drive everyone at 200mph for $0.05. We'd still end up putting two people in each Tesla, because it would double the efficiency.

If you want to be alone, cities are not for you. Transit in cities will never be both efficient and solitary. The whole point is that there are a lot of people going to a smallish set of general destinations and we're better off bringing them there together.
> Elon Musk's livelihood depends on people wanting to live in separated housing (so they can each have powerwalls and solar-paneled roofs) and wanting to move through their regions in separated vehicles. It doesn't take Upton Sinclair to understand why he would use every propaganda outlet he can find to push that agenda.

Somehow I don't get the feeling he's this selfish. If that's an agenda he's pushing (which I don't know one way or another), I would expect it's because he genuinely thinks it's better for society, not because he wants to make himself feel good or rake in more profit. (To re-emphasize: it's not clear to me he is pushing this agenda.)
Obviously one has to define rich here.

The ultra-rich obviously don't take it for matters of exclusion, privacy and personal safety.

But what middle class call the wealthy, I.e, the people who live in the most expensive inner city suburbs most certainly do catch public transport in my city.

Let us be frank, ghee wealthy don't catch public transport in American cities because you practically have none to catch and you're cities aren't designed for it
> Congress is full of lawyers who assume that everyone has access to lawyers. That's why everything is so complex. In reality the big guys have lawyers on retainer and can handle the laws and the little guy is at a disadvantage.

Generally these changes have some sort of champion requesting them and don't just arise from the ether. I'm not sure we can explain it all away as Congress not realizing that their decisions will advantage large business interests at the expense of smaller ones, particularly when the beneficiaries are also sponsors.
The plan would also provide many pass-through businesses with a 20 percent deduction for pass-through business income. Specified service business would be ineligible, except for households with taxable income below $157,500 for single filers and $315,000 for married filers. This provision reduces revenue by $289 billion. The pass-through provisions expire at the end of 2025.
https://taxfoundation.org/final-tax-cuts-and-jobs-act-detail...
CWA members aint that dumb
Define earned.
I like it. It's not perfect, but nothing is.

The worst flaw, which is that you occasionally have to sit near someone whose music is a bit too loud, is still way less bothersome to me than the worst flaws of the major alternatives, which are that they are some combination of expensive, stressful and dangerous.

That said, I am deeply sorry to hear that you are so offended to have to be in the presence of people who you don't find attractive. Automobiles do sound like a good accommodation for someone with special needs such as that.
This implies I could fix all my old phones with a new battery ... Could that possibly be true?
> After all, your hosts can't spread you if they're dead

Arguable. Dead bodies can and do spread disease.
But isn't that exactly what'll drive this shift? Anyone that's using an iPad Pro to do this work will immediately flock to the Mac versions of these apps, especially when they're all in one binary, and the UI will reflect the device they're on, regardless of where it was first purchased. I would love to have those tools on a Mac while still retaining the ability to open/use them on an iPad when I'm on the go and need to make some quick last-minute changes that don't require a full computer.

This seems like the perfect, long-term, planned-out setup.
Flat tax rates end up being pretty unfair when we're thinking about individuals because the less money you make the more it hurts you to give up 30% of your income. Maybe, arguably, flat tax would be OK for businesses, but it would be very regressive if applied to personal income tax.
No, it's more "I know the lifetimes are right, but I can't figure out how to convince the compiler. I give up, I'm just going to go write it in C++".

I'm not the only one to make such comments. They made sure to try and address this in v2 of the book. It still sucks.
> write novels?

That would be one the most obvious thing to do with such a system, as writing a novel used to be a very spatial task, and current text editors are not good at helping writers organizing their novel, identifying patterns, etc.

> AR

This is AR, but with projectors —which is not novel in itself, as it has been explored in labs, during prototyping events like Museomix and by digital artists for several decades now. HP even tried to commoditize the technique with the Sprout all in one computer.

You are right that the next step is most probably to do without projectors and replace them with AR glasses.

But the manipulation techniques, the collaborative aspect need to be developed and iterated, be it with or without AR glasses, and my understanding is that’s the goal here.
I think we as a society have learned in the past few years that people can have an ENORMOUS amount of money and still have "I need more money" as a personal driving force.
Petition: Reinforce the UK Government's Commitment to Preserving Net Neutrality
You don't want to ride the train with unattractive people, but you're not elitist.
Of course, the hypothesis that musk is a rich ignoramus also makes his comments make sense...
Sounds like we are multiplying the ways to cause species level extinction rather than reducing them.

Kewl.
> to be able to contribute more to... social security

I don't think that makes a whole lot of sense. Do people actually do that?
Of course, UK leaving EU is a negative factor for EU economics. But it's not a huge factor, and for common people (e.g. except businessmen in certain industries) it will mean less impact than all kinds of random local issues.

Also, UK leaving EU is nearly a certainty now and all the discussions are between the different kinds of "deal" or "no deal" after UK leaves - and the difference between these deals is highly important for UK voters but not particularly meaningful for most EU voters (again, except some with a particular interest e.g. expat workers living in UK).
How hard is it for a tech startup to recreate an uber-like dispatching solution for these taxi companies that ostensibly have deep pockets?
I switched to Gemini. I'm tired of coinbase for now.
> Oracle Db is also about an order of magnitude slower than Postgres and MySQL which you can get for free.

I work on postgres. And still: I wish.
Cities just don't work if everyone drives their own personal car. And keeps it parked 90% of the time. Perhaps when autonomous cars arrive we'll be driven around more but right now public transport is faster, more convenient, cheaper.
[top gear race across London] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_POxZSkaU

“Transit requires sharing space with strangers, which is icky.”
Is this an American thing?? What about a sport stadium, music event, lots of strangers to share space with?
Haha unintended advantage to this view, I now know that Flatliners came out! Oh. I must've missed it by a lot it doesn't seem to be in theaters anymore.