skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm currently running a Librem 13 as well. I came from my modded x230 (FHD display mod, coreboot, upgraded speakers).

Mostly it's been a great experience. Like the author I also miss the trackpoint.

Between the author and I, I think we cover most of the mainline OSes you'd see on these machines (debian and arch). I'm running Manjaro (xfce) with no issues.

In total though the Librem 13 was about $300 more expensive then other similar laptops.

I believe there's a lot value in that extra cost. The privacy and open source efforts mainly. We have to support these efforts more and more if we want to protect ourselves from the larger companies that continue to mine our data.
I get the gist of your argument, but my point was when government interferes with the hiring process in the pretext of helping the local population (like setting an arbitrary number of job to create in exchange for tax-breaks, for example), it starts to have a strangulating effect on the performance of the private organization.
Jooq is great and sooner or later it will end up looking like this
http://getquill.io
It's a good answer, especially if you haven't built a self service, easy to deploy self hosted product. It's code for "yes but this is expensive and we'll likely have to do a lot of consulting to make it work".

Self hosting is a reasonable enterprise feature. Support is a difficult thing to build a business off of. It's fine if you don't want to pay for some kind of SaaS, but that's possibly the only way to build any kind of sustainable software business for developers.
Democracy is the only solution:

Vote for politicians willing to refuse corporate donations.

See justicedemocrats.com for details on how to do your part.
I feel the urge to upvote anybody who mentions LVT (or UBI) because these just seem like they have so much potential to make society better. Of course, some experiments are needed.
I can't wait this. Totally should have been named 'Google Ride' though.
Sadly, from what I know, other teams can't become like them because of team ownership restrictions (well, in the NFL). (Please correct me if wrong). I think the only reason the Packers have this setup is because it was around before the new ownership restrictions. I think they are the only town team to survive the transition to the NFL.
One of the things I always find frustrating about economists and economic writing is how often it completely and deliberately disregards the humanity of the actors in the system. My hunch is that the people who are drawn to economics like it specifically because it attempts to offer a cleaner, more mechanical understanding of human behavior than humans actually demonstrate.

But, of course, using that model to then derive policy is obviously flawed since your model doesn't accurately capture the essential features of the objects being modeled.

If we let economists design furniture, every chair would be a miserably unpleasant cube whose dimensions match the median posterior.

Land value tax does have a lot going for it, but it overlooks one critical component:

Humans have a fundamental desire for stability, especially in where they live. I do not want my home to be a rectangle of maximum market efficiency. I want it to be a place where it's worth the effort to garden because I know I'll get to watch those plants grow over the coming years. I want it to be a calm respite, a sanctuary that I can rely on in the face of the chaos of the larger world. And, as I get older and my ability to generate revenue natural declines, I want some confidence that hard work I did when I was younger will enable me to live out the rest of my years with some degree of stability.

Of course, our desire for stability needs to be weighed against the desires of the larger community. But you do that by balancing those desires, not by completely ignoring one half of the equation.

I'm not sure what an ideal solution for housing is, but I'm certain it's not based on a slavish devotion to market efficiency.
My big question is, who are these representatives signing these deals, and how are they not held accountable by voters? What voters actually want to give away hundreds of millions of their tax dollars to the richest corporations?
"Meme Central, (C) 1996"

oh my god. what a visionary.
Do the same lawyers handle negotiations with cities?
Amex everyday cash 6% on groceries, 3% on department store and gas. $95 yearly fee but you easily make that back.
How about:

[n.get("value") for n in filter(None, (node.find(SOME_XPATH) for node in tree))]

Or just:

F0 = lambda node: node.find(SOME_XPATH)
F1 = lambda node: node.get("value")
result = map(F1, filter(None, map(F0, tree)))
You could structure the stamp duty as a property tax credit you could draw from until the runs out. That way it stays fair to grandfathered cases, but still lets you roll out a property tax and reduce the stamp duty.

Did CH have a property tax on top of the imputed rent?
My wife and I were doing a dive under very controlled circumstances. My wife tried to swim through a circular opening wider than your outspread arms. She couldn't. Fighting panic (rule 2: dont panic!) She kept trying, growing ever more aware of being both underwater and underground.

Then our dive master reached out and pushed her down a foot, and suddenly her tank could clear the top. From her perspective she kept swimming lower, but that was counteracted by buoyancy and she couldn't tell, with every failed attempt reducing her mental capacity to figure it out.

Fight or flight is not the reflex we need in diving, but it is the reflex we have.
Hmm... After reading the index methodology, I think you're right. I had thought their indexing accounted for inflation, but it doesn't seem to based on the PDFs I skimmed.
What had you hung up on Qubes?

I used it for some time on my librem and it worked well, but I generally needed better Windows in a VM support for work.
It's not the city that owns them, it's the fans themselves. The NFL has specifically banned that form of ownership since.
I got a chance to drive a couple of different engines at the Plumas rail museum. And one of the things that does is help you internalize the amazing amount of mass and momentum a train carries around all the time. The engineer who was with us spoke of freight trains that were a hundred cars of iron ore that, even though they were travelling at only 5mph would take nearly 1000' to bring to an "emergency" stop. While I don't know how true that is, just driving around the engine gave me some insight into how far ahead in time the engineer has to be thinking if they are operating a full train.
There's plenty of people that don't want to do that or can't due to poor and ailing health, and convenience to where they live.

Kind of interesting there are those who want certain people kicked out of the area (elderly homeowners) but not others (homeless).
I was thinking the same thing.

Based on the image of the Sociometric badge and how it lays on your chest, it seems like this condition would miss a large portion of the communication that an open office incentivizes including talking over your computers, turning your head to the side and speaking, and speaking without being face to face.

EDIT: grammar
I miss simpler times when everything worked the moment you plug in the cord
Sinofsky also took the blame for Microsoft’s Mexican stand-off culture when he was fired, though I think it was mainly billg and Balmer’s fault.
I use them for bug reports to prove that something "works on my machine"
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What about the "frictions" renters face based on a tax system that inherently rewards home ownership? How about the "friction" renters face by not turning their housing expenditures into a future retirement nest egg?
Our new architecture allows much more flexibility on the deployments, so just speak to us about your favorite setting. However, it is quite complex and we rather focus on delivering a high quality cloud infrastructure that works for everyone. I can understand your perspective but our mantra is to remain a SaaS company, which means to be able to focus on ONE code base. This allows us on delivering a higher quality product in the long run so all users can benefit from it.
I doubt Google removed that ability; Uber probably decided that it was worth the increased friction to require users go to their app (and thus collect better data).
This nugget of doublespeak:

>But many public leaders haven’t switched gears yet, often putting taxpayers at great risk, especially because some tech companies have become very aggressive about demanding big tax breaks.

Since when is promising not to steal (via taxes) at threat of violence to encourage more job creation a "threat" to the other taxpayers being stolen from?

2 wrongs do not make a right
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That's not enough.

Cheaters should be publicly outed in a way that significantly harms their lives and discourages others from following a similar path.

Not actual violence, mind you. Something like making it more difficult to get a job, or book a plane ticket, or similar.
How did we become so lonely and disconnected that watching a stranger's live-stream became a substitute for human contact?

It's something I see in all online video. Lets plays, mukbangs, makeup tutorials.. the game, the eyeshadow, the food is not important. It's having someone talk to you about their day. It makes you feel like you're not alone. Take ReviewBra for example. He barely reviews food anymore. He just sits at a table and says comforting things.

At least he's trying to use this for good. But why has this content taken off in the first place? So many young people I encounter are practically hikikomori.
Isn't that assault with a deadly weapon when you intentionally hit someone with a vehicle?
Which is not functionally the same as OPs second example which would be equivalent to

(product.getCategory() == 2 || product.getCategory() == 5) && isProductUnderDiscount(product)
(I'm re-pasting this intro to a few posters)

Hey! I'm Caleb, the SRE that helped build this solution...

Sorry about the lack of context in the article, it was intended for a specific audience (QCon) where we gave a lot more context to the problem at hand.

What we were trying to solve for was;
1) Low latency
2) High Availability
3) Container based, zero-downtime deployments
4) Continued operations even in an internet-down event

If you're running applications in a few locations, in small scale environments, our approach would be way overkill for that problem set.
How can any of these games be fair with the all of the new pay-to-play models?

I don't play Fortnite but I see "V-Bucks" available to purchase from the Microsoft store, so I assume it's the same.

Anyone with enough money can just go buy all the upgrades and dominate.

Maybe those cheating don't have the money to buy the gear, so they're trying to level the field in a way that's reachable to them.

edit: apparently the pay-to-play upgrades in Fortnite are cosmetic only. Not sure about the others.
You make it sound so easy!

Consider a 'simple' example — what might the effect be of a high speed, high mass 'drilling widget' be in such a body? Not much, probably, at least in the very short term.

Cumulatively though? A device weighing a few hundred KG, rotating at a few thousand RPM for a few hours or days or weeks at a time?

What effect do you think that might have on your 'quite simple' centripetal environment, floating as it is in zero g?

Sure, it can be accounted for — but it's not 'pretty simple, actually'. Anything but.
I can't speak for UT, but for Quake, other aspects of the game, such as movement and item/map control have a very big, if not bigger impact on performance than aim. Players with good movement and map control can often outperform players who have godlike aim.

Higher TTK ensures that players with good movement and map control can have the stack and weapons required to out-live and out-damage better aimers in a fight.
The logical solution is to focus on how to stop lynchings, not how to stop "fake news". At the end of the day, these are still murders and treating them as anything else, especially for the purpose of smuggling censorship into law, is disgusting.
Some years ago I had a conversation with a friend about Douglas Coupland's novel Microserfs. He said, "That book annoyed me so much I tore it up, on the Tube."

I had never thought of stopping reading as such a decisive act.
(I'm re-pasting this intro to a few posters)

Hey! I'm Caleb, the SRE that helped build this solution...

Sorry about the lack of context in the article, it was intended for a specific audience (QCon) where we gave a lot more context to the problem at hand.

What we were trying to solve for was;
1) Low latency
2) High Availability
3) Container based, zero-downtime deployments
4) Continued operations even in an internet-down event
"I'd imagine a ton of the people who bought at $500k can't afford $1600/mo on top of their mortgages."

If you have $1M in capital in your $1.5M house, banks will be begging you to take out a reverse mortgage to pay your taxes. It just means that your heirs will get a slightly smaller windfall from your death rather than the full $1M.
PFSense is great if your okay with pulling out a monitor and keyboard every time there is a config issue or interface change. Do not bring in any interfaces over USB if you like to preserve your sanity and want to use PFSense.

These days I just run OpenWRT on x86, no more will my router sit in a broken state that I can't fix by logging in over the LAN or WAN (via OpenVPN ofc). Wish PFSense would get sane defaults in this regard!
Debit cards don’t offer insurance and fraud and purchase protection to the same extent or at all at least in Europe.

Reversing a card transaction on a CC is one call away on debit GL with that.
Show HN: Bo, The Swiss army knife of data examination and manipulation
The road to our house was awful and in disrepair. The plowing was decent, I'll give them that. I know your answer: we need yet more taxes. It couldn't be that these taxes enable all sorts of non-essential and wasteful programs, while what's truly essential gets neglected. Do we really need all those cops setting up speed traps and fleecing drivers? Or all the cops looking to catch someone growing a plant on their property? That's the only time the police ever came to our property, to look for suspicious plants. Would people really pay for that or consider that an essential service if they weren't forced?
Camera taped over obviously it's unusable.

Do you trust a Lenovo BIOS to truly disable the microphone?
Offer a tax credit to elderly or disabled if absolutely needed. Don't fix rate increases across the board and for corporations.
Not only that, but using such a short time period would fail to distinguish Medicare expenditure trends and any other method of payment - which is why people look at the last few years of someone's life and whether that jump in costs is making any difference.

To extend your ER scenario, would that $100K expenditure be reasonable if it only prolonged someone's life by a year or so?
So many people Seem to be extrapolating this into something it just isn’t. He could stop tomorrow and live a normal life in a couple of months. This isn’t the trueman show or someone propelled into international fame against their will. It’s the long tail of the network effect. You can sustain yourself by being moderately entertaining to some 50k people but you have to stick to the role. Ice Poseidon has chisen a role of being a huge jackass who runs the border of criminal behavior. That was his choice, not something his fans pushed on him, and honestly I wish serious media like HN and the New Yorker would just ignore him. There are NeoNazi personalities and Scientologist preachers with more followers than him, and we’d don’t give them screen time because they don’t contribute anything to society so why wast your attention on this but?
Well said. The problem is, most companies don't really build up a model for conversions, ignore sample sizes, and do not fit their A/B test results along the model, they just blindly look for the higher percentage. I guess this is the problem if you don't have any statistics-aware engineers.
Right. It’s a symptom of a much more serious problem:

Consolidation of capital which is only available to society on speculative grounds which demand returns at a rate unsustainable without exponential expansion of the western economy.

As a result, almost all of our society’s wealth is caught up in last ditch effort expansion schemes.

Startups were actually a decent band-aid in terms of continuing the madness but because they don’t effectively break the capital free from the consolidating parties, but merely stir it a bit, they wind up adding to the cesspool of desperate investments.

Rich people are freaking out right now because they can’t find ways to profit off the society without contributing to it.
It's actually 3 nodes, with plans to expand out to more based on workload.
But you can ask money either way, whether you open source things or not.
Can't wait to use the new version! I've been looking forward to a lot of the new features.
My sentiments exactly. I fish barbless, only takes a second to get a hook out. Learning to tie a 16-20 and seaguar knot (if you don't use tippet rings, which you should!) with hemostats in seconds makes for Zen filled day.
Only if you are leveraged.
As someone who generally agrees with you on the benefits of renting, my family has been uprooted twice in the past two years by landlords who wished to convert their assets into cash. And the most recent time, it was a forced downgrade due to rising rents. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Most likely it's high-frequency (ultrasound) noise cancellation artifacts that you don't exactly hear, but they might manifest in what you experience as pain.
Why did they ban it?
Our cost is actually something like $900 for the whole cluster :) . Consumer grade clustering FTW!
Someone please acquire these folks so we don't have to worry about prefixing -o- anymore.
Privacy warning: Samsung phones are leaking photos to random contacts
The Archer C7 seems to do about 400Mbps with no configuration/optimization when running OpenWRT, plus with them being available for $20 to $30 on Craigslist and their knockoffs (Offerup & Letgo), its easy to nab one for cheap.

I hear hardware offload is possible, but I have yet to try a build that has the patches for it.
It's the book-halting problem...
Chicago residents pay Illinois property taxes, which are quite high. I also didn’t claim it took 3 hours, I said the total time commuting was about 3 hours. In other words, about 1.5 hours each way.
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https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/business/2017/...

> Apple Inc. pledged up to $100 million to Waukee under a multi-decade partnership announced Thursday during a visit from Apple CEO Tim Cook.

> Waukee, in turn, will provide Apple with $194 million in tax abatement and infrastructure improvements.

> Apple's $100 million investment in Waukee likely will be paid out over decades and go toward things like street and sidewalk projects and quality-of-life amenities like libraries and parks, Cook said.

There are more details in the article, but it seems like the city is forgoing tax revenue with the understanding that Apple will be investing in the community.
You might want to take a look at cock.li, the guy who owns it is pretty dead set on keeping the feds away and is really hands off about what you use it for. I've been using it for my personal correspondence email for about a year now and it's been fine.
Just as an FYI "V-Bucks" in Fortnite only change the cosmetics of your character, you cannot purchase an actual advantage.
> So, they not only have no evidence Elon Musk is involved in this, but have no evidence that proper testing has been skipped on cars

"Tesla CEO Elon Musk appears to have asked engineers at Tesla's factory in Fremont, California, to remove a standard brake test ... according to internal documents seen by Business Insider."

"The test was apparently shut down before 3 a.m. on June 26, according to a person familiar with the matter."

They have a source who provided documentary evidence.

"In a statement, a Tesla representative, Dave Arnold, told Business Insider that every car goes through 'rigorous quality checks,' including brake tests."

Tesla did not deny the story, which pretty much confirms it.
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> Google has announced plans to do the same.

Citation needed? IMHO putting a datacentre under water is a horrible idea, why not pump the water 10 meters higher and cool a DC near the shoreline?
I think I see Arch somewhere in my future, but I have not come around, yet. ;-) I run Arch in a VM on my home server, but I don't really do anything with it.

The installation procedure makes OpenBSD's look decadently comfortable, but I admit once it runs, it seems to just keep working.
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How many of the recent negative Tesla accounts would you say are "bullshit clickbait"?
There's an algorithm for this: if the risk-adjusted net present value (whole utility curve, not money) is lower than something else you could be doing, then do that instead. Obviously, humans like variety so one needs to consider goods and experiences where the commitment is in multiple units and baskets.

To bolster confidence in the decision to drop a project, it's also important to "complete" (feel like you've completed...) a certain number of projects. Wellness/self-esteem are also improved with project completion.
This is funny because books are about the only thing I really feel compelled to finish whether I like it or not.

I've abandoned countless side projects, instruments, sports, meals, friendships etc when they stopped holding value for me.

But once I crack open a book I really feel like I have to finish it before I can get on with my life. I don't start a lot of books anymore but they tend to stay on my todo list until I've literally read every word..
> Can't wait till the entire industry goes mostly WFH

when and why would this ever happen?
Caleb here - you nailed it. I really don't have anything to add!
Also, touch screens are much harder to use in turbulence.
Author here - happy to answer any questions.
It's actually "up to $100 million" and the money is supposed to go to a civic "improvement fund":

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-apple-...
Like that has ever stopped the federal government before. All they have to do is say that “we won’t purchase anything from companies receiving tax breaks.” Done.
With every PEP it seems Python gets closer to Perl...
Agree -- the major players already know their customers, so they are more interested in distributed ledger than blockchain. A distributed database with ACID transactions is a more flexible way to implement this stuff: https://blog.fauna.com/distributed-ledger-without-the-blockc...
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A no/low reward card that charges far lower merchant fees? We have those. They're called "debit cards".

Sure, not quite the same, but the only way to do it (since debit cards also remove the risk that credit cards do, namely, defaulted payments, which causes the fees to inflate a bit).
I personally love that feature!

I work remotely, and we do regular scheduled video meetings. I don't want to carry around a dongle, but I also want to know that it's fully off when I'm not in a chat.

This way I don't need to trust it's off - I know hackers, malware, etc can't turn it on.

I have tape over my Macbook camera now, and I use Micro Snitch for the Audio, but I'd love a hardware solution.