skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The idea is that money you give away in a tax year offsets your “income.” The money you give to charity represents money you did not keep, and is not part of that year’s income.

Money that you received and disposed of according to your personal preferences is, in fact, income just as much of those preferences are to support a church as they are if that preference is to buy a game console.

> The idea that government ‘subsidizes’ charity by not calling it income of the donor and the charity is upside down.

No, it's factually accurate that it is subsidizing certain personal choices of what to do with income received. Money that you choose to spend doesn't retroactively stop being income you received because of what you choose to spend it on, no matter how much government creates a tax system that represents that fiction.
I’m taking two courses on Coursera right now but only paid for a certificate in one. I plan to view all content from the other course, however Coursera will not grade the end-of-section quiz for non-paying students.

It seems the only way to “complete” a Coursera course is to pay $50 so the assignments will be graded. At least this is the case for:
https://www.coursera.org/learn/battery-management-systems
I'm not sure how you tease those two out, as they're kind of mutually reinforcing.
What about, log_panic("If we have somehow managed to hit this code path, this project if FUBAR. I would recommend giving up and starting over.")
I do this all the time as well, I audit the entire course quickly to see what gaps of information I don't know. Or search out a specific topic only, on something I struggle with
Show HN: I made a simple productivity tracking app, designed for freelancers
Millennials encounter the most risk online, new Microsoft research shows
CVE-2018-12169: Platform sample code firmware included with Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake and Cannon Lake processors contains a logic error allowing a physical attacker to bypass BootGuard firmware authentication. https://edk2-docs.gitbooks.io/security-advisory/content/unau...

"also potentially allows a developer to "jailbreak" their BootGuard protected laptop since the UEFI DXE volume can be replaced with a user provided LinuxBoot ROM image": https://twitter.com/qrs/status/1044157473882591233
I wonder how realistic is to install a Linux on SBP - I was considering buying it but I won't touch Win10 even with 6 feet pole.
That was also the breaking point for me. I've switched back to firefox, I bought a new iPhone XS (moving off the pixel), I'm in the process of getting my own email server up (though I may just switch to proton mail we'll see), and I'm waiting on a SIM to port my number off of Google Voice.

Maybe its all futile, but I'm committed to degoogling my life at least 50%. They've shown their hand and I don't like what I see.
> without vetting what projects are being worked on

There's a sort of pre-vetting in the charity's original 501(c)3 application. A charity can also be investigated and stripped of its status if it's found to be non-compliant with the public benefit clause.
For the longest time many on the left would complain about american hegemony, American interventionism, american-led globalism, etc. now that the US is retreating and China appears to be taking up some of the slack, now people are complaining of retreat, and focusing on america too much, etc.
Considering that Denmark in 30th in the world in the number of cars per capita, above France, the UK, Sweden and the Netherlands, doesn't seem that problematic.
As with most things in life, it's not black-and-white... both are happening (although fleet vehicles tend to be more visible at the municipal level). You do still need national-level policy to set market certainty and reduce risk, though (a car maker is much more likely to invest in significant retooling if they're guaranteed a market for that retooling).

Even in the US, the USPS is experimenting with electric mail trucks: https://about.usps.com/what-we-are-doing/green/vehicles.htm

If the ban is the stick, the best return on the carrots would be increasing public charging infrastructure. SF runs chargers in front of city hall, for example.
Confirmed In-Display Fingerprint in OnePlus 6T
To me, bare metal has meant running on an OS that’s directly on the hardware, instead of a virtual machine. However, I can see your point about what it could mean (i.e. the software itself is compiled to directly run on the hardware with no OS), but I’m struggling to think of a time when anything worked like that. You have to go really, really far back in history to apply that definition to general purpose computing systems. I’m left thinking that it would only really apply to embedded systems and hardware controllers, and many of those now even have some kind of micro-os that runs on them.
In addition to already seeing an increasing number of engineers from both Seattle and Los Angeles applying to Triplebyte, two other trends drove our decision to open up in these two locations.

First we've seen a continual drop in the number of Seattle based engineers who are willing to relocate to the Bay Area. It's dropped by over half since the start of the year and it's the first sustained drop we've seen since starting Triplebyte in 2015.

Second, we've seen an increasing number of Bay Area engineers interested in moving to Los Angeles even as the average software engineer salaries in the Bay Area continue to grow.

As someone who moved halfway across the world and left family/friends to move to the Bay Area, it makes me sad to see how it's becoming increasingly difficult for people to move here. I believe this is the biggest threat to Silicon Valley's dominance as the center of the technology industry.
This is essentially how email works, right?

Legitimate companies who deal with mass email on behalf of their clients (such as MailChimp.com) are very careful to prevent abuse, precisely because of the risk of getting blocked (which would sink them, of course).
learn to touch type
Indeed, and requesting that countries part of NATO fulfill their voluntarily agreed to commitments shouldn't be considered outrageous.
Then, you have a much bigger problem to solve (your campaign finance system). This looks like corruption to me but I'm no US citizen.
These are golden rules to live by!
Re advertisements in the start menu: They shouldn't be there in the first place, but you CAN disable them.
https://www.groovypost.com/howto/turn-off-windows-10-start-m...

Re multi-desktop workflows: It seems straight forward enough to me using Win+Ctrl+D for a new desktop then Win+Ctrl+left or right arrow to switch. Is it much better on the Mac?
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-use-multiple-desktops-in-...

Re Windows 8 looking home screen: is it in tablet mode? Try switching back to desktop mode.
https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/enable-tablet-mode-window...

Re split brain: I can't believe they haven't resolved this. How do they justify having two completely different settings interfaces for so long? I kinda forgave them for it in Windows 8, but we're several updates in to Windows 10 now... It's really a bad look.

Re everything else: Thanks for the heads up. Good to know.

Can I ask what your role is at Microsoft?
Windows trackpads in mid-range or better laptops have been every bit as good as their Mac equivalent for several years now, in my opinion. Unless you think Force Touch is something desirable on a trackpad, in which case you'll be disappointed.

Surface is a weird hybrid of laptop and tablet, and I haven't been impressed by its floppy keyboard or tiny trackpad. A Lenovo X1 Carbon, on the other hand, is just incredible.
The new currency can't be owned by anyone and it certainly can't be subject to a payment tax (conversion or transfer fees).
Tempo Automation | Full-Stack Software Engineer | SF | Full-Time | ONSITE | https://www.tempoautomation.com

Tempo operates a factory in SF to produce printed circuit boards extremely quickly - in doing so, we give our customers the physical equivalent of a fast compiler, enabling them to turn their designs into real products significantly faster than they could before. Our customers build rockets, drones, medical devices, and much more - working at Tempo means you can accelerate all of these industries at once. Providing a system to produce circuit boards quickly and correctly means we're both a software shop and an advanced manufacturer. Our software team is still pretty small (9 engineers) which means any new hires will still have an outsize impact on the direction of our technology, and on the company as a whole. We love hiring strong generalists [python experience highly preferred] who take initiative and act as part-time PMs when they're working on projects. Some projects you might work on:

- Offering real-time, automated manufacturing feedback based on certain parameters of our customers' designs. Think linting for hardware.

- Optimizing our factory processes with machine learning and scheduling algorithms.

- Encoding the three-dimensional structure of each order's components (e.g. resistors, capacitors) for our assembly robots, in order to speed up assembly and ensure minimal manufacturing defects.

- Optimizing our automated optical inspection machine to make it faster than any in the industry.

Tech Stack: Python | Django | React | Redux | PostgreSQL | AWS

We're also excited to have just moved into a MUCH larger factory and headquarters (>4x the floor space) in SoMa.

If you're interested, please apply at https://www.tempoautomation.com/careers or send a note to austin [at] tempoautomation [dot] com.
Not really, these bans are set so far in the future that they are almost meaningless, a problem for the next government to figure out, or delay even further.

On the other hand, the current government could easily announce that starting in 2020 all new government fleet purchases are required to be electric and it would help create a lot of new competition to bid for those orders.
Odd. I've definitely noticed this ideological push, but it has always felt somewhat external to me; it feels like it is mostly pushed by transplants, especially temporary transplants to SF, who think everyone should live in dense walkable cities.

FWIW I do think SF and the peninsula need dense urbanization, but this is due to the geography of the bay and the fact that demand seems to be overwhelmingly outstripping supply, and I'd rather increase density than rip up the green space along the peninsula. I don't think this is necessary for most cities though, or even necessary around San Jose for that matter (since it has less narrow growth constraints due to geography). I get the impression the majority of locals / immigrants in the Bay Area who support denser urbanization have a similar viewpoint, and don't consider it an ideological necessity for the rest of the world.
It's like a solid state version of a giant flywheel under the car. Bonus in that there's no extra angular momentum.
Exactly. One of those types of vehicles cause hundreds of deaths per day. The other causes a miniscule fraction of that. Further, when running a red light, one of those vehicles has greatly-reduced visibility, and greatly-increased consequences for being wrong.

The question is: shouldn't one of those vehicles be held to a higher standard?
In the whole nation of Denmark, 26% of all sub-5km trips are by bike.

In Portland, the US's most celebrated cycle city, 6.3% of commuter journeys are by bike.

It looks to me like Denmark has it right; and that taxing polluting vehicles (you know, there's this thing called climate change?) is perhaps a better strategy than sneeringly calling them "clown cars".
The acronym is for Inter-Planetary File System, with the main idea being getting a file from the closest person who already has it, so you don't have to request it from a central server that is potentially very far away.

The main benefit on earth, as far as I understand, is reducing bandwidth required of a single person to share media by distributing hosting, similarly to torrents.
This is great. I don't think we in the US realize how far ahead European countries are wrt EV. Their governments are working like startups to make this happen. Even if only cars get replaced (and not trucks or heavy vehicles), that's a huge boost.

Further, I think the biggest gains of this are in emerging countries like SE asia, India etc. where the cost of oil fuel is much higher than the US. The market size willing to ride on this tech is insane.
Have you considered our liquid coin and solvent savior $randoCoin? It has a current market cap of $volumeLargerThanTheEconomyOfSmallNationYouveNeverHeardOf

(Because surely someone was going to bring it up)
Yeah, that definition is wrong, as evidenced by the confusion in this comment thread. I can't find a dictionary definition that matches what Wikipedia says. Every dictionary I checked [1] [2] [3] [4] specifies that telemarketing is marketing via the phone. Telemarketing is telephone marketing.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/telemarketing

[2] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/telemark...

[3] https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/telemarketing

[4] https://www.wordnik.com/words/telemarketing
I understand that this has been at the heart of the Cambridge Analytica political manipulation scandal. The basic methodology is take a large sample of people whose big 5 traits you know, and look at their browsing history. Through this you create a model: people visiting x websites are statistically more likely to be y personality. Then when they look at your patterns of web use, they are able to assign you a personality type. Or more specifically group you with others likely to be of that personality type. Of course this assignment may be incorrect, but of course over a large number of people using this methodology, they are more likely to be right than wrong across most people. And although I’m not a statistician, this is the power of big data.
Perhaps this project is to create demand for Google-China-like solutions in other countries. Venezuela is not a large market but perhaps they want a demo vehicle for Saudi Arabia to witness to help get them a deal (and a more favorable one than China).

The most profitable SW projects often have a lot of reuse.
Almost 40% of Americans Eat Fast Food on Any Given Day, Report Says
Chinese armed drones now flying across Mideast battlefields
There's a dropdown menu at the top-center of every file browser dialog that lets you jump to any parent level in the hierarchy, no?
Surfacebook. Absolutely. Its as good as my old MBP if not better. Laptop, not so much, but that's understandable since its not a real attached trackpad.
Don't play poker with your clients
Talking about a "US economy" in the antebellum years is like talking about a "European economy" today. There were vast economic and social differences between North and South because they followed fundamentally different economic models.
I spent Sunday afternoon researching alternatives for Keep after hitting my breaking point with DontBeEvilCorp a couple weeks ago.

The best I found by a mile is Notion.so. In fact, it is such a great app, it has promted me to consider migrating years of OneNote notebooks, along with trying it out as a replacement for Todoist.

Google photos I replaced with Amazon Prime Photos (from pan to fire, I know, but I'm still oddly happier).

Google Drive was the easiest - I use a combo of DropBox and Arq Backup Tool going to Backblaze B2.

Email has been hard. I have always maintained my own email domain, but had that forward to gmail for the convenience. Not sure what I'm going to do there.

Hope that helped.
Do you have a link to the "climate panel's" recommendations that increase the Tesla price? I can't find any specific recommendations with actual numbers, only general stuff on suggested areas for inventivising BEVs.
Wow, at first I read the headlines and thought it said 40% every year, which I thought was a little low but believable.
Yep that's how countries like Egypt block things, lovely reset packets! But activists pretend that doesn't happen sigh
To the extent that they continue to reflect the morals of later generations, all of these should have to renew themselves with the dollars of those generations. (And I'm sure these in particular will have no problems doing so.)

edit: typo
A single cube sat is vastly worse. They are comparing an array of cube sat's which means they also end up very expensive due to short lifespans.
Yo’re right though, a square is certainly the rectangle of largest area from a circular lens.

If there was a need to maximize the capture for technical reasons I imagine it would be easier to just oversize the film or sensor and trim the corners.
This is leading by decree. At best the next government has to deal with it (or exempt themselves).

Purchasing electric fleets in order to speed up development and adopting of EVs is leading by example.
This article seemed inconclusive. They identified some differences of factors between things going right vs wrong but didn’t follow through with a scientific study.

Atul Gawande’s “The Checklist Manifesto” comes to mind, where he argues that even experts need checklists to walk them through the key steps in any complex procedure. These complexities are such that it is easy to forget a key step or two. Following such checklists or written procedures minimize errors. He then shows how using checklists improves successful outcomes significantly.
See, now I take the opposite view.

Denmark may have some fairly onerous taxes, but that seems to be more than made up for by the quality of life, healthcare, education and so on. I have two good friends who moved from UK to Denmark, both high earners with families, neither would consider returning to the UK for a millisecond. As UK austerity continues and Brexit nears I'm thinking of it myself.

The USA's ridiculously high subsidy of petrol has struck me as crazy ever since my first visit in the 80s or 90s, and I rented a "standard" car that turned out to be as large as a small aircraft carrier. It handled like an aircraft carrier too.
That seems more messaging oriented than job oriented. Does it manage job concurrency limits, time outs, etc?
I can't read the article becaue their GDPR opt out is (perhaps deliberately) broken, is there a summary?
Some big wigs in Hollywood have locked down 99% of our devices so that we can't copy their HD video. I'm pretty sure most of us realize that actually limiting calls to only humans is strictly impossible, but what about getting it to about 99% human with some offenders that we can sue in court.
People on the left usually weren't opposed to American interventionism in general or 'leading the free world', they were opposed to stuff like toppling governments to install friendly dictators.
The GOP already took care of that for them:

I.R.S. Tax Fraud Cases Plummet After Budget Cuts https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18115729
It's like Russian roulette. Sure, five chambers out of six are empty and won't hurt you at all. But you still might want to slow it down with a process to make sure there isn't a round in the chamber.

Someone, can't remember who (and I wish I did!) said "Process is the scar tissue of organizations". These processes don't come from nowhere. They come from specific negative experiences the organization had.

The problem is that it's easier to add process than remove it or clean it up so it isn't so stressful. So once process is really slowing things to a crawl, it's time to clean up, but it's a real chore.

This is my career, basically. I come in to big organizations with big legacy messes to try to make things easier. Reducing the headaches of awkward and often unnecessary process is close to my heart. But a big part of that is recognizing the necessity of process. There's a huge difference between "this is frustrating" and "this is worthless".
How do you solve your campaign finance system issues if you're not in power because, when you are, all you do is piss people off by banning their cars with little to no heads up?

"Why don't government simply act without any regard for reality?" is just a weird question to ask.
The app itself fails a DNS leak test, is this app trustworthy?
What's wrong with firefox extensions? I haven't noticed anything untoward in my time using it.
"The left" is a diverse group of competing interests and political philosophies, just as "the right" encompasses fiscal conservatives, multinational CEOs, Christians, and white supremacists.
New autonomous farm wants to produce food without human workers
Some of your points are right, but some are not:

> SV sets the standard. [...] end-to-end encryption by default is a critical necessity for any new standards

No SV big player pushes for end-to-end encryption, save for whatsapp who have founders with personal reasons to do that. Everyone else is fine with some encryption, and optional end-to-end encryption

> it was a mistake to use XML

It's just a protocol. Nothing is perfect, and at least everyone knows how to work with XML. I wouldn't start with it today, but it wouldn't even be a bad choice (on technical terms)

After having followed XMPP for years, the one reason that made it fail is that it didn't have a strong organization behind it to push for actual solutions to use. The WG is there to discuss standards, but doesn't have any opinion on which solutions to default on, on which XEPs to enforce and which to deprecate (fast), on where the whole things needs to go.
Hyper was almost unusable due to electron performance, how does Terminus hold against it?
Click-and-hold the right mouse button on the desktop, and select 'Open a Browser' from the lovely ornate dropdown menu. You'll see a miller column browser at the top of the window.
I don't think you getting downvoted is fair, as you asked a reasonable question. And some of the replies are helping answer said question.

But also, this is an opinion piece, no need to take it too seriously in any measure. The responses you are getting are aligned opinions.
I'm just learning Kubernetes now, but I've managed multi-thousand node VMware deployments, and a lot of these arguments seem to boil down to your entry point.

If your entry point is knowing Kubernetes really well but not knowing traditional stacks as well, the Kubernetes stack will probably make a lot more sense to you. Naturally, if you've never touched k8s, it will be a lot more confusing to troubleshoot a multi-tier app cluster on it than to troubleshoot on a traditional setup, even if you have to read the docs on the former first.

Obviously the abstraction has a lot of advantages; there are reasons people are moving towards it, but as in the case of this blogpost, I think a lot of people are using it as an entry point/shortcut for 'learning' systems that are more complex than they realize. That's not a bad thing; again, abstraction is great for many things. Hopefully, with time, they'll learn to troubleshoot the underpinnings as they get deeper and deeper into the tech.
Right. This shift started with Obama though. While he still carried out imperialistic activity the message in his campaign was to stop. We see this in a deluge of violence that is breaking out for which we have no stake or involvement. It reminds me of pre-ww2 where all this shit went down and the US and others where like...meh.
Denmark is small, flat and relatively populated and rich.

Probably you're never far from a high voltage transmission line.
> I commented about this elsewhere in the thread. This is a ridiculous point of view because there is no net tax break for the individual.

Sure there is, because even if the fund and the “charities” it supports don't directly work to the financial benefit of the donor, they serve the interests of the donor, and financial benefit is just an intermediate goal sought as a mechanism to enable serving other interests.
That doesn't cost much (far less than a gas equivalent) and can be installed alongside highways within weeks.

If people purchase EV _en masse_, they'll have charging stations everywhere. There's no egg/chicken problem here.