skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've no problem paying taxes, they buy me civilization.

They do, but this line of argumentation is kind of vacuous if you don't include the actual cost of taxes. If taxes could be 1/3 of what everyone is paying, thus buying the same civilization except much more prosperous since money is used a lot more productively and people have much more choice about where it goes, isn't that better? (This 1/3 isn't meant to be a real number; it's a thought experiment).

Alternative way of looking at it -- if this argument works without cost, then why shouldn't everyone just pay 100% taxes?
In the US this is charter schools (our current Secretary of Education is a big fan of charter schools) and nearly all hospitals already.
Lots of people seem to believe that non-nationals having children is the fundamental problem. We should all strive to ignore these people.
Mozilla get all their money from Google, don't they? Seems like that's probably the only reasonable "reason"?

Presumably they publish meeting minutes where such decisions are made?
Looks interesting.

Personally, a killer feature for me would be to position lyrics up above a staff and be able to show alignment between syllable length/emphasis and harmonic rhythm/percussion. Having the ability to suggest synonyms for words that don't rhyme or fit the rhythmic structure of the music would be pretty awesome too.
Taking Payments to the Next Level with Raiden
Note that those two are not really disjoint - packages are built from ports; ports are a bit like source packages in the Linux world.
That means they are only sharing data from your Acorns debit card, not your external bank accounts. The Plaid part is separate from the debit card/Found Money Plus part.

You also omitted a key quote:

>when you activate your Acorns debit card, you will be asked to enroll in Found Money Plus, a card-linked offer program offered in partnership with Empyr.

The Found Money Plus program is only for transactions on the Acorns debit card, and it is small bonuses for specific spending, for example, 10% cash back at Starbucks. It looks like a company called Empyr organizes these campaigns for the card link offers.

The Acrons debit card is also optional.

If you're getting cash back on a transaction you know the price is sharing your purchases, this concept isn't really new.
Gorbachev tried to save the empire. Eltzin destroyed it.
I'd guess Chess, crosses and naughts, or connect four. Since it's fairly easy to program those in a university course, probably they have been done countless times.
It has a ton of rough edges (for instance, doesn't use the same media playback APIs as the rest of the system so playback dies if you turn off the screen) (also for instance, it routinely gets "stuck" looping through a tiny tiny maybe 100ms section of a song) but despite those it's become my go-to catalog for recording song sketches. Oh — I also use and rely on the rating and tagging features.

I used to use the Soundcloud app for this very early demo songwriting phase but that's not really what Soundcloud is about anymore.
Completely agree - use a feed reader. I was a Newsblur subscriber and have great respect for the product and Samuel.

Recently switched to Miniflux: https://miniflux.app which is much better for my needs. Small efficient Go app that works great with a PWA on mobile.
Parent meant that Sony marketed the PS2 with undelivered promises.
The only resource you need is here:

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/

This is the first and only resource you have to hit when the question is: "how do I do that in FreeBSD?"

Section 4. answers your second question.

There is no less information about BSD than "Linux", it is simply that BSD has no advertisement or companies behind pushing it...
I even use it to quickly reach Jira tickets that I know the number of. Just modify the URL with a Bookmark.
I take pride in paying my taxes. It reminds me that our society has a cost, and we all contribute towards it.

I’d be interested to know how others feel. And how we could inspire more people to feel pride in contributing rather than make such efforts to avoid contributing.
Only if you did KYC on every single customer.
>> It's interesting that so many replies function on these kind of assumptions when I am telling HN my literal experience at an Ivy League postgraduate program.

You've hinted at your experience without providing details (even the school or the type of graduate program). I obviously can't comment on your situation because I know nothing about it. I am literally assuming nothing about your experience.

I do know other Harvard grads (both undergraduate and grad programs) and have some insight into their situations. They don't have "massive, insurmountable debt." Anecdata abound.

I vigorously agree with your last point.
Communism has been tried repeatedly, under all sorts of conditions. It has failed 100% of the time.
You can't argue with this logic!
As someone who hasn't used BSD, but is considering it for a small server (not mission critical, so OK for me to be learning with), could you expand on the major differences to you between OpenBSD and FreeBSD (vs possibly other options)? When you say you like OpenBSD "for the edge", do you mean cutting-edge, or edge network equipment? Thanks!
First detecting often does not result in abortion, let alone mandatory abortion or sterilization by the state.

Eugenics also generally focused on sterilization vs termination, with a focus on long term changes in the human population. And sterilization is only relevant for people likely to reproduce so the elderly and people with Down syndrome are irrelevant from a eugenics standpoint.

Finally, small scale things like prescreening sperm donors is not going to make a meaningful difference to the overall population. For eugenics to have a meaningful impact the idea was to manage the overall population at scale. It’s a more insidious idea than often portrayed in a modern context because the original idea has become anathema.
Look at NameSilo.com. Their renewals are less expensive and that includes free domain privacy while NameCheap.com charges for domain privacy after the first year. They also have free 2FA and accept BitCoin.

Porkbun.com is a bit less expensive than NameSilo.com and also offers free domain privacy but I haven't tried it.

Another inexpensive one is NameBright.com but no free domain privacy, but some might prefer it if they don't care about domain privacy. I haven't tried this one either.
Well if one or two investors died due to a heart attack from the bear market... that's net win anyway.
This doesn't seem like they actually provided and/or did anything new here. (Hard to tell cuz there is also no obvious code. Is it just cachefsd?)

About a year and a half ago I did something similar with essentially the exact same hardware.

BeeGFS filesystem across x3 IBM power8 Minksy's with NVMe drives for distributing data quickly, in parallel, and effectively across multiple machines. Really helped with the scripting of a batch job as the file system was unified across the platform and had some good in memory caching.

I have the numbers somewhere but I felt like theirs aren't really that great considering 40gbps mellanox & NVMe. Should really be able to get quiet a bit better throughput. Also ran thousands of jobs and many Tb of data. Not just 24 over gigabytes.

(FWIW I didn't thoroughly read the actual article that thoroughly.)
Per my earlier comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18657024) regulating and enforcing regulations. This already exists, and when not deregulated or captured, works well. There is no magic system that removes the human element to this, and the cost here is a vigilant population that holds elected officials responsible and doesn't allow deregulation or regulatory capture. There is no possible solution to this that works absent a population that doesn't consider it important. This is exemplified in jurisdictions where police turn a blind eye because so-and-so is the son of so-and-so and it's tolerated. Criminal liability (vs limited liability and corporate regulation) for executives is just as weak and has large unintended consequences.
No, that is exactly eugenics. It is removing an unwanted part of the (potential) population. I happen to think it is a really good idea, but it does solidly fall under the term eugenics.
Under this logic every agency deserves to have a bigger budget until the budget is equal to the amount of money it brings in -- i.e. bloat up to maximum size. I don't think anyone wants that.

It makes sense to try to keep government agencies operating efficiently. Unfortunately I don't trust today's journalism to give me an accurate picture of whether what's going on falls into that category or not.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.02104
> I'll admit that I'm a bit phased by P6 phasers :)

.oO ( a pun set to stun? )

> ENTER and LEAVE ... like Python's __enter__ and __exit__

Aiui their primary usage involves similar use-cases and sugar.

The common aspect is that some code is declared and then the language/compiler calls that code when the time is right.

> But it seems like phasers may be something more, if not different.

Aiui P6:

* Has more of these hooks for block processing (eg PRE and POST for convenient pre and post condition assertions);

* Has hooks that aren't for blocks but instead much larger scale phases of program execution (eg there's CHECK which runs at the end of compilation, before running the program).

Also...

> Need to look into it some, including the "time traveling" code part.

What I meant by "time traveling" is as follows.

The compiler calls phased code when the times is right. Some of the time this is implicit. For example, in this Python code the __exit__ code gets called automatically by the Python interpreter as the block is exited:

with foo as bar:
qux

P6 phases can return values as follows:

say now - CHECK now

the first `now` happens during regular run time. But the second happens during CHECK time -- which is at the end of compilation, before the program starts to run. The compiler knows to run the CHECK code earlier, then store the result, then subtract that from the `now` run at normal run-time.

I don't recall who first called that time traveling and I'm not even sure on reflection whether it makes sense to call it that but that's what I meant.
You mention that Excel is used by non-technical people,/( which is a generalisation), and then I see many comments on HN seeking clarification. It seems to be a complex product. What's the target market?
It might be niche in the grand scheme of things, but for me this is an incredible improvement on my usage of Firefox. This was honestly one of the few things that Chrome did better. Firefox was the only program that I use every day that forced me to use the GTK file selection dialog. Thank you very much!
> I will probably use Mongo in production.

Just curious: if one of the product differentiators is that its semantics more closely resemble a relational database, then why not power it with a relational database?
Not in my experience, although I thought it was supposed to.
Defying Predictions, Union Membership Isn't Dropping Post-Janus
Low-quality babies? Wow. Because they don't meet your standards?

They're human babies, and there is no such thing as a low quality human; though people like you sure come close enough.
From wikipedia:

Android specific

From February 2014[32] to February 2017,[65] Signal's official Android client required the proprietary Google Play Services because the app was dependent on Google's GCM push messaging framework.[66][65] In March 2015, Open Whisper Systems moved to a model of handling Signal's message delivery themselves and only using GCM for a wakeup event.[67] In February 2017, Open Whisper Systems implemented WebSocket support into the client, making it possible for it to be used without Google Play Services.[65]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(software)
Scrollbars that auto-hide and bounce scrolling are standard behavior for any macOS application.

Apps that don't do this both look and feel weird.

Maybe not a showstopper if Firefox were offering unavailable-anywhere-else behavior, but it's completely natural and predicable that users will migrate to one of the other two major browsers that care enough to make themselves fit in w/ the system they are running on.
How does the U.S. Census Bureau define “rural”?
That's a thought that had never occurred to me. Seems like a massive oversight.
I have run a lot of different desktops for Linux. I don't know precisely how much of the space I've covered but all of the more "mainstream" ones. Prior to loading TrueOS and its desktop I was using xfce. Prior to that my most common desktop was KDE. I've used different Gnome variants, Unity variants, bare bones variants.
Kubernetes has worked to not be coupled to Docker (http://cri-o.io / https://www.opencontainers.org/), so in a sense, it already is built on top of a "vanilla" container service.
regarding your first point, I believe you can make the address bar behave like you want simply by Edit->Preferences->Uncheck 'Provide Search Suggestions' and removing a result from your address bar results with shift-delete might also be what you're missing
You don't have to be secret about that since it's legal AFAIK. I've done it myself. Go in on a visa waiver for an interview, go back to my home coutry and have the company apply for the visa afterwards. I told them all of this upfront with an interview email print off.
You could use a css customizing extension or create your own userscript to force all scrollbar related css attributes to the `inital` value.
Sadly I'd believe it and have heard similar before. It wouldn't even really bother me if they were up front about it.

It's not uncommon to sell premium service packages, or restricted shopping (like Costco).
Cold Discovery
If by 'amazingly efficient', you mean the burden of assessing risk and quality is shifted entirely to the customer for every single transaction, then sure.

I'm coming from the developing world. The lack of regulations and product safety standards, is not some kind of competitive advantage, it is a problem that leads to ever falling living standards. A fire in a clothing factory killed 1300 people in my country, an incident that would have been avoidable if the building owner enforced fire safety standards.

I suppose if you think about things in terms of MR/MC curves, such loss of life is the price of efficiency.
Credit repair
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There has to be some clever way to privatize this.
The Uber Whistleblower’s Email
The handbook is also part of the 'refreshing' part of using this system. Lots of documentation even for the more obscure parts (not saying that package management is obscure though)
Norway is well-funded by their oil.

> if adopted all over the world

Not a chance.
How the Jailbreak computer game made sophomore Alex Balfanz millions
My last class in highschool was study hall. I sold a ton of bootlegs and took orders from classmates and even teachers. Made about 50 dollars a day after costs.
> if it blocks various stuff by default

This is one of the key differentiating factors of Brave. Maybe next time don’t lead with accusations of cognitive bias.
I was in SD this weekend. I did see the pickup trucks you mentioned at night picking up like 15-20 birds/limes. How silly of me. I thought these were the from Bird and Lime distributing the scooters evenly across the blocks!
Autoplay pads ad viewing numbers.

Ad firms are probably paying Mozilla to include it.
My impression is that a domain checker works as a password checker: each domain/password inserted gets listed in a database. In case of domains, a simple script is enough to skim them and get the 'gold'. In case of passwords, even if the password was unique, after checking it won't be anymore..
Why GE is on a Decline
Isn't that exactly what people think the X-37 is up to?

https://www.airspacemag.com/space/spaceplane-x-37-180957777/
I am pretty sure that changing it would be a bad idea if you care about your privacy.
I was considering setting up a new desktop machine with either OpenBSD or DesktopBSD (which is based on FreeBSD). Does anyone have any recommendations on which to choose? Any interesting experiences using BSD as a daily driver?
"Adjusted for inflation, the historical average annual return is only around 7%. " from your link.
Cheap, quick transport on an electric vehicle. More convenient and comfortable than public transport. What makes you not consider that valuable?
Follow Along as a Watchmaker Compares Japanese and Swiss Construction
Ahh, the dreaded Cash Conversion Cycle (or "Succeeding yourself to death") I'm a wearable device founder, and it's AMAZING watching how often this happens to my hardware friends. Especially once they begin raising serious amounts of capital.

I had a friend who got into Walmart -- he was ECSTATIC. His product was a smart electronics product, and quickly shot up to being a heavy seller.

It sold so well---that he was bankrupt within six months.

Why? Because he paid his supplier upfront. Walmart didn't pay him until 60 or 90 days after sell-through. After the first run, Walmart wanted more, his P&L (accrual) showed profit, so he took a loan. Then another. Then suddenly he couldn't get any more loans. And he couldn't get a hold of product. And because of his fixed costs, there was no way to future payables could save him.

So common, and no one seems to know about it.
I introduced the change to 0,1,2. Not sure what happened when we first introduced autoplay but the change to 0,1,2 was so we could let users switch between enabled, disabled and ask the user.

Original plan was to ask the user by default. We did some user testing with this change and it looks like we will be changing it to block by default based on feedback

Not sure what this has to do with any companies ad revenue, or pocket
There's a 10% nominal return, but a 7% real return. Harvard beats this by 3% annually, which is huge!
While working on the tail end of a side channel attack paper, the author came up with a new analytic form for Renyi entropy used in the type of hidden markov model used in the side channel attack. Pretty solid piece of work.

I am not super familiar with the use of Renyi entropy in HMMs, but it looks pretty generally interesting; something that can be used to find recurrence maps in general.
Why do they base it on family income? What if you have wealthy parents but they choose not to spend money on your tuition? Students are adults when they go to college - family background should be irrelevant.
Windows Defender.
Most disk drives of the time were like that. One of the reasons the Apple II disk drive was so affordable is that Woz just used the Apple II's own 6502 to handle the grunt work, with their disk drive being little more than a drive mechanism, a PROM, and some ICs. Since this is The Woz we're talking about, he went ahead and broke with conventional encoding while he was at it and instead implemented a scheme which allowed for a few extra sectors per track.

It might be an interesting exercise to see how many peripherals are connected to your PC right now that have much more computing power than an 1Mhz 6502.
I lost it when I got to the Bonus Round... because obviously, a steak is a salad, and soup is a wet salad? I mean how could you not get that...
Russian cosmonauts are on a spacewalk to investigate the mysterious ISS hole
Channels in Go do not allow to prioritize messages and proper support for cancelation is highly non-trivial. Both are necessary in complex software. With mutexes one can build all these things, but lack of language support for mutexes sucks.
I ran into some limitations with Terraform and at the time it didn't support Vultr, so I ended up writing my own provisioner. It goes a bit further with setting up DNS records as well and I rolled in some of my own Docker deploy stuff into it; although in retrospect I should have made that a different project.

https://github.com/sumdog/bee2
Visio Standard 2019 has been updated with new features
It's probably more like the superblock not being updated to point to the newest data. Instead it points to old data that hasn't been garbage collected.
>It just takes time and resources, but following the law always takes that.

Right, and that's why laws should be worded to minimize the time and resources required to comply with them. Laws like GDPR and Article 13 are like a nominal tax on every business. It's easy for Google and Facebook to throw a few million dollars and a few thousand engineer-hours to take care of compliance with this stuff. It's much more difficult for a 10-person startup with a fixed runway.

Saying "It just takes time and resources to deal with that," is a vacuous statement. It takes time and resources to deal with anything, no matter how large or small. The key factor is how much time? How many resources? And finally, how do the time and resource requirements compare to the time and resources you have on hand?
Not an issue for me. I have a imac 5K and a retina mac book pro. Both with image scaling on by default. I think most recent macs have retina now.

I use Firefox exclusively and have done so for the last 2 years or so. This sounds like it could be a driver issue for specific macs. Both my macs have AMD Radeon chipsets & quad core i7s.

Anyway, I'm sure this issue is real. Bugzilla ticket numbers probably exist for it and might be more helpful than vague complaints about things being slow.

Of course some web sites are a bit unreasonably javascript heavy these days. The downside of a large screen is that pushing a lot of pixels around is not free. Usually closing any offending tabs immediately restores any cpu usage I see. I'd suggest using the new task manager thingy (page menu->more->task manager)
The only thing I'd change is to rename the sushi category to something broader like wrap. Sushi is a really specific foodstuff to me to be the name of that category.
Coincidentally, I happen to be reading a book on technology addiction and just finished a chapter on Tetris [1].

As soon as I opened this link I started to whistle the music from Tetris (GameBoy of course). When I spotted Steve Wozniak I remember seeing a video of him playing Tetris obsessively on a GameBoy Light (or maybe a Color). I instinctively went to eBay.

Tetris really is the crack cocaine of video games!

[1] http://adamalterauthor.com/irresistible/
> Just saying it's a great (black hat) idea, and it works.

How good is the idea while you could be caught with physical evidence?
But startups don't just raise money because they need it, they also have to be given it. That said, there is a question of what parts of this are causal that we plan to tease apart in future analyses.
While that's true, they still lag what I think is their benchmark, other top tier schools:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-26/harvard-b...
When discussing Harvard in Allston, good reporters should spend the time to deconvolute their holdings. They have lots of campus holdings, and that is growing, but they also own plenty of things that aren't campus. They're the landlord for my auto repair place (Oriental Car King) and for the shopping mall with my grocery store (Brighton Mills). These aren't becoming campus any time soon in anything that Harvard has announced.
Probably a win win for US Megacorp Inc and China that nothing malicious was found. Every company even Apple has a line to draw what threatens their long term prospects if things got out.