skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I signed up for WeChat a few months ago, and later found out that WeChat was warning my Chinese friends that my account was unverified and to be careful. I had no idea it was telling them this until one of them told me.

I was also unable to log into the web/desktop client. The error message just said that for security reasons, only verified accounts were allowed to use WeChat through the web, but didn't give any instructions on how to get the account verified.
I greatly prefer silent meditation. People prefer different things, so ymmv.

My advice is to carve out 30 minutes in the morning and just start. Pick a focus; most people pick a sensation of breathing. While focusing on this, observe what your mind and body do, without reacting to it, and without judging it or yourself. When your attention wanders, re-focus it without judgement. This will happen a lot, noticing your attention wandering and re-focusing is part of the practice. It will happen less and less over time.

There are no mind hacks, but here are some things that might be helpful to look out for. These are things to verify for yourself through direct insight: don't take my word for it.

* Your thoughts are not actually part of your identity. You are not your thoughts, judgements, emotions, etc. The "voice in your head" is not you.

* Most people actually see and live in a landscape of subjective thoughts based on reality, instead of seeing and living in reality directly.

* People are primarily harmed not by events, but by their reaction to the events.
I signed up for Alipay to help pay for AliExpress transactions.

The passwords are 6 numerical digits only...
I started using the Hiya app on my iphone a couple months ago and it has basically stopped just about all spam calls. I was previously getting at least 1 a day. I'm using the free version.

https://hiya.com/
What aspect would you consider unethical, or insufficient to make it ethical?
It's not the brackets that make taxes complicated, it's the exemptions. And all current exemptions are in there for a reason, so once you start cherry-picking some exemptions, it'll be hard not to bring across most of them...
What about "American chicken coalition"?
I think that's a bit unfair, just because we haven't bred all of their instinctual behaviour out of them.
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What's unsatisfactory is the way these companies present these results which implies a level of accuracy and precision which is unwarranted.

"She also has French and German ancestry (2.6 per cent) that her sister doesn't share."

I assume from this that 23andMe is reporting the results to this level of accuracy (a tenth of a percent). For the sister who got 2.6% they are strongly implying a certainty that she has a small amount of French and German ancestry rather than what actually seems to be the case which is a small chance of some French and German ancestry.

Since it seems their results are quite lacking in both precision and accuracy they should do a better job of reporting them and advertising them in a way that makes that clear.
I'm curious, what's the current size of your instance (disk space/# records) for this dataset?

I'd be interested in a dump of the raw data, to save having to access via the API. I'd be willing to pay for the bandwidth/temp charges if any.
This probably adds a cent or two to the gallon. Or a small number. They simply want to cut as many corners as possible to squeeze the last penny. State has to intervene.
> how do we let these get so big

Farm subsidies (artificially cheap grains for feeding cattle) and the inheritance tax (children are forced to sell the land after parents die due to tax obligations)
When I was in China, they accepted my US passport number for things like opening bank accounts. Things may have changed, but I doubt it.
Quite a few things, from power distribution, natural disaster management, education, economy, and technically being the largest standing militia in the world if you take number of firearms per capita.
It makes sense, what I was wondering though was about the difference if any of the raw DNA (SNP) data they provide.
>(ignore the fact that it's 85k... it could be 40k after taxes for example)

According to the GP's scheme, it would be over $70K after taxes.

Not the best example :-)

Anyone earning $85K who has $40K after taxes really needs to get someone else to do their taxes.
True, but unfortunately the concept of print does not translate well to the web. CSS colums can either be width or height limited:

Fix to 2 columns: you cannot control the height, if it goes beyond the screen height, users need to scroll down on the first column, then scroll back to the start of the 2nd column.

Fix to the screen height: you cannot control the width, it it goes beyond the screen, users need to scroll horizontally to read the text. Although this somehow would work, it's really not general behavior on the web to scroll horizontally.
You can taste wine and spit instead of swallowing, to give just one of many examples.
What is it that makes you want to dump Redshift? Sounds like there's a specific frustration?
"Don't cry for me, for I go where music is born."

Who: Johann Sebastian Bach, Baroque composer.

Now that is how you go out in style.
I wonder how many were pulled from their jobs to help manufacture to meet goals and then let go.
AI can help us make judges less biased
Imagine a world without ads targeted by personal information
Paywalled?
Vague infographic -
https://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/B3-CX966_201901_S...
With increasing prosperity of the average citizen in China, more people would create further ecological pressure in a heavily populated geography. Gradual contraction of population in that circumstance is better than overcrowding and competition for scarce resources.

It won't be easy to navigate, but it's a necessary step as people become richer and consume more per capita.
That's somewhat ad hominem. (Well, ad librem. Tomatoe, tomatoh)

I'm not asking for a detailed critique, but what, in your opinion, is a good book discussing the intersection between capitalism and climate change?
Over on r/OpenPV on Reddit someone might be able to get you the right connections. It's a subreddit community for people who build/recycle e-cigarette batteries.

A lot of them are hobbyists but there's a few who've made a business out of it and they might know the right people.
Only if you have their root certificate trusted
SSH has a configuration file (.ssh/config) which lets you set configuration for specific hosts and even aliases:

Host reproserver
User remi
Hostname 128.122.217.96
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rpz
It's not that easy. You need accurate models of your machine, the tools and the stock material. Your simulation has to be linked to the real machine movements and be ahead of time so you can estop the machine before the crash happens.

But that still doesn't help in case of insufficient workholding or breaking tools.
What's wrong with Linkedin? What would you want to change about it?
I'm thinking of building a better Linkedin because professional network & identity is going to be more important as we move into the future. Would love to hear your thoughts about Linkedin.
Income includes capital gains. No one has given enough detail on how this particular tax would be implemented, but surely it would capture both (and therefore be an even bigger tax increase on LTCG).
But why do you feel it is your right or the right of the government to take it from them? Because they happen to be more successful than you? I have never understood the logic of taking from the rich because they are rich. That always sparks the idea of true laziness in the person saying this.
That's certainly fair in some senses, but if you consider money per household to be of decreasing marginal utility (your first 10k of income is a much larger jump in quality of life than your 15th 10k) then a tax that is fair based on utility rather than percentage or dollar amount is progressive.
My understanding is that there is an oversupply of Dairy in the country right now due to reduced demands for things like Milk and American cheese. The stockpile of American Cheese is at an all-time high and they're converting to this cheese to get their surplus into a more long-term store of value. Not sure why we would continue to subsidize this:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/06/28/ameri...
In the short-term, micro context, like most exclusive Apple apps, it's one more reason to buy Apple devices and lock existing users into upgrading to Apple devices. Switching apps is a hassle, especially if there's no easy ways to migrate data.

In the broader context and rough terms, it's against Apple's interests that web apps in general take off over native apps. In theory, there's no reason web apps shouldn't be as capable as native apps for 90% of workflows (playing music being well in that 90%).

If web apps, at large, take off:

1. The App Store loses relevance, and so Apple loses influence over developers, distribution, and 30% piece of the cake.
2. Apple loses platform lock-in, since web apps run everywhere. It'd be a no-brainer for companies to have one team developing for the web, instead of one for the web and one or two for mobile.

I don't doubt if Apple wanted they could form a team with enough expertise to build solid web apps and make their services gain marketshare, but the experience would either have to be subpar vs native (like iCloud.com is IMO) or solid enough that they would unwittingly prove web apps are equally capable to native apps, and so create demand for more web apps, more progress in that space, and stray away from an advantageous position for them.
I'm a front-end developer who studied graphic design. A very important part of UX is app flow and navigating users through your interface in a seamless, graceful way.

When I was studying UI/UX something that helped me a lot was reading Google Material guidelines. Even if you're not using a Material UI library (like @angular/material), the guideline thoroughly explains what a good UI/UX should feel like, look like, and work.

Some links:
- https://material.io/design/
- https://www.usability.gov/about-us/index.html (this is more for government websites, but still a good source of information)
- https://medium.com/@fluidui (FluidUI is an online tool for creating user stories and design prototypes, in their Medium blog they have a vast list of resources and detailed information.
- https://theblog.adobe.com/4-golden-rules-ui-design/ (very good read)

Hope this helps.

Cheers.
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> It was the last smartphone option that avoided both the Scylla of Google's data vacuuming and the Charybdis of Apple's pricey walled garden

Yeah, the December date here confirms what Wikipedia has stated for a while for the RS3 fork's security lifetime. December is actually one bonus month past the expected 18 months.

I expect I will continue to procrastinate making a decision until that Holiday season, really. I had an iPhone (3GS) and switching back to iOS doesn't really excite me. I develop some from Android and rather dislike it (though I realize that apps like Microsoft Launcher and Launcher 10 presumably make it more Windows Phone-like than iOS is capable of being), and I still hold a grudge against Google for killing Reader.

It's not a decision I look forward to. Two ugly options and not a good reason to pick one, other than "I don't think I want a mobile computer on my person that isn't receiving security updates."
Except the top 1% of taxpayers accounted for more income taxes paid than the bottom 90% combined. The top 1% pay almost 40% of all income taxes.
The very first words I wrote online sometime around 91 were visible for over 15 years.

I pretty much don't put anything online I cannot live with.
Sure. Thus far, anyone who really does need to reach me for something important finds a way to do so that doesn't involve me answering their call. I also don't bother with voicemail; turned it off. I never bothered checking it, so it was creating unrealistic expectations that I'd get their message.

Sure, it's a risk. One day someone could try to phone me with life-or-death information, completely out of the blue (if I was waiting for a life-or-death call, I'd be expecting the phone to ring so might answer it). This is a risk I choose to take, in exchange for not answering the phone. I'm usually not near it anyway, so miss most calls as it is. It's the future, everyone; stop answering the phone!
Ships afloat does not mean they're operational or combat effective. Some of those ships are quite old and are badly in need of replacement or upgrades. Many of them are under crewed. The numbers of ships are a starting point, but really don't tell much of the story.

None of Germany's 6 subs were operational at the beginning of last year. That may have changed since, but the underlying reasons, poor planning and lack of spare parts, are still there. Only 9 of 15 Frigates were operational and the lead of their new class of frigates, the F125, failed sea trials. The Navy subsequently refused to commission the ship. Admittedly, these are not necessarily crew training issues, but crews without operational ships are not likely to maintain a desirable level of combat readiness. These issues aren't just limited to the Navy; ground forces are also in a bad state.

France and the UK are in better shape, but the Royal Navy in particular has holes in its capabilities where the US Navy is expected to fill in. They're regaining some capabilities with their new (and only operational) carrier, but it's not even clear if it has a functional air wing yet as the F-35B's they purchased only began carrier operations this past September. Another carrier is under construction, but it may be awhile before their carrier based naval aviation becomes combat effective.

The remaining European Navies are pretty small and pretty limited in what they can do. They tend to focus on ASW with some surface warfare capabilities, but are again dependent upon one of the larger Navies for air defense.

Japan may well be the most combat effective of the bunch, but that's a completely different theater of operations.

This isn't intended to be a rah-rah, USA forever sort of rant. Everyone, including the US, seem to have let things slip to the extent that combat effectiveness is becoming questionable.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/germanys-navy-dead-26...

https://www.dw.com/en/no-more-missions-for-germanys-navy-war...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/20/german-armed-for...
The move to fungal sources is happening but zero antibiotics isn't common

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/09/chicken-...
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None of the previous comments on this topic indicated that the food instability was caused by climate change. Are you just assuming that?
I'm not sure if this is still the case but Google used to not even allow employees to bring their laptops to China. If a Googler had to go to China they would be issued a special laptop just for that trip. I have no idea what IT had to do to that laptop after the trip to make sure it was clean.

If I were going to China on business I'd have a separate cell phone just for that purpose. You can just swap sim cards if you need to keep the same number. Smartphones are so cheap nowadays you might as well have a burner for that purpose.
It's amazing how seeing something visually or having someone else solve something can aid in your understanding of a topic. I remember having the most difficult time understanding mergesort from my book's pseudocode and my professor's lecture. But seeing mergesort in action on youtube revealed what it truly was and made what seemed impossibly complex, so simple and elegant.
This happens at any company with any product. Really being blown out of proportion because its facebook.
The content is not valuable, does not target well and creators are not compensated for articles they write. If I'm going to pay a sub I need more genuine value.
'The cloud' is really just a bunch of computers owned and operated by other people.
The gov't still get their money through higher property taxes. This has been a problem recently, as property values and accessed values have gone up dramatically in the past few years. Lots of this money gets funneled up to the state to help pay for programs.

It's gotten bad enough that the state is looking to cap property tax growth, much like California currently does. We have a good idea how that will turn out. And it will likely stress budgets enough to require implementing state income tax, or raising sales tax (maybe both).

https://www.star-telegram.com/news/business/growth/article21...
This just reminded me of the time, not too long ago, I was on a date and she said to me, "I'm not into drugs." The problem was, she was on her second cocktail.
> Cassandra, MongoDB, BigTable, InfluxDB, LevelDB.

None of these are NewSql[1](ACID and SQL) though.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewSQL
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Sure, but we're talking about a $10M bracket. They're already at enough savings that it's worth spending $1M on tax avoidance even with a 39.6% rate...
The specifics matter.

Ignore the time value of money for a moment and imagine you work for minimum wage for thirty years, building a business, then sell it and get ten million dollars for a single year, hoping to fund your retirement and pay for college etc. Compare that to getting $333K/year for thirty years - the taxes paid would be considerably different.

Personally, I think that we need to look at taxes and earnings over a whole lifetime rather than on an arbitrary yearly basis.
Ask HN: How to make Facebook forget me without access to my email?
I had a facebook acccount when I was at university (10 years ago). Haven't logged in for over 7 years at this point. I have long switched email addresses and no longer can remember my login details for that email - I doubt it still exists (as webmail accounts tend to expire and get deleted after x years or so). I have tried to recover my logins to both FB and that email without success.

I created a different facebook login through which I have repeatedly reported my dead account asking for it to be deleted, to no avail. This was expected until..

Enter GDPR. I am in the UK, I am fairly sure they have to delete my data upon request. All good, but how can I actually prove that I own the profile without my login/being able to receive emails? It's me in all the photos of course, but I doubt that's going to get my request processed..

Has anyone else been in this situation?
The audio stream. This will likely never ever be supported by Spotify/Apple because of DRM reasons.
Why is revival after 30 years of freeze an easier problem than revival after 2000 years? Entropy?
I agree with this. I think the drinking age (21 in USA) should be several years before the driving age (14-16 depending on which State) -- if anything invert the two.

This way, young stupid people have a chance to get familiar with the judgement-clouding effects of alcohol long before they are able to propel a 2-ton weapon at others.
Pedantic: No. If you write

#include “studio.h”
int x;
printf(“%d”, x);

the compiler knows the types ahead of time, too, so that cannot explain any speed difference (and yes, C compilers do try to avoid the generic printf in the library. See http://www.ciselant.de/projects/gcc_printf/gcc_printf.html for examples)

(The #include is essential. With it, the compiler can know what printf does, and, in theory, optimize it to a int-to-string conversion and a puts system call. Without it, it cannot, because it doesn’t know what the printf function does (in this case, it is easier to generate fast code for the compiler if it doesn’t have the source available than when it would see source code for a function called printf)

Utterly pedantic: no. As given, both are undefined behavior, and it is trivial for a compiler to discover that.
I heartily disagree. The value of a dollar to a billionaire versus someone making minimum wage is drastically different. When you are scraping by, that 15% comes out of money you need to survive or to prepare for emergencies. When you are making 10 million + that 15% is for luxuries, you're not going to be going to bed hungry or skipping medication because of it.

The defense I always see brought up for a flat tax against this, and I see in this thread already, is to implement a floor. If you've done that you've already got tax brackets with different names.

I am for getting rid of all exceptions and just making brackets based on income coming in which would include wages, capital gains, inheritance, etc.
> the project needs someone who knows how to automatically package a .dmg file

Recommended reading if you wish to bundle a macOS binary for distribution:

https://birchlabs.co.uk/blog/alex/juicysfplugin/synth/cpp/20...
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I've never had a panic attack at the airport because I couldn't have sugar for a couple of hours, but I have had one because I couldn't vape. I've never yelled at a coworker because I couldn't have a cookie, but I did when I was quitting nicotine because it made me feel insane. I've never lashed out at my girlfriend because I couldn't have a Coca-Cola, but I did many times when my vape's battery had died and she wanted to stay out of the house a little longer, or I had run out of e-juice. I quit a couple months ago and it's been life changing, just to not have the dependence.

When I give up sugar I do not instantly find that my relationships are easier to manage, for instance, without the demon of sugar addiction popping up into my brain to have me lash out at my loved ones who are standing in the way of another hit of sugar. Even putting it that way sounds absurd, but swap in nicotine and it makes perfect sense.

Obviously you don't understand the true mind-bending power of nicotine. The comparison to sugar is one that could really only be made by someone who has never experienced a nicotine addiction. I say this as someone who loves sugar and tries to cut back. It's not the same. It's not even slightly the same.
Here's a reading recommendation list I put together over the years: http://math.mit.edu/~notzeb/rec.html

Two caveats: first, it is obviously biased to the sort of math I find enjoyable, and second, many of the suggestions require the reader to have that elusive quality called "mathematical maturity". (I have no idea how one goes about gaining mathematical maturity, despite having gone through this process myself.)
Similarly, if you want to give up e.g. soda, don't say "I can't drink soda". That's just some arbitrary restriction imposed on you. Instead, say "I don't drink soda". That's part of who you are now- you're a person that doesn't drink soda.
>not tax decutible

Flexible Savings Accounts can make some childcare tax deductable.
Research Paper Abstract Mad Lib from MIT
there was a recent study for reddit showing that actually most users dont do anything and the whole content is generated from not even the 10%
Disagree BTW. Subsidies are an easy target. Affect very little to the bottom lines I've been privy to (managing input price is biggest factor IMO).

Subsidies are an artifact of scale--optics look bad when a big operation is getting 100K USD when they farm 10k acres
Are there any other countries besides China where we doubt nearly any "fact" they produce? What causes this? Its incredibly odd to read an article where the government makes a claim and then follow it up with a claim from someone else that is entirely different.

> China’s fertility rate has officially fallen to 1.6 children per woman

> Yi Fuxian, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, ... [claims] the fertility rate averaged 1.18 between 2010 and 2018
I believe almost international banks require SSN for US citizens. It’s a US thing and why Swiss banks are less popular. US IRS doesn’t want its citizens to hide money in other countries and pressures foreign countries to comply