skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're using an adblocker, you probably also don't have any positively identifying google cookies, which has become more and more synonymous with "bot" to them. They could defend it from the opposite direction: when you're logged in to google they trust they know you, so when you're not, there's a lack of trust. Not suspicion, no, but a factual lack of trust. There's plausible deniability if anyone ever claimed it's suspicion, and that they do it to punish people who want to remain independent and anonymous. But if that's the effect and they don't do anything to prevent it...

To me it feels similar to the duality of gas station "cash discounts," which have also been perceived as "credit card penalties." Or mobile providers' "free data for the music streaming service of our choice."
It was Microsoft's embrace of PWAs that finally made me change how I see them.

Apparently it is still unknown to most HNers that PWAs can also use native APIs, depending on how they are distributed.
> 2. The Web is missing some APIs that would really let it compete with native apps.

absolutely this. i have no idea why the Contact api [1] work has been discontinued. my current conspiracy theory is that it would have allowed many communication apps to no longer require native apps and cloud-stored address books.

like selecting a file to upload, i dont see why i can't select a contact to use/upload from a locally available address book. So many web apps could use this.

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/contacts-api/
Hi. Are the links for applying restricted by country? Somehow they just redirect to home page of bamboohr.com, at least for me.
Oh, excellent! There is a distinct lack of good hg hosting options; AFAIK, it's Bitbucket or self-host. (I feel like I'm fogetting some minor players, but my poor recollection is that the ones I saw had shortcomings that made me steer clear.) Great to see another good option coming up.
Not to disagree or agree, but this reminded me of more than one story I've read of a young lawnmower person who got enterprising and started their own lawncare business, employing other people (and becoming quite successful).

They probably didn't have passion for mowing lawns, but perhaps their on-the-ground experience taught them enough that they could then use their other intellectual/social skills to scale up.

I don't have any formula for how to translate these anecdotes into new ideas... else I'd be doing one myself.
When you choose to drive your own car you’re doing work for free in place of a paid driver. When you choose to do your own dishes you’re doing work for free in place of a paid housekeeper. Etc.
>probably not possible if the company isn’t profitable enough to pay a salary from operations

Yeah, that was definitely the case.
I agree with TFA’s premise, but some of the specific arguments present are faulty.

Flat vehicle registration fees

Excise tax is not flat, and sometimes a luxury tax on top even makes it progressive. These are registration fees paid to the town instead of the state.

The storm sewer subsidy

The complaint here is that pollution is contributed by commuters / travelers but cleanup is paid by locals. The travelers polluting city storm water sewers are paying taxes in the city when they do business in the city, which is why they are using the roads. If there was no reason to come to the city, there would be a lot less stormwater pollution but also a lot less commerce and the city would be worse off.

Insurance rates

The fact that everyone pays for their own insurance means that is it not a tax. If we subsidized insurance based on income, then insurance would effectively be an income tax. Which, by the way, is true for health insurance.

Gasoline and gas taxes

Are meant to cover (part of) the externalities of driving. The same as the congestion tax the article is supporting. By covering the externality we discourage the polluting activity, which is equitable to be done for everyone who is polluting, regardless of income.

EV tax credits

If we want these (cheaper, more economical, cleaner, safer) cars to become available in the mass market, there is a multi-billion dollar R&D hill to climb. Economies of scale for li-ion and electric drivetrains do not materialize overnight. Getting rich people to spend $60-$100k on a new toy to fund this endeavor, by providing a $7500 carrot, benefits the poor and middle class in the long run. Hell, it benefits the whole planet in the long run. The rich people are putting up a lot more capital than the Federal government in this equation to make mass scale EV a reality. This is a huge win and to say it is inequitable totally misses the point of the subsidy.
Improving your commute by car isn't the goal. The goal is to get you to stop doing it, or bear your share of the real costs for a change.
And if distributed via the store, also get access to native APIs.
Ask HN: How is it that DNA is such an expressive language?
By expressive I mean that DNA can determine so many different things. anti-bodies, physical appearance, the workings of the brain(!), the workings of all physical organs.. What is insane is that mutations can and often do lead to improved versions of the given feature.

Imagine if you can randomly jumble up code and still have a reasonable outcome. DNA is not only an expressive language its end-product is rather durable to changes.
Viewing the source of the reading light and speedometer reveals that both include google analytics tracking code.
I mean, unless you're going through additional effort, you're still identifiable through a VPN. Any web tracking, whether through cookies or through fingerprinting, still works just fine. At best you're merely making it more difficult.

Also, there is also no reason, though it would be a PITA, that you can't add your own measures to a private VPN, whether that's rotating IPs or some other measure. Is it going to keep your illegal activities truly anonymous? No, but neither is a retail VPN. It is a matter of degree and what tradeoffs you're willing to make.

As far as uses for a private VPN, the most obvious is to ensure intermediate parties, particularly on the same subnets, can't snoop on your actual traffic _content_. This isn't going to keep you anonymous from the NSA, but it sure will help against corporations (ISPs and their numerous corporate parents/cousins/siblings). Another benefit is that by protecting against packet level inspection, you are protecting yourself from many current forms of traffic shaping and bandwidth metering/throttling, as well as from limits on services you are running or the content of files you are downloading, as well as from intermediaries (e.g. ISPs) from inserting ads or additional tracking or whatever else into your (mainly web) traffic. This also comes into play not just with your normal ISP but any you are using while traveling (coffee shops, airports, hotels, and other untrusted networks).
Which school did you go to?
> If he politely refused to show ID, there is nothing the police can do

Is it really so? Why would then police ask for an ID if anyone can refuse and get away with it?
Yes it certainly was a low point for the Sierra Club who have proven unable to grasp the problem of climate change. They are stuck in the Boomer mindset that environmentalism means recycling cans and bottles.
> If someone is providing you a service for free that accounts for a very meaningful percentage of revenue, how much revenue could they be generating for you if you actually incentivized them to do that work? 1.25x? 1.5x? 2x? More?

In some cases, it could be less output, or lower quality. Money (or other explicit rewards) changes the psychology of doing work vs. volunteering it. It adds pressure, makes the work feel like a job instead of a hobby, and can lead the person doing the work to choke on deadlines, slack off, look for shortcuts, or even give up entirely.

Of course, people providing valuable services to a for-profit business should be fairly compensated, and companies shouldn’t be trying to exploit volunteers.

But monetary “incentives” are in general quite a terrible system for eliciting good work.
Who the hell are you arguing with that makes that kind of threat?! I definitely haven't seen conversations turn to anything like that around here.
I’ve made similar comments in other discussions, but there’s an element of redlining to this. Upper middle class people push for ever higher safety standards in new motor vehicles. This pushes the retail price higher for new cars, but also has the follow on effect of raising the price of newer used cars. As a result, vehicle consumers at the bottom of the economic ladder wind up with cars that are less safe, less efficient, and less reliable.
Someone also said that in the UK you don't have ID cards, so you wouldn't even be able to carry something that doesn't exist.

Do you usually get frustrated at people who are trying to obtain information, or learn? If you are not write-only, you should have noticed that it has been already answered. Seems like to me that the only reason for your comment is to let out your frustration at someone who is trying to learn. Thank you.
Only thise morning I was not even able to exit by using q! either. I did something good in my life or parents that some random keys hitting made me to exit it.
This made me think about building your own services vs integrating others and I can't help to think rolling your own makes more and more sense.

I always come back to a paper some Netflix guys mentioned in a presentation I saw at a conference to make us appreciate how extremely hard integrating separate systems is : "Hundred Impossibility Proofs for Distributed Computing" (https://groups.csail.mit.edu/tds/papers/Lynch/podc89.pdf). The paper basically says there are at least a hundred walls that are mathematically proven to be insurmountable that you are going to potentially hit when trying to keep your data corruption free across systems.

This makes systems that keep data within the bounds of a non distributed, transactionally sound database like Postgresql comparably much more agile and powerful as you don't hit these hundred plus walls.

After some high profile failures of integration like Oracle/IBM's "Phoenix Pay" here in Canada, after people tried to counteract the problems with sophisticated and costly CQRS layers to manage the connections, they are now noticing what was mathematically proven in that paper, that you can't make a maintainable and reliable system when data is spread across too many different companies' servers. I think, at least for tech companies that know how to build stuff, that the trend is now to minimize holding data in a web of connected SAAS services, regrouping key data to their own transactional databases.

This trend has been helped by the fact that, it is now incredibly easy to build frontend and backend services tied to your own database. This "Tiny PWAs" article is a good example. This guy quickly built apps so that he didn't have to deal with ad laden ones in the app stores. As a testament to their simplicity, these apps ended up being only 1.7KB and 800B. This would have been impossible just a few years ago.
Seems like Google is actually worse than most bureaucracies now in terms of getting a review of an individual bad decision.

With Google, it's like, here have an email.
>Would you recommend launching a new saas product in demo mode first, to gauge interest?

If you think that would work. I have tried it before, people did use it but they never bought. You bring up that issue later in your post though. :) People are cheap. I never really dug into this idea further because I was cautioned by others that "Free SaaS" and "Paid SaaS" are different people.

You even bring up the issue of support around "Free SaaS" people. That crowd I think generally thinks "Free SaaS" == "VC". In my experience, as long as you get back to people within 12 - 24 hours, they don't mind. I go on walks during my day job and respond to support emails. ;)

>I think one major hang up for first-timers is crossing that threshold of taking money, because now you have liability.

Definitely! That's still kind of a hang-up for me. I feel kind of bad asking for money for something I built. It is slowly going away though the more that I do it though. I think this is a common thing though.

>also you need to deal with fraud and other legal issues.

I guess that depends on what you're building. Stripe, for the most part, handles the fraud and legal stuff. While we are talking about Stripe, I would recommend against Stripe Atlas. It is too much if you aren't going VC. An LLC (provided you're from the US), if even that, is enough.

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Honestly, you should just try out all these hypothesis and apply what you learn. That's what I've been doing. Try something new, apply, try something new, repeat. It's the best you can do in my opinion. Reading books + blogs is great, I totally still do it, but beware analysis paralysis. ;)
That is correct. UK has no enumerated right of “free speech” as it exists in the USZ This is common in most European counties.
I just read there was Netflix presenting about their use of FreeBSD. And likely many more interesting things to come.

https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/netflix_freebsd/attac...
Same. Though the AI since hexagonal tiles is so bad I've signed off Civilization series. Why they haven't contracted to that Google subsidiary to use machine learning to improve the AI of the game is a mystery.
> Japanese companies generally provide homes for their senior executives, and for Ghosn, Nissan provided five—in Paris, Tokyo, and Amsterdam, but also in Beirut and Rio de Janeiro, where he had negligible business ties but extensive personal ones.

…

> Ghosn didn’t have enough in his personal accounts, so he arranged for Nissan to take on the contracts temporarily. Later he took them back, secured by a letter of credit from Khaled Juffali, a Saudi businessman whose family firm later received $14.7 million in payments from Nissan’s CEO Reserve, a source of money the company says Ghosn controlled with little oversight … Ghosn’s representatives maintain that the transaction was properly approved and that Juffali, who owns a car dealership chain, was paid for helping with regional distribution, not for getting Ghosn out of a jam.

…

> Nissan covered the cost of his Rio yacht club membership, and his sister was on the company payroll for more than a decade, performing ill-defined consulting duties in Brazil.

Looks fishy to me.
How inaccurate is GPS? It seems like for his purposes a variance of even +/- 5 mph could be tolerated given one can generally sense approximately what speed they're traveling and can also compare themselves to other cars on the road.
A few years back Google changed recaptcha to use a bunch of extra information to make a decision as to whether someone was a real person. This resulted in sometimes there not being any images, once you click to start the CAPTCHAS, it just shows a checkmark and let's you through. What also seems to have happened then is that they use additional I formation to make the process much harder sometimes.

Ublock never seems to matter too much for me, but the IP address used can matter a lot. Whether you're logged into gmail/Google seems to affect it positively also.

I suspect the specific VPN you're using is the source of the lion's share of the RECAPTCHA problems you're having. They are probably utilizing a range that was or is used in a way that RECAPTCHA doesn't like.
If you want to skip to the more visual stuff, see the gallery of videos:

http://www.visualquantumphysics.org/?page_id=397

This one, in particular, I find amazing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHSluoPqank

(Even if you have studied this stuff before, 'seeing' the solutions in this way is pretty cool IMO.)
Ask HN: What tech stack would you use to build an open-source Google Keep clone?
I'm sick of waiting for Google's Keep team to improve their app, or even to respond to feature requests. (Crickets.)

So I'm going to attempt to build my own - despite being a real noob when it comes to JS-based tech stacks. What would you use as a starting point for a tech stack, if you want:

- public/private/sharable card options
- import/export to a couple of mainstream alternate formats
- reasonable response times
- an improvement over downloading the entire DB upon page load
- markdown-capable cards
- sort/filter/tag options

I'm assuming this is going to be some flavor of Angular/Vue/React. Suggestions?
Yeah, meant constrict. Darn phone keyboard. They didn't conspire against my generation just because. They conspired to increase property values. The fact that my generation (excepting the few of us with elite tech company compensation) can't afford those increased property values is just an inevitable side effect of that.
You wouldn't introduce the acronym "omg" since what it stands for is so well known. I'd argue the same is true in this scenario.
Monasteries seek to be self sufficient and work is part of daily routine of monks. Also, monastery has a choice of accepting novice or not and monk has to put in a lot of effort to be accepted in. They are subject to strict rules and discipline. Monks did not just unilateraly closed themselves off expecting parents to take care of them.

Also, monks made or should made thought out choice. They did not locked themselves out of depression, fear and lack of energy to go outside.

I don't find being monk or nun something that makes much sense, but it is not nearly the same thing.
And clearly gasoline taxes aren't high enough if trucks and SUVs are the best-selling vehicles in the US. The effect of higher gasoline taxes wouldn't be higher taxes overall in many cases, it would simply mean people driving smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles.
> You’ll never get a company to pay six figures for someone they consider a free intern

And yet here they are, having lost that percentage of revenue because they had this mindset. I don't think she needed a six figure salary necessarily, but BF made exactly no attempt to do _anything_. Unlike an unpaid intern, McMahon could have kept doing this indefinitely, not just for three summer months.
Or meaning that the machine-sourced crash rate is low enough that it's dominated by flight crew and weather factors.
I highly recommend the stuff. Works great, supposedly harmless for us mammals, and ridiculously cheap. I bought a bag for a few bucks years ago and I’m maybe a quarter of the way through it now. Any time I see unwanted bugs, I dust around likely entrances and they stop coming.
Really? I thought that they were using the same design from the original Magic Keyboard :(
Debugging Emacs, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love DTrace (2018)
Couln't agree more. Better for walk ability, can increase number of dedicated bus lanes, have express lines, and local van lines. With the density in new york, you could have these buses and vans running all day, it would give much better access to subways and importantly can alleviate subway needs at night (why run a train every 30 minutes with 8 nearly empty cars, if you can instead run 2 buses every 30 minutes, or a bus every 15 min).

for buses Otherwise there will be clear roads to have a good bus system that can run express and local lines better, can start shutting down the subway for a few hours a day, and the bus should work just as well
> I think it provides more value than praying over the topic would.

You seem to think I'm advocating religion somehow; if so, you are quite mistaken.

Yes, spending time contemplating philosophical and spiritual questions, whether through a secular context or a religious context, is going to provide more value to the individual (and, indirectly, to society) than playing video games or posting on HN. How is this even in question?
http://jwmason.org/slackwire/on-money-debt-trust-and-central...

>People get very excited about China’s social credit system, a sort of generalization of the “permanent record” we use to intimidate schoolchildren. And ok, it does sound kind of dystopian. If your rating is too low, you aren’t allowed to fly on a plane. Think about that — a number assigned to every person, adjusted based on somebody’s judgement of your pro-social or anti-social behavior. If your number is too low, you can’t on a plane. If it’s really low, you can’t even get on a bus. Could you imagine a system like that in the US?

>Except, of course, that we have exactly this system already. The number is called a bank account. The difference is simply that we have so naturalized the system that “how much money you have” seems like simply a fact about you, rather than a judgement imposed by society.
As much as I like self-checkout, I find the opposite is true, and it gets worse as the number of items increases. Most people are generally pretty slow scanning items as they struggle an extra second or two to find the barcode. It's great for express checkouts, but not for people that have a cart full of items.
The only bugs I've had issues with are fruit flies and cockroaches.

Fruit flies are easily dealt with by putting cider vinegar in a container and rubber banding saran wrap over it (with a couple holes) - they get in but not out. That, combined with taking out the trash twice a week solved the issue.

For cockraoches, there are bait traps so that they take poisoned food back to their buddies.

Both resulted in no bugs for the rest of my lease.

The key for both was utilizing the solution when you see the first bug.
Consider the contents of "The Confessions of Saint Augustine" the point being that a million other kids wasted their youth screwing around, but it only took one with some writing skill to have a ridiculously outsized impact on the world.

And that's just the positive side. On the negative side, it seems a realistic hypothesis that The Unibomber had more total overall long term impact on society than all of Reddit. Realistic in the sense that its doable 50:50 odds debate topic, not realistic in the sense that obviously my hypothesis is unarguably correct. One weirdo deciding to voluntarily drop out of society and live alone in the woods causes X amount of drama, but kicking 5% of your population out of society and forcing them to angrily live alone in the woods will result in one-zillion times Z amount of drama.
That's like asking if anybody other than Volkswagen makes a nice 4 wheeled car. Sure, everyone does. It's literally the most common new monitor size on the most common technology, Dell aren't the only ones to have figured it out.
I think, though the cost is there, PyCon is amazingly accepting and welcoming. Yes, it isn't cheap, and cost is higher than FOSDEM, but it's one of the best conferences I've been to.
In Russia you are not required to carry an ID, but if you don't have it then you can be taken to a police station and held for several hours to check your identity. Is not there a similar rule in UK?
I am not criticizing or disputing their point that, for example, a person living in a low income area will pay a higher rate than a similar person living in a high income area. I do dispute that it is an inequity that needs to be “fixed”, which is the main thesis of the article. While I do consider it unfortunate, it’s not discriminatory or inequitable and should not be on the list.
Where do you see the google analytics code in the speedometer? It's true that the site his example is running on includes GA, but I can't see anything in the source other than a reference to an analytics build which uses a file that only exists if you choose to create it.
Warehouse/Workshop Model (update: The Pure Function Pipeline Data Flow)
Rare snow rollers spotted in field near Marlborough
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/amoj2m/ethical...
How the heck is this not covered in CS 101? Or any coder bootcamp? Or Udacity? At least there has to be a node.js package for this.
>I believe we will catch criminals quicker

That’s a good lad, they have trained you well.

Surely omnipresent and forced surveillance could never be used against YOU... you’re a good boy.

To have so little vision of the past, present, and future. Must be blissful!