skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A similar thing happened to me. I had some domains with tons of backlinks hosted on app engine. Without any notice, my app engine version got deprecated and my sites went offline. I hadn’t setup any monitoring as I trusted google. I visited one of my sites manually and saw it was down. It turns out both of my sites had been down for two months. I logged into the google app engine ui to see an error message for both apps that I was running “a deprecated app engine version”. Most of the backlinks to the sites had been removed as broken links. Thousands of customer reviews of software I had published were erased by that. I dig google but this was an enormous failure on their part.
Truffles have really strong smell and taste. It is one of those things you either you love or hate. I personally love home made pasta with black truffle sauce.

It is expensive (~US$ 15 per person in truffles for a meal), but for me it's definitely worth every once in a while.

Sample recipe: http://www.travellingoven.com/2017/03/tagliatelle-pasta-with...
I have given up with the long answers. The US had a marginal rate this high before: wrong, this doesn't reflect tax paid which, for the top 1%, is only down slightly since mid-1960s (and not worth anywhere close to what the US needs).

Other countries do this successfully: wrong, other countries are far less progressive than the US with many more paying top rates. The lazy "we can be Sweden" thinking also indicates a fairly weak understanding of political theory.

Assuming no reductions in revenue, the only solution is raising taxes substantially on the wealthy below 1%. Simple.
I wasn't coming down for or against the bill as-is at all; merely on the assertion about agency the parent commenter made.

I suggest you calm your anger and finger pointing and avoid reading things that I did not write.

I too agree that the War on Drugs is a boondoggle and has caused more harm and created more criminals (legitimate and otherwise) than we'd have without it. But I think we can agree that having a lot of people (for example) suffering and dying from opioid abuse isn't great either. Rehabilitation programs are the obvious answer, not just jailing people.

Payday lending is a totally different beast. I'm not sure what a great solution might be. While it's physically safer to take a loan from a payday lender than from an illegal, shady, mob-run loan shark, payday lending can still be incredibly harmful. Outright banning probably isn't the answer, but allowing them to run as they have been isn't great either.
Something being overrated is subjective.
It is another way to say "somebody else appreciate it much more than I do".

I admit that when the vast majority holds a common subjective opinion, for many intents and purposes it can be considered objective, but I'm not sure if it applies to caviar...
> I can't think of another website that has done that.

Hmm, I'll give you a hint. You're looking at it.
This isn’t an entirely accurate picture. In Hanink’s first book, she demonstrates how the classical Athens that we think of today was largely an invention of Athens in the fourth century BCE.

To oversimplify a bit, although Athens lost its military hegemony at the end of the Peloponnesian War, Athens and Athenianness maintained a powerful cultural influence for centuries.

I think the lede, then, is clear from the first paragraph: classical Athens (synechdochically represented through Thucydides here) is a construct that can be used for diverse ends, and we need to pay careful to attention to who uses it and how.
https://phoenixframework.org/blog/the-road-to-2-million-webs...
> I'm not sure how the supposed duration of the mission relates to AI?

i was responding to the assertion that humans are more 'up to task' for space exploration

> Also, how would AI help with the time lag?

giving the robots some autonomy to navigate / build between commands would speed up their mission and making up for the 15 minutes delay
Technically no, because the 70% marginal tax rate would be on earned income while a significant portion of wealth is taxed through capital gains.

The tax code is very large, so you can implement a 70% marginal rate on earned income and capital gains, but that will just shift accounting elsewhere.

Alternatively, we could get better at our costs. Actually look to balance the budget by decreasing military spending, rein in pharma companies and healthcare costs, and then if needed raise taxes to make up the difference.

It would have a much better effect, because increasing the taxes on the wealthy would do nothing to adjust healthcare spending, high cost of drugs, a lack of investment in our infrastructure.
But even then the documentarian has to decide what to include and what not to include.

Obviously you can't have for example a Civil War documentary that is the raw truth of each person involved told in realtime. It would be 11 billion years long.

I don't see how any documentary can match your standard.
> What’s important to note, though: It’s not “the EU” in general that is to blame – but those who put special interests above fundamental rights who currently hold considerable power. You can change that at the polls! The anti-EU far right is trying to seize this opportunity to promote their narrow-minded nationalist agenda

The article describes how German and French financial interests pushed through the biggest BS of a law package to hit internet regulation this side of the Atlantic, despite every objection and protest, even against sensible opinions from their camp, behind closed doors, led mostly by representatives of German political power in the driving seat who were unclear on the details of what they're pushing, despite pushing it and defaming critics. After bungling so many things in relation to policy in the recent few years, I simply do not trust these countries to represent anything that's good for me or my own interests as an EU citizen.

Call me crazy, but this does sound like what the "anti-EU far right" takes issue with, more specifically the French-German political control of Europe, beholden to their financial interests. Now I'm not advocating for joining their side, against the EU, by any measure, but it seems to me that people should heed this warning and draw some sensible conclusions in time --- before they find themselves between two terrible extremes and no reasonable way out.
Back in the late 90s, my teenage friends and I were writing Visual Basic programs to automatically click ad banners and surf webpages to generate money. I doubt it's significantly more difficult to do the same now with a captcha box.
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My point was not the moral aspects of pirating.

It was about the impossible complexity of doing anything IP by the books, even as a end-customer, as a single instance transaction.

And here the EU expects all companies out there, as intermediaries, to solve this generically and automatically.

It’s a joke surely?
I wish they’d build them here (Berlin)!

Germany is noutriously slow to build, and as a result there are stark housing shortages in the big cities. Partially it’s due to the German affinity to bureaucracy but otherwise the local quality of construction is actually high (and therefor buildings take a long time to build).

However with rapidly growing urban areas that already experience housing shortages and soaring rents & purchase prices there is no other solution than to dramatically and swiftly increase supply.
Good point. Note, however, that what you're describing doesn't sound like "management", or at least not like "managers", but VP-level strategists.
It doesn't bother you that they could splice out any footage that would make themselves look worse? Or cut in footage out of context that would make themselves look better?
Shift+F5 F10 F10 code Return.

How to look up unsold inventory on the system at the first job I worked in 1999.

There people there who could navigate 5 screens without looking until the system returned the result they wanted.

People are smarter than many give them credit, the computing revolution in business really started taking off in an era when computers booted to something like.

C:\>

I’m not suggesting we throw out guis but we could do much better in some areas.
Yeah I don't imagine anyone will actually do this if they actually care about what's on the other side.
I posted this because it provides a good framework for thinking about how to approach consulting projects with potential clients.

It seems especially relevant after having read this article & thread from a couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19133026
I think the problem is not so much with the downloading right now but with the uploading, so kill the horse and the cart stays put. if noone can upload infringeing media then its not available to download from unauthorized services.
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This is not how it is supposed to be.

In a parallel universe of fluffy niceness we willingly provide our help and in that way we get all those old books converted to ASCII and available for us to read online. Our efforts are for the good of mankind. Similarly with the newer challenges, we help the maps be up to date and again this is for the good of mankind and those needing help getting around.

Clearly this doesn't work in an era where the 'don't be evil' mantra is long forgotten and people only see Google as some advertiser friendly capitalist monopolist beast.

Google need to work on their relationship with their customers, to be a benevolent dictatorship of sorts. They are lousy at customer service and there are other pain points that they are ignorant to. I don't see how this helps.
Removing the corporate income tax implies changing the capital gains exemptions as corporations would no longer be double taxed.

Once double taxation is eliminated, capital gains can approach the full progressive rate as they will still be incentivized without the earned income payroll taxes.
and Newton created gravity
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I just moved to a new place early this month and after expanding a hole through the plaster there was quite a bit of dust and my lungs seem to feel poor since then. Reasons I am concerned:

- 3 bedroom is in rough shape, pulled records it was built in 1860, so unclear how/when renovations were done.

- limited maintenance & tons of coats of paint + poor cludgy fixes seem to indicate they cant fix/remodel without abatement.

- i am a carpenter & was wearing a duskmask. I now have a respetstor with a p100 filter but did not then.

- eyes itch

- kid in apartment downstairs has a racking cough i hear through the floor. Obv he smokes weed, cough does sound horrible & he has lived here 13months.

- the wallpapering in one room is ripped/torn...a lot and wasn’t repaired.

I have to live here, I literally just moved in. I have to spend the night unless i call in a favor. I cant get a dept health inspector here for a couple days & the test kits all require 7 days to process. Not sure if i vacate in interim.

Place is in bad shape. I spoke with a 3m tech and have rated gear but i am currently about to be hanging out in my own apartment in close to a fucking hazmat suit. I looked into asbestos & its nasty stuff, hard to get solid info given the value of this keyword search.

Thanks
Bots that can defeat captcha easily are probably the AI development I'm most excited for.

The amount of time I've wasted clicking on crosswalks and store fronts is way too high.
Authority for the North American Numbering plan currently falls to the FCC, after the breakup of AT&T; they contract out administration, Ericsson got a 5 year contract in 2017, previously it was administered by Neustar (and Lockheed Martin, before Neustar was spun out).

I'd imagine Ericsson would spin up a new CA instance just for this. As the administratior, they keep the records of who phone numbers are assigned to, and where they've been ported.

My understanding is once a +1 area code is allocated to a country, that country's telecoms regulator manages further allocations (or contracts it out).
This was, essentially, the basis for the 3 strikes initiatives.
Watching someone use an interface can be low-quality information, especially when that interface is already heavily optimized to guide the user down a prescribed path. If that's your sole input, then you're essentially doing a naïve gradient descent, and you're bound to be stuck in a local minimum.

Asking users, in addition to watching them struggle, can inform you on what they're actually trying to achieve, and what's their mental model.
Politicians rarely do.
If Google wants to do that, that’s their prerogative. What pisses me off is when a bank or similar “secure” type of service forces me to train Google’s ML models in order to access my stuff. I didn’t agree to provide unpaid labor to Google.
True, in a hunter-gatherer recognition of animal cognition would improve their chances of success. "I'm getting thirsty, maybe the boar is too, let's lay for it near the water hole." Maybe labeling it "other" is enough without labeling it "inferior".
Phone banking hasn’t died yet, luckily.
Silly post. Visual Studio Code also uses Electron, and has yet to spin up fans on my machine. I use it every day, all day, on a variety of platforms. There seems to always be someone who thinks there clever complaining about bloat and then pointing to C or now trendy Go and/or Rust. It rarely is. Perhaps Slack was doing some sort of internal auto-update when the CPU started thrashing. Of course figuring that would kill a good blog rant about bloat. I sure hope the author doesn't run Windows.
Right. I think I have seen similar behavior for mouse movement as well. Not sure, but I think moving your mouse around randomly helps as well. The timing of picking the images, as you say, helps. As does the order you pick them in.

Of course, I think the biggest thing is your browser's fingerprint. If you are using a lot of privacy blocking addons, etc. you are going to be spending a lot of time looking at captchas.
Not to go all Black-Mirror here, but imagine training a model based on individualized user preferences to generate some sort of idyllic "person", leveraged for surreptitious advertising. For instance, analyzing what kind of Instagram models one engages with regularly and using that data to generate individualized "influencers". Just a thought :)
Have the ‘AI’ solved the I’m not a robot and kick the street view stuff to a human.

It’s always going to be an arms race I guess.
This comment appears routinely on HN. I'd love to find out how something so basic about TCP came to be so widely misunderstood.
totally agree. There are way too many "documentaries" that are well produced and entertaining but are in essence propaganda pieces for a preconceived viewpoint. I much prefer "boring" pieces that actually try to document things without much spin.
TIL, very creative = stupid.
I have asked them not to check in my bag all the way several times. And Lufthansa had complied my request every time.
Sadly, the parcel tracking functionality of the Royal Mail's site here in the UK uses it, so I have little choice but to go through this rigmarole a few times a week.

On the one hand, fuck Google for wanting another vector with which to track me, on the other hand, why can't it remember that I proved to it that I'm human (allegedly) two days ago?
Let's assume you're right and the US really hasn't ever had a marginal tax rate of 70% in the past. Introducing it now would be the first time it's ever been done.

What's wrong with trying new things?
Honest question: if people like the one described in the article won't actually end up paying more in taxes due to an increase in their tax rate, why do they oppose it?
Why would that be?

I personally suspect that it's more due to a larger/richer base of potential clients/consumers.
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Nothing can be free of bias but there certainly are different levels.
No amount of tax increase alone is going to address a $22 trillion debt. Reducing the size of the state will be required.
I can only hope the next Fyre festival is in a more dangerous location, with volcanos, quicksand, and brat eating tigers.
Despite the generic term in name, "Transparency report" generally (i.e. not limited to Reddit) means a very specific thing: report on data/removal requests from 3rd party (usually governments).
And most linux distros limits the ephemeral range even further to about 30K ports
If you take a deeper look, the solution uses Docker to connect clients from different network namespaces to mitigate this
>We are inching closer to a world where, if someone engages in public wrongthink, they can immediately be shamed into poverty and banned from the public square.

And this is so different from the entirety of human history how...?

Tribalism and social ostracization of "deviants" is nothing new.
I wonder if this could be done with LTSB? It's definitely better-suited to applications such as rpi (embedded etc.).
It's not sarcasm. I genuinely found the anecdotes which I saw interesting. The current top rated comment there has a good point on the effects of being public vs. private on news organizations. Further down is a comment so long it could be a HN submission on it's own (and FYI, it's not about the death of the news industry).
> So under their model, if you tip well, you're subsidizing people who don't tip at all.

Under their model, if you tip well, they can pay less, you're subsidizing the owners, not other customers.
For those of you who don’t get it, this is ASCII text in binary.
Not quite. It falls to the biases of the party that controls the FCC.
I just noticed you’re in Cambridge. I work down the street in the Broad’s Imaging Platform. We should have coffee or something.
This is what they call soft power.
MSDNAA allows using the software after no longer being a student.
Merging fields for display doesn't preclude sorting by the merged fields, which may or may not be trivial depending on the UI libraries being used. But if the user wants to sort by state, it's worth finding out why. Is it so they can "simply" scroll down 50 pages to the Louisiana customers in order to print out a screenshot and fax it to the Louisiana office?
When I watch PBS Frontline I definitely feel I get more information. Obviously there is opinion too but I find it much better researched and thought out.
Not really. I have no econ background at all but I still find Tyler's blog interesting.
If anyone is looking for a blog post writing prompt, I would love to see something written from a founder's perspective breaking down when one should consider this form of funding, vs. YC/VC, vs. "grinding it out" and continuing to bootstrap. Or taking personal loans, etc. This could include some analysis of the total cost of each option, the benefits, etc. Specify numbers about you should use X amount to pay your own salary, Y to hire people, Z for marketing/other spend, etc.

I think the YC/VC pre-market-fit-hoping-for-billions model is well understood. But I find it difficult to understand when a bootstrapped cashflow positive business should consider any of these options. If one has a bootstrapped side business making $X/mo and a job making $150k+Y per month, when should one go all in on the business?
Steve Jobs' insistence on one-button mice was an idea too brilliant for its time... /s
Does that actually work? I found the images had to be a pretty close match for it to recognize something
The participants knew that this was the rule, of course (if they had not, there would have been no basis at all for saying "there was no incentive for people to overstate..."), which changes how a rational person would play the game: they would want to give some consideration to how other participants might bid.

Perhaps the study should have had several rounds of bidding, with the distribution of bids (or at least the minimum) from the previous round being announced beforehand. You would then get information both from how low the bids went, and who dropped out at each stage, while also getting metadata, about the methodology, in the form of how much the participants changed their bids from one round to the next.
This would've made an awesome SciFi short story.

The twist at the end is that she's lying.
Yup, would be fine with me. They are messing with the powers that be of the internet AND with consumers - what did they expect to happen anyway? The Springer press changing everyone's mind probably. Oh boy.
That's a nice effort, but I think the phone company should be required to itemize each call's billing information by default. Perhaps the billing number (the number obscured by spoofing) on every bill, with the rest available by request or on the website (to save paper).

But all in all, the problem is that the phone company will refuse to help unless required by law. They make good money from shitty robocallers.
I mean, what do you expect, "Yes, our investors were very excited about the fact this would allow them to control and censor one of the largest sites where Americans communicate with each other. Every meeting I had with them was concluded with statements about how excited they were to bring the rich traditions of censorship and Chinese state narrative control to America through this investment. They reassured me on several occasions that I would never be left wondering what it is they wanted me to censor, and that communication on that matter would be clear and open, indeed, downright irresistable. They asked that we go out with a message to the community that strongly emphasized 'He who pays the piper calls the tune', and to assure anyone who asks that of course the primary reason for the investment, as obviously, there aren't very many other reasons to invest, when they are simply inundated with so many significantly better investment opportunities with companies based in China and its much stronger economic growth."

The statement that their policies aren't changing means nothing because it's what they would say regardless of the situation. Including if it's 100% true.
>This might surprise you, but it actually has to do with what traffic coming out of TOR looks like.

That's a massive load of bullshit. Google has a captcha challenge that only humans can solve. That alone is already sufficient to prevent unwanted traffic. That is how every captcha system works. However google is an exception. If you're logged in to a google account or are using chrome then google can use that information to track your captcha history. Privacy minded people avoid google like the plague and therefore they cannot be tracked.

>Google isn't going out of their way to punish you for trying to protect your privacy.
Except this is exactly what happens. It's not "unfortunate". It works like this by design.

If google cannot track you then the captcha will force you to do something that no other captcha system does: give you even more challenges even if you have solved them correctly. You will spend the next 5 minutes solving captchas correctly and then at the end it will tell you you've failed. This again is unique to google: correct answers lead to failure. The problem immediately goes away if you let google track you, it doesn't matter how bot infested the network is. No other captcha system does it this way.

Google is clearly doing this to get free labour to label their datasets, force people to have a google account and encourage them to use chrome.
I think you need a longer answer than this, because the marginal rate was indisputably higher than this before.
teaching a dog to raise its paw on command isn't really racist nor anti-Semitic, even in context. People heiled on the comedy Hogan's Heroes.
the problem is that the EU doesnt have any internet unicorns being affected by this. So they don't counter-lobby. So whatever small scale online business exists in eu, is screwed.