skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's kinda weird to just make someone disappear, instead of convict them in public - make other rich Chinese nationals realize what the consequences for tax evasion are.
Mainly because it seems like you constantly lie and make promises you can't keep. Some of your claims are outrageous without any evidence.

Of course I would like to be proven wrong.
Don't tar everyone with the same brush. There are a lot of people out there who figured out that life is much better when you drop the facade and social media glitz. For obvious reasons they don't exactly shout it from the rooftops, they just go on living their own lives in their own way, detached from advertising, trends and fads.

Marketing is poison, and the sooner a person learns to ignore it and do their own thing instead, the happier they'll be.
Newer version of [1]: https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.042/spring18/mcs.pdf
I assume it's a mix of:

open source > proprietary

based in jurisdiction that respects freedom and privacy > based in authoritarian country

empowering users > empowering corporations and governments

privacy > no or compromised privacy

powered by green energy > powered by coal

recycling > no recycling

paid by users > paid by targeted ads based on analysis of your behaviour
My fingerprint is different every minute. That "very strong signal" is discarded by every surveillance engine as useless noise.
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There's an income requirements and, at least in practice, you cannot be file 1099-MISCs which means you cannot be 'self employed' which is becoming more and more common (insert buzzphrase here) independent of actual income.

Unfortunately, the people most effected by this bill are likely too busy working to afford the time to contact their representatives.
There are other, more scalable ways to do this. Reach out to us if you want to talk more :)
"It shows resourcefulness, too, because the candidate often has to hunt down an email address the interviewer never gave them."

So basically the author expects the candidate to send a thank you email even though she didn't exchange her email address. Well, I think such email is natural when you make a personal contact with the interviewer, but in this scenario(when you receive emails from noreply@bigcorporate.com) it feels unnecessary and intrusive to me.
I don't do anything for that reason. That sounds like a marketer's projection instead of any objective reality.

It also sounds like the Postmodernist Disease of the Science Wars assuming nothing is real while they write bullshit indistinguishable from a Markov Chain generator output.

The prevalence just shows that - not that it isn't pathological.
It's not just flying slower. If you've ever flown into London, you are probably familiar with the notion of a holding pattern. When things get busy at the airport, due to poor scheduling, it is quite common for planes to fly in circles for 10-20 minutes or even longer in some cases.

Also, planes sitting on taxi lanes burning fuel with six planes in front of them is a common issue. Planes are assigned landing and take off slots and if they miss those, that's a problem.

So, if the schedule is unrealistic, planes might be taking off "on time" knowing full well they'll be circling downtown London for some time.
I have pushed them to the point of vomiting on multiple occasions. I don't think it makes the activities more enjoyable.
Why? At least around here both of those sectors are still dominated by Windows with very few exceptions. Plus, in the specific incident, we're talking about a ressort. The likelihood of that having valuable targets for data exfiltration running anything other would be slim to none (with maybe the exception of the odd router, wifi AP or similar that you'd have to know details off beforehand to attack).

Also keep in mind that the most likely accessible targets would be end user type machines, in that area I'd understand if you carry something exploiting a Mac but Linux? That's just virtual dead weight.
There is an efficiency curve for jet transports. There is a defined MRC (max range cruise, which varies by weight) and a calculated LRC (long range cruise, typically defined as 1% less fuel efficient [in kg/nm], which gives 99% of efficiency and about 104% of cruise speed vs MRC).

Modern flight management systems have economy calculators that can predict not only fuel-at-destination figures, but can incorporate winds and other airline cost indices (crew, maint reserves, etc) to emit an "ECON" speed target.

It is only speeds below the MRC that cause a decrease in (still-air) fuel efficiency. Airlines do not typically operate in that speed range in cruise absent an ATC directive to slow down to avoid holding ahead. (Obviously, flying a hold is done below MRC as well.)
Hmm, Chrome doesn't appear to be on the list of ethically approved browsers :P
It's an interesting read, but I wouldn't really blame Tik Tok fame in this case. Just a shitty roommate.
No, what I meant was that it is safe to keep request-scoped data in global scope without needing to worry that a concurrently running request will interfere with the state there. Normally in a Node server you cannot do this.

Cloud Functions will reuse instances for subsequent invocations (that's what "being warm" means), but separate instances do not share global scope.
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What propublica left out:

To be clear the Intuit’s of the world are not acting altruistically, however they’ve created an odd alliance with anti-tax advocates who 1. Think that any government provided system will favor the government over tax-payers and make it easier to sneak in stealth tax changes and 2. The anti-tax lobby cynically (and correctly) understands that in order to keep taxes unpopular, making them painful is useful.
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> I like Go because it avoids pointless verbosity most of the time.

Except for all those times you had to manually write err != nil
After using one of these devices for a day, I've gone back to black tape. Why? Because you're never certain the camera's blocked with a 2-position switch unless you look each time, whereas with tape it's ALWAYS where you want it.
"At graduation, most doctors are in the ballpark of $1MM behind where they'd be if they went straight into a professional career."

So the two great failures of the American economic system, education and health care, reinforcing each other to make the situation even worse.

"Also, doctor's salaries only account for 8% to 20% of total healthcare costs."

Where does the rest go?
Every camera I've tried this with displays the IR as a pinkish purple color. You can sometimes see that same color in photos of things like sunlight reflecting off of chrome, or refracting through windows.
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Borland Turbo C++ 3.0 was my main Christmas present when I was 10 years old. A real upgrade from BASIC on my Atari 800. :-)
My first programming experiences were on a CASIO Graph 65 calculator, with BASIC style language.

My greatest accomplishment was a Stronghold-like simulation/management game, of several hundred lines. Got some success among my pals.

What a time... and what a painful language.
For complex analysis the book by Churchill -written for engineers- is a very down to earth introduction with lots of examples and applications to resolution of integrals and PDEs.

In the case of set theory I cannot recommend enough Halmos' "Naive set theory". It's completely rigorous yet easy to read, and lays out all the basics of ZF, constructing both ordinals and cardinals.

For probability Khinchin has some very thin fun books, written for some classes he gave in a military school. The books do not get into deep topics but are a good introduction.

For group theory I would try Isaacs' Algebra book. Although the book is one of those books which contain too many topics, he was really enthusiastic of group theory and I have been told the corresponding chapters are very good.
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If that's the criteria it should be included fairly prominently on the site -- so visitors can understand and choose whether or not to use and contribute to the site.
This is pure anecdote, but...

A NOAA employee told me about the time their boss caught holy hell from a Senator because the NWS had the gall to update a particular weather product they offered by adding color to the map. Evidently someone had a business essentially downloading the free NOAA data and improving it by coloring the maps and selling that as a product. When NOAA made it free, they called their Senator in anger. And said Senator slapped NOAA's wrist.

Seems like the same school of thought in a much bigger market.
This is deeply frustrating. I can not tell you how many people I see paying $200-300 for some random "tax preparer" set up in a corner mall or the front of a WalMart simply because they do not understand there are a number of free resources that would prepare their 1040EZ for them at their income/complexity level.

These same people get back a $1500 "return" so they think they are getting a good deal. Its pure greed and theft from some of the most needy members of our society. Absolute shame on everyone involved in this process.
Discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19600852
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hey there, can you share with the entire list you're thinking of? we've switched from google analytics to self hosted matomo last week, and planning to switch again to fathom for example. thanks!
you don't know that.
The US led the world in overall reduction of CO2 emissions in 2017 mostly due to the deployment of cheap renewables with an overall reduction of 0.9%.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=36953
A couple of things have changed though. LLVM exists, we are being flooded by parser frameworks that make that whole business much more pleasant than the lex/yacc days, the llvm and Regehr blogs both spelled out some info on undefined behavior that previously people either didn't understand or refused to believe, the size of software engineering has grown to include many different niches, computer architectures have by and large grown more homogeneous (and where they're different you aren't going to be exploiting their power with lowest common denominator C), memory hierarchies aren't flat and it's becoming the determining factor in program speed, etc.

It's not obvious what needs to come next, which is the only reason that C is still here. Most likely several languages are needed to fully replace it. And our industry is starting to feel that out now.

D, Go, Rust, Jai, Zig, P, C# low level primitives. Things are changing. Even C++ seems to want to be a different language with some of it's latest developments.
So basically they're taking up a loan but without the legal protections and obligations of a loan? That's going to end well.
For those who are wondering, given the publisher, no, the essay is not simply a rant against rent-control:

> True revolution would involve curbing the authority of the San Francisco Planning Commission. If Democrats in the city or in Sacramento actually cared about the poor or the environment (density is green), they would enact a land-value tax and establish a redistributive policy to align the interests of the city, current residents, and future citizens. Strong government housing policy could spur growth and redistribute the city’s wealth fairly. But most of all, the freedom to build and experiment is the engine of Silicon Valley dynamism. Allow the experiments of the few to become the prosperity and fulfillment of the many, and the city could thrive once again.
> You could argue Google is a religion for some people

It's also concurrently a massively profitable business.
They are the only thing not solid in your solid state devices. I've successfully repaired 5 out of 6 dead monitors and TVs by replacing all the big capacitors. No diagnostics skills required. Just replace the big caps.
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That says nothing at all about its design or architecture or quality or usability. Windows 1.0 was inspired by the Macintosh.
I'm a visual artist with Aphantasia and not being able to create mental imagery means I have to rely on process, emotion, and memory. These are the things that drive my creative work because I can't imagine how it will turn out. Otherwise, I need to see the thing in front of me to recreate or work with it.
Ive worked for Kevin during his tenure at MS. Ads have not been the focus, so I'm not sure the innuendo means much.
> there are middlemen and your slaims are ridiculous fantasy

this is an assertion from your previous message.

> Miners are the middlemen

this is an elaboration for your assertion, that was missing from your previous message.

you don't have to lie, it's fine if you admit your mistake and fix it.

> Miners are the middlemen, complete with fees

this is false. middlemen have control over the process. miners don't control who can transact with whom and transaction fees are still orders of magnitude lower than the actual flat block reward. moreover - miners don't set the fees either, market does. miners only participate in a competitive environment of providing proof of work and getting paid for it. they are "contractors", not middlemen.

> Bitcoin is not pure energy any more than any other electronic currency. Proof of work is energy already used, not somehow carried in a bitcoin.

bitcoin is not pure energy and i never claimed it was. if you go back and try to read carefully you'll see that i was talking about monetary value and security. bitcoin is just a record in a ledger and not different in t hat regard from thousands other cryptocurrencies. what's different is the difficulty number of every block in the bitcoin blockchain - that's where security comes from, that's how hard it is to modify history and that is where big chunk of bitcoin's value is coming from.

> Proof of work is energy already used, not somehow carried in a bitcoin.

again, you're misunderstanding what i'm saying. you can't convert bitcoin back into energy that was used to create the blockchain, however you do have to spend equivalent amount of energy for each block to be able to mutate the history. that's what i mean when i say that bitcoin is security of money backed by pure energy.
I am not under that impression at all; private corporations profit greatly from government prisons. Private companies administer the phone systems, bail bonds, cafeteria / commissaries, etc. Since they profit from it they lobby hard for harsh sentencing laws, against marijuana legalization, etc. ensuring a steady supply of prisoners to feed the complex. They affect future prisoners even before they have been accused of a crime, supporting the campaigns of those they know will support tough prison sentences including judges, sheriffs etc.
I have such fond memories of coding in these BASIC games with my dad at our C64 when I was six or so. Honestly the most memorable part was the night I got to stay up late, while he and I spent hours trying to figure out why this one little problem kept appearing. My first late night debugging session.
Everybody's talking about how we're going to pay for good content. How will newspapers operate in the future?

We don't need to pay for content. The world is full of people who will write for nothing more than getting their name out there. What we need are good editors. The news media are firing the very people who could get them out of this mess they ended up in.
> "at least at my company"

> makes me happy to be in Software

This might well be the one detail that makes the difference here. In software, and many other industries, this would be stupid and counterproductive, but in journalism, polite but invasive persistence might actually be a relevant character trait.
Dunno, I've seen the same reaction from a lot of people seeing themselves at a computer for the first time. A kind of frowny "ew." Those of us who use webcams a lot are probably getting over it, but I bet it's still a normal sentiment for everyone else.
Some of these services claim no adds, chronological timeline, etc., but that was Facebook and Twitter in the early days too. How do we know these services will remain add free?
Never write off going to Europe and eating their food for a few weeks and trying to figure out for months why your chronic skin conditions/etc go away, only to be told the exact stuff you're reading in these threads.
Article that isn't sullied by an infection of a clickbait title: www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/04/astronomers-spy-iron-planet-stripped-its-crust-around-burned-out-star
I don't see the weather as more extreme than it was 30 (or 100) years ago. I realize this is said in the media and on certain sites, but I don't see it actually being the case.

There have always been droughts, hurricanes, floods, even more extreme events in the past than we have witnessed over the last few decades.

It would be interesting to objectively determine a baseline for "extreme" events and plot the frequency over last two or three centuries though, that I'd like to see and it might convenience me.

CNN breathlessly stating "Hurricane caused by global warming!" doesn't though.
The dependences do not change upon distribution, so they can be safely encoded on the makefile. As for "detecting" the compiler, either it is in the path, or in the CC variable (or analogous), in which case the makefile can work; I do not honestly understand what is the task of cmake here. The only use that I can see is creating projects for other build-systems, e.g. for windows. But if you only distribute your code to posix systems, and your project is small(ish), then cmake does not really add anything.
The JAL flights from London to Tokyo and back really annoyed me last year because of padding. The LHR to HND leg arrived 45 minutes early, which meant I had 45 minutes extra of early morning time in Tokyo and 45 minutes less snoozing to try and get ahead of the jetlag.

The return trip was different, if the plane had departed on time it would have reached London at a time when inbound flights are not allowed due to noise restrictions. That meant it was about 2am by the time I was able to board the plane, again not ideal for sleeping.
I am not sure how ethics is defined here. In fact, I can totally see how some of these options can be considered unethical.

Before we proceed, recall that Facebook is now a "morally bankrupt liars" because it "enabled genocide", "facilitate foreign undermining of democratic institutions", "allow the live streaming of suicides, rape, and murders", and "host and publish the mosque attack video".

Let's compare this with one of the ethical browsers listed here -- Tor. Tor allowed Silk Road, which allowed dangerous drugs and fake IDs to be sold, and other sites that hosted child abuse and pornography content.

But privacy! Well, how about PeerTube? Interestingly, PeerTube "viewers don't have privacy" as it exposes the IPs of all viewers. Imagine if YouTube or Facebook does this.

So what gives?
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Backend seems down for me. Also the second filter date picker is positioned so its off my screen (23" standard monitor). Cool concept though and it seemed to work for others judging from the other HN comments
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mostly from within the communities that you wish to follow... for instance the podcasts and youtube channels surrounding $HOBBY might lead you their own server. then once you're in a couple, and get chatting, people mention other servers, or one of the channels will be dedicated to listing similar or related servers. many will be linked/pinned from subreddits too.

what's your interest? I might be able to point you to a few
In Lennart Poettering's very own words, written on xyr own WWW site back in 2010, xe stated that xe "took a lot of inspiration" from Upstart.
So I fly AA a lot because of Oneworld basically so I'm familiar with their faults.

If this is recent however it's not entirely their fault. AA is a big customer for the 737 MAX. That plane's grounding has hit their schedule pretty hard. Most of those flights involved Miami for some reason but to backfill those routes they've taken planes off existing routes that weren't fully utilized. Like I'm fairly sure some weekend JFK-SEA flights were canceled and my guess was to free up an old 737 for some other route.

They're also the largest airline in the world I believe so i can't even begin to imagine the complexity of the logistics of this like making sure you have a flight crew in the right place as well as all the other changes to services like maintaining the plane, cleaning it after a flight, baggage handling, stocking the plane with food and drinks and so on.

If your changes in itinerary were less recent than that then my next question is does this involve regional flights? I fly between hubs mostly so I haven't had that experience.
“Up and down the city’s disorienting hills, you notice homeless men and women — junkies, winos, the dispossessed...“

Did the author ever actually walk in SF? The homeless mostly stay in the flats, the hills are fine (and higher rent of course).
You can keep it there and withdraw it after 65 penalty free (have to pay taxes like a traditional IRA) or you can pull it out now and pay taxes plus a 10% penalty.
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> Zig appears to be a largely single contibutor

Aside from starting Zig as his personal project, Zig is also Andrew's job now. As far as I'm aware that is not true of any other contributor, so it makes sense he'd have the lion's share of contributions.
Or at a bank.
"To provide a good modern experience for a heavy web app using traditional Django/Rails stuff is basically impossible", Any links to that? AFAIK Github are still on pjax which is a less fancy version of turbolinks. Basecamp isn't a SPA. I don't think shopify is a SPA.
etc etc...
>sneak in stealth tax changes

I don't think we exist in a world where this is possible.
I mean, if you want SIP, you can leave it fully enabled and load all custom kernel extensions with Clover, as I mentioned.

As I see it, if you're the kind of user who's installing Hackintosh, you're also probably savvy enough to not grant root permission to just any software. I want to have full control over my computer.
Its plentiful and its greener than both wind and solar. Furthermore i am assuming the point is reduction of co2, if thats the case then does it really matter in this context?
I'm confident this is an intentional act; using substandard or slightly the wrong capacitors to ensure they'll die just outside of the warranty period. I had the same thing with a monitor of mine, it started dying after a good three years. My dad soldered in some new capacitors, good ones that can take more voltage or something (as opposed to not enough voltage like the older ones) and it's still good, almost ten years later? I don't even remember.

However, this is not true for all monitors; this was a relative budget monitor, Fujitsu I believe. Not long before it started acting up, I invested in a (twice as expensive) Dell monitor, and it's not given me any problems in the nearly 8 years I've had it (just looked up the receipt, bought 23 September 2011)
> by assuming it grows linearly with the transaction rate

That’s a reasonable approximation. Over time mining is paid for by transaction fees in a competitive market. If you get 2x the fees and the cost to mine stays the same, you get 2x as much mining.

Granted that assumes transaction fees are ~1:1 with transaction count. However, protection from a 51% attack eventually requires 1:1 increase in mining as the value of a 51% attack increase, so the lower bound is there.