skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What most students don't realize is that education is Europe is heavily subsidized. What are the fees for international students? That gives a more accurate picture of the cost.
The point is that as soon as one project looked like it was gaining critical mass, the other project should have conceded defeat and adopted the winning format. Because as we all know, the major problem with open source is there can be more than one of something.
Check out their post on Killcord on nomasters.io - I think it would interest you regarding dead-drops.
(Sorry for post/delete/post. I was moving quickly and wanted to make sure I was accurate.)
This is probably a Gauss curve with some early, then peaking, then going down again.
> For example, once I've heard a song enough, I can just replay it in my head, and it feels the same as actually listening to it.

It's terribly easy for me to acquire earworms (aka "stuck song syndrome"), and I have to avoid listening to certain kinds of music too late in the afternoon/evening - otherwise I can't sleep for music turning in my mind.

I actually ripped out the stereo from my car years ago. I don't need it. If I want to listen to some music I just let the head play it. Same thing.

Which leads me to the surprise my wife gave me one day - she told me that the daughter said a strange thing to her, she (my wife) had asked what she was doing - she was just sitting there - and the reply was "I'm listening to music in my mind". That was astonishing for my wife because she didn't know it was possible to replay music in the mind. She had never heard about such a thing. Which sounds awfully like aphantasia for audio - although I think it would be limited to just music. It's hard to imagine not being able to 'hear' a sentence in your mind.

The funny thing is that my wife is an amateur musician, and her ear is very good. Better than mine, I think.
An android library that makes very cool and animated menu for your app easily
I’m no expert on these matters, but WiFi roaming is covered by 802.11r and WiFi-meshes by 802.11s.

I assume these specs include mandated behavior in both the APs and the clients.
I've been saying this for quite some time. Here's a gist I wrote about it: https://gist.github.com/nicowilliams/a8a07b0fc75df05f684c23c...
Isn’t that the whole reason this is a breakthrough? It’s even discussed in the article...

Professor Duncan Hand, director of the five-university EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Laser-based Production Processes based at Heriot-Watt, said: “Traditionally it has been very difficult to weld together dissimilar materials like glass and metal due to their different thermal properties - the high temperatures and highly different thermal expansions involved cause the glass to shatter.
Nowadays `font-family: system-ui, sans-serif` is good enough.
I didn't assume any such thing nor does my comment even suggest it.

If you find your own strawmen "petty" I suggest you try to think more clearly. It would likely improve the quality of your HN comments.
I don't have a physical occupation now,but every other waking minute I do physical things as much as I can.

I used to work farm labour when I was younger, never slept so well in my life.
How to solve the plastic packaging paradox
Don't forget Ethernet over Power... works great on some houses and you don't need to lay out cables. But if you can nothing beats wiring the hole house.
Einstein‘s Shadow?

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/einstein-shadow-explores...
Everything is guaranteed to fail eventually. At no point in the process of designing something does an engineer or manager decide whether to make something that's going to fail or something that's going to last. You make something that you know will fail after n years. n depends on how much you are willing to spend on the most failure-prone parts. What's a reasonable value of n? Well, it depends on a lot of things, doesn't it?

You say that spending less on parts you know will fail is malicious, but everything fails eventually. If you know that your resistors are likely to last 100 years, and your capacitors (even the best ones) are like to last 20 years, is it malicious to not spring for the resistors that will last 200 years? You have to make practical decisions about the level of quality that you're aiming for at some point.

I know that planned obsolescence is a thing, and it should be illegal (in certain forms). How common is it? I don't know. Do you? Maybe I should have said "it's not necessarily malicious", because it's not. You can make a cheap product just because you think there's a market for a cheaper version of a good product. Does that mean you want the thing you're making to fail? Not necessarily. Maybe you just want to serve a market that wants a cheaper version of something. I sometimes find myself wanting to buy the cheapest version of something because I only need it for a brief period of time. Is this wasteful? Sometimes. Should it be illegal for a company to sell me a cheap version of a thing? Maybe for environmental reasons, but not for consumer protection reasons.
A student election is absolutely worthless. This is not like stealing money from a convenience store — that has value - it’s more like taking home a paperclip from your office once. I see absolutely no reason that someone taking an office supply item home should be treated differently.
Every single living person does not file a tax return. You can't just multiply the cost of preparing a return by the population.
I think it’s actualy both
> I don't see why I'd want it.

It lets web devs use languages other than JS on the frontend. That's primarily why I'm excited about it.

As for why electron, the only real explanation I've heard from people that makes sense is the ease with which you can put together custom UI controls and style them. All of the desktop UI systems are great at the simple things, like putting default OS controls in an app, but complex things like creating custom controls, animations and complex styling appear extremely difficult to accomplish. At least, that's the way it seems to me.
I bought a new house, and for me, this was part of the spec too.

Modern WiFi is getting better, but for some things you just can’t beat good, old-fashioned wires.
Mike Belshe, CEO of Bitgo, once had $25M of Bitcoin under his couch
WebGL 2.0 Compute Specification
Jumbo is an iOS privacy app that cleans up social profiles
Really writing or enforcing secret laws should be a capital offense with no defense allowed and proof of involvement and even absolve murder. There is no such thing as "too harsh" against such mad tyranny and usurpation.
We can all talk and be flippant about how trivial it is to change the colour of a button or whatever, but the sum total of all these changes is something different.

These services are running huge numbers of experiments in order to maximize engagement. Then everyone wonders what happened when tons of people on Facebook end up depressed and tons of people on YouTube end up radicalized by extremist rabbit holes.

It's death by a thousand cuts.
Are We in Fact Melding with Machines?
> My bet is that within the first year of this taxes would be massively reduced.

My guess is within the first year, they'd be reformed on administration to put less needless pain on taxpayers. My guess is also that with the needless administrative headaches so visible, it would actually make it politically feasible to pass tax increases that would otherwise be impossible, so long as you also deal with the needless administrative headaches.

Plus, I'd guess that even before that, every single politician attached in any way to creating the administrative headaches would be hounded out of office, or worse.
Education in the US is heavily subsidized too, students just also pay a lot more.
In my experience this works worse in newer houses with modern (more complex, less transparent) electrical systems, and at best you get sub-WiFi speeds.

You have little to lose by trying, but there’s no guarantee it will work at all, even less work well.
These anti-tax activists seem to be playing the role of Useful Idiots for the much more substantial reason 1, bearing in mind that the very existence of such companies making tax filing easier does indeed destroy point 2 entirely (in addition to the what OP pointed out which also takes away any credit this idea might have had).

From a european perspective, having tax returns that are not pre-filled, and having a tax administration that doesn't strive to make payment as easy and quick as possible is nonsensical. Why would the state not want its services to replenish its coffers in the fastest most efficient way possible?
Microcode was invented as part of the EDSAC 2 project at Cambridge University in about 1957. EDSAC 2 was also the first bit-sliced hardware design (which made it easier to replace parts that had failed).
“We tested the welds at -50C to 90C and the welds remained intact, so we know they are robust enough to cope with extreme conditions.”
Traditionally roaming is left to the client device and most implementations are so bad that they won't give up on an old AP so long as they're seeing beacons every year or so. Who cares that I haven't successfully received a packet in the last hour, it's sure better than the 2 second interruption we'll get if we tried to switch.

I'm only mildly bitter at the useless roaming behaviour of most clients. Turning transmit power down doesn't really help either. Some clients will roam better but other clients at the edge of the coverage now have no coverage.
Just use 5G mode.
I love your "The recent trend of ideologically motivated downvoting of factual arguments [...]" and then downvoting on ideological grounds with "+754%" right out "How to Lie with Statistics". Looking at the graph in the article shows the whole picture.
> It does matter if antenna is located higher up.

I think what the author meant to express is that the situation is symmetrical, even if one of the antennas is "better" (eg larger, or located higher up). So, author probably meant: "The bidirectional connection is symmetrical. It doesn’t matter (in terms of symmetry) if the AP has a better antenna or is located higher up".

So, even if the antenna on one side is "better" in some way, it affects both directions the same, and as such it still makes sense to use the same transmit power from both ends.
I disagree. I've been in and out of FANG companies as a Software Engineer and in my experience the education factor has largely been an HR thing. It has literally never come up in interviews. I think your performance on technical interviews combined with behavioral factors are the sole determinant. I've had one non-FANG company turn me down (as I was leaving a FANG), because I didn't have a degree. They were pretty upfront with that though.
Farmers I know (in California) quit trying to find native workers when at $25/hour they still were not getting anyone to apply, even though that is double the $12/hr McDonalds in pays. That is before you factor in most native workers didn't show up for work regularly.

Immigrant workers see $15/hr as riches beyond belief: back home they get about half of that per DAY. To us it looks bad, but to them it is much better than their life before.
> A failing public education system and increasingly consumerist culture that encourages bad spending habits using psychological advertising tricks, to start. Go look at how little savings Americans have currently as well, which has been covered ad nauseam by most news outlets in the past few years.

While these may play a small part in why people couldn't budget for it now, I think a bigger part of it is that income tax just did not apply to most people in as large of sums that it does today.

For example. The lowest tax bracket in 1940 was 4% and went from $0-4000. Median income at that time in the US was about $950.
The title implies some geopolitical motive that is not supported by the article. It must be a slow news day.

>an amphibious assault ship outfitted last year with F-35B jets

I.e. not a carrier group which is what most people think of when they hear "F-35-laden warship"

>joined the annual Exercise Balikatan with the Philippines this month.

This is an annual exercise, not an escalation of some sort, doesn't get any clearer than that.

>The USS Wasp didn’t pass within 25 nautical miles of the shoal, according to a U.S. defense official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The figure suggests that the ship wasn’t conducting a so-called freedom of navigation operation, a practice criticized by China that the U.S. uses to assert international sailing rights within 12 nautical miles of disputed features.

Basically they're just in the neighborhood, not trying to stir up trouble.

>The moves come as officials in Manila escalate protests over...

There's always something else going on at any given time.
I read that more as being about the welding process, while I'm more thinking about how it would function during its use.
"4. If you need anything else, go with Udemy, Masterclass, School of AI and similar"

+. I am huge udemy fan. I love that profits get back to the creator of the content. Usually, I wait until there is a good sale then pick up a security [1] course for $10. The teachers are positive and reply back to me. I think the only way this model could work is if Udemy had a total of 5 employees and took a small fee. VCs need to get out of this business - these aren't unicorns.

https://www.udemy.com/kali-linux-hacking/
Except that for most of the country, there aren't actually local ISPs. There are enormous regional/national ISPs—Charter, Comcast, AT&T, etc. If there really were local providers, they might have more of an incentive to invest in last-mile connectivity.

(Of course, the really effective way to do that would be local loop unbundling and requiring a certain level of physical connectivity for everyone.)
Show HN: EQZEN Beta - Portfolio management for do-it-yourself equity investors
Whether I'm going through the terrible process to pay $20 vs $20,000 doesn't make a difference. How would a lower tax rate improve anything in this scenario?
Exactly; alcohol is heavily taxed in Canada, as is tobacco. It’s designed to discourage abuse
Maybe she's just more private, or less attractive and fashionable? However, when I read comments about her on HN they were enthusiastic.
Using software on my smartphone I can observe that it changes AP it associates with as I walk around the house where I have a “traditional” 802.11r WiFi network with common wired backend. No new DHCP is triggered either.

So it may not be perfect, but it can’t be that bad.
well yes we have the technology to redo all those art pieces from scratch and enjoy them in their fullest, but at which point it's just a reconstruction (or an elaborate picture) of the original?

without going all "Ship of Theseus" on this, age and decay is part of those masterpieces quality; most of them were cracked and wrinkly just months after delivery and their defects are integral part of the art.
I'm still a bit skeptical as I can't really confirm by visiting someone else's mind.

What if they just define their thoughts differently? When I say "I can't see a ball", I mean that while I can reproduce how it would vaguely feel like to see a ball (like the difference between tasting something and recalling a taste), and kind of trace its outline, I can't have a picture in my mind with a similar accuracy as actually looking at a ball.

Someone else might say "I can see a ball" even if internally they experience the same as me, because they might set their bar lower. Could it be that people with aphantasia are just more demanding for what they count as "seeing"?
Aren't they structurally the same, just that one is with 2 players, while the other is with N players?
They say that “We tested the welds at -50C to 90C and the welds remained intact, so we know they are robust enough to cope with extreme conditions.”

So, it seems like they're aiming for applications where temperatures stay in the ranges of human habitats.
They don't specify anything about the nature of that weld though, for example how big the glass and the iron pieces were, and whether it was a point weld or a continuous weld, and the geometry of the weld itself (for example if it had an inside/outside corner).
I call it commment thread bailout collapsing.

I’ll often have read ten deep into a long thread and have reached my fill of the discussion but it’s a but cumbersome to scroll back and find the parent to collapse the thread. I want to just bail out.
First Results from the Event Horizon Telescope to Be Presented on April 10th
Wouldn't it be impossible, then, to replace the lenses with new ones (in case of scratches, or with eyesight changes over time)?
I guess you could make rims smaller this way... however most glasses nowadays use plastics.
> Anyway, the government needs to collect and verify all information anyway.

Eventually. Not necessarily by the time you file, and not necessarily on every return. Remember, the IRS only audits a small fraction of returns for accuracy. Auditing every return would be a much bigger job than they currently do.

I'm not saying they shouldn't, but it isn't as trivial as a lot of people here seem to think.
So is Opera nowadays.
I hadn't been paying much attention to DNS-over-HTTPS, but I recently listened to a talk that Dr. Paul Vixie (of BIND fame) gave that where DNS-over-HTTPS was discussed:

https://youtu.be/OxFFTxJv1L4?t=2799

After hearing Dr. Vixie discuss DNS-over-HTTPS from a network operator perspective I'm a lot more wary of the protocol.
Racism can also stem from the elite, as a rationalization for why they are in power. Racism can then, in turn, show up in the underpriveleged woeking / subservient class, as another manifestation of their hate for the elite. It's not a one-way street- the pain just keeps on giving.
The IRS outsources the development of the free software.

All the IRS does is publish the tax code in a specific XML format. MEF (mechanized e-file) is the interchange specification. It's rather a shame there's not more open source effort around tax filings...
> As someone who has only ever experienced sight when my eyes are open

Can you experience/imagine music (or any sound) without hearing it? Like a song which is stuck in your ear. Or if I ask you to imagine the Star Wars melody, could you hum it in your mind?
Researchers Uncover New Version of the Infamous Flame Malware
Exactly the thought that people here might risk on a "new" vendor made me start a small recruitment firm, and I still run it (coderfit.com). I think this wouldn't have been possible in Germany, where I am from because Germans care much more about price rather than quality/good service and it is much harder to start something as a single founder. Germany is optimized for big industry not for solo founders.
> Wouldn't that be Wouldn't that be regressive, in the sense that richer people spend a lower proportion of their income?

The paycheck credit I proposed should address that. Plus rich p
eople definitely spend a lot more compared to others.

> Plus they have the means to spend their earnings abroad

While that's true, they certainly could be taxes on major purchases. For example, I could buy souvenirs abroad without passing tax on them, but I wouldn't be able to buy a car and not pay the tax before titling it here.
If I ran across a resume of someone who hacked a student election and a resume of someone who won it legitimately, I’d consider the hacker to be the more valuable and qualified applicant by a long shot for any STEM position. I am amazed that you have never done an unethical thing when you were a youth, but I know that my entire cs class in high school was finding exploits in the IT security structure and abusing them for fun.
Homograph attacks: What you see is not what you get
Ability to only see new comments. Maybe kind of gray out previously read comments. On the main page tell you how many new comments there are.
Plenty of glass to metal sealing is done for hermetic purposes. One use is glass sealed connectors for aerospace use. Also components for ultra high vacuum systems which use metal to glass (or ceramic) joints to transition between materials or electrical isolation.
Thanks. A factor 2-4x slower than pure native is totally acceptable for many workloads, and it sounds like that's a realistic goal. Exciting times.
Even in that range, you can run into issues. I know of local buses in my home town where a lot of them would have cracks in the front window because when they went over speed bumps, the frame would flex enough that strain was placed on the window. If you remove the silicone glue or whatever it is they use to afix windows, this problem would get a lot worse.
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1. The author goes to great length to explain that there is basically no downside, only upside to it.

2. The correct answer in the Prisoner's Dilemma is to cooperate, in my opinion.
Well...war games are often used to send various signals to adversaries.

Operational F-35s in the region are absolutely intended to dampen China's military and commercial ambitions in the South China Sea.
A more interesting F-35 story today: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-defence-f35/crashed...
That's exactly how I felt about the first half of the robotics nanodegree I took and the reason I didn't pursue the second half.
Censorship isn't really a personal preference. Or is it?
That would make it rather difficult. In my experience people usually replace the frames and lenses together, but ymmv.
Google put $85M into them in 2014 https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/credit-karma#section...
Dutchman drives from Amsterdam to Sydney without petrol
There is also "mind's ear". Most people have it but some don't.

Most people imagine voices in their head. When reading, writing, or imagining a conversation, especially an argument, or preparing for a meeting.

When I'm reading, or writing, including coding, I hear the words in my head.

The speech doesn't sound like real sound, just like visualising doesn't look like real images. (Dreams are different - they can sound real, and I've heard some amazing music in my dreams.)

I have friend who doesn't hear anything in her "mind's ear", and had no idea until recently that other people do.

After someone admitted to hearing imaginary voices (me), after asking other people she was astonished to find this is normal and she's unusual. Nearly everyone has an internal voice.

This freaked her out as she wondered if other people experienced auditory "voices in your head telling you what to do" style hallucinations, and wondered if they sound like real voices (they don't, but there is some resemblance).

She simply had no conscious experience of a mind's ear with speech.

I can't imagine what it's like without one. Most of my thinking has imaginary speech going on, including when I'm coding or reading.

I also have a friend who _stopped_ having the mind's ear speech after a stroke. She said she'd been trying for years to quieten the internal dialogue through meditation, and then after the stroke she finally experienced it.
Far fewer people were subject to the income tax at the time. The average Joe who couldn't read well or do much arithmetic didn't have to worry about it. For this reason the Social Security tax was implemented as a payroll tax.

The tax was intended primarily as a tax on the wealthy or middle class, but over time by not adjusting the standard deduction/exemptions, more and more people ended up paying the tax. You could also make the argument that more and more people became middle class.