skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Out of curiosity, do you dream?
I remember him saying before the election that the odds of Trump winning we're roughly the odds of a randomly picked day being a Saturday. Which always seemed pretty clear to me - Saturdays definitely happen, Trump could definitely happen. And then it did, and it was nothing like a Saturday, not at all.
...before it finally fizzles out, along with the Hipsters that brought it back in the first place!?
Google?? Excuse me, Alphabet!
I don't get it. You're saying the incompetent government's fiscal policy is unable to handle the growing inequality and therefore instead of fixing the government we should just ban robots? Seriously... Nowadays I think the biggest problem developed countries face is the opposition to progress because they are already happy with what they have and any improvement becomes an "us vs them" scenario where the new thing is demonized.
HTML has a lock-in because it's supported by web browsers directly, exactly like JS. I have a profound dislike for anything SGML-related but what can I do? Display my website as a PDF? At best I can transpile an other format into HTML.

HTML and JS have succeeded in spite of their clunkiness, not because of it.

Markdown on the other hand has no such lock-in, mainly because it usually gets transpiled into HTML or other formats. Replacing it is a lot easier and can be done incrementally without client support.
Interesting that Redis uses fork() for COW implementation.
Social media like factories are usually targeting websites that are not hosted by Cloudflare (Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Youtube etc.)

If the like factories are using 3rd world IP's they are probably real human ( https://www.rt.com/viral/388169-smartphones-factory-generate... ) because bots can be run cheaper on a 1st world server because bandwidth, IP, and power usually cost less there. Captcha is an anti-bot measure and is not (or at least shouldn't be but I'm finding it hard to pass CF's captcha as human) very effective against actual humans.

I don't even think CF considers(or even aware of) the existence of a like factory on the same network for displaying the captcha and I am pretty sure they don't justify their captcha blocking with it. It's more likely that they just see a bunch of connections coming from the same IP and naively concludes that it must be a bot.

I'm sure it's easy to make "excuses"(vs justification) but given the real harm it does to actual human users and questionable effectiveness against the doubtful ill-effects of the existence of like factories against CF-hosted websites; I'd like to hear that "justification."
This add-on isn't new. Why now?

https://notabug.org/themusicgod1/cloudflare-tor
Sorry, probably missing something obvious: what prevents you from using Emacs instead of pandoc to convert Org to HTML in whatever pipeline you have going already?
> Hacker News don't have any obligation to provide everyone equal access to their site.

i disagree. Net neutrality to me also means that a site like HN should serve all customers coming to the site the same, and not discriminate against TOR users or VPN users, or users from a certain IP range, or users with different/non-standard user-agent headers.
There was a sequel, too:

https://www.atariarchives.org/morebasicgames/
As long as you’re not asking the same questions repeatedly, then you’re doing great! It’s important that you’re learning, growing, and asking new questions. Collaborating and asking for help is an important part of being a team.

Many people like being asked to help. I love giving my coworkers a second pair of eyes and helping them discover a solution to their problem. It’s incredibly rewarding and I’ll almost always learn something.
> It's not their money unless I earn the money to pay them, IMHO.

Of course—and in my understanding estimates account for this. If you earnings diverge such that you will not owe that money in the end, you don't have to pay it and won't face a penalty, as long as you've paid a certain percentage of your year-end tax liabilities.

And to be clear, I'm not arguing from principle. They should make it much easier and straightforward to pay and understand taxes regardless employment arrangement. However, in practice, they view estimated taxes (quarterly) or paycheck withholdings as required payments or they will levy penalties. :-)
Win32 is going into the store, that is the whole point of MSIX.
OPPO Just Released New Reno Series with 10x Hybrid Zoom
شاهد قناة الساحل الموريتانية بث مباشر الان
downvoting to indicate disagreement is the worst kind of downvoting.
See with Ears: Auditory Display for Synthetic Vision (2018)
What is it with all those reduced font/background contrast styles? To me these are terribly hard to read. As a matter of fact a large part of my Stylish/Greasemonkey sets are just there to get back decent contrast on text.
It's not scary at all. It's the tradeoff we've always been making.

Restricting access to slavery made society freer. Not giving anyone the freedom to buy and sell human beings actually made everyone much more free.

In the practical sense there are many freedoms which if they are restricted produce a net gain in freedom. Imminent domain encroaches on freedom to own land, but think of how much freedom a highway gives people.

When the government forces everyone to pay tax for national healthcare, it gives every single citizen much more freedom.

Freedom from alcohol's harms vs freedom to consume alcohol is a typical, valid, discussion to negotiate societal vs individual freedoms.
Wouldn't that make the lower class the only ones that had to file anything at all (for the tax credit), put temporary financial strain in place when waiting for credit for purchases and actually make the IRS more complicated and onerous for most Americans?

I get the attempt to sidestep the regressive counterarguments normally in play with sales tax replacement systems, but I think this system would be equally regressive.
That's fascinating!

Unfortunately it doesn't help the OP since he'd have to make quarterly payments regardless.
We can’t get over the death of the dinosaurs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19620176
By "drawing from imagination" I meant drawing without a reference (live or otherwise). You point seems to be: "drawing a very realistic rendition of an object/subject without looking at it is hard". Which is true, but completely orthogonal to my thesis that "drawing from imagination == drawing from memory".

On a tangential note: there's more to creating believable art than accurate re-creation of proportions and details (which is why sites like deviantart are full of completely lifeless art that immediately reads as copies of photos). I'm aphantastic and only a have a very general idea of what a bear looks like, but I'm pretty sure I could draw a move convincing one "from my head" than someone untrained spending all day at the zoo would, because I have a good knowledge (or memory, if you will) of dogs and cats musculoskeletal anatomy I can extrapolate from, and I understand how forms in space and light work.
Oh I'm sure it's a lot of work. But that's the whole point right? Getting a proper answer. Guesstimates and half calculations are also imprecise enough to make such articles basically just an exercise in imagination rather than an accurate representation of the facts.
The WSL processes are called pico processes.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/05/23/pico-process...
From the linked page "Privacy Pass uses elliptic curve cryptography to generate 'anonymous' tokens after a single CAPTCHA page is solved."

In any case - privacy implications aside - having to install an extension to get around their risk assessment algorithm going wrong seems like placing the burden in very much the wrong place.

edit: was wrong about who created the extension
getting closer everyday to a global "login" to access the internet
It's not necessarily candor. Could just be people in the current team criticizing the decisions of previous team members.
At least I can completely override what I'm seeing in front of my eyes with my imagination, to the point where I take no notice of my surroundings anymore. It doesn't "mix", it just replaces.
I feel you. I'm not trying to argue with you at all :-)

I get both sides of the situation. It just seems the side of the tax payer doesn't matter.
Not sure if that's true. Legal minutiae and latin diseases are at least as opaque to people as software code, the actual work likely less glamorous than programming.
A SASS media query mixin for dealing with various screen pixel densities
I am not sure who would eat better... consider:

- the variety of foods available today is far greater, especially in winter
- Spices available 1000 years ago were quite limited, today any supermarket will have 100 varieties from all around the world for like $2/satchel
- refrigeration allows safe storage of food
- Things like ice cream, chocolate, popcorn etc etc just did not exist.

So I think a "peasant" today CAN eat tastier and healthier food than kings of 1000 years ago... whether or not they choose to is another matter.
This is why I immediately close any page with google's captcha.
When you do encounter CAPTCHAs, try out Buster [0]. It passes the CAPTCHA by solving the audio challenge using speech recognition APIs.

Google does block people from accessing the audio challenge [1] in some cases, so make sure to check if you can access the audio challenge even before installing the extension by clicking on the headphone icon within the challenge widget.

Enable user input simulation from the extension's options and install the client app to reduce the chance of a temporary block while using the extension.

If you're on Chrome, there is a pending update (0.5.2) that switches to the Wit Speech API (demo) service by default, verify that you're using the correct service by visiting the extension's options to avoid any errors.

Please open an issue if you have experience with image recognition and you'd like to contribute towards a mode that would solve the visual challege, or assist users by suggesting image tiles to select.

[0] https://github.com/dessant/buster

[1] https://github.com/w3c/apa/issues/25
As in "You don’t know it, but you’re working for Facebook. For free."[1]?

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/07...
That is fascinating! I wonder what kind of large scale effort it took to start having taxes withheld and sent to the government. So many small town employers that would need to comply and make a process to handle it....
balance in life is a skill hard to acquire
I was just about to say. The GP sounds like they're saying

> there's no good way of converting <markup language> to html except by running <preferred converter>. So for each article, getting a html representation requires firing up <preferred converter>. That's insane.
This is not Ferguson's research. He reports on this research in his book -- though the citation is not very prominent. It is from a book by Erikson, Between Monopoly and Free Trade, and an article by Erikson and Bearman, Malfeasance and the Foundation of Global Trade
true, I could with hold like Married, 9, lol.

But then if I did that and at year end didn't have enough taken I would still face a penalty.

It feels like taxpayers just have to take it.
GitHub-sample cloud-native application on service mesh
I have no visual memory, but my tactile memory is excellent, so I remember my loved ones' arms, the texture of their hair, that sort of thing.
How was it "his" money?
The problem is that the wealthy people are the one's who govern. (they define what is and what isn't legal)

This is interconnected and to change it would mean to break it up somehow.

Therefor you'd need to change the premise that "wealth is power" which is a basic equation of our global system since centuries.
Can you have imaginary discussion inside your head? For example, before you are meeting someone can you plan the discussions inside your head?

Do you have verbal thoughts?

> I'm starting to think I might be brain damaged.

You are probably just neuroatypical. You should try to discover if your neuroatypicality gives you an edge over neurotypicals in some areas and exploit it.

You might enjoy reading experiences of someone who is neuroatypical in opposite way. "Thinking the Way Animals Do: Unique insights from a person with a singular understanding". By Temple Grandin, Ph.D.

https://www.grandin.com/references/thinking.animals.html

alternate link: http://web.archive.org/web/20170219035332/https://www.grandi...
Not your fault. The Republican tax law of 2017 changed how your existing withholding instructions were interpreted, decreasing your withholding more than necessary in order to artificially inflate the perceived benefit of the new law. Now you’re paying for it.

The really annoying thing is that I agree it’s a good thing to have more accurate withholding and smaller refunds. They just screwed it up for political reasons.

All this could have been avoided if they just required employers to get updated W4s instead of defaulting to misinterpreting your existing instructions.

Recommend you submit a new W4 ASAP.
PrivacyPass is not their thing:

https://privacypass.github.io/

They run a service that shows high-risk visitors (or whom they deem high-risk) a challenge. They support a third-party extension that lets you vouch for yourself on other websites anonymously. The alternative is that they don't support it.

The other things they do are debatable, but this is a good thing.
Sure, a 13 year old could write a web ui and crud back end for a $20 IoT device. And you're correct, that's not that difficult. And while a lot of HNers live in the web world, not all of development has to do with the web. There are lots of development jobs that are much more difficult and take more skill. They don't pay FAANG money so they don't get the attention on HN, but they do exist.
What's next for AI? Near-term predictions
A close source told me only half joking that at Google, when you start any new service, you‘ve got the choice between about a dozen backing services, of which half are deprecated and the other half are not officially supported yet...
I don't really like opinions such as yours, because you're nitpicky.

This article actually doesn't give it justice, because Org-Mode is more than an alternative to Markdown because it specifies formatting for time-based tasks, so you can specify deadlines and you can also track the time you work on those tasks. You can use Org-Mode for task management in a way that other formats are not suitable.

Examples of tooling:

1. GitHub can render Org-Mode files (in gists, etc)

2. you can find task management tools for iPhone / Android that can work with Org-Mode, one example being: https://beorgapp.com/

3. in a text editor all you really need is syntax highlighting, but yes, you can find plugins for many editors, not as evolved as Emacs's, but acceptable, e.g. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/itemdetails?itemName=to...

Speaking of apps like no. 2, show me TODO apps that synchronize text files to Dropbox, using your format of choice that's not Org-Mode.

Is tooling really a reason for why you're not using Org-Mode, or is it because you're too conservative to try it?
Russia presents ambitious Arctic expansion program
Alibaba-Rival JD Targets Deep Job Cuts as Morale Sags
To clarify a few things:

PrivacyPass is a third-party extension that allows a user to receive anonymous tokens that can't be tied back to them: https://privacypass.github.io/

CloudFlare supports that third-party extension so visitors can see fewer challenges.
There should be an API for taxes, in which your employer, banks, or yourself can report income and recieve an exact tax amount to be paid quarterly.

Most deductions and credits should also be done away with to simplify the tax code, but I doubt the Intuit lobbyists would let that happen.
Easily Adding Git Submodules to Projects
Yes, and it gets wierder because the standards aren’t law (or they would be public), but the law can require work to be done according to the standard. Most of the standards were developed with tax dollars too.

It takes power away from homeowners when you can’t question the work of a tradesman because you can’t get your own copy of the standards.

It also makes it hard for owner-builders like me who are required to follow the standards but don’t really want to pay for them.
+1 for Contentful with Gatsby. Painless setup.
Oh, thanks for pointing that out, totally missed that part! In that case, at least it's anonymous, yeah.
I think most projectors would have a problem displaying the text in a readable way - the line width is so fine
In a world of “pay to play”, Meritocracy is a costly Lie
Liza Alert: searching missing people using machine vision
Apple to open up iPhone NFC for Brexit app
Sci-fi interfaces – Stop watching sci-fi. Start using it
I am a programmer, turned tech recruiter and know most of the local IT firms.

Actually I have a draft blogpost written about tech firms / startups in town.

Ping me at iwan@gulenko.ch, I can give a good overview via email.
That's beside the point. If the argument is: "Emacs has better standardisation than Markdown" (which is what the article purports), that argument is invalid if it depends on always using a single implementation. That's not how standards work.

i.e. If your answer to anyone's problem using Org is "what prevents you from using Emacs", then that ain't standardisation.
The fine font strokes and color contrast make it quite hard to read
Yes, into the shoulder
Are you saying Org does not have code blocks?
Using TLA+ to Model Cascading Failures
Isn't this ruining the feature for people who are forced to use the accessibility feature?

They'll improve the captcha just like they did with the basic obscured text to now making the user do image recognition for them and people who really need the accessibility won't have it that easy any more.

I don't feel like that's a nice thing to do.
Ten minutes into the article now and I stopped reading. I'm sure the author has some good points and I'm glad people take a closer look at Mozilla but this post is a bit... questionable.

As far as I can tell now (correct me if I'm wrong) there's lots of claims without further explanation or proof, the author makes harmless things sound like a big deal (the deprecation of XUL extensions in favor of WebExt for example) and sometimes the author words things in such a way or cuts out important details just to make Mozilla look bad (for example the Google SafeBrowsing thing, which you can afaik turn off from the settings).

I'm always interested in the "dark sides" of the companies I trust and I'm grateful people are researching this but this post "ain't it". I'm not saying the author has an obligation to improve the post and I'd guess the author doesn't care about my opinion anyways but I think it would reach more people (and therefore fullfil its goal better) if the author worded it in a more unbiased way, removed the false claims and maybe outlined their "threat model" (in this case, what they consider a threat to their freedom/privacy) before they go on to rant about things that others would classify as harmless.
Yep. We got hit with an enormous bill we didn't see coming either. The new tax law crushed us.

But strictly speaking, they don't see it as holding your money, they see it as your money is due when you earn it and if you are witholding "too much" from your paycheck then you are holding their money.

We have got to pass a law saying all lobbying must be done with full transparency- no secret meetings, etc. We have got to limit the access that megabuck gives to our politicians. It's getting insane.
I suggest the link be changed to https://www.petsymposium.org/2018/files/papers/issue3/popets..., because there's serious misunderstanding in the comments.

- This is not made by Cloudflare, Cloudflare is just the first to support it.

- This does not tie anything to your IP address, this introduces an alternative to tying things to your IP address.

- This does not implement more granular tracking IDs, it implements unlinkable one-time tokens.

- This does not further Tor user blocking/inconveniencing, they're who it was made for.
I think the structure as they show it in the end does not survive formatting though.

if err != nil { return }

would get turned into

if err != nil {
return
}

By gofmt.
So if you want your code to be well formatted, you still get some visual polution from the error handling there.
> Net neutrality to me also means that

I don't see how individual inserting his own meaning to well defined terms adds anything positive to the.

If you encounter term you don't understand, you look it up and don't try to make up your own definition. There is no disagreement of what the term means in a way you insist.
Its disheartening in the same way that many other oligarchic trends in the US are: it creates an easy pathway for those with money to ensure that they retain an (unfair) advantage, even when it comes at the cost of something that would save millions of hours of aggragate work and unnecessary expense.
Those costs are tiny, compared to all other costs. 'Local' is not a goal in itself (except for geopolitical reasons, but that's another topic). For fun, try to do the back-of-a-napkin math on how many bananas you can fit in a container, how many containers fit on a ship, and what percentage of the retail price that makes. Or how much it costs to ship a truck of lettuce heads from Spain to Northern Europe. Yes there are weird cases (flying roses from Eastern Africa to Europe?) but all in all, the costs are tiny.

The next thing then is, of course, that current costs externalize many hidden costs. Which is true, but look at efficiency gains of current gen freight ships, with sails made of solar panels and that sort of thing, and look at the economics of freight shipping - even at double the (shipping) cost, it would still be only a fraction of the retail cost.

Oh and marketing/sales costs for locally grown goods being low is straight up not true. Look at how hard it is for those small scale farmers to sell their wares, schlepping their old vans from farmers market to CSA collection point, and how much of their product goes to waste because of distribution inefficiencies...
It's hard to take them seriously when they imply the mess that threads are is somehow acceptable and necessary, but nicer, less error prone and simpler fork isn't. Threads are a nasty hack and a liability for the modern programmer to use. And systems researchers really should acknowledge that their continued existence as first class OS primitives is holding back systems research much more, than fork. I guess they are looking to spread FUD and justify the mess that Windows got itself into, not doing actual research.