skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. I always aim to get no refund or to owe. There is no good reason to give the government an interest-free loan with your own money.
Facebook didn't even appear to court to defend itself.

Is this some form of silent warning, and if FB continues to violate the regulation they will be shut down in Russia? It's unclear from the article, but it highlights LinkedIn being blocked entirely in 2016.
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Vladimir Komarov went on a space suicide mission to save his best friend, Yuri
Should we always charge more?
In a modern tightly integrated vehicle, taking apart the dash enough to remove the whole integrated head-unit is a real pain in the ass. If you can buy a unit for $200 on ebay and test it on a bench, the author probably considers that to be a good use of their time, nevermind the plastic fasteners.

If I were to try to take apart the dash of my car I'd guess I would be looking at a 6 hour project minimum.
Except that is literally the solution, witness superannuation plans and social security systems around the world.
Ask HN: How to track medical research progress?
I’m quite frustrated because I always get excited when I read about some medical breakthrough on the news and then not hear about it again in like “forever”. I’m particularly interested in America’s number one killer - heart disease. Do you know any startups targeting this monster? Can I, a mortal, track progress of a particular research I’m interested in?
I think the actual (EU) law is closer to "best suited". You have a number of offers to select from and have to say why you chose that offer. Saying "I chose them because they were the cheapest" is the easiest and safest solution so that's what usually happens, but it's not the only option.
The holy grail for solving IT problems?
Smartphone baseband blobs are also something we know nothing (or very little) about.
One of my favorite sites online. I recommend spending time there on other articles to catch his view of the modern world, which I find refreshing and timely.
That's great until you click "Send email" and close the tab. Then you expect things to continue to work.
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Walmart greeters have built-in facial recognition abilities. I didn’t believe this until one started greeting me by name after a few interactions.
If you are entrepreneurial and already know one functional and one strongly typed OO language, the following will significantly improve your career more than learning another programming language. Learning to:

- sell.

- design.

- write better.

- tell a good story.

- get along with people.

- do proper SEO.

- speak another natural language.

- model and query data.

- understand ML/AI.

This is coming from somebody who though himself 10+ programming languages.
I use emacs `-nw` within tmux, on iterm2/3 on mac. There are several terrible problems with this setup which I've never bothered to lose a weekend to trying to sort out (don't misunderstand me: I have lost weekends to some of these problems, and I'm running out of spare weekends).

mac pbcopy/paste into emacs does strange and horrible things. Mouse and scroll-wheel integration roughly doesn't work at all. The list is long.

I also use terminal tools a lot (data engineering), so the terminal itself (and hence tmux) is an important part of my toolset. Meaning, I can't abandon the terminal. Nor do I want to -- as others have said, I have RSI issues with touchpads and mouse-clicking. Spectacle on Mac (or any actual tiling window manager on linux desktops) helps with that, but if I never had to touch a mouse/trackball again in my life, that would be awesome.

As others have said, I mostly want to use an integrated editor and get on with my job, rather than go down a half-century old rabbit hole of reading SICP just to tweak some editor defaults. Again, don't misunderstand me: learning LISP changed my life, man. But that's not the same as "can I enable rainbow delimiters for protobuf" (As an aside, Little Schemer is a much gentler intro to LISP, and also awesome.)

And since I know we're a community of people who get distracted by the next shiny problem to solve: please don't focus on trying to fix the list of issues I'm describing. That's not the point (and I have no spare weekends).
Wasn’t Walter Benjamin into myth/metaphor/confusion and stories as a route to logic?
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Tiny light-up barcodes identify molecules by their twinkling
Not a big fan of those either, but at least give access to invest the funds in a savings account or the market. I’d rather we teach some basic finance and civic responsibility in school.
> So Milorganite is actually a bag of dried microbes!

great marketing
Define know though. A C++/Java programmer can quickly write some Python code but isn't Pythonic. To me being able to write a program in a language doesn't mean you can write some code in it, you also have to know the paradigm its supposed to be used, as well as the layout styles, build tools, commonly used libraries etc etc. Even learning a new library often takes months alone.
Live is awesome. It can get very intense though.

I guess a good starting point is girl/boy song on Richard D James. It's 90s drum n bass that was pretty new when it came out, but sounds quite mainstream nowadays.

It's typical Aphex Twin with pretty insane drum machine supporting a slow-moving melody. Many many many variations within the same track.

Drukqs, and the later stuff (syro, collapse) are quite mature, more rhapsodic (like with very different moments within the same track) with an emphasis on non-standard scales.
But isn't it usually the exact opposite of your experience? That is, the agent will happily encourage you to sell it at a lower price because she wants her commission now, rather than a very slightly greater commission 6 months from now?

As an example, suppose your house could sell for $750,000 immediately with you paying a 6% commission of $45,000. Or, suppose the same house could sell in 6 months (after a lot of showings) for $800,000 with you paying $48,000 in commission. The $50,000 extra you'd make on the sale is really big for you. But the extra $3000 the agent makes for months of extra work and waiting around is nothing. She'd rather take her $45,000 after selling it cheap after 1 week and then move on to sell another house.

Isn't that the normal dynamic?

EDIT: I've heard that you can write a listing contract so that the agent's fee is tiered. So, for example, they'd get 1% if they sold it for $500k because even a "for sale" sign written in crayon in front of the house would sell it, but then 6% on the amount between $500k and $750k, and a juicy 18% or whatever on the price above $750k. But does anybody actually do this?
> it seems reasonable to say that there is one hole in a circle

I'm not sure this is reasonable. There's only a hole in a circle if you are interacting with it from a higher dimension. If you're restricted to the plane, you can't access the area on the other side of the circle's border.

Does a ping pong ball have a hole? It's empty inside just like the circle.
Japan doesn't really need complex or quota-based immigration laws because foreigners are not super happy to live there forever once they've tried it. More so than legal barriers, there are cultural ones. And there are borders in our minds just as much as on maps (e.g. preconceptions that we're stubborn to let go of).

The US is different, of course. People like it here once they've arrived. I can't say why, nor do I buy the stereotype that US culture is more open or individualistic. But the US arguable needs laws quota-based and micro-managey, since they are managing a huge amount of people from more diverse backgrounds. Japan is managing fewer potential immigrants and guests, and most of their immigrants are geographically close to Japan.

Despite the immigration laws being easier to grok and less authoritarian on paper, Japan is pretty strict in its enforcement of those laws. Put all I've said together and I don't know if one country is more reactionary than the other, but I think both countries are moving toward a more balanced, less eccentric immigration system at the moment.

(why you should listen to me: I'm an American and lived in Japan for four years and had to go through the process of getting my wife a spouse visa 2 years into my stay. I dealt with immigration a few times. I went to many different cities and vacations and such, and talked to people that don't speak English and don't have a passport, so I have a representative sample set.)
My neighbors probably hate me but I compost all my food in the backyard. Last year was the first year we did it overwinter when the compost isn't even active and it also was the first year we didn't have mice in the house.
Reading that article reminds me of a rather prophetically-accurate movie starring Will Smith and Gene Hackman "Emeny of the State"[0]. Granted, for a film that came out in 1998 it probably wasn't too hard to guess where things were headed w/rt surveillance compared to how seemingly prescient writings from the likes of Orwell and Bradbury were for their respective times.

What stands out to me about the movie (because I went and fished out my DVD and decided to watch it this fine afternoon) was just how detailed David Marconi was in his depiction of brotherly tracking and surveillance.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_of_the_State_(film)

Edit: attribution for the plot goes to writer David Marconi, I've fixed this for any fellow movie geeks who also care about such things ;)
Probably Matlab
It's binding the hands of future generations. Once something is designated a historic, it's hard to undo, even if the opportunity cost tomorrow is much higher than it is today.

It's also cumulative. There is a finite amount of land. If you designate another 1% of it as historic each year, a hundred years later you're locked in stasis.

There is a reason for the rule against perpetuities.
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You can adjust your tax withholdings to reduce your refund. I personally aim to minimize my bill or refund.
I tried it.
It adds color but not the real original colors.
It does guess well though.
Who is getting a tax refund? I got crushed versus last year on my taxes because of the orange buffoon's tax plan.
there are a number of videos on youtube of people operating handheld android, ios and dedicated gps devices near the kremlin, showing the location displayed on the screen to be many dozens of km away. this will have a similar effect on a $1000 DJI drone.
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I don't find SF that beautiful, everything around it on the other hand is amazing (Golden Gate bridge, Golden Gate park, the Presidio and further away like the Marin Headlands/Sausalito etc..)
For those curious you can find that list here: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices
I think that's over pessimistic - we have lots of environmental laws and mostly fixed the ozone hole and lead pollution. CO2 emissions are tricky as so much of the economy used fossil fuel and the top four emitters being China, India and Russia as well as the US you can't stop it without getting those on board. It's not impossible though.
I understand the topological point of view (which also generally considers spheres to be 2-dimensional surfaces.) I'm pointing out that common language does not match the topological point of view. Topology also has 'open' and 'closed' sets, which are not very good names for whether some subset of a space 'has a shared classification of nearness', and 'tunnel' is probably better terminology than 'hole' is.

But mathematics is done by intelligent people, and it's a rather esoteric subject, so it isn't exactly a problem that the terms don't align intuitively.
What's even worse is the lack of a proposed alternative. These days I'm getting sick and tired of "X is bad and you should not use it" articles with X being something popular that everybody uses/does, without proposing a decent alternative. Tell me what I should do, not what I shouldn't do. The first one is very valuable, the second is just giving yourself a tap on the shoulder.
I agree with your sentiment of disappointment in the general response on HN to this. And I also have the same disappointment in the general media's response. I thought Tulsi Gabbard's defense of Assange to Tapper on CNN was spot on, and can't believe it's up to a few politicians to defend journalism on a news network instead of the news network itself.

The previous Obama administration went very hard against whistle blowers, but even they ultimately decided that prosecuting Assange for this would be a step too far.

What's happening seems to be people don't like him for various reasons (fair enough), are blind to the larger issues and chilling effects caused by this prosecution, and so with motivated reasoning decide this is not about politics and is about hacking, he's a bad hacker who tried to crack a Government password, and they're just standing up for some principal of not trying to hack Govt passwords or some such.
It seems simple on the surface, then you get into the various record types, and edge cases to support.
Once I'm deaf enough, definitely.
I'm partial to libconfig myself, although I'm not sure if it's well supported outside c/c++/python.
>People need to start thinking about information systems as property, in the same way that your house is your property, and your car is your property. In this case, the information system is government property, which for some reason many people believe gives us special license to take whatever we want from it.

You've skipped over a chunk of logic there which I feel bears closer scrutiny.

The house and the car are owned by people, who feel emotional distress when their privacy is invaded. Governments do not feel emotional distress ever.

It's also hard to argue that governments are harmed by invasions of privacy the same way an individual might be, because governments wield much power in the form of monopolization of force and have more control over how information they dislike is used. See the British parliaments ban on using parliamentary footage for comedy purposes.

The point is, while I'm not saying government information systems should be a free-for-all, I am personally of the opinion that the larger an organization gets, the less right it has to privacy. I don't agree with your logical leap of "people deserve privacy -> governments are basically people -> governments deserve privacy". Governments don't have a right to privacy the way people do.
Ask HN: Where are the smaller known laptop manufacturers?
I have been looking for smaller, more underground, laptop/computer manufacturers to purchase my next system.

I know of system76, but there must be more! Any suggestions?
> You can't have two trains leave the same station and arrive at the same destination as the same time.

To what extent is this a prerequisite for competition? The hour has 60 minutes, there is no need for all trains to depart and arrive in exactly the same minute.

Apart from that, it is also not possible for several aircraft to take off from the same runway at the same time. So there is no difference between trains and flights.

> Nationalise it. All of it.

That's a non sequitur. If you want better service, enforce it through regulation; if you want lower prices, use regulation to improve competition. You do not need a state monopoly.
1 career at-bat, 1 career hit, nothing else (2019)
At that role in support I cultivated some good relationships with engineering and others. But even there I ran into some "the customer is doing it wrong" kind of feedback from engineering.

Nothing was better than getting everyone on a conference call with the customer (I prepped the engineering team so no surprises) and letting engineering talk to them in a situation that they're a bit less likely to use that line of reasoning.

Amazing how quickly things were done after that ;)

Yeah sometimes the folks on the ground know how it really works as opposed to those who don't see it day to day.
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Why would you limit yourself to those two options? Use TOML or something.
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Wp, Wix, Weebly or Gatsby, Ghost, Jekyll, AppSeed
Aren’t there similar stories of US states courting Chinese investments that are not necessarily in the “interest” of the federal government? Believe I’ve read a couple of stories here on HN.
It certainly can be a reduction if you can compost at home. The result is useful. The effort is very minimal if you don't need it to compost quickly. It doesn't need to be transported to a landfill. And my understanding is that it breaks down into carbon dioxide instead of methane if you compost instead of landfill, which is a win for climate change.
"poettering
commented...This is really by design."

Oy. It worked before. I get his notion of not wanting to make it a full dns resolver, but breaking something that worked seems clear enough.
I agree. If most of your experience is with a popular OO language, consider learning a lisp. Learn an ML. Try elixir/erlang to get a feel for how different programming for the BEAM can be.

I suppose you don't _have_ to use different languages to learn new concepts, but it certainly helps in some cases. For example, learning about currying is going to be much more natural in F# than it would be in C#.
Do you know if GLONASS is also being spoofed in these same areas?
Back around the late `90s there was a tourist attraction setup outside in Branson, MO. It was a very early version of a VR game. Two people climbed into a platform that was like a boxing ring and were given a toy gun and a helmet that displayed a wireframe VR image of the platform you were in.

Our kids played and then urged my wife and I to do it, so we did. It took me a minute or so to get my bearings, but my wife was completely lost. She was just spinning circles in her corner of the ring, basically a sitting duck.

Our kids were laughing and yelling "Shoot her, shoot her". I couldn't do it. I felt awful for even participating in a game where that was the goal.

Later on I got a copy of Wolfenstein and played it a bit, and had fun at first, but not for long. The same thing happened. I just didn't like the idea of running around killing, even it when it was cartoon Nazis.

Nowadays I don't even like watching videos of gamers playing shoot `em up games. I admire the tech, but I just can't play those kinds of games.
> For programmers, JSON works fine in my experience.

The author mentions this, and I very strongly agree. What JSON significantly misses is the ability to have comments in your configuration files. I'm not going to hold up the Apache config files as an example of amazing config formats, but... here's an example: https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/websites/cms/webgui/conf/...

That's awesome. It describes options that are available and not enabled, and what they do. Right. In. The. File. Comparing that to, say, webpack config... there's a pile of research needed to figure out what options are even available, let alone what they do.
1. Before the legal concept of a nation-state, all countries were formed via conflict. Every.single.one. What's your point?

2. Overseas territories are more complicated, most have semi or fully autonomous status, while others voted to maintain their formal status with the US. If any wanted full independence, they would be granted it. Ukraine voted to increase trade relations with the EU and was properly invaded and had partially annexed. How you can even begin to compare the two, I have no idea.
I've been attempting to use a new project for json as a dsl.

https://jsonnet.org

It's pretty amazing and I'd recommend it.
Hackman was also in another movie about spying and paranoia - The Conversation. Great movie. I know it’s not about nation states spying but wanted to add that here
I remembered watching that and thinking that it was apt.... but there's no damn way anyone gets access to all those different systems managed by different groups seamlessly. The bureaucracy involved would be immense, the various systems that can't talk to each other efficiently endless. I imagined all the overhead that would go into that and it hurt my brain ;)
The German national train service was mostly privatised in 1994, because of the public cost. Since then, service was reduced, 5000km of rail tracks decommissioned, former flexibility lost, prices hiked, reliability reduced.

But best of all: maintenance is paid by the new private company, but replacements/acquisitions are still paid for from taxes. Therefore it pays to scrimp on maintenance until stuff breaks, then get a replacement for free. Really bad incentive structure there. I sincerely doubt privatisation was a good deal overall.
If automation is the future, isn’t a decline in the working population a good thing? The robots can just take over the vacant jobs. What am I missing?
1) If you do not think the legitimate purpose of laws is to make the world a better place and nothing else, we do not agree on fundamentals, and I see you as a dangerous enemy, someone who would be a dictator or oppressor if they could. Using the government's monopoly on violence to make you happier with no concern for the rest of society is an evil thing.

Why is the legitimate purpose of laws to make you happier as a consumer?? What does that have to do with anything? (And, to the point I was originally making, why do you believe you wouldn't be even happier in the world I describe? You'd get a Kinect researched with awareness of what the Wii and Move tried and didn't, so it'd either be better or cheaper or perhaps both.)

2) Again, the legitimate purpose of government is not to preserve the way I make money, either. You're making the "Yet you participate in society!" argument. Yes, I do. The fact that I think a certain course of action is individually rational for me to preserve life and health does not mean I think the availability of that course, to the exclusion of other possible courses, is inherently good or worth preserving.

But just so you know: I maintain systems infrastructure for a hedge fund, all based on open-source software (Debian, OpenStack, Ceph, etc.). The hedge fund operates on secrecy of market data and insights but not on secrecy of fundamental research (and also making e.g. Linux available to everyone makes everyone more productive, but making our ideas about alpha available to everyone makes the alpha go away). To be clear, working at a hedge fund does not mean that I think the existence of hedge funds is inherently good or that I am opposed to societies where hedge funds don't exist, any more than working at Blockbuster means you're opposed to Netflix existing. My work is all on things that would benefit the world more if they were public and would benefit my employer no less; it's just difficult to maintain a separation between publishable work and sensitive algorithms, so I don't do as much as I'd like. But I'd like to do more, and I've quite loudly disagreed with our internal policies on this, because I think I can do better for the world and for our company if allowed to be public about everything. And my work, in any case, is keeping them running, not creating new private ideas. The public knows how to create sandwiches, and yet Subway is profitable.

And it is beyond clear that my company would be less profitable if open source software did not exist, or if we used a proprietary stack/vendor for everything.

3) Yes, it's realistic. You haven't presented an argument beyond "Nyeh, it's not," so I say, "Nyeh, is too."
HN is proven to be good support channel for unusual issues.
List here src and dst IPs, there is a good chance net ops from various ISPs read HN and may help.
I'm about to go commit a crime. How do I turn off this feature?
Now I just wish I could have the EyeSight on my Subaru Forrester hacked so that the adaptive cruise control doesn't go off after three seconds of being at a full stop.
Private Google data accessible via public URLs [video]