skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't pleasant, but it's true. It wouldn't take many tax cycles of widespread IRS debt for average people to start pushing for lower taxes. It also might make people realize that 44% of Americans pay no income tax (source: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/81-million-americans-wont-...). Even accounting for children, that's a lot of people not contributing. It doesn't have to be a lot, but the average American will care a lot more about politics and about frivolous uses of their money when they've got some skin in the game.

For reference, the average American taxpayer pays over $10k in taxes (https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2017/10...), which is roughly a 14% rate by the same source. How crazy is that? Americans will be much more willing to push for massive tax cuts after they realize that $10k is being stolen from them every year.
I live in Whitehorse, Yukon.

Tons of locals talk about how they used to drive onto the River in Whitehorse for the annual Rendezvous festival in February - park cars on there, put up tents, have a huge party ON the river for a week.

It hasn't frozen over solid even once in 10+ years.
Is that as a result of overproduction or just wastefulness?
If you want to see what happens when pigs that eat near human faeces are eaten by us: https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/28/health/brain-parasites-case-s...
It is pretty disingenuous on his part. The small set of cars whose selling price does appreciate satisfy a set of requirements which the Tesla doesn't.

1. Discontinued / Very few produced -> Tesla is ramping up production
2. Iconic design -> Teslas do not have stand out look and the same design language is being used for other Tesla vehicles too.
3. Movie / cult classic -> Tesla does not have its 'Back to the Future' or 'Fast and the Furious'.
4. Unique features not present in other cars-> Tesla doesn't necessarily have any

Lastly, tablet and screen based designs are ones that age the worst. So, Tesla is at a disadvantage there.

The car collector's market is completely at odds with what Tesla offers. Tesla lovers are high technology folk, who always want the latest and the greatest. They do not appreciate dated designs. Car collectors are the ones most averse to electric cars (as of now).

I think Teslas will hold their price better than other brands, but they certainly won't appreciate. (may be the original roadster, because they made so few of them)
Musk doesn’t have any “oracle” credibility to squander though. He’s known for many absurd utterances from his SEC violations to his pedophile accusations. The words coming out of his mouth are not given high credence by the investor class.
A lot of students (including me) use Google Translate, and less frequently deepl.com (deepl is better, but less known), to do foreign language assignments. Oftentimes, one can write the initial sentence in English, run it through deepl, and make a few fix-ups before turning in the assignment.
And Canadians think they need $750k for retirement - are they expecting to retire for three years and then die?!

https://business.financialpost.com/personal-finance/the-magi...
> Because a state can often do a more effective job of using the money than the federal government.

That's just a general argument for preferring local taxation and services over federal ones. I don't think it follows that states should be able to undermine federal taxation by increasing their own taxes. If you believe the federal government should be smaller, and state/local governments bigger, then make that case directly and argue for an overall reduction in federal taxation.
Google Cloud Announces Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory
Populist are on the rise because oligarchy has stolen money and power everywhere. Don't look for pseudo "cultural" reasons (bordering on xenophobia, racism or classism) where a basic Marxist analysis works marvels. Do you really think that Italians are angry and lazy, and Brits too, and Greeks, and Spaniards, and French, and Trump voters? Because of Facebook? Really? Come on. This is silly.
Plenty of people in China treat housing as an investment. There is an over-supply of investment and development, leading to an abundance of units and affordable rental rates.

Preventing people from profiting by supplying the market (aka treating the good in question as an investment) leads to shortages and high prices, as the history of rent control amply demonstrates. Anecdotally, San Francisco has had some of the most stringent rent control laws in the US over the last 50 years and today has the highest rental rates in the world.
Professional, zero-cost setup for C++ projects (Part 1 of N)
IPFS is not usable outside of browsers yet, so I guess you're too optimistic.
Please share how do you configure standard android phone or smart devices (TV) phoning home.
I hadn't even started reading at that point. By the third sentence I was skimming. I slowed down at the heading "Age of Leverage" but didn't start actually reading till the bullet points

1. A Start Here page

2. A curated list of your favorite articles

At that point I thought the advice on bootstrapping a blog was quite worthwhile. I think the reading strategy of rejecting articles that start slow is not as good as skimming over what isn't interesting to get to what is.
Languages change. In depth knowledge comes with an ongoing cost.

For this reason I think it may be rational to only learn what will be used in the near future and spend the saved time on more timeless knowledge.
We don't expect it. We expect all but the rich to be continually milked and bled more and more, their productivity harvested and their income withered, and with it their lives - healthcare, living quarters, food, family, leisure, whatever can be given up to give the rich more - until it can be reduced no more.

That's what we expect; we only aspire to better things.
> Imho tools should use actual code (whether it's TypeScript or Kotlin or whatever) instead of reinventing constructs like loops and string interpolation.

I disagree with this one. I believe describing an infrastructure should be fully declarative and the tool should decide how it needs to create resources based on the description. This way, the infrastructure code almost can't have bugs, but the tool can be fixed for everybody.
Ask HN: Is it worth to spend money on tech conference ticket
Next week there is container world 2019 event in SanJose and ticket is priced at $1400. My company is unable to sponsor everyone, so I am wondering if it is wroth of go on such conference from education and networking standpoint of view ?
I also don't like this feature. I've used it only perhaps a handful of times since it was introduced, but every other time it has actually cost me the time it took to read and mentally reject the suggestion.

I really need to poke around the settings and see if it can be disabled...
But how could it be avoided? The police don't operate on 'guilty' and 'innocent', but on 'suspect' - even if they do everything right, they'll occasionally arrest someone that will later turn out to be innocent. If they're responding to an emergency, they simply don't have time to determine guilt with much accuracy, and are just focusing on protecting possible victims. And if they're arresting someone being prosecuted for some crime, well it's unavoidable that occasionally someone won't be found guilty for what they stood trial for - that's the whole point of a trial.

However, I agree that if that should happen, the detained should be compensated for the harm they suffered, even if the police (and prosecutors!) acted reasonably.

I should clarify that I don't mean to imply the US police and public prosecutors meet these reasonablenes criteria - from what I hear, the deck is stacked heavily against anyone being prosecuted for a felony, guilty or not.
EDM isn’t a catch all term for all electronic music
Quote from the Treasury: "it... greatly reduced the taxpayer's awareness of the amount of tax being collected, i.e. it reduced the transparency of the tax, which made it easier to raise taxes in the future." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_withholding_in_the_United_...)

Same reason payment plans are offered for cars and iphones. Technically, many people are payed by the hour; should they have to immediately pay tax? Yearly taxes were the norm for a long time, and helped keep resentment of taxes high. It also led to a drastically reduced paperwork burden, which was cheaper for the government, businesses, and consumers.
I would contact my nearest university physics and/or chemistry department and offer it to them.
Sometimes preference doesn't match project choice?
It’s siloed by technology now when it wasn’t before - you could connect to any irc server with one client but you need a different client for each network now.
TOML also has more "normal" notations for dicts and lists that are almost the same as JSON.

There is a distinction between markup languages e object notation languages. XML, HTML and Markdown are markup, JSON, YAML, TOML and most other are object notations.

(here my distinction, in general, is if they allow unquoted text)
is ANYONE on here talking about the massive problem with the major browsers forcing http-auditing into browsers??????????????????????????????????????????????
Whoa.

So have you already started analyzing word patterns and finding different accounts people have on the same service and also correlating them between multiple services?

People do leave much more information about themselves on the internet than they realize.
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Another possibility is the FlixBus which takes 13 hours and is €23.
> Millions of developers use XML all the time, it's called HTML.

HTML is not XML and even then few developers today use HTML without some sort of processing involved. HTML is also not a language used for configuration files, so it is really off-topic.

The question is, do people prefer XML configuration over JSON configuration. The answer is that people generally prefer JSON. JSON just maps far better to data types we use in everyday programming. Have you seen some of the common ways of expressing key-value pairs in XML? It's horrible.

> Now try taking a typical HTML document and expressing it in JSON.

That's not the problem anybody is trying to solve here. We're talking about configuration files, not complex documents. But let's say I wanted to solve that problem, the representation would look like this:

http://www.jsonml.org/

Not that bad at all.
> the UK is one of the best examples of capitalism and free trade in the world.

Successful capitalism in my mind is measured in more ways than a finance industry or stock market.
If your home router is a pfSense device, you can do this in-router, by installing pfBlockerNG. No Pi necessary.
This isn't the best case to use as an example of police overreach and information dragnets. Yes, they arrested the wrong guy and held him for a week, but the right guy was using the wrong guy's car. I realize they initially identified him--at least in part--via the Google-provided information, but the reason they held him for a week is because it was his car that was used to commit the crime. At that point, it was absolutely reasonable and correct to assume that he was the perpetrator. If that hadn't been the case, they probably would have questioned him and never even arrested him.

I'm not defending Google's information collection or the use of dragnets in general, but this is absolutely the wrong case to use as an example of how things can go wrong. Things did not go wrong here. This was good police work, and ultimately the arrest was not off-base, and led directly to the real perpetrator.

Find a better example if you want to drum up fear about information abuse.
This makes total sense and there are a lot of people that do this. Unfortunately most people don’t have the time or the skills to do it themselves, https://idbloc.co helps fill that gap for those people
Tesla’s autopilot has saved many lives already according to known statistics. Also, because Tesla’s have the highest safety rating, they have also saved lives in accidents.
Privatisation and open source are 2 different things.

If you are against privatisation, great. Go to a communist country and prove it. Don't forget the 996 debacle or Jack Macs response to it.

You only want open-source? Great. Quit your job and prove me wrong that your can get an income there.

You know you won't do any of those both things. But probably you have an excuse. Great, then adjust to reality and stop believing in fairy tales. Adjust your opinion to something realistic.

Open-source takes a long road to profitability, it's not that easy. And probably, because your designs are online, some lower-cost Chinese company will take it and produce it cheaper. Except, if you have build a big community around it, it will work out for them. But the chances are really small.

Open-source always had an Enterprise/cloud option also to earn money. Currently, it's the only stable way ( donations are not a stable source of income)

Now, we are going back in circles about what was the issue...
It's illegal for an employer to fire someone if they're selected for jury duty.

It's insane that it's legal for an employer to fire someone for being arrested, before being convicted.

The same protection should apply in any case where the government is the one forcibly removing you from being present at your workplace through no wrongdoing of your own.
Why does it suck harder? I’ll give one example: arrays.

In JSON they’re plain and simple. You even get to use good ‘ol [ ] delimiters.

In XML? It’s a sea of open and close tags.

Now do an array of arrays. Then hand-edit it.

Like I said, it’s no better. But it’s way easier to read.
I installed NoRoot Firewall, it has a "Access Log" tab, that logs all connections (allowed or block). My phone just didn't shut up'. Every other second some app (that wasn't in the foreground) was talking to some IP. My battery was getting slaughtered and my privacy as well.

I proceeded to disable the "Run in background" almost every application, kept only a handful that are really needed (e.g. Signal). Since then my battery lasts for 3 days, and my "Access Log" only moves minimally.
(Explaining my downvote: you know full well that the devices are not merely that. It's a useless comment.)
If you want a to track medical research the only way to get reliable information is to read the actual medical literature. Every single mass media report on a study gets at least some aspects of the research wrong (sometimes ridiculously so). Also the mass media has a terrible track record on following up initial reports when subsequent studies are done.

The best layman's source I have found for health news is the Nutrition Action newsletter. They don't take advertising, they translate (fairly accurately) medical research into layman's terms, they give you a clue as to how to act on it and they DO follow up on subsequent studies that the mass media ignores. The subscription is also very affordable (~$25USD I believe).

Edit: I think one of the reasons that their health reporting is more accurate is that they use either subject matter experts or writers that at least have a science background rather than just an interest in science. It doesn't keep them from getting anything wrong, but it definitely cuts the errors down considerably.
I think it's more from being forced to use some framework you didn't like for too long.

I've done PHP for more than 10 years and got no problem using it if I have to.

OTOH, I don't want to touch stuff like rails because I don't like it being in the way but love Ruby.

I'd prefer TypeScript these days though.
I’m sorry, but infrastructure as a code is a fake news.

Most popular tools offer infrastructure as a config with some horrible and limited scripting language (in some cases even JSP doesn’t look like a horrible idea - hello helm). Declarative VS Imperative Holywar is getting a bit old (like any other tech war).
>But we're talking about proprietary government information here. Just because it's digital doesn't mean that it can't be criminal to access it via unauthorized channels.

Right. We're debating whether that might be an ok thing to do under some circumstances. The government that is protesting criminal access to it's records is the government that gets to set what is or is not criminal, which is a clear conflict of interest.

If that government was morally praiseworthy, we might be willing to assume it is capable of rising above this conflict of interest. However, the government in question has, in it's recent history, knowingly opened fire on children with gunships and then attempted to cover it up, so I personally am of the opinion that it doesn't have a track record that would imply it is capable of rising above that conflict of interest.

Hence, I'm not very interested in what US law says on this matter, but I would be inclined to hear what the UN has to say on the matter.
I was also wondering how a Nobel prize and Krugman fit in one sentence every time I read his column in NYT. Now recently even the Swedish Academy had revealed corruption and petty politics between its members. Just have to learn to ruthlessly ignore any authorities, I guess.
Any pointers on a good "low risk" pi-hole list that trades off maintenance effort versus blocking? I'm OK if it doesn't block everything - just want it to run in the background with zero effort.
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https://qiita.com/LoveT21/items/79c8a63f684cd469d706

https://qiita.com/LoveT21/items/c0d358fee830de871160

https://qiita.com/LoveT21/items/c696aef8ff2cb6573b31

https://qiita.com/LoveT21/items/78f0ea60c3c9b5e22b0d

https://qiita.com/LoveT21/items/ebf6e349093f8137ef50
Tesla compared itself to crash/fatality data that included motorcycles in order to look better than they are.
If you really struggle with configuring it, and ignore the right hand column entirely, you can still sort of track what your friends are doing. But I stopped looking at Facebook much a few months back. Maybe twice a month now.

Remember, sharing is spamming.
Maybe the GP means that you can run a DNS server on your router? Most people own very locked-down consumer routers, however, so this is rarely an option.

Speaking of that, does anyone know of a router that lets you run any operating system (I was thinking OpenBSD) but with better energy usage than a full computer?
11 giant fucking paragraphs of shit

and the author, if he wants to call it deceptive, should have just shopped what he thinks it shows, or just written it in a tweet

no idea what's in those 11 paragraphs, but the start of the first one sounds like someone reciting what they did over summer vacation. what a rambling idiot
> Why does cloudflare.com resolve to a different IP address than www.cloudflare.com?

Probably because the IP addresses on cloudflare.com leads to a simpler web server which seems to only reply with redirects to www.cloudflare.com, and might not have any actual web pages.
Is there a way to see what else is accessible from the Chinese iTunes store? I'm curious if "Hypnotize" by System of a Down is accessible; the first line is "Why don't you ask the kids at Tienanmen Square?"
Many users = more vocal minorities and elitist who can't help but bash mass adopted products
From a syntax standpoint parenthesis are extremely more clear than prefixes+whitespace (maybe less readable).
Seeking hardware, robotics, A.I. freelance work
> High Deductible Health Plans where insurance doesn't kick in until one has spent a deductible of several thousand dollars

HDHPs are a great deal for anyone who can set aside the
deductible’s value in cash. They are a bad default. But a good thing to consider if you can set aside some cash.

(The problem with HSA-compatible plans is they have a maximum deductible. They’re thus almost as expensive as non-HDHP plans.)
SilentPhone, formerly BlackPhone, does a decent job: https://www.silentcircle.com/products-and-solutions/silent-p...
Can you automatically compute and store computed data?
The government derives its power from the consent of the governed.

The governed cannot consent if they are uninformed.

Assange is not relevant here; what matters is that the US government was keeping secrets of war crimes from the very people to whom the government is accountable.

There is a strong moral argument to be made that the government has no rights to secrets kept from its citizenry.
I paid 400 dollars to have a doctor tell me to neti pot my nose after having sinus infection for 3 months. Might not be rational but fuck everything about this system. Who is pocketing all this goddamn money?
QOTD: "What's outside the simulation?"
The thing that Elon is doing is called lying.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/10/19/13341100/tesla-self-driv...

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/823727035088416768?s=21

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/888053175155949572?s=21

And so on...
Practically all owns today are usurious, since interest is involved. If you look at the old testament and the Quran, this was prohibited for a reason, and we see the effects today very clearly.
Can we hear these online?
> There is no actual claim here that Assange did anything to crack the system or assisted Manning in doing so

There is a literal claim that he did that: "Assange indicated that he had been trying to crack the password".

Whether that holds up or not, or the Government can present stronger evidence to that effect, is another matter.
That is the fundamental problem isn't it. Mobility.
A domain is worth however much someone is willing to pay for it. :)

Non .com are generally 10% or so of the equivalent .com price on namebio.
Of course there's a JS library for everything https://github.com/njj/haversine
Can anyone recommend a good alternative for iOS to do just this?
You'll find payday loans at upwards of ~1700 percent, depending on state regulations. It's pretty ridiculous.
The default ones feel that way to me. I use a Pi-hole equivalent plus a client side adblocker (uBlock Origin), request/domain blacklist manager (uMatrix), and JavaScript blocker (NoScript) on Firefox. The Pi-hole-like-thing needs to be disabled or something needs to be whitelisted at most once every couple months.

I have to enable JS or third-party content much more often than that, but the trade off to protect my privacy is worth it.
They used to do that in the TV series 24.
I'm not particularly familiar with Delphi, but the issue here appears to be a combination of parenthetical grouping not being picked up and the program not knowing that "unsigned char" should become "byte".

Ex:

unsigned char a = 255;
unsigned char b = 255;
if ((a + b) == 510) {
puts("yes");
}

becomes

unsigned char a = 255;
unsigned char b = 255;
if a + b then = 510 then begin
WriteLn('yes');
end;

instead of

var a,b: byte;
begin
a := 255;
b := 255;
if (a + b) = 510 then begin
writeln('yes');
end;

It's also worth noting that assuming parenthetical grouping is fixed, the C code snippet should work fine; according to the online compiler I was toying around with, Pascal uses integer type promotion.
That accusation does not make any sense considering the scope of leaks Wikileaks have published during their lifetime.

Which shadowy non-Western organization wanted the whole Icelandic parliament ousted? They would probably have opted for the opposite.

The impact of the organization the past few years have mainly regarded money laundering. And agencies you want to implicate in this have overwhelmingly had their connections to the subjects of those scandals.
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A brief history of CSS (2016)
Not to mention the size. The main reason I don’t have them anymore is their width, which can make them hard to place in a house.
Sure, here's one in a seven equally divided octave, using a five-note mode from traditional Thai music.

https://homba-se.bandcamp.com/track/koragon
Their responses are often unrelated, or antithetical to my stated position. I think they have an inaccurate classifier.