skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have made this same argument before but it falls on deaf ears of so-called progressives. The idea behind property tax was to "keep things moving" and avoid having inter-generational landed gentry as was common in Europe. It has been converted into tax farming by the very liberals who designed it for another purpose. "School taxes" were the major funding target, and still are where I live.

What I am sick to death of is all the little fees, surcharges, surtaxes (WTF is a surtax, that's total bs) sales taxes, on top of income tax both state and federal, Social Security tax, and property. Some US states also tax personal property such as cars, ATVs, and boats (basically anything they can find to tax). My state taxes new cars punitively for a few years, which to me is a disincentive to ever buy a new vehicle even though I sometimes do.

It is sick, sick, sick what we have become as a nation, all in the name of bleeding heart policies for this or that. Here's the facts: I don't want to pay taxes so other able-bodied people can sit at home and not work. I don't want to pay tax to educate the world's children, e.g. anyone who can get here illegally is not automatically entitled to the fruits of my labor. It is disgusting what progressives and many so-called conservatives do in the name of bleeding heart non-solutions which only actually accomplish one thing and that is to destroy the middle class so that they can centralize their power structure.

We don't want feudalism, we aren't part of some kind of tax plantation for the ultra wealthy. End this. End it all.

ETA: One more tidbit to this rant: These taxes keep going up and up because retirement pension plans at the city, county, state, and federal levels promised too much. My school taxes are paying out to an army of retired teachers, in ridiculous disproportion to current budgets and current students. We're paying into a Ponzi!
It's a two way street. Employers always want the most up to date trendy frameworks on their employees CV's. I imagine someone that has been working on a legacy VB6 app for the last few years will struggle to get his CV looked at.
The db-delete endpoint always requires your API key no matter if read or write permissions are enabled.
Tap water here in the Netherlands is excellent, and I’d much prefer it over bottled water, but that’s only available in places where you’d take your jacket off: home, friends, work, school, hairdresser and the likes. If you’re going somewhere you can bring water or buy water in bottles, but I’ve never seen other ways of getting water.
There are, like the UDOO x86 or LattePanda, but they get fairly expensive.

A used Asus Chromebox is often a better route. You can flash the bios and run regular Linux. Then you get a nice case, power supply, and regular dimm slots.
That Developer Life
1MB databases with public write permissions don’t let you overwrite keys :)
Are You Building a Company? Stay Away from These Traps
Disagree. It's possible to launch software without things going wrong - I've been involved in one. Certainly NASA was not taking the absolute safest approach possible - they had people internally advocating for safer practices (which is not to say that there weren't legitimate other pressures).
That sounds like it's probably great for those cherries' carbon footprint...
Not a downvoter, but I can explain. Based on previous discussions I've had here, "don't say the true thing" is viewed more as an effort to manipulate than as a good faith attempt to improve the effectiveness of an outreach.
This is so sad to hear. I wonder how many total hours have been wasted and projects ruined chasing federation that nobody actually wants in the first place. :|
Job advice site started a salary spreadsheet
I didn't mean that and for the record I abhor the views espoused on that website, which I have only viewed a few times.
No- the prosecution does not have to search for and provide evidence that may exonerate the defense, that would be ridiculous.
How do you explain people like me that used desktop Linux for years but then moved to Mac? I fully understand the benefits of Linux and MacOS. I compared them and made an informed choice around the time I stopped being a student and started making my living a professional writer. I've got deadlines and word counts and I can't afford to waste time fiddling with my computer. I want to be able to turn it on, even after updates, and start working.

But, I also love to tinker and automate, and MacOS gives me a full Unix environment to play with.
I don't know if you have read Code Complete. They kinda explain there why such a code would make sense. I've written constructs resembling this many times and got them through rigorous PRs with quite experienced and senior people.

One must remember that code is not a paint and a canvas for you to feel like an artist but a documentation for for Next Developer to comprehend. One must write it like a book or some sort of navigation manual, drawing attention of the reader to the important parts and guiding them through intricacies of the requirements and logic.
Got any statistics on that being a growing problem?
> Many under-sink filtration systems last at least 10,000 gallons.

Every filtration system I have owned needs to have the cartridges replaced every six months. What system has multi-year cartridges?
Happy user of tus here. Keep up the good work.
HN is not topical.
I think the police should just stay the fuck away from telephones.
If my concept was easy to implement they wouldn’t be asking me to open source it :) 1MB is over half a year of hard word I only make it look easy
A good developer should write code that is easy for computer and human to understand. Unfortunately most firms seem to have as 'As long as it works, its good!' policy.
Yeah, good point, it would be great to see some stats on percentage of coffees bought in drive-throughs in America vs Europe.
You can always choose not to use it, I know I certainly won't be. If we assume that Facebook's current user base (elderly relatives sharing fake news memes) aren't going to be interested either then who's left?
Rather than working as a pen tester, I'd rather work on developing pen testing, auditing, intrusion detection software. A lot of security has been and is going to be automated.

And pen testing isn't a "sexy" job. Not amongst security and software developers anyway. I see on the same level as QA.
I had, or I guess still have, an idea for Yet Another Web Framework. I've written four versions of it in three languages already. I kept running into a problem: if it was complex enough to realize my full vision, then I wouldn't have time to maintain it, especially if it got any traction at all. Plus, for each single thing I wanted it to do, there were pretty well established things you could use instead.

I enjoyed programming it as a learning experience and to scratch my own itch. But I eventually decided it would actually be harder to maintain the system than to write a dumb little web app for any given project. And that there were probably much more valuable things I could teach myself than My Excentric Web Framework.

On another front, while I have never written any code for it, I keep thinking it would be cool to have GeoCities back but updated for all the cool stupid things you can do in the modern Web. A place for your weird taste in CSS, in public, with no shame and open to all. But I keep wishing somebody else would do it, which is not exactly the thing you asked about but somewhat close.
At my office there are signs around the coffee pot reminding everyone to bring their own reusable cup from home, the paper cups are for guest use. When they rolled this out everyone was given a nice cup (with the company logo of course). You are responsible for washing your own cup - dish soap is at the sink in the break room, or take it home.

Some people still use the provided cups instead of their own, but it helps.
I think it is mix of interest and "likeability(?)", and I like that way.

I like that people have their own self interests and will put themselves before me, because that leaves the space for me to do it when I find useful as well. And I need it, because I have a team which I need to keep it well balanced. In the end make they happy with their environment(compensation, challenges, pressure... etc).
I didn't try those specific headphones but another pair I had always had noise cancelation on. The button to turn NC on was actually just turning it up higher.
Oh, no. I'm not having that. The Daily Stormer is absolutely, actual, non-metaphorical Nazis.

Here's the first paragraph of the wikipedia entry:

The Daily Stormer is an American neo-Nazi, white supremacist, and Holocaust denial commentary and message board website that advocates for the genocide of Jews.[2][3][4][5] It considers itself a part of the alt-right movement.[6] Its editor, Andrew Anglin, founded it on July 4, 2013, as a faster-paced replacement for his previous website Total Fascism. The website also publishes its content in Spain and Latin America, Italy and Greece.

In conclusion: Nazis.
It's funny how items 6 (2checkout) and 7 (Stripe) are almost identical in style. I believe Stripe was the original and 2checkout completely lifted their design...
I don't (or at least didn't mean to) claim that the emerging properties of, say, Conway's game of life are intuitive. What I am claiming is that there is a qualitative difference between the outcomes of Conway and other physical emerging phenomena and the phenomenon of consciousness (and frankly, I have run out of ways to try to illustrate just how qualitatively different these things are). Just because both actual emergent phenomena and the phenomenon of consciousness are non-intuitive does not mean that they must necessarily be explainable in the same way any more than describing 'fog' and 'thoughts' to both be nebulous terms must mean anything beyond that.

Basically your claim is that everything we see in this world must be explicable in terms of physical laws or 'emergence' simply because emergence has shown to be correct when it comes to unimaginable things before. That, of course, does not logically follow. Of course, you're free to believe that, but then your only consistent claim can be "even if it's not logically true, I don't like to think that science cannot tell us everything.". Nothing more.

But you have already said that what I consider subjective experience is just 'my imagination' (the more I think of it, the more of an empty statement it seems to be. If consciousness is an illusion, then there must still be something that is 'being tricked', and then the question becomes how that phenomenon can happen. It's turtles all the way down.) If this is your stance, why are you still trying to convince me that subjective experience is something that will somehow be shown to be an 'emergent' property? Is it illusory or not?
> "We seem to be going back to the bad old days when victims of rape are being treated as suspects."

It's tiring and in fact dangerous to see some groups continuously campaigning for women reporting rape to be blindly believed.

Being accused of rape is devastating it is just that the police should start with a neutral stance and try to assert the plausibility of the accusation.
> And then in what may be the ultimate management consulting logic, Accenture apparently told Hertz that to speed up the production of the website's content management system, it wanted to use something called "RAPID" – and told Hertz it would have to buy licenses for it to do so. Hertz bought the licenses, however, it turned out that Accenture didn't actually know how to use the technology and the quick-fix took longer than it would have done without it.

Anyone know about what they're talking about?
While some projects within the compiler toolchain reinvent the wheel to varying degrees of increased performance/functionality (e.g. MIR, probably some parsing tools too, gold linker, lldb, etc.), the majority of projects these days take advantage of existing tooling to applying frontends and backends in different ways. Want a JavaScript to LLVM compiler? Map the JavaScript AST using an existing JavaScript parser to the LLVM AST and have LLVM generate code. The combinations are infinite and high quality. Most people (myself included) only experiment at the highest level.

All this is to say the barrier to entry in PL/compiler/interpreter implementation is only as high as you want it to be. You can do the whole thing yourself as a learning experience or you can use existing tools to finish a fairly-fully-featured project in a few hours over a few weeks.
> the prosecution does not have to search for and provide evidence that may exonerate the defense

Nobody said the prosecution had to do anything. Where do you think you saw that? But the police are required to investigate. It has been the police who have been at fault, and censored rightly so, for not finding this evidence in these cases.
A thousand times this! I don't think anyone wants law with no gaps, if they could only be convinced to think about it before they beg the government to fix every problem for them.
Clickbait. The prosecutors will only request the phones to be handed over when they're expected to contain evidence that's "relevant" to the case - possibly, evidence that might exonerate the defendant. Even in the U.S., prosecutors are in fact not allowed to withhold exculpatory evidence; it must be disclosed, according to the law.
Quora: Why did Clojure gain so much popularity?
> Broken window theory is real: imagine a random person in spotlessly clean city versus a city where there is trash everywhere. More people would litter in the latter city, I don’t think that is too controversial. Thus a run-down neighborhood with lots of broken windows will normalize behaviors that would be stigmatized elsewhere.

Citation needed. There are plenty of counterintuitive things in sociology; the broken window theory sounds plausible but that in no way implies that it's true.
I also would have to disagree, I find them to be super easy to understand. And someone like my grand father would actually be able to know whats going on.
Did a building conservation course a few years back which covered damp proof courses and engineering bricks, showing pictures of how people had had to allow insurance company-approved damp-proof “experts” to drill a cavity into the face of each engineering brick, inject some treatment, and then seal it off. Ugly, expensive, and totally unnecessary.
Those are not tinkering things -- those are productive uses.

Tinkering is endlessly playing with the window manager configs, changing desktop environments, getting your system "just so", switching this (e.g. audio framework) for that, etc.
Yeah I thought that was interesting. Perhaps an artifact of how soldiers are trained to regard their own lives versus their equipment?
A fun short article, but if you’re too lazy to read, the summary answer is “way more than you will ever need.”
intent matters when you judge a person, but not when you judge their actions. the bad parent is a good example. if someone tries hard to be a good parent, but can't actually take care of their child, it might be necessary to remove the child from that situation, but we might first see if there isn't a way to help that person fulfill their parental duties. on the other hand, if a parent harms their child through malice, not only would we want to place the child in a different home, but we might pursue additional punitive action against the parent.

intent can't separate actions from their necessary consequences, but it is important to consider before imposing additional consequences on a person.
UI/UX does matter if that is the problem you are trying to solve. If users can't use your product because they don't understand it, it isn't solving their problem.

Source: We sign up people because, and these are quotes from sales calls, "You have a good font size, easy to read", "I won't have to train new staff on how to use this correctly".
Depends on what you mean by Steam exclusive. Most of the AAA games released in the last 10 years or so uses Steamworks. Steamworks is a Valve provided library that offers support for achievements in the Steam client, DRM, multiplayer etc. It also means that if you have a Steamworks game, you have to activate and play it through Steam client, even if you buy it in a different store. So technically, it's not an exclusive, because you can buy games in different stores. But even if you buy your game in a box, most of the time what you get inside is a Steam key and instructions on how to download and activate the game.
>The amount of "tinkering" I have done on my Ubuntu PC was limited to changing background and reducing icon size to fit my monitor better.

Outliers need not apply.
In the UK they're not a growing problem, they're very rare, and the police rigorously prosecute them.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/katiejmbaker/vulnerable-women-routi...
But isn't Peter Thiel's view on what's a worthwhile return on investment different to most of us (who I expect would be happy just making a decent living)
>> Europe or not europe you decide

UK is part of European culture, economy, and history.
SSL error and only Nginx page is showing. Please update post when working.
No, it's a real example on "focus on what matters" and dropping support for bike-shedding (all too popular with tinkerers).

Many users are not college students discovering the world of UNIX and customization and tinker happy -- they're people that want to get something (not "how the computer works" related) done.
I use Lychee: https://lycheeorg.github.io/

easy to set up, looks decent, even shows exif data like exposure time, lens used etc.
The one time I got banned from a free service being considered abuse was 7TB of bandwidth in a month.
I’m not going to ban a popular site. I have a fair amount of bandwidth. I’m only going to ban a site who purposely abuses resources
In the US, the Law is clear - the Prosecution must expose exculpatory evidence to the Defense as a part of discovery.
I didn't find any link to their GitHub profile in the blogs or press releases:

https://github.com/apache/
The article will make Uncle Bob shudder.
I didn't even get an email from Docker but I still changed my password.

Funny enough, I only found out about the issue from seeing it on HN the other day.
Honestly, probably a worse year. They just don't seem to get why they are in the hole they are in and keep trying to escape by digging up.
I agree that this is shady marketing.

However, like I said, there are superior solutions available for these content/media producers.

Am I supposed to feel bad for them not optimising a tool that is apparently critical for their throughput and suffering mediocrity as a result?

There's an information asymmetry here and if they don't put the effort in to squeeze extra performance out of their equipment then either:

A) Someone who is putting this minimal effort into actually choosing the best tool for their job will usurp them with greater productivity.

B) Render times really aren't a bottleneck compared to the struggle of coming up with content ideas/filming the actual content -- slightly longer running tasks while people slack off and drink coffee are just fine.

I suspect it's actually the latter hence this is really a non-issue.
I wonder how long this name was reserved and by whom.
Tinkering was never important to real hackers. It's the script kiddie analogue to hacking.
On a different note, it’s oddly refreshing that the “dismantles” in the headline is literal and not attached to a video of someone yelling at political opponents.
The National Weather Service office in Binghamton, NY publishes probabilistic snowfall forecasts that do a good job of breaking down the confidence scores (presumably other offices do this as well, this is just the one I'm familiar with).

There's no snowfall in the forecast at the moment, but you can see how it's broken down: https://www.weather.gov/bgm/winter
Toiling on Turkey’s Hazelnut Farms With Little to Show for It
I haven't bought a new PC game in at least 5 years. I rarely play console games anymore either.

As a kid I was addicted to video games and dreamed of working in the industry (that dream is what got me started programming at 8). Now, at 39, I've lost all interest.
There is certainly a fair bit of extremity measuring going on in this thread, and I'm as guilty as anybody. The fact is a default install of MacOS or any of the mainstream Lunux distros is a fine system just as it is.
It's a drop in the bucket compared to all the other resources used to grow and transport them. Agriculture is costly across the board. But I for one want my year-round access to every food on the planet.
TeXmacs unfortunately is a bit buggy. You get random errors from time to time, though I've never had a corrupted file. Otherwise I love it!
GitHub is generally pretty loose when it comes to reassigning accounts owned by squatters.
Given Facebook owns a large part of the social media market through Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp I suspect people will start using the coin without much thought. It’s already going to be baked in across their services and for most people that is now their social lives
Not OP, but I don’t have certificate on my personal web site either, and I don’t think I need one.

> find it really hard to really trust if that's your contact information

Because Google implemented warning in their web browser, and you comply without understanding their reasons?

SSL is most useful for credit cards processing.

SSL makes some sense for e-mails and chat messages, also for authentication.

SSL is useless for static content.

I think Google did that for money, just sold the security story really well. They’re smart people, they can’t possibly be unaware of certificates being useless for majority of the web. Here’s the reasons.

Increases entry barrier, centralizing internet even more. For-profit internet companies have zero issues paying for certificates, it’s part of their business. It raises barrier for ordinary people. Also creates more incentive for placing ads on their web sites to reduce costs. Guess who earns most profits from internet ads?

Also, SSL breaks caching proxies by design. This opens market for technically inferior google AMP. Technically inferior, because proxies are closer to users, 20 years ago most office buildings had a caching proxy like Squid or MS ISA Server.

Also, there’s unintended consequence, users learning to ignore SSL errors and proceed anyway. People processing credit cards usually know what they do, take security seriously and SSL errors there often means what it’s supposed to mean, warns about potential hacks. People implementing SSL just to shut up the google browser don’t need security, they care much less and screw up much more often.
Wikipedia suggests [0] at least 1 rape accusation in 50 is made baselessly and with malicious intent. Maybe a further 4 in 50 are likely to be mis-identified situations with no crime occurring.

On the one hand, those numbers aren't high. On the other hand, these numbers are high enough that the police should be diligent exploring all available avenues of evidence. They should be tactful, discreet and empathetic as they do so.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_accusation_of_rape
That's equally true for an aeroplane engine - the difference is that no pilot would skip performing maintenance at the required intervals and there are maintenance logs etc. in place to enforce this. What makes the Cessna engine more reliable than the motorbike engine in practice isn't a simpler design but a better maintenance and operation culture.