skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For anyone who wants to do things like double-entry accounting with transaction splits (e.g., properly encode an Amazon order for 5 different items from different expense categories, that're paid for by a mix of rewards points, Gift Card balance, and CC), there's GnuCash.

You can also do things like record transactions yourself, update with downloaded data, and reconcile against monthly statements (as another way of catching discrepancies).

You can make custom reports with charts. I used these, for example, for comparing how much I spent buying coffee every day, vs. how much I spent on every cost that goes into making coffee at home, when I tried that for a while.

There's also features for tracking investments, including automatic updates of market prices.

And, if you're a small business, you can build and generate invoices (including building the invoice over multiple days), and track accounts receivable.

Warning: GnuCash can be a significant investment of time. I eventually decided it was no longer worth it for me, though I might someday resume it.

Other Warning: If you have retirement accounts or other investments in GnuCash, consider hiding them from view, which GnuCash lets you do with any account. Bogleheads-style, US people probably want to keep contributing to a predetermined balance of total-market stocks and bonds, automatically, and not think about it, especially when there's market fluctuations.
The $5 wrench isn’t what most people have to worry about; it’s the 5-hour detention without charge.
For starters, Mozilla dropped RSS support after shoving proprietary closed source software down our throats in the form of Pocket.

I don't see this as having users best interests in mind.
All kinds of celebrities and politicians went to John of God too.
A Documenting of My Fizzbuzz Chip-8 Program
As a counter-anecdote, in my experience it is very uncommon for large entities which are disposing of books and other equipment to remove such labels even from things they clearly intend to not keep. You identified something which was likely a mistake, but I've had the opposite reaction when I asked about a "do not remove from this room" label on a book I wanted to buy: "oh, that's just left over from when it was a part of our collection, but we are selling it." (In the end, I bought it.)
I found Quantum gave noticeable performance improvements. Not enough to justify crippling the extensions I use constantly and insultingly taking away the ability to make the UI look the way I want it to look, but improvements nonetheless.
In the compiler I'm working on at work the integration tests have been the most useful.
Cults fill important human needs for human connection, structure, seemingly-legitimate authority, existential meaning and a driving purpose for life. To the degree these aren't provided by healthier structures in our society, individuals will be drawn to these organizations. And many things which we do not often think of as cults in many ways fit into the broader conception thereof: militaries, political parties, yoga studios, etc. have all been known to fall into that classification.

Steve Hasan's BITE model is a great framework for thinking about these things. In many ways, control of behavior, information, thoughts, and emotions is what all human organizations do, so it's more of a cost/benefit analysis than an either/or analysis that's called for. There are varying degrees of "cultiness". Recommended reading: "Combating Cult Mind Control".

An evolutionary analysis of these sorts of social structures is also fascinating. If you treat a cult like a superorganism that must compete for resources with other organizations in the culture, you can understand many of the pressures driving them. Jonathan Haidt has shown how "morality binds and blinds", and this is nowhere stronger than in cults whose distinct moral code both binds people together into a unit, and blinds them to the true nature of the group.
To piggyback on this, I'd love a Readability-like feature where I can just get the text from an article. I use Materialistic on my phone to read HN, and articles are always a pain whereas the Readability feature, when it worked, made a big difference.
If I ever somehow acquire a Bill Gates level fortune, my plan is to use it to fund a secret research program tasked with using genetic engineering to create the low level monsters from assorted MMORPGS and figuring out how to set up self-sustaining breeding populations of them in the wild near towns.

Offhand, I can't think of an MMORPG that had low level killer rabbits (zombie or not). It's mostly giant snakes, giant bats, giant rats, small orcs, small goblins, small kobolds, small gnolls, small gelatinous cubes, and things like that. (Skeletons are also common, but they don't seem feasible except as robotic skeletons).

However, I'll add killer rabbits, as they would fit right in.
I'm pretty sure you dont try to factor opportunity costs into an investment. You only compare returns of different investments. Labor is a legit expense weather you pay someone or maintain your own rental property. Maybe that's what you meant, you own opportunity to do higher paying work?
Alright s/USSR/Sweden/ and same comment
However, in this case, they're checking the electronics of a Canadian citizen who has every right to be in the country.
Ask HN: What would you do every day, assuming you didn't need to work?
what? this is like asking, do elephants go to heaven?

isn't the proper question, phrased scientifically (albiet a nascent science), whether elephants have consciousness?

EDIT: skimming the article i see it's quite literary so i think the choice of words was meant to reflect more humanism than merely saying "concsious" would capture: ie, meaning or purpose, emotion, etc
I hope my pals use my corpse for some cubensis when I'm ripe for it.
When cannons were common on land it was not unussual to see cannonballs bouncing across the field towards you. As they were subsonic, you also could hear them coming.
Producers of gold/commodities are included, as these are businesses financed with debt/equity.The return on buying gold bars and sticking them in your basement (or buying a note tied to the value of gold in someone vault) isn't covered because it doesn't produce income in the way that stocks, bonds, and rental properties do.
I don't know about the US, but here in The Netherlands the technical cops are aware of cold boot attack. As a lawyer crossing a border you should use a device with a secure enclave, and have the device off. Or better: don't cross the border with your device.
In a world of no tests, a handful of high level tests on "critical path" functionality can make a huge difference. They can also demonstrate visible wins to unconvinced stakeholders.

I don't know the OP's world, but I can vouch for starting with high level tests being a good strategy in some cases.
First list is "September 12 vote", the very first ACTA 2 one.

Just for reference, official PO party twitter posted this https://twitter.com/platforma_org/status/1015184834623365120 "No to ACTA" in July, and in 2012 Tusk (very same from main topic, head of PO) officially announced Polish position as "categorical YES to ACTA, nothing will change our mind" https://www.tvn24.pl/wiadomosci-z-kraju,3/premier-podpiszemy...

PO party is a Platform of corruption and lies, they used to change tune every poll/elections and are implicated in every major corruption scandal to date.
The framers did not intend to preclude communities from enforcing laws regulating standards of decency and morality. This person was not prosecuted because people didn’t like him, he was prosecuted because he did something that was illegal and went far beyond the other, perhaps technically illegal, conduct prosecutors otherwise let slide.
It is. But I think it's more that there's more value to them in pumping as much off the production line as possible into new vehicles (witness all the crazy efforts there), and they've basically completely neglected their parts market.
I mean, I can:

1. Invest in an index fund, which I deposit into automatically every month, at X% return and Y% risk.

2. Invest in a rental property, which I then have to spend time to manage (or pay someone to manage), at the same X% return and Y% risk.

I wondering how you're supposed to account for the difference between the two. Even if I don't hire someone to manage my property, I still have to spend time managing it, which can have a significant opportunity cost.
Brunei says it won't enforce death penalty for gay sex
The place where I saw this was in testing compilers. The idea is you get some piece of deterministic code, and some input to run it on. You compile and run that code on that input, and get an output.

Now, you modify the code so that the behavior ON THAT INPUT is not changed (and does not become undefined). For example, you can make arbitrary changes to parts of the code that weren't executed on that input. You now compile the modified code and see if it does the same thing on that input. If not, you have a compiler bug.
You can now do an instant ACH transfer of 5000 or less with Chase. Takes about 5 minutes. I do it between Chase and BofA.
No, I had to "fork" it, when it still was on Google Code, because of temporal extensions and lately JSON stuff. Sebastian sadly doesn't seem to be on Github a lot. Would love to contribute my changes, but I also have to have the ability to change/fix stuff on my own. That said I really love the whole idea of Brackit, a flexible query compiler framework with proven rules, to rewrite the AST usable by any data store... and I want to plugin rewrite rules for index accesses as well as operators in the first place and so on (the indexes can be manually created and queried as of now). Sirix basically as of now has to use raw document scans, but I'd love to work on rewrite rules and then on a cost based optimizer (that said it would be great to find someone who is experienced and can help a bit). His Ph.D. thesis can be found here:
http://wwwlgis.informatik.uni-kl.de/cms/fileadmin/publicatio...

And Sebastian worked under supervision from Dr. Theo Härder :-)
Books on my "to read list":

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/31590496-ismail-dhorat...

Thought as a system by David Bhom

An Introduction to General Systems Thinking by Gerald M. Weinberg
The rise of the access economy (2015)
Yes, $5,000. In Europe it's 100,000. Big difference.

$5,000 isn't enough to cover rent in San Francisco.
In Memory of the Englishman Who Kept a Shark on His Roof
What's your definition of a soul?

Cells don't have intelligence, but people obviously do, so it's possible for all of something's parts to lack something that the whole has.
Disabling noscript is a bigger security issue.
Cheap housing exists in areas of low-to-negative growth. As in, those who got out did and those who can get out will in order to find better jobs and a higher quality of life.
This would likely result in the opposite of the desired effect.

History has shown that the only reliable way to make a people more environmentally-conscious is to make enough of them wealthy enough to have the free time/energy/sentimentality to care.
There are a few reasons -

The move to webapps meant that each app had to decide how their buttons would look like, what colors, fonts, and contrasts they’d use, how their workflows to do very similar things would be structured; when things were on the desktop the OS UI elements made all the decisions for you - it was the same gray buttons with black text in the same font on every app - the only difference would be whether the buttons were above or below the textbox...

Another reason is that apps need to look and behave roughly like what’s currently “in trend”, as users spend the majority of their time on the big players’ apps, and not “keeping up” will make your app seem outdated and untrustworthy; ie skeuomorphism was the thing when iOS first caught on, and then everyone had to make everything flat when material design caught on...
pocketsmith.com does a great job of this out of the box (no affiliation, just a user and fan).
Drive for Uber/Lyft, and he could even make money while doing it. It could be called "Tesla-sharing."
Cryptocurrencies don't solve this problem, but they do lack the regulations and baggage that cause it.
Terrorism, children, drugs, or sex; all excuses used for attacking individual liberty. Let's get real here, stuff like this is about control, not about security, and certainly Nota about morality...

That's just how politicians package it so the people swallow the poison pill.

That said, I feel like people vastly overestimate the similarity of governments of the US and the UKs vassal states like Canada, and that false expectation is part of why people get outraged. Once one understands this the authoritarian approach of the "Commonwealth" nations things make much more sense.
So why is the link going to his personal site instead of the paper or to a neutral article covering the paper?
Well, an example would be the US in the 50s,60s and 70s.
Here's more about this documentary:

http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b72f8384f

Although this documentary is 40 years old, it discusses the way the media uses interviews and statistics to frame a story about race that are immediately recognisable in modern-day reporting.

I hope people watching this documentary will find it thought-provoking regardless of whether they agree or not with the views presented. I found it fascinating and surprisingly relevant to current affairs today.
Is this video faked? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixI7HxF0JmU
A classic case of this bug is "I don't think this test case is doing what you think it is doing". I've produced my share of test cases that were elaborate duds.
For the last tens of thousands of years was restricted to China, most probably

Before this time, probably had a bigger distribution area. The genus has extinct species in Central Europe and America but a very similar species lived yet in China around 10 millions of years ago
That interview with the Pocket CEO never mentions RSS.

(Disclaimer: I work for Mozilla but not on any functionality related to this)
They were probably doing equivalent things until more recently. My local barber has a retro sign hanging in his shop that looks to be an antique one from a barber shop probably in the 1800's. It lists 'tooth pulling' as one of the activities alongside har cutting and shaving etc.

Strangely, the tooth extraction didn't cost much more than a shave & a haircut - I wonder what sort of anaesthetic was used!? :)
It seems fitting that I had to enable reader mode to be able to read a blog post about UX cliches.
It's my main driver since ~2003, so yeah, I did and still do.
a) High gas prices in Europe for environmental reasons are exactly the kind of support that electric vehicles need. UK gas prices are $5.83/gallon compared to about $2.60 (at the time). Over the 6000 gallons a car may burn through, that works out to almost $20,000 difference (far greater than the $7500 EV credit now expiring). You're making my point for me. (Halo/compliance was only in the US.) https://www.statista.com/statistics/221368/gas-prices-around...

b) Very similar to Tesla being invested in by Toyota and Daimler in the beginning, with Tesla then providing powertrains for the Rav4 EV and the Smart EV and Mercedes B-Class. Rivian IS developing their vehicles from scratch like Tesla did with Model S, and that's why Rivian's vehicles will be fantastic (if they can execute, which I suspect they can). However, Tesla really ought to partner with more carmakers and provide their excellent powertrains like they once did. Both Tesla and Daimler are apparently open to it and are in talks: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/07/daimler-ceo-tesla-mercedes-t...
I would argue that the dopamine from a book is actually higher. You invest more into a book and are thus more likely to manipulated by what the author is saying.

On the other hand a documentary I invest no effort into watching it and thus can remain relatively unbiased.
That makes sense, but I don't think they would need to divert a very high fraction of production, would they? Though I guess I am assuming a uniform rate of parts demand, so actually the final effect on production may be nonlinear.
For you, sure.

For all the people that had their browser completely broken for the whole day, without any reason, however…

And your one-day fix, how much time do you think it will take to be deployed on people’s linux system? Probably a few days or more. Probably enough for them to realize that they can just switch to Chrome to have a working browser.
Tesla Model 3 Cheaper Than Honda Accord
Kosher – Automated Functional Testing with Gherkin
Drones to Deliver Incessant Buzzing Noise, and Packages
When is a transplant worth it?
It's unfortunately quite old, predating the DL revolution. I think it would be written much differently now: emphasizing more the possibility of brain-like architectures (perhaps using real brain data as rich 'supervision': https://www.reddit.com/r/reinforcementlearning/comments/9pwy... ) rather than direct brain emulation, and more skeptical about the extent to which deep accurate simulation down to the molecular level is really necessary for human-level intelligence.

I've suggested repeatedly to FHI & Sandberg that an update of the Roadmap would be a very good project, but given how little progress there has been on true brain emulation since then (especially compared to DL), I'm not surprised that nothing's happened.
>zero fire hazard

Didn't a cow start the Great Chicago Fire?
One problem I've found with integration tests exclusively is that you end up having very little incentive to write modular code.
India as a whole has never been communist, although the Gandhi-inspired self-reliance/import substitution/License Raj era definitely did cripple the economy in similar ways.

Many "communist" countries in Africa and the Middle East were so mostly on paper and they flipped allegiances regularly based on whether the US or the Soviets were offering better carrots.
Sharing a plate of food leads to more successful negotiations
The only "security" it provided was to prevent people from installing add-ons that Mozilla didn't approve of, ostensibly ones it thinks are malicious, and I'd bet that on Android (which has its own app isolation features anyway) that's even less of a problem.
Demoscene: Atlas 64k Intro Graphics Breakdown [video]
ive been thinking of this problem a lot recently and this is good but I wonder how a given service (of which there could be many replicas of said service) finds its idempotency key. If I take a key / generate a key and then crash, how do I find my key again? I assume they do something simple like have a unique service identifier ie service-name+replica# and use that for querying for a particular key.

they mention using a deterministic key for this kind of problem but that can be tough too
Very few people in the US live in SF. For everyone else, it works a treat (I have a Chase account just for Zelle/Chase Pay transfers).
You are reading it ... incompletely and getting the incorrect impression that real estate is a better investment than equities, which it absolutely IS NOT. The study explicitly neglects to factor in "leveraged real estate."

So you spend $1,000,000 on a house. With interest on a 30 year note, typically, that house with interest will cost $3,000,000 total. As an investment most people only consider capital gains, but the majority of gains according to the PDF are from rental income.

Source, Page 3, paragraph 2:

The majority of households in advanced economies today hold a leveraged portfolio in their local real estate market. As with any leveraged portfolio, this signiﬁcantly increases both the risk and the return associated with the investment. And today, unlike in the early twentieth century, houses can be levered much more than equities. The benchmark rent-price ratios from the IPD used to construct estimates of the return to housing refer to rent-price ratios of unleveraged real estate. Consequently, the estimates presented so far constitute only un-levered housing returns of a hypothetical long-only investor, which is symmetric to the way we (and the literature) have treated equities.
I think this appliesmostly to persistently stored data. Redundancy in your data model is dangerous because the copies of the data will eventually get out of sync, resulting in weird bugs. No matter how often and how many transformations you expose the data, make sure that it only exists once deep down in your model.

On one of my last jobs, I had to convince my teammates repeatedly that this is a good idea. I always showed them how this was simpler and more robust, yet a few weeks later, they were about to commit the same design errors.
A couple of people would get beaten with the wrench the first few times it happened, but after a few weeks and a few high profile cases from Fortune 500 employees of "my CIO is the only one with the key", they'd move on to other targets or other methods.
After seeing this video I am not so sure those reports are accurate:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL1DkrYL70s
How about fitting functions to the problems they solve, not the screens they're displayed on?

And do you mean a wide screen retina monitor with a tiny font? Or 24x40 Apple ][ screens of FORTH code, where you leave out comments and put everything on one line just to make it fit?

https://donhopkins.com/home/archive/forth/supdup.f

Trying to fit a function on one page is antithetical to so many other much more important goals, like readability and cohesiveness and documentation.

I prefer code that uses white space and blank lines liberally to group and align related things together, and break apart separate steps, with complex calculations broken apart using intermediate results stored in descriptively named variables, and as many comments as necessary, even if it doesn't all fit on one page.

https://donhopkins.com/home/archive/forth/alloc.f
Pretty much. I have a Jaguar. My dealership said, "Well, you should have it back tomorrow, unless we have to get the part from England (I live in Seattle), then it will be day after tomorrow".
parts stores deliver to mechanics and garages many times a day. no app needed, they use the phone. so, when you need a starter for a 1992 honda, they call the closest parts store and a 'parts runner' delivers it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNdoVrQnxyo

MMA is a joke.
Maybe also have some relatively uninteresting encrypted files which you can hand over in this situation?
You are well within your rights to express your criticisms of the project, but claiming bad faith with no evidence to back it isn't.
best situation I was in, we had a conference/group communications tool. Had a 'bot army' where each bot jumped around in the group space, turning mic on and off and texting. Wouldn't release until 100 bots could go all night and neither the client, server nor media node had problems.

That was a solid product!
Worth noting this is an open chest, transmural setup, not the transfemoral setup most people probably associate with cardiac catheterization. This thing is massive.
If someone outside South America goes in to South America and creates problems via military force, the solution to that problem may indeed come from the outside force changing its behavior. We are all connected and forces outside of South America have definitely contributed to economic problems on the continent.
On the other hand, the average Joe has much more control investing in real estate than investing in public companies. As a minority shareholder of a public company you are completely at the mercy of management. You just have to hope there's something left over for the minority shareholders after management is done enriching themselves. As a landlord you don't get to decide market rents, but you do get to decide who you rent to, how you maintain and improve the property, etc.