skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What an unusual way to present the "progressive" ratio of taxes being paid, basing it on the total taxes paid by percentile groups. Of course a disproportionately wealthy percentile would be expected to pay most of the taxes in absolute amount or as ratios of absolute amounts between groups, if all the percentiles paid the same amount, but also EVEN IF the tax rates slide lower (i.e. are regressive) for the wealthy.

Progressive versus regressive tax rate discussions are more typically based on the ratio of one household's tax to that household's earnings. In other words, how much of what I make goes to taxes? I think this make comparisons more fair and straightforward, instead of comparing the ratios of combined absolute taxes by group.
https://www.quora.com/Is-it-possible-to-begin-a-one-man-hedg...
Totally. And it's called "hire fast, fire fast".
> For example, the vast majority of leases are templates, and almost all include unenforceable terms.

One way to avoid this is to pass legislation making the entire contract void if there are unenforceable terms.

You can just sue for the specific term and if the judge agrees then the entire contract is null.

This would stop lawyers from sticking them in there...
> the vast majority of Google's revenue comes from the use of your personal information to target you with ads

The vast majority of the revenue comes from search ads, which are intent-based on the keywords in the query.

What you're talking about are display ads / adsense, which is not even close to the majority of their revenue.
True, despite the down vote(s)

It’s a natural process, but still dirty and wasteful.
My comment was based on lack of reporting up to the morning of May 7 (i.e., yesterday evening to us), when family were still saying they'd seen nothing. So maybe they decided to lift the embargo at noon as you said.

But even with that, it doesn't change the removal from WeChat private messages that my wife experienced as recently as over last night.
90% of blockchain-based supply chain projects are in trouble
If you think Google "sells everyone's personal information to advertisers", then you are mistaken about their business model as umeshunni said.

Google themselves explain it clearly and openly.

https://safety.google/privacy/ads-and-data/
Minetest is an excellent, open-source Minecraft alternative, initially created around the same time:

https://www.minetest.net/

There are some great servers online like VanessaE's and Illuna, to showcase what the game is capable of with some mods.

Mods are easy to install, in recent versions, directly through an in-game UI.
Yes, it's pretty much that.
Because sometimes it is easier to ship one thing to customers than 10 different images and several different run manifests.

There's plenty of other reasons.
how does illiterate pass through driving license test that they can rent a car?
docker pull clearlinux/python

https://github.com/clearlinux/dockerfiles/tree/master/python
It may not be fair but it's true. Testing for Safari is such a hassle in my Windows and Android dominated world.
If you want to reduce the pollution in your home, stop using dryer sheets, fabric softener, Downy, or any laundry detergent that is scented.

Instead of fabric softener, use white vinegar as a liquid fabric softener in your washer. It will make your clothes smell fresh - not vinegary.

That scent that comes off of clothes that are treated with scented detergents and softeners is air pollution.
Yet people keep voting against their own interests and supporting behaviors that act against their own interests.

With proper organization, the majority of Americans could force changes within a few weeks (peacefully) by rejecting the current system as it stands, forcing their concerns to be addressed. The continued belief and support of our system that incentivizes moral and ethically questionable behavior and disproportionately rewards a select few who are increasingly contributing less to society at large is toxic and self-perpetuating. It will ultimately lead to non-peaceful action by society at large so it's best to fix things before we get to that point.
Thanks for the suggestion. I'd like to add that I use Breathe Right strips and they seem to help a lot.
The types of apps that are appropriate for PWAs are not the kind of apps that make money on the App Store. Most of the revenue generated on the App Store (as opposed to services that have an app front end) are games.
but without tls amazon can "decrypt" your traffic and see whats inside.
its one thing to have a backdoor inside a server that they rent to you that would have to be actively exploited and another to passively clone the traffic and analyze it in the name of making the service better.
There is no such thing as a Capitalism that us not a crony one, it's a pleonasm.

Capitalism is by definition a crony one. It has to go in bed with the government, because it's the government that sets the rules.

True free market means one company owning everything.
Zuckerberg copied Page and Brin's share structure. Page and Brin control Google just as much as Zuckerburg controls Facebook - totally. As for ego, I don't know these people personally so I'll take your word for it.
You made Kyso for making GitHub-hosted Jupyter Notebooks render when accessed with a web browser on github.com?
Senator announces bill banning loot boxes, pay-to-win mechanics
I've been using Protonmail and ProtonVPN for almost a year (Plus subscription) and it's been pretty good. It's now my primary email address. Some cool things

- You can have a @pm.me address which is much shorter than @protonmail.com
- You can use email clients with bridge
- Mobile apps are pretty good

Their VPN product is really solid too.
And then never get it back...?
Maybe HD video is the major culprit. I imagine that might fill up space pretty quick on a vacation, depending on how someone likes to record.
This is so true, https://db-engines.com/en/ranking has microsoft sql server in third but I think if this ranking was just customer facing databases rather than apps like the weekly company canteen meal planner it would be must lower.

Actual, revenue losing, ms sql server databases are a lot lower and you have to have engineering discipline because it 100% doesn't "just go faster" (when sql 2016 came out, microsoft's tagline was "it just goes faster", narrator: "it mostly didn't")
So Bird is unable to recoup the costs of buying a scooter from rentals but somehow an individual, paying more for each scooter, and getting a smaller rental share than Bird does, will?
With remote debugging?
The article loads fine for me in private mode.
A drone has been used to deliver a donor kidney for the first time
Awesome you think so too. I just started making SafeQL, not a full ORM but way of composing SQL fragments with type safety and chose JDBI to build it on. [Link on a nearby sibling comment.] Since you've built some already any feedback would be helpful.
To be frank dementia is death but fuzzier and more drawn out. I know fron experience with Alzheimer'd in family - it is a loss of self such that by the end they were effectively dead for years - just confused remnants of personality and inability to interact meaningfully - it is horrifying. At least when someone in your family gets hit by a truck you know when you lost them.
If it is, it's not due to CO2.

The US Navy's submarines are run with CO2 levels varying from 300-11,300ppm.[1] The military did plenty of studies in the 60s and 70s and failed to find significant cognitive effects in environments as high as 4% CO2.[2]

> Thus, CO2 at 40,000 ppm for 2 weeks did not affect performance on multiple tests of cognitive function in physically fit young airmen, a population probably not unlike submariners.

> A number of studies suggest that CO2 exposures in the range of 15,000-40,000 ppm do not impair neurobehavioral performance. Schaefer (1961) reported that 23 crewmen exposed to CO2 at 15,000 ppm for 42 days in a submarine showed no psychomotor testing effects but showed moderate increases in anxiety, apathy, uncooperativeness, desire to leave, and sexual desire.

> In a 5-day exposure of seven subjects at a CO2 concentration of 30,000 ppm, Glatte et al. (1967) reported no effects on hand steadiness, vigilance, auditory monitoring, memory, or arithmetic and problem solving performance.

> CO2 exposure did not affect performance on the tracking task or any of the six RPM subtests (Storm and Giannetta 1974).

There's also an argument from biology. When sitting around, people exhale 4-5% CO2. That's 40,000-50,000ppm. An extra 2,000ppm is far less than the variance across a typical breath, and it won't increase ppCO2 in the blood stream nearly as much as standing up and walking around. If CO2 hurt cognition as badly as these studies claim, then even minor physical exertion should turn people into drooling idiots.

It's for these reasons that I am extremely skeptical of the recent claims about CO2 impairing cognition.

1. https://www.nap.edu/read/11170/chapter/5#47

2. https://www.nap.edu/read/11170/chapter/5#54
I am not trying to convince you, just stating a fact. Why do you think news from the 80’ies is any indication of his economy today. Read the art of the comback, he is pretty transparent. Not sure what exactly you think it is you know thats not already available. You saying he isnt rich?
Thats fair, but he's a rank amateur at that compared to many major news organisations. At one point the BBC had it down to a fine art, but these days they seem to be getting a lot more clumsy.
Google employees demand Larry Page address walkout and retaliation
The communists got one thing right. We really will sell them the rope they use to hang us.
Don't listen to the Copyleftists. FOSS is bigger than ever because non-copyleft free software is what professionals can build on.

For the most part, Copyleftists are stuck in Hobbyland and it really shows when you look at the software they produce. Their business models - if they even have one - largely don't work. Given that software is very expensive to produce, copyleft software eventually runs out of suckers to support it after the "fun factor" wears off and the "real work" starts.

The Linux kernel is the major exception, but only because the particular exceptions that the GPL grants to it do not encumber the enterprises that develop Linux. Wherever it does, enterprises will choose non-copyleft alternatives (e.g. Sony and Nintendo building on FreeBSD).
Ask HN: Do any of you dislike using Visual Studio Code?
Given how very popular it is, anyone here actually dislike using it?
>You think everybody has time to read the dozens of pages of legalese in Google's privacy policy, which anyway doesn't actually specify in which ways they abuse one's information?

No, but I do think that everyone who gets a service for free should by default assume they don't have much privacy. That is not a huge burden to assume.
Newspapers, television, blogs, direct mail, billboards, etc. all rely on a modicum of audience targeting. Don't pretend that P&G would naively pay for laundry detergent ads in Playboy magazine because they didn't know who the magazine's audience was.

As with all things, it scales with technological advancements, which also includes new responsibilities (that this article is mentioning).
Ahhh. More "blessed" than "officially sanctioned" then. :)
I wouldn't say that spite is the only thing at work here. Humans are incredibly tied to fairness, of which I think spite is a partial sub-set.

Some people will spend more cash to remedy the unfairness of the situation

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/are-human...
Could quantum mechanics explain the existence of space-time?
When folks from the LGBT community were in discussions about family life and military duty... these folks couldn't say a word, lest they be dishonorably discharged from the military and possibly be charged with a crime. Folks going to boot camp around '97/'98 were told that oral and/or anal sex were grounds for a sodomy charge, after all.

Yes, it was a step in the right direction, but folks still couldn't realistically be open about their love life if you were not in a more traditional relationship. Regardless of intent, it was still censorship.
So proprietary that I'm charging my Lenovo with an Apple power brick.
That sounds like the right way to do it. I would love a file browser that has no network permissions but special file permissions, and my network capable apps to have no extra file permissions beyond their own needs.
Yeah this is wrong. You would need to replace the CPU, both eeproms, and baseband CPU, along with reprogramming the nand with the matching serial and mac address from the clean components. Its not feasible. Now for an ipad, thats another story. I've done hundreds of unlocks for them, since they either don't have an IMEI or can easily be converted to Wifi only, then you only need to remove the nand and reprogram with clean activation data that can easily and cheaply be found online from old retired ipads that are no longer in use. Sometimes you have to replace the wifi modules, as the drivers are different between wifi only and cellular versions.
Microsoft Reboots PowerToys for Windows 10
Emacs jupyter notebook mode (ein-mode) is pretty excellent too. That's my go-to way to connect to jupyter.
Or perhaps an ad supported blog?
So not even selling axes and shovels is viable anymore.
Another one bites the dust I guess.
Lucky me that I sold me stake in Q1 18.
I found that lady fascinating. I wonder if she has a learning disability. In any case, Google's solution is amazing: by highlighting the word while reading it to her, she is likely to learn to recognize words, leading her to improved literacy. If this solution works as well as Google hopes, Google may end up raising literacy throughout the world. Even if that means Google gets more data about everyone, I think the effects on the world would be a net positive.
I thought this was intentional when I stumbled on it a month ago.
Personally - as much as I hate loot boxes and pay-to-win, I'm firmly in the "why on Earth should government be regulating video game mechanics?" camp. I don't feel that there's a way to accurately or honestly define "games targeting kids," and even if there were, I think it's a parental duty to teach self control - or at least keep the credit card under control.
My first thought was: what are those numbers doing, and the first graph I found is that all of these seem to be tracking about the same way:

https://www.macrotrends.net/1377/u6-unemployment-rate

So it is an important thing to consider, but it does not look like it tells a different story at the moment.
A really interesting example of this in my life is racquetball. When you first start playing it can be difficult to know if the ball hit the wall or the ground first. With experience it’s pretty easy to tell. You are still looking at the same thing. But some inexperienced players I play with ask wether it hit the ground or not. Interestingly for me at least I couldn’t tell you exactly where it hit or even how it bounced getting there I just know wether it hit the ground or not.
I notice a similar behaviour. I don’t have a Google account and don’t keep cookies, so the only way for them to track me is my IP.

My IP seems to be permanently associated with my YouTube habits. They’re even being sneaky about it, as in they’ll give you a default homepage and generic recommendations first, but watching any video similar to the previous viewing habits will bring back not just videos related to that one, but the entire history they’ve collected over the years (some of the topics I watch are completely separate and would never intersect normally, so the only way for them to both come up in suggestions is from previous viewing history).

I didn’t create an account, didn’t agree to any privacy policies, and am blocking any and all cookies just like they advise in their own privacy policy and yet I am still being tracked.
This is a super interesting in depth article on the current state of climate policy, energy systems etc in Australia: https://www.carbonbrief.org/the-carbon-brief-profile-austral...

I highly recommend carbonbrief in general
Great article.

Somebody else mentioned Scott Helme, but didn't link to three of his amazing sites:

https://securityheaders.com which checks important headers

https://report-uri.com/ which allows sending CSP reports to to catch errors. It also has a CSP builder (among a bunch of tools) which is hugely helpful: https://report-uri.com/home/generate

https://scotthelme.co.uk/ is his blog with a ton of info. It also has a cheat sheet for CSP: https://scotthelme.co.uk/csp-cheat-sheet/

(I might be a fan of the guy ha)
The Fed's figures indicate it's entirely correct. What's actually happening is an increased bifurcation of outcomes in the US based on race and education levels.

Educated Whites, Blacks, Hispanics and Asians have all done well over the last decade.

For example, the median household net worth of a Black household with a four year degree or greater, increased by nearly 90% in just three years with the economic recovery from 2013 to 2016 (stocks and real-estate values). Educated Hispanic households saw a similarly outsized increased in their median net worth.

The median net worth of an educated Black household, is now considerably higher than the median net worth in Germany or Sweden. The same is true for an educated Hispanic household.

However, without that education level, Black households see a drop of ~83% in their median net worth figure. White households without a four year degree or greater, similarly see an ~80% drop in their median net worth.

The average net worth of a White household without an education, was $367,000 as of 2016. With a bachelor's degree or higher, it was $1.8 million. Median was $98k vs $397k.

The gains have mostly gone to educated households. That has produced an economic gain bias in favor of White and Asian households (which tend to have greater / easier access to higher education). That effect has pushed White and Asian households up the class bracket over the last four decades.

This is fundamentally why the US middle class has been spinning its wheels. You're seeing White and Asian households move up and out of the middle class, and Hispanic households move in, while Black households have been stuck with only very modest progress.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/rece...
Australian here: believe me, we would love to move to renewable and generally more sustainable energy sources. However our current government has this obsession with coal.

This has lead to stunts such as an MP saying “coal is good for Australians”, and bringing a lump of coal to parliament. The current conservative government desperately trying to approve the Adani coal mine despite the consistently falling price and demand for coal and the fact that they would need to seriously damage the Great Barrier Reef to build it. Another MP wearing a hi-vis vest of a coal mine into parliament, the current government spouting all sorts of lies about “clean coal” and how “nobody really cares about climate change”.
I've been also working on a 2D UI on the GPU. It's quite amazing actually, compared with the code running on the CPU, the code is very terse. The setup can be somewhat verbose, but the shaders themselves are short. Like a 20 line shader can do miracles.
The service mesh doesn't have to be complex. If you want the value of the service mesh at a fraction of the complexity, start with Linkerd.
I want to know the answer to to this. Must be a nice place to live.
Can non-admins export data? Mailing lists often allow downloading archives in mbox format and people also have local archives.

In cases of catastrophic failure or why-style "digital suicide", it seems like modern tools could easily leave a community with no records at all.
These would be big problem, but even worse is that you wouldn't know if they know.

Like getting ghosted after a job interview. You will have _no idea_ what caused the rejection. Or, as to your examples, you will have no idea if and/or why you're getting charged more.
Unless your behavioural data is enough of an outlier to identify you.
I was referring to the first two paragraphs of "customer obsession", which doesn't add anything substantial to the announcement.
How do you debug in the dev env without a shell?
Your article reads like a sarcastic defense of Zuck.
That's more an issue with your connection. Mobile devices have really bad connections. IRC was //never// designed with them in mind; they literally didn't exist and were not likely to exist for decades (which it has been).

IRC was designed, mostly, for two types of users: A) Large institution users who had a fixed link to the internet and ran in their shell on a mainframe. B) Dial-in users, who's devices mostly stayed connected, and when they disconnected, usually required manual intervention to get back on.

Anyone, and I mean ANYONE using a mobile phone SHOULD be using a 'bouncer' or other gateway to access a live communications environment. This would be more like use case A where someone has a small agent on a slice of a server they 'trust' and that maintains state (for their client) and stateful connection (for links to other servers and users).

IIRC, Quassel IRC has such a client/server model for the client, there are probably others too.
Enjoy your time off!
The GoTrax GXL v2 can be had for less than $300, and the only downside compared to the Segway is slightly less range.
Democracy is supposed to be a check on Capitalism's excesses but it requires an informed citizenry, so we are out of luck.

The people are too easily fooled by charlatans and demagogues like Donald Trump.
They should switch it up with the Winnie the pooh references.
I know plenty who use IRCCloud. There is nothing FOSS about it, though.
Yes, I think it's possible.

There's a lot of legal and compliance activity that would need to be outsourced. The technology could be mostly outsourced. In theory your trading strategy can be automated, and while it works, could be largely hands-off.

I think you can probably pass all the compliance checks with a single person supported by outsourced contractors, so long as you have the right licenses.

So the single person would need to supervise all the outsourced activity, review and sign all the docs, monitor the strategy, and do the sales and marketing.

While it's theoretically possible, it'd probably make more sense to have at least two people.
Notably, this was a part of the episode where the cartoon was censored.
Especially Safari on iOS. It infuriates me that we still don't have a push notifications API, nor a roadmap for when it may be included.
You don't have to back anything up to iCloud. You can keep on your locked device and backup elsewhere.

My point was that iMessage is an easy way to have your default mode of messaging be E2E encrypted
If you trust Amazon to know your risk profile better than your security people, you have a management problem of some sort.
That’s a family choice for her to leave the US or not. That there might be one obvious dominant choice does not change the fact that it’s a choice. That choice you face today is influenced by a choice the parents made a couple decades ago. All still choices.

My kids might be forced to move if I got a job in another city or or if one of our parents fell ill if my wife and I divorced or any other number of reasons, including simply deciding to move someplace else.

It’s a sucky situation that you want and can’t get a green card. I think you share that same situation with 10s or 100s of thousands of others.