skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if the federal and/or state government offered, to tax return software makers, a small part of the proceeds for every successful tax return, on the condition that the software remains free of charge to the users and does not share or sell user data to advertisers?

Might we see a lot of good competition spring up this way?
I took a quick look at the documentation, and it sounds pretty much like an open source version of BitTorrent/Resilio Sync.

Their documentation mentions they use an open protocol. Is this thing just running on P2P?
That particular version opens the way for massive typo footguns and results in the insanity of defensive programming patterns like yoda expressions.
I think it doesn't help in the current 'lootacracy' where zero interest central banks loans are being used to jack up the price of existing real property. Vs historically where foreign money finances development and upgrading of real property.
i just read in the docs that it is possible to run your own discovery server and to configure the client to use it and also to remove the built-in discovery server list.
Genuinely mitigated the runny nose, aches and pains in my back, etc.
North Korea is valuable to Russia and China because it keeps (US-allied) South Korea away from having a land bridge into either of those countries.

In other words, entire countries can be propped up for decades not on their worth as an ally or vassal, but rather on their worth as a hindrance to your enemies.

I would expect, if HK found a new patron, it'd be for that reason.
Randomness of rewards has been repeatedly shown to increase duration spent with skinner boxes. There seems to be a magic middle spot where the small rewards are frequent enough to avoid disillusionment and the big rewards are infrequent & random enough to feed addiction
Beautiful blog post!
so you are saying that in java this works because i can choose the group where i get the artifact from, just like i can chose a different package repo for a package for my linux distribution.

but in NPM and ruby i am limited to one single global repo and thus have no choice but to get the one that is controlled by whoever owns the name.
For a dentist, the narwhal’s smile is a mystery of evolution (2012)
This is a fascinating bit of nerdery. Would someone be willing to explain what mainframes are used for in a modern context, and how they compare to a really high-capacity x86 machine? I know that one difference is that you can hot-swap pretty much any component on a mainframe, but would be very curious to learn more about these beasts.
> (Pro-tip: type sheet.new into your browser address bar to do this instantly)

That blew my mind. Sure enough, Google owns the .new TLD.
I have to concede on your conception argument -- that is legitimately fragile.
> Jefferson meant, I think, that we have a right to certain preconditions that will allow us to pursue happiness: freedom of speech, so we can speak our minds and learn from others; a career open to talents, so our efforts may be rewarded; freedom of worship, so we may find our way to heaven; and a free market, so we can pursue prosperity.

Yep, that's what he meant! Stop right there, sheesh!
The only frozen languages are the ones nobody uses except for play or academic purposes.

As soon as people start using a language, they see ways of improving it.

It isn't unlike spoken languages. Go learn Esperanto if you want to learn something that doesn't change.
Taiwan is de facto independent. It's just that China is sabotaging recognition of its independence through the one China policy. But that could change if a country like the US would openly challenge this.
If you asked me how much I thought 700kg of computer should cost, I probably would have guessed more than $12k. Is this thing modern? Specs don't seem too impressive but I don't know anything about these things.
There are options in Syncthing's settings to disable both the local and global discovery servers.
It's not just taking advantage of forgetfulness, I think there are a number of additional psychological factors that make you more likely to keep it active. Off the top of my head, I'd say: laziness might make you convince yourself that it's not a big amount, there might be a sunken cost fallacy at play (similar to how phone agents keep you on the line on purpose, which also serves to make you feel like you didn't waste the last 10 minutes listening to their offer), or you might start feeling guilty at denying the good cause money all of a sudden, etc.
Chinese leverage is high and their economy is trending down. They have to contract into slightly more conservative positions. And afaik, they were the world wide cause of inflationary real-estate.

I would suspect that US markets are less to blame than foreign economies showing signs of contracting. In any case, it's good for American's.

It's insane to me that our ability to buy homes is so adversely affected by foreign investment.
qtplatypus pointed out that Canada has jus soli citizenship.

I'll add that Switzerland is rather known for allowing many non-residents to get a bank account. Other countries offer them too; here is how to get a UK account for non-residents - https://www.bba.org.uk/customers/personal-banking/current-ac... .

The UK allows under-18s to go to school even without legal residency - https://www.childrenslegalcentre.com/resources/school-educat... says "Local authorities have a duty to provide suitable full-time education for all children of compulsory school age resident in their area. ... Being undocumented or having a ‘no recourse to public funds’ (NRPF) condition on a visa does not prevent a child from accessing education.

So does Switzerland - https://www.expatica.com/ch/education/children-education/edu... says "Education is compulsory for all children and young people in Switzerland even those who do not have a legal residency status."

I suspect that's true of most if not all Western countries.

So, most if not all of your statements seem wrong. (Researching driver licenses proved quite difficult.)
mmm, almost all of the most addicting games I know are some variation of small bars filling up over time to unlock more small bars to fill up. I'll give one specific example:

Destiny is a loot shooter (or "looty shooty" if you're in polite company) which has rare drops as part of it's core gameplay. Certain rare guns can only come from high-level activities, and some weapons have randomised rolls that encourage people to re-play those activities to get gear that is marginally better. A lot of the best parts of the gear drop design are lifted from peak WoW. But that alone isn't what makes destiny addictive.

Destiny 1 had "gun leveling" where you would need to get kills on certain rare weapons to unlock the rare features that made them useful, along with individual numbered levels for each gear slot, and that's before you get into the quests and bounties. There was always a reason to hop on, because you always had some new weapon that you could power up to see what it did. Tiny bars filling up.

When Destiny 2 shipped, they dramatically improved the loot system, simplifying the ways people would get drops and making them more consistent overall. But they also tried to remove a lot of the other "grindy" aspects of the game like gun leveling, but the result was the game didn't feel like you had compelling reasons to log in. Fewer bars = fewer hooks.

It's only now that the game has had several significant expansions and added a host of new quests (many of which simply require using certain types of gear in certain activities) that the game is approaching those same levels of addictive.
Can someone tell me how the WSJ arrived at $13,888.96 for China's GDP per capita in 2018? Did they just make it up?
Basically. Cargo is so good that the only things I could possibly wish for are specifying binary dependencies and easier use of Cargo as a library (and maybe a more robust `patch` section, but there's always `paths` in .cargo/config).
Love privacy.com, but I can't seem to use it outside the US :(
I was curious whether this was true, so went looking for studies. Here’s a pretty good recent one which concluded that ride-sharing increased congestion in SF: https://www.greencarcongress.com/2019/05/20190509-tnc.html
> given China's population growth

Their population growth is lower than most of the West, some argue it even contracted last year. Why is everyone on this site so wildly misinformed about the largest country on Earth? Is this a US thing?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/01/17/world/asia/ch...
Scrum Isn’t Always Perfect (and That’s Okay)
Just go work as an SRE at Google for a couple years.
Whose mistakes is it ok to take advantage from? It's hard to draw a bright line to split the continuum that goes from, say, the neighborhood nonprofit shop that employs homeless and disabled people from the community, all the way to a ruthless global mega corporation such as Amazon, but that doesn't mean that one's ethics are crooked if it draws a distinction between cases where it's OK and cases where it's wrong.
you can remove the default discovery server and rely on your own. i'd like to not have a discovery server in the first place. it shouldn't be needed for syncing between machines in the same LAN, nor for syncing with a server on a public network.

the only common situation where a discovery server is needed is to sync between a machine at home and a machine in the office. and in that case, most likely also a relay server is needed since both will be behind NAT.
But modern games are often much more like casino machines than books. There are countless studies over the last decade to make games more addictive. The key step that I hate most is the intentional use of grinding. Not only does it stretch out gameplay, but doing your “chores” (eg gathering materials for hundreds of hours) makes the reward feel more earned. This makes the virtual sword feel more tangible and feeds into a sunk cost fallacy when we consider quitting.
I grew up in New England, visited historic sites like the Jamestown, Colonial Williamsburg, Castillo de San Marcos. I went to France and stayed in a house that was older than all of them, went to England and drank in a pub yet older.

Time is relative.
Use SQL Window Functions
I've been using the syncthing for years, and in my opinion it's so much better than a solution like Dropbox. If you want, everything can be done on your lan, it offers encryption, compression, and the ton of customizability. You can synchronize directories individually, and ignore certain files. It's from a centralized option like Dropbox, since it's not using a single location to store your files, but if you want a "centralized" set up you can still make it work by using a server which all your clients connect to instead of connecting them individually.

Great project and I would highly recommend giving it a try.
Yeah, but you don't need to use rdrand in that scenario -- the cpu could also just tamper with the pool at will, regardless of the RDRAND instruction.
No, the plan is that when 2047 comes, Hong Kong will be just another Chinese city. That’s why Beijing is changing the school curriculum. And that’s why there were protests in 2012.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/world/asia/thousands-prot...
Thousands of dollars for probably hundreds of millions made in the next few years because of this one simple trick.

This is actually quite a common tactic I've seen other ecommerce stores do around Black Friday. It's also highly illegal, but I guess the companies don't worry too much about it because they don't think the gov agencies can prove it was anything but a mistake. Some companies repeat this trick every 3 years or so. And yes, they do get a ton of media for it every single time.
Last time I checked the only iOS client was defunct and not even on the App Store. The issue discussing a native iOS app on github is tagged with not-our-bug.

https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/102

If there's a new client out I'd love to know about it.
> There's no underlying value to the property bubble

Feels just like home :)
AFAIK they have incredible redundancy. Think about RAID-1 but for all components, so one CPU might fail and your software won't even notice that.
How to Find Out Top Directories and Files (Disk Space) in Linux
You said that "frequently" right wing media would mistakingly claim that any result they didn't like was "crony capitalism" when the issue in question would not fit the definition of crony capitalism. It is unfortunate that you don't have some links to examples if it does happen frequently.
> F-Droid is taking a political stance here.

Very bad decision here.

> "F-Droid won’t tolerate oppression or harassment against marginalized groups. Because of this, it won’t package nor distribute apps that promote any of these things."

You might as well not package FLOSS (Free Libre Open Source Software) Facebook/Twitter/Mastodon clients because there are also bad actors on those platforms who harass others based on their religion, race, gender and other differences.

What is the point of totally banning them when they are just going to keep forking open-source projects. Doing this sort of censorship defeats the purpose of FLOSS and violates the first freedom on how a user should use their software as they wish for any purpose.

As a result, Gab is just going to exercise freedom 4.
Most apl deviatives (j, k, q, a) all had implicit arguments for functions that didn't explicitly declare them (up to 3: x, y, and z).

Probably before then too.
Yet another menu of Amazon affiliate links.
I've been meaning to check out urbit thoroughly for a while but they seem to have gone overboard with the esoteric terminology, at least for me personally. I was put off by the naming schemes in the docs last I looked at them about a year ago. I suppose I'll have another look again. Maybe they grow on you once you are familiar with them.
Nah. The Rust compiler's warnings are wonderful, as ever: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/src/librustc/i...
This totally cultural. I am French, and when I was living in Spain, it was very difficult to get a full sentence out, but in Germany, I am often called out for interrupting people all the time (and I master Spanish and German at a similar level, so this is not related to language proficiency).

What I also noticed now that I try to pay attention to it is that I am practically unable to say a word in a German conversation if I try not to interrupt. I seem to be missing the cues that seem to say "you may now speak", and have the feeling I get interrupted all the time. I guess those cues are culture-specific and internalized over time.

That might be relevant to the OP 's question: in a multi-cultural team, one might need to develop a set of cues that are specific to that context. That can only come by discussing the topic one way or another, be it during the meetings, in breaks, at lunch... In my case, telling exactly what I described above, in a "aren't cultural differences interesting" way helped.
UK’s Cyber Watchdog Prevents Airport Email Scam
Uber really likes hexagons. Their internal name for driver promotions is even "hexcentive"! I've long wondered what compelled Uber to use hexagons to define their various promotion boundaries, because it's not a very user-friendly choice -- the lines on a map look very jagged, for instance.

This post goes some way towards explaining why hexagons:

* "minimize the quantization error introduced when users move through a city"

* "allow us to approximate radiuses easily"

* non-hexagonal regions (such as postal code boundaries) "have unusual shapes and sizes which are not helpful for analysis, and are subject to change"
You can get virtual cards and virtual disposable cards with Revolut but it costs a little fee or it‘s free with the premium/metal subscription
I was just there and it was amazing! Especially the OV-fiets, which are bicycles that you can rent at train stations. You bike to your local station, take a train somewhere, and then for €3.85 you can have a bike for 24 hours, wherever you are. And of course it's so easy to get around thanks to the great bicycle infrastructure. It makes so much sense that, after experiencing it, you just can't figure out how everywhere else went so wrong.
Doesn't it use UDP broadcasts for that? Does your lan support stuff like avahi/bonjour?
The go community have gone to far the other way for me, the endless repetition introduces its own complexity.
In this architecture, events are a persistence strategy. Once created, they are saved forever, so if they get dropped, it calls for an investigation and a restore from backup.

Having worked with such a system before, the real pain is that any data exposed by one microservice to another becomes an API, and it is very hard to design events that are both a good public API and a private data persistence system. Immutability means consumers of your API will need to understand, and deal with, obscure concepts and business rules from five years ago, because those events are still around.

One of the major points of an API is to hide private complexity behind a public abstraction that you can design and update as needed.
Mind recently blown here:

https://www.lesresistants.fr

http://lesenfantsdumarche.fr (check L’Instagram)
Can you view Microservices in the same light as multiple companies? Just like when your monolith calls on a third party API that does the payment for you - ain't that also a microservices that happens to involves 2 different individual companies?
> One of the things they "fixed" was requiring it to be sold by Amazon or Fulfilled By Amazon.

As of the last time I heard their policy (within a couple of years, from floor/cash register staff), Fulfilled By Amazon doesn't cut it -- they will price match only if Amazon is the vendor.
"As late as 2017, IBM reported 92 of the top 100 banks still used mainframes for their core businesses." https://www.tpr.org/post/how-cobol-still-powers-global-econo...
Astigmatism Causes, Symptoms and Treatments

Symptoms of Astigmatism So, how do you know if you are actually suffering from this eye disorder? The most obvious symptom is obviously blurred and hazy vision. However, blurred vision is a common symptom for many other eye disorders. But if you are indeed suffering from astigmatism, the objects will remain blurred even when viewed from very close distances.

Other symptoms of astigmatism include constant headache, fatigue, dizziness, eye strain and the inability to concentrate on a particular object. If you are experiencing any of these symptoms, you must visit your ophthalmologist who will be able to diagnose the exact cause of these symptoms after running a few tests.

Treatment of Astigmatism The treatment for this eye disorder depends on just how bad it is. In most cases, the degree of astigmatism is quite mild and can be treated easily with corrective lenses. There are specific kinds of lenses for treating astigmatism called toric lenses. Your optometrist will decide the ideal kind of toric lenses for you after running some basic tests.

In case of high degrees of astigmatism, you can also consider refractive surgery. This surgery corrects the curvature and shape or your cornea making as perfectly spherical. Once this is achieved, the images formed will be sharp and focused as light rays will refract properly inside the eye.

As technology has advanced, various other forms of surgeries and corrective measures have emerged. In case you are suffering from astigmatism or are experiencing any of its symptoms, you should definitely visit your optometrist and discuss the issue with him.

http://wedidreviewforyou.com/pmf-advanced-proof-review/
It's the same in Japan, homes aren't made to last, you're only expected to get a few decades out of them. My Japanese friends in Sydney always found it bemusing that I lived in a 100+ year old house. It was hard for them to fathom doing that, even with renovations. The newer the better.
I would rather see companies leave because of the concentration camps
Zig is very cool. Not sure whether it has a community yet. I liked the authors talks and livestreams on YouTube.
I have said it before that your best option when you discover the company you work for no longer (or perhaps never did) shares your values about what is right and what is wrong, you only have two choices; work from within to see if the rank and file the same way and try to change it before you get fired, or leave on your terms.

I found this comment in the story kind of ironic, “I’m certain many in leadership—who learned what Google was and why it was great over a decade ago—don’t truly understand the direction in which Google is growing. Nor are they incentivized to.”

I don't know Meredith so I don't know how she reasoned to this statement but my experience was that many in Google's leadership understand exactly which direction Google is growing in and they like it that way. I had to poke and prod to get around the way things were presented to get to the actual reasons, and those reasons and actions are remarkably consistent.
There were stories of other mispriced deals that folks got where the order was cancelled. So I imagine it’s simply a matter of what Amazon caught in time vs not.
Traditionally, government people have trust issues with programming languages as the compiler is, itself, an attack vector. If you are using a nightly release of the compiler, it may be assumed by some that the compiler is not vetted for security and could inject unstable or malicious code into another critical codebase. Also, Rust is considered very young for security type work, people rightly assume there are unfound weaknesses due to the newness of the language and related libraries.

Nevertheless, the government has allowed people to use Java for decades for highly secure codebases and it has had all kinds of issues.
Now if this trend would spread to other western countries like Australia we could have some nice healthy housing price deflation.
Outliers are where the interesting stuff happens, and outliers happen to individual instances. Aggregates are useful but can be very misleading. You can have milliseconds 99 percentile latency with ~1% of requests timing out.

I wouldn’t alert on a single machine having CPU issues, but I’m definitely interested in a small collection of individual machines all having CPU issues at the same time.
I hate pseudo accurate numbers like this. Saying it’s likely $13-14k makes more sense to me
Components of a successful ICO (a.k.a. a successful scam)
They've badly miscalculated. As the original SCMP article points out, their ears to the ground in HK failed to pick up, or convey accurately, the intensity of the broad public sentiment against the extradition bill.

That was especially unfortunate as, following the failure of the Umbrella Movement to produce results in 2014, the public's frustrations over mainland interference and tone deaf local politicians have been building. All it took was one big target to catalyze the populace. And for lack of information, Beijing allowed Carrie Lam to provide the spark.

Beijing certainly has a 30-year plan for Hong Kong, but the (usually pragmatic) regime needs to re-think how they approach the next decade
But that's my point: The deeper metrics aren't merely useful for diagnosis after the business metrics go sideways; they can be useful as leading indicators, to warn you before problems reach the point of affecting the business metrics which you care about.
It's highly anti-semetic to accuse major news outlets of this.
You know what would save Neflix?

A table view with columns
Custom play lists
Reviews and star rating.
Boolean search.

They can build and roll these out in a month.

I really think their toxic UI is damaging them.

My hunch is, they can't roll these out because they don't want people noticing how little content there is on Netflix.
According to the article it can actually cancel the service for you

> If you want, the app will also send an actual legal notice of cancelation to the service.
Space law is inadequate for the boom in human activity there
A camera I ordered just shipped, so I think they are just eating the cost.