skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If 1 person in 20 is doing something that is not value-adding there would have to be massive and obvious evidence of that beforehand.

There was "massive and obvious evidence of that beforehand" which was the central banks had to keep interest rates below what the market would have priced them without interference...it's just that this isn't seen as evidence but "just the way things are".
Why would someone depend on a service provided by a US company, when his country is on the sanctions list?
https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/109374 just recently.
If a government can compel someone to interfere with a user's account or data, secretly, then only your own isolated hardware, can be trusted.

Then end.
This is the same thing that all currency traders need to deal with, and there are a ton of rules and regulations already in place with how to file taxes for it.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/forex/09/forex-taxatio...
I will forever fail to understand why commenters on hacker news ask questions for which the answer is public and readily available. I think it's because they think that the answer to the question will favor them and the idea is that astute readers will do research and thus be convinced of the commenter's point.

Unfortunately, in this case, an astute reader would do research and conclude that the point you are trying to make is completely mythical. Housing (total, rent + everything else) accounts for 42% of the CPI calculation, and the 'owners equivalent of rent' (i.e. how much you would have to pay to rent your home) makes up ~24%: https://www.bls.gov/cpi/tables/relative-importance/2016.pdf

That captures rent renters pay as well, since for apartment buildings, the owner's equivalent rent is the rent being paid.
The railway exists to give all its patrons a fun day out. When people with tripods and massive lenses ruins it for the family who just want to take a quick smartphone family picture in front of the old train, then we have a problem. There have been multiple instance where the tripod guy has prevented a child a quick picture because they see their picture as more important.

Leave aside the safety issues. When people set up tripods so that they can get their picture, whilst denying others the same opportunity - it's not cool.
Greenland's ice sheet has been melting pretty fast for years [1]. Maybe it's because I'm not a native English speaker, but using "threaten" sounds to me like until now it had been living peacefully unaffected by climate change.

[1] https://www.livescience.com/64546-greenland-ice-sheet-meltin...
How is that different than any other country? You pay what the government says you owe, you get what the government says you get.
This seems like the perfect time to panic.

I just don’t see how we’re getting out of this alive.
Not particularly fond of the UWP paradigm either. For the most part, Linux and Windows versions of apps line up, but the controls may not match, but even MS programs in windows don't align.

More and more, I'm preferring the MS (Whatever the name of the day) and Google (Material Design) approaches for inside the app, with either an integrated or global menu as appropriate for the platform. With the rest in-app experience with a clean UX.

Again, I understand the desire, but most windows programs, in particular MS generational applications, already have disparate user interfaces.
If you're going to do FDM using metal, wouldn't a chamber filled with argon or some other inert gas, with a CNC positionable MIG/TIG head work as well?

For that matter, what if you just dispensed with the chamber, and mounted a standard MIG/TIG head with argon gas shield onto a cartesian gantry?

What do you gain by the complexity of using electron beams and high vacuum systems. I should also note that this complex system would be far out of the range of most DIY makers (the vacuum pump alone is something not easily acquired) - while either of the earlier suggestions could probably be cobbled together by someone who already owns a CNC plasma cutter table and a MIG/TIG setup, if they wanted to...

For that matter - I'm going to have to mention this to my friend; he already has most of the stuff to do this kind of thing (he has a CNC plasma cutter table, and a couple wire-feed MIG welders).
> Review articles are good, but I still recommend starting with textbooks before moving on to reviews.

We are agreed on that. I shouldn't have said "out of date", which suggests what is in those books is invalid. What I should have said is "they don't really cover topics that are new or controversial and mostly only cover fundamentals".

In reality as you know each new edition of those books is 95% or more identical to the previous edition.

The only downside to this approach is that if people are interested in a particular topic like cell senescence, it's a bit harsh to say "go read these 5 textbooks that may have 2 pages on the subject before you even start looking into the topic you're interested in". And the Biology of Cancer? I'm published on several cell senescence papers and don't know jack about cancer. I own the book and skimmed it though. I think Hallmarks of Cancer review is a much better introduction than this tome. The other two are good fundamentals books though. For aging I recommend Handbook of the Biology of Aging.

FWIW, I do not know a single PhD student that read those books cover-to-cover. In most of my grad school classes you weren't even required to buy the textbook and they were barely used. Actually in grad school I never bought a single textbook for classes, although I did get some for personal use.
USA was a democracy also before Abraham Lincoln. Voting to take 50% of regular Joe's income does not make it right, like voting to kill Joe or voting anything that affects Joe, no matter how nice is the "cause" used as an excuse.
My 3-week old last gen butterfly keyboard's Caps lock is starting to fail...
Thanks! We don't currently have a build of Firefox Reality available for desktop devices, but that work is currently underway. We announced it as part of our deal with HTC and are excited to show it off soon:
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/01/08/mozilla-announces-d...
Apple’s hired contractors are listening to your recorded Siri conversations, too
I did the cellphone module for the EO PDAs back when there was just the "A" and the "B" ('Bell') carriers. I recall reading academic papers at the time pointing out that, technically, it would be most efficient to have a single swath of bandwidth assigned to a single company; instead, half went to 'A' and half went to 'B' -- guaranteeing a suboptimal technical solution. It's interesting to me that, at the time, they were able to get away with only 2 carriers per region.
If you set the default to function keys, you can also set the fn key to show the expanded control strip too.
And they use BS games to minimize the increases - things like equivalency pricing. My health insurance hasn't gone up that much in the last 5 years on per month basic. The difference is instead of the $10 copay on day 1 that I used to have, I now have a $3K deductible and my in-network choices have been cut in half.

I'm guessing there are similar games done with housing. For example, prices for condos in a lot of areas have probably kept pace with inflation, but meanwhile the HOAs have gone up from $200/month 10 years ago to $400/month now, and I suspect it's because government services have been cut. I doubt the fed takes into consideration things like my area is now so crowded, I pay $100/month to park whereas 10 years ago it was free. Same with tolls - the once free interstates have all been converted to toll roads in my area that cost $40/week to get to work.
Japan has 50% more coastline than the United States.

Where I sit, 1000km from an ocean, seafood is pretty remote. Sure, it gets flown in and flash frozen isn't horrible, but it isn't fresh.
Many other countries did not have slavery at all. Others have no income tax on citizens. Is that different enough?
Right. But sometimes this clashes with new developers expectation of actually being able to produce an acceptable solution and getting it merged within a reasonable amount of time.

Have those expectations never clashed for you?
Yeah, makes sense to me.

But you can move stuff out of government reach. If you're wealthy enough to afford good counsel, you can do it ~legally. As Apple, for example, does. Or you can do it illegally. Just don't count on Switzerland or Panama anymore.

And even little people like me can manage it. Using anonymous personas and well-mixed Bitcoin (or whatever). You just can't bring it back to meatspace, without risking deanonymization.
The article shows that Visa is one of the first examples of a digital platform business:

- Technology as an enabler

- Creates value by standardized digital processes

- Strong positive network effect

- Stable revenue through transaction fees
Yes. To be honest this is all I want.
I'm saddened to see runtime reflection up there, but heartened to see metaclasses.

It's also a painful topic, considering how vastly outdated Qt's use of C++ is, and how many libraries are doing similar.

Poor 'Copper Spice'!
> and mostly only cover fundamentals

I consider that a feature when entering a new field. Once I have the fundamentals, it's much easier to read a paper and have at least a rough idea if it's a crackpot theory or the real deal. Without the fundamentals? No clue.
How many smartphones display at that kind of width? I’m guessing it’s not a negligible percentage.
Yes, it’s an absolute classic video. Even as a non-US resident, I find it fascinating. His delivery is quite exceptional too
If you'd like to post anything refuting the fact that the Proud Boys are a white supremacist group, please do so.

None of these statements: 1) they have non-white members so they can't be, 2) the founder has a non-white wife, 3) the SPL Center was successfully sued for unrelated reasons by someone unrelated to the Proud Boys, or 3) "it started as a joke" refute the claim.
I’d finally upgrade my 2013 model if they do this.
The first thing that came to my mind was "Edward...".
This joke is only funny if it's taken as fact that authoritarian management hierarchies are necessary for industrial production. You take that notion for granted.
Using the law to do harm; it is the same country that put it's citizens of Japanese origin in camps, so doing something wrong to an Iranian developer is not something they care about.
Developer Turns the MacBook Pro Touch Bar into a Taskbar in Windows 10
Western media likes to portray asians as either brutes or poor or stupid or nerds.
For me it was dust under the Q key, not a common key. I don’t see why dust is more likely to land behind the most used keys either. Also that redditor concludes by saying the cause is unknown.

I haven’t had any keyboard issues on my 2016 and 2018 models since I regularly started air spraying the keyboards.
"Automatically triggered"? Yes, well...

flag_the_adword = some_conditions() || (esimate_political_reliability() < THRESHOLD);
Unfortunately, we don't currently support phone-based Daydream or Gear VR devices. There's both a bunch of extra work to support all of the phone in/out/notification lifecycle scenarios and we have a pretty small engineering team and the long tail of phone/chipset-specific bugs is pretty substantial. We might evaluate support for it or Cardboard in the future, but for right now we're mainly focused on standalone headsets.

That said, we're all in favor of people who want to sideload and play with it! https://github.com/MozillaReality/FirefoxReality/wiki/Sidelo...
yes, I was panicking back when al gore tried to scare the crap out of all of us by saying all ice caps will be melted by 2012 and to start panicking because we were going to lose all the coastal cities.

he then proceeded to buy investment property on the beach.

forgive me if i dont give a shit anymore.
It's tricky to see into the future so an exchange like bitfinex might not report now but a court case next year might cause them to decide to.
Interesting, though it seems quite dangerous. At least it kind of has a built-in failsafe - the electron beam will stop working if air enters the enclosure (unlike lasers used for selective laser melting, which would happily set metal powder on fire if given oxygen to do do).
It should be actually even less the 3.2% given the compounding effect :>
The Master Programmer
Equifax Breach Settlement tool to find out whether your data was compromised
This is the kind of knee jerk reaction we should be trying to avoid, especially on this forum.
"We didn't really do anything to you, it was this automatic machine that we programmed. We have no way of controlling what it does, and thus are not responsible for the outcomes of its activities at all."

Google defense brief. Also, probably, a classic Dilbert comic.
One of the interesting phenomena is that this boom is more specific to US and if you go in rest of the world people will often tell you how their economy sucks and things are in in down trend. In US, the stock prices have indeed grown in same order as earnings which is surprising because how are all these companies magically show such huge growth for almost a decade now but elsewhere this is not the case. One possibility is that lots of US growth come from winning market share abroad.
https://imgur.com/a/e1cfdMT

This photo didn't quite capture the full effect, but at the time I was shocked how many people were facing away from the painting.
From the article:

"Additionally, as The Guardian notes, while Amazon and Google allow customers to opt out of some uses of their recordings, Apple doesn’t offer a similar privacy protecting option, outside of disabling Siri entirely. That’s a particularly bad look, given that Apple has built so much of its reputation on selling itself as the privacy company that defends your data in ways that Google and Amazon don’t."

I was shocked by this because I opt out of sending analysis data to Apple at setup of my devices. I figured that would also prevent sending Siri recordings. Apparently not, though.
This and watching HBO's Chernobyl have prompted me to ask: how do communist countries work? Is there something I can read or watch to best understand things like who owns these farms, who profits from them, how do they pay workers, how do you buy a house, etc

It's all as foreign to me as medieval peasants and nobles so I don't know how it works from day to day. The fact that China now has billionaires, and billionaires spoiled kids doing donuts in supercars also confused me.
Noticed I mentioned a private location. Sure if you’re having to monitor acres of farmland that’s harder.
I had the same thought. I feel sorry for this individual, who is being hurt. However, his complaints make no sense. They're weird comments about "nuclear weapons" and "free" as if they had some relevance. Hint: they don't have ANY relevance.

The US has laws that specifically sanction Iran. Companies in the US must follow US law, or risk serious consequences, and so they're following the law as required. That's it. The blocking doesn't have anything to do with whether or not you're developing a nuclear weapon, or if the service is free. Details here:
https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/faqs/Sanctions/Page... which say:
"630. Is the provision or delivery of goods or services to an Iranian counterparty after November 4, 2018 allowed?
[No, ] The wind-down period has ended and the United States intends to fully enforce the sanctions that have come back into effect. The provision or delivery of goods or services and/or the extension of additional loans or credits to an Iranian counterparty after November 4, 2018 — even pursuant to written contracts or written agreements entered into prior to May 8, 2018 — may result in the imposition of U.S. sanctions unless such activities are exempt from regulation, authorized by OFAC, or otherwise not sanctionable. The United States maintains authorizations and exceptions under U.S. sanctions that allow for the sale of agricultural commodities, food, medicine, and medical devices to Iran by U.S. persons and non-U.S. persons [in certain cases]."

GitHub provides a service that is not "the sale of agricultural commodities, food, medicine, and medical devices". So under US law there must be an attempt to block services to Iranians.

It's very reasonable to discuss whether or not the US should do this; argue away! But let's focus on what's actually happening, and not some irrelevant strawman argument.
Have you completed shock and denial already?
Nebraska Attorney General sues Hilton hotels for hidden resort fees
"Just because it's all in your head doesn't mean it isn't real"
Because keeping them for you and providing a guaranteed 0% (no gain but no risk) return is already valuable, therefore they are charging some extra fee over it.
Exploring the Sierra On-Line “Super-Junior” Computer
Throw Away the Box, Hang Your Grid on a Hook, Embrace the Tom Friedman Future
The UK isn't as important to the European economy as Germany (as you seem to imply), and it's roughly the same size as France.
That’s in large part because of the housing crisis. While home values have for the most part recovered, they haven’t recovered in majority minority neighborhoods - even accounting for size, school quality, etc.
Hah. I like this contrarian point of view. Seems that it comes from experience.
> 0% may have been justified in the wake of the 2008 crash, for maybe a year or two, but not 10+ years!!

And yesterday someone in the Financial Times's opinion page was asking the ECB to start going into negative figures with their lending rate. Very crazy times indeed.
Even a lot of large tech companies with insanely complex infrastructure run on AWS. Just talking about EC2 alone, you can see that Netflix, Twitch, LinkedIn, and Facebook run AWS [0]. I am aware that the info is from last year and is a tiny bit outdated (LinkedIn is migrating to Azure; FB doesn't use AWS for everything they do; etc.), but the general sentiment still shows that even tech giants tend to resort to using outside cloud providers.

0. https://www.quora.com/Who-are-the-top-10-Amazon-AWS-customer...
A pixel is a picture element. An element of a picture. Hence the name... It turns out that thinking of them as little boxes arranged in rectangular grids is very useful. Because that is how computers deal with them. Not as point samples.

The article reminds me of the many mathematical text I've read insisting on that vectors are not tuples of numbers. That thinking of them as anything other than directions with magnitudes is wrong. Technically, that might be correct but vectors-as-numbers is much more useful when calculating with them. When you get into more abstract mathematics, and your vectors contain other kinds of algebraic objects, such as polynomials, you are already so accustomed with them that you can think of them as flying burritos if you like.

When I teach graphics programming, I will continue to tell students that pixels are like little boxes.
This doesn't excuse Apple's poor design, but I highly recommend Keyboard Maestro to solve this problem for you. You can assign keyboard shortcuts to actions in specific programs (and much, much more) ... super useful program.

https://www.keyboardmaestro.com/
Doing so would probably make poor people die of dehydration as scarcity increases. Those with the means to drill their own wells will do so, especially if there is a strong commercial incentive. We already saw this play out in past years in california as individual humans faced onerous water restrictions while big agro continued to grow almonds using the same water supply. Bringing symmetry to regulations should be the first priority before any further burden is placed on individuals.
The IRS is in the business of getting money for the federal government. People in federal prison don't have much in the way of income, nor do they pay much in the way of taxes. They're a net drain on the federal budget.

The IRS will generally take the most effective tack it can in getting the money it is owed. For honest mistakes, that usually means sending you a formal notice that it believes you are out of compliance and requesting that you pay them. If you pay them, all is forgiven. If you can show to their satisfaction, with supporting documentation, that you don't actually owe the money, all is forgiven. (I once got a notice that I owed $11K because of some stock sales I'd forgotten to report and education credits they didn't believe I was entitled to; after producing documentation on the cost basis of these sales, a course transcript from the educational institution, and an amended tax return, the total was reduced to $50, I enclosed a check for that, and I got a notice back that the matter was closed.) If you try to pull any funny business or argue with them and your arguments are not backed up in fact, they will viciously hound you until you pay the money that you owe.
It's not legal for Americans to completely avoid taxes simply by operating in a jurisdiction with different tax laws. You still have to report your foreign income to the IRS, you still have to pay taxes to the IRS. If you try to take the extreme step of acquiring a citizenship elsewhere and then renouncing your US citizenship, you even have to pay taxes to do that. The notion that "tax shelter" countries are a way to get around personal tax obligations is simply wrong. There are tax benefits, and plenty of people try to hide money this way, but it's not some magical solution that legally removes your tax obligation.
> I'd like a Comic Sans without the intentional imperfections

http://comicneue.com
It's Iranian government behavior.
People parrot that line to sound edgy and virtuous, not because they've thought through the implications.
With GitLab Auto DevOps we are using Knative to scale things to zero when not in use.
What's wrong with runtime reflection? Seems more flexible and generalizable than inventing hierarchies of metaclasses, some of which include reflection accessors.
> if you can find a correlation, it's at least worth a try to treat that as causation. It's much better than picking a random answer.

No, it isn't. Or if it is, it's barely better, not much better. See my lengthier reply above.

The reason why this is false is because in biology, there is an enormous correlation structure in which, to a good approximation, everything is correlated with everything. If you take a random gene, its expression will be significantly correlated or anticorrelated with well over half of all other genes. Probably over 80% if I remember correctly. Depends on the number of samples, if you get into 10K+ samples it approaches 100%.

In an area like aging, skin wrinkling is correlated with sarcopenia is correlated with atherosclerosis is correlated with number of senescent cells is correlated with all kinds of gene and metabolite expression levels etc ... you get the idea.

In genetics a SNP will be correlated with hundreds of thousands of other SNPs.

I guess you can go so far as to say correlations can generate hypotheses. People certainly do this all the time. But "a correlation is tentative evidence of direct causation" is just wrong. Technically it is evidence, it's just that in my experience in biology it is such weak evidence as to be useless without other evidence.
There's no assumption here, Google _is_ on top of censoring various kinds of political content critical of the US political establishment:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/technology/google-search-...