skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've underfunded the IRS, and investigating the rich is really hard, because the rich can pay for armies of tax lawyers. You can't go after them without substantial resources, and anti-government extremists have teamed up with pro-business extremists to throttle the IRS' enforcement capabilities.

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-irs-was-gutted
Ford Writes Down $181M in Pivotal Stock Value
I wish there were more good VR experiences I could do from the couch. When I’m tired and want to relax, it turns out sitting and putting my feet up is a pretty important part of what I’m looking for.
I’m specifically talking about HN and the modern day. I found Perl fanboyism annoying as hell on Usenet back in the day.
You can already do that with X11, any X resource can be used by any process (caveats apply for security reasons, but for applications running locally it shouldn't be a problem) so you could simply pass a window ID to a child process via a pipe and then have it draw stuff on it.
Cool stuff, thank you for sharing, can I use your service for my home IP cams?
A counterpoint:

FL Studio is a long-standing, and much loved software package for audio production.

Since its beginning FL Studio has had the following policy: Once you buy the software, all updates are free for life.

The counterpoint is that each new version of the software has gotten better and better. Therefore, the purchase of FL Studio license both has fantastic current and future value, and has earned intense customer loyalty and online reputation, generating substantial word-of-mouth sales---like what I am doing right here, right now.
Nowhere in the article he mentioned it to be a "younger" generation problem. Actually I think it crosses ages.
I'd differ; I feel that a change in the weather, scenery, or food is good enough. Like going to a cold higher altitude area or to sunny beach cities. Unfortunately, such landscapes aren't anywhere close to me. Or like I got to try new food in Vietnam. Change it what makes it all fun, in my opinion? It does cost money, but I keep a vacation fund aside for so I can comfortably enjoy such brief luxuries.

I'm waiting to get the opportunity to do a _complete_ sabbatical. One day.
Is there any particular reason they can't offer a damn .exe so I can try this out with my Index? I'm sure the copy on Viveport would work, but I don't want to install Viveport. :(

Edit: Their Github page has releases, but they're all APK's? https://github.com/MozillaReality/FirefoxReality/releases

Edit2: Oh, it's for "standalone" headsets. Never mind I guess...
1.44 MB lived too long, yet the floppy died earlier than it should have died. Without the power of IBM to dictate a standard, we couldn't increase capacity. We had so many incompatible choices. We had a minor bump to 2.88 MB and the 20 MB Floptical and the 120 MB SuperDisk, all fighting for market share. The 100 MB Zip disk almost succeeded, but then the click-of-death and Iomega's foolish switch to the incompatible Jaz drive put a stop to that. In a saner world, the 240 MB LS-240 would have been the last floppy.

It didn't help that floppy quality took a nosedive around 1994. Buyers went by price, and then concluded that floppies were unreliable. A few years after the floppy quality went bad, the same happened for the drives. Floppies are now remembered for being unreliable, but that wasn't always the case. They were quite reliable around 1993.
Until Mozilla fixes Firefox and stops treating users like children, I will continue to use other browser options. What a slow sad death :(
I am pretty sure you mean "Ah" (i.e. current * time, i.e. charge, not "A/h", which is rate of change of current or second derivative of charge). Similarly it is "Wh" (i.e. energy, i.e. "power * time", not "W/h" which is the second derivative of energy).
Ask HN: Favorite Manpage/Documentation Quotes?
My favorites are the synopses for true and false:

> true(1) - do nothing, successfully

> false(1) - do nothing, unsuccessfully

And how every second option for hdparm is labeled "very dangerous" or "do not even think about using this option".
I estimate that there is a non-zero chance that consciousness itself is something we will never truly understand. Would you ever expect a piece of software to be able to truly understand the things that drive its actual consciousness, should we ever figure out how to create truly sentient AI? I don't honestly think one could, without speaking directly to their creator. And since the existence of a creator of human consciousness is purely a thing of speculation, I don't see us ever being able to do such a thing (should they exist) until we pass through what we know as death. At that point, I feel that there's a non-zero chance that our consciousness does indeed continue on in some form of existence. What that form is, where it resides, or if it even has physical properties, I don't know, and I don't think we'll ever know, until we cross the threshold of death as individuals.

I feel that consciousness itself is something non-physical. Whether it be a specific cocktail of neurotransmitters working in concert to give us the characteristics that we attribute to sentience, or a "core" form of existence that exists outside of our physical existence, I don't know, and I don't presume to know. I also don't presume I should be going around and acting like I can say with complete authority and accuracy "X doesn't exist in any way, shape, or form, because there is no evidence". I mean, what of the many other "scientific facts" humans have revised and subsequently rejected over a few millennia?
s/homeless/homepage
Ahaha, in vacation mode I keep communication with most people around me zero. Only the closest the relationships & things that directly make me more money :)
Robo-Van Startup Will Handle Walmart's 'Middle Mile'
Cyber expert Marcus Hutchins gets time-served in malware case
https://outline.com/YPdtfs
Field Guide: Mitigating Risk While Transitioning Databases
"everybody who wanted your software bought it and then the revenue stops."

That's... how it should work. You don't get to hook into their wallets for time and all eternity.

everybody who wanted your <shovel> bought it and then the revenue stops.

everybody who wanted your <light bulb> bought it and then the revenue stops.

everybody who wanted your <real estate> bought it and then the revenue stops.

... and then you go do something else!

That is the precise mechanism that drives the economy forward.
Well, I could sell it on my website and keep 100% of the sales? Modern operating systems seem to think any binary is malware these days. Windows ads a NTFS metadata tag to any file thats downloaded online and will throw up scary looking warnings when you try to run it. And the security folks spent years writing columns telling people not to download "random" binaries from the internet. So now we download "random" binaries from the App Store. Ofcource the app store has very little interest (beyond bad PR) in actually testing or ensuring that the application is not malicious, because who wants to hire tens of thousands of people for that when you can just use an "intelligent" algorithm to figure it out. They will pass the buck back to the vendor in a nanosecond when they discover malware in the app store. They're still going to keep the 30% of sales though. I'm not bitter, I promise! :)
Interactive and Highly Tunable Periodic Table of Elements
I'm really curious how well that actually works for Jetbrains, and if it would work for a new entrant with a different financing structure.
A central repository is helpful but not strictly necessary. I just want to have a config file where I specify what version of a library I want and where the build system can fetch it and have that work recursively for dependencies.
Seems like a fairly obvious case for the "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." rule, too.
This was my question as well.
Why fork? Why reinvent those parts of the wheel? Good luck reaching device compatibility parity...
Iomega (the makers of Zip/Jaz/etc.) really was an epic case of mismanagement. They had the future of storage seemingly locked up, and then proceeded to fumble it all away.

I wish somebody had written a book about why they made the (extremely poor) decisions they did.
Node's (YC S19) flatpack homes can be fully assembled in less than three months
Hey, I'm the author. That migration was a while ago, so I had to look back at what exactly we did. The gist was our old python servers used a custom fork of eventlet (https://eventlet.net/) which didn't work well with the cloud pubsub library. The core library in itself is not unstable, but when we introduced it to the existing code it became unreliable.
no steel => factory stops

does not imply

factory stops => no steel

Seeing that the factory has stopped, you need to determine whether it is because factory is lacking steel; or whether the effects of lack of steel consistent with current outage. This study seems to do this.
And what benefits do you get from buying 100% CBD isolate and mixing it with high oleic food-grade oils and ingesting said tinctures? I'm genuinely curious.
On the other hand as someone who uses Windows 99% of the time i prefer applications to look and behave like regular Windows applications.

(note: despite the name and origin, i do not consider UWP as regular Windows applications and i want them to die in fire)
No. To compute sensitivity we consider the entire boolean function abstractly, without any reference to a particular implementation. There are other equivalent implementations of the same function with different arrangements (and numbers) of gates, so this wouldn't necessarily make sense to include. There are measures of complexity that do (at least sort of) take into account the way that you implement a function with gates, and they typically look at the circuit with the fewest gates or the shortest paths that computes the function.
This commment and the OP seem to suggest that if users were in control, they would not change things. They would not add features. They would subscribe to the idea that software is "finished" (save for bug fixes).

Can we agree that, realistically, generally users are not in control of the software development process, despite any organisational structures that appear to let users drive it.
Belgium: Government source code is public information
It's rather uncommon to run into a "y" in German, so why give it such a central position on the keyboard? "Z" is more common, if only because German has a "tz" digraph.

Es ist eher ungewöhnlich, im Deutschen auf ein "y" zu stoßen, also warum sollte man ihm eine solche zentrale Position auf der Tastatur geben? "Z" ist üblicher, und wenn es nur wegen des "tz" Digraphen ist.

Two sentences saying the same in both languages. English: 3 "y" and 0 "z" outside quotes. German: 0 "y" and 2 "z" outside quotes.
I have a side question. How are Qt bindings for D? Since, AFAIK, D has one of the best, if not the best, FFIs to C++. I also imagine if D could run on Android's JVM or could it be traspiled to Java. I've seen the latter effort, but quite preliminary from what I remember. Can't really hope for this with Rust, at least not yet.
There are two separate issues here:

1) The spending. That tripped some sort of fraud detector that caused a shutdown until a human intervened. No big surprise, I'm sure we've all triggered fraud detectors at one time or another, even ones that should have had a bit more brains. (Hey, it's Black Friday. You know I make a decent number of electronics purchases, is it any wonder I made several that day?!)

2) The spam filtering. Just because it's a presidential candidate doesn't mean it isn't something people regard as spam.
Safenotes – Secure PDF Annotator
As a consumer, you are free to engage with a business of your choice. Likewise, a business is free to adopt a business model of their choice. That is the only "logic" at play here.
>Small numbers (1-3) of stuck or dead pixels are a characteristic of LCD screens. These are normal and should not be considered a defect.

I get that it's a $200 laptop, and it's open source which is commendable, but... this disclaimer does not instill much confidence.
The fact that they have a ton of VC they're already beholden to that is here in the US, and who aren't interested in IRS scrutiny themselves.
> Tie their compensation to the product's financial success.

This is an atrocious idea in anything much larger than a start-up. It leaves the engineering team beholden to bad decisions made in other facets of the company (sales, marketing, upper management). It's exceedingly frustrating to write a solid, stable, performant program only to have marketing or sales push it as something that it is not and nosedive the company due to customers calling bullshit.

Start-ups are somewhat immune to this because of the lower barrier of communication between departments, as many people will be wearing multiple hats due to there being more things to do than people to do them.

This is very visible when executives begin choking off benefits across the board. Nothing kills morale quite like losing your bonus because another department isn't doing its job properly. I've seen more than one mass exodus from a company as a result of this.
Humans love to blame problems on amorphous "others" in some other location, rather than the people right here who are acting selfishly right here.
> Ad blockers don't help against Youtube recommendations and autoplaying next recommended video.

They actually do!

Doesn't help with autoplay, but adblock lists to get rid of recommendations on YouTube: https://youtube.adblockplus.me/
I don't use GMail.

My email provider (Fastmail) lets me make credentials that are specific to an application so I can make a set for a bot and be able to revoke them later.
It should be noted that this is currently only available for a pre-order basis, and only for people who joined their forums before July 1, 2019. As far as I know there is no timeline for general public availability.

The first pre-order batch is only a run of 100 devices, and these were reserved within the first 2 minutes of their pre-order window. The next batch will be 1000 devices, but they haven't announced with those will be released (right now estimated to be in reservation holders hands w/in 8-10 weeks)[0]. Hopefully they'll get an ANSI keyboard figured out sometime in the next few months (but based on the forum posts, I don't think this is a high priority for them at the moment).

Take home message -- this is really a pre-production machine at the moment. It might be better to wait for later revisions.

[0]https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=7752&pid=48104#p...
> Now Google is looking to do the same sort of thing

I wish. Where in middle American or whatever you call the equivalent in Britain is Google or any other tech company building towns for their workers?

Nope, Google and the other FAANGs are all still focused on 4-5 large urban areas, almost all of them on the West Coast.
Apologies if my assumptions were wrong. I should have said "the articles you are submitting are pushing a political agenda". Being emotional has nothing to do with it. When I see five identical articles pushing the same political agenda, submitted by the same user at the same time (and more within the past week), one can only assume that the user has a political agenda.

You could have easily just messaged the moderators to ask why your submissions were flagged instead of spamming the board and risking your account getting banned. As far as Bloomberg not having an agenda, please recall the as-of-yet unretracted and unproven Supermicro story.
That's interesting. Where exactly did I say these particular videos were edited? I only have one comment in this thread, should be pretty easy to point it out.

In the event that you realize you read something into my words that wasn't there, I would politely invite you to ask whether or not that reflects on your priors regarding all major news sources.
If you want to use HASS - there's a couple ways to go about it assuming you have an RPi. Either install Home Assistant and add snips.ai [1] or install snips and add HASS [2]. Looks like the Gateway can also do this [3].

[1]: https://www.home-assistant.io/components/snips/
[2]: https://docs.snips.ai/articles/raspberrypi/home-assistant
[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20536484
EU bank ready to ditch fossil fuels
That book always has been, and always will be a single word:

"Money"
Ignoring the periods in the past with very high transaction fees and network congestion, for the most part it's been as practical as a card and often faster since I can just use my phone to scan a QR code and click a verify button. We can also ignore the lightning network in the calculation of practicality. Normally if I send you a payment you'll see the notification of a pending transaction with the amount on your side pretty much immediately. There is a risk that I could after walking off with the goods create a new transaction with a higher fee (especially if the replace-by-fee flag was part of the original send, and one might want to be more cautious if that was the case) to send them to myself instead, though even if I try it's not guaranteed to succeed. If you wait around for on average ten minutes (could in actuality be a few seconds, could be more than ten minutes) for the transaction to get one confirmation in a block you can be a lot more certain no shenanigans will occur. Most merchants will use a third party system that will take on this risk for you. I don't know if third party systems like Stripe do the same for credit cards, but credit cards have the same risk profile. (I can call up my card company and claim a fraudulent charge after getting the goods. They'll then in turn not honor the charge. It takes something like 180 days before a CC charge becomes much harder for the payer to dispute, vs. bitcoin's 10 minutes for very hard and 60 minutes for basically impossible. Seems like an ok tradeoff to me.)
> but why it is not possible now to just buy several intercontinental ballistic missiles?

It probably is. You'll have to buy them from North Korea in secret though.
I was in a pretty competitive high school marching band. We had two parallel lines moving in opposite directions, and I watched the slide of a trombone get its spit valve caught on someones shoulder strap and pulled off. The trombone player kept on making the motions as if the slide was still there, and the other marcher-with-trombone-slide-still-attached continued on until the end of the show. Fortunately we were in the last movement, but the point is that the show must go on.
>The bitcoin / crptyo currency... ethos? (not sure what word to use there) seems to contentiously collide into the reality of living in a society.

That technolibertarianism is rampant throughout the tech industry and not just in the crypto space. Ignoring laws is viewed as being perfectly fine as long as you label it "disruption". I don't see much difference in peole running unlicensed hotels out of their condo with the help of Airbnb compared with a crypto trader dodging taxes.
Setting up hosting is one of those tasks with way more possible downsides than upsides. The best case scenario is "it works as expected." And there a ton of ways to fall short of that.

File and directory permissions screw people up all the time. If you set them wrong, you can create security holes, keep your site from being served, break SSH logins, break TLS, break git, etc. And online forums are full of bad advice a la "I just set 777 on the directory and all the errors went away!"
> I still think they lack the technical knowledge to understand crypto and as a result, you'll start to see an increase in information being requested.

On the contrary, I think that the IRS knows cryptocurrency very well. The reason why the IRS requests information is that they want to prove to a court that they went out of their way to give taxpayers the benefit of the doubt. They want to be able to tell a judge "we gave this person ample opportunity to explain the situation and correct any misunderstandings before taking enforcement action". The IRS will go through the motions of requesting information even if—especially if—they know full well that fraud has occurred, just to strengthen their case.
The skills practiced in a drill competition and battle are not really the same (though related, calm under fire, preciseness, etc)
The Telephreak 12 Badge: A Geiger Counter for WiFi Deauthentication Frames
ignoring the issue of units, that's overly optimistic for batteries. the voltage drops as charge is depleted.
There are many (too many?) AI vehicle manufacturers on the road. Are they alpha-testing with everyone's lives? How rigorous and periodic are testing and certification? They should be strenuously tested on a track with a battery of real emergency situations and safety checks before being allowed anywhere near public roads, and then completely retested before every release. Furthermore, as Boeing and corporate capture have proven, self-regulation is a non-starter, this must be done by an independent, competent regulatory body.
That has nothing to do with their actual point; Turbo C could perfectly well support:

void init() {
asm("ax"(0x13)) { int 0x10 }
}

and as TFA suggests, plenty of implementations use the string-syntax without any register/clobber extensions.
well explained.

the problem is, the managers [who inflict the most damage] do not read HN.
in 2001 i got a sony picturebook (with the transmeta cpu) and i had trouble installing linux because the kernel failed boot because it could not find a floppy drive. (i was booting from a usb floppy the bios was emulating as a normal floppy, while linux later was detecting it as a hard disk. because of the emulation, the kernel expected to be booting from a floppy, and so it insisted on looking for one)

i don't remember how i solved the problem, but i do remember rummaging in the kernel sources to see if i could figure out how to disable that floppy check.

so we have gone from a point where the floppy was seemingly mandatory to a point where it is finally dead.
> What's your argument for an expedition to Mars?

You seem to have missed the point of my comment completely. Your takeaway from my saying "just post it as a statement, not a rhetorical question" and "the way you generalized it to all of sci-fi makes it also not very helpful" (for which the books were supporting examples) is to ask what makes me think humanity should go to Mars? The book doesn't even argue we should or shouldn't go to Mars, but it contains a ton of research into how these missions could work and may actually (contrary to your generalization) be a realistic representation.

As for survivorship bias, sure, I can think of a million sci-fi books that are unrealistic. I never made the argument all sci-fi is good or that their authors have done research or that they are good predictors. But that most don't even try to be predictive doesn't mean some might not be a realistic enough example to relate it to the choices we make and how it might play out. RPO just isn't one of them.
Fine, brag about your fancy HD diskettes. You must be rich.
UK unlawfully copying data from EU police system
Can you put lot size into square-feet or fractions of acres? How much arable land exactly (considering buildings and other things take up land space)?

I'm currently looking at places where growing some of my own food might be possible and I'm curious what is possible.
(Error) Bank Americard actually changed their name because they wanted to expand internationally and having America in the name was not good in every country. That's precisely why they chose the name VISA.

MasterCharge got started just a few years after Bank Americard. I feel like they probably changed their name to MasterCard just to respond to their competitor's name change....
Debugging stuff is still my favorite task when I join a new team. This is absolutely the best way to quickly learn about the project.

It is also important to select right kinds of bugs for newcomers.
They want to do business in the US and work with US banks.