skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In software engineering, there is something called separation of concerns, and you should look at taxes in the same way.

It is not the concern of VAT, tobacco tax, fuel tax, alcohol tax or salt tax to do redistribution. Instead, we must
consider the redistribution of the tax system in general.

Taxing all flights, or even better emissions in general, and redistributing taxes for social programmes, gives exactly the distribution effect you want without having to complicate income and property tax regulations.
Truisms don't make for productive discussions. Picture yourself receiving a cancer diagnosis followed by your statement above.
I came to say what I see other commentators saying.

What sells is the bait, the piece that confirms your thinking rather than challenges it.

A fair bit of education (see Yale / Harvard etc) is going down this path as well, especially outside the sciences I think.

We are also getting more articles that never even attempt to explain what the other viewpoint might be. I just read a super long article, some govt agency apparently targeting a local dance crew - without detail or context of the actual targeting of the crew (ie, a regulation calling them out by name?) or comment from the agency (ie, responding to complaints? Motivated by hate of dance? Targeting something else entirely).
> and cooking up some way to keep the camera lens clean

Put it behind a piece of glass?
There is an already cobalt free lithium battery chemistry there LiFePO4 — been in use for more than a decade, and is a preferred one by commercial and heavy duty EVs because of superior battery life at the cost of capacity.

The new chemistry mentioned has no commercial use cases unless it beats LiFePO4 in its niche or surpasses mainstream chemistries, which is a big stretch.

BYD intentionally went full in onto LiFePO4 because they very well foreseen cobalt shortages.
Nytimes is almost Fox News level bad, the comments and bigotry are just hidden under more complex prose. The non opinion section of the WSJ is the best source of news. Nytimes is a far left propaganda rag.
Is that even allowed? I don't know the specific law here, but in my country (France) a shop can not legally refuse to be paid in the legal currency (in cash). It can refuse credit card or checks, though.
Replying here because you mentioned WarCraft 2.

For whatever reason, while I love watching others play 3D MMORPG, I personally prefer to play 2D or 2.5D (Diablo 2, Dungeon Keeper, old school FF Tactics).
I declined to complete the step where interviewer was about to watch me coding online almost the same quiz they gave me on the previous step. I have just rebelled inside and said "no thanks" almost automatically.

I have felt myself like inside some stupid adult movie.

Several weeks later I have found a freelance gig (which later turned to be almost 2y job) and the business owner told me he have approached Toptal before me and was shocked by their attitude, fees and especially by something around $50k coder take-away fee.
Definitely not freelancing.
Isn’t the point here that it was the path the free information ideology inadvertently produced: (free) information served with ads (because everyone needs butter on the bread)? And because of that ingrained ideology, it’s still difficult to charge for the actual information product?

Edit: missing word
Classic HN: The case of the 500-mile email (2002)
It was just was. It took me by surprise when I saw it too. I probably should have bought it just for the reaction from my houseguests - the question is: what person’s photo should I have put inside of it?
This was a political statement.

It is far from clear that Libra would be in conflict with existing laws. Probably new laws would need to be written to forbid it. Germany has not had any capital controls after WW2, so I don't take it for granted that such law would pass. On the other side Facebook's reputation in Germany might be even worse than in many other countries, so that could create political pressure, even if Libra is legally not the same as Facebook.

Personally as a consumer I see the biggest problem is customer support and accountability. Banks are not known for closing customers accounts and keeping the money. Internet giants are known for no customer support and (automatic?) deactivation of accounts for unspecified violations of terms of service. (Has happened to my Microsoft Drive where I stored 1 file, an encrypted backup. And HN readers have read about more cases)
Sleepytime Tea: Cults, Conspiracies, and the History Lurking in Your Cup (2016)
Thanks for this comment. Delighted to hear (what I assume is) an expert's opinion.
I reverse engineered a bunch of 'element alchemy games' (games where you combine elements into new elements), extracted the recipes and wrote a tool to interact with them. See https://github.com/redfast00/element-alchemy-cheater
There are lots of privately controlled currencies. Miles, points, certificates, game gold, etc. - they are all private currencies. Most of them aren't legal tender, but neither are cryptocurrencies. The only difference between facebook-coin and miles is that Facebook promises to encourage dealing in their coin and airline would frown on that. Not much difference otherwise. You have some tokens that you can exchange for things of value in some places.

> Your Bitcoin won't change in value or disappear because your country and another get in a fight

If one of them decides that banning bitcoin would serve their interests - it will get banned. You, of course, could work around it - as people do for centuries with drugs, guns and ideas proscribed by governments - but then you'd have to suffer the consequences when you're caught. Yes, when, because if you live in government's jurisdiction and they have interest in getting to you, they will.
>“Our democracy’s ideals were false when they were written.”

This is a very dangerous sentiment. If you look at the movements for abolition and Civil Rights, the most successful appeals were calling America to live up to her founding ideals.

However, it seems that many people are trying to effect change not through encouraging Americans to live up to their county’s ideals, but the shame them and guilt-trip them into doing it.

The problem is that guilt is a very poor long-term motivator. Think of you have a someone you are trying to do better. Are you more likely to succeed by telling them how horrible they are and how they have always been horrible and how their parents were horrible? Or do you tell them that they are a fundamentally good person and that they should try to do better in this area as well?

The shaming approach may feel for satisfying, but it is likely to create a strong backlash and and problems down the line.

Think about it, there is no denying that America has been fabulously successful for white people. Now do you tell white people that their success was because of the ideals and open society, and they should cultivate them more, or do you tell them that their success was due to oppression of brown/black people? And if you tell them the later, what will you say when others also come and agree with what you are saying and say that we should get back to oppressing brown and black people in earnest, since that what our success was built on?
I don't understand what you're getting at. Do you think I want union organizers to be fired from their jobs or murdered? I was simply pointing out that your argument is a cheap dig that could also be applied to pot smokers and MLK. People who disagree with you will see it as such and remain unconvinced by your arguments.

If you want to convince people, you have to figure out what would change their minds, not just hector them. Otherwise you're just wasting everyone's time.
- If it doesn't have very different scaling needs from the rest of the application, probably don't make it a microservice.

- If it isn't something you could plausibly imagine using as a 3rd party service (emailer/sms/push messages, authentication/authorization, payments, image processing, et c.) probably don't make it a microservice.

- If you don't have at least two applications at least in development that need the same service/functionality, probably don't make a microservice.

- If the rest of your app will completely fall over if this service fails, probably don't make it a microservice.

- Do write anything that resembles the above, but that you don't actually need to make a microservice yet, as a library with totally decoupled deps from the rest of your program.
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Show HN: An Interactive Rust/WebASM/WebGL Marching Cubes Implementation
Definitely seems fishy. But even with this article we don't have the full story.

The conflict going on in the background seems to be average office fare; a mix of common problems compounded by the fact that there's a power struggle.

Seems like it's possible someone retaliated; but who knows? I bet even people who work there are having trouble piecing together the bits and pieces.
See also the FAQ:

https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail-faq.html

This submission was prompted by some of the comments on the ChaosNet submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20972236
I've had a couple of those, never had one fail. Important to keep them lubed up though, and not to run them on dry windows, but that goes for all wipers alike.
Google Maps helps find man's body who went missing 22 years ago
NYTimes is no longer the "paper of record". It's dominated by opinion pieces. Both explicit and implicit.

Go to NYTimes.com and count the links you see "above the fold". On my monitor there are 7 non-opinion links. But there are 11, yes eleven!, opinion-section articles.

If you want to read "news" and not "opinions" these days it's impossible. Because flamebait opinions get all the clicks and generate all the revenue. I don't blame them for their choices. But I don't respect them either.

:(
Adding MQTT Support to Deepstream
Yes I had such a MB wiper and never had any trouble with it. It provided good coverage of the windshield.

Today, my MB uses two wipers, but it is nevertheless an interesting design as well. Windshield cleaner fluid is not sprayed out though jets that roughly cover the windshield; instead the cleaner fluid comes out from the blades themselves as they move across the windshield. This is almost not visible while it is happening, while cleaning the windshield just as well or better without vision obscuring spraying.
> "The complexity of history in a country of such size and diversity means that everything we do now has roots in many, many things that came before us. You could say the same thing about the English common law, for example, or the use of the English language: no aspect of American life is untouched by it. You could say that about the Enlightenment. Or the climate. You could say that America’s unique existence as a frontier country bordered by lawlessness is felt even today in every mass shooting. You could cite the death of countless millions of Native Americans — by violence and disease — as something that defines all of us in America today. And in a way it does. "

The way I see it, something as expansive as an entire country is doubtlessly a hyperdimensional matter. From any particular point of view, you can only glimpse one projection of that hyperdimensional mass. The projection you see is factual (insofar as any human perception can be factual) but it's nevertheless one of many factual projections.

Consider if you were a flatlander looking at a 2d projection of a cylinder. Depending on your perspective, that cylinder may appear to be a circle, or a rectangle. Both projections capture factual information about the true form of the object in question, but two flatlanders with different perspectives could perceive radically different projections of the same cylinder and could have a bitter dispute over who was right.
For all of the companies you mentioned: taxes. They all use either a double Irish with a Dutch sandwich, or are incorporated in a tax haven (Uber, Amazon in Luxemburg)
So it is occluded four times every wiper cycle.
Well, the old games are still around and still fun. Also, there's open-source games, which generally do multiplayer via LAN only.

At my last LAN party, we were six people in a room without internet connection [1]. I brought a bunch of open-source games and ZIP archives of classic games with No-CD patches and put them on a plain HTTP server for distribution. We mostly played WC3 (with the original Dota map) and Widelands (a Settlers 2 clone), but everyone's favorite was Empty Epsilon (the OSS clone of Star Trek Bridge Simulator).

[1] #Neuland :)
You sound like somebody tried to force you to trade in Libra and German government prevented it. But Libra is not money - unless you choose to trade in it and use it as medium of exchange, and nobody so far tried to make dealing with it involuntary. So what exactly German government saved you from?
Doing some research - pretty much nothing in the current generation of instances supports instance-store root - it's impossible to build stuff this way now...
LiFePO₄ is also useful for replacing alkaline batteries in small devices, because the cell voltage (3.2V) is approximately 1.5V x 2.
Drones will be a thing of the past. UK laws are already cracking down on recreational drones, once something major happens they will just completely ban them for unlicensed users.
> not through encouraging Americans to live up to their county’s ideals, but the shame them and guilt-trip them into doing it

Shame and guilt-tripping on a national level is a fundamental part of modern non-violent protest in the US: https://www.history.com/news/selmas-bloody-sunday-50-years-a...
Agreed. The content on this site provides an endless source of giggling for me. I have tried and failed to explain to my wife why I find it so amusing. The author has a talent for presenting quasi-coherent computer-generated gibberish in a particular way, and like you, I guess I'm just highly attuned to it.
I'm guessing that in some states it might be legally questionable while not federally across the board
"But the NYT chose a neo-Marxist rather than liberal path to make a very specific claim: that slavery is not one of many things that describe America’s founding and culture, it is the definitive one." Well, the author does know what liberalism is, but definitely does not know what Marxism is!

Marxism does have a good answer to the original question of the piece: "How can an enduring “ideal” — like, say, freedom or equality — be “false” at one point in history and true in another?" - Marxists argue that ideas can be progressive at one time, and become reactionary at a later stage of history. Ideas do not determine history, but are in general a reflection of class forces. When capitalism was progressive, in the founding days of the country, the ideas that upheld the system of private ownership were progressive ideas! The forces these ideas represent helped defeat monarchies and slavery. Today, advocates of the free market play the opposite role, of holding society back, because capitalism is in a deep crisis and socialism has become socially and technologically possible.
New Google Pixel 4 leaked videos show off Face ID and phone's gaming prowess
I had the same experience with the take home project applying as a Python/Django dev. I would have normally billed around $2k for what they wanted for a throwaway test.

I also declined.
I think NYT tried to remain neutral, and discovered the hard way that in 2019, there's no middle ground, or rather, the middle ground gets no voice, which is literally deadly for a media company.

I agree, WSJ seems to have swung back a little. Strange times!
2244 Tesla
I'm wondering when SpaceX will send a probe to asteroid Tesla, I imagine at some point they're going to want practice with asteroids, and Elon is partial to whimsy.
I noticed that as well. Opinion pieces dominate “the news” and the headlines are clearly written to be inflammatory and clickbait.

And this is the newspaper that that published the Pentagon Papers!
Hope to find some Dota Classic 3.76b games!
The first poster compared a proposed digital currency--one that no one might ever even use--to Nazi-era fascism and an assault on democracy.

Buboard suggests that Germany exerts coercive monetary pressure over some other Eurozone countries. That crosses the line for you?

If Ireland had independent monetary policy maybe it could have lanced the bubble earlier and not been hit with 14% unemployment after the end of the Celtic tiger era. If Greece didn't have Merkel on the other side of every table, it could have attempted something similar to the Plano Real, rebasing its currency completely and restructuring its society through default.

Or maybe they would be way worse off without Germany. Who knows? A claim that Germany has an outsized impact on monetary policy, at times to the disadvantage of other negotiators, is certainly debatable! But it's not the sort of thing you can brush aside ad lapidem. Especially not in the context of this farcically hyperbolic thread.
Renowned MIT Computer Scientist Richard Stallman Defends Epstein
Agreed. Sits very difficult to find fact based news.
It’s all polarizing opinion.
Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll strongly consider it and let you know what I can come up with.
Just to add, if you don't need instant payments we also have other convenient and direct transfers between banks in Australia.
That's what made me feel like I could smell a rat... Yes the Houthis could have a go at doing this, but ultimately, it's probably going to benefit the Saudis because the oil price is now going to go wild as soon as the markets open. I read that up to 50% of their capacity could be affected. It's in the Saudis interest for the oil price to rise and this is a good way of doing it without involving OPEC or anyone else.
Don't forget superconducting magnetic storage is also an option for storing renewable energy.

I have little idea as to how the cost compares, but I imagine progress like this is of help:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_magnetic_energ...

Is the energy stored in the current going around in a loop in the superconductor, or in the generated magnetic field lile an inductor?
The power is that of the mob itself - attacking people and feeling righteous about it. And you know, attacking RMS is much easier than trying to go after whomever had Epstein snuffed so he couldn't talk.

"Witch hunt" may not be the absolute best of terms, as RMS is responsible for having poked the hornets' nest. It's still an appropriate reference to the social dynamics, but perhaps "lynch mob" would be better.
When I read stuff that doesn't smell like propaganda it sounds more like the Iranian's don't want this conflict. Because they are playing a long game where their odds of winning are high.
>when you hit strange bug

Any bug is strange until you figure it out.
The U1 chip in the iPhone 11 is the beginning of an Ultra Wideband revolution?
"no private entity can claim monetary power, which is inherent to the sovereignty of nations" - very bizzare statement. What's "monetary power"? If it's the power to make certain medium of exchange legal tender, Facebook certainly didn't claim that, moreover, by very definition of it such power can not belong to a private entity - a private entity can not force German government to accept taxes in Libra, for example. The power to set legal tender is inherently governmental power, and there's no need to proclaim this banality as something that isn't obvious by definition.

On the other hand, there are thousands real and virtual moneys that exist and can be exchanged for real and virtual goods - from game money to crypto tokens to vouchers to points and miles, and so on. There is literally thousands of entities that create means of exchange that later can be exchanged for goods, and commonly are - and nobody has ever had trouble with that, at least not in any free countries (in USSR, you'd got no miles for flights :). So what changed?
If the NYTs is no longer America's newspaper of record (in fact it was the first newspaper that term was ever applied to, anywhere), I struggle to think of what is. The other newspaper commonly cited as a newspaper of record in America, the Washington Post, seems little better (or worse) than the NYTs.

In any event, I don't think the term was ever used to indicate a lack of editorial bias. Certainly the NYTs has never qualified if that's the meaning of the term.
> In 1928 what he was best at was getting the three balls close together and then “nursing” them—that is, making long runs by keeping the balls together with a soft, delicate stroke.

This means that the game is "English Billiards" with the pockets. A delicate stroke won't help in the "no-pocket billiards" as a valid shot needs to hit (atleast) 3 cushions.
30 State, Real-Time License Plate Database Revealed
My favorite part: "terraform destroy is implemented on the client side, by consuming the pizza."
Show HN: Find out what people think about you
But the article does point out that agriculture was a response - folks didn’t farm until they had to.

So maybeagriculture wasn’t the blunder. The blunder was hunting and gathering so hard that you had no choice but to farm. Agriculture itself was probably the best thing our ancestors could have done given the scarcity they created for themselves.

But I don’t know anything about this, I’m just a computer programmer.
"vaporware" you mean the most popular tool to deploy on cloud platforms.
And then itty bitty windshield wipers on the glass.
Are you implying that horses are not a viable form of transportation?
They lost that title in 2003 as far as I'm concerned, by slavishly repeating WMD propaganda designed to get everybody behind going to war in Iraq. Back then, they were sycophantic adjuncts of the DoD; now, apparently they're your local university's Racial Studies department, but it hardly matters one way or the other. Just read it for entertainment like everything else in this giant circus of lies and counter-lies.
I’d like it on Kubernetes so the pizza’s readiness probe can ping my IoT doorbell.

Plus, the ability to add a sidecar container of garlic bread and dips would be nice.

And the rolling deploys are a nice addition.
A broad slanderous statement with no evidence...I think they do darn good work in hard situations. For me the NYTimes is often conservative in the people they quote, but they have a good fact-checking network.

They fail sometimes, but that's what I love about US journalism, it is very self-critical and publications call out each other for factual errors.
In re: the San†, it's not exactly an anthropological study but the movie "The Gods Must Be Crazy"‡ shows a life of relative happiness despite what seems like abject poverty. They don't know they are poor, and so it doesn't bother them. They have problems, but in their world all their problems are people-sized, if that makes sense. In contrast, our modern civilization seems Brutalist (as in the architectural style.)

Their way of life is stable, "A set of tools almost identical to that used by the modern San and dating to 42,000 BCE was discovered at Border Cave in KwaZulu-Natal in 2012."†

†https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_people

‡https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gods_Must_Be_Crazy
Citizen researchers: fighting for truth about treatments
Apparently he changed his mind https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20973792