skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Banish "fair share" from your vocabulary when speaking of taxation. That is a guaranteed way to derail a productive conversation, by shifting it into arguing about what is fair, rather than what would solve the problem.

If we are intent on fairness, the generations that incurred the debts should be the ones forced to pay them off. So for the sake of argument, let's divide the populace by birth year, and institute a tax called the Debt Retirement Tax (DRT).

I took the historic debt from 1791, and divided it into 40 buckets. For each subsequent year, I charged each bucket 2% over inflation, dumped each bucket into the bucket to its left (except the leftmost), and divided the increase in debt, after interest, evenly across all 40 buckets. In years when the debt shrank, the reduction was divided evenly across all buckets with a debt balance.

This was to simulate the relative contributions to paying off and incurring more debt for working persons for each age 25-64, and all people 65 years or older. I presumed that age brackets younger than 24 have too little political power to significantly affect national debt. Scrolling down to 2018, the age 65+ bucket is now responsible for over 59% of the extant debt. Looking at the numbers over the years, and the clusters of zeroes in particular, whenever the debt is reduced, it is always the younger workers paying off the older people's debts. The eldest have never paid off their share of debt. At the 1835 minimum, the algorithm I used puts 100% of the responsibility for that last bit of debt on the age 65+ bucket. But instead of paying it off, they used their political power to charge up more debt, based on the willingness of the younger folks to work harder pay it off.

For the DRT, you could pay an income tax based on how much debt is in your age cohort's bucket, and if your year's bucket gets emptied, then you don't pay DRT the next year unless the debt goes up, and the interest charged on the other buckets doesn't cover your cohort's 1/40th share of it. The DRT can also include an inheritance tax component, so if you die with more debt in your age bucket, the state takes more out of your estate.

What is happening now is like identity theft. Elders are running up credit debt for their own benefit when their grandchildren's names are the ones on the accounts. What could possibly be "fair", when that situation is never addressed?
There are plenty of politicians and candidates advocating for abolishing CBP/ICE.
If evil is more expensive, it will be harder for evil doers to get as much of it done.
The only way to get C# 8 is to move to .NET Core, I can't really avoid this anymore. And for me it means moving to ASP.NET Core...

Anyone recently migrated projects from ASP.NET MVC to ASP.NET Core? I hope there is a gradual way, like this: https://www.hackernoon.com/how-to-migrate-project-from-aspne...
looks like an error, it was restored. https://twitter.com/cgpgrey/status/1176195596975259648
The FreeDOS option is basically the option to not pay for Windows ($229 for Windows 10 Professional, $197 for Windows 10 Home).
If we're going the totalitarian route, why not designate kids and force them to grow up to be scientists. Make them work for minimal wage on what are today billion dollar R&D, all for finding a solution to the so-called crisis?
After all, human procreation is a naturally occuring event and it is the failure of science to produce a solution for the consequences and politicians - to adopt it.
Yes most of my engineering classes back in college allowed you to use a cheat-sheet. Cheat sheets are way faster than thumbing through a book or notes in a calculator. And most problems required you to show your work. Maybe you could cross-check your results and fix something.

The funny thing is to an extent, the performance of the student seems to be inversely proportional to the density of the cheat-sheet.

The worse thing you can request of a professor is to make it an "open book" test. Those tests are always damm hard.
> I've been a vegetarian for about 4 years and the cognitive dissonance you start to see is remarkable. People claim to love animals and hate animal cruelty through mouthfuls of burger and pork.

Can you explain why producing eggs and cow milk is any less cruel than producing animals only for meat?

In terms of cognitive dissonance, I have a hard time understanding the rational behind vegetarianism to be honest when a vegetarian presumably has looked into the animal farming industry more than a meat eater.

Dairy cows and egg laying hens are still killed very early into their natural life span once their yields drop with the cows being killed for meat, males from dairy cows are killed within weeks as veal because males can't be milked, and any male chickens born are gassed or ground up within days of their life because they don't lay eggs.
That sucks. In my experience, kids who didn't have them were offered loaners for the duration of the test.
Visual studio crashes and hangs on me multiple times a day. Rider is just solid.
> Any idea how much damage sugar does?

Plastic, too. Coca-Cola is the largest source of plastic waste in the world.
The police do use buses here in Ontario. My friend got a ticket after following behind a bus which had a single officer in the back and a trailing car.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuJf8ZyjVVg

https://www.narcity.com/ca/on/toronto/news/ontario-police-ar...
Traffic police around here seem uninterested in enforcing any rules other than red lights and speed limits.
The end of the Bronze Age in fact did coincide with a major civilizational collapse:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age_collapse
To second your point- I'd hazard that people using phones at lights are also using them in between lights. I filter at lights despite it being illegal where I live- because I've already been rear ended twice by people on phones. And by filtering I get a great view on people using their phones. They are nine times out of ten using their phones leading up to the light, during the light and during takeoff. I've also noticed that when they notice movement in their peripheral, they start driving forward even when the light is red. I filter much slower now so as to keep people from blindly thinking the light is green and shooting out into traffic or into a pedestrian.
For studying it would be fine, but for taking exams no way the instructors can let you in with your phone.
White Label by Studio
agreed. years ago, I saw the casio fx-115ms ($15) used on the professional engineering exam (California) as a good dumb calculator. looks like the fx-115ES Plus is the modern equivalent.
Under a day ?? Make an app with pyqt5 or kivy and it's under an hour...
How about a literal headline in a mainstream left publication? https://www.thenation.com/article/abolish-police-instead-let...
I never really used any.

In your place, now I would work to have community that feels familiar. Maybe you are lucky and you have your close-family living nearby and you have good relationship and good boundaries, that is a real asset.

We didn't. Having friends with small children saved me.
Don't know about Java, but last I checked there were plans to add non-nullable reference types to Dart.
I suspect I am more wary of Facebook than most. However, unless there is something in that linked discussion that I'm just not seeing, I don't get it.

Or perhaps your idea of "proof" and mine are just vastly different.
This is a limited scope viewpoint.
Thank fuck
>People choose to drink soda.

People also choose to cross the border illegally.
Chromium is naturally bloated and heavy, what would be the goal in comparing it to WPF
There is. I bought my son's TI-84 on eBay for 1/3 of the retail price.

There are plenty in desk drawers of graduated kids, but they're also pretty beat up. In particular, the display seems to be built very cheaply and prone to damage.
It's not a weasel word. We except curation in online venues already. HN is an excellent example, with two varieties of curation to help keep posts & discussions on topic and flame wars at a minimum. (swap curation for moderators or whatever term you're comfortable with)

There is a central mechanism where HN in the form of dang or whoever making decisions, and there is community-sourced curation in the form of upvotes, downvotes, and flags. None of this amounts to the sort of authoritarian or censorship you seem to imply.
Yeah, but apart from this, removing roaming charges, funding infrastructure, safeguarding working rights, cleaning up our rivers and beaches, and building the richest market on the planet, what did the EU ever do for us...?
If I were to judge by the statistics of the heartbeat messages I have access to.. The number of people trying to create one-hop circuits is huge.
You've clearly never had a surgery. Many invasive surgeries can result in lifelong pain with no underlying cause. Having a doctor muck about with your internals leaves nerve endings in the wrong place and scar tissue that will never heal.

Source: Had two pneumothoraces that resulted in lung surgery years ago, still get pain every day that I just have to ignore.
I really don't understand how can people associate a tool with an ideology.

Do we stop manufacturing cars because it helps support many unfavorable people/organizations?
People sitting around doing nothing constrains your actions.

In a country which prints dollars, and borrows dollars, future debt cannot constrain action.

The fear here is whether people will stop lending you dollars, but as we can see in the US we are nowhere close to that situation. (Europe/Germany, which is pathologically committed to not having debts has it even worse/better...people are paying them to take their money).
> Since most candidates are running on a platform of promising more free things

Most candidates are running on a platform of directing the taxes citizens pay towards services the citizens want. It's easy, and dishonest, to deride these as "free things" if you don't want them. Even the tax cut tooth fairy is supposed to be deficit neutral due to "dynamic accounting" gimmickry. The difficult lift is to discern what promises are based on flimflam and which are based on honest accounting and reasonable, time-tested assumptions.
Terraform + Ansible and a little Salt has pretty much deleted my needs for Chef and Puppet. Strongly recommend TF + Ansible as a building block of orchestration + post-orchestration config mgmt.
It would have been great if it allowed to make .NET Desktop apps for macOS and Linux, in addition to Windows.
But growing entitlement spending then was not an issue.
I am ambivalent about using either MathWorks on my iPad or iPhone and my HP Prime. As far as I’m concerned, to be a valid competitor for my attention the solution must have a Computer Algebra System (CAS). Something that can merely manipulate numbers through various forms of arithmetic is far short of what should actually be expected.
Which, in my experience, makes continued use of it completely impossible. There is no other product I've had to sit through vendor calls as much with while trying to do some kind of maintenance on the Chef server.
Were you this outraged about the conditions when Obama was in office?
I'm not talking about running out of oil. I'm talking about running out of food, where mass migrations are knocking on the doors of more lucky nations, while new arable and resource-rich land becomes available, as the now frozen parts of the world thaw. Nations know it, these areas are already becoming strategic.

> That we would eventually run out or that everybody needs to go to war to protect their strategic assets in the middle east. This turned out to be complete non-sense.

The way I see it, few wars for control over oil markets have already happened in the last few decades.

> When there is sufficient demand people will find a way well before going to war. War is very expensive.

I don't think this was ever true in history. In particular, this was a common sentiment before World War I - that nations are too connected economically, that it's in no one's interest to go to war. Didn't stop two world wars from happening in less than 30 years.
> If the previous administration's opponents had called more attention to the issue, maybe Chef would have acted at that time.

If the previous administration's allies had called any attention to the issue, maybe their current calls would be taken seriously rather than as a continuous knee-jerk reaction to every action of the current President.
i actually just did this in f# using the MailboxProcessor. it's beautiful. although, f# has had this since the beginning and is much cleaner being able to define the states and transitions using discriminated unions and having exhaustive pattern matching.
Defense Innovation Board Ten Commandments of Software (2018) [pdf]
> Also, be careful around 6 month age with new foods. There are way too many food allergies these days. I was just in the ER last night for a food related allergy.

This is something I've been borrning about a lot, because my wife has a very serious sesame allergy.

But what's confusing is that some allergies might be prevented with exposure, and some seem to be caused by it. Either way, caution is useful, of course.
Ah yes, the iOS App Store that just lost a Supreme Court anti-trust case
Ambition is good; action is better: Making progress on our climate commitments
That is an argument against allowing phone apps. But doesn't excuse requiring students to pay $100+ for antiquated technology.
Did you read the article? It mentions fibromyalgia, which is a chronic pain condition with an unknown root cause. If you have any information the rest of the world doesn't have regarding the root cause of it, maybe you should have made that your comment instead of a cliche aphorism.
It's fairly easy to escape Facebook and Google in the grand scheme of things. A lot easier than avoiding, say, Nestlé or Coca Cola IRL. It's easier to change your homepage than your dietary habits. The problem is convincing people that they need to switch, clearly the vast majority doesn't care enough to download Firefox or make two click in their settings to change the default search engine.
No domination can last forever.

If you consume more than you produce, you're creating a debt. Sooner or later this debt should be paid.

If you're exporting dollars, be prepared that these dollars will come back to purchase your best land and your best people.
Imagine we have a company with 100 shares total. I have 1 share. Now you print 100 more shares and keep them. Sure, company is still the same but the wealth is redistributed, I have 2 times less of it.

Same with US dollars. Half of them might be held by non-US persons. Another quarter by US population. Printing dollars is a wealth redistribution excersice and a very effective one.
Ballmer says Linux instead of GNU/Linux. That's just another mistake.
Yes, I think it’s ok to put the idea out that maybe Facebook hasn’t had a net beneficial effect on humanity.

Maybe it has, maybe it hasn’t. Certainly the interconnectedness in general is moving us forward.

But Facebook in particular is amazing at capturing your attention and manipulating your emotions to get you to spend more time in Facebook. It is a responsive actor that learns what you respond to, and it’s interests are not aligned with yours.

Without Facebook, would we have settled on something less malicious?

That’s impossible to say.
I think you're overplaying the 'cheap crap' argument. China is quite a ways better than they were when that stereotype was passable. They can totally match what the US is doing in a large set of technology based industries. And also, because of the way supply chains work (they naturally form clusters around manufacturing hubs and engender very strong network effects) the US might not be in a position to make any high-tech product at all. It would be cheaper to manufacture it overseas rather than ship every single part/material to the US.
Not only that, the long lost art of growing it yourself. Both animals and produce. Then you have complete control over the process
> So because they fight human trafficking (which is undoubtedly a good thing), we should overlook people dying in their concentration camps and children being kept in inhumane conditions?

Note that the investigatory group within ICE (Homeland Security Investigations) that is key to fighting human trafficking is almost entirely separate from the rest of ICE and has raised being part of ICE in the current environment, because of the backlashes the rest of ICEs practices have been producing, as inhibiting their work, because it reduces the willingness of people they need voluntary cooperation from to work with them, because “ICE”.

So, another reason to dismantle ICE.
If you're interested in .net and the clr, you could replace c# with f#.

It's the most practical functional language that I've tried. Great for domain modeling and it can used in C# projects.

I also think that c# is too verbose so what I normally do: asp.net core mvc for routing, templating, authentication / authorization, data access etc and then reference an f# project that contains the domain logic. The best of both worlds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V(D)J_recombination
It's a shame we've standardized on something so ancient and limited, but we'll be losing something when we give up on the standardization we've achieved. At least if we accept that basic graphing capability is crucial to high school and undergrad maths.

I'm picturing a high school math teacher trying to support 20-30 kids running 20-30 different BYOD'd devices... multiplied by 5-6 periods of teaching per day. Even if one app becomes dominant, teachers will still need to keep up with updates.

We can complain that teachers are technology-resistant at times, but have you ever spoken to a teacher? They're typically quite overworked already. Generally they take a lot of work home with them. The thought of adding anything additional to their workload should really give us pause.

I would hope some sort of de facto standardized replacement emerges. Like that free Desmos app mentioned in the article. That's not a perfect solution (students still need devices) but it certainly lowers the bar for entry. I'm sure a budget $50 (new) tablet would run it just fine. And there are plenty of older devices on the used market that can do it.

Thing is, BYOD is still really problematic. Some students will have an advantage over others. And there's the non-trivial matter of making sure that students aren't accessing cellular data during tests.

Ideally schools would purchase cheap tablets with no cellular modems and slap them into ruggedized cases. Then lend them to the kids or at least sell them to the kids at nominal cost.
1. Already happened and I wasn't laid off because of that, because apparently people are still making money on my work.

2. I've been laid off in the past. What's interesting about this is that another company will still have you provided you pass their recruitment process. Seems obvious, but not for someone who's going through this for the same time.

What also helps is that I'm EU-Eastern-European, so my labour is relatively cheap.
The trick to disabling mouse acceleration is not to move the slider all the way to the left. I believe it’s the position two notches to the right of the lowest setting which gives a linear response. Above and below that point you’re flipping the concavity of the curve.
Historically, progress has resulted in more environmental damage and CO2 emissions. Relying on progress to fix these things is counting on a fundamental shift to happen. By comparison, progress historically has always increased GDP, so counting on progress to grow away our debt is just expecting the historical trend to continue.
Excellent. I hope the technology also works for truck drivers.
Cleaner Ships May Mean More Expensive Holidays
I support enterprises, it's actually easier to release on a Firday for us. Typically, if we mess up it gives us the opportunity to fix the issue.

That being said, last time that happened was 18 months ago.

Most people don't work over the weekends so it's actually not too bad for us.
> Los Angeles cut bus service for light rail expansions (which some say severely hurt ridership).

Are we talking about cutting bus routes along light rail routes, or are we talking cutting bus service connecting to / or outside of light rail routes?

> So it's a perfect example supporting the author.

If true, it can support the author's point that past a certain municipal density a good public transit system needs robust bus service as much or more than it needs rail backbones, which I agree with.

It doesn't speak to the central point of my comment above, however, which is that rail is not merely a luxury, it's often much more efficient in terms of the speed with which it moves its passengers, and necessarily so unless the same sort of infrastructure built to support it is built to support a bus, likely approaching similar costs per passenger mile.

> Regarding being stuck in traffic: there's plenty of downtown streetcars without dedicated lanes stuck in traffic built around 2010s.

I assume this is not LA talking about LA any more.
While the parent is being a bit crass, there is a valuable underlying point. Ignoring pain is akin to ignoring the "check engine light". We (as a society) should really try to figure out the root causes AND (not or) find more targeted pain management. Perhaps your pain can be safely ignored (from a medical point of view). Perhaps its truly a signal there is a new or greater risk.
You can't look at what's happening right now and think those policies haven't changed since they were implemented. There's explicit orders from above to transform these policies into atrocious deterrents so people will see them and reconsider coming to the US for help.

'Abolish ICE' means that the agency as it currently exists needs to go. That doesn't mean we don't need at least some of the services they provide. It means they've become a harmful agency with a culture of abuse in many areas, not just with detention. Tear down the bad agency and start over with something new.
What you've described is nearly exactly the design of the OLPC. A one-piece impermeable keyboard, battery behind the keyboard to weight it down, all of the sophisticated electronics behind the screen to minimize cable bending.

The charging circuitry will charge the battery if given anywhere between 11 and 18 volts (there are user reports of slowly charging with 9V), and will not be damaged if exposed to higher, or negative, voltage. I've charged mine from my 12V lithium motorcycle battery plenty of times.

The OLPC XO-1 is quite easy to disassemble and repair. You only need one philips #1 screwdriver, and it doesn't have a ridiculous number of teeny-tiny screws, or any glue, holding it together. The wiki has detailed instructions on disassembling the top[0] and bottom[1] of the laptop, and also guides on replacing specific components.

People took advantage of the easy-to-disassemble and thoroughly-documented hardware to develop community hacks. A popular one was to replace the membrane keyboard with a particular USB keyboard, which could be cut up to fit the chassis, and internally wired to one of the USB ports. I've seen a tutorial on how to solder an extra 256 MB of memory in.

The G1G1 laptops came with a preinstalled collection[3] of educational material, mostly from Wikipedia. The wiki has instructions on how to create custom collections to be distributed with a deployment of laptops. OLPC also created the School Server[4], a distro intended to provide a central network resource for communication and stored learning material.

[0] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Disassembly_top

[1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Disassembly_bottom

[3] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Collections#G1G1

[4] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/School_server