skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In order to manufacture these chips you need the schematics. It's the same thing as having the source code and the deployment/compilation instructions: You don't need anything else.
The entirety of the visible page is a signup form, a subscribe button and a login button.
I don't think you could say CG taxes are "double taxation" since only the income from the asset is taxed, not the principle.

>it's much less than that because of inflation

Why would you hold an investment for 55 years that isn't beating inflation?
I wouldn't mind stand-ups (well, not as much ) if they actually stuck to their mission statement.

My biggest problem is that almost always someone (usually the product owner/manager) starts droning on and on about stuff that has little to do with daily work, usually by repeating stuff already said the day before.
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I visit Taiwan every couple years, and when I go, I make a note to ask people I meet what they think about reuniting with China. Every single time, the answer has been not just no, but an angry hell no.
> Unlike the others, Tesla stands out. My wife rode in a Tesla and she said 'that was a special car's and she hasn't said that about other cars.

That's exactly what Tesla tries to sell, "a special car". On all the thinks they are focused on long term reliability and repair ability are likely not their priorities, for now.

In a certain way I wouldn't be surprised if they would have adapted some of the "ship fast + PR, then working and then (maybe) good" development mentality which is common in the software world.

I.e. I wouldn't be surprised if they prioritize innovation (e.g. self driving) and performance/range over safety/durability/etc. as long as safety/durability/etc. are "good enough" to get away with it.
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Listen Up, Washington: No New Roads
That little 15 minute meeting forces a slacker to stand up in front of the rest of the team and clearly indicate that they either are or are not pulling their weight.

Which again assumes -- using the article's language -- that your team is overladen with idiot teenagers. And that management is so out of touch that it wouldn't have any other way of sussing these people out.
Crypto Wars – Darknet Diaries – The wars waged by government on cryptography
In a way it's a good thing that China is revealing its petulant nature to the world. Not that they hid it all that well, but until recently everybody was too busy enjoying cheap electronics to notice the monster they were feeding.

China—the people and country—are spectacular. China—the Party—is an malevolent force obsessed with self-preservation. Such is the nature of autocratic regimes.

A quote from Czech dissident Václav Havel bears repeating:

> The post-totalitarian system touches people at every step, but it does so with its ideological gloves on. This is why life in the system is so thoroughly permeated with hypocrisy and lies. Depriving people of information is called making it available...the lack of free expression becomes the highest form of freedom. Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics. It pretends not to possess an omnipotent and unprincipled police apparatus. It pretends to respect human rights. It pretends to persecute no one. It pretends to fear nothing. It pretends to pretend nothing.
"What does it benefit to gain the whole world if you lose your soul?" - Jesus
It’s also due to technology allowing fewer and fewer people to “own” more of the production in society.
The Xiaomis are kind of interesting in that if you buy a legitimate one direct from the official store it's likely to be in Chinese but also somewhat-clean (for a questionable definition of clean - expect bullshit battery saver / storage cleaner apps that to me would border on malware).

If you have the misfortune to buy through a reseller (gearbest, dx, unofficial stores, amazon, etc) out of several phones I've purchased from resellers, they have all come with malware on them.

This may partially be why Xiaomi is enforcing up to 180 day minimums before they allow a bootloader unlock (to prevent flashing/sideloading system malware apps) by shitty resellers for $ before they ship. It does piss me off once I get the device that I have to go sign up on their forum and beg for a "possible approval" for a bootloader unlock.
My question is why can’t the 3D printers have an onboard exhaust fan that vents the air outside, like a laser cutter does.
But that would require companies to prioritise something other than profit and the incentive structure to do that simply doesn’t exist. It’s sad.
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Maybe unsustainable in the traditional sense, but if they can negotiate contracts with the talent on their platform, that may be a different avenue for profitability.

I mean look at the success of Lil Nas X. Highly successful TikTok talent.
I do not doubt that the waste and accountability are a huge problem in the DoD, but $21T sounds extreme. The FY19 total military budget, according to Wikipedia, is a bit under $700B and you need to misappropriate 30 years of that to embezzle $21T. And that assumes everything is misappropriated (no salaries, no fuel to fly planes, etc.) and does not account for growth (30 years ago the budget was a lot smaller than it is today). My 2c.
Depends on their near-term goals. If dismantling HK’s SAR status is on the list, make sure that protests in Hong Kong remain violent and feature people waving flags of USA. Use that as an excuse to intervene in order to fight terrorism and/or maintain national sovereignty against foreign powers.

Status re Taiwan is unlikely to radically change in near future, as far as my understanding of the situation goes.

As an aside, while in times like these any information may turn out to be propaganda, this looks like a thoughtful analysis of the current situation in Hong Kong (Google Translate works adequately with it): https://gateway.pinata.cloud/ipfs/QmUg7C7s7umWp24Qr9x9kc68zE...
Apple Releases macOS X Catalina
"Double taxation"

For such an in depth example you really missed this.

I make $100,000 in year X. That covers two brackets, and my effective rate is, say, 25% federal.

SO I have 75k left over.

I invest 5k.

It doubles to 10k.

I'm then taxed on the 5k I earned. Not the 5k I invested.

But do go on about double taxation.
The graph does a good job at giving a visual for the data and the point of how much the tax rate has gone down for the super wealthy.
Showing a percentage for that very top value would be less informative than saying the top 400.
Pretty scary thought, but progress being what it is, I don't see anything blocking it. I'm sure they already decline to do business with anyone that is vocally critical of China, or for example, highly complementary of the Dali Lama.
No law against updating the software collection and the media ...that's what I do.
It's called shooting the messenger.

I also imagine that a lot of the people calling for the Supreme Court to make this and other decisions on the basis of whatever feels fair to the individual justices would be a lot less happy if that methodology were applied to various other things.
Defining Types in Shen
Hello! Good to hear that you've been watching. It has been a struggle, but we got 1.0 over the line. Furiously writing documentation at the moment. Let us know what you think.
Only one thread can access the data at any given time, so it seems like most of the things you'd expect to be guaranteed by a single thread still are. I found this comment particularly interesting

Unlike most databases the core data structure is the
fastest part of the system. Most of the query time
comes from parsing the REPL protocol and copying data
to/from the network.

I wonder if anyone in the Redis ecosphere has explored a binary client server protocol, something that could be parsed/compiled on the client and then executed without parsing on the server, if the above is really true seems like that might offer even more perf gain than multithreading on the server.
An ad-blocker for audio is part of next generation of ‘perceptual ad-blockers’
Let's take Cambridge MA's Central Square station as an example. It's walking distance to a lot of jobs, supermarkets, parks, entertainment, etc. It has the Red Line to downtown Boston every ~3min on peak and ~6min off peak. It has multiple busy bus routes radiating out. It's not the best transit in the world, but it's easily a place you can live without a car. We should allow people to build housing without also building parking in places with transit at least this good.
Facebook is licensed as a Money Transmitter under their Facebook Payments entity.
Source: https://www.nmlsconsumeraccess.org/EntityDetails.aspx/COMPAN...
Just think, if Fort Lawton had been developed twenty years ago, perhaps the decisions about where to bother spending transit money would have been made differently. (It's not like anyone had any idea about that bridge having issues twenty years ago either - so it's a bit of a post-hoc explanation for all that NIMBY-ism)
I did but nothing really jumped out as evident. However, the post-mortem analysis was indeed revealing.

TL;DR the Model 3 didn't perform as well with respect to driver-side door hinge pillar intrusion and door sill buckling, contributing to "moderate risk of injury to the left lower leg".

General remarks for Mercedes-Benz C-Class[1] and Lexus ES 350[2]:

> The dummy's position in relation to the door frame, steering wheel, and instrument panel after the crash test indicates that the driver's survival space was maintained well.

> The driver's space was maintained well in both tests, and risk of injuries to the dummy's legs and feet was low.

...as opposed to Tesla Model 3[3]:

> The dummy's position in relation to the door frame, steering wheel, and instrument panel after the crash test indicates that the driver's overall survival space was maintained well, despite moderate intrusion of the lower part of the door hinge pillar and buckling of the door sill.

> Although intrusion overall into the driver's space was minimal, door hinge pillar intrusion contributed to a moderate risk of injury to the left lower leg.

[1] https://www.iihs.org/ratings/vehicle/mercedes-benz/c-class-4...

[2] https://www.iihs.org/ratings/vehicle/lexus/es-350-4-door-sed...

[3] https://www.iihs.org/ratings/vehicle/mercedes-benz/c-class-4...
This is true for every country in the world. Google Maps in the US displays borders/countries which the US government recognizes.
Why is that possible in this fictional reality but stockpiling an RPi isn't?
Man that's crazy! They must've paid real close attention to it, but I think it's partly due to low resolution screens available in circa 1995. On a low-res screen, it's impossible to draw maps completely according to the borders, so this was probably inevitable and unintentional.
Related: this project used the Univac to make a Bible concordance in the 1950s. Wonderful photos in the article:

https://mashable.com/2015/09/27/univac-bible/#UcmBZsV9ikqV
Does this work for the T80 FPGA core?
I'm not who you're responding to, but I tend not to assume competence on the part of academic economists. I've listened to enough of them speak and read enough of their proposals/think tank papers/books to know that a sizable portion of them are perfectly happy making some absurd assumptions and running down a logical chain from there without addressing the obvious points.
I think you may not have read the article.
Algorand's Relay Node Runner Voting Evaluation
> Model performance is not the same as business performance

This is interesting. Sometimes some people from business side consider that AI is the solution to all problems (as if there was just one catch-them-all AI solution) and some academic people think that the top-performance model for some classification task is the must-go, and all they forget that the goal is to earn money.
I don't think it is possible to order one for purchase at the moment; every time I've looked at the website in the last 3 weeks its been either "try again in 1 hour" or "out of stock".
I consider this reason to ditch Apple next round of device purchases. Nice UI and all, but it's just a pretty face on Unix.
Depends on what the duck identifies as.
I would venture to guess that the majority of the HN crowd is pro-NN.

You are correct in that the real problem is that, starting in the 90s, municipalities traded exlusive rights for quick rollouts. The "onerous local regulations" are what created the unfair monopolies in so many cities. In San Francisco, you have AT&T still offers 10Mbit DSL because the only other game in town is Comcast (or MonkeyBrains).

Mobile/Wireless ISPs and fiber providers are not in the same universe when it comes to where we want to go. If you are talking about crossing the digital divide to get marginalized groups of rural people connected to the internet then, yes, wireless is an answer. If you want to start building the next generation of infrastructure that will support the next generation of technology then we need to be rolling out fiber to as many places as we can.

To do that we need to undo the regulations that prevented the appropriate competition from growing alongside the lazy incumbants, and, we need to protect the internet as it is today with net nuetrality regulations.

Just because we haven't seen an ISP charge for different packages doesn't mean that it won't happen. It is legal after all. Why wouldn't a free market take advantage of that? Especially when I can only choose between Comcast or 10Mbit AT&T DSL?

There needs to be a transitionary period. Open up all the municipalities to new broadband companies. Wait 20 years, then sunset net nuetrality.
> And then he says about you what he said about me (I don't remember the words, and I don't want to, but sounded like I blew my top). Now further imagine that having lived with yourself a long time, you know that isn't how you react to things like that.

Dude, that is definitely a common reaction on your part. You're famous for flipping out at people. Anyone who read your blog for any length of time saw it happen online a few times; anyone in the tech scene in the 2000s had you flip out at one or more of our friends in person. I'm sure you often don't react like that, but you do react like that enough for it to be very notable.

Moreover, your offended and condescending response makes it clear to anyone reading the thread that—unless there was some major provocation edited out of the original comment above, the way you used to do with your blog—you’re at least sometimes hypersensitive and prone to overreacting.
He specifically speaks of a "distribution" phase as imminent collapse seems apparent, before "blackout". So everyone who knows about it would hypothetically get a copy, and perhaps begin stockpiling some relevant hardware.

(SD cards seem like a good commodity to stockpile here, as he supports them, but they're likely incredibly hard to manufacture post-collapse.)
That would not actually work due to how unicode works. There really is not a code point for Taiwanese flag, or Russian flag, or American flag. In fact, each flag is made of two code points, making up the ISO code for the country. So, for Taiwan, the flag is made of code point "flag T" and "flag W". And yes, this means that to correctly render unicode, you need to know the current geopolitical situation in the world (fun, right?)

This also means that you cannot easily add non-existent countries. They do not have country codes
The conviction rate in Japan is bonkers and has been for a long time.

http://hakusyo1.moj.go.jp/en/61/image/image/h002003001001h.j...
Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory 3 Construction Progress Update [video]
For those interested, it can run fine on currently produced AGPTRocker/Benjie T2, although it's not officially supported as of yet. More bulky than Sansa, but there's no options left anymore.
I really wonder about the information flow here. Does Xi Jinping call Tim Cook directly?
As if the US hadn't sold their soul already? :/ I'm not trying to downplay the horrors of China, but let's not act like the US had clean hands before importing bulk electronics.
I live in Magnolia (Briarcliff), and the claim that this is about bridge capacity is nonsense. It's about poor people being in a wealthy neighborhood, nothing less and nothing more.

It would added 200 households, who would live primarily in townhomes and apartments, into an area that has roughly 9,500 households, the majority of whom live in single family residences. This is not going to make a noticeable change to our commutes.

I agree we need to invest in infrastructure for Magnolia, but that problem is orthogonal to this development.
I rejected Chrome from my computers, Firefox is my main browser now.
Charlie - I'm the author and do plan another couple of blogs in this series. It's funny, I've been doing this for a while and only came across the concept of a "Niko Niko" calendar a few weeks ago. Convergent evolution.

I'm also building on the concepts in my last blog: https://hackernoon.com/can-we-apply-devops-principles-to-pro...

The product is young, but so far the feedback has been positive.
TikTok is fun because it is not political (yet).

The few political TikToks I have seen get destroyed in the comments.
You're right, the goal isn't to be profitable next year, it was to be profitable this year. Actually, Elon said "I am optimistic about being profitable in Q1 and all quarters going forward," not even a year ago. So much for that. Also, Tesla isn't a startup--they've been in business for more than 15 years.

Tesla's annual depreciation outpaces their capital spending, so they aren't even spending enough to maintain their current assets. Last year they missed their planned CapEx by something like $1 billion. Also not something a "growth" company does.

That's because they are (and have been) in a precarious financial condition for almost their entire history, only made worse by the recent acquisition of an insolvent solar company in order to bailout you and your family members financial stakes.
Hah - yes I do. The project is just a mess. The main thing that makes this project work is this great scene-graph based animation library:

https://github.com/hyperandroid/CAAT

If it wasn't for that I would have never been able to stitch together a project as difficult as this.
There are several important cases that are coming up, e.g. see below for some discussion on prominent pending cases:

* Cases to watch: https://www.axios.com/supreme-court-cases-2020-census-gerrymandering-lgbtq-discrimination-43e9c931-78aa-42a8-b32a-1f385f0a262a.html
* https://www.npr.org/2019/10/07/765091522/the-supreme-court-march-to-the-right-fast-and-furious-or-incremental

In addition, here are some I found interesting:

* Age discrimination: https://www.oyez.org/cases/2019/18-882
* Public access to legal annotations: https://www.oyez.org/cases/2019/18-1150
* May a state abolish the insanity defense: https://www.oyez.org/cases/2019/18-1150
* How broad can the law be against encouraging or inducing illegal immigration for commercial advantage: https://www.oyez.org/cases/2019/19-67
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I'd argue that Lil Nas X had success in spite of TikTok, not because of it. His single was amazing -- just fantastic content all around. 180+ million hits on YouTube doesn't lie. He would've blown up regardless of platform.
Alternatively, the terrorist attack didn't actual hit the records in question (or at least not as many as are implied) and is unrelated, but was used as a convenient cover for bad finances that are basically meaningless anyway.
In the wake of the recent open letter by Attorney General(https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/bill-barr-faceb...) to Facebook, I think it is important for us to reminisce on the topic of Cryptography and how the government has fought tooth and nail to prevent its usage over the decades. I was reading an update from Electric Frontier Foundation(https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/open-letter-government...) earlier today and I was reminded of this podcast episode.
Why ‘Zombie’ Companies Are on the Rise–and Could Pose a Threat to the US Economy
JavaScript Desktop Automation
Here is what I do.

For many programming languages and frameworks (e.g. Python, Java, Spring, Apache Maven, ...) the official manual is really good.

I read the manual over and over again (e.g. when I am riding the bus, spinning at the gym, ...) and always use the official manual to look things up. I avoid looking things up in Google or in Stack Overflow because this leads to junky content marketing sites, wrong answers, etc.

Some tools don't have good official docs and you need a different strategy. For instance the official Clojure docs are not that good, plus most people need some special help to get their heads around immutability. In that case get Rich Hickey's book.
Conspiratorial thinking is widely regarded to be an example of the phenomenon I mentioned: people find it comforting to think that the world is explainable in simple terms rather than chaotic, even if the explanation requires us to blame sinister and secretive actors for bad things. People think there should be a reason for things happening, when often there's really not.

Disclaimer: I don't have a citation and I'm not a psychologist.
Economics of ethnic enclaves (areas with high concentrations of 1 ethnic group)
It really depends on your definition of "work". Being forced to subscribe to a paid service is not the same as getting access to healthcare. Your examples only show that if a state resorts to authoritarian measures then it can force everyone to subscribe to a paid service.
Hi AlchemistCamp, Kirill here, I made Smash Notes. That's strange. Can you tell me what device/browser you're using? Are you able to click-out of the signup form? Usually hitting the X should close it, and prevent it from popping up again, but obviously I should look into this. Would love feedback, thank you!
Philadelphia is nearly twice as dense as Seattle, and the subway only serves the densest parts of Philadelphia, and it was built when the city was much denser than it is today. Philadelphia's single family zoning is effectively as dense as Seattle's LR3 zoning: 38 ft height limits, no front setbacks, no parking requirements, and townhouse widths. Your assertion isnt just wrong, it is wackadoodle territory.
I have a similar story, it really worked well. Nowadays it's hard to compete with services like Spotify, it's got basically all the music I care for accessible instantly.

But I suppose that if music streaming follows in the footsteps of TV show/movie streaming where you have to subscribe to half a dozen services to get access to most of the content I'll have to dust off my old Rockbox player and bittorent client. Hopefully it won't come to that.
I would think it also has non-trivial psychological effects on the Chinese public in terms of feelings of national pride, optimism for the future, and allegiance to their communist government. From where I sit, China is executing largely flawlessly, for the maximization of their outcome that is, not the entire world's. But it's the West who made this possible, so I don't place much blame on China.
Hackers report vulnerabilities in Georgia's new voting system
Such ferries do exist (hydrofoil or hovercraft) but sailing through a congested channel at 60 mph would be wildly dangerous. I can't imagine the Coast Guard or port authorities would ever allow it.