skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ignoring the problems with resolution, the big issue with this is you would need FTL travel to position the mirrors ahead of the light.

And this in turn is one of the big reasons why FTL is probably impossible: It is in essence time travel.
I would like to hear from somebody who is using this in production. We started to use Dynomite recently after hearing good things. Would like to hear comparisons
> employees are required to commute to work, but they are not compensated for their commute.

Where I live (another country), employers are required to compensate workers for their commute (vale-transporte).
I wonder how sustainable an app that mostly targets preteens and high schoolers is, though. I realize everyone thinks of the next wave of consumers but will they continue using TikTok? It sounds like a big part of the appeal is that each next wave wants something other than what that the older boring people are using.
I'd have to disagree at least in the context of computers.

> No trouble with physical keyboards

I've seen comments on HN before about how certain characters used for programming aren't on keyboards with European layouts, supposedly creating a barrier for beginner programmers. In contrast, somebody using a keyboard for one of the CJK languages only needs to press shift to type all the characters in Basic Latin because the physical layouts are the same.

> lot of older computer technology predates modern unicode and nobody seems to be in a rush to replace it.

There are probably way more computers that only support Shift JIS than computers that only use ASCII. I heard that apparently lack of support for Unicode is still a problem in certain Japanese offices.

I think the most dangerous position to be in is when your writing system is similar to but not exactly the same as English, in which case people begin to adopt a "close enough" attitude and accept the status quo, choosing instead to change their orthography in counterproductive ways to fit ephemeral technical requirements.
Holy fuck I had to look that one up on the map....you are OUT there. I realized when I saw the map that I was just reading about that place the other day! That's incredible. I honestly never thought in my whole life I would ever meet someone who had been there, even on the internet. I would be super interested to hear ANYTHING you have to share about that place. What it's like getting there, being there, what you're doing there, the people, the life, anything.
I was pontificating about my 401k fund and what I should do if I find it no longer exists when I need to start using it.

The older gentleman who was polite enough to listen to me said, "It's ok guy, if that 401k doesn't exist, then neither will you".

And so I think I will not stockpile any computers for later. I do like the engineering spirit of this however.
One book that has a profound influence on me was:

The Four Steps to the Epiphany - Steve Blank

Also looking back to my youth, I think that reading The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder was one thing that influenced me to pursue computing as a career.

Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four also helped shape my worldview in many ways.

Movies? Hmm... good question. There's no question that The Matrix has been a big influence on me on some level, but I'm not sure it reaches the level of "transformed my life".
Using the US as an example: Americans defer their understanding of a region based on people with tangential relationships to the region. So in America, people's understanding of Taiwan is represented only by people from Taiwan that left. Generations ago. Same goes for "China", in whatever state it was at the time the Asian-American's family left.

This is from people that actively try to avoid being insensitive. But it means there are always limitations in perspective. It requires that any one person represent the 'truth' for an entire group of people, and never understanding if that 'truth' has consensus. Cohesion in American society means never challenging the consensus of someone representing a group that you aren't a part of.
I think most people on Hacker-News would know that Taiwan exists, even though a flag is missing on their phone. I think for the general population in the US or Europe that's not so clear.

If one would never hear about Taiwan, would we really "know" it exists?
California has banned political deepfakes during election season
Why is this a surprise and/or news worthy?

People with more resources can hire more professional tax advisers and structure their businesses and returns in more optimal ways than people with less resources.
Weather forecasting seems to be glorified pattern matching, with gaps and differences filled by physics models.

Neural nets are way way better at pattern matching... Yet nobody seems to use them for weather yet. Why?
It's just a few thousand Z80 instructions in assembly notation. You can print it on paper, store the listings somewhere safe and type the code in by hand just like in the old days.
Is there a rad-hardened version of z80?
I wrote some scifi story where immortality tech exists, but is only used as punishment for serious crimes. One of the characters was serving an eternal sentence for doing something really bad a long time ago...
There's a small community currently looking at the home fabrication of semiconductors that I'm loosely associated with.
i disagree with the general sentiment: "build more dense housing". Yeah, what we need is more condos with 1k HOA fees for housing affordability...

We need more single family housing. There is plenty of space, just that all the commercial buildings are so squat. Furthermore, the lack of subways means half the city is paved roads
An example of the crazy lengths NASA goes to land safely on Mars
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Intelligent design is a misnomer which has many forms, but at it's core it challenges naturalistic causation for abiogenesis on prebiotic Earth.

It doesn't posit anything about other intelligence or life, just that the biological information necessary to kick off a self-replicating cell that undergoes evolution is too complex and too specific to happen randomly on Earth.

Even naturalistic panspermia theories are compatible with intelligent design, because it shifts the frame of abiogenesis to different conditions where cellular formation may actually become probable.
Let's try it from another point of view:

We'll pay cops per criminal they get convicted, or per ticket they write.

Can you imagine some negative side-effects?
LPT: an organization with an opinion in its name is not a trustworthy organization.
Anyone hazard to guess China's next few chess moves?
I find this hard to believe. The BK in Denver, corner of Colfax and Kalamath is one of the least sanitary fast food places I've ever been to, drug deals take place in the back (when it's not closed off to mop up any ... fluids ... that are on the floor), and of course BK has a corporate policy that encourage sloth and poor customer service.
Other manufacturers sell through dealers, Tesla doesn't.
Putting in so many pictures of Haley proves that popularity sells, whether it's Vox or TikTok.
That is a vacuous and irrational accusation that you have butted with weasle words. Are you attacking OP or "the world"? What are you basing your assumption on that she hasn't learned the facts?
It says the Official guide to programming with CGI.pm on the cover. This is just like a book on antique furniture restoration.
Ask HN: How do you make the most of default methods?
Hi HN,

I am learning to program and for each core class (e.g. array, string, integer, etc...) there are so many methods. I seem to solve problems well, but perhaps I don't make the most of the methods available to me. I was wondering how you overcome this gap? Or if it is not essential?

Thank you.
Yep that's exactly the idea. Basically the silicon version of the underhanded C contest [1]

[1] http://www.underhanded-c.org/
Even if the rich were paying more taxes, that does not automatically mean that they are bearing the tax burden, because of "tax incidence" [0]. A rich person has usually much more bargaining power and can more easily shift the burden to someone else.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_incidence
but until there is a court case with specific facts, that is very much a hope and a prayer by microsoft. it is, indeed, a risk they are taking.
Imagine living in a world where "spotify client for emacs" is supposed to common knowledge and not news. I envy you (no sarcasm!).
Pops and crackles to simulate vinyl record noise, too. Bands like The Bird and the Bee, and Death Cab for Cutie add those imperfections to digital tracks to get the sound they're looking for.
No, you're generally not on-prem for those tasks. And time for putting on your kit, for jobs that require that, is paid time
Fair enough. In my case it's been more motivated by conspiracy theory, that maybe there's some suppression of incongruous data going on. Which could be reasonable, given Monsanto & Snowden.
To fight the censorship cancer, would the western world have to agree to exclude and isolate China?

Would this inevitably end up in a west vs. China+Russia world war?

Will China eventually grow to the size that it can successfully invade and annex the west?

One Earth = one China?
This reminds me of the time I generated (2d) terrain for a game by toggling a random bit every time I computed a new value in the height map. The bit controlled the second derivative of the height map; 1 for +1, 0 for -1. Also every time the terrain height fell outside the clamp bounds, it would "bounce" (its first derivative would switch sign). It produced decent "rocky" terrain for a cave which is what I was going for.
Good point. I never noticed that. Makes sense: lots of those baked-in "growth hacks" can sometimes be a double-edged sword and can be user hostile.
I guess this is first in a series?

I quite like the idea of the calendar, hadn’t come across that before. Has anyone used it and found it works?
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You’re being wildly optimistic if you think the first two (the top 1%) will ever be meaningfully impacted by any tax law change. There’s a reason the super rich all line up in support of “higher taxes”: they know that these policies always affect the middle class and never touch the upper class. That makes it harder for anybody else to break through from middle class to upper class, which is exactly what the (upper class) politicians are shooting for when they pretend they’re going after “the 1%”.
> add a bunch of other "not real country" flags.

I’d prefer that they altered the flags of despotic countries in some way that indicated their inferior ruling system.
What did you run into? Did you file a bug? That’d be helpful! I use Rust on Windows every day, though that means I’m not often re-installing it...
Why Do Clocks and Watches Use the Roman Numeral IIII Instead of IV?
This could be addressed by having more labor-conscious journalists and headline writers.

Framing it that way, of course people would respond negatively to price increases.

"Amazon workers now paid for all the time they're clocked in, prices may be affected" is a lot more sympathetic to workers.
The actual article contains charts that seem to support the claim that the top 1% pay higher taxes
Opinion articles should be tagged with [Opinion] or similar when submitted.
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Booking.com also still has a ton of Perl I believe.
I don't understand your complaint, isn't average tax rate a percentage of income?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_rate
This is why I laugh when Apple tried to paint themselves as champions of anything more than their share price
I find the OM approach to be much more fun when you have friends to compete with - "Making a solution is easy" opens it up to a lot more people, but "Making a GOOD solution is hard" makes it great for competitive play.

(Or even without friends, like me, I just refused to proceed to the next level until I was in the global top 1% for the current level :P)
Could you be more specific? Zeynep Tufekci has actually been out in Hong Kong talking with and reporting on the protesters and their tactics, which your organization --- in her telling --- got comically wrong. Where is she mistaken?
I completely agree that we should inflation-index assets for which electronic purchase/sale records readily available (stock purchased through brokerages). For other types of assets, the inflation rationale is still a decent reason to have a lower LTCG rate (think antiques, paintings, etc.).
Also called a hash flooding attack. I like hashmap collision though.
The Tech Helping Dogs Learn to 'Talk' with Humans
And, perhaps most importantly, Amazon derives no benefit from the length of a worker's commute while Amazon derives all of the benefit of employee security (really, theft) screening.

A better analogy might be employees changing into a required uniform, which (I believe) is also exempted, though obviously does not typically take ~25 minutes every day.
Lets think about what technologies are most likely to be around after an apocalyptic event... Probably something that everyone has, that there are millions of.. something with a screen and a keyboard... very light and easy to transport.... maybe even something with a battery, and signals processing chips.... na screw it, lets just use a desktop. :P
Nah, you could totally rely upon recipes and shop only for in season stuff. It'd be trivially easy to if somebody made a seasonally organized cookbook. Getting local only is a little harder, but still not terrible, especially in the digital age.
Mojolicious for almost everything web related. Minimal dependencies. We also write lightweigt event loops with it.

http://mojolicio.us
Are you saying that you didn't find one example out of the 20 examples they provide on the link i posted (octopress, nanoc, pelican, hyde, hexo, hugo, jekyll, metalsmith, vuepress, plain-html ...) that supports mobile, nor has a mobile compatible theme available ? The gitlab pages option is free even with a custom domain and https.
A fascinating thought experiment.

As the author points out, probably useless, but still fascinating.
Well, the article they link to in April explains this to at least some degree, doesn't it?

https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/eitc-audit

"As we reported last year, the IRS audits EITC recipients at higher rates than all but the richest Americans, a response to pressure from congressional Republicans to root out incorrect payments of the credit. The study estimates that Humphreys [County, Mississippi], with a median annual household income of just $26,000, is audited at a rate 51 percent higher than Loudoun County, Virginia, which boasts a median income of $130,000, the highest in the country."

The article doesn't define rich as "the top 1% of taxpayers"; it simply notes that EITC recipients are audited more frequently than all but that top 1%.

"The five counties with the highest audit rates are all predominantly African American, rural counties in the Deep South. The audit rate is also very high in South Texas’ largely Hispanic counties and in counties with Native American reservations, such as in South Dakota. Primarily poor, white counties, such as those in eastern Kentucky in Appalachia, also have elevated audit rates.

"The states with the lowest audit rates tend to be home to middle income, largely white populations: places like New Hampshire, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Generally, the IRS audits taxpayers with household income between $50,000 and $100,000 the least."

From the article more directly linked with the clickbaity headline, in fact, that headline is also supported if you keep reading the article:

"On the one hand, the IRS said, auditing poor taxpayers is a lot easier: The agency uses relatively low-level employees to audit returns for low-income taxpayers who claim the earned income tax credit. The audits — of which there were about 380,000 last year, accounting for 39% of the total the IRS conducted — are done by mail and don’t take too much staff time, either. They are 'the most efficient use of available IRS examination resources,' [IRS Commissioner Charles] Rettig’s report says.

"On the other hand, auditing the rich is hard. It takes senior auditors hours upon hours to complete an exam. What’s more, the letter says, 'the rate of attrition is significantly higher among these more experienced examiners.' As a result, the budget cuts have hit this part of the IRS particularly hard."
Yes, Rumsfeld did make this speech on the day before the attacks. It's actually a great speech too! He talks about the cumulative bureaucratic waste of the previous few years of the Department of Defense, and poor auditing.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4623026/donald-rumsfeld-speec...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-war-on-waste/

https://www.quora.com/What-does-the-missing-3-trillion-dolla...

But the section of the Pentagon that was hit was not the "accounting wing". There is (and was) no "accounting wing".
The specific areas that were hit were mostly "Naval Command Center" and "Defense Intelligence Agency", but even then, the area was relatively unoccupied due to renovations that started in 1998.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FirstFloor_Pentagon_Bodie...

https://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/images/pent...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_77#Cr...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon#September_11,_200...
They state that they shouldn't be, and that the sooner the "government" stops that, the better off they think they'll be, like they imagine that their paycheck will rise directly and imminently as a result.
I was wondering what the next step is? Ban the VPN and extend the GFW?
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To be fair, that's true elsewhere as well. They reflect the borders as they are officially recognized in the user's country.
> Per their own sentence, the poor and rich are audited at the same rate yet they go on to label this "disproportionate". That makes no sense.

60% of 1000 is less than 60% of 2 million. The cost/benefit of auditing the poor is likely inverted at a small scale. At a large scale, it's the right call. It makes sense, from a particular point of view.
sure, it's entirely possible that bad actors are deliberately poisoning the well. I don't discount this. it's like frequency jamming though; even if you know the enemy is jamming your comms, you still can't pickup the actual signal if it's below the noise floor.
Or, hear me out, you shouldn't order pizza while you're driving. :)
Not to worry you'll feel exploited soon enough lol
> There’s a reason the super rich all line up in support of “higher taxes”

Uh, they don't all do that, so there can't be a reason that they all do. Some of them do, some of them fund tax protest groups that work to shift he tax burden further from the rich to the working class.
Show HN: CRUD Spreadsheets
> Refinancing their bonds at a lower interest rate is an entirely reasonable business decision vs having to pay them off.

Tesla's 2019 Bonds were initially 0.25%. They were rolled over into 2.00% bonds due 2024. Furthermore, Tesla paid hundreds-of-millions of dollars for this opportunity. I've seen estimates suggest that the "real" price (once the hundreds-of-millions are factored in) suggests a "real price" of ~8% on the 2024 bonds. (That is, pretending that the hundreds-of-millions Tesla paid for the opportunity to borrow money is instead "part of the bond", and suddenly the 2% bond is really closer to a traditional 8% bond).

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-03/tesla-rai...

Look: I get it. They didn't make money from the Nevada Gigafactory and needed the cash severely to fund Gigafactory 3 in Shanghai.

I'm just saying that when all of this debt hits them come 2022 (let alone the 2024 "recycled" debt to pay off 2019) Tesla will be in a much worse position.
Preparing slides and supporting material for a talk I'll be delivering at All Things Open[1] in about a week.

The talk is titled "AI Sherlock Holmes Style : Introduction to Automated Abductive Inference"

So I've been working on slides that cover the different styles of reasoning/inference (deductive, inductive, analogical, statistical, and ... wait for it... abductive), some history, examples, etc., with lots of quotes from the Sherlock Holmes canon woven in to illustrate specific points. It turns out that much of what Holmes did, what he described as "deduction", was really abduction. So that material works in nicely to help make certain points more concrete.

As for the implementation, I'm working with Parsimonious Covering Theory, as developed by James Reggia and Yun Peng. I've written a partially complete implementation of their approach, and will be including some live demos of how abduction works with a knowledge-base to generate explanations.

[1]: https://allthingsopen.org
I've always wondered what the christian world would look like if the Romans had hung jesus.
Much love for Rockbox. I used to run this on the iriver h120 and use it for amazing lossless recording on the cheap. This was one of the earliest things that got me interested in open source.
EU Parliament Denied MPs the Installation of the Signal Messenger (Translated)
Can confirm.
Source: am Punjabi; wonderful stuff, pretty much the only social media I consume.
China is showing the ability to control one of the world's largest, and most advanced companies. It isn't petty–it is scary. The U.S. and others have sold their soul to the devil for $299 flat screen tvs.
Then what am I going to eat while enjoying this ice cold beer?
Real-Time 3D digital map of Tokyo’s public transport system
I really wish a tool like EA Architect but for Mac.