skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was more true in the past.

Now, companies often put all profits into R&D avoiding both dividend tax and corporation tax. Investors are much more willing to value companies based on growth rather than actual dividends.
Only two are obsolete, the other 14 are commonly used. Oh, and there are two with a second optional form to compensate :)

In English it's mostly done with mandatory pronouns and ancillary verbs (have, should, will) and only present tense is different for third person, everything else is just the same. Of course the pronuntiation and the phrasal verbs ruin the party.

You must be very proficient already, so you don't realize how many irregular verbs there are. I won (ex aequo) a competition at school and it was very hard. Ser (to be) is specially pathological, stealing from ir (to go) half its conjugation, but hardly the only common irregular verb: have, go, say, walk, want, put, know...
FBI warns about attacks that bypass multi-factor authentication
I was at a Graduation in London, Ontario Canada, This lady had given a speech to the new graduates. Known for her contributions to ECC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristin_Lauter
By the way those aeron or steelcase you can usually pick up use from a furniture liquidator. Don't go spend $1,200 on a chair when you can get one for 1/3rd of that
slightly off-topic, but could someone verify a memory I have regarding the shutdown of TrueCrypt?

I vaguely remember after it was announced that the project was disbanded, that there was one single commit from the authors whose only change was a textual replacement of "United States" with "USA" everywhere it appeared.

Coming from the highly anonymous and secretive TrueCrypt group, this was interpreted in this most scandalous possible way. I.e. the US govt was somehow strongarming them. I'm not claiming that part is true, I'm just curious if my memory is correct about the whole incident.
That 3.5MB image can be squashed down further. It has way too much resolution for something that takes up a quarter of a monitor. An optimized 1080p-size image (possibly too much for desktop, might be OK for mobile hi-res screens) shouldn't be more than 300k.
(Gosh, I saw this post a few days ago and I can't stop thinking about it.)

Why?

Regulations exist for a reason. Complaining about regulations is like complaining that eating bacon 3 times a day isn't healthy. (Or, to put it another way, the people who complain about regulations are basically complaining that they can't screw people over. No sympathy here!)

Furthermore, this kind of thread implies that you're trying to do something unethical.

So what is it that you're really trying to do?
Could robots be psychology’s new lab rats?
In the future it seems completely logical that all surface level traffic would be by walking, scooter or electric bike, etc, and everything else would be subsurface.
> There is a lot of good done by giving another billion and a half people access to a non-privacy-invading mobile OS so balancing that against bowing to censorship is a tough decision.

> If you think you disagree, please discuss your reasons.

Because it's not going to work that way, since that "access" actually amounts to authoritarian leverage over the ecosystem. Apple feels it needs the Chinese market more than the PRC feels it needs Apple [1]. As a result Apple's already haded over the Chinese iCloud to a local company (state owned, I think), which will undoubtably hand over encryption keys to the authorities whenever it's asked. It's not inconceivable to me that the PRC may use its leverage over Apple further weaken the iPhone ecosystem (either for Chinese phones or worldwide).

[1] The PRC has many domestic manufacturers like Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo (~OnePlus), Vivo, etc. The domestic costs for them for banning a foreign maker with a sub-10% marketshare like Apple are approximately zero.
You can get a refund trough your credit card I guess.
I think you'll find many Japanese tourists in that intersection.
AWS Glue Custom Output File Size and Fixed Number of Files
There's substantial complexity in Tesla's various black boxes full of electronics.

A Tesla's battery pack is a hell of a lot more complex than a full, sheet-metal gas tank. The charging, balancing, and protection circuit is more complex than a filler neck and screw-on cap, etc.
> I just don't run into it myself.

I think the reason for that is you’re a web developer. The majority of the admins too. For less popular domain areas, the experience is very different. I run into the issue all the time. The experience became so disappointing that I stopped writing answers there. Here’s a couple examples where downvoters destroyed, or almost destroyed, good questions with my answers to them: https://stackoverflow.com/q/57323981/ https://stackoverflow.com/q/57064879/
This article explains it quite well https://cdm.link/2019/09/macos-catalina-will-be-incompatible...
There are a lot of design companies running CS4 (the last DVD based software) on El Capitain, the last version of the Mac OS that runs it. Adobe make efforts to render the serial number checks a problem, particularly for CS3, to encourage upgrades to their rental model. The era of students learning on pirated Adobe products and 'growing' into consumers of their products is over though.
I really miss the Kai's Power Tools era when Adobe was an interesting and innovative platform company http://kai.sub.blue
Shouldn't this be about Cortana since it's Microsoft's devblog?
Former national security officials praise whistleblower
When I was kid (a long time ago), the only folks who rode Harley's were Bikers (the Gang kind). All the bikes had kick starts and it always looked like the guy riding it either just got out of jail or could be headed that way any day.

Today Posers (55 + in crisis), Gramps & Grandma, in their leathers and their brand new tats can be seen riding them all over the place. The brand has become "Cringy" and was ruined in my opinion about 20 + years ago when they started to cater to Yuppies trying to relive some part of their youth they never had. Corvette went the same way. Today I saw a 70 year old woman with too much plastic surgery driving a very new and expensive vet. Sorry, you won't catch me dead in either.

Young folks today either want something interesting from the past like an old Honda,Triumph,Norton,etc or another form of transportation all together.

Harley isn't going to make it. It will die off with its fan base of 55-70 year olds.
Funny enough, there is another issue with exactly this on another thread on the front page right now — Mac OS Catalina, which got released today, is killing the last remaining perpetual Adobe CS6 licenses available.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21184387

Bad day for Adobe. Or a good one? I'm not sure, but definitely an interesting one.
Yes, it is, and surely Linus has done a great job as a leader overall. Yet, some of his rants absolutely crossed some lines, so there is good reason to critisize him for that.
wow no refunds either? good deal for adobe :(
See my post for essentially a "binary" interface: For my key-value store (I wrote because I thought that writing the code would be faster than understanding Redis, :-)), a client uses just standard TCP/IP sockets to send a byte array. The array has the serialization of an instance of a class. Then my key-value store receives the byte array and deserializes to get a copy of the client's instance of the class. So, with the byte array, maybe can count the interface as "binary"? I'm unsure of the speed of de/serialization.
I have lots I can recommend, but what are you most interested in learning about? Do you have any prior understanding of blockchain protocols? For example, I can link to interesting papers and documentation on Bitcoin, Monero, etc.
Did he say whether any paid off?
AMAZING news for vampires
And Cupertino is very heavily Taiwanese. Anecdotally (my wife is Taiwanese-American, grew up in Cupertino), they outnumber mainlanders. Most of the big Asian chains in Cupertino (eg. 99 Ranch, 85C, Meet Fresh, most of the restaurants in Cupertino Village) are actually Taiwanese or Taiwanese-American and have no presence in mainland China.
> If they want to serve customers, IMO, the platform vendor should make a best-effort attempt to let unmaintained software keep working.

I agree. The problem is when the major ISVs abuse this and force Apple to keep doing high-priority QA to preserve binary compatibility with major applications that are mission-critical for many Apple users and are still maintained to some degree.

Users of unmaintained applications are generally somewhat understanding or accepting of gradual breakage driven by real technical necessity. Users with an active subscription to Adobe CC rightfully have higher expectations that their software continue to work without being broken by OS updates - but Adobe was trying to make that entirely Apple's problem, just as they did for migrating away from PowerPC and Carbon APIs.
Yes, my commute to work should be paid! The companies creating offices in places where the housing is affordable to CEOs only are tiresome. At my current job people are having 1 hour to 2.5 hour commutes just because the office located in the place where _nobody_ but the CEO can buy even an apartment. If they refuse to make me remote in this case or move office to more affordable places then they should pay for my commute.
That's a numpy one-liner.

np.setdiff1d(array_one, array_two)
Here is the context: https://twitter.com/owenboswarva/status/1173127802717114368

TL;DR: A UK based startup "invented" a way to represent a lat/lng with three words. They patented it. Someone created whatfreewords.org, a clean room reimplementation and open sourced it. W3W's lawyers appears to be going to great lengths to ensure nobody finds out that it exists.
Saturn surpasses Jupiter after the discovery of 20 new moons
it's a lot more like if the confederacy won and banned the stars and bars in this case.
It doesn't make it worthless, but right now you only pay income tax on assets with volatile valuations when you actually realize the gain because any gain on paper may not actually be realized.

Let's say you invest $1000 in a highly risky stock. It does very well and goes up to $10,000. You haven't sold it, but the government taxes you a wealth tax of 20% so you pay $2,000. The next year it goes down to $1,000 again and you sell it. In terms of actual profit/loss you haven't made or lost any money. However, you've paid twice as much in tax as you originally invested. (Pick any percentage you want as a wealth tax and you run into the same issue.)
> what we should do with capital gains is allow people to deduct losses including inflation

Yes, I've come to this conclusion too. The long-standing argument that capital gains rates should be low is about what happens, for example, if your gain on an investment exactly matches inflation: you'd pay taxes on it, but you haven't made any profit in real dollars. The right fix for that is not to divide your paper gain by some amount before taxing it; it's to subtract the loss due to inflation. In times of low inflation, as we have now, this won't make much difference, but if inflation picks up again at some point, it will make quite a large difference.

Of course, such a plan raises the question of exactly what inflation estimator one should use. I'm not enough of an expert to have a strong opinion, but the T-bill rate [0] seems like a reasonable first cut, since it's a good estimator for the risk-free rate of return. Paper gains from holding T-bills would thus not be taxed at all.

Whatever the inflation estimator used, the more important (and likely more controversial) aspect of the proposal is that gains beyond that amount be taxed as ordinary income. The argument is one of simple fairness: once the inflation problem is handled, how can one justify doing otherwise?

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/treasurybill.asp -- Okay, I see there isn't just one rate, since the rate depends on the maturity interval, but we can go with the highest one, which is the one for the 52-week bill. This creates the oddity that holders of shorter-term bills will actually get a tax credit, but it will be small; I think we can live with this.
> Adobe doesn't really have a choice here. They're doing this to comply with sanctions, not because they have any dog in fighting Maduro.

Adobe had a choice when they chose to stop selling software in favor of cloud services. This is a perfect illustration of why that choice was anti-consumer. It shouldn't be possible to revoke access to software functions that don't fundamentally require remote server support.
I could easily imagine (especially at a place like Apple where there's a ton of internal secrecy), the ticket for implementing removeEmoji() could have been pitched in a much broader fashion: perhaps there would be a "child mode" that would remove the middle finger emoji and others like that.
Banks leverage themselves 50-to-1, and then take huge volumes loans to unqualified clients, in the (historically accurate) assumption that the tax payer will be obliged to bail them out.

If the money creation aspect of banking was separated from the capital accumulation and loan-making/risk-taking aspect, things should unfold much differently. Particularly since there would be "fractional reserve" concept underpinning the money supply.
Dont tariffs on imports\exports make this not true? Or is simply true enough?
This describes the problem more or less but it does not give a single working solution. Image optimization now includes videos, scaling, format and color conversion, and simply compressing images at Quality 80 does not provide consistent visual quality [1].

[1] https://optimage.app/benchmark
Vaping-Related Lung Injuries Resemble Chemical Burns
seems like a short-sighted regulation that will just kill smaller businesses that lack the resources to adequately detect and destroy deep fakes. even the large companies are working furiously in this domain.

also, why are deep fakes (particularly political ones) not protected under constitution?
tl;dr:

1. Click the Apple symbol () in the menu bar on your Mac's desktop.

2. Click on About This Mac.

3. Choose "System Report" at the bottom of the window.

4. Scroll down to the Software list on the sidebar.

5. Select "Applications."

6. Scroll all the way to the right to see the 64-bit list.

[0] https://www.macrumors.com/guide/32-bit-mac-apps/

You can sort on the "64-bit (Intel)" column to separate 32-bit from 64-bit apps.

When I tried this on my crufty main machine, Step 5 would yield a timeout and a very unhelpful error message. Works OK on my work machine. YMMV

[0] https://www.macrumors.com/guide/32-bit-mac-apps/

EDIT: formatting, punctuation
Sure, I do have a local backup. But restoring from backup is inconvenient, and an important part of why I bought on itunes instead of ripping my own cd's was to reduce hassle and make my life more easy.

EDIT: And to restore from backup you have to know you're missing it. They never gave me any errors or warnings. Just a few things were missing. They're basically gaslighting their users.
Obvious vampire is obvious.
Seems like people didn’t know. Legitimate users didn’t know, while experts did.

More seriously, what prevented an Apple user from uploading it on Torrents? Was it watermarked so Apple would find the culprit?
Richard Stallman was right.
After the upgrade every time after sleep, a window pop ups saying "Verifying Dropbox" and it takes 30-50 minutes before it completes verifying. I don't get it. Why does it has re-verify the same binary over and over again. I'm really disappointed in this release over all. Also, ejecting a application freezes and ask to force eject.

Macbook Pro, 15inch, Mid 2015
2.5GHz i7
16GB RAM
500GB SSD
Or packet radio [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_radio]?
Hi, I'm the tiny house dweller who wrote the article, and just saw this—I completely agree with you, and should have emphasized the need for better policy. I just updated the story.
Along with the free software movement, I would be here with a movement that allows us to return to self-hosted, native and peer-to-peer services. There seem to be a smattering of them out there but they are disorganized and not united under one banner like FOSS is.
awk '/Recovery time:/{print $2}' output.log | boxplot
I wish I learned about Raymond Chen's blog a long time ago. Finding about his work and experiences via his blog has been a joy ever since I read the Floppy Disk story that was posted here last week.
I think the point is that a Microsoft employee is showing off a deficiency in Alexa.
FBI warns of major ransomware attacks as criminals go “big-game hunting”
https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/the-fall...
Beyond Blood.
It's not Microsoft's devblog. It's Raymond Chen's blog and because of (many) reasons he's pretty much allowed to write about lots of non Microsoft things.
How Did Water Get on Earth?
Sadly, I have one such Macbook Pro.
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Nice parable :)
It's not about learning recipes, it's about learning cooking as a matter of technique - everything from knife skills to the correct temperature for burners (high for boiling water, medium for bringing oil up to temperature, low for simmering sauces) to how to salt and season food for taste. These are simple skills which are generally not covered in recipes (due to their generic applicability) and, honestly, should be taught in high school as part of a home economics course.
> (and also macrocontrollers, if there's such a word),

Not really, but the idea is sound. There's a hierarchy of control in electricity generation.

* At the bottom level you have microcontroller driven control loops sitting within the plants themselves. These operate on a sub-second timescale and do things like balance air/fuel/etc. flow through the plant to keep it safely running and stable.

* The lowest level loops take their setpoints and controls from a higher level set of controls that work at the level of the generating unit. Those work along the lines of 'generator 1 produce 200MW and ramp to 300MW over the next 3 hours.'

* Above that are control loops run by the grid operator that dispatch plants to match the amount of generation. (And do so in a safe and economic way).

* Above that are (can be) a series of nested power markets ranging in duration from real time, daily, monthly, etc.

* Above that are (can be) long term capacity markets that help ensure there's enough capacity within a grid to serve future load needs.

(So there are a lot of things that might qualify as 'macrocontrollers'. :-) )
I generated 1000 random faces for my game in Python
I’m surprised it wasn’t already.

No fun in China allowed unless approved by local party officials first!
But how to open old projects once one switches to non-Adobe applications?
Literally the premise of TrueBlood
> It's about the viability of businesses like Netflix and new competitors thereto.

Why should the ISPs be forced to bankroll Netflix (or other startups) infrastructure? It's a different company making a business decision to suddenly massively increase their use of the ISPs networks. If the ISP is forced to both not block the traffic, and also not able to charge the provider for access, then I don't understand why you think that's ok. What makes Netflix a more moral company than the ISP that Netflix's business is more important than the ISPs?
not all of Amazons books contain DRM. There's a big movement (mostly authors of Baean Books, afaik) that ask that the books be published DRM-free.
This is already being done in some places, eg libraries and museums, it's called Digital Preservation, although it's for normal curatorial purposes rather than Doomsday scenarios.

While the focus is on the data, it also necessarily involves access to original hardware at times, which is additionally also often stored for curatorial purposes in its own right.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_preservation
Did you ever contribute to rockbox? : )
For desktop SW that will work. What won’t work is google apps and office 365 once the plug is pulled.
It's tough to say what's actually going on here, and this is exactly what mainland China wants.

Are these protesters mainland Chinese hired by China to organize and promote violence to damage the credibility of the protest?

Are these protesters Hong Kong natives who are extremely tired of the bullshit that mainland China is forcing on their country, and the mask ban + months of protests without results are starting to get to them?

We might have a Tienanmen Square 2: Electric Boogaloo soon if this keeps up.
This comment says "Stallman was right" regarding the cloud. Not "Stallman was right about Marvin Minsky."

This is an argument people can't distinguish the man from the idea, or his software, or his organization, etc.
Have you tried AfterShot Pro by Corel? I don't use it, but that's just because I still use (and love) Bibble 5 from 2011, which is the software that was bought by Corel and turned into AfterShot Pro. I had a quick glance at the manual of the latter, and it seems like the batch processing and other things are still intact, so I'm hopeful it still might be worth checking out.
We're using a Redis alternative called SSDB [1] in production because the entire data set doesn't need to fit in RAM. This saves us thousands of dollars per month in server costs. Like you say, latency gains is nominal. The main reason I see alternative databases used is one missing key feature that's custom to a specific use case.

[1]: https://github.com/ideawu/ssdb