skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Judging from all the comments, the Sansa Clip+ was a popular option. I used to have one to and loved it, but eventually my use of a standalone mp3 players faded when I had a phone on me at all times and the last time I pulled it out of a drawer, I couldn't get the thing to hold a charge and it didn't seem worth the trouble to see if replacement batteries for it were even a thing.
45% of Americans pay no federal income tax.
The top 20% of earners pay 80% of taxes.
This was all in the context of large teams, larger than the Agile methodology recommends.

How much useful stuff do you think a developer can fit in 20 seconds of speech -- which is about all they get if you want to fit a 15-people meeting in a ten-minute timeslot?

Once a team grows past a certain size, either you keep the discourse substantial -- and end up with 30-minute meetings -- or you cut everyone short, and end up with ten minutes of smiling and saying the right buzzwords.
It run great for years on my two old Sansa Clip Zip, and now that the only barely surviving one is about to go (dead keys, defective phones connector, reduced battery life etc) and attempting to open it is a nearly destructive operation, Those of us who wouldn't use a cellphone for multiple reasons need an alternative, but most modern players are either costly due to being niche market products or can't run Rockbox for having not enough resources.

I think Rockbox badly needs to be ported to other architectures. The cheap and powerful Esp32-WROVER modules (4MB Flash + 8MB PSRAM) could probably be a capable candidate, and i2s for the external DAC is already supported. Not an easy task though.
>But it isn't competitive when you cannot even pick your own health insurance company

There's plenty of employers that don't offer healthcare, and you are not obligated to take it if your employer does offer it. You can always buy your own health insurance.
I think you're missing the point of that article a bit.
I was saying that the reason the IRS would audit richer people more is because they would pay more taxes even though they might have lower tax rates.
Yes, there is in various parts.

I'm curious, have you actually used Umbrella?
Or - intermittent fasting could be used for cell regeneration. http://news.mit.edu/2018/fasting-boosts-stem-cells-regenerat...
The fact that this app came out of China and not Silicon Valley, when it was halfway there with Vine before killing it, seriously makes me question the long-term sustainability of social/media apps from SV in the future. The era that gave us Youtube and Facebook is likely coming to a close.
You should read the article before being so rudely dismissive (and comically wrong). He clearly states that the graph includes total tax burden, including payroll taxes, which is why the bottom quintile's tax rate is higher.
Wonder the feasibility of having ghost servers which just act as fake servers to your external origin servers.
You can opt out of data sharing.

I don't know if they had "something wrong" when initially purchased- they were great cars already, but in the last year or so Model 3s have had braking distance improved, a 4-camera dashcam added, a security sentry mode added, games added w controller support, a Netflix/YouTube/hulu theater, new music steaming (Spotify) on top of existing slacker, two types of self-summoning, new remote controls via the phone app, improved range, traffic visualizations, energy usage visualizations, new crash avoidance systems, faster supercharging, better cold weather improvements, a refreshed/refined ui, improved navigation, better driver personalization, fun Easter eggs, camping mode, better acceleration, new 3d climate control visualizations, much better lane keeping & "drive on nav" with auto lane changes, dog safety mode, track mode, and many more I'm forgetting.

Known to be coming in the next major versions- everything from user-selectable horn and pedestrian safety sounds ti improved "come to me" summoning and suggestions keep coming.

All these incremental improvements are delivered OTA.

Was there something wrong before? The longer braking distance might have required a trip to the dealership to fix on a traditional car, but otherwise, not really.

Is there any doubt these cars are improving significantly after purchase in both large and small ways?
Yeah, that's the funny thing, we're supposed to trust that the Rumsfield thing is 100% legit but then they'd turn around and run a plane into the records to "hide" it.

They could have just like not said shit.

It's amazing how often conspiracy theories rely on the Illuminati DMV
Yes, there is. If you are suggesting that literally no-one has ever thought: I will compare tax systems between countries...then yes...they have done that.

And yes there are lots of objective measures of progressivity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_tax#Measuring_prog...

A good, brief, summary is - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/04/05/ameri... - and there is also this in the Economist which explains the issues around spending in more detail - https://www.economist.com/united-states/2017/11/23/american-...
That sounds exactly like my experience with a Nissan dealer.
"apparently anything on the site like a code example that talks about people like Bob and Alice cant use He and She" is wrong.

SE wanted people's correct pronouns explicitly used if they were given. Has nothing to do with rhetorical Alice or Bob, and SE didn't object to calling women 'she'.

Furthermore, the actual root of the controversy here is that Cellio was removed of her admin title too swiftly, and generally SE hasn't managed their admins very fairly or well.

Overall it looks like you're trying to spin whole scenario as "the LGBTQ+ snowflakes are whining again" and that's not the actual story here.
More than $5000 is not a substantial amount
IMO Grand Challenge
Get a remote job for a valley company if you absolutely must work in the valley...and then move to Texas.
Oh and maybe consider reading "An Appeal to the Young" by Kropotkin (my favorite anarchist/commie). It will help turn your guilt into anger/motivation :D

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-an-ap...
Oh c'mon. Microsoft takes security seriously and is genuinely trying to make sure Windows users aren't plagued with malware. And internally, Microsoft has a good track record of not having any data breeches.
Brex Launches Brex Cash to Replace Biz Bank Accounts
This is more related to federal law preemption. The federal agency gave up powers to regulate. Similar to the betting regulation that has been overturned, allowing states to regulate betting.
> it's natural for the poorest 50% to pay a lot less tax

People don't understand that taxes are the only way to make capitalism work overall by making money trickle down to the poorest and into public infra structures and services. All they see is $$ leaving their account.
In the words of Steve Miller, "go on, take the money and run". Everyone wants programming/apps/computers in the workplace for every industry hence our current situation (which has really been steady since before I was even a thought in my parent's eye's).

If you feel guilty about it, I'm sure that's normal, especially for your age. If you want to do something about it, then why don't you mentor those who might want to break into the workforce. "Knowing a guy/gal" still goes a long way.

Unfortunately, people will make choices. Some of those choices are better than others. A series of choices can make or break you. Those choices can put someone like you in your position, or put someone "working more hours in the cargo loading department". Take your knowledge, maybe even some of your extra money, and try to help those who you think might benefit from moving into a programming/testing/general tech industry, because eventually recruiters will start asking if you know people, and entry level jobs will come up.
I couldn't even get Rust to install on Windows!
Generals do not earn millions in salary. To afford millions worth of automobiles, the general must have misappropriated funds.
You also see it in crumbling roads, ancient subway systems, shitty public schools, dumb regulations that make the market less competitive, "affordable" housing initiatives that make housing less affordable, pointless subsidies for farmers, and unsustainable pension funds.
In Switzerland, employers don’t cover premiums, and premiums are paid post tax anyways. The USA is weird because employer provided health insurance is paid pre tax while individual policies are paid with post tax money (unless your expenses hit 10% of income).
So true! If you don't build denser housing in urban areas, the people just disappear and cause zero environmental impact living further out in suburban sprawl where they drive everywhere.
It is a lot of reading. A starting point would be to use google to search for various studies on nih.gov. So in google, use "site:nih.gov topic_of_interest" and don't stop with the first study you find. Some of them are well funded and sometimes for the wrong reasons. I could give a two hour talk on just reading studies on that site.

Then after reading everything you can find on each of those topics, you can also watch youtube videos with Dr. Rhonda Patrick and Dr. Bruce Ames on conservation theory. She also talks about sulforaphane at great length. She has a two hour video with another scientist and they go into some of the DoD studies being done with sulforaphane and children in reversing autism. Then for starving cancer cells, both nih.gov and youtube videos by Dr. Eric Berg (DC, not MD) and has spent the last several years researching these topics and making them more consumable by the general population. Dr. Berg sometimes leaves out important pieces of information, so keep reading on any topic he makes youtube videos about.
Maybe its time we start considering the Fair Tax plan again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairTax
local HK people need to go to work and go to school as well, roadblocks affected general publics, taxi drivers especially because they have to finance their car.
To weaken their argument further, there are already a ton of people biking on that street already without good, safe infrastructure.

For those not in the know, it is quite literally a "missing link" between two ends of an otherwise pretty great separated bike path.
Money continued to disappear and in fact keeps disappearing and the Pentagon just says “oops, e we don’t know where it went, we’ll just permanently offset the books to balance them,” with no further accountability than that (across three administrations). They are basically untouchable even with records physically around; they do not need to resort to destruction of physical evidence so long as the military industrial complex is alive and well.
The Bolt is not $20k less than a model 3 in the US. But more importantly to me, it is really really tiny compared to a model 3. I feel like many of the comparative reviews fail to mention this.
>how is it progressive, exactly?

Presumably rush hour commuters could afford more than others.

Maybe that's an incorrect assumption but if all we can do is time slice, I would expect rush hour commuters to have the most means.
Cannot tell if you are referring to FOSS or $30 software.
It's years out but the slam duck proof of concept will be to take 1st year residents who have just finished med school but have had very limited patient contact and pit them against, honestly, whomever is willing. If you can diagnose any illness faster or more accurately, without having real world experience and you are doing better than a 20 year physician, to me, that puts the concept of "practicing medicine" to a new light.

I've no qualms about the levels of complexity for this endeavor. I remember sketching out my first algorithm for a "simple" heart attack and kept running out of paper and nearly had an aneurysm.
I don't think a virus is relevant here. I'm not a lawyer, but the idea of a "terms of service" for an unwanted and maliciously installed executable seems nonsensical. Virus authors can include whatever TOS they want, but the "user" hasn't agreed to the TOS practically by definition.
This is a sensitive subject, but I am interested in the potential genetic and social impacts it may have had so I'm going to go ahead and post it. Allow me to preface the question by stating that I do not intend this to be a racial, religious, or cultural aspersion - I'm genuinely curious.

I have heard (from unreliable sources) that consanguineous marriage is very common in parts of the Middle East, to the point that a male suitor must ask for and be granted permission by a woman's father's brother's sons before being allowed to marry her. This is known as "bint 'amm marriage"

This sort of arrangement - first cousins - has a relationship coefficient of 0.125 and is therefore under the threshold studied in TFA, and a quick search leads me to believe that it roughly doubles the chance of a serious birth defect. That said, given the strong cultural forces at work here I suspect that many of these unions are in fact between people who are multiply first cousins, which would magnify the effect.

Is anyone here familiar with any studies done on the genetic impact on communities where bint 'amm marriage is practiced?

For reference, here's the Wikipedia article on the practice: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin_marriage_in_the_Middle_East
Loved having Rockbox on my Toshiba Gigabeat F20. Ogg Vorbis playback, lots of battery time and stable as hell.

Thank you for the trip down the memory lane.
It doesn't seem like aesprite is open source

https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite

The source is available but the license seems to say you must pay for a copy and that while you can download the source and compile you can not distribute what you make, custom compiles for personal use only.

It does look like a great program though and I'd happily pay the $14.99 they are asking if I was in the market for a pixel editor
buy real estate/business/other investment using leverage, and take deductions on the entire value if the tax code allows for it (which it often does). You just need to make enough to pay down the loan (increasing your equity) and break even on cash flow, and you are doing great. It helps keep rents lower since otherwise all landlords would need to cash flow. But it drives up property prices and thus the break even point due to higher demand, so maybe they offset each other - but how could we know?

The important take away here is that modern legislation dictates much of what our economy looks like. With other tax regulations we would invest completely differently, for better or for worse.
I am not sure about that. Also, the Forbes list is mostly fictional. There are people who are worth vastly more than $2bn who are not on the list. There are people who probably don't have a positive net worth who are on the list.

Yes, it still sounds arbitrary and suspicious. Whiff of p-hackery.
The one that gets me is Warren Aakervik - he retired long ago, but still comes into the office of Ballard Oil for the sole purpose of delaying the Missing Link. It's a poor legacy to work so hard for, in a city packed with inspiring examples (e.g. Myrtle Edwards).

https://www.kuow.org/stories/bike-trail-critics-see-opportun...
But then the government would have less money. What could be more important than the govt having more money?
I’ll pay you $30 if you point to me a free open source alternative to Sketch that works better. /s if that isn’t obvious.

P.S. As a non-designer who’d like to use Sketch maybe once every two to three months, the price is pretty steep.
Glad to hear about the insurance. I was surprised how much mine went up when we got an inexpensive, used plug-in hybrid (Ford C-MAX). Apparently the repair cost estimates are higher since any damage to the electrical system is very costly to repair (and likely means the vehicle gets written off as totaled).

My question about long delays for repairs was regarding collision repairs, about which I've heard horror stories of months-long delays. I've never heard anything like that for vehicles made by big manufacturers.

Regarding Tesla going out of business, I wonder if they're more likely to get a bail-out if needed, since so many powerful/wealthy people drive their vehicles. Nonetheless, I worry about having a car that is so dependent upon software, and which currently can't really be maintained by anyone other than Tesla. Presumably Tesla would open up their maintenance protocols so other people could keep the cars on the road, and a cottage industry would pop up to maintain the vehicles.
this is one of my pet peeves. The tesla subreddit (well, the teslamotors subreddit) is chock full of people referring to the model 3 as an M3. Another smaller but lesser example is people referring to Destiny 2 as D2 (especially when Des2ny was right there). I think the best abbreviation for the model 3 is TM3. Not to be confused with TM03, swords dance.
It is really a tragedy of the prisoner's dilemma. If a single bank decides to do the right thing and not offer fossil fuel investments to their clients, their market share will diminish. The people who made the right call will be fired by their superiors (ultimately the shareholders), who will see the bank shares decline compared to the competitors who didn't make the moral decision.

The end result: the people who made the call for the long term good won't be around to actually see it implemented.

The problem needs to be fixed in a broader scope. The entire corporate incentive structure is broken.
Ask HN: How many MSE-related people are here?
Hello everyone,

I just wanted to get a quick assessment of what percentage of HN community represent people who work in the materials science and engineering (MSE) domain (both industry and academia). Please comment "MSE" (or, better yet, "MSE, {industry|academia|NL}"), if it's applicable to you (and "!MSE" otherwise). Feel free to upvote as well to improve this post's exposure. Thank you very much in advance.

P.S. "NL" above refers to national labs.
I'm trying to deduct what you're implying, and as an armchair conspiracy theory fan¹, I love all of the options! This stuff is so nuts, it's lovely.

¹ I mean that I don't believe in the average conspiracy, but I love reading about them for the entertainment value
Would love to see that as well. Unfortunately outrage generates a lot more clicks and social media engagement.

And politics are increasingly becoming intertwined with identity, which makes it even less cogent.

From Paul Graham's essay about this:

Politics, like religion, is a topic where there's no threshold of expertise for expressing an opinion. All you need is strong convictions.

...I think what religion and politics have in common is that they become part of people's identity, and people can never have a fruitful argument about something that's part of their identity. By definition they're partisan.

http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html
I think it is because of pacifists like Monica that we are at this juncture. Free speech must be absolute. I should be able to say whatever I want and the person who gets offended can turn off their PC, visit another website. But no, reasonable people started considering insane demands like this (forcing others to use certain language), and that's a clear slippery slope.
Id be more worried about the hassle/cost to repair all the “little” things that can really add up if parts and service are hard to find.

Windows, door handles, air conditioning, bumpers, radar sensors, sun roofs, seat motors, wiper motors, door hinges.
Salmon Bay Sand & Gravel has done everything they can to block the missing link from being built.

I just want a usable bike trail to Golden Gardens, rather than the fragmented mess that is bike lanes in Ballard currently :c
"Also 2020-21 would be the years.."

It is common to think that a legacy automaker will just start producing EVs in large volumes.. but no one has yet and we've all waited far too long hoping that will. They've made announcements and grand proclamations for well over a decade but haven't produced anything in volume. Meanwhile there has been no end to the shade thrown at EVs.. not enough range, looks ugly, poor handling, causes fires, isn't built by a union worker (even though it is car made in the U.S.A. in 2019!!), waiting for hydrogen/fuel cells, etc.

If someone else can produce some great EVs, I will wholeheartedly cheer for them as well! Until then, please join in supporting what Tesla is doing and has achieved.
Haha, according to Amazon, I went through 10 clips in the last 10 years. They were the perfect music player for the gym or anywhere else you didn't want to use a bulky and far more expensive phone.

That being said, about 3-4 years ago the quality really began to decline on the Clip models - not sure if they just changed their manufacturing place or what, but a lot of us fans were disappointed.

There really are no good options anymore for a standalone small MP3 player. You've got bulky Iphones and Android, expensive IPads (the Shuffle was a good option 'till it was discontinued) and dozens off terrible Chinese knockoffs with poor battery and software*. I also miss the days when there were a dozen major companies competing in the portable music space.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=mp3+player&ref=nb_sb_noss_2
Hong Kong’s Hard-Core Protesters Take Justice into Their Own Hands
Show HN: Bunkr – Auth and Secrets Management Using Threshold Crypto and SMPC
'It's the Worst Burger King in the World': BK on Market Street Closes for Good
Just to clarify, not many ROMs require a specific recovery, they simply expect certain functionality for updates. You can use many other forks of TWRP, which include backwards compatibility, without issue.

RedWolf [0] and OrangeFox [1] are both forked from TWRP and provide more features than upstream. Cyanogen and Lineage recovery are based on AOSP, again, with more features than upstream.

[0] https://redwolfrecovery.github.io/

[1] https://orangefox.tech/
Ask HN: Who have taken months off to learn coding and explore startup ideas?
How did it go for you? Would you have any tips on how to make best use of it, e.g. any specific bootcamp to join? Thanks!
The show Altered Carbon described an alternative consequence of extended lifespans - the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and because the rich don't die, there's no 'reset button' at the transition between generations and the situation never changes. The rich guy's money can accumulate interest indefinitely, while the poor guy may never get past the paycheck to paycheck life (or he lives long enough to eventually figure out how to save enough to improve his situation).
There's multiple account within this month alone

https://youtu.be/heIUuhAlc1g

https://twitter.com/JiayangFan/status/1175319171892207616
Ask HN: What books/movies/advice has transformed your life?
To me the most ideal form of hot-reloading and runtime compilation is probably the approach found in Scopes. While it leverages the LLVM MCJIT, it takes the approach of having compilation done when the programmer specifically wants it to be done, making it less of a "JIT" and more of a "runtime AOT"
The science-based benefits of gratitude
If you look at countries with generous social programs, the tax rates for the middle class are very high. Like 50%.

Why? Sure the rich have a lot of money, but there aren’t that many of them.
In general, I think a more complicated tax system favors those who can afford more accountants and lawyers.
Right, they're fighting that competition right now (eTron has been available for months in the US and its sales are declining) but are still crushing it. In fact, it's disappointing that few have really risen to Tesla's challenge. Taycan does (I'm impressed by the higher voltage of the battery), but at much greater cost and still doesn't quite meet the highest Tesla trim performance.

The EV credit system is unfair for domestic EV makers who have taken EVs seriously (GM and Tesla) and advantages foreign EV makers like VW group companies (who count as separate companies according to the tax credit but can use the same platform for their EVs).