skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, I'm living a Google-free live now, and it works very well:

- DuckDuckGo as default search engine

- Own domain for email, forwarded to Apple's mail

- Apple map, Yandex map, Waze, Here WeGo for maps (depending on the country)

- For videos, I search them in DDG with "<searchterm> !yt", then copy the links I want and download them with `youtube-dl`

- Firefox and Safari

- Zoho as a replacement for online docs and spreadsheets

etc.

EDIT to add: I should say that I try to live Google-free...
And 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14794654
Why compare PoW with PoS if there is consensus https://xrpl.org/intro-to-consensus.html which already solved the problems of both before PoS even existed.
Consensus will never have 2 chains unless someone creates one on purpose. For all others it's always clear witch chain is the correct because everyone can check for correctness.
in case the consensus fails (for example serious global network problems) the consensus would halt which is not ideal but better than uncertain chains.
Yup we've looked into that. It's not accurate enough to feel good to use, and often you go off screen for a bit which breaks the interaction. The infrared sensor actually has a field of view wider than the camera and helps maintain the connection in that brief offscreen moment.
Who else lobbies like Intuit? Who else spends millions of dollars on defeating measures intended to make paying taxes simpler and easier?
It’s clarified later in the article that she’s saying making lunch for your children is the expression, not specifically fancy bentos.
“Run from Adobe Creative Cloud”
There's some question of what a crash looks like. If the block reward goes away but there are enough fees to cover a reasonable difficulty, the crash will just be the end of the enormous investment in chasing the block reward, the network might still be secure enough to be usable.

I haven't checked the math, but this article says the block reward is ~$45 per transaction, vs ~$0.70 in fees:

https://cryptoslate.com/each-transaction-costs-the-bitcoin-n...

If that is the case, it seems likely there will be a devastating crash next time the reward halves.
Massive Tulip scam uncovered in Dutch flower markets, says growers' association
The only "raids" I can remember in recent history are things like online polls to choose the new Mountain Dew name or "who do you think won the debate last night polls", but then again maybe it just doesn't make headlines or have the unified goal like stuff from the 2000s did (chanology, etc).
> it's harder to start with an FP language. Nobody is disputing that.

I'll dispute it. For me, the functional paradigm clicked much easier than OOP and it's zillion abstrations and patterns. I'd argue that the best thing about functional programming is it's actually easier to reason about.
Verify the voices which are known locally. If it isn't a known voice, it is an unknown one, and consent must be given.
The crux of this article is a PowerPoint slide from 12 years ago? Really?
I don't either. Maybe you need to blind yourself first.
Haven't read the article yet, but I assume they're probably talking about the lobbying to remove free filing or TurboTax's attempts to hide the free option as much as possible with a thousand ways to upsell you by using dark patterns during the tax filing process.
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You've certainly reduced your Google footprint. I don't think it's possible to reduce it to zero though.
In this article on how Intuit is working to prevent free filing, ProPublica focuses on Intuit? Why is this surprising?

ProPublica seems really broad in the topics they cover: https://www.propublica.org/topics/

They also have multiple articles covering other types of tax reform and on closing tax loopholes if you search their database.
They catch them later anyway. Much better if they steal your stuff and go to the jail, than if you start a firefight and people get injured or dead?

How much you carry on you - 1000 USD? How much to fix perforated lungs? Will they even fix it completely?

The best solution to theft is to let it happen and retrieve the stolen goods later. Turning a theft into murder is the worst possible solution.

BTW Crime is less common in countries with gun control than in USA (admitedly - that's probably only partially caused by gun laws, much more important is the absurd lack of basic public services).
> Since gold bullion isn't legal currency anywhere

Neither is Bitcoin, so it should be a perfectly valid comparison?
I don't think there is anything stopping you from bundling multiple services/deployments in the same helm chart. Many of the "curated" helm charts do it: https://github.com/helm/charts
No one else really has the same lobbying might as intuit. Even HR Block is smaller (and targets a different market)
There is if you’ve allowed touchID for bank accounts and have ability to transfer money. Also, it could happen if you’re a heavy sleeper or passed out drunk.
What's New in GNU Artanis 0.4
For me it was the opposite - I think it was the humidity in the summer that messed with TouchID
But you do get back in the nice heated/cooled rain free cab between drop offs to shelter yourself from the elements.
Python is perfectly fine for glueing together functionality that deals with high latency systems, like a data pipeline that executes queries that are running for minutes. It does not matter from the performance point of view if this code is in Forth or Python, but it matters from the point of view how long does it take to implement and how many engineering hours need to go into it. This is why Python is a good option and F#/OCaml/Clojure is not going to bring much to the table in such cases. Even if I want to implement the ETL pipeline in Clojure or OCaml the rest of the engineers are not ok with these languages, the build systems involved and package management or IDE options, integrations. These are also factors when you select a language. Clojure is my absolute favourite language but there are no people in most of the companies where I work who could buy into it. Management sees it as a risk, not to be able to hire engineers for it. There are many dimensions to this problem than it appears at first.
I thought macOS always loaded the shell as a login shell by default while most Linux and UNIX load a non-login shell by default.

On a Mac you usually end up adding

if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
. ~/.bashrc;
fi

To your .profile or .bash_profile.

Just read that part and now I can’t help but question the rest of it before even reading it
Just a heads-up: Waze is owned by Google [1] now.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waze#Google_subsidiary
I agree, but I would expect to that growing fast usually means bringing in lots of people over a short amount of time. I’ve never done something like that, but I imagine keeping the culture of the company might be challenging.
What do you expect that shockwave to look like? Circles expanding from the center of the explosion?
Because it is not the best solution for most computer problems.

Simple as that.

I am a functional and OOP programmer myself. I find functional way more elegant for modeling most mathematical problems, but OOP way better at modeling real life things with states.

OOP and states introduce lots of problems and complexity, but the solution is not removing states, or a series of complex mathematical entelechies.

In fact "removing states" is not really removing them. It is creating new objects with static states on it. It makes it super hard to model real life.

(dynamic)States exist in real life. Temperature, pressure, height, volume, brightness, weight...

There are programmers that understand programs as a religion, they only program in one system ans believe it is the best thing in the world and everybody should be forced to use it. I feels sorry for them and the people that depend on them.

The solution will be new paradigms that are neither OOP nor FP.
Just for comparison: in Brazil the _Receita Federal_ (IRS equivalent) provides a free multi-platform* Java desktop app for filing your taxes.

The UI isn't great* and if you do complex stock trading it can be a pain to add the necessary information, but for the vast majority of people it works just fine.

It also shows if it is better to use the standard deduction or the itemized deductions for your particular case and also calculates your effective tax rate.

In fact, the Java App has for years been the only way to file personal income federal* tax. The paper forms were abolished because (almost) no one used them and they had a large rate of mistakes.

* The Java desktop app runs on Linux, macOS and Windows. (And possibly others)
* There is a separate mobile app but I haven't actually used it.
* In macOS there was bug in last year's version: it used ctrl instead of command for things like copy and paste.
* There is no state income tax in Brazil.
Elixir (via Phoenix) not only makes CRUD apps trivial, it also sets you up to very easily evolve the application as requirements change.
Companies such as Sony and Samsung have enterprise programs where they commit to much longer update periods (5 years?).

I don't think using a 4s in 2019 with the latest os and apps is a pleasant experience.
While I appreciate apples commitment to iOS updates, I think 5 years of updates is a more realistic goal.
It was about 20 years ago and the sources and writing are lost to the sands of time. But you might be able to Google it.
Beat me to it. For context, the web site is currently responding 503 Service Unavailable with a clarification that the server is too busy.
Just because a court says something doesn't mean it is reality. At all.

Likewise can we all please give the open farce of abuse of the word "monopoly" to rest?
> Who else lobbies like Intuit?

Google spent $21 million in 2018. Facebook spent $12 million. Amazon spent $14 million. Microsoft spent $9 million.

https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/23/tech-companies-lobbying-...
So you are saying it’s too expensive to hire those specialists but you need those specialists to setup a working search solution? Is your stance that only companies that can afford a bespoke solution should implement search?
Eventually, yes. But if you were immersed in OOP/imperative languages for 14-15 years as I was (before learning Elixir) then it is really hard to muscle through the exercises and learn to think the FP way.

After that happened however, FP became much easier and much more pleasant to work with.
Collecting data from children is nearly impossible for legal reasons. I mostly agree with the reasons, but the side effect is nobody has good data on children. Thus children are forever doomed to a bad experience, like the time my son asked "Hey Mycroft, how do you spell Kansas" "C-A-N-V-A-S" which he knew was wrong.
If you are building a core product, such as Spotify's Discover Weekly. Then no question, you need a dedicated team, and substantial commitment. Maybe even a PhD or two.

But as an unabashed Angolia devotee, I think the value prop of InstantSearch is a no brainer. It's worthwhile looking at the product itself, as an almost textbook example of how to package services to enterprise customers.

https://www.algolia.com/products/instantsearch/

https://www.algolia.com/enterprise/customers/
Look into the inflationary portion of the BB timeline, and also add in the fact that those shockwaves have had the same 13.8B years to expand and dissipate. The CMB variations _are_ the remnants of that initial period, attenuated after all this time.
I wish I could record my phone calls. It would be easy for Google to add that function to Android but they don't. I assume it's due to legal problems. On the other hand, they sell devices that record all conversations in a home.

If they want to put the responsibility on the owner then do that. Add recording to Android. Otherwise, be consistent with your other products and turn off automatic recording.
Have yo tried maps.me on IOS?

I can't speak for their privacy practices, but it has the bifg advantage of letting you download maps to use them off-line.
I know the worldview of republicans. I see how they introduce "Patriot act" and remove personal liberties to fight fringe threats.

They are much more likely to become authoritarian than to defend you from them :) May I remind you they are currently building a wall on the border and keeping children in concentration camps?
Show HN: Platform for arranging group dinners easily, in style
Stealthy Russian Hacker Group Resurfaces with Clever New Tricks
The Nest thermostats don’t have microphones. Houses have had security cameras long before Google existed, as have a large percentage of retail businesses, banks, gas stations, convenience stores, government offices.
I bet they run targeted advertising in the podcast based on each listener’s web activity. Now I’m dreading the day YouTube makes the switch and doesn’t let you watch any monetized videos unless you consent to being tracked.
Terrible pandemic is killing pigs around the world
I cannot watch the video as youtube is blocked at my office. But I can answer the premise.

OO is the norm because it is has immediate business value and is easier to teach to young people. Most programmers in the work place are produced from educational institutions. Educational institutions has competitive quantifiable

FP requires thinking in terms of calculus. This isn't hard, personally I find it much faster and easier.
Thinking in calculus does require some maturity, and possibly some analytical experience, young students may not find comfortable.

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This question can also be answered in terms of scale.

FP reinforces simplicity. Simplicity requires extra effort, often through refactoring, in order to scale or allow extension for future requirements. This is a mature approach that allows a clearer path forward during maintenance and enhancements, but it isn't free.

OO scales immediately with minimal effort. OO, particularly inheritance, strongly reinforces complexity, but scale is easily and immediately available. This is great until it isn't.
> Is there an inexhaustible repository of "scientifically important problems" that can be solved every 10 minutes by some computing entity

Well, is the pool of mineable BitCoin hashes not limited? I'd say there are enough computational problems to be solved, certainly far more than there are BitCoins to be mined, for one.

As to trust and transactions, as far as I understand, every update of the BitCoin blockchain has to be agreed upon, meaning that it is verified by the network. To that end, you might as well verify useful computation, with the same mechanism.
If you want a browser that's free of all of that, there's always lynx.

Of course, you have to give up a few things to use it...
FreeCodeCamp is building an open source alternative to Meetup
Like social “science” they want the veneer of science to make it easier to peddle their desired public policies.
Click the lock button, swipe up, enter the pin. Seems to be about 3s?
The "oh no it's slow, and you can't reason about performance" FUD is mostly directed at Haskell's lazy evaluation, but people like to throw it vaguely in the direction of "FP" in general. Most of the performance problems you have in Haskell (as in this recent submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21266201) are not problems you will have in OCaml.

Yes, OCaml has garbage collection. It's a very efficient GC, and it is only ever called when you try to allocate something and the system determines that it's time for cleanup (https://ocaml.org/learn/tutorials/garbage_collection.html, though this might change if/when Multicore OCaml ever happens?). So if you write an innermost function that does arithmetic on stuff but never allocates data structures, you will not have GC problems because you will not have GC during that time, period.

Also, there are cases where destructive mutation of things is more efficient than making pure copies. OCaml allows you to do that, you don't need to fiddle with monads to simulate state.

There really isn't that much black magic there. Just don't believe everything that is said about "FP".
The people who get caught are, on average, able to hide enough of the money from the authorities through various means that they have some money to come home to, if you will.

This means some people exit jail penniless and some exit jail with hundreds of millions.

Perhaps the authors of the paper should have presented the median rather than the average; however as a typical college student I was more focused on delivering the assignment than criticizing the researchers.
> Intel has Chipscope

I think "Chipscope" is a Xilinx thing actually.
It does not have the dialogs to walk you through the weird parts of filing a tax return. It's not really comparable to something like TurboTax.
SQL on Rails, 2006

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Es9-l1up3r8
They aren’t talking about Nest thermostats, which don’t have a mic. They are talking about the Nest Cam, and now the Google Home which has been rebranded a Nest device.
> Free fillable forms[1] has been around for a number of years and van be used by anyone regardless of income level.

The article focuses on many issues, and the existence of such forms doesn't diminish from its importance.
When all pizzas are the same (or maybe of two types), that works. When there are 10+ different types of pizzas ordered, this algorithm turns it into a likely worse search problem.
Thats why they should sell cpus that sacrifice security for speed. I'll take a cpu thats vulnerable to spectre/meltdown if its 20% faster.
> So why should Linux really care about compatibility with “niche” operating systems that are in the end anyway going to do their own thing? And for that matter, why should we still care about Unix altogether?

To me this is the most offensive thing about systemd
They've done various stories on the IRS and tax policy:

https://www.propublica.org/article/irs-political-dark-money-...

https://www.propublica.org/article/irs-now-audits-poor-ameri...

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/

The reporting on Intuit has been going on for years, but the recent onslaught is likely because their recent initial report on Turbotax obfuscating Google search results led to federal and state investigations, and possibly attracted whistleblowers who passed along the inside documents that make up this newer report (i.e. the snowball effect)

Disclosure: I used to work at ProPublica years ago. My tenure overlapped the authors', but I never worked on these stories.
The Republican political operatives who call the shots at Facebook
Well, I had to stop reading when I scrolled a bit and some pop up blocked the content with (I presume) the button to close it off screen on mobile.
The problem that I see, and that I don't think was addressed and may differentiate from trading card games and the like, is that many of these games are created to be addictive, and the money thrown out is on top of that addiction.
That was pretty much my point. Aggregation is technically simple. Creating a locations that's the go-to for people running and planning events is much harder because it's basically a network effects problem.
I started using Firefox Android a year ago and now I can't stand chrome and all the Ads!

Ublock origin on Firefox mobile is a godsend.
Are my christmas lights that I put on during winter also everyone else's problem because they waste energy (that I bought with my own money)? Are you going to get into my business there as well and tell me what I can and cannot spend my resources on, because you claim that they have an "impact on you and you have no interest in them"?

I am pretty sure that the best consensus the western world has come up with is that if there are any externalities, they can simply be taxed in like for example a carbon tax. But telling other people what they should and should not find valueable as if you have some sort of ultimate authority on knowing what is valueable, well, I hope you can already see what is wrong with that. Value is subjective. As in, other people have a right to decide for themselves.
The article lists a 280W 16 core TR.
Agreed. Actually, almost all links are too small on mobile. For example, it’s easy to log out when you try to go to your user page, or downvote a comment you intended to upvote.
The shenanigans and culture drift happen once you need a layer of “middle management”. Their goals are often focused on their own careers rather than the success of the company as a whole.
Governments subsidise fossil fuels to the tune of $427bn a year
If you hover your mouse cursor over the underlined words in the article (these are called 'hyperlinks' or, more informally, 'links') and then hit the left mouse button, your World Wide Web browser will display other documents which ProPublica used for their reporting.
> The crux of this article is a PowerPoint slide from 12 years ago? Really?

The article definitely focuses on more than a single Powerpoint slide. In fact, in the same sentence you cite, there's a reference to a 2014 slide.
There’s quite a few people that knock themselves out with drugs like alcohol.
Waze was recommended by family for a trip to Israel.

The good news: Available for Windows Phone (which I had at that time)

The bad news: In order to use it access to my address book.

For a navigation app?

WHAT THE FUCK!
What do you do about websites that use reCaptcha?
> They may be fighting efforts to make filing easier under the current rules, but they aren't really doing anything to keep those rules a clusterfuck.

ProPublica is trusting the reader to understand that responsibility for the current state of US tax laws lies with the US government.
Plant-based meat could create a radically different food chain
I tested this and this is not the case. My .bashrc does a lot of things such as custom completions that are expensive that I would not want run by anything else other than an interactive shell. It also has return at the end so if anything I don't know about adds stuff to it, it won't get executed. This would break other scripts loading .bashrc as well. So as far as I can see this is false.
95% of tested baby foods in the US contain toxic metals, report says
Quite an interesting disparity across markets. In Germany, Firefox's desktop marketshare is above 25%. Poland, 20%. France, 16%, Spain 11%, UK and US 8%.

I picked those examples as a mix of language markets, the two largest non-English speaking EU countries and an East/West EU comparison.

What links Germany and Poland in Firefox adoption on desktop?
I am comparing it to settling gold in that a settlement is "final". You can reverse a credit card transaction, a bank wire, etc. You cannot reverse a Bitcoin transaction or Gold shipment without significant risk and cost.

Example that leads me to believe central banks still settle gold: https://www.bullionstar.com/blogs/ronan-manly/bank-of-englan...
This got me to raise an eyebrow:

if [[ -d "$HOME/dev/go" ]]; then
export GOPATH="$HOME/dev/go"
fi

Using a directory named "dev" not to store device files, but development tools. I am so stuck with conventions.
Is having food on the table and a roof on their head relevant to "most people"? Because, when we're talking about climate change, that's what is at risk for hundreds of millions of people.
CoFounder here.

"Jira Slack integration" is part of Troopr Assistant, a multi skilled chatbot for Slack and MSF Teams(soon).

While it does what you expect from a Jira Slackbot, it can also react to external events and suggest followup actions in Jira. For example if you want Github notifications to trigger status update on a linked Jira issue after a Slack notification, you can set it up in a few clicks.

We are building more skills for Troopr Assistant that will work out of the box, and tools to let you build custom skills without writing code.

Imagine Alexa but for business chat.

We are just getting started and eager for feedback. Thx.
Wouldn't this be because they want the ops team to be Azure and don't want the developer to talk to customer support?
Actually I’ve found it pretty easy to track / reason about. But I guess I do have a decent mental model for how the compiler works