skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just tax the shit out of these bozos. It's not that complicated jfc.

It's not even like tax evasion would be a big risk, because, as you say, most of that wealth is in the form of publicly traded shares that are easily auditable.
Of course the IT guy goes down while the CFO runs out the back door with a fistful of dollars.
Good luck proving it works in court
Here's an example. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/07/i-updated-my-crusty-... Ars Technica has certain posts, clearly marked with a header and everything, that include Amazon affiliate links. Easylist has a specific list of sites, mostly tech sites, which are not allowed to use Amazon affiliate links. It's not a general ban on affiliate links, and blocking them this way simply removes the text from the middle of a sentence. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/07/i-updated-my-crusty-... and the response from the maintainers https://github.com/easylist/easylist/issues/3524

[Edit: previous general discussion about EasyList https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20593563 ]
The 2TB tier seems to be the best value, matching the price of Backblaze B2 storage, which I consider to be one of the better deals.
How does the continuation monad work?
It doesn't show folders but clicking the text "14.8 of 15 GB used" or this link[0] will take you to a list of the biggest files, at least in drive. You can also go here[1] to see what services are using the most data.

0: https://drive.google.com/drive/quota

1: https://one.google.com/storage
Wot I Think – Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind
yes I did talk to her about it, for hours and hours. she says she's embarrassed about it herself, and wanted to forget about it and move on with her life. it comforts me for a while, but when I'm not talking to her, my mind wanders back to the same pit of gloominess. is it something that people can get over?
Government: Police should hack mobiles and deploy Trojans
The only legitimate "roles" are those who /actually/ create the thing which this all rests upon: the software [but really... the license ... {but really the one man responsible for willing it to be}]
I disagree that longer yellows will mean less accidents. I've always held a fascination with behavioural psychology and I spend a great deal of time observing people's behaviour and it's my hypothesis, which I feel will bear out in time, that people will get used to longer yellows and begin to think... "I've got plenty of time to get through that without stopping" so they'll just keep going and people will still run reds and still cause accidents...

They'd do better to change it for a countdown just like they do with the crosswalk sign that counts down from 15 seconds or something before going to a solid amber for a couple of seconds before going red. They'd also do well to have some kind of markers on the road indicating a safe distance from the traffic lights to come to a stop in an average family car (whatever that means) in current weather conditions.
Reading countless rust threads has left me with the opinion that some people are just unadaptable. They cling to what they consider right way too hard. It is not that they are wrong, their knowledge is right for the sphere they work in, but they extrapolate it too far and refuse to get out of their comfort zone.
What if you are a garbage man and an artist? What if you collect garbage for, say, three days a week?

How much of your labor is absolutely necessary, and how much of it consists in generating surplus wealth for the benefit of your capitalist overlords?
A startup called Purple Air has a great map of air quality around the world. It's based on their distributed air sensors:

https://www.purpleair.com/map
Always useful to keep in mind in discussions of monopoly: there is a big philosophical gap regarding why one might care a monopoly exists, and that gap can guide thinking on the topic in subtle ways.

American law tends to center around harm to consumers. By that reasoning, it can be hard to prove a market with a single player is actually anticompetitive if that player isn't muscling out better options for consumers from the space (i.e. if they corner 90% of the market because they really do offer the best value at the lowest price, who cares).

European laws tend to center around the philosophical core that the market should be a level playing field for producers or vendors, so even if all other choices than the dominant player are worse for consumers, the market needs to stay competitive so that business firms don't die and put a bunch of people out of jobs.

It's useful to know where someone is coming from in considering topics like this.
I use almost no lambdas in my functional code. I don't understand why they're thought to be paragons of FP in non-pure language communities. Maybe because there are no operator sections, currying, and the syntax is more verbose so it's not as easy to define helpers.
Great news. Thank you!
> I'd rather we live in a world where customers paid directly for the product and I was the customer (not the product).

Out of curiosity, what services and products are you paying for?

I'm willing to bet that a vast majority of HN users are still using a @gmail.com email address. And I'm actually in that super small minority that pays for services such as FastMail, Dropbox, Newsblur, 1Password, or YouTube (premium). I also donated to Mozilla among others.

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The problem is that browsers should be part of the "commons", just like roads, since browsers are indespensible platforms in this day and age.

Are your taxes funding browsers? If no, then are you suggesting that only the privileged should have access to a good, modern browser?

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Also products like Firefox are very unlike other products, because it's open source, both by license and by how it is developed. If Mozilla dies due to Google pulling the plug on their deal, Firefox is still open source and with enough resources somebody else can pick up its development.

To wit Thunderbird may still live under the Mozilla Foundation, but it is community driven, with donations from individuals being its primary source of funding. And it is moving along. Not as fast and it isn't as polished as its users would want, but it lives.

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I'd rather use Mozilla's Firefox, instead of products with obscure VC-backed business models that just piggyback on top of Chromium and are thus in no way a threat to Chrome's monopoly.
He offended white wage-slaves by offending white women.
Thus he's "Canceled"

All the actual hackers are for him: but we don't matter anymore even though we write the software.
Tangential followup:

Recently there was a flap about a satellite having to move out of a Starlink sat's way because the latter wouldn't.

On the Starlink website they call out the automated collision avoidance system. Seems the Starlink sat would have moved away automatically if there was a risk.
Wow yeah, that does look pretty terrible. Going to sub to that issue, thanks for the link.
Very cool to see these posted here (they're in my backyard). Interestingly, DOT and Seedmaster have a very close relationship. Last time I was out there, DOT equipment was being fabricated by folks in the Seedmaster shop.
seconding both of these.

psychedelics as medicine are finally starting to gain the traction and serious research which they will need to be utilized therapeutically. while imperfect, they're potentially curative therapies which are likely a quantum leap ahead of much of what psychopharmacology has had in its roster so far.

the gut/microbiome stuff is also starting to come to a head after about 9 years of intense research activity. clinical applications are right around the corner, and there's an entire universe to explore which we've only scratched the surface of so far.

i'd also like to add cannabinoid (CBD) therapeutics as an addendum to psychedelic medicines. while there's a tremendous amount of hype and folk science surrounding CBD, it appears as though the chemical does in fact have a massive impact in domains ranging from immunology to psychiatry to geriatrics. we're just at the very start of the research process, and there are already a cornucopia of compelling and empirically valid leads which need to be followed.
List of websites founded before 1995
Interesting! On an somewhat related note, could someone explain to me why GameCube has always been abbreviated as GCN? GameCube Nintendo seems like it would be a weird answer...
I have the same and it's worth every penny.

Also, how are people hitting 15GB on just email? A little digital "KonMari" might be in order.
That's becoming less and less true.

For example, the wiki.debian.org blocks users of (at least) privateinternetaccess VPN. (You get a 403 forbidden. This doesn't happen when I use my personal VPN routed out through a VPS provider, only through PIA.)

I have encountered this with various other sites as well, both outright blocks and degraded experience.

Frustrating. Although I don't really trust VPN providers, I trust my ISP even less, and a VPN helps me get by some of their more heavy handed shaping.
Unfortunately there is no realistic way their money will stretch that far into the future.
If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the (soft)bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
Wait... What!? Okay, I'm admittedly ignorant of the technical details of email, but I thought "an email" was just some text (with encoding specified), some internet headers, and maybe a binary blob representing an attachment. Basically, what you see if you "view original" in Gmail. Is there additional meta data that makes up an email? Like, outside of the content "container" part of the email (similar to how image meta data is saved in the EXIF part of a JPEG file, but isn't part of the image itself)? Sorry if I phrased that dumbly.

I assume this, specifically, is what you're referring to
https://schema.org/EmailMessage
Most of Mozilla's funding came from Google in exchange for making Google the default search page.
> ... so what can the judge really do?

Overrule the law, declare it unjust, be the balance to the legislative branch. Yeah, that comes with the possibility of appeals and having another judge change the ruling. But that's how the system should work.

You're absolutely right about school employees, though - they're required to act lest their lack of action affect their careers. What needs to change is that the accused student needs the same rights an adult would have: the right to have your day in "court" with the possibility that the decision is 'not guilty.'
Let's not forget:
- non invasive medical imaging, particularly in terms of new approaches to generating or interpreting CT/MRI/ultrasound scans
- more ergonomic surgical robots that don't hold their instruments like a 3 year old toddler
- AI/expert systems for rapid triage and assessment of patients
- more effective ways of drug delivery (both cell based therapy and developing better oral formulations)
Can I delete attachments in GMail without deleting the email? Googling gives a few potential ways involving the IMAP interface, but nothing straightforward.
People that are so rich/connected that they can become "too difficult to pursue" seems like a good step towards becoming Gotham.
Differential Dataflow is going to cause a huge upset in several high value areas, including incremental compilation, database view maintenance, UI view maintenance (subsumes React), and differential database streaming: https://github.com/TimelyDataflow/differential-dataflow
Worth noting that The Climate Corporation is owned by Monsanto which in turned is owned by Bayes.
What’s more insane is the hundred mill he got after being forced out... such a shame
That does not surprise me. That generation benefited from those tax rates by living some of the best recorded lives in history and don't want to do anything that could change their own status quo now that they are rich and powerfull.
Having features function by default matters a lot in regards to user adoption. A very large portion of users will never change their default settings, let alone discover and install an add on for something Chrome has by default.

Here’s an article by Mozilla stating the power of default settings:

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/06/04/when-it-comes-to-pr...
Well, he did spend 12 billion dollars building a 8 billion dollar company, so surely, he deserves some reward for his efforts..?
> "Unfortunately that image stuck with them well into the "clean" diesel era."

Or, fortunately as it turned out. "Clean" diesel is a public health disaster in Europe. The US dodged a bullet by not jumping on that bandwagon.
Tweets are mass produced quotable out of context discourse. To be harvested to support arbitrary theories.
> Amazon does collect and process information that a market participant wouldn't normally have: consumer preferences.

This is wrong. A market participant does normally have information about the preferences of other market participants. That's precisely the information conveyed by market transactions, buying and selling certain quantities of certain goods at certain prices. The only difference between Amazon and you or I is that Amazon engages in a lot more transactions, so it makes a lot more sense for Amazon to invest significant resources in collecting and analyzing its transaction data. But that doesn't make Amazon a successful central planner; it just makes Amazon a successful large market participant.

> Unlike the monopolies of old, which may have 1) to some extent, Amazon also has 2), and is trying to acquire 3) with its Amazon Business offering

Wrong again. Amazon has none of those three, nor has any other monopolist in history. Or indeed any central planner such as the government of the Soviet Union. Nobody has all relevant information. Nobody can take an entire system of preferences as given. And nobody has complete knowledge of all available means. All three of those requirements are extremely strong, and Hayek meant them to be that way. He didn't mean them as approximations; he meant them as literal exact requirements, which no real entity can possibly fulfill. Certainly Amazon doesn't.

> its capabilities are arguably an improvement over the capabilities of the old monopolies

I think this is true, but it's a much, much weaker claim than the one you have been making.
Your local university stats department may have a course on it, or check out a textbook. There may well be some online courses too.

Unfortunately I wasn't very fond of the textbooks I used in school and I haven't looked at any since so I can't give you any recommendations.
Last time it was brought up, this was the conclusion.

And it is not necessarily wrong but if I just want to donate more to good causes then I already have two very good candidates ready that I would be happy to donate more to.

The reason I want to donate to Mozilla would be to make sure it can continue development even of Google should stop paying them.

I have a small hope that their VPN project might be able to funnel money back to developments, and I also think there's some kind of deal with scroll.

If anyone from Mozilla reads this: I'm all for donations (as long as they go towards the product we depend on) or paid products that can work as cash cows.

Just make sure it is optional and don't lie or be sneaky about it and I should be happy
Native PiP is coming in Firefox 71 (already available for testing on Beta releases), though Windows-only at first. You can track macOS progress by following:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1532675
Tried that for a month and I couldn’t stand it.

When you open a link that opens in a new container, you loose the history that brought you to that link. Clicking a link actually opens a new tab and simultaneously closes your current one. Going backwards is now broken and you have to shift cmd t to go through all your recently closed tabs or dig through your history if you are a user who regularly uses back on a browser.

I also ran into a bug where infinite temporary containers would open until the browser finally crashed. The fix was removing the add on.

Great idea, sloppy implementation.
You are aware that there are more articles on this topic than that singular one presented, right? This whole issue was discussed almost to literal death on various discussion boards years ago. An objective view of this issue doesn't paint HL in a good light, imho.
>Will it stay open source and free to use?

This is a concern of mine as well, so when I find a repo I want to guarantee future access to, I fork it. Then I have a copy that's licensed with the original open source license and which will stick around as long as I care to keep it around.

>Can I get support for issues in a timely manner?

IMO this should not be an expectation in open source. It's nice when it happens, but expect to DIY.

>Will someone be there to helpfully guide or at least review and accept my contributions?

Also nice when it happens, also by no means guaranteed in open source. If someone else isn't available, you can always carry on in your own fork.

Overall I think people place certain expectations on FOSS because they tend to align with the open source culture but strictly speaking, the reality of FOSS doesn't support those expectations in the long term.
So, you're willing to pay for the additional transshipment warehouses, trucks, drivers, etc?

It's also not at all clear to me that replacing one semi with 20 van-sized vehicles is an improvement.
Do you have anything going on related to process mining?
Yeah, it's crazy. It's like Softbank's team wasn't even running basic financial models. And once Wall St wouldn't touch it, Softbank never really even made a counterargument in favor of its valuation. It seems like they cut a $10 billion check just based on emotion, but that is just hard to believe. And the bankers on the IPO must have known that it was going to be DOA and took the business anyway just to grab some fees.
no disrespect intended at all, but this seems to capture a very non-tech ethos. as an industry we need to have boundless optimism and practice a philosophy of idealism with a healthy sprinkle of realism. we are very well positioned to solve sustainability problems/change culture
This makes way less sense than you think it does.
Removing doubleclick ads is something i'm more interested in. Search ads always seem to be contextual, never personalized. Sadly Google Contributor v1 failed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Contributor
Any number about chrome?
You're right, thanks. I was off by an order of magnitude. I've updated my comment
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/firefox-lockwise/id1314000270
A simpler exploit search engine
What is the rationale for recommending reCAPTCHA on every page of a site??
Hans Reiser didn't do anything wrong, except not take the 3 year plea-bargain.

>I would not go soliciting marriage advice though :(
Han's simply followed the dictats of his religion: which instructs to kill adulterous women.

Not all men are white: not all men bow down to women.
Strider (strider.ag), where I work at, is a segment leader in Latin America, and FarmShots (YC alumn) (farmshots.com) and Cropio (about.cropio.com) are some other examples.
I have updated my comment above. I was off by about an order of magnitude.
No one's mentioned Hurd?
So what you're saying is they are running the country like a start-up?
https://resson.com/
You really need to find a domain expert who can at least get you started. I'm working on a problem that I would not have even known existed, if not for running across a couple of engineers who had a business in the field and saw an opening that only a small company would care about (market isn't big enough for the large players).

I know similar situations have to be all around us. The problem, as you say, is finding out about them.
There are two issues.

First is fuel versus non-fuel usage of oil. Oil for non-fuel purposes can be drawn indefinitely with little climate impact, provided oil for fuel usage is phased out.

Second, on fuel usage you are correct there is currently no commercially-viable way to make it carbon-neutral. There may be in the future, and companies like Exxon are understandably working towards that. It might never happen, but that is not a reason to engage in sensationalism.
Right, that's the part I'm a bit confused by.

If I'm understanding you right, it sounds like VCs choose to not require fiduciary-style obligations of the founders?

e.g. whatever the contract looks like, I'm a bit surprised it wouldn't have a term along the lines of 'by taking this money you promise not to self deal'
Macros by Example: Nullthrows and Pipe
It's because "Cube" has an N in it in the metric alphabet.
It did! :) I think I now also run it upon login.
Yeah, this is basic capitalism but pretty scummy nonetheless. Having an email address for a decade makes it incredibly difficult to change. The one "bright" spot is actually that Gmail isn't very good; other than the massive pain updating the world about your move there isn't much to lose.
They absolutely can seek damages for Exxon hiding an enormous long-term liability. Which still exists and still hasn't been paid for.
Which laws? Uber is perfectly legal in the UK, same as Addison Lee. Sure there's lots of complaints from the buggy whip manufacturers, but given their product is

1) Worse to use (standing in the rain with you arm out in the hopes someone will stop, let alone trying to get one on a side street)

2) Based around getting lost (taxi drivers are too arrogant to use technology so will drive into roadworks and traffic jams when modern cars use things like waze or whatever to avoid them)

3) More expensive

4) Less safe (who's driving? Who knows! Lets hope it's not John Worboys)
I think that there's a large way that Immutable Coffee differs from Stack Overflow, and that's in the fact that Immutable Coffee is:

* Private (answers don't circulate around the internet! that's important because of how quickly answers on stack overflow become invalidated)

and * Immediate & one-on-one (waiting for answers/responses in a comment chain on Stack Overflow is a super frustrating experience!)

And thank you! Lots of love for Tuscon. Bear down!
The Case for an Outright Ban on Facial Recognition
Mozilla fired their CEO, the founder of JS, Brendan Eich, because he made a donation 10 years before to a Christian charity.

Many SV people are missing the scope and scale of the impact of having OSS charities engaging in the political campaign – it is renouncing all donations from the other side. It is not their role. Every year I have thousands of dollars that I try to affect to OSS charities, but I’m yet to find a single one that is tolerant of everyone, _including the supposedly dominant group_ . But tolerance is too much to ask, even from Mozilla.
There are thousands of roads in London that would benefit from bollards in the middle of the road, preventing rat running traffic from using them to bypass traffic on A and B roads.

I have absolutely no idea why this doesn't happen.
People were seen as smart for investing in the "new economy" until about 2000.
Right ...

It really isn’t inconceivable that they wouldn’t have got funding from somewhere else. It was a marketing opportunity for Google, them being the David to Microsoft’s Goliath. Remember that whole ”don’t be evil” thing? Turns out it was jusy a ruse to be abandoned once the market had consolidated.
That's in sprinting. And in marathons, there's a similar thing - the wheelchair people are in a separate category, because otherwise they would destroy the "able" people.
So... automate clerical stuff?

> ever-increasing need

Not sure I'd bet on that -- the point of RPA is to eliminate the job you just described.
> vlogging in 2014

Not quite sure I understand this. Is this a US thing? Is it blogging by posting videos?
ecoation - https://www.ecoation.com/ - robots for greenhouses (monitoring & analytics) - vancouver

robotany / fifth season - https://www.fifthseasonfresh.com/ - https://www.cmu.edu/energy/news-multimedia/2018/robotany.htm... - vertical greenhouses - Pittsburgh