skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do. I could go on about how I decide what is and is not moral, but that’s all my personal brand of compromised hogwash.

The really important part is that every interview has me honestly asking the interviewer about employee trust and revenue streams.
iodine is great for getting free Wi-Fi too. Most captive portals don't block DNS, but just do HTTP redirects. You can pump all your traffic over DNS to an iodine server you have setup on a VM (it's not encrypted, so for the very paranoid, run OpenVPN or Wireguard through your iodine tunnel).

Note: this is most likely illegal .. in every jurisdiction. So .. don't actually do this.
I think you write very well, but I can take a swing at some minor stuff. I'll email you with suggestions/revisions when I get round to it. That's "when" not "if"--I will do it, and within 1-3 weeks, but I'm trying to finish a novel (not getting paid for it though! sounds of universe cackling in derision)
The most recent policy discussion is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

Some paywalls have gotten harder to bypass since then. Personally, I subscribe to the NYT, WaPo, and theinformation.com, some can be read in incognito mode, and I've given up in exasperation with the WSJ and foreignpolicy.com.

I'd love to see a startup do a Spotify-for-news model, where I pay $10/mo and they allocate it to all the news sites proportional to clicks or time spent. Surprisingly, dealing with newspapers is even more impossible than dealing with music labels.
From the article

While they were live, they didn’t steal data or gain control of a victim’s device,
....And while the worst effects you’d feel as a victim in this case would be a quicker battery drain and a higher data bill, this latest wave of iOS malware is most notable not for what it does but for how it got there.

Which is a far cry from an unremovable app. It didn’t even get outside of the sandbox and wasn’t an escalation of privilege attack.
Thanks for the direct contact point. Disappointed, though, at the implication. Why wouldn't HN care that paywalls were reducing their value in a big way? (my 'unlikely to succeed' rebuttle: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21393799)

I sent this to the email address you suggested:

"Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21393799

I wish to keep my relative anonmity as "tyingq" on HN, but feel pretty passionate about this submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21393799

I respect @dangs historical appreciation for real complaints, and would REALLY appreciate his reply and advice in the thread.

...with my full appreciation of your opinion and limitations... really.

I fully think the WHOLE community wants to know."
> This canard that the government is congenitally incompetent and can never ever do anything as well as the sainted Private Sector needs to end

It will end when it ceases to be true, and reliably so.
Never give anything to your phone that you don't have stored elsewhere on hardware you own.
Baghdadi Story Reveals Divided – and Broken – News Media
If cross-compilation is important to you, and you like Nim's level of abstraction, you might have a look at Haxe, which can compile to [lots of different targets](https://haxe.org/documentation/introduction/compiler-targets...).
Tesla Model 3 Survey
They are saying, nothing in these images looks like the real thing.
Mercurial does have a staging area. It just defaults to including all previously-committed files, which IMHO is very sensible. Link to my previous comment on it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21393972
Cool project. I'm going to dig into this and let you know if I see any areas where I might be of help.
You need http://tld.new
On chrome for Android, I am asked which account to use.

On chrome desktop, I have separate profiles for work and home so nothing is intermingled.
Looks fun. Might have to recommend it for a team offsite.

But, um...

> Startup Escape is in <strike>the Tenderloin</strike> North SOMA! The address is 447 O'Farrell St, San Francisco CA

That's... literally the Tenderloin. Or is this (and the oxymoron that is "North SOMA") a joke that just went over my head? Haha.
Maybe they didn't want tiling for the rest of the windows? Or maybe they use something other than Linux/BSD and can't run a diff window manager.
On the plus side, a lot of the non-interactive Flash content is now on YouTube. I was going through old Weebls Stuff animations the other day, it was a real blast from the past.
Yeah, the HEBS had it coming, they deserve to get pummeled.
they eliminated the base model, they didn't raise prices
Because their business model is that games are only available in their store so they are a cancer in the PC games industry. we dont need more walled gardens everywhere.
Gitlab rolls back telemetry announcement
And the generalized (n variables) Taylor's theorem takes more effort to process than its single variable version.

If there was a command line tool for Taylor's theorem,I would prefer the one with generalized interface instead of the one that arbitrarily decided that n=1 was the standard case.
I'm not sure if tortoisehg (the GUI client everyone I know who uses hg uses) is using shelve internally for this, but it presents an interface where you can select individual files and hunks for a commit. Link to my previous comment on it:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21393972
A lot of those hoops are an important security measure though. Imagine if someone else could quickly and easily delete your account if they managed to steal your password.
> I think the issue is that the 50% screen time for teens is using apps that cause and reinforce anxiety and other diagnosable mental health issues.

Like Slack and Jira?
What I find fascinating about this is that there's probably a set of neurons in bird brains that specifically fire when looking at vertical lines. Here's a live recording of this effect from a cat[0], also known as the Hubel and Wiesel[1] experiment. Now those are being triggered, causing the bird to avoid the glass. This is an exceedingly simple solution to the problem. Very impressive!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw5PKV9Rj3o

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torsten_Wiesel
For storage of structured data (and probably even for loosely coupled RPC) you want format that is efficient and schema-oblivious. The bad choice 15 years ago was XML, bad choice today is JSON (the parsing overhead is not negligible) or ProtoBufs (not schema-oblivious). Various binary formats with JSON-like object model seems like the way to go (my choice is CBOR).

And then there is the EU-wide absurdity of WhateverAdES, which invariably leads to onion-like layers of XML in ASN.1 encoded as base64 in XML wrapped in CMS DER encoded message...
Thank you for the reply! As I said to someone else, I'll dig into this first, then reach out if I see some area where I could potentially help out. (I wasn't expecting to get so many replies to my original comment here.)
"git checkout" overwrites uncommitted changes. "hg revert" creates backup files in case you made a mistake.
> Not having to do the hard work of making a usable tax filing system and providing phone support for users.

For 90% of Americans, the IRS could just snail-mail them a pre-filled tax form... That they could dispute, and file manually, if they disagreed with it.
Could you explain how?
Did I just miss the link to the research material?

How much higher will it be? 6 inches? 2 feet?
The main takeaway is all wise people should regularly call up their credit card co's and tell them their credit cards are lost or stolen, I do it every 6 months.

They give me a new card with a new number for free, much less likely to have made it onto any carders list.
More? I can't think of one that's been erased yet.
> The one thing that makes it hard to go back to Jenkins is the poor quality of the plugin ecosystem.

I don't think they went back to Jenkins.
> Ownership is one of those things that I feel intuitively is important, and I experience frustration around losing it incrementally.

I feel this too, but at the same time I wonder how much of this feeling is due to a scarcity mindset. It used to be you had a small, finite amount of music, movies, games etc. and so each one individually was valuable. Maybe people who've grown up in the Netflix/Spotify era just don't get personally attached to particular shows the way we do? There's an infinite amount of stuff to consume so if the thing you were looking for isn't there any more, just have something else.
I believe that the distinction lies in "state actor" immunity.

A USA company selling stuff to USA state agencies won't be prosecuted by USA courts because that use presumably isn't criminal in US law; you could have legal challenges to the agency itself but in general the seller can assume that it's the responsibility of USA gov't if they break their own laws.

An Israeli company selling stuff to foreign agencies that gets used "elsewhere" on other citizens won't be prosecuted by USA courts because they don't have jurisdiction and it's none of their business if some other government decides to wiretap or torture-murder some of their citizens in their territory with the assistance of that stuff.

But if a foreign government hacks a phone of someone on USA soil, then that's a crime in USA and it doesn't matter if it was legal under their laws or they had proper warrants or whatever, USA law doesn't have an exception for that unless that wiretapping was done in cooperation with USA authorities under whatever procedures they consider appropriate. And if some company is complicit with assisting that crime then it can be targeted by USA courts, if it can reach their people or assets somehow.

I.e. it's not that "doing this is unaccaptable as such", but "doing this in USA requires permission from USA - we had it, you did not".
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/10/1...

The last wave from the Centre d'Studis d'Opinió from the Generalitat (Local Government), measures support for independence at 44% vs 48% who wish to remain part of Spain.

http://www.rtve.es/contenidos/documentos/barometro_ceo_julio...
I disagree. The perception that you need big discrete jumps forward in progress is what leads to the problem of the article. If instead you directly incentivize breaking a problem up into incremental goals from the start, and never pursue giant jumps of progress at all, then you can get it.

The problem is when people have been wasting time on big leaps of progress and then feel pressured to deliver something when they haven’t been pursuing incremental progress all along.
30% is not much when you consider that is an access to a huge market you buy. A larger market than any brick and mortar publisher ever provided when you were selling with physical game copies. Plus, they do not charge you for game updates, traffic, online gaming capabilities, etc...
The private sector's profit margin, marketing budget, and executive compensation are incompetence that I, as a consumer of its services, pay for.
It keeps the most important configuration and methods, does not include components. And, there is a quit bit different in interactive mode. Slides could be paused while touch-start, etc.
The challenge for me is that I have to make a trade-off between package size and API richness. We will deviation from purpose if it is too large, it will be useless if lack of important APIs, either.（I'm trying to keep it to be smaller that 3kb, it's so hard ... ）
From TFA:

Why is ASX replacing CHESS?

While CHESS is a stable and reliable system, it is over 25 years old.

Why yes that sounds like a perfectly valid reason.

Will ASX give everyone access to the distributed ledger?

No. ASX is not using a publicly available implementation of DLT. ASX will use a permissioned system where ASX clients – that meet the necessary regulatory requirements - are permissioned to access the network, just as they do today when connecting to CHESS.
Does anyone have any sources for good projects for the USZ?
searchengine.new
JsonSchema is pretty good -- it is not as widely used as XSD, but it has libraries for most languages.

And of course JSON is the easiest thing to parse in scripting languages, like Python and Ruby -- the entire API is one line, and then you have a native structure you can work with.
it still boggles my mind how one can use gitlab.
That is odd, I recently got a MITM injection even while running everything on openDNS.
At what point do we first see mass floodings from unusually high tides, such as during proxigean spring tide? Surely it must be soon if Veitnam will be underwater in just 30 years time?
Surely "PCs" must the dominant form factor for Google Docs/Sheets/Slides authoring? Still?

I mean, it's neat that you can edit a google doc on your phone, but who actually spends hours authoring that doc, tapping on a software keyboard on 5 inch touch screen?
Not a lawyer either but CFAA has been used for more than plain hacking. WhatsApp servers and infrastructure was used to hack WhatsApp users. Clearly they violated the spirit of the law, it's fraud at least.
Yeah, but apple.sucks is far more iconic than applesucks.com. I'm sure companies as large as Apple would have purchased both, and other variations as a defensive move.

I can't think of any other justification for .sucks to charge as much as they do for registration other than to ransom large companies.

TLDs are a complete wasteland any way you look at them.

com.au domains (owned by AUDA) at have a policy against squatting but it's reactive, toothless, time consuming and painful. On releasing a squatted domain, it's flagged as being a squatted domain (rather than expired) and AUDA approved registrars such as drop.com.au host blind auction domains, with the highest bin winning. Meaning you're either paying more than you need for a resource that should cost $15AUD to fight off real or imaginary squatters who will offer you the domain at a highly inflated cost. If you lose the auction any money you bid ends up as non-refundable credit within Drop.com.au ecosystem. I'm still unsure if it's good intentions gone bad, or just blatantly corrupt.

/rant
Telemetry is necessary to be able to observe the system, and look for adverse impact. You should be more thoughtful to the people supporting the tools you use, because without telemetry they do a bad job keeping it working for you.
It's explicitly designed and funded to be as such. The ENTIRE REST OF THE WORLD does these things, and here in the USA we claim the unique skill of an incompetent government that we somehow hold up to the rest of the world as a beacon of freedom and democracy. Does not compute.
This is exactly what's happening with Netflix. I've heard stories of this happening on Steam, where games receive essentially post-humous updates to remove licensed content for which the license expired (I believe Rockstar did this to Steam users with its GTA3-era titles). One could also argue that shutting off multiplayer servers is like this, when there is no LAN/TCPIP option available.
Please stop with this. Free File is provided free of charge to a massive portion of the population. This is a solved problem. It is significantly more productive to spend your time supporting awareness of Free File.

The group that does not qualify for Free File most often requires the services of a tax professional anyway. Not because it is complicated, but because the monetary benefit of a tax professional is going to be more than the cost of their services.

These IRS grumpings by fringe libertarians is wildly unproductive and has no place on HN as it does not fall within any of the guidelines for content.
I have used tmux non-stop since discovering and love it
The Tasmanian state government also presents funding for video game startups. Giant Margarita, and Myriad Games both from Hobart have received funding.
Any thoughts on Michael Burry's index fund bubble?
Intuit is going to try to do what benefits them. The IRS are the corrupt party in this transaction.
Single threaded geekbench is hardly a valid benchmark for mobile.

Also the 855+ has better 3D results at times. None of this is here to imply the A1x chips aren’t crushing their android counterparts at single threaded performance. They are likely wayyyy faster, but extra cores, sustained performance, 3D performance, and LTE performance all factor into the over performance of a device.
On my 11 Pro Max, on Sunday I shot around 1 hour of 4K video in Filmic Pro, and about 5000 RAW photos in Camera+. The battery was down to 10% after 10 hours (6 hours of "screen on"), which is miles and miles better than my XS which would have probably lasted about a third as long under the same workload.

https://i.imgur.com/O9W2QI4.png
More by 2050 i.e. more than previously predicted by 2050.
I've been using Nim in side projects for the past year or so. I really love the language, to the point where its replaced Python/Node as my language for utilities. Some of the qualities I like:

1) Its really easy to get started with. The default runtime has a GC for memory management, and the typing system is pretty similar to other popular languages. You can pick up the syntax in a day, the basic semantics in a weekend, and the more advanced semantics in a month.

2) Its fast and reliable. If the code compiles, it probably works, and it's probably a tier faster than a scripting language. Maybe not as bulletproof as Rust, but the ease of use is worth it for me. It can even reach C speeds, but that does require some advanced knowledge. Again, the default runtime is probably fast enough.

3) Powerful language features. I know there are a lot of people out there happy using C. I'm glad that works for them, but features like case objects, generics, and closures are part of the abstraction tools that I use to get stuff done. Nim also boosts what might be the best macro system for a static typed language, which is very helpful for framework developers.
looks like CFO actual need is the historical data for LTV calculations https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/issues/13297
Kind of a sidenote, but I'm continually surprised that agencies that get hit with an FOIA request are allowed to be the arbiters of whether the request should be granted or not.
You should consider reading the article, as it details how the industry manages to prevent free file from being successful, including misleading eligible people into thinking their "free edition" is the same thing.
no, most of the hoops are a dark pattern to discourage you not to delete and/or trick you into incomplete deletion.

presumably a .delete domain wouldn't be "quick and easy", you'd still have to authenticate and perhaps verify intent via OOB method. however, the link to the action would be well known and obvious, instead of having to dig dig dig around a website.
Mecurial lets you choose which files you want to commit on the command line, either by simply specifying all the relevant globs, or by using -I (include) and -X (exclude) flags to compose a more complex pattern matching. You can also use interactive commit mode to open up a TUI to select which files you want to load. Alternatively, you can also add stuff to the top commit with `hg commit --amend`. git has basically all of these features.

What Mercurial doesn't have is a separate repository concept of an incomplete commit that has awkward, and often inconsistent, interactions with several common repository commands. Git has this, and this is the staging area.

The UI feature you use has nothing to do with the staging area, and is in fact closer to the `hg commit -i` interactive commit mode.
Long story short, if Gitlab were to use a open source & self hosted platform (like Countly) with a clear mentioning of what to collect and what not, clarifying that nothing is collected which is not anything unknown to them, there would be no problems. Gitlab CEO has provided the right response with the right tone, which is something we don't usually see in big corps. I again would like to stress that such platforms not use 3rd party analytics providers but a self hosted and/or in-house solution.
I basically replicate a target date fund manually, using the standard Vanguard funds like VTI, VXUS, BND, ...

That way, I can tune allocations if needed and I can take advantage of tax loss harvesting opportunities, so I get some extra benefits.
The Supreme Court's interpretation of the Interstate Commerce Clause disagrees with you.
Lay person question: in the same way that we use centrifuges to purify nuclear fuel, could we not similarly use them to refine the stable isotopes from lead (or other metals)? If not, is there an interesting reason?
Why don't credit/debit cards use elliptic curve cryptography?
I believe with Haxe you can use OpenFL to get what you're looking for. FWIU, that provides a nice migration path from Flash.
Francis shouldn't have negotiated. He should have immediately walked and then exposed his former employees. You just don't tolerate this sort of exploitation unless you approve of management taking advantage of workers.
Well, that's step one. If there's a disagreement, it can go to the courts.

> After ProPublica sued in federal court, the agency dropped that objection and released the records.
You can try docs.new/1 and docs.new/2.
Cooley really making a name for themselves out here
As does https://document.new
huh. the sunrise period has only been 2 weeks so far. how did this exist for 2-3 months? that's unfair.
Thank you for the solid advice. That was basically how I got into writing/editing as a field originally so it's good to know similar principles might apply here. An upside is that tech/engineering people (especially those involved with OSS) seem generally pretty friendly and willing to explain stuff, etc--provided that, as you said, they don't feel their time is being wasted.
that was a cool read.
Nim's syntax is everything I hate in a language.

It's not bad, objectively speaking, but its design opinions are the polar opposite of mine.
JJ Thompson was one of the great scientists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and certainly famous.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._J._Thomson
I think the various indices of freedom (press freedom, human rights, etc) show convincingly that the U.S. is not a beacon, in any sense, of freedom. That freedom seems to be a stated goal of the founders in forming their government the way they did seems to be a mark of incompetence even in that regard.

My statement should not be construed to imply that Intuit handling it is morally superior (not only because of the incentive for corruption involved), even while the thought of using tax filing software written by government contractors makes me shudder.
I believe the paper is https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12808-z.

If I'm reading the paper correctly, the authors don't argue that sea levels will rise more than previously predicted. Rather, they argue that the classical technique for estimating impact by using elevation (SRTM) is overestimating elevation and therefore underestimating the impact of rising sea levels. The authors claim that their technique (CoastalDEM) also underestimates the impact of rising sea levels, but reduces the systemic bias present in previous estimates.
Years ago, I saw an article in some legal industry magazine about how a new thing for UK venture capital to invest in was American lawsuits.
What you describe is not a staging area, it is an interactive commit.

And, personally, I see no positive value in a staging area, given that you can achieve the same functionality via interactive commits or amending commits.
And now we know the real reason for the quantum supremacy paper that wasn’t...
Apparently it's already happened.

> The findings don’t have to spell the end of those areas. The new data shows that 110 million people already live in places that are below the high tide line, which Mr. Strauss attributes to protective measures like seawalls and other barriers.
Nothing says, "I'm sorry," like an immediate and public resignation.
Haxe plus OpenFL or HaxeFlixel?
How does that excuse Intuit? They are still thugs, who are controlling IRS in this case. Corruption is still corruption, on both ends.