skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Another key reason is that Canada’s corporate registration systems — federally and provincially — are shrouded in the same kind of secrecy that exists in tax havens such as the British Virgin Islands, Panama and the Bahamas. Company owners who don’t wish to be identified in Canadian corporate registries can pay a lawyer or a stand-in to appear on all public filings."

Would I be correct in presuming that in the two years since this story came out the Canadian Parliament closed at least this loophole -- and perhaps several others?
iFixit’s 16-inch MacBook Pro teardown reveals the old keyboard we know and love
It probably does, but the far left is not so big and rabidly destructive at the present time, at least from the available evidence. That might change, of course.
> I keep hearing about the impending demise of coal.

Repeating 'coal is dead anyways, we don't need to take radical action' is a great way to prevent actionable change, like carbon taxes.

Coal is far from dead, and its world-wide usage is slowly growing. Natural gas growth is exponential, as well - so its not displacing coal - its adding to it.
Pretty much yes. Their build running machines are very powerful and loaded with lots of typical libraries. They specifically state that GHA should not be used as a general serverless compute platform in their TOS. I think that needs to be said because its perfectly capable of being a pretty robust FaaS platform in general- but certainly its totally valid to use as FaaS for git or anything that could be GitHub webhook, like PR comments, milestone updates, label creation, etc.
If it was the topic of the board meeting, definitely not appropriate, but otherwise it's just the conversation was not meant for you. Can you imagine the abuse I'd catch if I complained about overhearing women talk about their periods? Or, to make it more fair, planning some kind of hypersexualized bachelorette party.
Physical connectors are a main cause of those things no longer functioning. Their absence improves reliability significantly.
"Friction can be almost eliminated with the roller bearing (coef =. 0018)"

Never mind that the primary source of friction of any transportation at reasonable speed is aerodynamics, not bearings..
I like the idea of a platform dedicated solely to surfacing new things from small makers - hopefully avoiding a winner-take-all kind of market.

My immediate two thoughts as an as an artist were “neat! I should submit something” followed by “hmm, what is this going to cost me? Cash, or IP?” You might consider addressing costs in your about page and the pop-up blurb; I’m wary to even give out my google account without knowing that first.
A lot of people (in this thread, CEO of my company) say "just wear headphones". Noise should be opt in; not opt out. Recently all of marketing went to a conference for a few days; the difference in the quality and quantity of work done was noticeable...
The BBC doesn't write for Hacker News. And I would argue that just about everyone here understands what "hacked" means in this context anyway.
> It is not unfair, and it is not extra-legal

Then why are you using a pseudonym?
Assuming there are hydro or nuclear plants nearby. Coal mining and power generation is a massive percentage of the income for the Navajo. With the coal going away they can't dam the non-existent rivers in the desert to build a hydro plant.
Part of the issue is noise, but part of the issue is desired aloneness, or personal space. I love working with headphones on, without headphones on, and without external noise. In fact, I crave it - though am effective without it.

The caveat is that I very much appreciate my own, private space. There's nothing I love quite as much as being first in, and blaring music for an hour and a half.
No, we use their power because we have no choice. Most electrical utilities are monopolies in their respective service areas.
Somebody tell the British Virgin Islands, St. Kitts & Nevis and the Seychelles

They seem to have missed the memo :D

I feel like if I had said the Caymans was incompetent I feel the replies whether from you or others would have said “well of course they are” but anyway their regulators and public servants are often US educated at prestigious universities
I wore mine for three years before I broke it during maintenance. The flywheel came loose so I retightened the screw. A few months later it came loose again and I over tightened it, which popped out a peg that held the balance spring. I ruined the balance spring while trying to remount the peg.

I bought another one of course. No maintenance yet. :p
Is the coating food-safe without the lubricant? I have wanted a superhydrophobic+superoligophobic coating for dishes since I learned of the existence of such nanocoatings, but I haven't seen any that are durable and/or regarded as food safe.
Coal furnaces are common in rural areas where you might not even have a natural gas line.
https://github.com/danos
> Think of the last time you saw an overdraft charge on your statement and swore to yourself that this was the last straw — you are taking your business elsewhere only to be confronted with the downstream effects of moving your “financial address” — telling HR where to send the next paycheck, calling up each utility company, changing autopay for each credit card bill and so forth

Isn't this what CASS is for? Is there really no US equivalent?
Show HN: Turn raw Segment analytic logs from S3 bucket into JavaScript objects
This *100, and apply it to copyright too. If you can't buy the product at a reasonable price, the copyright should be revoked.
Erlang's insecurities will become more of a problem in the implementation of Reusable Scalable Intelligent Systems. See the following:

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3428114

PS. You are very welcome. Thanks for your EE380 talk!
_Looks at 43% marginal tax rate_

Well this is news to me.

Jokes aside, I've heard about Canada being used to launder money, but this is the first I'm hearing about it being used as a tax haven.
That sensor is also available from Adafruit: https://www.adafruit.com/product/3686
I got it hooked up to a RaspberryPi that exposes sensor readings in Prometheus format.
You're me. Our new office has glass walls. Makes me feel uneasy.
Its no madder than it was 10 years ago.
I've yet to meet a programmer who strongly defends open offices. They seem to range from "doesn't mind it" to "literally unable to tolerate it."
CloudFormation Third Party Resources
Sounds rough, good luck coping. I think you're on the right track with prioritizing break time. The more stressful something is the more of a need to cooldown afterwards.
I looked this up and all I could find was [0], saying there are a small number of households using it in Pennsylvania. As for the rest of PA and New England, natural gas is the norm and I haven't heard of anyone using coal. Houses that don't have natural gas lines use storage tanks in the yard that are topped off by a delivery truck every couple months.

[0]: https://www.npr.org/2019/03/03/699325560/for-the-few-who-hea...
Martin Shkreli's Petition for a writ of certiorari denied
Just wanted to say thank you for putting out such a great product. I recently used the freely available information on ipinfo to help with a security investigation. I will definitely be picking up a subscription!
Lyft to Pull Out of Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport
It frustrates me that there are so many of these networks and they don't talk to each other. I deliberately went with a system that measures multiple values, but then I see other people going "we only measure one thing instead of nine so our units cost half as much".

I should try to script at least my systems so they write into as many of the open networks as I can manage.

https://www.uradmonitor.com/
Digital Sharecropping (2006)
The author is an asshole. Happy?
All the cash flooding in has impacted a lot of people by driving up the cost of living, especially in Vancouver.

Report finds $5B laundered through B.C. real estate in 2018
https://globalnews.ca/news/5259196/home-prices-in-metro-vanc...

Secret police study finds crime networks could have laundered over $1B through Vancouver homes in 2016
https://globalnews.ca/news/4658157/fentanyl-vancouver-real-e...

CRA (Canada's IRS) to cut managers, fold tax-evasion units, memo shows
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/cra-to-cut-man...

Entire cities appear poor on paper because of wide spread tax evasion.

Why does upscale neighbourhood appear 'poor' to tax officials?
https://vancouversun.com/life/richmond-3-why-does-upscale-ne...

Richmond is majority Chinese.
>nine of 10 recent Chinese immigrants arrive in Metro Vancouver with enough money to immediately buy homes. But only half hold down jobs during their first five years in Canada, while four of 10 report they’re surviving on low incomes.
https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/douglas-todd-how...
I would recommend starting with the server-side variant of Blazor on a non-production test app to familiarize yourself. You can easily move to client-side WASM mode once you need to (or feel comfortable doing so) without any major changes to your codebase.

Our long term plans (aka by end of 2020) are to rewrite all of our internal tooling from SPA (RiotJS) w/ JSON APIs to server-side Blazor. The principal motivations here are productivity gains. It is a LOT faster to write a razor view in C# with direct invocation of your business logic from view logic, than it is to determine what a clean JSON API contract looks like, write all the boilerplate for controllers, and then play the back-and-forth game between chrome devtools and visual studio with 2 separate debugging contexts. After you write your first LINQ .Where().Select() to populate a table in Blazor, you will truly understand what I am getting at in terms of productivity if you have ever tried to do the same sort of filter->map stuff in JS.

With Blazor, I only need to know C#, HTML, CSS and just enough JS to write a blazorhelper.js interop which reads and writes my session cookies. I set 1 breakpoint in visual studio and it gets hit when I press some button in the browser.

With SPA, I have to be at the top of my JS game, and also pull some SPA framework into my mental context which must then be shared with all of the other C# business logic in scope. I have to manage breakpoints in the browser as well as in visual studio. I have to deal with 10-100x the amount of JS code.

Additionally, we don't even want to move to client-side variants of Blazor for our use case. First request latency and security are the 2 largest motivators for us here. Server-side exposes precisely zero things to the client you didn't want to, as opposed to SPA which makes even unauthenticated clients download your entire application. Also, "the server" is substantially faster these days (even more so going into 2020 on AMD's warpath). For the number of concurrent clients we are anticipating, server-side Blazor is actually our best option in terms of UX.

I would be curious what aspect of Blazor feels immature to you. It is certainly a new(ish) thing, but the fundamental aspects of it (especially server-side mode) have been around for decades and microsoft has leveraged a lot of existing or otherwise proven ideas here. I would agree on the client-side aspect being "immature" relative to server-side, mostly due to WASM and the need to push a very large payload to the client upon first request.
I was curious to see how users interacted with my site so I implemented Segment analytics. I wasn't able to find a free data visualizer for my analytics, so I'm creating my own. The goal is to simply enter your AWS credentials, and let the software do the rest. This is part one of the project: turning the raw logs into useful JS objects.

Part two will be creating a front-end dashboard to visualize the data. So far I'm looking at adding a log of actions by unique users, total # of visits to each page, total # of unique tracked actions, and a graph that shows traffic over time. Is there anything else you think might be interesting to visualize?
Isn't this bullshit?

Apple Forces Recyclers to Shred All iPhones and MacBooks - https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/yp73jw/apple-recycling-ip...

Anyway, the best waste is the one that does not exist, recycling should be last resort since it's often far from perfect and costly too. So we should reduce the amount of things we need to recycle in the first place. As for computer parts, I cannot see how it can be efficient.

Reusing working stuff is good though, obviously.
Non-option, half of Intel's business is spying on users. Who would they sell the backdoors for IME to otherwise?
> Individual coal burning is a huge problem because homes don't have the same environmental regulations or efficiency of a coal power plant.

Maybe a huge problem for those with coal burning stoves, but overall this is 0.1% of houses, and 50% of those are in Pennsylvania.

Compared to the huge amount of coal burned for electricity, that's a drop in the bucket, and most likely used because or the homeowner loves coal for some reason, or doesn't want to, or cant upgrade to a fuel like natural gas, propane, or wood pellets.

https://forgreenheat.blogspot.com/2017/06/trends-in-heating-...
> Given that OSX and Linux are so similar under the hood and that standing up a VM is so easy

Similar in what way?
i have a similar pair, very comfortable and very effective
How is what you described different from TV?

On TV, you can target so many demographics indirectly by buying ads on shows they like. Companies like Nielson have been reporting on the demographics watching shows for decades. You can also target geographically at least down to the county-ish level.

TV stations and Google both know who is watching what and selling access to their customers to advertisers. Google might be a bit more sophisticated than TV, but besides "retargeting" (following you around different sites) they use the same basic techniques and offer the same things to Advertisers
Identity is dead. Get over it. (2006)
> media corporations aren't actually corporations

That's actually not something I argued, although I understand there's a subthread or something about it.

> More essential though was the unquestioning acceptance of the mainstream media's power to selectively report the facts they considered most pertinent, to decide the issues of the day by choosing what to report and what not to report, and to establish governing narratives around their coverage. There is an enormous degree of power that the media can and does exercise in this fashion. Today that power is much less centralized than it once was. I consider this a net good, and am suspicious of any nostalgia for the days of greater centralization.

I'm not sure how much I actually agree or disagree because you're being so blatantly hyperbolic ("unquestioning acceptance," etc.) about things that frankly aren't key to what I believe is the interesting point.

Decentralization and news apart from the mainstream media seems like it should be be a great benefit. Like them or not, it was never a good situation that GE owned NBC, one family owned the Washington Post, or whatever. The trouble is, one thing that has not happened has been greater empowerment of small newspapers and local journalists who are best positioned to serve their communities. They're simply being driven out of business by large companies.

On the other hand, "mainstream media" is often just code for non-conservative media, whatever exists outside of Fox, Sinclair Broadcast Group, and assorted AM radio garbage. If that's how you look at things, the "mainstream media" is definitely losing some market share and mindshare.

> It took a few years, but the ultimate outcome of the Vietnam War was probably sealed at that moment, and everybody including President Johnson and Walter Cronkite himself knew it.

Johnson made a comment to the effect that he'd just lost the war, but when it came to war fighting, Johnson was honestly quite an idiot. The ultimate outcome of the war had many more years to be determined and a lot of other people had their say, including, you know, the enemy.
He seems to hint a bit what he meant in this HN comment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11946935.

Also remember that what most people think of Smalltalk (ie Smalltalk-80) doesnt seem to be what AK thinks of Smalltalk (I get the feeling that the Smalltalk-72 approach is closer to the ideals he had in mind).
Seven things you should know if you're starting out programming (2011)
> It happened swiftly (no pun intended [1]), there was no discussion, only power.

Not trying to take a stance on the wisdom of these policies, but this is a nice example of how realpolitik/power-politics/game-of-thrones is still how the international world works.
Doubt it's actually huge, probably insignificant compared to corporate polluters using other sources of energy. Would be interesting to see the comparison in pollutants released by coal homes and corporate polluters.
The stage light flaw. Happened because Apple made the cable between the mainboard and the display panel in too short. Excacerbated because Apple soldered the cable to the display panel turning a $6 repair into a $600 repair.

Rossman's video from January details the stupidity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzjoELvrkYo
I had a quick peak at the web server log, it's tiny. The typical legitimate egress from this network is likely somewhere well under 1gb/day, yet somehow these people managed to upload at least 2TB without being noticed

In a well-maintained network an upload like this should have paged someone as it was happening, probably sometime in the first 5-10 minutes. Say your outbound pipe was 100mbit, if it is pegged for 15 minutes I can't see any reason why a small installation like this wouldn't want to know they've just spat out 11GB of data for some unknown reason

Even divvying things up over 14 days (per the age of the data), its still around 6GB/day. This should have shown up in a monitoring graph somewhere, or triggered a page
Existing banks' customer service totally sucks. These tech-focused banks have an enormous opportunity to just provided better customer service. Insightful article, I never thought about interchange as a business model.
The Actor conceptional model had not yet been developed when SmallTalk-72 was designed following on SmallTalk-71. Later versions of SmallTalk after SmallTalk-72 adopted the Simula object model. Actors were developed for concurrency, which was entirely lacking from Simula. Also, Simula had procedures attached to the class hierarchy instead of Actor message handlers, which initially seemed like a subtle distinction that grew in importance.
But heaven forbid you question the wisdom of these sorts of immigration policies, because if you do you must be a evil bad mean racist.

Edit, sure, downvote away. Even if the government prosecuted everyone who did this 100% fairly, the police and government would endlessly be called racist for targeting minorities. It's absurd.
This sounds like something I'm now suffering from, after a head injury in March. Loud places make me uncomfortable in a way they didn't before. The nature of the sound doesn't matter much.
Ruby-next: Run modern Ruby code in older versions and alt implementations
Curious, did you notice the cognitive effect yourself?
>“I believe the Canada companies … are managed in a way that the administrators simply declare annually NO-ACTIVITY. In other words, they cheat a bit,”

So the trick to using canada as a tax haven, is to lie on your taxes? I feel like that approach also works in other countries
Damn, I’m about to go to Mexico City—was planning to stay for a few months, but I hate dirty air. Is it like that all over the city, or just certain parts?
It has never, at any point since the introduction of electronic transfers, made the slightest bit of sense for 'payment processing' services to charge a fee which scales based upon the amount being transacted. Yet, every means of transferring money has always come with a percentage-based fee. This isn't just a simple matter of rent-seeking on the part of the financial class. It's outright dangerous, and really shouldn't be tolerated by any government. The cost to transfer money does not scale based upon the size of the numbers involved. And as the vast majority of transactions overall in our economy are now electronic, this puts payment processors essentially in the role of taxing authorities. They have the power to counteract the monetary policies of the government should they feel like doing so. Imagine if the Federal Reserve decided to print more money in order to encourage lending or something like that, but the CEOs of the largest payment processors disagreed. They could simply raise their processing fees, making it more expensive for money to be used, compensating and making the actions of the Fed ineffective. There is no law preventing them from doing this, as far as I know, and it would have immediate monumental impact on the economy.

That's a juicy target. Any company willing to clear those regulatory hurdle gets to become not just a company, but effectively a taxing authority.
Its not a stupid question. How do you go from 900 meters per second to 6.5 km/s in a few moments without being turned into chunky salsa?
What do you consider extreme inflation?
Same difference, no?
Good question and were adding more to the about page with this info very soon. For the moment we are planning on affiliate links as revenue. If your link so happens to be one of our affiliates (ie amz or etsy) we'll add the link with ours on it.
Also eventually we will try to do ads that are non-personalized and only related to search, but for posts from ppl on the platform for local areas (they will provide location and so will the users using the site in the settings menu).
We like privacy and dont want to know what song you sing in the shower to sell you soap!
Attackers using WhatsApp MP4 video files vulnerability can remotely execute code
> This isn't true in any reasonable sense,

> overall, they release less radiation joule for joule.

How is that not a "reasonable sense"? Less radiation joule per joule seems to me like a reasonable measure as "less radioactive overall"
> place to store anonymously your illicit cash

What if I just want a place to anonymously store my legally gained cash?

Unfortunately, it seems the normal people lost their privacy nowadays at the expense of the criminals and the "If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear" argument has taken a stronghold in the financial sector.
Mehhhh. BERT is mind blowing, Waymo has started fully driverless service.
Perhaps when we commit code, we should have a script that adds "this code was written at x ppm CO2" to the commit message :)
You can make your own gum.

https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Chewing-Gum

There doesn't seem to be any known interaction with gum base.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3544094/
VRChat has community of Deaf users who communicate with unique, VR-based signs
This is not a problem in a rich country, in fact I don't understand why America is still on coal. Perhaps fund some modern-age infrastructure improvements as a part of fiscal stimulus in the next economic downturn?

Think about developing countries where people could not afford to improve their infrastructure. That's the real deal.
Apple's New Map: Midwest and Western U.S.
Blue and green switches are inappropriate for a shared office, but if you get brown switches and install sound dampeners then they can be as quiet as a normal keyboard.
Google Stadia launch review: Gaming’s “future” looks rough in the present
How common? It seems like it would be cheaper for most parts of the country to install electric baseboards than to ship in the coal you'd need for the winter.