skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My tax bill tells me otherwise. The interest on my home loan does not and cannot erase my taxes. That deduction is not what you think it is:
https://www.fool.com/millionacres/taxes/real-estate-tax-dedu...

My home happens to include Mello-Roos taxes for local improvements, like schools and a fire station. This more than doubles the property tax that I pay.

Sorry to tell you, I don't have it anything like FedEx. I paid over 26% of my gross income on taxes last year.
> Google and Facebook want a federal privacy law, as long as it doesn’t disrupt their data collection and advertising empires, critics say.

Impossible. That sentence literally contradicts itself. The real question is why we allow companies to be non profit, yet be shills for the like of Google and Facebook while pretending they are doing a public service. A company cannot be fully focused on privacy and take money from Google, fb, etc. Even Mozilla can't fully pull that off although they come pretty close.
Audiophile perspective:
Even though i like the idea of ANC , it can fail in so many places. If you want something that can block noises, i would consider going for noise isolation instead.
Shure earbuds offer great isolation. But they tend to have flatter bass. Shure SE535 is a great balanced one but expensive a little.

Sony’s ANC is your bet if you are looking for ANC headphones. Any of their line has a good implementation.

For overly expensive ANC, you can try the AKG noise cancellation headphones. They are extremely expensive to the point i don’t recommend them
The hard limit on naval radar is the horizon which is determined by the height of the mast it's mounted on so much of the sea's surface at any given time isn't actually covered by radar. Even when a ship happens to be on radar there's no indication of what ship it is without a transponder like AIS.
You say 100's of directories, but only have one (maybe?) listed, and not one of the top 3? For $100, without knowing what you will write or any examples
Why do you have trouble understanding that knowing that light doesn't travel instantaneously?
It would get really dirty before you realized it. With a white toilet, it's really obvious when it needs to be cleaned.
Google uses a metric called termination of search.

Did the user visit a page and cease searching for a given query? Great, the page answered the users question.

Did they visit a page, bounce, and keep on searching?

Well that page didn't answer the users query.

Maybe there has been an uptick in people googling "US ambassador Germany" and looking for news articles about Ukraine and the impeachment hearings.
Sony WH-1000XM3: I've used several ANC headphones before. None of those come close to this. Sound quality is extremely good too. Good battery life. A 15 minutes charge gives me 5 hours of playback.
On the negatives: A bit heavier than Bose headphones but not by much. The "touch control" is sometimes annoying to use.
Do you have any evidence to support that? The Google documentation indicates quotes are still the exact match operator https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en
Now now, the Nvidia chipsets were highly coveted for both Intel and AMD.
Your situation is so absurd that I'm immediately reminded of the film "Joe vs. the Volcano".

I think everyone here wishes you the best of luck.
For one thing, since pot takes a long time to leave your system, police could probably pull over every single patron and they'd meet the legal definition of a marijuana DUI.
Yeah, nothing to learn from this page. But I can not undo my upvote. I was hopping to see either a comparison of established services (Abbyy, Google Cloud Vision, OCR.space,...) or, even better, an insightful report from a Tesseract developer.
Acknowledging that newspapers are just as biased as religious texts would be fine.
Run this experiment:

1) Subscribe to NYT

2) Notice they are still serving you ads

3) Try to cancel your subscription
Yes. Or at least, it wouldn't be nearly as bad as the working class exploitation and public resources theft through tax evasion the super rich practice daily. But don't worry, the super rich houses are very well guarded, no way they'll let any lowlife or hip explorer in.
Do you think corrupt governments, that also happen to be the largest polluters in the world will participate with a carbon tax honestly and in good faith?
Huh.. your experience sounds similar to mine, although I was a heavy smoker for ~10 years. I currently vape 3mg and a) my vape never leaves the house (I never vape at work or around town) b) I often forget about vaping c) I left on a two week vacation, forgot my vape at home and nothing happened. I have the exact same craving sensation 'would have been nice to have a vape right now', usually when I'm bored. But I am a strong advocate against smoking (obviously) and vaping. Nobody should pick up vaping unless it's to attempt to give up smoking. It's still a nasty habit and super dangerous. When I say dangerous I mean the fact that in contrast to smoking, vaping has the risk of becoming a hobby.
In my experience, you are focusing on the wrong question.
Fedora Devs Looking to Change Default Editor from Vi to Nano
its not a bool, its a scale. I do concentrator work just fine in a distracting environment. Other "concentrators" get more pissed off about it than I do.
Why we, the search community, don’t believe the WSJ about Google search
Currently I'm also using VueJs, but there are benefits of having one language for both the front and backend.

With Blazor you can also share your models and other code if needed.
>No matter where they operate, it hasn't been good.

That's what the rich hand powerful want you to think. But the facts don't support it. Look at any of the other top western democracies. You know, the ones with longer lifespans, more upward mobility, happier populations, better infrastructure, better education, and so on.

I'm not suggesting that those countries are perfect or that there aren't gross inefficiencies, but the widespread belief that good government is basically impossible, so why even try is mostly an American (right wing) phenomenon.

Other top-tier western style democracies, despite their many imperfections, are doing just fine.
How Flu Spreads
Share what motivates you to be doing your work. If you are trying to motivate them to make more money, what do you think makes them some sort of different creature with some sort of differing motivation ?
Yeah this still has the horizontal scrollbar on a 920px wide browser window on desktop. People really need to cut it out with this though. There's no guideline on not using monospaced lists, and you're not the grandmaster of hackernews, so bugger off and just don't read the comment if you don't like it.
I would be interesting in opening up debates like those you mentioned. The hard part would be attracting the average person and not just people with extreme or conspiracy-theorists views
The Mustang Mach-E is the shape of the electric future
Edifier W860NB. I never wore anything more comfortable on my head. It's half as cheap as the popular mentions here (bose and sony), but the sound quality is miles better.
They do - bose qc20 have changed my life for the better.

I did work short term in an open office where someone suggested it was "rude" of me to wear earphones. Same person chewed with their mouth open while eating crunchy food at their desk all day, within earshot. But.... I'm rude somehow.
> I would personally would prefer GPL-license under organization that can sell different licenses. If a company don't want to use GPL, they can buy commercial license and developers get money.

At first blush that idea makes sense, but the problem there is that we've already tried that, and it failed miserably.

I think that one fundamental problem that would need addressing is how to make it not a PITA to administer, and a hassle for everyone involved: Maintainers of small projects aren't necessarily looking to embark on a proper business enterprise, contributors don't necessarily want to have to digest the implications of the license, nobody wants to figure out how royalties for contributors would work - and with people potentially getting paid directly for the software, that's going to be a much thornier issue to negotiate than it is with the "closed source derivative works" thing that you get with permissive licenses - and licensees don't necessarily want to deal with an explosion of payments to manage.

I also suspect there's a sort of prisoner's dilemma from the business perspective. If we all share some permissively licensed open source projects, we can all come out ahead and achieve a very efficient pooling of development resources. If someone wants to go dual GPL/commercial, though, it may well be cheaper for me to implement my own version of the, say, 5% of some library that I actually need, than it is for me to pay a commercial license fee for the whole thing.
:-)

Yes, the name is a part joke...but also part serious:

Yes, Objective-C is Smalltalk added to C, so at that level it doesn't really make sense. It does signal that it is very similar to Objective-C, but no longer with "C" as the base and Smalltalk added on top, but instead Smalltalk as the base with some ability to branch "down" to C. So same programming model, different emphasis.

That's one part of it.

The other part is realising that Brad Cox was after the concept of a Software-IC[1], and dynamic messaging was just one possible IC/Module interconnection mechanism. I like the description of Objective-C as "COM with language support".

Objective-Smalltalk extends what the "Objective" part means to cover pretty much any sort of architectural connector, in order to avoid architectural mismatch caused by our implementation mechanisms not matching the structure of the systems we want to build.

[1] https://blog.metaobject.com/2019/03/software-ics-binary-comp...
We had a guy who narrated whatever he was doing, in third person. Let's call him Bob. Suppose Bob needed to FTP a file from a server, print it, staple the pages together, and then give it to me.

During this entire process, Bob would talk, saying something like this:

> Bob is starting the FTP program. Bob is typing his name and password. Bob is starting the file transfer. Bob's exiting. Bob is selecting the file and printing it. Bob is selecting two sided printing. Bob has sent the file to the printer. Now Bob is walking to the printer. Bob is picking up the sheets. Bob is looking for a stapler. Bob found it, and is stapling the sheets. Bob is walking to tzs' desk. Bob's handing the printout to tzs.
The landscape that Intel dominated has changed completely and they have not. They're like Microsoft without Azure, without Office, without Xbox... they have one meaningful product: CPUs and their GPU is a six-months to a year out for a v1 which will probably not be very great.

If either Microsoft or Apple had continued to only have one meaningful product they'd both be shells of who they are now.
Tesseract is the only open-source OCR package that I am aware of. If anyone knows anything else, I would be very curious as well.
Even if they performed as advertised, it's not the only problem from this pattern. The bigger issue is how in our society giving away money somehow magically washes away all the harm done.

Here's the pattern: "First, do some harm. Reap gains from it. Then atone, and reap power from the atonement."

Anand Giridharadas has this all down. Best book you can read right now if you're interested in this topic.
I have Momentum 3 and I'm quite disappointed. Sound quality is cheap, I get headache & hot spots after a couple hours, and there are issues with stuttering (bluetooth) or completely cutting out (bluetooth, USB) as well as noise cancellation randomly turning off and sometimes music playback stopping. These are the first pair of headphones I need to reboot every once in a while. Also sometimes they connect in a weird state that gives very shitty sound quality, again resolved by reboot & reconnect... Sigh

Having to fold them to turn them off is just silly too.
The NYT is a public corporation. About 1/6 of it is owned by Carlos Slim, a billionaire member of the “business elite”.

Does the NYT deliver higher quality reporting than Alex Jones? Yes, of course they do, but they are neither perfect nor omniscient nor unbiased nor purely virtuous in their motivations.

Let’s turn this around, shall we? When the public implicitly trusts media corporations that are operated for profit and owned by billionaires, they are doomed to authoritarian rule, most likely by leaders backed by the business elite that owns and operates these media corporations in the first place.

Implicit trust of any institution is a shortcut to authoritarian rule. And every authoritarian justifies themselves by accusing others of being a greater threat. The only proper attitude for a free people is to distrust and resist any institution that holds or seeks power, and that includes the mainstream press.
Czech Government Backs 7% Digital Services Tax on Tech Giants
There are success stories in the past about how things have improved. And it seems like the only way was when leaders didn't frame the issue to focus on themselves or their party, but about the people and the country.
Chika Ofili: 12-year-old Nigerian awarded for making mathematics easy to learn
> Not immoral or illegal, but using human raters to seed an algorithm can make the results worse

...versus asking an oracle what the "good" results are? It's not clear what you'd propose as an alternative.
I'm not suggesting it would be on purpose. Trust must have some subconscious effect.
> Why wouldn't IQ tests be great for studying short term cognitive effects?

IQ testing is designed to test for intelligent behaviour, which is largely based on long-term neurological development. The connections in the brain, densities of neurons, and long-term potentiations don't change greatly on a short-term basis. Measures which fluctuate based on spot-performance factors are typically deemed unreliable for the purpose of IQ testing.

Cognitive deficits caused by exposure to drugs and other substances tend to impact functioning of the neurons, and are detrimental to measures of intelligence, but are more appropriately measured by more specific tests, which focus on factors such as reaction time, or motor accuracy. Consider the cognitive tests performed by police when driving under the influence of alcohol is expected, for instance. Such cognitive tests also help provide a clearer picture of how a substance affects the brain.
>I'm curious if anyone in the pro-Fedex crowd can provide evidence to the contrary

I'm not sure I'm "pro-Fedex", but:

"stock buybacks, which boost a company’s stock price and market value"

Stock buybacks do not increase the company's market value. Cash goes out, stock comes in. Balance sheet is the same.

My second point would be: is 2 years long enough to determine the effects of the tax cut? Companies the size of Fedex can't make massive changes to budgets overnight.
I work in an open office with 5 other programmers around, and none of us are bothered by each other's mechanical keyboards. We have a mix of Cherry Blues and Browns. We all agree that it's the least annoying thing about our open office.

It's a shared cultural thing unique to each company, no need to cast a blanket statement.
Choice quote for the article:

>Mostly, what Lowell Cafe taught me is that I am getting old. I can’t tell you how long we stayed at the cafe, though I doubt we came near to reaching our allotted 90 minutes.

A guy that used to smoke copious amounts of weed before he was 21, once again dives into the culture, with an inept guide, and quickly succumbs to the potency of modern strains.

It would be nice to have a counter-take from his friend who was supposed to be his guide (and did a terrible job from what I could see).

And I totally agree with the commenter who said the cafe should offer strains of lesser potency - and also have a staff knowledgable enough to guide people towards strains suited to their background and needs/wants. It does sound like the cafe has work to do in this regard and I would say this aspect would be a good take-away review, but instead the author just focused on his own negative reaction to super-strong weed his friend suggested.

Bummer.
Swedish Central Bank Breaks Up with Polluting Companies
Ray Dalio – The World Has Gone Mad and the System Is Broken
The Looking Glass only has 45 discrete views projected across 50 degrees (25 degrees left and right of center). I have one of the smaller ones and it's a very nice effect, but it's not the same as a "real" hologram.
I don't know why, but this argument seems to be perennial when it comes to FOSS. It's not just from the copyleft side; the recent Commons Clause debacle read something like "to keep our software free, we're going to sell proprietary access to it a little bit".

I understand the central complaints that it's hard to keep the lights on writing FOSS, and that when FOSS isn't winning, ideological purity can marginalize it where compromises might do more good overall. But those discussions aren't helped by a baffled "why don't you just accept this?" framing. Disputes like the one between FSF and OSI are explicit about acknowledging and analyzing the tradeoffs between approaches. Nonspecific "FOSS isn't winning!" arguments instead rely on the dodge of "we need to do something and this is something", without stopping to justify what's being changed or why.
Also not OK!
I think you're right. But commenter disagrees: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21566256

Likely because they didn't actually check the context.
The next logical step is for Chick-fil-A to be open on Sundays. As it is, they have thrown away the kernel but are still clutching onto the husk.
Why doesn't the huge, expensive, sophisticated, and quite useless US Navy interdict these mystery ships? You only need the permission of a ship's registered country to interdict it if that ships is flying a true flag. Otherwise it's just pirates. This would give the USN a worthwhile mission for the first time in decades.
I know a financial institution where some backup jobs are controlled by a 2 decade old NT4 machine.
I also use yEd for UML and other related diagrams. As mentioned the auto-organization is great, and you can also separately re-route signals and labels.

I have used yEd for hardware diagrams as well, although I still haven't found a great way to draw out busses of signals between nodes (to be clear I haven't found anything besides manual drawing which works!)
> Why wouldn't it be the hipster's fault?

You would be reasonable to think that, but it's pretty much up in the air who gets held to account. It depends on the specifics of the situation, the lawyers of both sides and the stakes involved.

This is a problem with abandoned heavy industrial facilities. The owners make themselves generationally rich from that business. And then, when it loses profitability, they close the facility and let it rot (perhaps changing the property ownership several times). A huge facility in a place where people live just rusting away to nothing, too expensive to demolish, unusable for other purposes, just sitting there as a sign of that community's economic implosion. This is the kind of stuff that conditions people's judgment of the property owners. There is a reasonable point of concern there and it can pop out when somebody gets hurt exploring that place.
This is a temporary tax till 2024. It is expected EU will introduce its own tax. It is also an informal pressure on EU leaders.
A Blind Man Sees His Birthday Candles Again, Thanks to a Bionic Eye
Open Source Dating App
Hey guys,

A colleague of mine and I began working on a dating app on our spare time. We had what we think is a novel idea which moves away from cookie-cutter tinder and bumble concept.

We've both gotten pretty busy with work and other projects and had trouble sourcing another iOS dev who wanted to work for free.

So like most projects that are somewhat abandoned we opened sourced it and threw it on the internet.

The application is written in Golang taking a microservice approach. There is a portion of an iOS application plugged in but definitely not finished.

We may work on the code on and off, its there for a reference architecture, examples of Golang code, or just to muck around with.

Currently hosted on gitlab.
My Github Handle: ldelossa
Colleague GithubHandle: mkapnic

https://gitlab.com/michaelk99/saturdate

Enjoy.
> One of the ways they saved a lot of money was investing a lot into assets for which they could deduct 100% of future depreciation immediately.

Yup, which also means subsequent year taxes will be higher, because the assets are fully tax depreciated.
True, but states have rules, and in a democracy we as people determine the rules (in theory). Individuals as powerful as a state on the other hand have no rule. I want to have a say on what our resources are used for, not leave the decision to an individual who by the way has very probably got rich through morally questionable business practices.
Thank you for providing evidence. That's certainly a much larger capital investment than the NYT has ever made. Why is this downvoted when the parent comment asked for proof?
Taxes suck, no denying it. Thankfully where I live its relatively easy to find nice properties with long tax abatement for investment. Beyond that max your 401k, IRA, HSA and live or "live" somewhere with low taxes
Counterpoint: John von Neumann, arguably one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, claimed to do some of his best work in front of the TV. In my personal experience, I know plenty of engineers who don't mind noise. I think it's a personal thing more than anything and it's hard to generalize.
If I were NYT I would make that article free and advertise it more
I think you've got some cocktail party effect going on there.

Conversely, one of the most distracting things for me is barely hearing people talking. My brain keeps trying to interpret the murmuring as words before it can reject it.
Centaur’s new CPU is the first x86 with an AI co-processor
It appears that you are primarily focused on biz2biz is that correct? If so, I couldn't find much on the site related to what guarantees your company provides. For example, what happens if you give me a "certified breakdown" of an AWS terms sheet and it turns out to be wrong or missing information that costs my company a lot of money?
You don’t have to care, and it’s not my issue. It is the reason articles like this are relevant at all.

If it was generally accepted that Google is just another biased actor, there wouldn’t be any news to this.

I‘m just pointing out that your comments are irrelevant to the general complaint here.

It’s seems to be a curious behavior of your that you write elaborate comments about things you don’t care about.
That's a great point, and something I have not considered.

It's a big oversight, I'm sorry about that. Let me think about it.

There must be a way to do this.
I’m not defending this Apple decision, but in general I’m very tired and annoyed with hardware that insists on unnecessary apps. Especially when they are 5% useful and 95% data mining.

Both Bose and Sony were found to be scraping listener data via their apps. I believe these are both optional for now, but companies keep normalizing apps being required and I’m very uncomfortable with it.