skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't buy it.

I heard the same complaints when we went from Apple II to Macintosh, from 68K to PPC, from Finder to MultiFinder, from OS 9 to OS X, and so on. At each stage, the CPU and RAM became less of a free-for-all and more of a system where you were only allowed certain operations. (Yeah, protected memory is terrible for hacking! Sorry.)

And yet, somehow, we survived. Security got better, and usability (generally) got much better in other areas to compensate. Life is better all around when you can tell the computer accurately what you mean, instead of relying on your ability to jump across layers willy-nilly.

You're describing possible solutions using current technologies. None of those (except perhaps "users", in some form) are inherent to the design of a security model. We only have them because they were a convenient way to implement our current security model on top of the operating systems we've got now. At some point, we aren't going to be solve all our problems by adding more layers to a 1972 design. I can think of many security models which could offer better usability than SELinux or "mashing the 'allow' button".
I think taxes is already so high that half of person earnings goes to retards in government.

Why do we pay taxes?
I know many people that have close to 0 benefits from government.

I would propose all governments to make taxes 5% or 10% and remove themselves from governing.
Its quite funny that America was once heavily criticized for meddling in other country's affairs and inviting their hatred in return (pre 9/11 days). And now, they are criticized for exactly the opposite thing: Just minding their own business and securing it from outsiders!
You can't really compare BMW and Google. Google provides a service, BMW sells goods.

Services are usually taxed at the point of delivery, goods are usually taxed at the point of import or on the manufacturers net profits based on where they are based. Either way, taxes are paid, directly or indirectly.

With Google the situation is such that all their income is abroad, and the service is free so not taxable. This is arguably a situation that the present day tax regime did not foresee so an adjustment is logical. A similar thing has happened inside the EU with respect to transnational sales tax. See MOSS.
Right in the readme it describes how to launch interactively via `safelife play puzzles`
> It is therefore unreasonable for there to be any negative consequences whatsoever for waiting until there is a legal expert present.

You don't need to be a legal expert to answer basic questions from a Police officer about did you do something or were you in a location at a time. They aren't lawyers either! And I didn't say you couldn't ask for a lawyer and wait for one to turn up before answering...

But if they charge you for speeding, and then you wait six months until the trial, and claim only at that point that you weren't the one driving. Come on... that's a waste of society's time.
I don't think it's that — it's that the Supreme Court has become the unchallengeable super-legislature, and thus both sides of any issue desperately want to get their guys onto the court, so that they can get the laws they wish to pass.

It's a weird sort of legislature, though. It doesn't have the ability to originate laws itself: third parties have to propose laws to it. And those proposals have to be in the form of arguments that the actual laws passed by the legislative branch are unconstitutional. Once a party has managed to phrase his proposed law in that fashion, though, the Supreme Court is practically capable of passing any law, repealing any law, revoking any provision of the Constitution and amending the Constitution in any way it wants.

It's an odd system.
Assembling a phone is a lot harder than assembling a tower PC.
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In other words, the end customer down the line pays.
There was a time when people came freely across the seas, and there were no passports or citizenship documents. In many places it wasn't even that long ago, 100 years or less. You just had to speak the language to make it, or find your community. If you didn't, you'd often become a slave (or were brought in as one).

But we live in a different world today, and there needs to be reasonable means to control immigration in the way modern countries have evolved to operate. I got a visa in New Zealand once and need to get my FBI fingerprints, a chest x-ray and blood tests.

You might disagree with certain policies, and there should be a legal means for more migrant labor for certain farm and factory fields to come in to meet the demand, but blanket "ICE bad" is just a weird stance to take. As the son of a legal immigrant, and someone who has gone through another county's immigration process, I think it's a little bonkers.

There are also plenty of legal refugee status programs (although some are difficult to find and yes, border security may deter people from the right locations/checkpoints to apply -- different problem really). Many undocumented workers come across the borders with their passports and just overstay (and we should have a way to give them actual work visas if they have passports, no criminal record and there is demand).

Well what about the war and crime and people escaping, you ask? Here's a better solution. The United States should stop buying ALL THE COCAINE and also put in actual gun registration so the big gun companies can't make as much money with their massive smuggling programs:

https://battlepenguin.com/politics/america-and-the-mexican-d...
If 0.1mm error is too big to assemble enclosure, that design may not survive handling by users or temperature changes. Screen will crack.
Securing a border != imprisonning children and separate them from their family
> makes hiring more difficult

I wouldn't want to work at a company that would so readily bend over for this hysterical mob, it kinda cuts both ways.
I am not sure about your impression. Maybe there are some people against all enforcement, but most people think there should be some balance between locking a person up for crimes, and treating a person humanely, like you said.

Society is us, and some of us have opinions about what we should look like. The critics are just that. They probably understand that in our society, there's an obligation to make the most money. But they also feel other moral obligations.

The critics and the not-critics generate this tension, and that can help us collectively figure out what we should look like.

The point being, shareholder obligation, and the belief in sovereignty and geo-political borders are only some pieces of what is ultimately a very deep question of who we, as a society, want to be. And I hope you appreciate that some critics, even the most extreme ones, are trying to answer that question.
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A fair number of Conservatives would take issue with that statement! And they have a damn good case.
Essential skills every Linux system administrator should have
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"There are lots of valuable links that never gained traction."

Content is king, there's probably a great website to be made {hoover|dyson|vacuum}ing up amazing lost links.
SSH to remote hosts though a proxy or bastion with ProxyJump
I am using redux-starter-kit in one of my projects and I was curious about the "Redux Toolkit" package you mentioned. I have somehow missed the change of name, but I find it more fitting now. Highly recommended, even for experienced Redux users.
I agree, FreeBSD (FreeNAS) doesn’t play well with it and iSCSI did not work well according to a lot of forum postings and blogs. I wanted a robust NAS and doing it through a VM did not provide the peace of mind I was looking.

The only upside is now I can build a dedicated visualization machine or grab some old enterprise hardware from Craigslist. My wife is not so amused.
> assessing if they were actually important to begin with.

I've found answering "Is this important?" very hard. I find it much easier to answer "What is the impact if I do this?"
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> ...separating them from their families.

When given the opportunity, the Democratic representatives refused to support a bill that simply reversed that one Clinton-era decision that leads to the separation of children from the people who claim to be their guardians at the border (who are, as it turns out, often not).

Much noise has been made about using these children as bargaining chips, by both sides, but neither seems to be totally above it.
This has absolutely nothing to do with IP but everything to do with the delivery of services which are free, supplemented by advertising income accounted for abroad where it can not be taxed by the country where the service was delivered.

Looked at in a different way: if Google was a paid for service you could levy sales tax on that service.
Certainly runs on Raspberry Pi - there are several mentions to that effect.

Sadly I can't help you more - best ask on mailing lists[0] or on IRC[1].

Historically Plan 9 was developed from grounds up to support several architectures, so in this case you're really asking about drivers for specific peripherals.

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[0] http://mail.9fans.net/listinfo/9fans and http://lists.9front.org/

[1] #plan9 and #9front and #cat-v on irc.freenode.org
> There's also this ridiculously persistent anti electric vehicle roll coal trend happening right now on Tik Tok and platforms where the current fox tag objective a lot of people play on CB radios is to bag a Tesla - benchmark used to be to bag a Prius. I only know about this mainly because my old coworker commuted from Placerville to San Mateo and was obsessed with playing fox tag on his commutes (which would make sense if you're a mega commuter trying to stay awake so making up dumb nicknames with your friends and all keeping each other awake on your CB radios and talking as you drive sounds fun to you).

I don't really understand what this is. What do "fox tag" and "roll coal" mean?
It’s certainly newsworthy when a good trend is replaced with a bad trend.
If the files can be combined, the requests can be made simultaneously
No. "Hyphenating a word" here means when a whole word is split by a hyphen to continue on the next line of a justified column of text. In that case only, a long s is used before the hyphen.
"An elegant puzzle", "High output management" and "Behind Closed Doors" have all been useful to me.
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Maybe for a fee it's worth it.
This is just a government looking for another tax to levy on its people. Google and Amazon will not pay it. The consumers of services offered by those companies will pay it. If there is 3% tax on every google ad sold in Spain. All will Google do is add 3% to its prices for Spanish users.
Blame 4th generation information warfare for it. Each country has its own narrative about what goes around both within and outside her borders, and they want to adamantly stick to that narrative.

If their narrative loses to another country's, they simply cannot survive, either politically or morally. Even people are becoming part of this narrative wars these days, which is why each country is zealously guarding its borders from outsiders.
What's the difference between this and using Apollo Graphql for requests?
It's years since I read it but Gerald Weinberg's Becoming a Technical Leader. The best general book on leadership I've read for a while is Marquet's Turn the Ship Around – great also as an audiobook. I referenced the latter in my own Right to Left: The digital leader's guide to Lean and Agile (arguably a leadership book too)
Heh.

It means that there's a 5% probability that a result is outside the interval purely by random chance.
FBI confirm FaceApp is a 'significant counterintelligence threat'
I think that's plainly wrong.

1. There is no need for a bill to modify ICE misconducts
2. The bill was for financing ICE and help it amplify it's bad behaviors
3. When the democrats would not pay for inhumane ICE, the reps told everyone the dems were against every changement.
There are different systems in use today. In many other countries, judges/prosecutors are charged with much more of a "figure out the true facts of what happened; do justice" role than they are in the US system.

https://definitions.uslegal.com/i/inquisitorial-system/
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There's a basic example here transcribing from an audio file: https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/tree/v0.6.0/#project-d...

There are also examples transcribing from the microphone as I mentioned above: https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/tree/master/examples/

I also have a small GUI example here [0], click once to start recording, once again to stop and show transcript. It receives the same command line arguments as the ones shown in the README link above (namely --model, --lm and --trie).

The README starts with a very basic installation and usage guide, I don't see how that's assuming any expertise.

[0] https://github.com/reuben/ds-qttest
I think it was a comment about the UK no longer being a member of the EU soon (we shall see).
Regulated for what size person? The average ( then still too small for a good proportion ), or 60%, 70 or 80& of average?

Also people are different proportions - length v body, top versus bottom part of leg etc.

You might also deprive diminutive people one of their few perks - cheap and comfortable air travel :-)
I was a user of Maemo before the iPhone came out and it continued to be more capable than iOS and Android for years afterwards, and is arguably so today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maemo
Turn The Ship Around!: A True Story of Building Leaders by Breaking the Rules

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Turn-Ship-Around-Building-Breaking/...

HN post about this book recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21662941
I was working for a project with a small company in Scandinavia. For those unaware, Scandinavia as a region in Europe is very much pro socialist policies and pro work-life balance.

We got two consultants from the US of A and that was a hell of a month, constantly pushing us to overwork our employees, saying that we need to show them the carrot on the stick. Their idea was that people will work for 80 hours per week out of their own initiative because life is all about money made and time saved.

Whenever we would argue anything, they would start almost chanting Wolf of Wall Street style: "Time & money!". I've never felt more relieved to have someone leave as when they got back to the US. It took us almost half a year to get back on track after that whole shebang and the CEO still has nightmares of how much was payed for them to come there and bro up the place.

I was intending to write a short message but it turned into a little rant. What I mean to say is that yes, I believe you are correct and this American way of doing business is pushed around the world in what I think is a real bad direction for work-life balance.
If something is getting stolen so much, that indicates it's too expense for the society of exists in.
The best management book I read this year was "The Making of a Manager" by Julie Zhou [1]. The book is concise, clearly written and actionable. It's specifically written for first time managers and the author is a design lead at Facebook.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Making-Manager-What-Everyone-Looks/dp...
I'm not sure of the details of Spain's proposal but something needs to be done really to make taxation more fair. At the moment you get headlines like "Facebook paid just £28m tax after record £1.6bn revenues in UK" because they fiddle it with offshore tax havens while normal UK businesses have to pay more like 30% of their income in tax, not 1.7%.
You can't believe how selfish and awful people can be till you see it in person, but:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal
>It's significantly easier to get to team-based outcomes if you can adhere to a common platform.

Both the good outcomes and the bad outcomes. Cue the recent Slack WYSIWYG editor woes.

Slack used to have an IRC gateway, allowing anybody to peruse it from any OS, on any device, with any UX. The Slack corp. chose to supply UI for one popular platform (Electron), and cut off[1] any other means of access. This single platform focus did put Slack in full control of the UI and UX of the messenger, and able to force the WYSIWYG editor on all users.

Without the overwhelming dominance of one platform (Electron), Slack most probably would feel the need to maintain the fully featured IRC gateway, letting people interface with it fully via alternative means.

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[1] the APIs are un(der?)documented, changing, and you are on your own
They are generally more well-known so you might have heard of them already, but you might be interested in reading up on the tradition of the Griots in west Africa. Similarly to this example, it's oral tradition as a "family business" that is passed down through generations
The US Supreme Court has said that you must invoke your right to remain silent. It doesn't seem constitutional, but it is currently the law. (Salinas v. Texas and People v. Tom)
Re Mercury, on the San Jose side isn't there an old Mercury mine (Almaden Quicksilver Park). I'm not saying the fog doesn't carry anything bad but I think the region has a history too.
What happens when a fast train hits a moose or other large animal? Is the mass difference so huge that it's effectively like a car running over a squirrel?
I agree with his point, but I think that it's also important to note that there was a reason why 'tough on crime' was electoral gold for so long: the U.S. really did have a problem with violent crime (still does, in comparison to other countries, but it's a lot better now than it was).

There are a whole lot of reasons for that. Our history of racial injustice absolutely destroyed so many black communities, to a degree I hadn't appreciated before I considered it. Closing the asylums (which really were awful, but also really were needed) was another problem. The widespread attitude that the justice system is to punish the guilty rather than reform people who have done bad things is another. I suspect that the fact that Americans descend from folks who were so unusual that they fled across continents and oceans to get away from their communities can't possibly help.

But for all that, prior to the tough-on-crime movement we really did have a problem with real crime — by 'real' I mean crime with actual victims. Things are much better now, and we are much richer now, and so now we have the luxury of being smarter.
This is like peak HN contrarianism right here.
I don't know "fox tag" but here's rolling coal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal
An honest question - What outcomes would there be if countries like Spain decide one day to impose exorbant taxes, like those totalling $1b annually for Google?

Would it just be cheaper for these companies to pull out? And what international recourse would happen?
China, perhaps. Russia is in the doldrums.

The 'problem' with China is that it's an ethnostate, or wants to be. So in a practical sense most Westerners are better off fixing their allegiances to the US, for better or worse.

At least then you can be part of the apparatus and not pre-emptively sidelined. I like some aspects of China vs. the US too, but China is for the Chinese, as they say.
Passing the bar implies some level of technical competence. It doesn't say much about the service delivered to indigent defendants. I suspect it is a mix of overworked, burned out, jaded, pressure to take a plea deal to reduce load, etc.
Heh, I saw a comment the other day about Juicero that I particularly loved:

> Juicero wasn’t designed to squeeze juice out of packets of fruit. Juicero was designed to squeeze money out of VCs, and it did a great job of it!
+100 for this book. Absolutely amazing.
I would honestly just prefer to throw the click away if the thing it's going to send it to wasn't there when my brain decided to click.
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"Peopleware" is a great one -- https://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Teams-...
Uncertain about "fox tag", but to "roll coal" is to intentionally bork up the emissions of your car, leaving a black cloud of smoke and stench behind one's car.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal
GP's point is that the transcript did help.

> The shock and surprise of the accused was palpable from the transcript and believeable.
Well yes, people who already pay for external cloud providers running k8s for little business value is a meme at this point. If you are creating a cloud provider though then you're very much welcome to use k8s.
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[0] The Score Takes Care of Itself.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Score-Takes-Care-Itself-Philosophy/dp...
> Just fully switch to lualatex/biber/biblatex.

Is pdfTex clearly labeled "do not use" and development has stopped completely? Also, do lualatex/biber/biblatex all have feature parity and are clearly documented as the "true" latex projects that are the only ones which should be used currently?

If there weren't two "yes"'s in response then OP's clear criticism will remain a problem. It cannot be escaped by advising the user to jump to a different branch based off the last downside they happened to describe about their chosen branch. (E.g., "I want unicode" -> "use lualatex", "I want WYSIWYG" -> "use SwiftLatex", "But what about unicode" -> "use lualatex", ad infinitum)
And Spanish companies can enjoy operating under America’s new tariff (law).
Probably worth keeping in mind that Russian, Chinese, and American people are not their governments. I can't speak for Russia and China, but at least in the USA plenty of people detest their government for all the reasons you've mentioned. Even the "good" years with Obama, people are looking back on that era more cynically than they did at the time.
Ask HN: Alternative to Stripe?
I live in a country that Stripe, PayPal or any of the other payment processors support, so i am wondering what alternatives i have for me as an individual or for my business?

It is really frustrating because for me to have an online business i either have to be a partner with someone abroad and have them register a firm there that can take all the payments or i have to limit myself to B2B kinda service where i can send invoices to the clients manually.

Does anyone in a similar situation have any suggestions?
It’s no solution at all.

Firstly, you typically need more information than you have to spot a smart psychopath - the biggest clue is when they do harmful things, by which time it is too late.

Secondly - how do you keep them on a leash with no prisons?
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Hi HN! I started MeetingPlace 2 months ago after Meetup's $2 RSVP pricing test announcement, which didn't sit well with me at all as a group organizer: https://www.meetup.com/lp/payment-test-20191016

In just two months 65 groups have gone live, with over 450 people signing up - which I think is pretty awesome!

From a technical side, it uses Rails 6 with React for the tricky UI parts. ActionText is probably my favorite new rails feature for the rich text boxes - it was super easy to set up!
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