skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree! I can't see it getting any better for 99% of users either - you have to be quite technical.

And once DNS over HTTPS is the norm (thanks Google + Microsoft) I literally have no clue what I'm going to do - I won't be able to stop any of the tracking domains requested or "telemetry".

It's a nightmare and I think the Internet will be "over" for me at that point.

eg. Little Snitch tells me all the outgoing requests on my Mac, I have to run piHole for DNS to block 27% of my DNS requests (yes that much), OOSU10 is mandatory on Windows 10 to turn off a boatload of telemetry, and every site on earth these days don't self-host - they pull from 20 different sites instead of just their own site. That's 21 different organisations that know I've visited their site,

eg. visiting White Stuff's website (clothing) for my wife and I get
whitestuff.com,
googletagmanager.com,
google-analytics.com,
wsweboptimisejs.blob.core.windows.net,
via.placeholder.com,
tag.bounceexchange.com,
fsm.attraqt.com,
fonts.googleapis.com,
data.rci.eggplant.cloud,
cdn.optimizely.com,
c3n4sovn.cloudimg.io

It's ludicrous.
That's just a service for hosting up to four kilobytes of text combined with an URL shortener.

If the service provider ever decides to discontinue it, and they eventually will, all your codes will become meaningless. As are they when you don't have internet access for whatever reason.

QR on the other hand can embed a similar amount of text and is always readable and independent of any single service provider.
I use it in the same Rolodex fashion. I feel it also adds weight to a resume. If someone can find connections of actual people at other companies that I used to work with, it validates my resume, at least at a high-level.

I've received countless job opportunities through LinkedIn. My current position, I reached out to a former colleague to join that company via LinkedIn. It worked well.
Neither the Signal guy nor Facebook like interoperability, so no.
No ... you don't understand. It's not about identity. It's about having the best tool for the job.

My 2014 macbook pro is still going strong. That's how good the old macbook pros were. I didn't have to "think" about what computer to get, just get a Mac. It was a risk-free, if significantly more expensive option.

Now I have to go through this whole procurement process, and at the end of it I'll be stuck with either Windows or Linux, neither of which are as good as MacOS.

EDIT - and I am in a position to make this comparative analysis, because I use all three on a daily basis. Which was my original point.

EDIT again - I meant "soul searching" in a fairly hyperbolic sense. It doesn't keep me up at night.
I was able to access the full article by searching "Learning for a Living" on Google then clicking on the top stories link.
They are called Citylab, after all.
> W3C is not neutral, and not only are they not neutral, but the RIAA and MPAA are people with enough sway to have messed up the entire web multiple times (see: making EME a standard).

> A neutral party sounds great! The W3C should not get to be involved, however.

Perhaps I got lost along the way, but... we're still talking about Twitter here right?

Are you seriously calling out the W3C, an open but obviously flawed organisation, for finally capitulating on DRM, after huge public drama and well-documented opposition from within the W3C. DRM is something entities such as Twitter use as a matter of course; there is no public discourse, nor documentation.

This isn't even as basic as pots calling kettles black, any reservations one could have about W3C as an org are positively laughable when the alternative is a standard stewarded by a corporation with the size and influence of Twitter.
Buybacks are effectively taxed at the same rate as dividends, at least qualified dividends, just timing differs:

Simple case with a corporation worth $200 with two equal shareholders, who each paid $100 for their half of the company and are in 20% capital gains tax bracket, ignoring net investment tax of 3.8%:

Dividends:

Corporation pays $100 in qualified dividends, $50 to each shareholder. Each shareholder pays their capital gains tax rate on the $50. If that rate is 20% for each, then a total of $20 is collected by the US Treasury. Each shareholder then reinvests or spends the remaining $80 in the economy, while the government puts the $20 to work.

Buy Back Case:

Corporation buys back $100 of shares from 1 shareholder. No taxes were due there as there were no capital gains for shareholder 1. Shareholder 2 now owns 100% of the corporation, so their investment is now, all other thing equal, worth $200. When shareholder 2 sells, a bill for $20 is due ( $100 in capital gains x capital gains rate ). Shareholder 1 reinvests/spends $100 in economy, government gets no additional cash now, but will eventually when Shareholder 2 sells.

In the end, government gets the same $20 in tax. Benefits of the buy back are that investors are able to choose whether or not they want to cash out, whereas a dividend forces it on all investors. Downside is that government has to wait for the $20 in capital gains taxes. However, if shareholder 1 owed capital gains on the buy back ( perhaps they bought their share for $50, so would owe $10 in the $50 it made on the sale ), the government would get $10 from that sale + $20 down the road when shareholder 2 sold.
Of course; but ASCII art only uses ASCII characters. Back in the BBS days you could use ANSI to give you different characters and colors; but that was called ANSI, not ASCII.

"Unicode QR" is probably the best term for what's happening here.
It's worth mentioning that Secure Scuttlebutt uses a signature chain, which provides many benefits of conventional blockchains without forcing a consensus (which is the part that requires "mining"). My experience with SSB has been very positive.
A progressive property tax might be a better option, simpler to implement and more targeted. And by suppressing the speculative return on real estate, it should have the additional effect of making housing more affordable in urban areas, benefitting the middle class in those areas while not penalizing those in rural areas and the suburbs.
y, but it's still a dream for lots of devs, I'm not a fan of Fbook but I love the story of how it was created (especially the movie version, even if it's not all true) and how much wealth it generated for the founders and employees.
80% of Americans live in an urban area
Valve offers this for free:

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/multiplayer/stea...

> Steam Datagram Relay (SDR) is Valve's virtual private gaming network. Using our APIs, you can not only carry your game traffic over the Valve backbone that is dedicated for game content, you also gain access to our network of relays. Relaying the traffic protects your servers and players from DoS attack, because IP addresses are never revealed. All traffic you receive is authenticated, encrypted, and rate-limited. Furthermore, for a surprisingly high number of players, we can also find a faster route through our network, which actually improves player ping times.
Brain patterns can predict speech of words and syllables
> a decade plus of my career, four of my most significant jobs

This is an extremely niche persona among professional careers, overrepresented on HN.
hmm, shouldn't do that...
what system/browser/hardware are you on?
> If I were the governor I'd just import the sand from Sahara and include the expenses

It's much easier to prevent it than to fix it by transporting tonnes of sands from africa to wherever the sand is needed. Being able to pay for something doesn't magically make it a good idea.
Plus I'm not sure westerners coming to Africa to take sand for their beaches will be well received.
Twitter Makes a Bet on Protocols over Platforms
A team of "up to five" - is this actually a serious effort? I get that five strong minds can do quite a lot but from a corporate strategic point of view this is a minnow, surely?
With so many French being disqualified from donating (I blame the UK’s model of for-profit beef production instead of a volunteer model), you’re probably paying for imported products.

EU countries do have incentives for donating. I can’t find any specifics, but one country gives you a tax break, others give you a day off. Dunno if I could call that a volunteer model.
Not sure it was ever a thing. In ancient times, folks rarely travelled far from their lighted places at night. They feared the outdoors and camped close to fires and in shelters. I'm wondering if people ever really saw much of the Milky Way.
We built Matrix to synchronise any kind of comms data - we just call the primitive a “room” rather than (say) a “pubsub topic” or whatever more general term. You can absolutely build microblogging on top of Matrix; there are already a few toy examples already.
This is absolutely true. If the goal is to move people, "just banning cars" is not the solution. Living inside a city is simply too expensive, and that sort of position is reserved for those with cushy jobs and a very specific life style. It's the ivory tower shouting down at the un-educated, un-washed masses once again.
I've been banned for many years and can no longer get access to even my own data
I have never heard of extinction as a possible consequence of climate change. Care to elaborate how that might be possible? Even if society crumbles due to unrest, the Earth will be inhabitable in at least some areas. It's hard to imagine that every single human being on Earth will die.
Both libqrencode and qrcode-terminal are capable of using ANSI escape codes for colored text to produce black and whites squares. Two space characters make about the right aspect ratio in an xterm window. I reinvented the same method myself a while ago, so it's funny how different people come up with the same idea. Haven't tried it on a VT100 terminal yet, but it should probably work there too.
I think the money is often debt, which would make it untaxed.
Many of those live near and around a city, rather than in it, and commute daily.
Even in Japan, which has wonderful public transportation and was actually a joy to navigate, there are cars everywhere and frequently there are times when you need a car or your ability to get to places outside of the cities becomes expensive and takes a long time if it's possible at all.
Definitely agree that you should look into HIFU.

HIFU is "competing" with transurethral focused ultrasound (TUS). HIFU works, but has its limitations. Given that it's transrectal, it will not be able to deposit ultrasound energy only into the prostate; the rectum gets hit too. Furthermore, there's no temperature feedback during the procedure; the doctor will send ultrasound energy to the target area and use ultrasound imaging to gauge the efficacy.

It's a decent alternative, but it will never be as good as TUS at targeting just due to their inherent differences. But HIFU is available today, while TUS is not, and HIFU might be "good enough" for most people that it is more commercially successful.
Parking lots at the border is, in my opinion, much better than parking garages in the center. At least that way the city streets won't be clogged by people coming from out of town. After they get to the city they don't need the cars, so leave them at the edge.
I think this is a mischaracterization. I've read Webber's writing on OcapPub[0], and his more recent writing on ActivityPub[1]. I'm not getting the impression that Webber thinks ActivityPub is broken, or that he's stopped advocating for it, or that he's trying to replace it.

In his own words:

> "OcapPub" sounds like a new protocol, whereas it's really just a way-to-use ActivityPub mostly as it already exists. Maybe time for a new name for that?

Even if Webber does think ActivityPub has fundamental problems, he doesn't seem to be discouraging anyone from pushing it. I mean, go ahead and watch his most recent talk and decide whether or not Webber is "trashing" ActivityPub.[2]

> "It was 3 years of really hard work, and it wasn't clear in the process if it was going to pay off. And it has. We now have this as a standard that we can all use to be able to speak to each other, and I think this is really exciting."

[0]: https://gitlab.com/spritely/ocappub/blob/master/README.org

[1]: https://dustycloud.org/blog/2019-10-01-updates/

[2]: https://conf.tube/videos/watch/2b9a985b-ccdd-49ce-a81b-ed00d...
I think you mean accountant.
Because I think that owning a tiny shareholding in a business is more hassle than it's worth for everyone involved. Options is more of a possibility, but again, more hassle than just cash. And involves more explanation to non-techies who won't understand, and will possibly intervene.

I can just put "software licence" as a budget line item and make a payment, and everyone's happy, no questions asked.
Unless you are talking about the previous Mac Pro (which I don't know about) the base model for the new Mac Pro starts at 32GB of ram, you can't even spec it to 8.
This is misleading to most people. The US census counts the suburbs as urban. I don't believe most people referring to urban areas are referring to people in the suburbs.

"To qualify as an urban area, the territory identified according to criteria must encompass at least 2,500 people, at least 1,500 of which reside outside institutional group quarters."

https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/geography/about/faq/...
I just noticed that as well. You can still read the article by doing a google search and looking at the cached version.
Hi everyone,
Would love to know what do you think about CampaignDays.

The motivation behind this service is to help developers who run marketing campaigns. They can just hook their marketing platforms with our API and not worry about setting dates for their campaigns.

MVP version is launched with 3 custom calendars:

1. Public Holiday Calendar

2. Long Weekend Calendar

3. E-Commerce Calendar
Honestly I'd be fine with a model where city centers are primarily pedestrian and there are big parking garages on the borders of those areas. Less parking space would be needed overall since each residence and business wouldn't need it's own set of parking spaces that aren't always in use.
Your right, I copied the wrong link..
This article touches on the subject: https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/20/18691357/unicorn-electric...

I agree with you and didn't mean to dispute your point, just add to it.
Dense urban areas are harmed by cars, but where do you draw the line? Suppose I can drive through the suburbs of Philadelphia, but not the city center. What happens to the area around the restricted-driving zone? Does it become an crowded parking lot as people trade their cars for transit?

I'm not suggesting that there are no solution here -- I'm genuinely asking what the solutions are.
dear mod, this is a dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21762780
Makes me want to work in Norway.
Adventures with Dockerised Headed Chrome, Extensions and Selenium-Python
One approach that reduces the tragedy of the commons:

Some places require spending a certain percentage of payroll on training by law, failing which the employer must pay the difference to a government training fund. I live in the Canadian province of Quebec which is such a place. I think at least one major tech city in the US has a similar law, though I'm not sure.
https://helpful.io/ is another interesting alternative where the focus is on asking for/receiving career help within small-medium sized groups
>He told me "Sure but you'll need to learn all that stuff on your own time". So I never did it because I'm interested in doing other things at home.

When somebody says that to you, your responsibility is to either a) change jobs or b) learn during work time anyway.
Why do governments issue debt that they do not repay? I'm glad someone is out there keeping them honest.
America is certainly decades (if not centuries) behind in public transportation. However, these CityLab articles are doing a great thing by highlighting our unhealthy dependence on cars and making it a part of everyday conversation. If we're ever going to change we need to start by agreeing there is a problem and discussing realistic solutions.

I don't quite understand your point about the "technological and class divide" widen[ing]. Good public transportation (as in places like Japan) drastically reduces the cost of moving around the city/country. In the United States, for most people, owning a car (an expensive up-front cost with expensive monthly payments) is a prerequisite to finding and keeping a job. Public transportation adds to our social safety net.
Even having public transport doesn't mean the car is useless. Public transport fails if you have a lot of groceries to deliver, or some big products. Also public transport often takes much longer than a car, because it's stopping at every little stop, while a car can go directly, or even take a shortcut in some cases.
What's the problem with existing ones? And why do social networks draw so much attention relative to other social platform patterns, like forums?

I've been thinking for a while that there should be something like a decentralized omni-Reddit. I liked forums, but people don't want to use them anymore, because there are too many different signups and too many different notification streams/etc. on too many different sites to bother with - so if you had something like Mastodon for forums, that could mitigate that.

But it seems like a consensus has set in that Facebook/Twitter-like social networks are the One True Model, and very few people are interested in things like forums anymore.
And that's why Google+ ate FB'd and LinkedIn's lunch
(matrix proj lead here): ooi what sort of problems are you thinking of here? just to check they are on our radar at the right priority.
I liked John Shen's Modern Processor Design and Noam Nisan's The Elements of Computing Systems.

The websites I mentioned have hobbyist-level details that are pretty interesting (but in general won't teach you much about things like concurrency hazards and branch prediction and so forth).
I would argue Moot had more sociatal impact than many 'legit' winners did. Good or bad, I will leave up to the reader.
Just like the DC-10, eh?
Unfortunately, that is when, as a team, you have to not classify things certain ways. Still meet your commitments, but bake in learning time. It just becomes part of what you do during the sprint. Likewise, you should not have a "testing time", "quality", or "security" budget - you just bake those into how the team operates.
How do those work in winter? We had electric scooters, but they were all scooped up by their parent companies in October ahead of the coming months of hell.
It goes back to coaches using last names in sports practices. This probably is changing as there is more gender balance in youth sports.
That's one of the things that need to be solved, rather than celebrated. Commuting -- no matter which transport you're using, is a waste of time and energy.
If you're using Mastodon or email you need a server with a public IP address, which most people don't have. Distributed solutions like Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB) don't require that, so you can pass messages via any available relay server, LAN, or even a sneaker-net.

It's also worth mentioning that most people have to trust their Mastodon / email provider not to snoop in their private messages. Systems like SSB provide true end-to-end encryption that makes it safe to broadcast your private messages to the world.
Diamonds are made of carbon which is also very common... But more seriously: different sands have different properties, and when you need a shit ton of something no matter how cheap it is stealing is always cheaper.
Earthquakes can do strange things.

When there are earthquakes in Japan, the water sloshes in Devil's Hole in Death Valley, California.

The Earth is more amazing than we know.
I was in Oakland, I was in LA. I have resolved to never again live in quake country.

The Northridge aftershocks were the worst. 3 days of on-the-edge terror.
Why not just fix inheritance issues?

At the time of death, either make the estate pay capital gains taxes on the market value of the assets, or just don't give the heirs a stepped-up basis. It will catch up eventually.
The game publishers are not your clients, the people buying the console are.
Actually it is the case that attractive, passion positions like actor, musician, and the like are compensated poorly on average, especially when they are not protected by unions. That's because of the surplus of people wanting to do the dream job.

Digging ditches and garbage collection are compensated poorly because of the surplus of people willing to do whatever to make ends meet.
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If you're interested in joining an existing group of folks who are already working on this: https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/

Feel free to email me if you'd like an invite to the network.
If you have big products or groceries to deliver or otherwise truly believe that public transportation can't meet your unique needs, you should be STRONGLY in favor of additional public transportation to reduce traffic.
I would probably prefer a DSSS with a DSSS-compatible CSPRNG similar to AES/CFB.

Does anyone know such a cryptographic system?
> The November 2018 internal Federal Aviation Administration analysis, expected to be released during a House committee hearing Wednesday

Is this document publicly available now? Did anyone find it?
Is the library still small if we count its dependencies too?
How am I ever going to be able to “vet” 120k lines of code not written by me?