skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe your comment is referencing normal people paying taxes, where the comment you are replying too is referencing the ultra-wealthy and corporations paying taxes.

The ultra-wealthy and big corporations take advantage of schemes to lower their taxes.
Tape a note to it: do not touch, do not clean!

This isn't a regular display. It's a super-expensive professional instrument. The only people buying this are going to be photo editors, Hollywood people, graphic artists, etc.
If the author already knows this is not ASCII, maybe don't name it ASCII QR?
If you have enough money, there are limitless ways to avoid paying taxes that range from illegal to legal but extremely questionable.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers
That's the rate that's important. Human speech is sent and received by humans, if you're going to send computer generated speech faster than that (faster than a human can comprehend) and decode on the other end by computer, why use speech at all?
You understand that when a company does a stock buyback, somebody is selling their stock and that stock they sell is taxed with capital gains?
This is factually true. There is some controversy regarding PSA screening programmes that they do not improve all-cause mortality. Making surgeries less invasive and less liable to complication, as well as improving screening, is likely to improve outcomes.
This commenter said it best

John Otvos DECEMBER 8, 2019 06:19 AM
There’s no free lunch here by treating any disease, let alone pc with some form of invasive therapy. Nerves do get damaged. Cells are set on fire and left to die. In order to reach a man’s doughnut, the treatment regime must pass through many layers of cellular tissue to ‘hit’ the target area. Our healthcare system, whether here in Canada, or stateside, is really about disease management. Far better to stop it before it begins. How? Through a whole foods plant-based lifestyle and diet. None of these major killers of western societies was so prevalent in the early 1900s. Asia did not have them either, ’til they adopted our dietary regimen of highly processed foodstuffs, meat, dairy and junk food. andsoitgoes…

Yep, the medical industrial complex will keep on selling new snake oil. 80% of prostate cancers are indolent anyway so treating them is wasteful. Stratification was not used in this study.
Wouldn't a wealth tax result in only the ultra rich being able to afford to own large, illiquid assets like farm land, etc?
It absolutely is bullshit, but switching to dealing with a different sort of bullshit, for less pay, doesn’t strike me as much better. I’m just trying to make enough so I can stop dealing with bullshit altogether.
not really a faster road as anyone stuck in an expresslane behind a prius will tell you, but a less congested road free of peasants. Not really sure how this analogy syncs up but just throwing in my $0.02.
You were beating this same drum on /r/keybase and nobody was buying the story then either. The fake money will most likely remain with Stellar, although I'd rather it did go to Keybase, a company which provides actual value... even if it's fake money that I'll be leaving to languish in my Keybase wallet until it drops to $0 value.
You’re sending 1500 byte MTU (1538 bytes on the wire) or maybe larger (9000 byte MTU) packets.

1538 bytes is 12,304 bits. 10,000,000,000 bits/sec / 12,304 bits/packet is 812,744 packets per second.

Now try it with 64 byte packets, which are 84 bytes on the wire.

14,880,952 packets per second.

And this is 10gbps.
I think the more relevant question is how delicate is this screen? Liquids can't touch it?

Does it scratch when touched?

Is it a little bit durable?

"Pro" classed gear usually is more durable than consumer grade products.
I'm currently negotiating with two potential employers, one of them one of the bigs. It would be great if they would pay me to learn at work, but I don't feel like I'm in a position to ask for that — that's an industry=wide problem.

So I'm trying to hack the system to get fewer hours: 30-32 per week. That gives me enough time to self-study, handle some of my own training and overdeliver, yet still have a life.

I have extremely strong open source bona fides, I'm an inveterate organizer of study groups both at work and elsewhere, I speak regularly at meetups in order to force myself to learn new things well. Giving me the space to train myself is a great deal for potential employers.

But they aren't biting. 40 hours is what they are set up for and it is hard for them to figure out how to be flexible, even if they want to.

At my last job with a small growth-stage startup, I successfully negotiated for 32 hours, and it worked out great for all parties. But it seems harder than I think it should be to close such deals.
I fed myself in college off plasma donation money. It paid about $100 a week. You could only donate twice per week, and the majority of the pay came on your second donation each week. It took just over an hour to donate each time, close to $50 an hour was amazing money a few years ago when I was a college student.

While you were donating you could watch movies, read books, homework was kind of an option since you didn't have the use of one of your arms.
I have a random observation about the comments sections of the types of videos she makes. In videos that feature female makers, commenters seem to address them by first name far more often than happens in the male maker videos. I am not sure why it bothers me but it feels off.
Yeah, most of that code is stuff like examples and tests, and most errors should be forwarded, not unwrapped. But yeah, of course if a resource that you depend on is potentially in an invalid state thanks to a thread crashing, it makes perfect sense to unwrap / expect.
Search for the hs92 code 3002 - it includes vaccines. It's totally wrong.
Twitter could try to resolve this domain first before formatting text as a link.
To those of you pushing for ActivityPub:

Webber's trashed it (the initial author) and is working on a way to mitigate the problems of it by implementing incompatible changes, the biggest piece of software claiming to implement it doesn't even implement it (Mastodon), the only piece of software that stays semi-faithful is full of devs who hate it (Pleroma).

AP is completely broken for anything but publicly-scoped content, relying on a lot of trust for every party involved. This gets broken frequently, and has had consequences so far on networks implementing it (like half of them are incompatible implementations, so I think it's completely fine to say "networks").

The specification itself is far too ambiguous. Here's a post by a maintainer of Diaspora explaining this part further: https://schub.io/blog/2018/02/01/activitypub-one-protocol-to...

So let's assume you can get Twitter to implement ActivityPub perfectly to-spec. Great! It doesn't work with literally any pre-existing ActivityPub software, and users' DMs and are more or less public, with users' private accounts literally being public.

I use AP daily, and while it's fine for technical users with a reasonable understanding that anything they post is public, putting naive users' data at risk has never and will never be acceptable; pushing AP will harm everyone.
Is he aware PiperNet didn't work after all
Which is not going to be the case. The people doing the cleaning are not specialized in displays and the "professionals" doing the work are not the ones doing the cleaning.
Those people see it as capitalism. They call it “the game.”
They're hard to type? On Mac is Cmd-Ctrl-Space on Windows its Win-Period

I generally find those against emoji to be unintentionally racist since other cultures have been using various characters for decades if not longer
Duck Syndrome
That's a great question with a complicated answer. Here's a start: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/12/rich-pe...
Why would they complain? Sorry, I don't work in software so I don't understand.
> get our fill of chuds with anime avatars thanks to Pleroma

"In 2019 Anime will be associated with fascism, neo-Nazis, and hard-core misogyny." - Time traveler me from the future.

"LOL WUT?" - Me in 2005 before murdering this obviously false me from an obviously impossible timeline to prevent damage to the space-time continuum.
FWIW the population of Ireland is approx 1/70 of the population of the US, and we don't do paid donations
Why do people think that if you pour more money into something like R&D you'll get more results? That isn't how it works. You get diminishing returns on anything, do you not think internal statisticians and economists at the company haven't calculated that?
I've been lucky enough to work in two, maybe three, places with implicit or explicit policies like this. It's something I shop for now when job-hunting.
Knock up means something else completely different in American English.
what's the purpose of a fancy coating if it makes the surface less durable such that it now requires special techniques just to clean it? Serious question.
> Meanwhile Canada bans paid donations.

... and donations by transwomen and gay men.
https://www.google.com/search?q=twitter+screws+developers
Mathematician Proves Result on ‘Dangerous’ Problem
I wonder how much user engagement would decrease if a CAPTCHA was needed to read a tweet. I think a big percentage of accounts are bots either trying to gauge sentiment, or push groups further to their respective political corners.
AMA.

Thanks.

I'm always wary of reading too much into articles about promising medical developments, because it seems like often the headlines look great but they are actually referring to some relatively early stage of trials, so results of later trials might not be so good or even if they are it might still be a long time before the treatment is used routinely.

However, in this case, the article reads as if this is literally a cure for (one sort of) cancer, with an 80% success rate, which can be done as an outpatient procedure with a relatively low risk of complications. That seems like about 80% of the holy grail, at least in terms of treating prostate cancer specifically.

Can you give an expert perspective on how excited we should or shouldn't be about this result?
Private is a BS term, can mean just about anything. If it's private from the US gov but not China, that might be "private" enough for some, obviously not for others. But it's also nowhere near certain your assumption is true.
Intel's high-end platforms (motherboard, processors) are bad investments if you don't have hardware to make use of them. This is not new.

So while I think it's fair to question why the base model Mac Pro exists, I understand the price given the (specific) hardware it contains. You're paying an Apple Tax on top, of course, but if you don't think macOS adds additional value you should be looking elsewhere.

I really think most of the people complaining about the Mac Pro's price want it to be something it's not. I understand the desire for a consumer-level, upgradable Mac desktop, but that's not what Apple set out to create with the Mac Pro.
Don’t you think they will feel the same about dubbing?
And how do you believe those peering agreements are reached? What moves people to peer with each other?
> None of these major killers of western societies was so prevalent in the early 1900s.

This is highly misleading.

https://www.ncdemography.org/2014/06/16/mortality-and-cause-...

> In 1900, the top 3 causes of death were infectious diseases—pneumonia and flu, tuberculosis, and gastrointestinal infections (a fourth infectious disease, diphtheria, was the 10th leading cause of death). Improvements in sanitation, public health (vaccination development and delivery), and medical treatments, such as antibiotics, led to dramatic declines in deaths from infectious diseases during the 20th century.

> Mortality from all causes declined 54% between 1900 and 2010.

In other words, we cured or learned to treat the formerly top killers. Now we've just got the harder to cure and less prevalent stuff left, but continue to make significant headway on those too.
Well I dropped the golden handcuffs. So right now I'm flipping cars (replace a clutch, head gasket, etc.) driving for Lyft, and I might get a part-time job. I'm definitely not making as much money as I used to. But for me the traditional strategy of working for a company and saving up for retirement wasn't working anyhow. it was like well I'm either going to have to deal with this now when I can do something about it or when I'm older and I won't be able to do anything about it.

So I'm kind of where I was when I was 20 except now I have a whole lot more skills and experiences. I'm not actually sure what I'm going to do long term. All I really know is I was headed down the wrong path and I've been lying to myself for far too long.

But actually I do kind of know. The only thing that really makes sense is some kind of tech entrepreneurship. I mean I know success isn't guaranteed but it comes down to kind of a deep question which is what do you want to do with your life. Sitting behind a desk coding what someone else tells me to all day long is simply not going to get me where I want to be in life. So I kind of jumped off the cliff hoping I can learn to fly on the way down.

I totally might fail so don't follow my lead too much.

I will tell you that since I've been working on cars all day I'm so much physically stronger than I was as a coder and it feels fantastic. It isn't really long-term because technically you're not allowed to buy a car with the intention of fixing and reselling it unless you're a dealer but succeeding and failing based on my own decisions feels so much better then being cemented underneath someone else in a corporate hierarchy.

I was a developer for about 10 years and even though I could get another development job I'd rather crawl through the mud and find a new way forward before I get too old and it's too late.
That now really sounds like fake news.

- Zombifying America’s poor
Stellar doesn't seem odd to me at all. One of the large hurdles of working together with freelancers (especially from outside the US/EU) are payments.

If I find someone on Twitter or elsewhere posting artwork I like and I want to hire them, then Keybase makes the rest quite simple: easy to confirm identity, discuss details over chat, share files, and finally make payments.

Seems like a platform with great potential that's horribly misunderstood.
At a community college: don't screw up too badly for four years. (And at least in California, it pays better than university, too!)
Probably looses wireless coverage if you don't hold it in a special way. Another example of "overdesigned and underengineered" when professional equipment can't be cleaned without some super duper fancy cloth.
docker-slim also gives you useful info about the original container image in addition to minifying your container (you can actually run it without the minification part if you want). It will "reverse engineer" the Dockerfile for your fat/original container image and it will produce a detailed report about the fat/original image layers and what's in them (diffing between the layers is an upcoming feature). I'll be happy to do an overview if you are interested. Please ping me offline.
Not really. The entire article is about pitching their service and the post here was made by the founder of the company.
(1) I acknowledge that the author already states that "[they are] quite well aware that this uses Unicode not ASCII."

(2) Having said that, as a request to everybody for future text-based creations, could we please stop referring to non-ASCII text as "ASCII". Using characters that aren't in ASCII really shouldn't be referred to as ASCII. Pretty please.

(3) The more generic label of "text QR" or "text-based QR" would be better, in my opinion. In this particular situation, saying "Unicode text QR" or "Unicode QR" would also be appropriate.
It would be great to have a special cloth for MacBooks too. Still get outlines of keys on my screen that won’t go away.
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Hi HN! I’m a software engineer and an artist. I’m back in school, and for a final assignment this semester made three massive drawings on the topic of software development. I hope you enjoy them! I’m interested to hear how a technical audience responds to them, and if they express anything to you.
> My assumption is that the easier it is for people to participate the more we'll trend towards a steady state where the quality of your ideas and your ability to sell them will be the deciding factor in your reach. As opposed to having a dominant advantage because your [race | social caste | profession | political party] has captured the medium of communication and intellectual production. Unfortunately I think we're seeing those groups (2,3, and 4 primarily) lashing out and trying to maintain their advantage to the general detriment of society.

I agree with the last part of this but maybe not the first. I think it's pretty presumptive that just because anybody can put content out there that there will be anything close to an even playing field. Only time will tell.

For an early internet example: the distributed nature of the internet meant that in theory anybody could create and publish their own platform. Anyone with good ideas should easily be able to buy a domain and enter the web marketplace.

In the modern world, only a few websites dominate the vast majority of eyeballs. This isn't how it has to be, but this is how reality has played out. If you want a platform with users you need at minimum to treat it like a part time job, and possibly a few million in venture capital to boot.

Or, to put it another way, centralization was a more powerful force than quality in choice of platform. I argue this may happen to some degree with content itself (or likely already does. Look at top YouTube channels and decide for yourself.)

There's no doubting that modern internet and modern discourse is in theory open, but I find a lot of doubt that it's open in practice. I can't help but read an upvoted link on Reddit and wonder if there's an upvote farm behind it or social marketing firm carefully crafting it, as opposed to an individuals voice.

Some platforms have even higher barriers to entry, like YouTube or twitch.tv, good luck getting more than 10 views as an individual there unless you make it atleast a part time job. But I'm sure a well funded source can make a video that looks like a small time content creator but pushes their view or their product.
The native compiler is maturing and they are moving the JVM and JS compilers to the IR format they have developed for that. Additionally, they are going to support a new type of library that compiles to IR and that is reusable for all platforms.

They already have a few multi platform things. Mainly Ktor currently, which kind of should work on native. Additionally, you can target the node-js ecosystem via Kotlin-js. Also, one goal with Spring Kofu at least is also supporting GraalVM at least.

They are also adding more platforms to the native target.

Reading between the lines with what was announced last week at Kotlinconf, I expect a lot of this stuff might stay at least partially experimental through the 1.4 cycle (current is 1.3.61) and would expect that they might start pushing harder on backend native stuff around 1.5. Also there are still a lot of question marks around things like WASM where e.g. MS has a more clear strategy with .Net and Blazor.
Off topic, but if it could shrink the prostrate (to treat BPH) with similar technology that would be awesome.

And after a quick search it looks like there's some movement there: https://fusfoundation.org/diseases-and-conditions/urological...

@HorizonXP, any thoughts on this and it's potential to go mainstream? Asking for a friend...
It looks like you have a pretty inexperienced lead.

I'm extremely happy when my team members want to expand their horizons, it keeps them engaged in their work and makes the team as a whole stronger.

Your lead should have paired you with a backend developer and have had simple backend tickets assigned to you. This works really well in turning Windows developers into Web developers (together with some coaching).
So they should be told not to touch those displays, or if they do then their company will be charged for replacement. We have cleaners and they know not to touch any audio or artist equipment, how is this different?
I know you jest, but you know who it did work for, in a way? AOL. AOL used to have its own content, its own email, own groups, own chat, and own keywords. People made fun of AOL as 'newbie' at the time, but I think given proper governance the idea wasn't all terrible.
Expert witnesses are paid by the hour, and still get paid whether the case is won or lost. The abuses of honesty in the expert witnesses system are still horrific enough.
> when drafting the law basic care needs to be taken

You are right, and this was more or less my point. Drafting a law is hard work - but the kind of handwaving armchair advice that you often see to "just make a law for this" does not recognise that it is very hard to do so. It's even harder to do it in a way that is right for everyone and with the political landscape being the way it is and lobbying working the way it does it's far from a foregone conclusion that such an effort will yield the desired result.
That's not going to work....

There are egos at stake here!
Not necessarily. Assuming his wife was comfortable learning more about how to safely handle a firearm it could be a great asset for protecting their household...
Further proof that America is the greatest country in the world. So loved that people pay money for our blood.
If you stop learning altogether, sure. But I promise there is life after learning about programming, or whatever your job is. There are many things worth learning about.
The beneficiaries of these buybacks are the general public, these are public companies. They are your pension funds, your rainy day funds, they are government healthcare programs, Norway's Oil fund... They are everyone. The reason they aren't paying taxes on buybacks is because they haven't actually made any money until someone sells stock.
All that effort by Apple to design a such beautiful monitor only to have a crudely taped message on it seems... wrong.

To me, it makes more sense to include or offer a dust cover (presumably lined with the same material as the special cloth) to put on it when it's not in use.
It's not clear where the numbers on that site come from, but the MintPress story has this actual source:

https://oec.world/en/visualize/tree_map/hs92/export/usa/all/...

> Human or Animal Blood; HS92 ID: 3002; Export Value: $28.6B; Export: RCA2.30; Percent: 2.3%

For all of the HS data used throughout the site (1995 - 2017) we use the BACI International Trade Database2. The original data comes from the United Nations Statistical Division (COMTRADE), but is cleaned by the BACI team using their own methodology of harmonization. (https://oec.world/en/resources/data)
Dishonored took quite a bit of this actually.
normally this comment would sort of annoy me,

but its not obvious what the point of this story actually is

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looking on google

Imogene is about hour outside Omaha

is about 15 minutes away from the nearest Wal-Mart

Kids from Imogene appear to go to school https://www.greatschools.org/iowa/shenandoah/1244-Shenandoah... (which happens to be near the Wal Mart)

there does not appear to be an abandoned main street or factory in Imogene

from the article itself, unemployment is under 2%

what exactly is so terrible about life there?

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Imogene appears to be a small, somewhat out of the way place, and that appears to have always been the case

what exactly is so terrible about that fact?
So they can buy the soon-to-be-released $249 Apple monitor protective cover that they deploy when they leave the office.