skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OpenTaxSolver
http://opentaxsolver.sourceforge.net/

On printed sheets of paper mailed to the IRS.

Hits both your "privacy fulfilling" and (it appears you have a typo) "does [not] try to make money off of free users by selling information about that user".
Whoever sold you the phone. Your contract is with the trader.
I agree with your analysis - the beuyer did pay for the feature, but there is one detail you got wrong: a manufacturer Monroney is only required for new cars.
Some of the free users might pay. Small percentage “conversion” into paying users. But this can be done only once a large following was built and that model seems a bit disingenuous to me, free to paid, and I like the model where the content creator gives some extra to paying users.
I do now think 1K/year is something that will sustain in time. Passion wears out.
I believe he is using the far more superior metric, called “subjective perception”.
Monogame has PS4 support, one just needs to be open minded and not API religious.

http://www.monogame.net/2014/03/23/monogame-for-playstation-...
The panel may have consistent color, but the backlight does not, whether it is led or the older cold cathode.
As a sidenote: Did you know about Poe's law? :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
This article is obscenely misleading. Skip the narrative, and go straight to the 500 page Southern District of New York opinion finding that Donzinger procured the Ecuador judgment through extortion and fraud: http://www.theamazonpost.com/wp-content/uploads/Chevron-Ecua...

> Upon consideration of all of the evidence, including the credibility of the witnesses
– though several of the most important declined to testify – the Court finds that Donziger began his involvement in this controversy with a desire to improve conditions in the area in which his Ecuadorian clients live. To be sure, he sought also to do well for himself while doing good for others, but there was nothing wrong with that. In the end, however, he and the Ecuadorian lawyers he led corrupted the Lago Agrio case. They submitted fraudulent evidence. They coerced one judge, first to use a court-appointed, supposedly impartial, “global expert” to make an overall damages assessment and, then, to appoint to that important role a man whom Donziger hand-picked and paid to “totally play ball” with the LAPs. They then paid a Colorado consulting firm secretly to write all or most of the global expert’s report, falsely presented the report as the work of the court-appointed and supposedly impartial expert, and told half-truths or worse to U.S. courts in attempts to prevent exposure of that and other wrongdoing. Ultimately, the LAP team wrote the Lago Agrio court’s Judgment themselves and promised $500,000 to the Ecuadorian judge to rule in their favor and sign their judgment. If ever there were a case warranting equitable relief with respect to a judgment procured by fraud, this is it.

Subsequently, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague found that the Chevron judgment was procured by fraud and should not be enforced: https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelkrauss/2019/04/14/dutch-...

> And last week, on April 12, 2019, the Dutch Supreme Court upheld the Court of Appeal’s decision. Last week's decision means that the five arbitral awards are no longer subject to challenge. This includes the BIT Tribunal's interim awards ordering Ecuador to “take all measures necessary” to prevent or suspend enforcement of the Lago Agrio Judgment worldwide and declaring Ecuador in breach of international law for having failed to voluntarily do so.
What laptop are you using currently?
A more directional and less sensitive mic like the NTG-2 may work better with some dampening on the walls or by adding a carpet. Additionally if you can't fix the room you can use a plugin to help reduce noise in dialog, something like Izotope RX7 will do a good job of doing this, but fixing the room should always be the first step.

I've used both the SM7B and the NTG-2 and I would record vocals all day with the SM7B if the room was in a good condition to do so or I was recording actual singing vocals. Otherwise I'd just use the NTG-2 which with it's highly directional nature is pretty good at removing a lot of other background noise.
Erm yea or maybe don’t put high wattage, almost-desktop-class, processors in a laptop. People need to decide if they want a comnputer for easy portability or a desktop or pseudo-desktop.
The entire raison d'etre of Rust is that it can be safer in exactly these cases where C or C++ is unsafe, and aims towards their eventual replacement.

This will take a couple of decades, but it's a worthwhile effort.
The advertiser base for Adsense is people buying search Ads. Some percentage of the advertisers just left defaults on and don’t know they are buying Adsense Ads (now conveniently called Google Ads.)

I could see how this idea would come from someone inside Google. Product doesn’t make them much money and they can claim they made a major change to their business. Because of YouTube, Google has more display inventory to sell now than they can handle. Ironically, the YouTube display inventory is incredibly poor quality, relative to the better Adsense properties out there.

An actual divestment would have to be Google splitting their search engine off from all of their other businesses. Keeping ad sales bundled with Google Search would be reasonable because there wouldn’t be any internal products to promote.
> obsessed with her vagina

Who has a basic misunderstanding on what exactly a vagina is.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/01/goops-netflix-series...
You can tap-hold-slide to adjust across the whole range, rather than tapping then hunting for the slider. You can also set the touch bar to show an expanded control strip by default (which includes a volume up/volume down/mute triple) if you want.
Totally agree. I also feel that awareness of the meta is increasingly public knowledge, but is not utilitized.

Smash bro’s for instance, has a ton of players who know about advanced techniques, and talk about some of them as easy because they are easy for top players, but cannot actually execute on any of them.

And, like you say, mistake the fact that some of the advanced techniques are done by professional players to mean that utilizing these techniques are an important part of getting there. They’re generally not.
> Somebody could buy a Tesla charger circuit, install it to another car, and get free charging for life.

Who owns that Tesla charger circuit? Somebody paid $5000 for free supercharging for life, and presumably the "key" or whatever is loaded onto something.

The thing is: Tesla wants to be a scummy company and remotely take away that key from its users upon sale of the vehicle. Is not "free supercharging for life" implied to be tied to the car (or more specifically, the car's charging circuit)??

If it is tied to the car itself, then the "key" should be tied to some component that "defines" the car, like maybe the motors or the battery pack. The software can check to see if its still connected to the same battery-pack token or whatever if you really want to verify things (with logic used every 10 years whenever battery packs are replaced).

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If Tesla wants both, they can have both with proper engineering effort. However, they're being lazy if they are just cutting off users without any recourse.
There is no technical reason NYC to Chicago can't be done in under 5 hours. Getting the land rights and building tunnels is probably too expensive to pull off, but there is no technical limitation. The continental divide is just an engineering problem to deal with. The cities are actually a good thing as you can make a 1 minute stop in each for more traffic (indeed most advocates suggest that few people will ride the whole route)
I’d guess they measure total draw and compare against their baseline eg when they say the GPU draws 20W it’s 20W more than whatever the draw is when only using the internal display.
I'm going to try and add a different angle to this because most people here have covered what I wanted to say (performance, compensation etc.)

I would use this time to find out how your manager is doing in his/her role. Find out how you can help them. Talk to them about their frustrations and how they are feeling. Just because they are your manager doesn't mean you need to treat them like a boss all the time. Show them some care and empathy. It can go a long way for your career.
This does seem logical: here is a hard problem we actually faced and solved; we want to hire people who, faced with that sort of problem could solve it; let's see whether the candidate can solve that sort of problem.

You're also right that sharing the problem does place you in a position of vulnerability. It's perfectly possible that a candidate will think 'what a bunch of idiots to have gotten themselves in that mess in the first place'. Or worse, when they realise how you solved the problem, 'wow, they think they solved their problems? They're in an even worse spot now'. So I appreciate that you see this as being humble and exposing the candidate to an opportunity to know more than you.

But the reality is, when you solved that problem, you:

1) knew all of the context and constraints, spoken and unspoken

2) had a team of folks around you to bounce ideas off and collaborate on the solution

3) had access to google, stackoverflow, etc.

4) did not have to come up with a solution inside a small interview room, within a few minutes, while being judged by someone who has decision rights over your future employment

5) crucially, had found yourself in a position where you needed to know how to solve this problem. If you hadn't had that need, you would never have acquired that knowledge. So unless the candidate had also faced this exact problem, why would they know how to solve it? You work here, and you didn't...

And while it might be nice to hire someone who can, under interview conditions, jump right to the right solution shortcutting all of those processes - it would obviously fill in a knowledge gap your team demonstrably had - looking for a candidate who has already learned something that came as a hard-won lesson for your team is like a general building up an army to better fight the last war.

You can do better: Use the problem as an example of the sort of thing your team has struggled with, and ask the candidate to give examples of similar problems they have solved in their own career. You are hiring them for their hard-won lessons, and adding them to your own, not looking for someone who happens to have also won the same lessons you already have.
This is userspace code, it's a legit point to criticise use of a memory-unsafe language here. It's 2020 after all, 24 years after "Smashing the stack for fun and profit" and 24 years into the golden age of C exploits while safer practical systems languages have existed. And also a legit point to promote Rust, even if it's a little too new for this codebase.
Nonsense. You already have something that copies the hosts file to every host. It does that check as a product of copying the hosts file. rsync is old, and even before that we had rcp!

What you don't have, and have never had, is the ability to check all of your recursive resolvers from every machine and easily compare the results. rsh might've failed for other reasons that you have to check first. Nameservers might be ok, but ethernet hub might be broken. Might be temporary. Might be an active cache poisoning attack. Might be out of ports. You just don't know. DNS is always a moving target. A huge amount of energy is put into building monitoring and recording the results of monitoring and looking back on previous observations, and it's still not perfect: nagios can say everything is okay, and still service was down. Sometimes you never find out why.

A better way to think about it is: push don't poll. You know when the master hosts file changes and you know how long it takes to push it to all the machines. Polling the DNS servers just in case it changes is silly.
Ask HN - Any equivalent - 'This Voice Does Not Exist'?

It would be awesome to have that for a project that I'm thinking of.
Er nope. Just a regular case of an unlicensed contractor doing work.

Also, what’s to AstroTurf? I am defending an existing law, it should be no surprise that some people like the law as it is...
I've never had car purposely park (or park period) on the sidewalks and bike paths where I am running.

These scooter companies, at least in my city, will collect and dump their scooters on the busiest sidewalks and bike paths (blocking the entire walkway and path) for the sole purpose of free advertising to large groups of runners/bikers.

Its not about "space being wasted" in fact it is the opposite, it is not just obnoxious and illegal in many cases, it is dangerous. I have seen multiple runners and bikers collide with these things. I can't just start dumping ATM machines, vending machines or billboards on public walkways/bike paths, why should these scooter companies get to do that?
Pop Star's Single, 'Booty Wave', Most Likely Civilization's Downfall
I've seen some of those before - the algorithm is a bit strange about people who hang around the edges of the border and sometimes create some fairly horrifying abstractions of humans
Yeah until I see emacs able to offload elisp to the GPU I have no interest in a dedicated card...
Yeah I'm decidedly confused about the author's conception of surfing. They seem to be under an impression that the sport/hobby has inherent philosophical values.
Choice as a customer - choice of upgrading the RAM, choice of getting to keep the data in case the motherboard fails, choice of picking a non genius bar repair shop, choice of looking at product schematics, choice of being able to buy legitimate spare parts for Apple products
How the office dictates how we communicate at work
I've come to the conclusion that anything sold as collectable, won't be. It'll be produced with such a massive supply that there'll be zero rarity value, so when demand dries up in later years it'll be worth much less than what you paid, or be worthless.
I don't know. I work from home as well, in Slovenia, and I don't know anyone else around me who does. But I was recently pleasantly surprised when my new employer sent a work safety inspector (basically ensuring that employer provides you with good working conditions) to my home. They told me it's quite a common practice nowadays, especially but not only for programmers, and they do a lot of these inspections.
I have medium-to-high fan noise/RPM consistently when connected to an Apple TB display (2560x1440@60Hz), but it's much quieter when connected to a 2560x1600@60Hz monitor. So if it is very specific resolutions, but not necessarily higher resolutions in general, that matches my experience.
Facebook’s use of Onavo spyware faces questions in EU antitrust probe
I got one, heard the fan, felt the heat. Switched on "Automatic Graphics Switching" in the power saver options and as I type it's on my lap as quiet as a mouse and as cool as a cucumber.
I wouldn't be surprised if someone soon comes up with a porn generator based on this tech.
Introducing PDF Inspector
I ordered something online a while ago, and it came covered in stamps from the ‘60s.
I use iStat Menus and look at the "Radeon High Side" sensor for GPU power draw under the Sensors menu icon.
I would also add, breaking the display advertising marketplace would be extremely problematic for third party publishers, and likely guarantee the lock in to Google News, Facebook News, and Apple News for all news sites. Dumping Adsense is very self serving, and could actually amplify Google’s anti-trust issues.
Biggest forced manufacturing recall ever recorded in history. VW Group barely hangs on in Chapter 11 because the people for once decided not to accept scapegoating some figureheads in a limited hangout.
>The bigger lesson: Humans don't desire consumerist society.

How exactly is this the case? By all metrics, humans love consumerism and it, or rather capitalism, allow us to enjoy an exceedingly high quality of life.
I’m using 2 external displays (one 4K) and it’s not overheating and the fans are completely silent.

My 16” i9 is MUCH quieter than my 15” 2015 Macbook pro, and it’s not like i’m browsing Facebook: i’m constantly compiling and running tests on every file save.

My macbook feels warm but not hot, even when I touch it at the fan exhausts. I do notice my battery only lasting about 2,5 hours though.

Playing games it runs great and while you can hear the fans, it’s much better compared to my 15” 2015.

Personally i’m really impressed with the cooling and performance of the 16”
i'm pretty sure it means "modded out" in this case
This is a really cool system and has a lot of neat features. I used it for experimental Clojure VM.

Here I have library that shows how to use it from Rust with one pre-defined memory layout for the objects.

For people that are interested, here is an example of how to use it for a Clojure like language:

https://github.com/clojit/clojit-cvm/blob/master/vm.c#L176

It lays out the memory like this:

0 1 2 4 8
+---+---+-------+-------------+ <- 0
|mps| | class|size |
+-----------------------------+
| tagged reference |
+-----------------------------+
| tagged reference |
+-----------------------------+
| tagged reference |
+-----------------------------+
| tagged reference |
+-----------------------------+ <- size

mps here are a few bits you have to reserve to tell what MPS object it is. Padding and Forward you need to support in order for MPS to be able to move your objects.

const uint8_t OBJ_MPS_TYPE_PADDING = 0x00;
const uint8_t OBJ_MPS_TYPE_FORWARD = 0x01;
const uint8_t OBJ_MPS_TYPE_OBJECT = 0x02;
Comparing you to some geniuses in the field isn't gonna help.

Sure Mozart was better that Salieri, but there is just one Mozart.

Companies are always talking about how they just take the best, but in the end they have to settle with what the market gives them.
Google haven't veered off their modus operandi since, maybe, its inception. Most people would say they're an ad company but if you look closely they're a patent hoarder and billion user product/service chaser.
Beyond its products/services you should look at their acquisitions as well, so you can have a fairly decent picture of what they're trying to achieve.

I doubt Google will vanish that easily, if, for whatever reason, ads become unsustainable (which is very unlikely) I predict they're are going to start licensing their tech to the highest bidder much like what they're doing right now with Waymo. (Waymo's end goal, like other players in this field, is insurance, btw.)

It's equally important to recall that they have lots of investments on a lot of other well-known companies (some are even outright competitors). (Makes one wonder if they're using those positions to keep their edge in the market that they may intend to takeover in the future.)

The "Google feels old now" feeling we're currently experiencing comes mostly from a power struggle between Big Tech and Big News.

Google have so many investments in so many different fields, and are so risk averse (I'd even risk saying paranoid) that I doubt they're going under any time soon.

But my guess is as good as any, though.
Good points. Based on my experience with whales in f2p games you will get outsized income from 0.1% of whale users, reliable income from 20% of hobby users, and one-off spend here and there from the rest.

When I think of someone paying me $1000 for art that others may pay only $20 or $5 for, first of all it still feels like charity from the whales. I think you could meaningfully create $20 and $5 tiers for any digital art. But what do you sell to raise the value two magnitudes other than status? Selling status to whales relies on a huge "commons" population for them to feel superior to. Nobody whales in a vacuum.

Second issue is whale rarity. Just to find your first $1000 whale you already need 1000 fans. The rest of them are only paying you $20 x 200 = $4,000 and $5 x 799 = $3,995 per year. That's $10k/yr.

The idea that you could only cultivate a stable of whales with artistic output is ridiculous. You somehow need to make the whales believe that the general population is their commons and then sell them status over gen pop, which is probably why the article hones in on wellness as the only vehicle in town.
I think that after you realize the limits of your (and our) technical ability to defend against attacks, you can then apply a threat model to see which attacks are not practical given your assets.

For example, I’m reasonably sure there are weaknesses in my gaming pc but I don’t do banking or other more secure things on it. There’s little motivation to target an attack or burn (use) an exploit to get access to this pc for an attacker and the defenses I have defend against most spray and pray attacks.
Before Apple really made it a problem, most of their (computer) parts were more generic. You may have had to take out 40 screws, but then you could swap the drive. In that case, "authenticity" is nonsensical.

Apple's problem with independent repair seems to be more of a "squeeze all the dollars out" issue rather than anything else.
Beautiful fakes but a simple trick can identify them quickly:

The right and left side of these faces are too similar.
This is not the case with real people.
Yeah, this is a tragic outcome for culture in general but free content isn’t sustainable either, people need to pay for rent, food, and other expenses. Im still waiting for the micropayments system to spring into existence..
I've found that unless you use some of the big-name e-mail providers, there's a high chance your letter wasn't even seen.

Companies tend to use some providers e-mail solutions and some of them are way too trigger-happy for spam.

It's gotten so bad, that before applying, I look at their MX records and if it's gmail, I won't even bother unless i really-really want the job. In that case I follow up with a phone-call.
Firefox and Edge Support in Cypress 4.0
The incentive is “be a good person/entity.” This whole bottom-line approach and “what’s in it for me” is unfortunate to say the least. Behind every corporate establishment is a cadre of people. People with (possibly) spouses, children, non-deceased parents, neighbors, and friends. Possibly at some abstract level similar to the abstract “us.” Treat people like people, not some kind of legal liability.
This has been true since the days of desktop computers, too (when laptop wasn't even an option). Gaming specs always make for simply great all-around machines — largely due to component specialization indeed, including thermal outtake.

Note that to this day it's magnitudes of order cheaper to build a desktop for crunching numbers. There's no beating the thermals of that, and thermals = cost either in money or time in this very physically-underpinned market.
My new i9 15" is a lot cooler and more silent than the i7 2015 it's been replacing. I guess doing a completely clean install with nothing else than using iCloud to sync data from the old machine fixed a lot of software related performance issues that piled up on the old one. I expect the 2015 to be a lot better again after a clean install. I think most of the problems on the 2019 are software related.

Not seeing any of the heat / performance problems mentioned by other people, the only really weird thing I've seen is that the color palette was way too dark getting out of sleep until I minimized and maximized brightness. That helped until the next sleep where it was too bright this time and the brightness trick didn't work anymore. Finally fixed it by switching between another color profile and back.

Otherwise TouchID was pretty good, don't really notice the touchpad in any way good or bad and the touch bar goes largely ignored just like the row of keys it replaced. Keyboard action is nice, it's slightly more clicky than the 2015 but still has about the same travel.

I really doubt anybody still on a 2015 or older will regret getting the 16". Probably the software problems get ironed out over the course of the next months.