skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has been decimated but not so much by pirates, but more so by the publishers themselves creating unbearable experiences, starting to give away everything creating a certain expectation (and now trying to reverse but running into the expectations they created), by the publishers being complacent and reactionary, by social media, by social media companies abusing their network effects, by "free" 24/7 news channels eating the newspaper's cake while at the same time discrediting the entire profession with their more-often-than-not sensationalist low quality reporting, by entrepreneurs backing news site "ventures" which then blasted and keep blasting everybody with low quality "free" clickbait, by publishers starting to imitate those low quality channels and sites (and their "free as in data hoarding" unsustainable models), predatory/hostile takeovers of local newspapers by "big media" and the associated "consolidating" of writers staff with adverse effects on quality, by "stakeholders" shifting from a "I am OK with only a so-so profit; this stuff is important" attitude to a full blown "we need to maximize profits at all costs", and the list goes on.

I used to read the German Spiegel weekly, first the issues my dad bought, then later as I grew older buying their magazine. I stopped buying it years back, as it stopped being worth it, as the quality of the articles and investigative work plummeted, and article research turned into op-ed pieces.
What strikes me in both the original article and the post is the failure to recognise that a strong form of selective pressure is being applied upon software, and that adaptive processes (of which evolution is but a single example) tend to optimise for the criterion that is being selected for even in absence of an overarching design (‘proof’). I recommend reading Darwin Among the Machines for comparison to hardware.
Economic effects of Covid-19 globally
Capital gains tax is not the same as exit tax though?
You cut the quote before:

> In this case, however, Volla told us that its kernel sources should be publicly available.

Which links to:

https://twitter.com/hello_volla/status/1223819263745646592

> The kernel is public and we have the BSP.
Yeah, my SO is a nurse in paediatric oncology and has seen people from poorer countries sell everything they have in order to bring their child to Western hospitals in the futile hope of treatment.

It's really sad and seems almost exploitative. They often get ripped off by private clinics in their home countries as well.

At some point we need to say these people aren't in a fit state of mind to make these financial decisions. (Who would be? When the life of their own child seems to be at stake?)

It's such a sad situation.
What do you mean by candy themes? Aero?

I think Windows 7 and Windows 10 still have very clear interfaces (I mean Win32 GUIs, not the Metro/Modern stuff no one outside of MS really cares about).

I've never understood however the need to disable Aero and switch to Windows Classic, which looks gray, boring and feels like using Windows 98 again.

Ironically, most of the people I know who used Windows Classic mode switched to Linux later using something like GNOME or Cinnamon and then complained how ugly Windows was in comparison :)
And this is why folks still run DB2.
How does this compare to pinephone?

https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/

I might be wrong but it feels as if that's were the mindshare is right now (maybe because they have already shipped development phones)
You can 3d print vein patterns trivially
That being said, I use a $40 Lodge enameled cast iron Dutch oven, and it works just as well.

What you're paying for with Le Creuset is the enamel. Lodge makes all of their enameled stuff in China and the it's pretty well documented that their enamel doesn't hold up as well.

Cast iron is cast iron is cast iron but with the KitchenAid mixers you're also paying for design. America's Test Kitchen has some decent stand mixer videos on youtube. Some of the other brands (like Bosch) have their loyalists but overall there are reasons beyond longevity to go for the expensive mixers.
You aren't "tricking" a web server. This is how the web works by design. Cookies were the kludge, and no, telling me I should maintain state to make your attempts at financialization easier does not give you a moral high ground, especially when you're assuming my hardware is there for your use. That was, and never should be the case, and I will fight to the pain against anyone that asserts otherwise. My computer is not your developer's playground. I already suffer through enduring Ads when I don't feel like spreading my personal info to the 4 winds. One should be happy to get that much.

Those living in glass houses are best advised to refrain from casting stones and all.
Sure, the instructions are clear. But since there isn't a build ready for 18.04 - that kind of makes me wonder about the versions/state of dependencies too - that is - the packaged dependencies in 18.04.

They'll generally be frozen at the point 18.04 was frozen - so api and versions from 2017 or so. With 20.04 around the corner, I'd rather wait than faff around.
Actor Model and C++: what, why and how? (March 2020 Edition)
He’s like a human paperclip maximizer..
Any timeline for hitting addons.mozilla.org?
Surely 20k isn't enough to manufacture a phone. Even the tools themselves would cost more than that, let alone purchasing components. Unless they're CNCing the housing for every device
I would like to opt out of this, but how? I don't think my life has improved in the least since my bus pass stopped being a piece of paper I replaced every month. Physical cash is a good concept, it works and it would continue to do so until the sun burns out. Even before we get to all the derived socio-political consequences of all of this, it's just not necessary at all.
Nice one @wgx
actually no, real usability research specifically lacking in flat is how to design for older workers. MD handles this Apple still has not address this in FD
Ahahaha Microsoft had to catch up to https://github.com/taviso/loadlibrary

Nice!
Back in 2000, I was working for a small dotcom startup and I remember we came into work one day to discover that our production servers were all running at a crawl & unable to serve traffic. Turned out that one of the devs had installed seti@home on all our servers (this was before devops was a thing) and it was hogging 90%+ of the cpu. I think he'd installed seti on every machine in the office that he could get access to, even other people's workstations. He was utterly obsessed with the thing.
Clearly, if the websites didn’t want you to download their customer db, they’d not let you inject SQL queries!
How to help your body help your mind [video]
Yeow, US$550-700, that is incredibly expensive. Thanks for the TIL though
An issue you might face is that during rollouts, you will still have some servers running the old binary and some running the new binary. So you must either:

1. Stop all old servers before starting the new ones -> downtime, might be acceptable
2. Have your clients handle the fact that they might hit vN or vN+1 of your services.
As someone currently struggling with creating a large, dynamic, multi-tab form, I'd love know more about the solutions you've employed.
I'd wondered yesterday if anyone had studied the actual use of HTML markup within Web documents.[1] Turns out that Opera did this in 2008.

Some interesting findings -- document sizes are curiously multi-peaked, based on Figure 2-1. I've plotted these.[2]

The tag ratio is surprisingly high: "The average document had a Tag Ratio of 61.64%, with almost 2/3 of each document being tags."

And 2008 was still apparently the era of table-based layouts, with table element tags more popular than <p> tags.[3] MAMA provides a full element listing as well,[4] which I've plotted for all values scaled > 1.[5] Only a small subset of those are actually semantic elements.

It'd be interesting to compare this to current practices.

________________________________

Notes:

1. HN comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22477551 Response from a Mastodon thread: https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius/103760601700847725

2. ASCII barplot of document sizes: https://pastebin.com/raw/nBqB3pfS

3. ASCII barplot of popular tag frequencies: https://pastebin.com/raw/DhgCSscG

4. https://maqentaer.com/devopera-static-backup/http/devfiles.m...

5. ASCII barplot: https://pastebin.com/raw/C9UnewXq
I wonder how many widely used github projects rely on cryptic "random small packages from a pull request" that possibly introduce backdoors.
> This is the same design used by many Xiaomi phones and lots of clones/rebrands. Someone mentioned even Siemens has one.

That would explain why "the device will be entirely assembled by (Siemens) Gigaset factories in Germany."

So it's a whitelabel phone. I seem to be misunderstanding the excitement :\
>I spin up at 11am, get reving by 1pm and don't stop until I pull up to the drive way at 1am or 2am. Monday to Sunday.

This person's obviously crushing it.
That’s interesting, regarding Lodge, but I could replace this 6 times and still spend less than the cost of one Le Creuset. (I appreciate irony of this point in contrast with my “buy it for life” point above.)

America’s Test Kitchen is another service that’s interesting in the context of the article. They aren’t a sexy Instagram brand, but are a service that should thrive in this space. I’m wondering if they’re getting the adjacent bump from all of this.
It felt less like a real interview and more like a pre-arranged/pre-planned "message".

> Why do so many even well-educated people think in zero-sum terms if all they need to do is separate the idea of money from material wealth?

Because many well-educated honest people know that wealth = power and power is a zero sum game. It's the well-educated dishonest people who keep insisting everyone focus on the superficial non-zero sum nature of wealth and ignore the zero-sum consequences of wealth in relation to power.

If that interview room was the world and PG and the interviewer were the only people in the world and they produced 1 handgun and 1 nerf gun, they increased wealth. But that increased wealth is meaningless isn't it? What's important is who gets the handgun and who gets the nerf gun because it affects the power relation in the room and power is zero sum. If PG gained power, then the interviewer necessarily loses power. And vice versa.

Historically, it's always those with wealth/power who insists everyone look at the non-zero sum nature of wealth. A king or a slave owner says to a serf or a slave that increased wealth is good for everyone. Of course the king and slave owner would take greater portion of the wealth which increases their relative power over the serf or the slave. It's the same dynamic in north korea or with a pimp and a prostitute. Even if the greater wealth in north korea slightly benefits the poor, it still leaves them worse off vis-a-vis "dear leader" who takes a greater share of the wealth. Nevermind that if the percentages were reversed ( people get the lions share and "dear leader" gets a smaller slice ), the wealth would still have increased. But PG would probably say that's unfair or confiscation.

> Though it’s called a tax, it’s really just confiscation.

All taxes are confiscations then.

> Interestingly, though, this policy shows how quickly socialism turns into authoritarianism.

And there you have it. The agenda. Also, it's not like capitalism hasn't confiscated either? Entire continents of land was confiscated by capitalism. Entire races of people's labor was confiscated by capitalism. Wars have been started, governments overthrown and resources stolen in the name of capitalism.

> But on the other hand, I’m one of the few people who can say heterodox things without worrying about getting fired.

Or banned.

> So if I don’t say these things, who will?

Nothing in the interview was "heterodox". What heterodox statements has PG made?

> The top idea in my mind right now, to be honest, is Covid-19.

Was wondering why there has been a sudden surge of covid-19 posts lately.

Frankly, this is why podcast interviews are so popular and tv/mag/etc interviews are not. There is no genuine free-flow exchange of ideas or honesty. It's just pre-arranged robotic soul-less talking points. It's the interview equivalent of the potemkin village. It has the fake facade of an interview, but there is no real interview.
Nextcloud Talk is end-to-end encrypted, but not as easy to set up as Jitsi Meet.

https://nextcloud.com/talk

https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed
Thanks a lot for this answer, very informative. I was not aware of Lab coming to browsers.
The logistics don't seem difficult at all to me if there's a will. People tend to be pretty accommodating when it comes to letting you give them money. At the very least, countries can offer a "medical visa" option to visitors.

As for national borders being unethical by nature, if that logically follows then why not?

I certainly don't consider ethics a source of "gotcha" questions, but of real conundrums.
It's basically the word for word consensus advice of decades past. At least two generations grew up in a world where "take out the biggest mortgage you can" was considered good advice by default. As history has proven that is not a consistently successful approach for individuals and has some pretty severe trade-offs at the societal level. I'm not sure if it was the point he was trying to make but in any case it should probably serve as cautionary tale that consensus is not necessarily correctness.
At least here in Germany there is a Kikkomen soy sauce specifically labeled as gluten free. Although of course the label does not mean that it does not contain wheat.
Searl Effect Generator Replication Measures 7% Reduction in Weight
What makes a gradual transition on your own impossible for you if I may ask?
If it’s legal, then they aren’t crooks.
Same at Snowdrift.coop. We still try jitsi again every once in a while because we'd like to make joining our meetings more accessible to new contributors, or if we want video. However, jitsi quality tends to degrade in meetings with 5+ people or when one person had a bad connection. Not always, but enough where we've wasted meetings due to struggling with tech. In the end, how well it works matters more than how sexy it is, and the reliability of mumble just can't be beat.
One of the best things about this phone is currently hidden in Update #6: Backers can get the phone with a preinstalled Ubuntu Touch OS!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/volla/volla-phone-desig...
Local time can work only locally, only UTC can work globally.
I am no anthropologist. A quick search on the topic (not specific to those people) suggests decoration, identity, and "perception of how to live life" are possible reasons.

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160919-the-real-origin-of-c... comments that it might be decoration.

> Gilligan points out that humans were probably decorating themselves long before clothes even existed. "When you look at contemporary hunter-gatherers who don't use clothing, they decorate themselves brilliantly with body painting. You don't need clothing in order to do that."

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/lifestyle/debunking-colonial... points to several "contexts and situations where elements of dress [broadly speaking] seem to have been of particular relevance." One example is:

> a hunter, before he tracks his prey, must cut himself and rub the cuts with a root called ssho /oa. And he must rub his body with it and wear ssho /oa in a band around his shoulders. This is to get the game to “run foolishly”, not knowing that it is afraid, and to approach the hunter as an equal. ...

> Far from being naked, or nearly naked, the Bushmen of colonial southern Africa had a complex and meaningful practice of dress. It was intimately related to subsistence, identity and their perception of how to live life in the world as they knew it.

The author's book is at http://witspress.co.za/catalogue/dress-as-social-relations/ .
The UK has class 2 in the south west and wales, class 1 in Scotland.
I disagree. There is a difference between first-party tracking (e.g. Netflix) and third-party tracking. I’m well aware of first-party tracking and how it can be helpful. However, both third-party tracking and the sale of first-party tracking information is unconscionable in my opinion: therefore, rewarding that behaviour with currency is equally unconscionable to me.
I don't think software is all that reliable. Almost every piece of major software that I use has one or more bugs and periodically locks up or crashes. We as users have been conditioned to accept this with the situation getting worse rather than better over the years.

The main reason software seems more reliable than in the past is because in a SaaS environment the crash doesn't happen on your computer anymore. But the effect is the same unless extreme care was taken on the server side to ensure that no data was lost. In most cases we perform the equivalent of a reboot or retry: we reload the page.
20k isn't enough for communication cost for heaven sake. Plus what niche is it targeting? Geeks? Good luck milking the milkers.
Just as they are free to psychopathically exploit every tax loophole they can get their hands on, so are countries free to close them.
> they already paid tax

When do you consider someone paid enough tax?
The website is sending out text for searching on though, making it look as if it is available for reading freely, and then withholding it once you start reading it.

In some cases they let you start reading it then swipe it away once you are invested in the article, which seems dishonest.

I don't know about the legal aspect, but morally I am fine with bypassing restrictions under those circumstances.

I don't have a problem with paywalls provided the companies involved are completely up-front about it (e.g. putting their entire site behind a paywall, or offering some articles for free searching/reading and others only behind the paywall). That seems much better ethically, and also impossible to bypass.

I'm quite happy paying a subscription to the Guardian for news despite (or because of) the fact that none of their news is behind a paywall.
There's more to financial subreddits than just /r/wallstreetbets, thankfully.
Could you possibly share more details on this? Would also love to avoid the pitfall is possible. Thank you
Self-hosting notes with a Raspberry Pi and TiddlyWiki
> So, I wish Georgia, Florida, et al would just give Congress a big middle finger by switching to permanent Atlantic Standard Time. Maybe then they'd realize how silly this all is.

States can't unilaterally adopt a different time zone. The boundaries are regulated by the feds.
> And yes, they already paid tax on said money in the country they earned them.

I think the point that exit-tax proponents are attempting to make is that the current social understanding of wealth is that wealth-holders tend to show that they are capable of efficiently allocating resources, so they should be able to continue to do so while they're still in the country, thus we tax them lower than we would if we could more efficiently use those resources. So think of it like a partial taxation or a conditional subsidy alongside a future promise of additional, likely greater, taxation from their future business dealings, job creations, &c.

Since they're leaving, the country is losing out any investment it assumed at an earlier date when deciding to tax less, so the country would effectively just be reclaiming a conditional subsidy.
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A Leaderless Struggle for Democracy
Why support this Kickstarter campaign instead of just buying a Gigaset GS290? For the custom OS?
As this has generated some debate, I wanted to recommend The Revolutions Podcast https://www.revolutionspodcast.com/ which I think I first heard about on another HN thread.
This article has me scratching my head honestly. "I decided I wanted to become a person who makes soup" - isn't soup one of the easiest things to cook? I'm not really into cooking myself, but even I could throw together one given a recipe and some time. I'm not sure what kind of soup she was thinking about though, if you first need to buy articles worth hundreds of dollars to cook one...
Google Contributor still exists today: https://contributor.google.com/v/marketing
They may have paid a smaller total amount of tax on the presumption that the money would be used in the country to stimulate economic activity. If the money leaves then that presumption is gone and there is a shortfall.
6.894: Interactive Data Visualization (MIT)
The exit tax is not closing any tax loophole. Is just a second, punitive, confiscatory tax on money already taxed.
My definition of superfluous eye candy includes the default green and blue theme of Windows XP, Aero in Vista and 7, and Metro in later versions. What you describe as boring is predictable and usable to me.

You guessed right, I run various Linux distributions with Cinnamon on every computer but the gaming one, and I still envy the clean and crisp look of 2000.

Regarding Metro, the new control panel in Windows 10 lacks most settings a normal power user (not a domain admin) needs so all the useful functionality is hidden behind one extra layer.
This.

Serious websites like the Financial Times just block you from reading articles altogether, without letting you first read the lede or anything.

They still give archivers access because it's an effective form of price discrimination, but they have complete control over what they're doing.
Monzo’s Engineering Culture
Absolutely worth it. You do need to book/reserve a tour.
Low-cost Deterministic C++ Exceptions for Embedded Systems (2019) [pdf]
Material design isn't flat and monochrome.
Or they may have not. Aren't you presuming too much? What other unwritten presumptions are there that one should be aware of?
I hope some day, somebody will recognize that phones have become our everyday computers, and will create such a device.

A phone that is just that on it's own, but couple it with a dock and it becomes a desktop computer. It will of course require apps to have both phone and desktop UI variants, but given that most serious apps already have both phone and desktop versions i don't really see that as a major problem.

My current phone has just about as much RAM, CPU and GPU as my desktop machine has, so performance should be somewhat "desktop like".

I'm aware this is partially what Ubuntu tried to do with the Ubuntu Phone, but last i checked that project wasn't doing too well.
It's exciting to see this. I believe such a design will have many applications in niche industries and niche use cases for sure.
Every moment you're working, you're getting better at doing that thing, so there's that box ticked.

Now you can justify going down with the ship, because you're getting really good at bailing water.

Magical thinking to the very end...and beyond. Well, those VC furnaces need their coal.
It's just a white label Gigaset GS290 from what I've read. No tooling costs etc.
Every tax dodger, every tax evader claims they have paid tax. Every single one. Is that what this is?

I don't pay income tax with my offshore family trust structure but it's legal and I pay sales tax when I spend - those are the only facts that matter the rest is unseemly.

My company doesn't pay tax but it's legal and I pay my employees and /they/ pay income tax - those are the only facts that matter and the rest is just snark.

Leave it out. Leave it right out. All the way out. Then and only then can it be discussed what constitutes good tax policy and what is trying to be achieved with that policy.

Billionaires whining about paying a legal tax that once paid leaves them with more money than they can possibly spend in their lifetimes and those of their children makes me want to spit on my hands, hoist the black flag and begin... - and /I/ tend toward libertarian.