skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an interesting question (as far as tax can be interesting!), whether patreon and other contribution/donations systems count as gifts, or income from your work.

I'm sure the tax authorities would like argue it is income, if you're making $8K monthly on patreon (e.g. Dwarf fortress creators).
What percentage of schools is this true for? There are only a few dozen schools that have a big time football program.
> For most people they are incorrectly set to some form of English(en-US, en-GB) even though this is not what the user wants.

This stopped being true a long time ago. It was once a problem, but not during the last decade, and certainly not now.
Nobody is talking about being rich but if you look at house prices in the major European metro areas or tech hubs, they're out of reach even for devs while that's not the case in the US.
TL;DR: Suburbs are a Ponzi scheme because roads are too expensive?

I'm sorry but this doesn't make very much sense. ELI5?
>They seem to be very bad at their jobs.

I'll submit the opposite: they are very good at their jobs, it's just you just aren't who they work for. Lots of wealthy people are doing juuuussst fine.
If any air was in the lungs it would be replaced with water, otherwise our bodies wouldn't respond much. We're mostly water and other matter that's very hard to compress.
I didn't say that the British government had no scope of action, but that it was limited compare to what a modern government could do. That this was further compounded by the attitudes and beliefs of members of the government of the time there's no doubt. But to be explicit about this, I believe that had there been an independent Irish state at the time, it would have continued to export food because not to do so would have been to risk economic collapse and would have outraged its merchant class.
Ahh yes hundreds “of” thousands would be huge!

Long term, I’d love to automate the entire process. We just have to start somewhere. Weeding seems like a safe place to start, and there’s plenty more work to be found once we get our foot in the door.

I’ll tell ya one thing - I love working with robots outside. I mostly work in the office but I love getting out to test the machine. :)
But you don’t have to ask Google permission to install software. So why are people asking for intervention in this case?

Choice is amazing. You had a choice to buy into Apple’s “walled garden” or buy an Android. You didn’t need the nanny state to make that choice for you.
Especially when there is such a big overlap between software engineering and scientific computing.
Not all software engineers write to-do apps in angular
In your example, I don't think that "Evolution" matches the popular definition of "emergent properties" (i.e. properties that lack concrete explanations).

Evolution is natural selection (a well-understood mechanism) applied over time. The divergence of species, families, and genuses "emerges" over time, but I think we're agreeing that this is a different use of the word.

To be clear, I'm not saying that words like "emergence" have no use, I'm just recommending that we be careful using them, lest we devolve to being satisfied by increasingly hand-wavy ideas.

In situations where we're aware of our own ignorance, we should own up to the ignorance directly, instead of describing the systems as having "emergent" (i.e. tautological) properties.
There's a piece of investment wisdom that says "the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent" - or, applied here, Uber's going to take a while longer to die than your startup.
If the land tax is greater than what you can make renting, then that means your land is improperly priced. You can prove it by putting it on the market and no investor will buy it at that price because they would lose money and thus it would have to fall until the land tax is less than what they can make from rent.

Now, if you abolish zoning or rezone places in addition to a land value tax, it could work as the investor could build more housing for the same land thus splitting the cost over multiple renters which I'm sure is the intended affect but a land value tax won't work without changing zoning laws and at the end of the day, it's all passed onto renters.
The book is not presenting to the patient, the book is presenting to another surgeon. If I was a surgeon, I would find value in learning about previous mistakes, and thankfully in programming as a general rule the cost of error is lower (but still a valuable learning).
It's a way to check if someone read your entire profile, so you can filter out people who are just looking for a free place to stay. For example, you could hide the word "pineapple" two paragraphs in and ask that people mention it in their first message to you.
That's a fair comment. I used it as I wanted a noun short enough to fit in a list.

Maybe it's better to go even vaguer though: "food hygiene standards so low they keep causing pandemics".
It would be a combination. The "household name" universities would just be different. Hundreds, like my alma mater, would probably cease to exist.
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Many foreigners treat PhD and especially Masters program as a way to get visa and access to USA - doing actual research is secondary goal. $30k/year is poverty wage in US but solid pay for somebody from eastern europe, India or China. Programs will be in jeopardy because they won’t be able to do visa/salary arbitrage which could positive thing and lead to more Americans in those programs.
Most German universities also don’t have dorms, on campus amenities, erm, or often even campuses. German courses don’t have TAs, and many only have grades based on one final. It isn’t a bad system, but you get what you pay for.
it depends. i do not think we even understand, in theory, how we would do something like this
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Side Note: Can we all appreciated that this website requires 112 of its 349 requests to load javascript from 47 different domains.
Sadly, SoundWaves is super buggy if you have a larger font size set, and it's auto-playlist function is super annoying.

I prefer AntennaPod, another open-source app podcast app that's much less opinionated and has a few more features (but not bloated like most podcast apps).

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.danoeh.antennapod/

It's also available on the Google App Store.

I like how both of these apps actually let you manually set the RSS address, because most don't.
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Not that it's either relevant or germane to a discussion regarding an organization using stolen identity to wire funds electronically.

Multiple states have been using mail-in ballots for literally decades. No widespread voter fraud has ever been reported.

Here's an anecdote for you: a few elections back, my signature didn't look quite right on the envelope of my ballot. Got a call from elections officials to verify that I had in fact filled out the ballot.

There's a lot more control involved in mail-in voting than there are in fraudulently filling-out an online form and receiving an electronic funds transfer.
using lightness-normalized colors for my web designs improved the overall balance a lot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_Winner
CS generated billions in social capital but that can be hard to monetize. I wish they had solicited donations sooner and not raised that 10M round.

They could have started a Patreon or buy me coffee-esque donation model several years ago and people would have been down to help sustain them.

It seems that mid 2000s internet knew how to use CS without being creepy but more and more of the 2010s internet just didn't. There were so many allegations of harassment and women not feeling comfortable. One woman traveler I met said if she even logged in in India, she would get 6-7 invites from men to stay with her. Seems like this 'travelers near you' feature maybe had some downsides.

It's also just hard to stay relevant with the rise of facebook, airbnb, and reddit. It's a bummer they didn't stay more focused. Gosh, I would have loved to work for them back when I lived near the mission, but it sounds like it would have been incredibly frustrating.
it's interesting but that not how thermostats work, sure they're on-off but they have hysteresis they don't keep switching

also you can use bang bang demo and inertia to orbit the thing moving the point on the tangent at the fastest approach, which is awesome.
Just remember that it's entirely possible to do awkward and inconsistent UI in native apps, and there's a very long tradition of it.

But at least it's generally faster when you do it!
I think this is very clickbaity. A ponzi scheme is an intentional scheme to defraud. Here at the worst we are talking about badly organised and budgeted government.

And there are much larger unfunded liabilities in medicare and medicaid, which is a much bigger "ponzi scheme".
Slightly off topic, but socat and lzop are my favorite utilities for shuttling data around a local network at high speed.

Backing up a disk:

alice$ pv /dev/sda | lzop | socat - tcp:bob:1234
bob$ socat tcp-listen:1234 - > alice.sda.lzo

Copying a bunch of files:

alice$ tar c dir | lzop | socat - tcp:bob:1234
bob$ socat tcp-listen:1234 - | lzop -d | pv | tar x
This "Not approved by Government or Public Health Organizations" rule seems to apply to all the indie apps except for the apps built by mega corps

- Twitter app asks users to follow Covid-19 related news as the first item in their home screen after login (and has a separate tab for news related to Covid-19 in Search screen).

- Reddit official app asks users to subscribe to /r/Coronavirus (that subreddit is not moderated by any government).

- Quora android app has a banner at the top that is similar (follow Coronavirus Space - all the content in that topic seems to be generated by users).

- YouTube app currently has a featured video related to Covid on my feed from one of their official Spotlight channels.

I'm sure Facebook has something similar to follow news related to Covid.

So there's no consistency of banning non-official speech on Covid-19

Also this is not the first time it happened. Same thing happened to

- A meme generator app because one of the memes contained word Corona (https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/fn0wzl/app_with...).

- An RSS reader app for showing news related to Covid (https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/ggb3s7/a_week_s...)

- A self improvement app that curates articles (https://reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/gem317/our_app_was_...)

And in all of these examples, app seems to be restored after talking to someone at Google. Shouldn't that be the first thing done by the Google play team (before suspending the app) instead of dev losing all the installs and revenue for the time the app is suspended?
Debt outside of mortgages has increased.

Housing prices have increased.

People are marrying later and renting longer.

It seems like there needs to be a new solution between the mortgage and being a tenant that allows for freer movement and yet the building of ownership / investment in a place over time.

Here’s what we’re working on towards that end.

https://www.konarahomes.com/

Looking for partners to solve this very important and difficult problem.
Uber is artificially starving out the markets it enters by offering dumping prices. Restaurants are similarly dragged into participating at gunpoint (in particular, the likes of DoorDash, Yelp and GrubHub will absolutely hold the restaurant's reputation hostage until it joins the platform).
> My original comment said its not okay to steal from a company even if you don't like that company.

Your original comment said it was wrong to exploit a bug, to which the parent poster retorted that this was a feature and not a bug.

Here, you've gone further to claim that this behaviour is stealing, and I'd like to explore that for a minute: what possible moral or legal right does Doordash have to an operating profit when it deliberately operates at a loss?

By all accounts, this below-cost pricing is predatory behaviour on Doordash's part, not the customer's: they seem to break into a market by offering delivery at a subsidized rate, then they take data based on those rates and try to strike fee arrangements with restaurants. At first glance, it seems like they sell themselves based on inflated numbers from the discount period, without disclosing that they were in fact offering customers a discount.

I see no ethical fault in beating a (sophisticated!) predator at their own game, but where do you reach the alternative conclusion?
I'd love to see a list of CSS files that are actually usable out of the box i.e. have a reasonable column width for body text on both desktop and mobile.
Styling semantic tags in a library is a really bad idea, it assumes your css is going to be the only css used in an app. It's good manners to style class names instead.
On the other hand - was its popularity ever "down"?
I am not talking about any particular existing nation state. I am saying that the problems we are experiencing could be solved by having some form of "constituted digital public spaces and platforms". I am well aware of the practical difficulties in establishing these. But it's our inability to create those spaces that is hurting us here.
There is a concerted effort at the top of our government to subvert the republic and turn it into a new oligarchy, why we haven't openly branded certain members of congress and the current administration traitors and dealt with them appropriately is beyond me. We're passed the point where cleaning house would be seen as weakness or instability on the world stage, because the current admin is weak and unstable. Cleaning house now would reassure our allies and restore some legitimacy to our government.

I'm not suggesting violence, but that our forces responsible from protecting us against domestic threats do their job here, I think the idea that the optics of arresting a sitting president and members of congress is less worse than restoring a functioning legislative and executive branches.
Same problem exists with designers and monitors.
Use the tools you already know – thats how Simple Analytics reached $5.7K MRR
Centralized walled gardens are going to face this no matter what policy they have. Too loose? They run afoul of laws and offend people. Too strict? They develop a reputation for censorship and offend people. There is no way they can win.

That's why everything has to go decentralized, encrypted, headless, and amorphous. The endpoint should be the end of platforms in favor of protocols and interfaces to those protocols.

Get to work.
Planet money podcast said we did about $7 trillion in stock buy backs over the last 10 years [0]. That is $700 billion a year, so a 5% tax is $35 billion a year.

It’s a lot of money, but not enough for fundamental change. It would of been enough collectively to pay for the stimulus we are doing now though.

0 - https://www.marketwatch.com/story/sp-500-companies-spent-7-t...
> If you're trying to avoid supernatural explanations then emergence is the best of a baffling bad bunch IMHO.

Emergence is a general word, too general. I think what we need here is just self-replication. Self replication leads to competition, which given enough time leads to the evolution of perception and ultimately reasoning.
The CS course I did had a lot of the maths content of the related electrical engineering courses - admittedly with a focus on discrete maths for the third and fourth years. This did give us a lot of maths, but with no real idea as to what people actually did with it.

Fortunately, for me at least this was fixed when as a postgraduate I joined a research group that was largely control engineers!
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Epic games tried to side step google:

> When Fortnite launched on mobile in 2018, Epic Games very notably sidestepped the Google Play Store and pushed users to download the title directly from their website, an effort made to avoid the substantial revenue cuts that Google takes from in-app purchases of Play Store downloads. After 18 months of harsh rhetoric regarding platform gatekeeping, Epic Games says that Fortnite is now available for download on the Google Play Store, though it will still be downloadable from fortnite.com moving forward.

> Google puts software downloadable outside of Google Play at a disadvantage, through technical and business measures such as scary, repetitive security pop-ups for downloaded and updated software, restrictive manufacturer and carrier agreements and dealings, Google public relations characterizing third party software sources as malware, and new efforts such as Google Play Protect to outright block software obtained outside the Google Play store,: an Epic Games spokesperson said in a statement. "Because of this, we've launched Fortnite for Android on the Google Play Store."
Self-deception. "We live in THE greatest country, ergo what you say can't be true. Also I have ideological stances I'm not willing to consider. QED." - A summery of most conversations I have with about 40% of the US population on healthcare.
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Seems one of these things hits the front page every month or so. My question is, why don't the browser makers adopt something like this as the default stylesheet? Are they constrained by the spec here or is it just a matter of inertia?
>> SoftBank lent billions for employees to invest. That's incredible and dubious!

In some ways, this is great. It shows that fund executives' interests are aligned with the long-term returns of the fund. It shows they are there for the carry returns and not just the annual admin fees. It gives execs skin in the game.
Looking at current epidemic curves reinforces my belief that humans are helpless to control epidemics. Epidemic curves of individual American states shows the same thing [1]; some states have seen a speedy decline, and some are kinda stuck, with no correlation to any policy decision I'm aware of.

[1] https://www.endcoronavirus.org/states
That's why I use many accounts for YouTube, one for music, another one tech-related, ... using the multi containers extension of Firefox, this way, the recommendations become somewhat more relevant.
Of all the ways I can imagine self driving cars becoming a reality, Uber creating a fleet of honest to goodness self-driving taxis seems to be about the most far fetched.

On balance of probability, I think that is just a bullet point to keep the juicy AI flavoured investment funds flowing.
Any good resources for graph theory? I know high level basics, but do not know what subsampling is. It might be useful to add a quick explanation to the readme.md.
Adriaan from Simple Analytics shared tips on how to bootstrap your business to success and the story of how he went about growing Simple Analytics to a successful privacy-first business that makes $5.7K in MRR.
I don't know, that's the problem :)

Btw, I would imagine that our experience of consciousness is emergent from something else, but the question is what that something else is. Is it nothing more than mass, charge etc. or is it something else?
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> Hm. If they're doing that, and using every restaurant's trademarked content in their ads without an agreement in place, I think that would be a problem legally.

I'm not sure about that. How would non-authorized resellers work then? In the most absurd case, sellers on Ebay wouldn't be allowed to say what exactly they're selling. You would have to list something as "a watch" instead of "Casio G-Shock". Same goes for any used car lot, etc.

The primary cause here would be "trademark infringement", which requires "likelihood of confusion" in the marketplace [1]. Doordash isn't particularly causing confusion here. They do, in fact, sell Saddleback BBQ from Saddleback BBQ. The only source of confusion I can think of is that the link doesn't take you directly to Saddleback BBQ, but rather to a generic list of BBQ restaurants (which Saddleback BBQ is on).

[1] https://cyber.harvard.edu/metaschool/fisher/domain/tm.htm#7
I am developing a integration platform for EDI(X12, EDIFACT) messages to be easily integrated with cloud based SaaS ERPs like Dynamics 365 F&O, BC, NetSuite etc. EDI is a complex piece of integration - diff formats, cryptography, data conversions, etc.
this should be a easy to use platform that can act as a gateway to receive your messages and convert and relay it back to your ERP, backend, etc.
This so much. I live in Boston so I end up interviewing a lot of new Northeastern grads. Foreign Masters students are the absolute worst cohort of candidates I deal with. The vast majority cannot write fizz buzz without help. A Northeastern Masters in CS seems to be nothing more then a way to buy a visa.

This is doubly sad because Northeastern BS in CS grads are probably the most successful group I interview and hire.
Very nice! I've been working as a controls engineer for 20+ years and this is one of the best visualizations I've come across.
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Good grief, you weren't kidding.

Page size is 11.64MB without any ad blocking and 3.91MB with. For a 3 image article with ~600 words 3.91MB is still a bit much.
1. Void Linux doesn't claim its BSD inspired, BSD inspired could mean 100 different things.

2. runit is not a "sysv-style" init, its the complete opposite.
runit is a supervisor and inspired by daemontools. A "rc init" is more closely related to "sysv-style" than runit is.

3. > I like OpenBSD's init system: super simple and best of all, no bs runlevels!

Runit has no runlevels, can actually automatically restart services when they die, can signal services without relying on pid files (which are prone to race conditions) and can create a pipe between a service and a log service that will never lose any logs.
Stock buy backs are the largest point of growth for company spending since 2010. American companies spend more on that than R&D. Since it is the only growth they want to do, and can't weather a couple weeks of downturn because they spent all their money on stock buy backs, it needs a mechanism to curb that bad behavior and make them able to survive without the government printing trillions to bail them out.
Nationalize FAANG?
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Launched as not maintained, seems odd.
I have a strong love/hate relationship with all this App Store oligopoly. Love because often they are weeding out apps with security/privacy concerns. On the flip side, cases like this where you are 600 feet buried in red tape trying to talk some sense into someone at the company.

You can try to talk to someone at Google, but good luck with that. I think you’re doing what’s best now. Shine a spotlight so far up Google’s hooter via publicity about your case that someone higher up catches your attention and remedies the situation.
The problem with this, and likely why the post was made in the first place, is screen and many other solutions are basically just a terminal emulator on your existing terminal emulator and may cause problems. screen for instance seems to make snippets I use to resize serial terminals nonfunctional, likely because it does not implement things the same as xterm-like terminals.
Government pensions on the other hand...
Ask HN: How to Shrink Bootdisk on GCP?
Found this tutorial: https://donovancraig.com.au/blog/2019/11/22/shrinking-gcp-drives/

But it's not working, I am getting errors when I start weresync daemon.
Cassandra can replace an rdbms in a lot of cases if eventual consistency works for your data.

It's not a drop in replacement though, that's for sure.
Most large US university have large medical centers attached to them, so at my school our staffing numbers were 1/3 for the university (teaching + admin) and 2/3 medical center. These are not small hospitals.