skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure if I sympathize well with this but I am open to hearing more. If I am a US citizen, then I have to pay ~30% taxes on my worldwide income. In exchange, I have a very convenient passport, I have access to the US stock market, etc...

Is it not the same for Apple? You pay 30% tax and you have to implement their IAP. That's the cost of getting access to all the iPhone market share amongst other things.
Firefox Premium is just branding, so far as I can tell. I can't imagine Mozilla charging for software. They might make software that's not useful without the service (like the VPN client), but the software itself is free.
I support the removal of the bus.

McCandless’s tale is a cautionary one.

Monuments to the unprepared shouldn’t be beacons for more of the same to follow.

I’m all for freedom, including freedom to fail.

But living in an area with regular fatalities due to lack of experience, preparedness, and planning, removing unnecessary beacons is a worthwhile effort.
It'd be good to know how to contribute. Do they have regular calls? Are the documents written async? How are things agreed upon? Do they need outside input?

They don't seem to have a CONTRIBUTIG.md
I don't know if GHC provides either, but either a borrowing or a dup feature would handle that (the latter would probably count as "cheat"). There may be other ways as well.

Since linear types are a separate opt-in feature you'd probably need (as far as I understand) you'd need separate printers anyway, so you could probably "cheat" them in. Though I think the sort of structures you'd want to be linear would generally not be amenable to print-debugging anyway.
Policy or not, it would perhaps be nice to deposit a copy anyway. Put the ball in their court so to speak, even if Harvard does nothing further.
I'm European too.

The thing about democracy is, it's a slow process.

Currently the best thing is to wait till November and China knows that.

They are exploiting the situation, but in contrast. I think the "one road, one belt" will fail if they continue their exploitive behaviour.

Taiwan is not an easy topic right now, because it's a bit too early. Since Western democracy under Trump is not United :(

As soon as we can, harder measures should be employed.
Starts around the 7 minute mark. Whole video is interesting though
> Ps. Trump has no interest in peace and prosperity. Haven't you been paying attention? The US has never been this divided and the current leader thinks tweeting is more important.

Trump's only interest is re-election.

The US govt is a huge entity with may players of which the president is one, albeit an important one. The US military, State, academia and other institutions are all actors and they do have an interest in peace and prosperity.

Presidents come and go, but institutions remain and it is important that the relevant institutions adopt a common posture towards China.
I'm an oldtimer like you.

It's worse than you're even alluding to. I recently purchased a Yubikey with the intention of securing as many accounts as I could with FIDO2 and U2F. Literally the only service I could secure fully with the key was Google.

Google was the ONLY service that supports FIDO2 on both the desktop and mobile (using the Yubikey 5Ci with the lightning connector). Everything else was a hodgepodge mess of two factor options:

Twitter: FIDO2 on desktop only, needs TOTP fallback for mobile. Recovery keys for backup.
Facebook: FIDO2 on desktop only, need TOTP fallback for mobile. Recovery keys for backup.
LastPass: TOTP or YubiOTP only, email to recover.
ProtonMail: TOTP only, recovery keys as backup.
US Bank 1: TOTP via their app only, email and SMS as backup. Recovery by customer service
US Bank 2: Email only, recovery by customer service.
DE Bank: PhotoTAN only, recovery by customer service & postal mail.
US Investment Firm 1: Symantec VIP only, email as backup
US Investment Firm 2: Email only
Reddit: TOTP only, recovery codes as backup.
Amazon: TOTP only, SMS as backup
Duo: FIDO2 on desktop and mobile, but lack of support for embedded browsers means I need to have HTOP or push as a fallback for some applications on both platforms.

For the services that have recovery keys, I have them in an envelope I keep in my gun safe as well as a PGP-encrypted text file on my computer. I didn't store the TOTP secrets separately, although I probably will next time I re-enroll everything because my Yubikey physically fell apart a month after using it (a common thing with the first batch of 5Cis from what I gather) and I had to move everything back over to TOTP codes.

It's not just the standard for 2FA, it's everything from the bottom up. The 2FA tool, how backups work, how recovery works. It's a complete hodge-podge mess and and, like you mentioned, if it's this big of a pain in the ass for an experienced tech guy, how am I supposed to, in good conscience, recommend this stuff to my non-techie friends?
To follow on from your mention of China, it seems like TikTok could provide instructive discussion questions here.

Does the U.S. and silicon valley want to continue to manoeuvre and lobby to exempt tech companies from tax dues on revenues generated from digital attention and data gathered from users overseas?

And if so, does TikTok have to pay tax dues in return for similar revenues generated from U.S. user data?

The short-term balance sheet benefit to tech companies from avoiding overseas taxes seems understandable, but the longer-term implications of setting a precedent like that on an international stage seem less clear to me.
years ago I loaned a friend a couple of "o'really" books, he was interested in learning VBA but I passed him a relatively slim database book as well as a VBA book, to give him a better understanding of real world data I guess. I probably mentioned Python in the exchange, but this was back when Python was new, and I was following it's development then. Anyway, he soon ditched VBA, was totally taken by the database book and has built himself a healthy small business using most Python. Last time I bumped into him, he was very happy and thanked me for my recommendations, especially the Database book (which he still has!!), I think Python came along naturally as it was a huge wave of adoption for those that were thinking about the process and not simply slotting things into existing boxes.
Face Depixelizer: Generate realistic photos from a low-resolution input
It’s all the same stuff. I’ll never understand the appeal.
I have actually considered recording it - maybe make "Pomodoro" sessions where the recorder can't be stopped and record the screen and my voice. I could maybe convince myself these recordings are valuable to myself or maybe be shown to others in the future and get the "rubber duck" effect that way without burdening others. I think I need the "now were live!" state of mind somehow and this could be it. Maybe these recordings stored in a organized way could also serve as a kind of journal in the future. I will look into this.

Real streaming is not an option - the code and information on the screen is private. But for my private projects I have tried streaming to twitch and it kind of works in the same motivational way.
The worst part about taxes like this is that they make it even harder for Europe to ever catch up. Taxes like this will make Europe a less attractive location for a business like that. Investors will be less likely to invest, there's a greater regulatory burden for anyone who does want to start the business, and you will and up paying more in taxes.
Would say that Jira is oriented to the bureaucrats, the people that gain management and control by moving tickets. The means become the goals, everything is chopped to meaningless small tasks and the language dictates the vision and the capabilities. Negative organisational effect. So better to find an alternatives and avoid Jira if you can.
For whatever weird reason, despite having completely incompetent governments since the appearance of the internet, our country has world-class digital services. The gov.uk design system[0] is a very good read, especially for people who aren't experienced in UX design.

[0] https://design-system.service.gov.uk/
Excited about the great content.

Very interested also in how the format will work: talks are prerecorded and you can live chat with the speaker who is giving the talk (and all other participants).

I think this is a big milestone for Nim and thanks for making it happen.

It should be very interested also for all those that are curious about Nim (there is a Nim for uninitiated talk in a bit more than 1h
That kind of transfers could be also used by the Hells Angels, which is a front for the Drug cartel.
It's also very likely that he withdraw his own money, using his cartel connections to get it in cash from Brink.

A government service (FBI eqivalent) using such a loose cannon as informant is likely, but paying him that much unlikely. And the rampage looks very personal, unlike other cases in the US.
I think that part of the performance gain of BLAKE3 is due to the fact that it uses a Merkle tree or something. SHA-3 has ParallelHash. One could use that with KangarooTwelve potentially.

I would really like an AES-based hash function as AES-NI is much faster compared to chacha20. There was a function called echo that worked like that during the SHA-3 competition but it was dropped before the final round.
My story as a web developer – How I landed my job
Ish. It’s like you’re staying at this wonderful hotel that is very expensive and you absolutely love, but they refuse to allow wifi in the rooms. So you rig up your own hacky solution to get wifi anyway, hoping they won’t discover it and throw you out.
Trump's power as a statesman is that he doesn't feel the need to ride a horse.

Starace rode a horse.
Reagan rode a horse.
Putin rode a horse.
Le Pen rode a horse.
Kim rode a horse.
Kadyrov rode a horse.
Johnson sat on a horse.
Bolsonaro rode a horse.

Do you ever see Trump on a horse? No, that's unpredictability for you. He doesn't need to do what the cool kids do. He's a leader, not a follower.
Why doesn’t it include Azure Devops?
Why people hate contemporary architecture (2017)
Woah, this is great! When I read the title I thought you'd just be putting sensors under the keys to record your playing, or stripping out a really old piano, putting speakers in the guts of it, and turning it into a digital piano inside an acoustic shell (a cool project idea in itself really). But this is something else entirely!
An Algorithm for Defunding the Police
I mean, CockroachDB does not target OLAP use cases, but TiDB does. This is a fundamental design choice with tradeoffs, so I think some performance gap for OLTP use cases is expected.
Big tech zeroes in on the virus-testing market
I appreciate there are more sophisticated games out there but what's the issue with Monopoly?
I'd have rather said Organic food. Generally, the least processed food are the most beneficial to our digestive systems, which have evolved a long way to assimilate them optimally
Trip Report: International Conference on 5th Generation Computer Systems (1988)
I knew it was biased just reading the title. Never heard of codegigant before.
The logic of the tax is "a product consumed on a territory is subject to tax in said territory". Saying this is akin to an import tax is like saying the VAT is an import tax.
I've never encountered a website that prevented me from pasting a password. Is this truly a thing?
Trump is a moron - threatening to withdraw US troops out of Germany is a gift to Russia.

But the EU cannot wait for Trump to go away because if he wins reelection that could be 5 years away. We don't have that time. The EU needs to work with what its got - work with India, Australia, PacRim countries.

The problem is that the EU is itself split with different interests. Someone has to provide leadership. The US president is the natural option but Trump has not stepped up. Someone else needs to - it cannot be Merkel as she's stepping down soon, but we urgently need leadership on the issue.
I don't have the data on sales, so I can't comment on that. Without seeing the marketing, it's hard to tell why OP's solutions are not chosen. (I don't expect it to be as easy as "it's not difficult enough")
I'm interested to know if you can cite specific evidence for that? I've heard that some certain yoga practices (i.e. traditional yoga. Not the westernized kind where you do stretches and talk about positive energy) can be harmful especially to beginners (e.g. kundalini), but that's not what's being discussed here.

Mindfulness just means being aware and non-reactive. All humans experiences mindfulness. Any time we choose to go against our initial impulses is a moment of expressing mindfulness. Mindfulness meditation simply strengthens and expands on that so it holds up under greater pressure and for greater periods of time. It's nothing mystical or psychedelic.
Post 'illegal' content on your website and send them a DMCA haha. Fight bullshit with more bullshit.
Alternatively you can prepend the name of the hash used
Interesting, thanks for the tip! I'm gonna give it a go during the weekend.
It's bad luck to return something different to GoogleBot than what regular people see.
It's misleading to call that a false flag, as it was not an act intended to deceive the public. While the operation used methods of dubious legality and morality to gather information, the 2000 or so guns that were allowed to walk constituted only a small fraction of guns already being smuggled across the border.
Even that comment chain is in fact not pro nuclear. If you read further they're basically arguing against nuclear saying that why even bother because it's not economical. And the only nuclear they want is "safe nuclear"

> Safe micro-nuclear plants are an excellent start on the "economy" side of "political economy." Now y'all need to build a political coalition—and pro-variable-renewable peeps such as myself must be part of your core coalition if you are going to get anywhere. So start treating us as allies.

It's a lot of double speak so I can see how it would be confusing. But definitely take a closer look.
How is it not Europe's fault? When it comes to digital businesses it's almost entirely Europe's fault. It's European countries that have been trying left and right to somehow squeeze more money out of largely American digital businesses. From the new digital taxes in France and Italy to the Google News row in Germany and Spain. This stuff started by Europe way before Trump ever entered the picture.
You won't gain anything by compressing (binary) hashes.
Maybe you shouldn't get to say everything out loud without backlash? Maybe being more considerate to others is something we should all strive for? I was like you, I hated this culture. I felt like someone was taking my liberties away. Then I decided to actually talk to be people with less privilege and I noticed that me talking shit on the internet isn't something that's necessary for me. I'd rather have everyone be respected and taken care of.
Redmine (redmine.org) seems to be missing from the list
I'm just lamenting that we have huge mutual interests and can't get over a 5% tax difference.
It is the same for Apple but you're forgetting that this is bad for everyone who isn't a US citizen. And in the same vein, these tech mini nation-states create walled-gardens around themselves in the same vein nation-states erect borders. And borders are a reason for huge welfare losses.

One reason you have a nation-state in the first place is so you avoid local zero-sum games and you can force companies to compete on an open market, which has huge positive upside for everyone who isn't Apple.
The one example is Singapore, where it is possible for civil servants to do so well that they earn millions of dollars annually, and the country does rank extremely high on most development and performance metrics.
Base32 and base64 both can easily be implemented using a lookup table.
Yeah: exactly. Postel has even gone on the record to note how he is being misinterpreted a lot and what he meant was more like "to maximize ecosystem rebustness, make sure to accept as much of the specification as possible including all the optional parts for the things you accept, but prefer to only require and use the common subset of required and generally well implemented functionality for the things you send".
VAT taxes the final consumer.
https://www.ing.com.au/securebanking/ for example.

They even scramble the keypad and vary the last 2 bits of the colour, so you need to do an approximate match on the buttons. Still takes maybe 40 lines of python to automate the login.
Steps Toward Blogging (Smart Blogging) You Should Know as a Blogger
Patents are an extremely poor signal of required innovation; I strongly suspect they’re worse than random. Most innovation is retained as trade secret rather than patented. Patents are more an indicator that you’re a big business, or that you are operating in a domain where hostile use of patents is rife (and video is one such area).

I just did a very quick skim through those patents (just reading what’s on that page and not the actual claims), and these are my impressions. ’390: obvious, prior art may also exist, as what it describes has been a standard technique even within video codecs for many years. ’900: obvious, also an abstract idea so it shouldn’t be patentable. ’511: obvious and probable prior art, the technique has been used for DRM for years. ’454/’218: no idea, could be valid, but (personal opinion) it doesn’t sound like it should be patentable anyway.
I am the holder of the trademark, but I'm not sure it will be that easy unfortunately. The issue is that according to my research, there are no tech business located at that address. So maybe it's a private person or someone working in other businessess at that address. Also, since I have a feeling that there is a scammer behind this, I'm not sure if a robber will care about this kind of threaten. Of course it might be worth a shot, but I think it's incredible that google is allowing these kind of things to happen leaving users powerless. And I'm also kind of lucky because I hold the trademark (something valued zero at google, but it might help me getting out of this) but think about people not even knowing their website is associated to other businessess.
So you don't want Google to monetize your data, you don't want to pay for the service and you also won't stop using the service?

????
> squeeze more money out of largely American digital businesses

It's European money, that is taxed. Not money earned outside of the country.

American corporations squeezing money out of European countries would be a more accurate description.

Basic economic insight :)
> The real danger today doesn't lie in authoritarianism but in a lack of state capacity.

Yes, it does lie in authoritarianism, and that (“lack of state capacity”) is literally always the defense of authoritarianism, especially from those who like to pretend to be merely reluctant supporters rather than ideological devotees.

> . Decades of fearmongering have led the US and significants chunks of Europe to a point where governments can't provide cotton swabs during a pandemic

I'm not going to talk about Europe, but there is absolutely not a “state capacity” problem produced by “decades of fearmongering” I the US of that kind. Both the material capacity and the administrative capacity for the federal executive to direct that material capacity with no effective veto points exists. The present federal executive deliberately choose to apply that power in the worst possible way, withholding it from practical and useful supplies, preventing subordinate authorities from acquiring supplies they had located despite the lack of federal cooperation, and applying federal production mandates to prevent major disease spreading centers (meat packing plants with major outbreaks) from being closed to constrain the spread of the disease.
It isn't "exactly impossible" though, it never is. You can find out a more efficient way to create it, or you might have more power available in the future.

All manmade elements have been extremely expensive to make the first ti-me, and that hasn't stopped them from being constantly used.
Yes, but "Congressman David Cicilline" is American as far as I can tell
I am on a beach, read 500 comments, totally confused about what monitor to buy :)
I would not classify “mindfulnes” as going against “initial impulses” but rather as being aware of the impulsive reactions and the effect on mind and body to situations and then making a conscious decision on what to do next. This next action can then be in line with the initial impulse or not, it will be mindful either way.
My password manager has 429 entries right now. Maybe memorising is possible for some people who don't live and work on the internet every day. But I suspect most people in tech are in a similar position - unless you're into professional level scrabble, 429 random strings is too many.
But they already do contribute to those countries. This is simply protectionism plus at work. Squeeze more money out of foreign companies operating locally, because you can. It'll just lead to the world becoming clustered again like before. We're already seeing it happening with the internet - China is already apart from the rest of the world. Russia has been testing the same thing. Europe is essentially trying to isolate itself from the rest of the world by making rules nobody else has. The trend is moving towards separation, which also means that everyone will have to figure out their own technology.
As a Google search user (just like everyone else) stories like this make me wonder about the accuracy of all the data Google displays. Loads of people claim Google search is terrible. Is Google actually still good at understanding the information on the web these days, or are they just riding the reputation they build a decade ago?
^ Exactly this.

I've also asked friends and colleagues to request the same removal and report that listing, but nothing happened.
There is quite a bit of activity happening around the spec, I believe (though I'm not following it too closely), but lots is spread around a number of different repositories [1], and it's not immediately clear which are active. (People are discussing how to improve that [2].)

In terms of servers: there has indeed not been too much activity there recently, which relates to efforts having mostly focused on stabilising the spec (as far as I've seen, at least) rather than new things having been added.

It's undeniable that Inrupt and the project are very intertwined, given how many of the original project members are working for/with Inrupt, and it being founded by TimBL. I think both the community and Inrupt are still figuring out the best way to work together. And I think we've had the reverse problem as well to some extent, where the community might be making themselves a bit too dependent on Inrupt. I think the project can grow in two (complimentary) ways: top-down, with large organisations getting the project adopted at scale in big bangs, and bottom-up, where early adopters encourage additional adoption and it spreading from there. Inrupt is probably best positioned to support the former, but we haven't seen too much from the latter yet. That said, there are a number of community projects that aim to make a dent there, and the best way to keep up with those is through the This Month in Solid newsletter [3].

(Note: these are my personal views.)

[1] https://github.com/solid/process/blob/master/panels.md

[2] https://github.com/solid/process/issues/202

[3] https://solidproject.org/newsletter