skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is fascinating.

What is this theory called? I'd like to read more.
He could also signal support for leaving it the way it is right now and create an immediate benefit to American workers, but he doesn't really have the political incentive to signal that right now even if that's what he intends to do. (And the political incentive only changes if voters respond negatively to that sort of political gamesmanship.)
We were experimenting some rate limiting settings and the load balancer IP in front of the hn cluster wasn't excluded, both features haven't been mixed before (doesn't make much sense to rate limit a search cluster behind a load balancer).
I understand that Flash's HTML5 support requires a Flash document to created from scratch to support HTML5 and it doesn't support the same features as SWF - but I might be wrong.

UPDATE: Yeah, Adobe's document here says that many features aren't supported by their HTML5 export feature: https://helpx.adobe.com/animate/using/creating-publishing-ht...
DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits to DDG servers
Searching on the web reveals this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris–Harrington_theorem
People make them. They are $400k used.
Why use commercial software when we could use Photon instead? ;)
I think you mistyped it as "HR".
Opt-out is by definition not more user friendly than a default opt-in process. It is in fact quite user-hostile and is used by a number of scam companies.
If I understand correctly, this is going to be the first custom silicon implementation of a CHERI-style capability architecture. So far the CHERI-MIPS and CHERI-RISC-V implementations have been FPGA-only.
> They are just parasites.

They are providing a service. You arrive in a new city with no money. Where will you live? The landlord is assuming the risk of owning and maintaining the building and all you have to do it put in a deposit.

The main reason they are "parasites" is prop 13. Without that, their building would be assessed at a reasonable level, and most of their profits would be property tax payments.

If you live in California, make sure to vote yes on the two partial repeals of Prop 13 this November:

https://ballotpedia.org/California_Property_Tax_Transfers_an...

https://ballotpedia.org/California_Property_Tax_Transfers,_E...
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As a single man when? $10 an hour today is significantly less valuable than $10 an hour in the past. Since the minimum wage is not tied to inflation, every year the minimum wage is effectively cut. Not to mention the skyrocketing costs of college, increasing rent in a lot of major cities where jobs are, and the constantly increasing cost of healthcare.
> The global currency must be protected military might

At the current state of geopolitics, this is basically calling for WW3 in the next decade. US economic hegemony is on super shaky ground right now.
> America isn't the richest country in the world. It's a poor country with a lot of rich people.
The thread comments are amusing.

The largest helicopter manufacturer in the world by volume is Robinson Helicopter, started by 1 dude.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_Helicopter_Company

HN: never stop saying stupid shit about aviation!
The secret is to bang the rocks together, guys!
You probably know this but for others: doing this is a great way to kill linesmen who are trying to repair your local outages. It’s often illegal for the above reasons.
From what I've seen Ganghis Khan was brutal against non-surrendering nations, but beneficial for those who followed him. E.g. you woulsn't see him cutting his subjects heads, and his brutality was pretty much an intimidation tactic so others army would join him.
I’ve heard that if you’re going to do this put them in a cool area away from light exposure. So if you’re storing them in your kitchen fridge that gets opened and closed frequently that may or may not affect the aging and final taste.

THAT BEING SAID I’d love to experiment with this and see for myself and see if there’s any truth to this. Store one Imperial in my kitchen fridge for a year and one in my basement fridge where I’ve got other alchemy experiments (Read: homebrews) going on that very rarely gets opened, and is slightly warmer than the kitchen fridge, ask doctor girlfriend to do a blind taste test, submit results to the local home brew club for a fun beer chemistry discussion.

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50% doesn't mean much when the website itself loses its relevance:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=kongrega...
I had never broken a lightning cable or a macbook charging cable (original magsafe or magsafe2) in maybe a decade of use, but as soon as my kids started using iDevices I've had to switch to buying extra-super-durable ones because Apple's don't stand a chance in the hands of a 7 year old. The Amazon Basics lightning cables with the braided external cover and solid metal housing at the ends seem pretty bomb-proof so far. The housing + strain relief is kind of absurdly long but it's very very sturdy. Anker stuff also seems quite solid.

Edit: I think a lot of people just naturally don't pay much attention to what they're doing to their cables. I used to work at a company where I was pretty much the only one whose MBP power cable wasn't visibly fraying at the ends, and I'm still using the same one 5 years later.
It's not that crazy if you consider that it was a part of the Soviet Union, where these helis were designed and produced at two different factories. Ka-26 is a fairly old and relatively simple helicopter with two radial engines, no complex turbomachinery. They probably did this with the old Soviet equipment and documentation, both either smuggled or maybe even bought legally. The experts from Buryatia or Bashkortostan who produced them back in the USSR might have also been involved in this.

So my guess these are not "fake" helicopters but probably "real" Ka-26s, it was just an unlicensed production. Still impressive though.
I love Lightning, long wished it'd conquer all, and expected to hate USB-C.

I kinda like USB-C.

I now half expect Apple's future mobile devices to not have any ports, will just use wireless charging.

Apple AirPods are already pretty amazing. I haven't used any plugin headphones 6+ months. Not even my beloved Shure; which sound fantastic, but hot damn I hate cables.
trying to get a job for 2 years, without success

Encourage him to start a business, do all the financials, etc. and set up a scheme whereby you get a percentage ownership in lieu of rent. Step one might be management accounting literacy, specifically financial projections. For bonus points, demand a board report and get an experienced adult friend of yours to be a proxy board member for thorny issue resolution. You can start with non-monetized assets, like crops grown on personal property for repayment in kind. This way, capital outlay is minimal and real skills are developed, and there is even scope to involve others in exchange food and an education in business, without needing to crash-tackle tax accounting or financial services.
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How feasible would it be to clone the entirety of the website? (Scrape games, recreate all functionality, etc.)
> I can tell you're just like "well, the poors can just ride bikes" having never ridden one yourself

I did ride one to and from work for 3 years, specifically because I couldn't afford a car at the time (and then later did buy a car but couldn't afford to drive it for my daily commute because I was unemployed).

> otherwise you would know that a bike that you could cycle a 40km to 60km round commute on in a rural area

Maybe if you hadn't "disregarded the rest of the post" you would've read the part about using bus services to cover most of that distance. Bus fares are an additional expense, sure, but you can readily save money on a monthly pass, and plenty of transit systems offer discounted rates for low-income riders (though I think $10/hour might be above the typical threshold).

Not that such a commute is typical even in rural areas anyway. "Rural" areas include small towns/cities, and quite a few of the jobs in such towns/cities are within those towns/cities. Ain't everything way out on some random farm (though even in those cases, you'll typically have access to live either on or very close to work; this is a common living arrangement for migrant workers in California).

The furthest I had to bike for work was a one-time computer repair job about 13 miles outside of town, uphill in the mountains. Did that on my bike, even while carrying parts and tools.

> when you don't need to pay for food

Like I said in the comment: even if I didn't have that particular resource (for which I'm grateful and count myself lucky), I still had enough from my paychecks to cover that. That money went into savings and the occasional meal eating out instead.

And I still did need to pay for most of my food; the main things they brought were soup and Spam (because they could buy them on the cheap at Costco), plus a bag of rice if I remember right. I was on the hook for anything else.

And mind you this was with no roommates and more than $1k/month rent; there were plenty of other areas where I could've trimmed my budget and made things work.

> not to mention the fact that the cycling clothes you would need to buy

You don't need cycling clothes to ride a bike.

> Not to mention your mechanical service, which if you're commuting daily is probably $80 every six months, $15 for brake pads, $5 every time you puncture any wheel, $60 for new tyres every year,

All of this is still a tiny fraction of the $250/month figure for a car.

Though I will say that in the 3 years I did ride my bike daily I didn't change the tires once. Nor did I change the brake pads. Probably should've taken better care of that thing, lol
You can certainly use a Commodore 64 for IRC and more:

https://github.com/oliverschmidt/contiki/wiki/C64

Whether it would be practical to do so is a different question.
That's not exactly true. There are always near-substitutes.

If you can't afford a new Honda sedan you can: (1) look towards a Hyundai sedan, (2) look towards financing the same car for another year (which is why 7 year financing plans are common in the USA in the last decade), or (3) look at a used car.

A $500 cost difference between this month and next month means you may consider spending another $500+ on maintenance to keep your existing car running longer, but if you get into a place where your current car is no longer usable, there are several options before you have to forgo having a car altogether.
I disagree with your conclusion that they walked back what they said in the headline enough to say that what they said in the headline isn't what they said. Besides that, I concur with most of what you said (in our discussion, not the previous point comparing circumcision to FGM).

That being said, I think we're obviously talking past each other here, so I'll just agree we have different views on the subject.
Right, but then the problem is general lack of funds, not having them delayed by a year. With the exception of the first year of employment, one will have funds from previous year's tax return. I agree that this is annoying, but with minimum level of financial planning and responsibility (e.g. by withdrawing 1/26th of previous year's tax return every two weeks, or by withdrawing whatever fraction of the year one actually works), the effects of tax withholding can be almost completely mitigated.

Is your argument that low-wage and part-time workers are irresponsible and cannot be trusted with large windfalls of money around tax return time, because they will squander them faster than they would if the same amount instead was given to them via biweekly installments?
He should really consider hosting the site on Rancheros
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You might want to give it a non-Windows name. Classic95 UI Kit or something. Calling it "Windows 95 UI Kit" implies it's from Windows 95 and will likely attract the attention of Microsoft lawyers who are obligated to swat down any potential trademark confusion in order to protect the Windows trademark.

Microsoft might overlook the copyright violation, but legally they cannot ignore the trademark violation or they risk losing the Windows trademark.

Anything WinXXX isn't particularly safe. For example, they went after Winternals, who had to change their name to SysInternals (and were eventually acqui-hired by MS). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_litigation#Trademark... for others.
It was just a 4 pages long proceeding paper. There is nothing to be serious about.
Thanks for posting! Mixing in perspectives like yours contributes a lot to this being an interesting forum. Any pointers for techie types who are interested in marine work?

A bit tangential: do you know of an open, or just inexpensive to use for brief periods, source of AIS data from satellites? I'm keeping an eye out for a boat (Evohe) returning, it would be great to have a few days of warning before they show up.
The 2020 MacBook Pro has changed that: theres a massive increase in friction/clickiness in the last mm of travel when plugging a cable in. Much more secure than my 2016
Can I ask are you staying in the Boston suburbs or moving out of state? (the suburbs are not exactly cheap!).
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While I fully support strong privacy & encryption, there is absolutely no logic in this argument because it tries to build upon an unrelated hypothetical.

A stronger argument should have tried to explain how this violates the constitution:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/earn-it-act-violates-c...
RCV or any voting system isn't better than what the current prescription is for CVRA lawsuits: having districts. It enables more local elections, lower cost of campaigning, and more minority representation. Edit: It's also easier to have neutral district lines drawn (like in CA and a few states by boards) than to pick a voting system that might not achieve the objectives of the CVRA.

If you're wondering why it was vetoed, maybe look at the history of CVRA lawsuits and how having districts has helped communities more than RCV. RCV is an apportioning method, which doesn't necessarily make it a good voting method.
The value of the home is increased mostly by the location of the home, and relative availability of other alternative nearby homes, much less its physical trappings.
Shocking...

The Trump administration just lent $700 million to a trucking company sued for ripping off taxpayers

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/01/business/yrc-federal-loan/ind...
RRO is used for the US Congress. That may be why it was developed.

It is far from perfect, but I feel it works.

I have been in many RRO meetings, and a few "CBDM" meetings.

I worked for a Japanese corporation for a long time, and saw their consensus system, which was painful, but worked. It was completely different from the "CBDM" meetings I've attended.

I once wrote up a very complete presentation and paper on real CBDM, but no one was ever interested in learning about it.

In my experience, most CBDM meetings aren't actually designed for "consensus." They are designed to let "the people that matter" accelerate the process of getting what they want.
This is part where you learn to reflect on your own performance. As you build more and more software you learn from your mistakes to build what the clients want/need. And what kind of your fancy is helpful and what is not.

I know very intelligent people who, nevertheless, build shit software because they think they are right and everybody around them is wrong. You can't identify and streamline anything unless you are first open to opinion.
The US does not have a negative federal tax rate, unless you are referring to an effective tax rate (which is the calculated rate you effectively pay based on income, deductions, credits, etc.)
Depending on what you want to include under social media:

Social media is ripe for propaganda campaigns.

Anonymity makes people borderline sociopathic.

Anonymous registration makes it ripe for bots.

It creates echo chambers by encouraging confirmation bias.

It also presents a false picture of other peoples lives which has been linked to depression, suicide, and other psychological ailments.

To drive clicks, the algorithms optimise for rage bait.

All of these interact with each other in various unsavoury ways.
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Suggest you read my comment above, before you let this one story make you think the decline of civilization is imminent.
Probably not the main driver, but it's 2 hours from some of the best skiing & snowboarding in the world!
And it's all relative. $2800 isn't crazy for a one bedroom in the South Bay Area, and rents have hardly moved so far down here.
Indeed, I don't have proof. As I said, I was not the original poster, I was just exercising a bit of critical thinking.

Now, I started reading a bit into this. What I got so far is this: the authorities kept an eye on this operation for a few months. They arrested the main guys, who indeed reside on the other side of the river. These guys claim to be some sort of "inventors" who were simply experimenting with these helicopters and trying to overcome some technical obstacles. They say what they are doing on their property should not be anyone's business: they were indeed assembling helicopters, but did not sell yet anything. Given that, the authorities claim that the illegal things they did now include flying the helicopters for short periods of time without permission to fly, and bringing in the country various technical components without proper custom declarations (they had entire engines there, which they sourced from some engine manufacturers). If it comes to these types of arguments, the whole case does not appear so slam dunk.

The Transnistria angle, I'm not sure if there was one. There could be a faint one, in the fact that the prosecutors did not want to arrest some resident of Transistria without a watertight case, so that's why they waited for months. Now some people claim they messed up anyway.
> By what specific evidence do you suggest that one person is "better" than another, or the "best [person] for the job"?

Experience and/or accomplishments for the vast majority of jobs.

Under what circumstances do you believe it is not possible to select among candidates based on merit?
Technically it's different individuals who own each, because the owner of Raj properties had to turn them over to his family when he went to jail for sex trafficking and slavery.

But when he got out only eight years later, his family "loaned" him a bunch of money to start up Everest properties.

But yes, in reality, he is probably still in control of both.
You could GeoIP the user's IP address and display an initial tax + shipping estimate.
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What about those who live in the lower cost of living area, who now gain access to new jobs? Isn't it a wealth transfer to them as well? And these people usually aren't wealthy (usually less wealthy than those in the US), so calling it a wealth transfer from the masses to the wealth few isn't fully accurate.

And a dollar goes much further in Mexico than it does in the US, so even if the net labour spending by companies goes down, more people will be able to have jobs. I think it's reasonable to believe that 2 people with jobs is better than one person than with a job, even if the 2 are in Mexico, and the one is in the US.
No, although there is always a prime between x and 2x (for x>3).
What makes you say reality is distorted in either of those regions?

One is a breakaway province that fought a civil war with its originating nation in 1992, with some amount of Russian involvement. In that time period, the Soviet Union was falling apart, and all sorts of regions were breaking off from their parent governments - a few of them through incredibly bloody conflicts between different ethnic groups.

The other is the site of a bit of an active shooting war between Russia and Ukraine, because Ukraine was leaning too far to the West, and Russia didn't want to lose its warm water port.

About the only thing that they have in common is that neither is recognized by the world (But neither is Taiwan), and that Russia was involved in various degrees...
Did you buy your RV new with all of those features or did you customize yourself? What model did you end up going with?
It might boost the sales of cheaper cars. Americans buy lots of big cars. Also Americans make use of mostly new cars. In places where cars are expensive, the roads look like an American's cars junkyard.
Not all ads can be fully skipped, and skipping the ad takes at least a couple of seconds. You can also get multiple ads in a video.

I use YouTube for many purposes: music, learning, recreation, etc. and i'd rather pay like $10 a month than spend 1 hour a month watching ads.

For the record, I do not care at all about YouTube Red exclusive content.
The US generally doesn't use 3rd-party agents for rentals, they just advertise on craigslist, etc.
What about the rampant homeless and drug use problems that predated all of this?
I saved a link to this post a few years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1fv4r6/i_beli...

I won't try and summarise it because I think I'd do a disservice to it, but it's another really good argument, ostensibly from experience, re corrupt countries and surveillance.