skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on the local tax law. Confluence of maintenance costs vs depreciation vs revenue vs other legal accounting issues can result in reducing/eliminating taxes - even if you have a net positive income.

Upshot: evicting non paying tenants can be profitable, while letting them stay on “they’ll come thru, just give them time” grounds can mean losing the property outright. (Strange this must be explained on Ycombinator.com.)

https://www.realwealthnetwork.com/learn/landlord-tax-deducti...
I also have an APC Back-UPS. Mine are the Back-UPS 650 model, I have two of them. Both emit an annoying LOUD high-frequency capacitor whirring noise that is audible to my ears even when the loud AC intake fan is blowing in the same room. I'm actually shocked any company would ship a product in this condition, unless all their customers have hearing problems. It's a power strip... it's supposed to be silent. Not like a computer.

If my batteries die, I'll just replace them with non-battery backup strips. Not worth the trouble for me living in a city where power goes out maybe once per year on average for 10 minutes, and I don't have servers that need to stay online anymore.
Perfect fidelity isn't there but all popular browsers have a "save page" functionality which seems to work really well.
I would hardly evoke shame on a 9 to 5 worker at a telecommunications corporation for the political decisions made by a CEO or board of directors...
Trade surpluses are not very relevant.

HK is how PRC accesses the world's financial markets, we need to shut that off and apply the same rules to HK companies as we do PRC.
Their commercial games have all been flops. They do provide cloud infra for game servers as well, but I have no idea if that's useful or what adoption looks like
I mean, I know that with less than 90 days before one of the largest absentee voting elections in the history of the nation that I would fire 23 USPS administrators on a Friday evening several days after admitting to congress to slowing down mail delivery. That seems reasonable. Right?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielcassady/2020/08/06/postma...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/08/07/postal-se...
I am surprised it did not make bigger news. I am genuinely annoyed that US, of all places, is contributing to the splintering of the internet as we knew it.

But what surprises me more people are not up in arms about it. I mean, who would not love only government approved code floating around and only child appropriate messages being visible before 10PM.

If there is a real reason to dislike this administration, this is it.
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You have an opinion, not a fact.

If you think "participation" is only about voting once every 5 years, then you are part of the problem. Although since you say five years instead of 4, perhaps I shouldn't assume you're american.

Participation in democracy is about more than voting, especially if you're only voting in a fraction of the elections.
> If someone got COVID during a hurricane with no power that could be really bad!”

The 2020 hurricane season will be starting soon. With COVID, the emergency financial legislation running out, the election, schools, holidays, and hurricane season, I fear this fall will be something we'll remember for decades to come.
I'm a sporadic viewer, but it's not clear what you mean by a streaming platform inevitably having issues?
I guess I was thinking of initial webpage load, which might include a bunch of network calls (DNS, CSS, JS resources).

Each individual network call is faster tho, good point.
Very interesting. Can you say more about how it played out?
The bottom line is that the labor market for unskilled workers is not competitive, keeping rates low, to the extreme benefit of Bezos (in this case). Mandating higher wages will result in extreme distortions. I'm not saying we shouldn't do that, as fixing the underlying labor supply problem is messy as hell, I'm just saying culling executive pay is probably just very distorting and probably won't solve the problem anyway. Why would they just give those $$ to employees? It has never been about "we can't pay you because we don't have any money left after paying execs". They would just save more in the bank that they can use to abuse smaller competitors even more. The root issue is for Amazon and many other businesses, the cost of doing business is way too low.
Covid Down in Sweden Thanks to Invisible Face Masks
Or IDEs, many of which will continually lint code.
> What if there is a short circuit while you are away.

If you believe fires start at random, there's no difference between a 2 week holiday and 9 weeks working 8 hours a day.
Activated credit cards where mailed to people who didn’t ask for them (1993)
I am the CEO of Uber. I am attempting to get ahead of a unionization movement by substituting their potential demands with ones my corporation can at least control somewhat. My hand was forced to get to this position and it can be forced further.
And yet, people are still helpful. I go to the lowes search bar and draw a total blank. I can describe a part I need to another human, but I sure as hell don't know its archaic catalog name, and will probably buy the wrong part if I order online. As a result, even in a pandemic, all the hardware stores by me have lines wrapped around the parking lot because brick and mortar is just better from a consumer perspective.

I've been fleeced buying junk online, from amazon or even less shady places, too many times for whatever price efficiencies online offers to work itself above actually handling the product before you put money down and own it. Running to fedex to print and ship my amazon return is a cost to bear if you have a busy life.
A Cypherpunk's Manifesto
Fully purging the knowledge base is a terrible idea, but having a "review timer" associated with each page might work. As pages approach, say, 1 year without edits/actions, they get flagged for review. A reviewer can confirm if the info is still good, or needs to be updated, or needs to be archived etc.

Assigning pages to owners is also important, so you know who's responsible for the content. In Confluence we just use Spaces as logical groupings but YMMV.
eh... you make it sound as if it's not explicitly illegal for Indian citizens to bribe other Indians.
Is that more profitable per user, or more profitable total?
This will never happen, quote me on it.

Twitch cares a lot about their brand being separate from Amazon. The risk of being associated too closely with Amazon amongst gamers (who are often quick to cancel/escalate) is just too high, and twitch has fantastic branding and (somehow) tons of goodwill from customers.

This only devalues the twitch brand, which stands completely independent of the Amazon brand just fine
If Uber’s Food-Delivery Business Isn’t Profitable Now, When Can It Be?
It won't, but it's already not part of what we typically consider "the internet". One country pretty much always being isolated from it is somewhat different than further ripping the currently-connected bits apart.

> Chinese invented their great firewall for trump, that your logic?

That's a completely needless swipe.
We live in different legal systems. Sometimes I also have a lot of questions about the laws of the United States, because Trump has signed a lot of executive orders to ban Huawei and TikTok, without going through the court or Congress, and they are effective.

Back to Hong Kong, the Hong Kong National Security Law is not retroactive:

> Article 39 This Law shall apply to acts committed after its entry into force for the purpose of conviction and imposition of punishment.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page%3AHong_Kong_National_Sec...

The police found evidence that he violated the law after the National Security Act was released, so they arrested him. I wait for the Hong Kong police to release more information.

YouTuber is just one of my information channels, and I also go to the websites or forums of protesters.
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I too have had a freezer full of bags of delicious homemade chicken stock, each intertwined with and near-permanently bonded to the wire shelving.
There are some minor benefits from faster payments, but I assure you that people with lots of money to move are the ones welcoming this and asking for it.
There are data loaders in the avionics world that use emulators, including ones which emulate floppies to load off floppy images.
Their game studio published its first big game a couple of months ago called Crucible. It was not good... It basically just ripped off all of the bits of recent popular games without doing anything new.

They had an MMO called New World scheduled to launch this month but it was delayed until at least 2021.
I have the same feeling about this as I did the announcement of the "Department of Homeland Security". The name sounded Soviet in origin, with only the exchange of "Homeland" in place of "Motherland". It reminded me of things my family had taught me didn't happen in the United States.

"We call on all freedom-loving nations and companies to join the Clean Network." is a sentence straight out of an authoritarian playbook. Top-down imposition of standards is not what made America's melting pot great. Free and open discourse, with redundant structures designed to ensure that governance required the consent of the governed, did.

Furthermore, State is a decade or more behind the game. It is my impression that modern companies that care about security assume that all networks are compromised and act accordingly. See https://cloud.google.com/beyondcorp as an example.

Balkanizing the Internet will not make us free; we will instead tie our own hands. This is not the same as banning the import of presumed-compromised hardware.

Vote.
I live in dominican republic, and power outages a few times a week are common.
Looking at the schematics of some old models of BackUPS I found online the output relay needs to be powered in order to supply output from mains. Combine this with slightly funky internal power topology where +12V for internal logic comes mostly directly from the battery and it is pretty clear why battery with shorted cell(s) causes the thing to completely shutdown (probably even due to thermal shutdown of the LM317 in charging circuitry).
No no, the old airplanes have a binder full of floppies so that any time the plane has wheels on ground, you can reload one of the critical systems without waiting for someone to fly in with replacements.

By the 787 they were working to replace this all with code signing.

ETA: This bears repeating: aircraft have interlocks. There is a sensor that tells you that the plane is parked (wheels on ground) and there are connections, maintenance, and administrative changes that cannot be made unless this is the case.

Nobody is going replace the maps with Rick Astley somewhere over the Pacific at 3 am.
I should find this more mortifying, but with the EU Court of Justice's decision on the privacy shield, India's ban on Chinese apps, and the great firewall + other nationalized internets, the US just seems like a late mover on nationalizing the internet.
I support the unity of all nations. The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens.
>The percentage of total taxes paid by high income earners has increased over time, not decreased.

Do you have a link or article that shows this? I believe it, I'd just like to see numbers to support it.
"this site best viewed with ___"

Amazingly, this still happens today.

I run into it occasionally. Most recently over the weekend on a county voter registration web site which stated that Internet Explorer was "required."
Some UPSes have a special outlet on them that when it's not drawing power, it intentionally shuts off the other ports. It's meant for power saving, but I've seen more than one person get tripped up by this functionality.
That's just how politics works in general, is it not? Big issues can underlie for ages and a single mass media event may trigger a big change.
In that case why didn't the broader community adopt PostScript for the web? Was it because of technical reasons (too feature heavy and complex for HTTP as envisioned originally) or did Adobe have some kind of patent that prevented its free use?
> We are lucky that we don’t have a U-shaped fatality curve like the spanish flu.

You mean W-shaped. Regular flu is U-shapped. Covid is more of a ᜴
How would you suggest we limit the surveillance and active attacks on American infrastructure by the Chinese government? They show no signs of letting up and/or respecting how America works in the slightest.
> You don't need to run every node to control the network, only most.

I guess it depends what you mean by _most_. We operate 8 relays, so you can exclude 8 more from your _most_ and make of that what you will...
This is great! Well done
WTF? Did you read beyond five words? Did you just see Trump and go full stupid as so many do?

This applies to US Government facilities that use 5G must adhere to the rules put forth, that makes sense. You want your own government to do its best to protect its assets from providers who cannot be trusted.

This is not a US only stance. This is the world reacting to a PRC effort to rewrite the ideals of the internet to their own. No one in the Western world trust China much anymore because not only for their own bullying at home but their overt threats to Hong Kong and Taiwan. You can damn well bet they will increase those if they perceive the US administration to be weak or insular which there is a good chance the US will turn inward soon just opening the door
So let's say where 10 people were needed to do a task, now (due to automation or what have you) you just need 1. What should you do: a) since the same thing is produced with 1/10th of the labour, reduce work hours, implement UBI, etc, or b) invent 9 bullshit jobs to keep everyone busy and working their god-ordained 8hrs a day to "deserve" their existence. Option b) is the answer that capitalism gives, but it's not the right answer in an objective sense.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Send it to hn@ycombinator.com.
Look at the "great cannon" attack for an example of why securing the middle is important. Secure software obviously shouldn't trust the middle, but the middle being compromised means that insecure software can do orders of magnitude more damage.

Moreover the middle can just shut down. Especially for things like embassies it's not a good idea to give the adversaries an easy off switch.

I agree that "encrypt all the things" would be a very nice addition.
It's fairly simple. Did the app you download have anti-American sentiment posted on it? Banned. It could have been Chinese propaganda after all. Same goes for video hosting, web hosting, etc.
Interesting rebrand.

But why was Doc banned?
We Need a Hippocratic Oath for CEOs
What do you consider inevitable about it? It feels like bookmarks are falling out of fashion, at least in that nobody looks at them in their traditional list format, and they are mostly useful for url bar autocompletion.

And I don't remember seeing favicons of random web sites in the URL bar, which is how they were otherwise prominently featured when introduced.

So if anything, I would say their existence was short-lived but their demise was inevitable ;)

More interesting feature that was introduced with IE (3 I think) was link hovering, and Netscape only caught up with 4.0 which took ages to come out. That has changed the accepted styling for hyperlinks forever and was the first instance of smooth non-JS "animations" in wide use!

Another interesting thing was the "active desktop" that came out with IE4 I think, though that never caught on. It was still fun to put a web page as your desktop background on NT4 which I used during that time before moving full time to GNU/Linux.
Armed forces pay is way, way less than the competitive pay paid to the same people to perform the same job as employees of private companies.
Well, they did not really have much choice. China had made their position quite clear:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_development_in_Hong...
"1960s
China's leaders explicitly wanted to "preserve the colonial status of Hong Kong".[21] Liao Chengzhi, a senior Chinese official in charge of Hong Kong affairs, said in 1960 that China "shall not hesitate to take positive action to have Hong Kong, Kowloon and New Territories liberated" should the status quo (i.e. colonial administration) be changed. The warning killed any democratic development for the next three decades"
You likely already know this but in case not, you can use zoom (CTRL + / -) and the font size increases. Once set it remains each time you visit.
> Trump has signed a lot of executive orders to ban Huawei and TikTok, without going through the court or Congress, and they are effective.

The President has emergency powers in existing law to regulate foreign trade in this general way, for the purpose of rapidly responding to action by hostile foreign nations executed through trade including through notionally private firms.
The point I was referring to is that is that companies are listed that have announced Ericcson as their network infrastructure hardware supplier for years, and the decision has nothing to do with Pompeo's "Clean Path".

However, they are listed as if they are following the directive rather than having been long in front of it. It's gross political posturing, useful or not.
Your comment seems intuitively entirely backwards. You think the tiny battery powered device in your bedroom is producing more EMF than the hundred foot tower hardwired to the grid actively sending the same exact type of data to thousands of devices in every direction beyond every wall that surrounds you?
Me too, but this made me both smile and feel sympathetic in equal measure:

> it is still encountering gremlins such as the text messages it occasionally spits out welcoming people to Jersey
In addition to the sibling answer of "use a framework"; if you simply stick passwords in a database, and the database gets stolen, you've now leaked your users' passwords. So you should hash the passwords, and they should be salted, so now you need a `salt` column. Most people use too cheap a hash function, so this is an additional argument for using a library / framework.
From what I understand, they are piggy-backing too - and we have broadband speeds here, not broadband-like.

“The service will be provided by delivering high speed broadband to a small cell within the community which then delivers both fixed wireless broadband and 4G mobile services to users via a low power high speed radio link.”

Given that there’s already BT fibre in the area, I’d imagine that’s what they’re using for their backhaul.

And as to fibre backhaul - I’ve just run 300m of trenched fibre down from the mast to a really awkward spot, and including media adaptors, SWA 4x fibre, and all the rest, it came to less than £1.5k.
Never panned out, they canceled it years ago.

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/207897-hp-kills-the-mach...
More literal English translation then: Underdevelopment isn't improvised; it's an effort of centuries.
Are all the headlines on Forbes generated by an algorithm optimized for click baitingness? Why link to a paywalled site most people here don’t seem to care much about?
Ice floats. Even if the most of the ice in the cup has melted, but there was a little bit of it left, the coin will stay on top.

From my personal experience: while we were away on vacation, there was a power outrage for 24_ hours. Coin was on top, but all ice cream and frozen packaged food was ruined. Not sure about big chunks of beef.
One thing I'd recommend is to focus even more on dynamically updating the experience depending on the user's system resources. For instance if the browser starts crashing with too many video/audio streams, or bandwidth makes video basically useless, you could allow the user to participate in a conversation audio-only, or automatically turn off background audio to save bandwidth.
The Oxford's fair work foundation(1) is aiming to create better conditions for gig workers.

1: https://fair.work
Why? Copy cats are normal, everybody copies things that are successful in other countries. How do you assure that the company that creates a new app "out of the blue" isn't secretly funded by China? Require a background check and federal approval before an app can be downloaded more than 1000 times?
So as a libertarian I should be expected to pay taxes I don't want to pay AND build my own roads on my own? Should I also produce my own water? This is ridiculous. These things become impossible to do precisely because we're in this situation.
Very clever solution!

There should be a browser directive for this. It feels like we should be able to tell the browser no.
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SingleFile can do it.
New study: Quality of care at rural US hospitals higher than previously thought
What non-English technical texts would you suggest be added that has had a similar impact as the ones listed?
> Furthermore, State is a decade or more behind the game. It is my impression that modern companies that care about security assume that all networks are compromised and act accordingly.

Unfortunately far from true. There's a small percentage who have the resource to run this kind of ops. Don't look at FAANG on how security is in companies, they're outliers by far.
The physical floppies use the same chain of custody that any other part of the system use. Every floppy has essentially been signed off dozens of times before it ever sees the insides of an airplane, and there is nowhere between the manufacturer and a flying plane where there isn't a person who is officially in charge of it.

From what I understood, there is (was) a real danger of a part that was used in a stress test ending up in a bin full of spares. So every 'part' has an identifier, responsible parties, and a tagging system that keeps the streams from ever crossing. A floppy is physical, so they just did the same thing.

Imagine trying to convince a bunch of people who have always ever done things physically to use electronic distribution.
You’re optimistic. I like that. On a different note: I think it’s also possible to imagine that humans will try to eat the aliens. Some love eating cuttlefish.
> Xi was praised by majority of mainlanders because he lifted the country out of poverty.

No, CCP is the entity people often attribute China's economic rise to. And even that is not completely correct; Deng opened up the market a bit, and the Chinese people themselves took the opportunity to rebuild the economy from the ruins of central planning.

> How to govern this big country effectively if not dictatorship?

You can say that about groups of any size. It is often said a benevolent dictator is the most efficient and effective way to run a group: see Linux for an example.

But this only works if everyone has shared goals and shared values. What if people have different opinions? Hint: look at how much China spends on "stability maintenance" (维稳) each year: it's bigger than their military budget.
"Connect" is a picture of his actual handwriting; the black text is the first version of the font.
Sounds like something they should blog about (if they don't already). It would make interesting reading
Is Google an Evil Corporation?
This was a really awesome article! Very well written and utterly thought-provoking.

Also this blurb from the author's website is amazing[1]:

> To research her books, films, and articles, Sy Montgomery has been chased by a silverback gorilla, embrced by a Giant Pacific Octopus and undressed by an orangutan. But she is perhaps best known for her 14 year love affair with Christopher Hogwood, a runt piglet who grew to a 750-pound great Buddha master.

[1] http://symontgomery.com/
Related discussion of the Stallman/FSF attitude toward non-Free codecs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24108214