skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As long as the intention is to actually create wealth for the society as a whole as opposed to just making yourself rich, I don't see a problem to what Elon does.
It must be location-specific. I went to my first one in decades this March, and we couldn’t finish the pizza. It felt like a kid’s casino with all the lights and sounds. The party was dystopian. It really soured a good childhood memory.
5'10 is above the median nonetheless.
Python package mgmt is aweful between the virtual env you need, pip that install different things on different OS, sometime the exec is no even in your path, I don't recall how many time I had to install awscli because it was broken, on top of that you add all the problem with python 2/3 ( pip3 ect .. ). Pip installing things as root or in your home folder ...

From all the mgmt I had to use, Python is by far the worst.

Every time I have something in Python to use I pray that pip will install it correctly which is roughly 50% of the cases.
I always have a Google News tab open on any computer I am on, and have for years now. I have yet to see a non news YouTube video on there. The only time I see any social media stuff, is if I click on "View Full Coverage" and scroll down. And only relevant stuff to the topic.

Perhaps you are seeing some A/B testing? Hopefully it will not stick around.
Fix a laptop screen? That'll cost more than a new laptop
That's certainly one way to minimize amount of code in the system, making it easier to review and presumably certify.

I feel that with more common languages, it is so easy to grab some open-source library and use it without any code review whatsoever. Even if you prohibit third-party code, there might still be some copy-paste from open source projects and even Stack Overflow.

Mandating that everything is written in Ada language neatly prevents all this stuff.
I don't care at all for the underscore-heavy style but otherwise Ada is actually a great language for developing high-reliability systems like avionics. Formal specification and verification are only going to grow more important in aircraft certification as time goes on.

Nice to see the defense/aerospace sector giving a nod to free software like gnat.
Narrative is cute, but too much.
I don't think netlib-java is LGPL. Where does it say that it is?
He ate it with the skin on, too.
A container is 2200 cubic feet. One of those a day is a cubic foot every 10 seconds for an 8 hour day. That’s some fire pit you got there.
What's the best bank to use for a newly formed LLC?

I'm torn on whether or not to use Axos
The original report only analyzes successful exonerations. There are many times more cases out there of false convictions, victims who have not seen the light of day. Those without exculpatory evidence have basically no hope. Some of them have actual exculpatory evidence, but their appeals do not succeed.

Exculpatory evidence (evidence that proves innocence) brought up after a criminal trial was concluded often does not lead to exoneration. The burden of proof that is required to sustain the validity of said evidence is high, in order to disincentivize hiding evidence until after a trial is over in order to overturn the result. Exculpatory evidence is often thrown out on procedural grounds, even when the evidence itself is valid. Moreover, the criminal justice system as it operates today has little to no incentive to reopen cases, for a multitude of reasons.

Most successful exonerations require immense amounts of legal leg work on the part of lawyers, witnesses, and LEOs. Evidence loses value as time goes on. Most falsely convicted criminals have no resources to pursue their innocence. Even cases that seem like simple slam ducks, where a DNA test is all that is logically necessary to overturn the original conviction, take years or decades to complete.

"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer." - William Blackstone
I've never run into a case where the client cared how I reported my taxes. How would they even know? Did they give you a reason for this?
How to stay optimistic during this pandemic
I don't know why people think that Google having multiple billions should mean they are willing to spend billions on every thing they do. That is not sustainable. Every project has a value to that company and any sane company will only spend whatever level matches that.

They are paying for, say 100 engineers (just making up this number). Isn't that enough?
> stripping fees off transactions with ZERO value add to the consumer...

The explosion of online shops made possible by companies like Stripe enabling secure credit card processing without imposing PCI DSS compliance on small businesses would disagree with you on whether there’s value to the consumer. If nothing else, greater variety of shops available means greater choice, which is generally considered good for the consumer.

Or PayPal, which allows the unbanked population to load funds to a widely-accepted online wallet and actually participate in online marketplaces, which they might otherwise be unable to do.

Or Affirm, which provides on-demand credit to consumers and lets them amortize large one-time costs over a few months, enabling them to afford, e.g., tuition when they otherwise might not be able to. (Tuition is maybe a bad example since most universities already offer tuition financing options; but online education services frequently don’t)
Measure Height by a Coin
Let us know when you do something even half as impressive.
The following line confuses me, because it contradicts a lot in the post.

Update: I have been arrested.

Is that just an obvious mistake? Or is there a news flash that we would like to hear more on?
Do you find it interesting that you chose to post this but not to post any of the many articles stating that the trial was resumed only 2 days later?
> and if it is a PDF, convert to an image afterwards because too many PDF editors use non-destructive operations to add a new object instead of changing what's underneath.

You'd be surprised at how many times this happens on Government documents with redaction.

:S
I looked into the source code of both badger and pebble during the lockdown. From what I learned, they don't operate on the same level. I don't want to publicly bad mouth any open source software, but if you just spend 15 minutes on the source code of pebble and badger, you wouldn't be asking the same question.
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Hard mode is an absolute delight
How are you still receiving updates? We bought one ~3 yrs ago and recently got the message that support was ending. I assumed that was the case across the board.

Anyway, the sketchy part of this is that it's referring to time of (initial) release, not time of purchase. These things continue to be sold well after initial release. When that was is also not something most users are aware of or care about. Arbitrarily losing a few years of support because you unknowingly picked the wrong model stinks.

That is exactly the situation that we are in. Like your Chromebook, this one is still perfect for its purpose and would have continued to be for years if not for this crap.
I understand that. But I find the diversity of positions available to be low in the collective space. I'm curious, do you work in a collectively owned setting? What is your tech stack and customer base? Do you ever hire new people from outside your network?
Because those projects are a small fraction of all OSS.
Looks like that was yet another joke.
This is the source article (which, oddly, nobody showed any interest in): https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3691999
HDMI?
We Hindus believe in the law of Karma.

Gates Jr. would have had some real good karma in his bank to have had a father like Gates Sr.

It's only in later years, upon reflection, we can understand how much we become is the influence of our parents and especially of our father.

I feel really pained to see so many places in the world where children grow up without fathers.

No one in the world can replace the roles played by parents in a kids life.
The Founding Fathers knew that the voters are simply not qualified to self-govern. People who thought they knew better, over the centuries, threw away most of the barriers they placed between the voter and the government.
Short History of LED Lighting
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again...
Charity in Hinduism falls under 3 modes, as with pretty much everything else in Hinduism - Tamas, Rajas & Sattva

Tamas - given at wrong place/time, to wrong (unworthy) person, without respect/decency, with contempt.

Rajas - given with reluctance, expecting return (either from recipient, or praise)

Sattva - given at right time/place, to right (worthy) person, with humility, without expectation of return.

Note that while others religions mainly dwell on not expecting return and anonymity, Hinduism stresses not expecting return but does not stress anonymity as much as it stresses finding the right patra (bowl) i.e. right recipient.

Donating $100 to a poor person, who also happens to be wicked, and/or will definitely spend it on vices, is actually a bad donation, because it causes more harm to the recipient and society, than good.

Also, timing - a litre of blood donated to a save a life in urgent time, is worth more than a litre of blood spilled in war to gain territory.

Also, place - a donation done in holy land or temple is worth more than a donation from a local philanthropy club.

Also, the reward for donation is gaining goodwill in the heart of Bhagavan (God). And He dishes out goodwill proportional to the 'effort' rather than 'amount' - a $100 wage earner donating $10 is judged the same as $100 million donated by a billionaire.

Source : Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 17, verses 20,21,22
Individuals are made from genes.

I agree we should strive for a system which incentivises empathy, compassion, generosity and contentment.

Billionares do not have more kids but wealthy people have the capacity to have more healthy offspring, irregardless if they actually do.

I have said nothing about poisoning the gene pool, i am not a eugenicist and far from it. But every system has free-riders (leeches) as game theory predicts, we should try to counteract this behaviour not reward it.
How about tax rate for any money that isn't directly tied to employing people at 90%?
3 years later and it looks like they are just at the trying to get hardware features accessible. At this rate all pebble devices will have died / been discarded before its able to show a notification on your wrist.
There's a saying that goes 'wish in one hand, shit in the other. see which fills up faster.' With all of the information that has been coming out to everyone, there's no reason to believe honest mistakes are even close to being in the same ballpark. The systemic level of rot has become apparent, and makes it very very difficult to give any part of the system any sort of benefit of the doubt.
i'd guess you're like most programmers.

we start doing it, get better, and then stop getting better. and that's it.

if i had to do it again and actually get better?

man, tough.

i would guess by 'better' we actually mean 'faster'. we could talk about quality/bugs/big-O/etc. but that's boring.

i know some of these will be off the table for various reasons, and not saying i would do them myself, but i would consider:

* ask better devs how to get better/faster.
-- including shadowing them for an hour or two once a week
-- this also includes learning how to use a debugger properly/etc. or anything else that you don't _have_ to know to be a dev
* take a formal comp sci class. to me, the main goal of doing any kind of certification/class is to boost your self-confidence. of course you'll learn, but having confidence is important so you can dwell in a hopeful/contented present -- i.e. your coding won't be distracted.
* learn LISP
* _really_ learn the languages/tech you're working with. instead of being 'just' a hacker, take some amount of time each week to go deeper.
* switch to a non-coding position :)
You're thinking of "flim-brim" / "flying hat"

(this joke is for the Murdoch Mysteries/Jonny Harris fans)
I like that there was such a good response to the disclosure from all the different parties, compared to this: https://research.digitalinterruption.com/2020/09/10/giggle-l...
I think Stadia gives a major benefit - the heavy lifting of making the Linux version itself will be already addressed by releasing for it.

I.e. they'll have the Vulkan renderer and all their middleware will work on Linux. So making a proper desktop release is a much easier effort once Stadia version will be done.

Of course I don't see Google doing anything to encourage proper desktop Linux releases, so I don't think they are actively helping anything. But indirectly, it is positive. As long as CDPR even care to do it, releasing for Stadia will make it easier for them.
I mean it's good that they make official what everyone knew for a few years now: sciam is now a political organization.
They're not "donations".

They're taxes, period. There's no moral benefit to paying them in the same way there's no moral benefit to obeying traffic laws. It's not a charity as it's not voluntary. It's the cost of playing the game.
I don't know about that; I bought an HDMI cable and showed my 62 year old mother how to connect it to her laptop, drag the browser over to the TV, and then hit the "full screen" button, and she's been doing it ever since. This is the same person who became convinced her laptop no longer had Windows Media Player installed because she accidentally deleted the icon from her desktop.
I think it's a lot harder for a bullshitter to hide in a small company than in a large one, all else being equal. That's not everything of course but still probably worth some consideration.
It's not mentioned in the post, but it seemed like you also get access to past and future trip itineraries. Seems like a big deal for a past head of state to me.
Thanks for asking. They were a California company, and this state has gotten very strict on such things, doing their best to shut down the ability for people to work as independent contractors. It really sucks, but you can't fight city hall.

The idea was that the LLC/S Corp would give my client some protection against anyone claiming that the client would owe employment taxes on what they paid me. So I had to be my own corporation paying myself through a payroll service, to make sure the state and the feds would get their cut.

Put more simply:

"Nice business you've got there. Be a shame if something happened to it."
>> Proprietary software rejects their thirst for knowledge: it says, “The knowledge you want is a secret—learning is forbidden!” Proprietary software is the enemy of the spirit of education, so it should not be tolerated in a school, except as an object for reverse engineering.

Myself, as the creator of the most widely-used K-12+ software of the 90s and early 2000s, HyperStudio, can say that nothing in that statement is true about the software that I created then, before, nor afterwards.
You might be pleased to notice Google Scholar is pretty much still the old design, such a breeze to use
Libertarianism is officially dead if one chooses to see reality today for what it is today in the US. The coronavirus pandemic has proven that you cannot let people simply do what they want to do, and they will do the right thing. It’s proven that people need a leader.
This is wise. I've known people who have accepted donations that wound up very much regretting it later for more or less exactly the reason you mention.
I used to wear a fitbit when playing squash but after a while heart rate data says the same boring stuff and doesnt help much.

Unsure if the tech is there but id be more interested if they tracked the players movements in detail using some form of motion capture. Squash is confined in a small room so its probably easier to do this than other sports. Have a fully digitised replay available for each game.

Then we could start analysing the data to show to amateurs how they should have moved and reacted within their own games compared to how the top players have reacted in similar situations.
Are the tickets not just paper and ink though? Paper is very sustainable and recyclable as far as I'm aware.
No, but I kinda understand why I was downvoted.
Seconded. Filing the 1040 is straightforward compared to the 1120S, and the minimum taxes are real (my experience was NYS, with incorporation in NH for historical reasons).

The 1040 instructions are maddening but nigh-complete. A thoughtful person with enough time on their hands has a prayer of figuring out even relatively subtle tax issues.

The 1120S instructions as recently as ~2015, on the other hand, feel like vague guidance. If the phrase, "Write down your income, write down your expenses, now write down your tax. Sign that you have made no mistakes under penalty of law." makes you nervous, consider expert advice or an arrangement that avoids forming an S-corp.

The state forms are generally dependent upon the federal ones, so if you make an error on the federal form, the error will flow through to the state (which may have similarly vague instructions).

If I ever need to form another corporation, I will absolutely seek professional advice and hand off the filing to a trusted CPA. @Stratoscope is doing the right thing in using plenty of italics.
Yes, that’s what I read. It still feels dirty and counter intuitive IMHO, but I get that by doing so they can avoid using even more fossil fuel.

Regarding the German system, they could really improve the percentage of recycled plastic trash by using more explicit bins, you currently have one single yellow bin for anything recyclable instead of one for PET, one or aluminum, etc. Because of this it is always a bit difficult to know what is supposed to go or not in the bin, and people just put everything they think is plastic.
I was thinking about this yesterday, and if FAANG means “big tech companies with continued big growth”, M is more deserving of the title than, for instance, G. FAAN all have over 300% return over past 5 years, as does M. G however is at like 130%, roughly the same as the Nasdaq. Which to me roughly means they aren’t growing faster than the average tech company (NASDAQ being roughly an index of tech)

(Work at M, may be biased :) )
OR, just parcel out land and give people seeds and allow them to trade with nearby neighbors... There's no longer a need for money and everyone gets to eat - which is all we really need. Beyond that, people can help each other build homes in smallish communities. Money, even on a planet with this many people, isn't necessary, because it's like people driving cars - the system works because everyone is operating to keep themselves alive. HN is not a fan of this take.
Trafficking in illicit goods and persons are more acts of criminal facilitation, than end goals, fueled by criminal enterprises, such as prostitution and resell of illicit goods that appear victimless.

Petty crimes and public intoxication contribute to the broken windows social theory.
Note how all the other mega-wealthy individuals praise him for his actions, but commit to nothing.
NYS was the same way. It was irrelevant whether the company made money or not.
While it doesn't do exactly the same, it is in fact, a pretty interesting solution.

I believe it should be good enough if you keep the habit to run such command each time you grab photos from your devices.

Thanks for sharing.
This and many other things lead me to believe the U.S. is much less free than people would like to admit it to be. It’s just a different flavor of such unfreedom.
This is a very utilitarian view, and it’s only considering the economic aspect at that. I’m not trying to argue that you’re wrong—I just want to suggest that there are other ways of looking at sacrifice that lead to the opposite conclusion.

Giving to help someone worse-off than you—ideally—engenders a feeling of gratitude and humility that makes our society a better place. Experiencing a greater sense of gratitude can help more than just money: gratitude helps one keep a positive mental outlook and can carry one through difficult times.

As a man of faith myself, I believe in divine blessings—both during and after this life—for sacrifice and generosity. That’s not my motivation for doing good, but I do believe that sacrifice does make a better community and a happier individual.

Now, as for the limit case of being utterly destitute (e.g. $25 to their name), a wise man once said “it is not requisite that you run faster than you have strength”—looking after yourself is noble, provided you continue to do what you can.
Wha, bleach the tickets? That sounds like way more hassle then it's worth. A strong lock on a dumpster should be enough. If someone really wanted to take them then sure, they can have the ultra cheap Chinese made stuffed animals that cost next to nothing for D&B.
> The Plastic recycling process as a whole is an incredibly succesful cost externalization for the petro-chemical and packaging industries.

Absolutely nailed it here.

The rest of your comment is not going to happen easily though...
This method would limit benefactors to only those who have access to the internet and a way to receive money online. Most of the third world country population wouldn't fit into this category.

And you can't be solving big systematic problems and bring about societal change by working with individual cases. This is like fighting fire when you should have made the building fireproof in the first place.
> I've heard everyone complain about drivers for amd, and (though I realize anecdotal evidence is no evidence at all) in my experience those people are full of crap.

> I used the Fury(Fiji) and the VII(Vega 20) on linux and windows, and haven't expereinced any of the crazy shit people have claimed. Such as....

I don't know what kind of reply you're expecting. You've managed to use two AMD cards and not have driver crashes? Uh, good for you, but that doesn't mean the rest of us are "full of crap". I've also owned two AMD cards, and for both of them the drivers were flaky, on Linux and Windows. I'm sure they're not broken for everyone, but they were broken for me. Maybe if I bought another AMD card I'd get lucky this time around, but I'm not going to take the risk.
Here's a suggestion: Make some friends internationally, including in very poor countries. You'll find countless such opportunities.
Even when the black box is done right, sometimes there are quasi side-channel leaks of the size. The box covering a name for instances may be discoverable if there are only a few names possible, and it's a small box, meaning it's the shortest name.
In retrospect, was it really "terrible person" level?

I mean, I recall a lot of stories about throwing their weight around that were playing kind of dirty/hardball. But from the vantage point of 2020, with Theranos, Uber, Fyre, Dieselgate, Wirecard, the NSA and so on, I start to think, while they were ruthless competitors, were they particularly evil?
This article would be way more interesting if they were treating 7B outstanding tickets as debt and were seeking a deal with the ticketholders.
Please omit swipes like "Don't spread lies" and "Don't spread false information" from your HN comments. They break the site guidelines. It's enough to supply correct information.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
its also a great way to get an otherwise uninterested (at least initially) LARGE group of people with free time on their hands to get enrolled and spread it further via social media.

Bored housebound carers of children.
You can’t just upgrade your kernel when you want

Sway refuses to support their nonstandard apis

Any kernel bugs you report are tainted

I’m sure there’s more
Really curious to hear your findings! We're happy users of Badger, but we have never looked it's internals. I guess you can list the differences you've found without using a bad mouth. Thanks in advance.
If you find something that works please post your results here. I'd also like to improve my writing. Clear communication is so important in this industry but I just can't master it.