skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All those things you listed involve difficult trade-offs.

Increased capital taxes would on the margin decrease capital expenditures, and thereby hurt income growth in long-term due to lack of productivity gains. That's the last thing we'd want if our goal was to increase income. IMHO both income and capital gains taxes should be cut substantially.

Cheaper property necessitates more property, and at least here in US not building in the suburbs has become presidential campaign fodder. The most economically productive cities like SF have some of the most complex zoning and planning regulations that make boosting supply challenging.

If I had to guess what the right answer would be, it'd be higher minimum wages + stronger unemployment benefits that are designed to get folks back to work. Germany's post-Hartz system is an example of the latter. Higher minimum wages would force people out of work, but they would also motivate higher cap-ex in automation. Higher labor costs would make certain overly expensive automation projects more tractable to corporate management. The unemployed would get an opportunity to retrain for better, higher paying jobs and do so while having basic needs met.

You can probably see though how this solution is basically impossible in the current political climate.
FWIW, media doesn't reach me at all anymore in EU with massive cookie banners everywhere (which is a good thing). Maybe I'm not in the target demographic anymore ;) but I can't believe advertisers don't see a dent in impressions. In fact, their continued reliance on targeted advertising makes me believe CTRs and other metrics are manufactured anyway. It's not like GOOG and FB figures can be verified independently.
Twitter the server is hard and requires hundreds, twitter the client is easy and requires 1.
> Without more data, I bet this is the second case. If the online reviews are false the Hotel is in their right to accuse him of defamation.

I've been to Thailand many times too, mostly to Krabi (for the climbing). And like many, I use trip advisor.

I view the negative comments first. I find negative reviews valuable. A lot of them are made in anger and sometimes on purpose and less fault from the establishment.

This brings me to the review system. Trip advisor reviews make or break a place. Although arresting someone is quite extreme I hope there is a better way to moderate them.
I think "less is more" in this context and additionally it is questionable that there can be a mandate for censorship in a democracy. On the contrary, even if there is a legitimate reason for it (e.g. investigative purposes), formal release procedures are needed.

I think we see rising disapproval in western nations and legislators who seem to just be able to repeat the same mistake over and over again.
Where do you live?

Here in South Africa if you rent a car at Johannesburg airport, the corrupt metro police are waiting for you at the airport exit to "fine" you for "incorrect driving" or having the wrong licence. Easy for locals to dodge, but foreigners who respect a uniform easily pay the ransom.
A bit less money but a healthier society is still an improvement in the way of life. If you only measure everything in money, you're going to miss out on a lot.
Alcubierre drive

However the biggest motivator for me always were the possibilities at my fingertips opened by computers.
You're trying to defend this practise by suggesting it's 'only the most toxic workplaces', but that's not the case. Given two candidates who both have 5 years experience but one has a gap of a year to raise a baby, lots of companies will chose the other candidate. Talk to parents. Understand the problem. Companies assume that if you've taken a year once then you'll probably do it again if you have a second child, and consequently they avoiding hiring you. Don't be an apologist for those companies that do it.
Seems it's part of ART.LEBEDEV
https://www.artlebedev.com/timestripe/

No clue what the price is though, and I won't waste any more time trying to figure it out.
We must look beyond Julian, and see the battlefield from a wider scope.

The US government has an immense amount of evidence on SIPRnet of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other heinous acts committed by the members of the 5-eyes War Coalition.

It is sitting on this evidence, and not allowing it to be viewed by the American public, because the degree of criminal behaviour would radically alter the military power networks of American society. Thus, "national security", and everything is kept secret, and all military resources are used to ensure those secrets are kept.

This is a heinous situation for American citizens to be in.

Indeed, the rioting and burning of America, were the average American come to a real understanding of what, say, was done to Mosul or Raqqa, in their name .. would be true awe inspiring. American's are happily angry, after all.

So, this is why we have a situation where the general American public are kept utterly ignorant about their wars, and their war victims especially, and instead are trained to buy in to America's biggest industrial society.

This "message to journalists" is the tip of a cold, icy berg of dark, dark secrets. Until the American public flip, and see the power of the leaks themselves, first-hand perhaps, in a reconstruction of their social order, then there will always be more need for leaks.

Leaks haven't actually killed anyone - in fact, the leaks have saved millions of lives.

The bombs America and her allies drops on their enemies, every twenty minutes, however: do kill people.

The leaks will continue.

(Note: this comment submitted in a humble effort to provide a counter-weight to the raging torrent of nationalist pride that allows 5-eyes citizens to justify their nations war crimes. It is a conversation that must be had, downvotes be damned..)
Can you show me the costs associated with decommisioning a hydro electric dam?

This is a hurdle people are only throwing in front of nuclear plants. Nuclear plants can run indefinitely if maintained - just like all major infrastructure.
I love Swift, and it would be a great systems language, but it is important for system languages to have some kind of "bare metal" interfaces, with solid, predictable binary expression. Even C generally needs to be implemented in some kind of specialized embedded form for a lot of tools.

To me, Swift is a fairly high-level language, and I like that. I cut my teeth on the bare metal, and don't really miss working at that level.
Sweden used to have this really nice system where you got extra money whenever both parents took more than 30% of the days. We got several unexpected transfers of 300€ because of this, which for us at the time was a huge boon.
I suggest national initiative type democracy, but everyone gets nervous when it comes to decentralizing power, even though we supposedly pride ourselves on being democratic.
http://www.ncid.us/
The publication is still paid a bit for the article when money in the fund is distributed to "all publications participating in the payment system". This presents an opportunity for low-effort publications to crank out oodles of articles in the hopes of getting people to either pay for articles or get paid out by the fund.

Why would I, as a reader, choose to participate in your Kafkaesque payment system when the prevailing solution is to contact my card issuer and dispute the transaction? Certainly that takes a lot less time than having to phone the NY Times (because they do not allow you to cancel a subscription through the website).
You only need a lot of developers if you are trying to do sophisticated things with tracking, engagement, etc. A basic WordPress install doesn't require a team of developers to run full-time and that's the equivalent of a printed paper.
The reason why it’s an issue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perception_management

The internet has turned into a war zone of perception management involving state and non state entities. The non state entities are able to do things in quite powerful ways never before possible for a civilian level technology. Any hacker with creativity and GPT2 can manipulate hordes of people with a human in a loop pattern.
> e.g. what mounting a filesystem means

Funny. I've been using Linux for 10 (?) years and I still don't know what mounting means. I just know it's something that needs to happen in order for me to access the contents of a disk. I don't really care about it either, I only care about accessing the data. Why isn't it automatic anyway? Windows does it automatically whenever possible, why can't Linux?
Our former CTO was asked what paternity leave he thought tech employees should have (in a country with no legal requirement for it) and he said, "4 months", which then made it into everyone's contracts.

Only he thought he was being asked about Maternity leave and now the company is honouring that deal even a 18 months after his departure. It makes me want to have a child real soon before they rewrite that clause.
Fair enough I didn't know Norway disallowed parallel leave. The way we did it is normal in Germany at least among my social circle.

But I also think that aside from not sleeping at night (which depending on if the mother breastfeeds the father may not be able to help much with anyway) the first few months before the kid starts crawling are actually easier than the subsequent few years. For us it was mostly about spending that special time together as a family.
What client?
> this is not enough to just live off for most people

I don't think many people can pull the "the state doesn't provide enough to have kids" card in Germany to be honest. At some point people have to understand that yes, having a kid means you will have less money at the end of the month and will most likely result in personal sacrifices.
Addiction Ruined the Internet
This is the current state. Written at about 2018. Development is in full swing.
SolveSpace integration is in work already, but this will need a long time.

FreeCAD import/export only supports about 20 of 200 classes, only the most important entities. But not much 3D, dynblocks nor constraints.

You already can translate DWG to DXF via LibreDWG or Teigha.
I never tried F360, so I cannot say which additional object classes are there, and if they are important.
But F360 already supports export to DXF, IGES and STEP I assume.
Well, the context is specifically Sweden. I don't think that's projecting any "western purity codes" anywhere.
I've always thought micropayments or paying per article was the way forward - and for a lot of users it probably is.

But I guess that for many publishers, they've done the math and realized that a few people paying a few hundred dollars is more lucrative than lots paying a few cents or dollars.
When a user subscribes to a cheap introduction offer, they are likely to read more articles and continue to pay the full rate.

The long tail are picked up by apple news, scroll.com and similar subscription services.
Depression should be treated however works best for the affected person, assuming no harm done to others.

The Twitter thread mentions they tried the book hypothesis on people who were on a waitlist to see a professional, meaning they were already trying to get help but couldn’t. If a book is able to help without negative side effects, there’s no reason not to try it.

Books (and other written resources) are how medical professionals collect and expand much of their knowledge in the first place.
> They don’t hire anyone from France because the French government makes it so difficult to fire a bad hire

That's why you have a 6 months trial period, right ?
> Facebook is primarily text which is low bandwidth and it goes through higher thinking.

Today Facebook is mostly images, livestreams and videos.
> So you still need Chrome/Firefox

I think for most people learning unix, understanding chrome/firefox boils down to knowing "there is a chrome/firefox repo somewhere, it gets compiled/packaged for your distro somewhere and has a bunch of dependencies". DE doesn't need to have any provisions for Twitter specifically either, apart from what is already essential for most GUI applications.

I get what you mean, I guess I just twitched reading "unix twitter client" being something we expect from unix.
If they shoot down satellites, war would follow and they are probably done for.

They would simple disallow business between you and the satellite operator. Nothing easier than that.
Only a for profit organisation can siphon off profit out of the organisation and give it to ownership.

Either a for profit organisation or a not for profit organisation can reinvest profit to expand operations. In fact given the inability to do the first item, that's pretty much all not for profits ever choose to do with it. Sure they could maintain level of current service and reduce revenue, but none really choose to. Never seen one with a "no longer taking donations, we're good" page up.

So given those two things, it's nonsensical to say

>We are a for-profit business. When we make profit, we can use that to hire more great people, and build even more.

However it gets even more ridiculous given that neither profit status nor expansion were the core topic of the post. The author didn't need to mention nor try to justify the for profit status of the organisation. So they went out of their way to shoehorn this nonsense line in for no reason.
That may be the case but I would be surprised the NYT would know, unless they have seen the terms of the loan.
I think we should be building nuclear everywhere, but it's important to realise the life of a nuclear power plant is between 20 to 40 years.

https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/29402043133.pdf

> It is evident that the average age of power reactors in the IAEA's Member States is increasing. (See accompanying graphs.) By 2000, more than 50 nuclear plants will have been providing electricity for 25 years or longer. Most nuclear power plants have operating life-times of between 20 and 40 years.

> Ageing is defined as a continuing time-dependent degradation of material due to service conditions,including normal operation and transient conditions. It is common experience that over long periods of time, there is a gradual change in the properties of materials. These changes can affect the capability of engineered components, systems, or structures to perform their required function. Not all changes are deleterious, but it is commonly observed that ageing processes normally involve a gradual reduction in performance capability.

> All materials in a nuclear power plant can suffer from ageing and can partially or totally lose their designed function. Ageing is not only of concern for active components (for which the probability of malfunction increases with time) but also for passive ones, since the safety margin is being reduced towards the lowest allow-able level
This feels all too poignant for me. Especially with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perception_management
Then he'd completely missed my original point that was about practical inability to prevent that exact scenario - "elect the next Manchurian candidate campaign run by the NSA". I do not think juducial review will enter the picture here. I am not sure what practical legal mechanism is available to prevent such scenario. I guess it would run the risk of being exposed by some whistleblower but with the latest developments in the area the chances are that it wont.
On the other hand, in Norway you can get 100% up to a quite large maximum. As opposed to 80% capped at 1000SEK per day in Sweden.

Edit: Living in Norway is more expensive though. So a family of low income might not have been able to sustain themselves if the compensation was lower.
I looked at my tabs. There's a lot of .orgs and some random country domain, one git site hosted on .ht and lots of national news and other sites on my local ccTLD.

And mastodon instances are rather new, and exist on a massive amount of different tlds, of course on .social but also others. Probably the age of the service plays a big role! We'll see more TLD diversity as things get much older.
Yeah this is the main thing, there are different approaches to computer vision problems than OpenCV, so using a smaller more specific library will make the package more portable and better suited to a wider range of projects.

Having OpenCV as a dependency means that if a project isn't already using OpenCV, this fairly minor (in terms of scale of functionality) utility library has a lot of baggage.
The EU gini coefficients don't seems that bad [0]. Did you take into account the difference in the cost of living in the different countries?

[0] http://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/show.do?lang=en&data...
Sounds quite familiar. I was 11 years and struggling with assembler on Atari ST. There was a short series of 68000 assembly basics in a Finnish computer magazine (MikroBitti) and some sources on disk magazines (Maggie by The Lost Boys).
Poll: Which name to use for a piano teaching application?
Hello HN,

A bunch of people, myself included are working on a program that will help people to learn how to sightread and play the piano/synth/organ. It is meant to help people improve their skills no matter how good (or bad) they already are, the basic idea is to show them a score, help with sightreading and to train by playing, improving multiple skills at the same time.

The project is progressing quite nicely, we have a small group of beta testers who have given us lots of useful feedback the bulk of which has been incorporated. The program is approaching the MVP stage, but one major thing we don't have yet is a really good name for the project, below is a list of candidates, and I would very much appreciate it if you could vote for your preferred name and maybe (if you want) explain why you think a particular name is good or bad.

This project is a direct result of the COVDI-19 epidemic, I figured with more time on my hands than usual I should at least learn a skill and picked learning the piano. I found that the software that I was using had substantial limitations and so I asked my colleagues for help and feedback and we ended up building our own. Naming it is a hard though, hence this poll (you can vote for more than one name if you want).

If you want to have a look at the beta application drop me a line (jacques@modularcompany.com), and if you voted in the poll, thank you very much.
midiuniversity.com
pianinja.com
pianowerk.com
playklavier.com
soundsboard.com
betterpianist.com
forzapiano.com
measuredpiano.com
meteredpiano.com
midicourse.com
pianocaptain.com
pianoconsort.com
pianofaculty.com
pianofu.com
pianopowers.com
welltemperedpiano.com
pianodrill.com
pianolectures.com
synthtutor.com
syntutor.com
epianoschool.com
epianoteacher.com
instrumuse.com
musitor.com
pianocosm.com
pianolector.com
pianopractica.com
yourkeyboardtutor.com
Verification and Validation in Software Testing
Verification: It is a static analysis technique. Here, testing is done without executing the code. Examples include – Reviews, Inspection, and walkthrough.

Validation: It is a dynamic analysis technique where testing is done by executing the code. Examples include functional and non-functional testing techniques.

In the V model, the development and QA activities are done simultaneously. There is no discrete phase called Testing, rather testing starts right from the requirement phase. The verification and validation activities go hand in hand.
> Windows does it automatically whenever possible, why can't Linux?

Linux can do that as well, every desktop environment worth their salt does it by default.
My Chinese is almost uselessly bad but I still read that as "mouth water something."
I assume readership base per particular publication is lower then before plus when in open market they get lower $ for x views then they used to.
They removed the legal penalties of of the bullet scam now it's a stern talking to and once they believe you have no evidence of using a gun/ammo, they hunt down the guards.

The CCTV, X-ray machines and general security theater is an extension project of the DHS, that posted warnings of NAIA used that to force NAIA to upgrade it's security theater alongside immigration.

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2019/08/08/department-homeland-secu...
> "website for weed" is underplaying the crime. All the major illegal drugs were sold... including those which have no place existing in the world.

Decriminalization of all drugs does seem to be something being taken very seriously. Reduces abuse, harm, and violent crime.
Top five status saver app for WhatsApp
A.k.a. "the Unix Wars".

https://www.google.com/search?q=the+unix+wars
Do you think that this comment provides new information to literally anybody who is reading it? Given the answer is obviously "no", what do you think the actual effect is? Do you understand that it reads as a defense of the status quo?
Ergonomics would be a bit weird considering that you're likely to be sitting side-by-side.
Sorry for my slow response, 3vidence has covered my main thoughts, but I've added a bit to his comment.

In terms of convolution of implementing it, there may be a little more effort in terms of figuring some offsets (e.g., path widths may extend bounds), but it shouldn't be anything excessive I don't think.
“ The Chinese government and the Chinese Communist Party exert control over many forms of media in China, including newspapers and the Internet. All Chinese media, including newspapers, periodicals, news agencies, TV stations, broadcasting, the movie industry and art performances, are categorized and managed as "mouthpieces" of the Communist Party, used to manipulate public opinion and exercise "mind control" on its citizens.[70] "Mind control" includes "indoctrination from kindergarten to college through officially compiled textbooks, as all teachers are categorized as 'educators of CCP' (The Chinese Communist Party)". According to Qinglian He, a former Chinese government propagandist and now a senior researcher at Human Rights in China, by exercising "mind control", the Chinese government has misled the Chinese population about the values of human rights and democracy, and also about the truth.[71] The Propaganda and Information Leading Group is generally responsible for censorship and control of information. The unit is also one of the largest in the CCP leadership organ.[72]”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perception_management
You can always run a game in multiple instances by launching the secondary copy using another user's credentials.
As a Swede who just moved to Switzerland, who has a child coming up and will be affected by this, I find it pretty reasonable. Of course, I'd prefer to take more time off to be with my child, but I don't expect tax-payers to finance that — that's between me and my employer. The other side of the story is that in Switzerland you make so much that unpaid leave is usually quite feasible. If you're in tech the compensation is probably less than 50% anyway.
Do you think this isn't obvious? Why do you take the time to point it out?
> I remember visiting India as a kid with my family, and one of my cousins telling me about an America TV series that was banned. I didn't think much of it at the time, but as I've grown older, I've really come to appreciate the freedom of speech we have in America. I just wrote a post about it:

Ummm what? America bans films and TV series too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_banned_in_the_Un...
I've always wondered why some travellers wrap their bags
> I am still surprised by how many early startups have offices.

Business is a cargo cult
> It is also unethical way of life in this planet.

According to you.