skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have never seen any political party in India having "tax reduction" as their stated goal. I think if someone makes such party, people will vote for it as taxes affect them directly or indirectly.
Too risque for the NYT?

Note the painting of Francois de La Rochefoucauld to the right - it would be interesting to see the valuation of the artwork unless it doesn't come with the property.
I still think FPTP is the UK's biggest political problem. The UK is crying out for a new left party to take over from the Labour party which is dysfunctional at this point. But it can't happen because the electoral system means that it would have to happen all at once which is unrealistic.
The parent is referring to rubocop, so I think they're talking about Ruby.

The Elixir formatter sounds much less strict, and I have very little problem with it.
Anecdotal - the only thing that worked for me was eating once per day, around 6PM. I was very alert the whole day, but not in an unpleasant way. The hunger pangs come and go, but are manageable. Tried this for a week, I don't drink coffee at all but this felt like I've had a couple of cups.

A nutritionist friend however dissuaded me to go this route, as apparently it is very hard for our bodies to process that amount of food and one will end up with various nutrient deficiencies in the long run. I'm curious to know if someone got intermittent fasting to work long term though.
having read a ton of papers coming from that field during my phd, I have yet to see anything actually convincing out of it and not something that could be due to different cultural norms or other factors. Also assuming that it applies to the general practice of programming (whatever that means, I really don't think there's a single one) is... bold imho.

Otoh most useful large software is written in C++ - adobe software like Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects, most big music making software (Ableton, Cubase, etc), most big video software (DaVinci Resolve, etc) and they definitely don't seem to be lacking in the "creativity" department.

If your hypothesis was true, wouldn't we be seeing a lot of much more advanced software written in different languages ? Yet there are barely any - in audio there's Fruity Loops written in Delphi but other than that...
It has an API too; I mentioned recently in someone's ShowHN [0] that I'd thought of doing something similar (showing which fruit & vegetables are in season locally) with WikiData - since even if it doesn't presently have that data, there's simply no reason or anything to gain from it being stored as if proprietary. Then my 'what's in season' web page or API would just be a thin domain-specific wrapper over Wikidata.

I've never actually played with it though, don't know if it already has that data, and I don't know what its terms of service permit doing, so not advice etc. just something I thought of, to likely never get to.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24811316
The knock-offs he shows in the article don't just copy the flake form-factor though; they are blatant copies of the models and the marketing material. It's not just making a composable brick set; it's copying a Lego model piece by piece.
if you ever buy the same piece of Ikea furniture a few years later it's interesting to see what has been changed

We have the 'same' dresser bought three times in three different years. The first one is pretty solid wood, the second one is more particle board, but still decent, the newest one is much flimsier and much more lightweight particle board and is actually falling apart while the two older ones are still going strong.
> As a bit of a hobbyist wood worker, Ikea furniture is slightly soul destroying. ...

Don’t tell me about it. I built an Enzo Mari bookshelf and afterwards realised I had built an IKEA Ivar but spent the double price in wood.
South Africa needs a national database of addresses
While not necessarily a store like Macy's themselves, I know I've reached out to manufacturers when I needed a replacement handle or foot that was lost or broken. Heck, often right inside the package you'll see a piece of paper that says "STOP! Do not return to the store! Call us"
Growing up in eastern Europe in the 80's, I learned to program in Basic on a "Pravetz 82" - an almost exact replica of the Apple II in all but name, except every single component and material used was manufactured in Bulgaria from scratch.

Communists were firmly convinced that they've actually done a better job than the capitalist pigs at Apple and even self credited themselves with the invention of personal computing.

It was a wildly successful product throughout the whole eastern bloc. It was accompanied by a whole ecosystem of home-made software, games, peripherals, robotics kits, literature, magazines, and was very popular in the educational systems of nearby countries. A good portion of the brightest software engineers to come out of eastern Europe made their baby steps in programming on this gem [1]

I have very fond memories of it.

1. https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-these-communist-era-apple-...
I've almost written "|> case do" several times and then in each case have decided that it makes sense to a separate private function (with function head matching for the different cases).
As someone who owns a castle/manor house and desperately wanting to sell it... I agree completely. At least theres normally no property taxes on listed buildings, but just keeping it from falling apart is enough to eat a moderate income.
Don't use this piece of JS shit in Firefox!
The interview with Roger Penrose was excellent. And apparently Fridman has discovered a market niche, which seems to convince the interviewees.
I have a "BahnCard 100" [1], the German national public transit flatrate. My employer pays for it in lieu of a company car. I only have to pay income taxes on it, which comes out to about 170€ (200$) a month. For that price, I can use all trains across Germany as often as I want and also get free local transit (busses, subway etc.) in 120 cities, including the one where I live.

2020 is my first year with a BC100, so due to Corona I couldn't use it that much yet, but it's kind of mind-blowing to go to a train station and just be able to hop on any train [2] whenever I feel like it, no questions asked. When Corona has blown over, I will definitely make a habit of just exploring Germany every other weekend.

[1] https://www.bahn.com/en/view/offers/bahncard/bahncard_100-co...

[2] There are some rare exceptions, e.g. night trains require a reservation.
Aren't these metrics increasingly more difficult to determine?

I think people will have no idea what the AI evaluates but they will make myths about it and adhere to those (which effectively triggers Goodhart's law). IMO a big chunk of SEO and content marketing is already based on myths around PageRank/YouTube/…
https://www.oakfurnitureland.co.uk/
Australia is similar as well. I'm not sure having more parties fundamentally fixes the issues. From my experience, parties just form coalitions that wind up taking similar stances to the US two-party system.

I will say though that the US two-party system seems to promote a deadlock / winner-take-all scenario that doesn't seem as common in other countries. So I do think having something like ranked choice voting will help. It's just not the full solution.
I remember those. They were distributed all around the world. Wikipedia lists about 60 countries.[1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tazos
> "It would be equivalent to a point mass if the Earth were a perfect sphere of uniform density"

Would it? Even of uniform density, the mass would not the at the core, only the center of mass would be. Most of the mass is actually closer to the surface. I'm no physicist, but I'd imagine that would have quite some impact[0] on any trajectory that crosses the surface.

And for any ball thrown at human speeds, I'd expect Earth's gravity would be much closer to a uniform gravitational field than one from a point mass.

[0] Pun not originally intended but I'm quite happy with it now.
As someone dating someone whose family owns multiple, buy some art, maintain a garden of sorts, set it up as a museum, bam, revenue.
Partner A: Please send me a message when you leave work, so I know when to start making dinner (or not to wait, if you're working late) and not to worry you might have been in an accident.

Partner B: I'd be happy to, but as I'm forgetful when I'm busy working late, and me forgetting will make you worry, we should use something that works automatically.

(Add or remove going to the gym, stopping by the store on the way home, getting a beer on Friday...)

Obviously, you could accomplish the same thing by reliably leaving work at the same time every day - but some would say ceding authority over your own schedule is a greater indignity than ceding privacy over your current location.
It is this principle of making you pay for stuff twice that goes on with the British government. Even postcodes and weather data get this tax.

In the US if the federal government makes something then the tax payer has paid for it and it is therefore there for the tax payer to use. So pretty pictures from NASA and the zip code database and even weather observations/predictions are all there for the taking.

In the UK the tax payer has paid for Ordnance Survey already but you have to pay for the maps and get fully extorted to use them in your own publications. There was a time when photocopying an OS map in the library for a planning application was fraught with difficulty.

That is why the Google people were clever with Street View - they built their own maps and are not beholden to OS.

So it is not as if the government goes out of its way to furnish the UK population with the best maps it can. It hoards the map data. It is tantamount to victim blaming to berate those caught on the dales during bad weather with no map other than that which came with the dead battery on their phone.

The OS work for the crown and not the people. If Slow Ways had gone OpenStreetMap you can bet the landing page would have the map around your British house with routes highlighted.
There is no opportunity to read this information before . . .
Because most of the routes have not been tested yet - all of them have been put together by volunteers during quarantine. And, from experience, even though they've been constructed from public footpaths, that's no guarantee of their quality. Paths can be fenced off by landowners, go through cattle fields or be outright missing.

Making all the routes available without at least a brief check could lead to less-experienced walkers getting lost or injured.
That may be true in many times and places, but to be German, in the East of the country, through the period of the 20th century in which he lived -- politics was rather thrust upon you. And the politically literate and illiterate alike had rather more to fear than "multinational companies".
Physicist (BSc) turned software developer here, I understood around 2% of your comment :)

(Thanks for the effort, though, it might just be me, in the end I changed profession for a reason)
IIRC, this couple made a massive success out of this though. A lot of persistent hard work, and they now rent it out for weddings and function as a hotel (or pre-covid they did anyway).
The TXT DNS record for dns.google refers to Xkcd
> "Ah, yes, pedantry. It has its own gravity. You can't tell me it's not a force. I can't resist its pull."

It's not a force. From the right frame of mind[0], it's just a straight line.

[0] Substituting for frame of reference.
Interesting way to phrase the question, the answer is... depends on relative motion. The notion of simultaneity which is the technical term for what you describe as "being flat" in the time-direction is not an absolute thing in relativity. With respect to your own reference system you are essentially "flat" in the time direction [1], but with respect to someone that moves at a certain speed with respect to you you have certain size in the time direction.

The best way to picture it is via Minkowski diagrams, you can find some neat visualizations in the wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_of_simultaneity

Simply picture an extended object in the x direction, Lorentz transformations are going to rotate it slightly in the time direction causing it to become extended in the time direction.

[1] If you take it to the extreme you may consider that different parts of your body move with respect to each other and thus they are not in the same reference frame. In which case, not even with respect to yourself are totally "flat" in the time direction.
> The disparity is amazing - the list of guests is easily the best out of any podcast that has guests that I've ever come across; and the delivery of the host is just about the worst I've come across too.

If the guests would feel in the same way, then they wouldn’t be talking with Lex.

So it's most likely an issue you have. I personally don't mind Lex at
all and really like his style, especially his "simple" questions, because
how great minds answer these "simple" questions can be quite interesting.
That “lake front house” is just a townhouse, which kinda proves the parent’s point. $3m and you have to listen to your neighbor’s TV and toilet flushes through a shared wall.
Lessons from a Year of Side Projects
Guess . . . . "Because the rest of the commentors in this thread seem to not be reading the article"
Yes, of course once the company reaches a certain scale you need specialized roles and/or software that you use, that makes sense.

But is "companies of scale" what "modern devs" refer to? What is a "serious" company?

There is a lots of parameters that goes into the choice of self-hosted DB / managed DB, not just if the devs are "modern", or the company is "serious".
I'm glad LyX is going strong in 2020. A friend of mine suggested me LyX many years ago - he wrote a thesis on their EE department. On the other hand, we in the Math department had to learn Latex, because well, it is standard in that field.

These days I'm using org-mode [1] because I can easily dump something in Latex/PDF (which I prefer) and export that in Word or odt (which I don't like) but is standard in the corporate world. However, when I see someone is struggling with Latex (or is scared of it), I suggest LyX with all my heart. I believe LyX can be a good entry for Latex world.

[1] https://orgmode.org
Dew collection at night and massive evaporation of the Sahara during daytime. Not sure if this would be enough to sustain a medium sized tree. Whatever works in Netherlands may not work in Egypt.
Works fine in Safari also
Tremor (CNCF Sandbox Project) 0.9 Release
I think that's being a bit hard on the OS - I think they've been pushed by different governments over the years to become more commercial and hard-nosed about raising revenue wherever they can. I'm actually pretty surprised they haven't been privatised.

https://weownit.org.uk/public-ownership/ordnance-survey

Edit: OS maps are 'freely' available through Bing Maps.
Government have been tweaking excise rates. Petrol and Diesel is cheaper everywhere except India, Indian government made 30% revenue increase in exise during lockdown period when all other taxes went down.

Funny enough, no one in the country raised voice against it.

Fuel is what affects price of everything from grocery to your mobile phone shipped through Amazon, so why is government collecting and increasing this tax on people?
I had to laugh at the annual property tax fees, $3350 Euros? Is there some other tax for owning the Castle or fees of some sort? Are property taxes low in France as a rule?

US property taxes can get really expensive in some areas of the country to where it can be a major portion of a mortgage payment if escrow is used that way. Even my thirty mile outside the metro property tax is over three thousand US and I have a friend in New Jersey who pays four times what I do.
Heavier than pine probably, but not heavier than the more dense woods
Make your brand guidelines meaningful with a Brand Management solution
I found that if you're the type of person that likes to customize their furniture then IKEA is a good starting point. Both for the choices of material and because a lot of stuff is compatible.

A big reason most of our (non custom made) furniture is IKEA is because it strikes a pretty ideal balance between price and quality and allows you to "get to town" with changes. Most other "crap furniture" does not at all support such modifications to it. For starters because some of the things we bought even though they said solid wood on the label did not actually fully consist of solid wood and were useless after cutting off a piece.
It's the Oracle playbook. F*ck customers, make money. Seems to work rather well, actually!
This nails my annoyance with going from low-middle income with generations old stuff to $200k/yr rich and with a sense for getting stuff that will last (relative value), to homeless where people want to throw cheap garbage at me. Silver lining is I’m unbreakable and persistent, so my sales skills are improving in order to eat and hold to that (eg. Justifying $9 tacos as 45 mins of min wage work and vs. $9 of comparable Taco Bell both vegan), and most of the stuff has lasted insanely long relative to wear, to like cents per use.
IKEA’s quality hasn’t changed. This is just a typical example of selection bias. Of course the old IKEA furniture that still is around is of better quality than those that aren’t. They sold cardboard furniture 30 years ago too, it’s just that most of it isn’t around anymore, and the thirty year old furniture that still is around is the pieces that are of better quality.
Gathering more than one progress data set separately is the only way to get a single data set. If you try a single measurement or combine them to early you will get [many] layers of people making stuff up and the further up you go the more nonsensical the data gets.

If someone has only half (or less) of the data to forge his lies out of the creative book keeping window is almost gone. Employees with 10-20 years of experience generate lies of undetectable mind blowing quality. I've seen people negotiate their way out of 100% of their job arguing they didn't have time for it.
The marginal rate is really not particularly relevant unless you earn far more than that, which most people don't. What matters is the effective rate, and even California, which is one of the highest taxed states in the US, and so misleading if you want to talk about the overall US tax burden, is lower than a lot of Europe.

I agree with you they're not particularly low, though, especially when factoring in what you get or don't get. E.g. add health insurance into the picture and starts to look very different.

The US is pretty middle of the road in terms of tax.
What's pay it forward movement?
Nope. In some countries, you'd be held liable if someone misunderstood you and acted as if they were given a real legal advice.

Sometimes this also applies to other professions.
I have a gut feeling this would be a huge PITA to maintain and to fix all the weird bugs users would encounter. Sometimes even though you can do it, maybe the bigger thing is should you do it. Perhaps if you have the money and time and your users care, not just you and your PO.
Does Atlantic claims they are news?
Concerns over China and UN’s Joint Data Center
The really promising thing is in the chart showing the battery degradation depending on the depth of discharge. With 25% - 50% depth of discharge (i.e. charging and discharging between 50%-75% and 100% of capacity), the degradation is minimal.
You might not be able to keep your battery in this range while driving long distances but for commuting it's certainly possible and - now the good part - it's definitely possible when the car is plugged in. That means it can support the grid ("vehicle to grid") without having severe long term effects on the range of the car.
R&D at Commodore was always notoriously underfunded compared to the competition and compared to their size. Which makes what they achieved at their height all the more incredible.
Our family shares location with each other on Apple, mainly it gives our young teenagers a bit more freedom, and stops them from texting me when I'm in the middle of a rainy cycle home to ask 'are you coming home?'.

My wife also has a cup of tea waiting for her when she gets back from work, thanks to a Geofence I have set up.
Show HN: faasd 0.9.6 – Add annotation support and hard memory limits
What happens when Covid-19 meets toxic air? India is about to find out
I use Firefox as my primary browser and Chromium for testing things for Chrome. The only downside to Chromium is you have to update it manually by downloading the package and dragging it to your applications if you use Mac. Other than that, it works perfectly. I trust Chromium more than Chrome if I want to let it run in the background.
Likely, I just recall one aunt who drank this exclusively and the cans of Tab were all hers. It was my first taste of a sugar free soda and she had nothing to fear from us after we each were given a glass. For the most part in the early seventies soda was a treat unlike today where I swear it replaces water for some people.

lets just say its an acquired taste and note that diet soft drinks did not have the selection there is today
Well it's also selling on the used furniture with repairs, which I think covers both reduce and reuse.
Tremor is now a CNCF Sandbox Project, oh and we just released v0.9
This seems to be a bit of a concerning attitude, and it's also in that top Discord guys post. No, it's not a bug in some third-party library that you are excused from - you use it, it's your bug now!

And who other than Discord would be poised to take charge and fix it? They need a desktop client almost like no other Electron user. Time to grow up and take some responsibility for the stuff you ship. Instead we have

$ git log --oneline --author "discordapp.com" | wc -l

7

They are building their business centerpiece software around something they don't understand and don't maintain.
What is the flavour? Is there something it can be compared to?
We have a shared main bank account and our own bank accounts where we keep some personal spending money.
> and not to worry you might have been in an accident.

Partner A sounds like he/she might have some deeper separation anxiety or trust issues to work through. Being out of contact for multiple hours should be normal without conjuring up worries about accidents.

Has partner B ever been in an accident on the way home? Would worrying somehow prevent it?

If partner B stops for more than the pre-approved amount of time at a given stop light, how many seconds does it take for partner A’s panic to set in? 60 seconds? Remember, B could have gotten into an accident and seconds matter!

Partner A needs to chill the fuck out and remember that partner B is a functioning adult that can survive multiple hours without the observation and worry of partner A.
Anyone want to learn more, come by the CNCF slack, we're in the #tremor channel :)
I have done work in LaTeX simply because it was too complicated to do in LyX. I would never regret using a simpler, easier tool. That's not snobbishness, that's masochism.
PThammer: Cross-User-Kernel-Boundary Rowhammer Through Implicit Accesses
Just because it's possible doesn't mean it's mainstream. As someone who's seen Asian households of this sort, it doesn't end very well quite often.
Used power cables for my Thinkpad from a computer recycler. Have them all over house and dedicated one for my bag so I never think twice about packing or forgetting it somewhere
In Sweden it is free to sell IKEA items on Blocket, the Swedish equivalent to Craigslist. The fee for the listing of IKEA items is paid for by IKEA. I believe that IKEA are well aware that they have to cater for a 2nd hand market and find solutions to the "last mile" problem in order to be taken seriously when talking about sustainability. They are on it. If they succeed is another matter.