skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So they have to give up control of their company and they still have billions in profits..? How is that a punishment?

Meanwhile the person that robbed a gas station is rotting in jail... If only they were billionaires, if they robbed millions at scale they’d only have to transfer ownership of their LLC.
What condition do you have?
To put lipstick on the pitbull...
I'm excited for the Mr Robot-esque urban explorations of these empty business mansions.
Sure, we shouldn't "give murder a try" to see if our biases against it are unfounded. But LSD seems like fair game.
I can't believe the 7/8ths rule isn't a bigger story than it is. Insanely undemocratic. I wouldn't vote for any bill that included that stipulation.
To add to that:

In California it's gotten so ridiculous that almost every city has its own sales tax [0]. This leads to some mild arbitrage where if I live on the border of LA County, I can go over to any city in Orange/Ventura/San Bernardino County and immediately save 3% off the purchase price.

To expect every taxpayer to keep track of where they've purchased items and pay a use tax so that taxes are going to the right places should not be on the burden of the tax payer. I'm a happy taxpayer and willingly will do so to fund our civic services and public goods, but not when the sale never occurred in the area where I purchased the item. People will find and exploit loopholes the minute they are revealed.

California (and some other states) have already gotten around this by requiring new cars registered to pay a tax adjustment if it was previously registered from another state. I don't think the state government just has the time or resources to do that for all purchases.

[0]: https://www.cdtfa.ca.gov/formspubs/cdtfa95.pdf
Intel's margins tumble as customers shift to cheaper chips
How many times have “obviously stupid” ideas turned into tremendous success stories? Uber and Amazon spending untold billions subsidizing sales while building tech to be market leaders. At one point it was obviously stupid for Zuckerberg to not sell his company for $1B. It was obviously stupid for Musk to start a brand new car company in America. The list goes on.

By mocking people for trying, yes that does make one a hater. Quibi tried, and yes it turned out they were wrong about the product or execution or timing. But that’s the point of startups. They start with an “obviously stupid” idea and sometimes it works spectacularly. Usually not, but sometimes you get surprises.
I believe they're using "the American dream" as the defense. So, yes, it's sarcastic, but maybe not in the way you were thinking.
Up until today (when they were all closed) every restaurant near my house had a crowd of people eating outside in temperatures of around 8 degrees C. That’s not at all normal; they’d normally have abandoned outdoor seating by now. It’s a consequence of COVID regulations.
easy to imagine such a thing recording covid status being a pre-requisite to entering hospitals / government buildings. Other options would be offered initially.
The way it affects me is that that every time I wonder "what day is it today?", it's always Thursday.

That makes it seem to me that every day is Thursday. When there's only, on average, 4 Thursdays a month, a year just flashes past.
Automated Deployments at GitHub
“not get punished”

Are you saying the goal of de-anonymizing is to punish the police?

Earlier it seemed like you were interested in trials: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24862054
And number of people evading tax is also significant. A lot of small and medium businesses don’t pay or pay very little income tax.
Keep in mind, as well, that employees are already not forced to live where their employer wants them to be. They can live far away from work, and then commute an absurd amount each day, then get their paycheck and keep their cheap cost of living too. We don't pay someone who comes into the office less just because they live far away.

It's just that in that scenario, a lot of carbon is being emitted, and the employee's life is being wasted needlessly.
Just a warning, Tramadol reacts very badly in some people. Like myself, just a single pill will cause me to have tonic-clonic seizures leading up to a grand-mal seizure later on in the day.

Tramadol also has a bunch of shit in it, I feel like it's a 'dirty' drug. For example, it's very closely related to the chemical structures of antidepressants. This can be helpful, but not when you need to stop it. You also can't really take any serotonergic medicine either as you'd be at a very high risk of serotonin syndrome. Nobody wants that.

Honestly, old and true medicines really do work. I'm not saying the Sacklers are awesome, they're fuckin'evil and didn't value human lives - but the drug works for those who need it.

And Cannabis is not legal in New Zealand, at least yet. We'll find out on the 30th if it's going to be...

(I have to be on it after burning my entire left arm, and chest with burning hot oil - I also educate myself on medicines as I used to work in said sector, and I do have seizures and Tramadol is well known to lower the seizure threshold very very fast)
I have this as one part of Pentadactyl. I think SurfingKeys et. al. also allow this to some extent.
David Barrett of Expensify endorses Joe Biden in email to customers
If somebody tried to stop a train that was speeding along a wrong way by putting a wall on its way, it would end in a trainwreck.

If you care about the passengers, that won't be a responsible thing to do, though technically the train would be stopped.

So, a trainwreck is what we see :(
Ask HN: Fighting (YouTube) Music Addiction?
I've been listening to music while working, and it's been hurting my performance. When I turn it off, I'm left with either a void of no thoughts and some anxiety or background thoughts either racing.
"Face the consequences"? What consequences? Anything you want? Is this supposed to be a license to extrajudicially impose arbitrary consequences on people?

I'll note that it's mainly users of Firefox who had to "face the consequences" of firing Eich for his views...
I still can't say that's an obviously stupid idea.
If you never pay for and complete the order, nobody gets a cheeseburger.
I don't think it's very expensive. Nearly all hobbyist RC drone batteries that are have 2 or more cells in series have a big discharge lead with all the cells in series, plus a smaller parallel "balance port" that provides access to each individual cell. Balance ports are used for charging, and can also be used in flight to wirelessly report the voltage of each cell. There are plenty of common (and apparently somewhat reliable) balancing chargers for under $30.

A popular $22 balancing charger for hobby RC drones: https://hobbyking.com/en_us/turnigy-accucel-6-50w-6a-balance...

A $15 sensor that plugs into the balance port and sends telemetry data about each cell: https://alofthobbies.com/frsky-sp-flvs-smart-port-lipo-volta...

A similar sensor that beeps really loudly when any cell falls to 3.5 volts (these are very popular for people without telemetry systems): https://outofdarts.com/products/lipo-voltage-alarm-1-mini-si...

An article explaining balance ports in RC aircraft batteries: http://www.tjinguytech.com/charging-how-tos/balance-connecto...
not sure what the relevance here is. That user is complaining about not getting network data from Facebook which may not be covered by GDPR, rather than his personal data he stored on the service.

However giving your data to third parties without your explicit consent is without a doubt a violation of GDPR.
An iOS app under 4MB, what is this witchcraft?
Markdown-WASM, a Fast Markdown Parser Written in WebAssembly
I want to pay 10 dollars a month to always have a friend on call, even if I don't know the person. Just a subscription service to talk to random people and make friends. Excellent for immigrants, introverts, expats, etc.
It's "The War on Drugs Sold by Outsiders", commonly shortened to "The War on Drugs".

Any confusion is intentional.
The real problem here is Big Sur's root snapshot system. Everything else, as far as I'm concerned, is fundamentally trivial to deal with. I've kept SIP turned off since it was introduced, and in the brief time I was using Catalina, I had a launchd job that ran at load to set the rootfs to read write. The computer was mine, and I edited plenty of system files like this.

But Big Sur makes it all much harder, because changes to the root filesystem don't take effect until you reboot. That is really, persistently annoying!

During early betas, some Macrumors users reported that if you powered off a computer at the right point during the install process, you'd end up with a version of Big Sur that didn't use a root snapshot. If there was a more consistent way to enable that, it would help a lot.
>Donating to prop 8 doesn't qualify as impinging on others rights?

Are you arguing that our democratic process impinges on people's rights?

Are you arguing that anyone who disagrees with a particular position that you support should not have the same political agency that you do?

If so, then you are espousing support for a society that punishes non-conformity and freedom of thought and expression. I find that idea to be deeply authoritarian and illiberal.

I oppose denying basic human and civil rights to anyone.

And while that includes the right of folks to love who and how they wish, to have agency over their bodies and lives, it also includes the right of everyone to believe and speak as they choose, even if -- especially if -- I disagree with them.
I'm pretty sure they do have a choice.
I found outdoor seating at bars to be comfortable in the winter before the pandemic; the heaters work pretty well, and the fresh air is still much better than the crowded interior. I think it could work just fine, but might require an adjustment period.

The pandemic will probably be over in a year, though, so at least in the USA, I don't see a great future in the near-term for mid-40Fs outdoor dining.
This list seems to be missing Quibi’s abuse of creators and actors by skirting union rules.
Worked at BK.

#1 hated task was cleaning the broiler.

#2 cleaning the shake machine
Dart: Sound null safety (technical preview 2)
What real world problem does this solve that couldn't be as well solved before? Is the improvement significant?
I don't think they had to be filmed in both modes since several of their shows were simply movies that were bought and recut as mini shows.

I personally loved that. I could hold the phone comfortably without being worried that I'd miss a key part of the scene, since it was edited to handle both modes. Sure, more work, but it was a really cool feature.
Hard parts:

- It's Markdown, not Word

- Finding an editor that felt comfortable. (BTW, iA Writer is awesome for this.)

Easy parts:

- "You never have to care about formatting again!"

- "Two people can edit stuff at the same time and we can work out the differences later, instead of playing the 'who has the most recent version?' game."

- "Look, you just write text and a nice document with logos pops out the other side, and all of the documents look nearly identical without even trying!"

- "Git shows you the full history of every line of this file."

- "Hey, cryptographic signatures you can use to irrefutably prove the history of the document!"

- "This 'pull request' thing in GitHub shows you exactly the changes you made, like 'track changes' except they're all in one place!"
US marine: Australian soldiers made deliberate decision to break the rule of war
Once you do this you can also install openssh. Obviously there are many shell apps at this point on iOS but just another handy way to SSH to a personal host.
And a more complete list in the usual place: https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.9
Hey Matt! I'm referring to the ability to change the Caddy config from an API that is itself proxied through Caddy. Here's the issue which you very helpful in[0].

Ultimately I realized that most of what I needed from Caddy was really just certmagic, which has worked flawlessly since I got it set up. Plus I need the final product to compile into a single binary. Since my custom reverse proxy only took a few lines of code, I haven't worried too much about it. But there are a few features which I'll have to integrate eventually.

If I end up seeing myself headed down the path of making a full-fledged reverse proxy, I'll reconsider trying to implement my project as a Caddy plugin.

[0]: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/issues/3754
After Snowden, 20% decline in views on Wikipedia articles on terrorism (2016)
Food trucks operate year round. Restaurants could take a page from their book.
You May Have 'Nothing to Hide' but You Still Have Something to Fear
“The metropolis is losing some of its workplace function, but after the pandemic it will regain its networking and playground functions. That means that living in Manhattan, central London or Paris will remain attractive. In fact, these places just keep getting nicer as they push out cars.”

and yet

“low-wage industries like tourism, restaurants, bars, shopping and the arts (a big employer of the bohemian proletariat) won’t revive anytime soon”?

This seems to me a logical disconnect. Architecture and pollution can only get you so far in the playground and networking departments....
It's definitely a normal, routine part of working in customer service in the real world. I wish it wasn't, but it is.

People bully you all the time because there's not much you can do about it and they know it.

The 'ol "I'm gonna get you fired, get me your manager, you're worthless, I'm a lawyer, I make more in a day than you do in a year," will be very familiar to anyone who's worked in retail, medicine, customer support, etc.

Just watched a lady pull that at the cable office the other day.

The employee just has to deal with it. Not much choice in the matter. Be polite, smile, apologize profusely, desperately wish they would just go away. The second you lose control of yourself, now it's your job on the line.

There will be times in your life where you don't hold all the cards, and the wrong person will take advantage of that. It's important to know exactly how those situations play out, and how to navigate them with a cool head under pressure. Especially when you're early in your career and mistakes can burn you down the road in terms of recommendations and stuff.

Dealing with a bully in 9th-grade gym class was where I learned to push-back without escalating. And after I learned to do that, well, I wasn't bullied anymore. It came in handy later-on down the road when I had to deal with similar situations in a customer-facing environment. I had a whole skillset associated with keeping a cool head under pressure, and that wound up being an extremely valuable skill to my employer.

It's something you can't learn from a book or a website, you just have to navigate these situations under pressure over, and over again until you figure out how best to handle them within the constraints of your own personality. Most kids do that at school in a low-stakes environment.
> This is an embarrassingly poor design effort.

You are completely missing what this is about and the segment this is targeting. This is not a small car designed for the American market. This is not even a small car in the European sense. This clearly is targeting the segment filled by scooters and small motorcycles.

European urban driving has little in common with American urban driving. Cities are compact and very dense with little to no parking space and speed limit at 30km/h to 50km/h. You are never going to get close to highway speeds driving inside a city in Europe.
> People on this site - technical people with the ability to make a difference - seem to be getting to the point where they care.

Really? I feel like there's more support for locked-down hardware, proprietary software, devices where the owner doesn't get as much access or control as the manufacturer, etc., on HN now than there was in the past. I feel like a decade ago it was fairly common conventional wisdom among HN readers that you ought to have root on your devices, that jailbreaking or reverse engineering restricted devices is actively good, that the trends toward less owner control are alarming, etc.
If this is the meta nit-picking thread: "Show HN" should be in the title.
> That means all shows had to be filmed with multiple cameras

From what I understand, most shows handled it by simply cropping the landscape frame to make the portrait frame.
I use L Snitch from version one. After Catalina I plan to run offline mac for design, photography and video work connected to intranet/NAS. Everything that connects to outside network traffic will be properly run on linux boxes. This is the future. You will not own your data until you create a procedure to guard it as permitted by law. Apple is gone, you have now a different company working for shareholders only. Another step that I personally advocate to my friends is to use only software designed to run on multiple os hosts. I cannot risk some corporate decision motivated by pure greed to kill my workflow. Apple has a plan to close Mac Os completely, its their business to make more money by controlling the experience full circle. Thats why I overcome the lust factor and will not buy any Apple product anymore. If I need a camera - I will buy a camera, if I need a phone I will buy something that can be rooted and I have control over it. I expect in near future more commercial software to be made for linux and will pay good money for it without a moment of hesitation
relevant story from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24781588

they must be really desperate.
The 7/8 provision only applies to changes made by the legislature -- if Prop 22 were to pass, voters could repeal or amend it with a simple majority vote on a future ballot initiative.

By default, laws enacted via ballot initiative in California can't be changed by the legislature at all without voter approval -- California has some of the strongest protections in the country for these (see https://ballotpedia.org/Legislative_alteration)
Given Uber's existing and past practices, I think it's unreasonable to believe that drivers are safe telling Uber they don't support 22.
HashiCorp Boundary and Cmd
> I wish the article had actually elaborated on the question posed in the title

The answer is, as it has been for the last decade or so, "not yours even though you paid for it."

> assuming the implications are obvious

They are to me. Computers are great because we can control everything about them. Now we're not allowed to do so anymore, because the manufacturers said so. And, since a computer today is likely connected to the internet, control is more important than ever. Because if you're not in control, then who is?

> I have a hard time figuring out why I’m so uncomfortable with Apple’s decision here.

Maybe because they, like most other tech companies, go on and on about security and privacy while time and time again showing they do not actually give one single fuck whatsoever about it?

> choose between a computer secured against Apple or one where you are secured against others

Not quite sure I follow you. I'm pretty sure any Linux or *BSD box can be as firewalled as you like to as many parties as you like.
I'm developing an app around spaced repetition as well, for couples to learn each other's languages. I made the spaced repetition "multiplayer", so the native speaking partner can create appropriate flashcards or check in on the learner, or the learner can ask help from the partner.

As some have mentioned, and what I went through, is spaced repetition is as good as the content, and often I made cards for learning Chinese that were like...ancient-style speaking Chinese. And then for things like languages, spaced repetition can only be a foundation, but needs to be augmented by real world practice.

https://learncoupling.com
Can't speak for all companies, but higher tax rates generally means more money invested in tax avoidance. If for example, your tax rate was 95% of your income it would be rational for you to put a lot more effort into finding ways to avoid those taxes than if the taxes were 1%.

It's funny because I'm a tax consultant for a living, and that's simply not been my experience. Businesses want to avoid paying taxes when possible, but it's generally not worth their effort to play tax games. A business doesn't pay taxes unless it's making profits, and it would have to be making sufficient profits that the millions they'd spend on consultants and maintaining tax avoidance strategies every year exceeds the actual tax liability by a material amount. For most businesses, that's not worth it.

Tax rates don't drive business decisions. The only time they matter is when a business is choosing between multiple otherwise equal or similar options and tax issues are the primary differentiators.

There are no penalties or jail time associated with tax-avoidance - you probably mean tax evasion which is a crime.

There are penalties associated with numerous tax avoidance strategies if the tax authority disagrees with your position; it's not necessary for the position to rise to the level of tax evasion. But on that note, there have been a number of tax avoidance strategies that were legal for years but deemed to be tax evasion after the fact, resulting in hefty fines and criminal sentences for those involved.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has identified small business and sole proprietorship employees as the largest contributors to the tax gap between what Americans owe in federal taxes and what the federal government receives.

No citation was provided for that statement in wikipedia. Additionally, that statement conflicts with what the IRS has actually said about the tax collection gap being approximately $500 billion. https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/the-tax-gap. Based on Propublica reporting, at least $100 billion of that $500 billion is wealthy individuals like the Sackler family.

Even though corporate misdeeds grab a lot of press, corporate underreporting accounts for only $67 billion of the tax gap, or 14.8 percent.

True, but I wasn't saying that corporate tax evasion is higher than other types of tax evasion. I was comparing corporate tax evasion now to corporate tax evasion in other times. Measured against itself it's at historically high rates.
Paul Graham having a blind spot on labor abuses? Ya don't say. https://twitter.com/paulg/status/663456748494127104?lang=en
The California Labor Code says:

> No employer shall coerce or influence or attempt to coerce or influence his employees through or by means of threat of discharge or loss of employment to adopt or follow or refrain from adopting or following any particular course or line of political action or political activity.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...

Uber very publicly threatened to shut down in CA if they did not get their way with respect to AB5 and the suit alleges that they continue to threaten layoffs. If that isn't an attempt to coerce drivers to vote a certain way by threatening their jobs, I don't know what is.
Speaking about BK, the liquid they used to make the soft-serve was most certainly refrigerated.

Logically though, refrigeration based transport is not a concern for any fast food company. They use ingredients that absolutely must be transported cold, thus the cost of adding another menu item that must be shipped cold to that list is immaterial (even at scale).
My work device is a Chromebook unfortunately and the policy on installing some of this stuff on it (e.g. also Mouses without Borders) is no good.

Maybe part of the reason this problem is less common than I'd imagine is because companies are not typically as strict on what you install on your work machine? My last job certainly was.