skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Law operates under the assumption that an idea called color exists. Computer scientists, for their job, generally must assume it does not. Color is a sort of Metadata property of something (an object, data), and in this case, the color of the illegal number pertains to how it was derived (where it came from). If the number is 'tainted' in its origin by having been influenced somewhere in its past by the offending illegal number, then it too can be illegal. A good explanation for this is below:

https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23

tl;dr yes. An illegal number multiplied by two is illegal. Randomly generating that number is not. The illegality is not strictly a property of the number itself, but it's color.
Then everyone will become a corp
I hear you and yes, that is valuable. We have to optimize for the general case, though. It definitely isn't optimal to have threads like this one, and then another when the actual announcement is made, and then probably another thread when $thing is eventually released.
Not just off-topic, against the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That would be fraud. It's not likely that you would get away with this.
Many large companies that got tax breaks ended up firing thousands weeks later and buying more of their own stock.
All people that don't have a private registry mirror setup.

Especially in CI pipelines that like to rebuild images from scratch.
Software developers find lazy/partial file loading unnecessary but, it is not and it won't...
> The crazy thing is my mortgage is cheaper than the rent I used to pay,

That's the normal state of affairs. When you buy something to rent out, there's no profit unless the rent is higher than the time value of the money.

There's nothing inherently wrong with renting rather than owning. Fiscally it doesn't make sense to buy a home unless you plan on living in that location at least 3 years, and probably more. Heck, just selling the house will cost you 6%. Having the house sit empty between renters costs a fortune.
It is more efficient to let people keep money than it is to take it from them and give it back. Even if the laws that allow the former would (/might) be simpler.
It's good to see, Apple showing the way when it comes to accessibility. The whole SwiftUI framework provides out of the box support for VoiceOver and other accessibility features.
And then we're replicating that in our computer systems :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_immune_system
The college degree planner you've been looking for
That's microservices.
https://www.apple.com/uk/mac-pro/specs/

‘Memory Configure up to 1.5TB of DDR4 ECC memory in 12 user-accessible DIMM slots’

And it can even cost over £10k just like the good old days.
Docker Desktop is terrible spyware. I managed to crash it a few times recently and intercepted the reports before they were sent off; it collects a ton of sensitive information about your computer in the crash report it sends, including pcap logs(!).

I’ll never run code from them I didn’t build myself. That company is super shady now.
It was just one of the worst examples. A more obvious case would be the different lines of business. They have very little to do with each other and shouldn't share code or data. Another is business partners vs end users (regular people) - there's a lot if reasons, including legal ones, why they shouldn't share code or data.
Agreed about vim.

I'm no emacs guru, but I know this much: even if we suppose for the sake of argument that customizability is the best thing about emacs, it's an absolute pratfall to write

> Ox took the idea for the customization and extensibility of Emacs and made a configuration system where you can change the colours and appearance of the editor.
We're using Giraffe and it's great. The nice thing IMO is that is sits on top of ASP.NET core. So it's fast and if you need something like SignalR, ... it integrate flawlessly.
They are taxed because they are beneficiaries of society's investment in infrastructure and people. They benefit directly from a healthy, educated population, enforcement of construction codes, the operation of the legal system, roads and waterways, etc. Companies aren't entirely benign, either, so part of those taxes goes to environmental impact assessment and handling they don't pay for, such as pollution, health hazards, etc.

If you were to make the case the healthy, educated employees could be compensated through their wages, then that still leaves infrastructure, externalities and the legal system.

While you could privatise infrastructure, I think it would be a bad idea. It could lead to shady schemes where a corporation "taxes" its employees on the toll road leading up to the building. Considering historical examples like company stores, I'm not sure we could rule that scenario out. Also, where does infrastructure stop and what does it include? The last miles of telecoms, power, water and other utilities or more?

As to the legal system, it seems self-evident we don't want that privatised. Do you disagree?

On the topic of externalities: I suppose it's feasible to create new taxes specifically for what are now considered externalities, so corporations pay for them: pollution, carbon footprint, burnouts/boreouts, etc. Would you be in favour of those?
It's really matter because of this:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/14/zhenhua-data-f...
Yup. Chargeback and disputes _hurt_ a lot. Even small amount of disputes might be enough for the payment processor to raise the handling rates which might translate in thousands of dollars of loss monthly.

If you sent them an e-mail notifying that if they charge you once again you'll dispute the charge, they'll (my guess begrudgingly) comply.

Worked with Adobe few years back.
Partisan differences in physical distancing are linked to health outcomes
I agree we can't predict the future, so why hydrogen is the only synthetic fuel being discussed. There is a laundry list of contenders. Each with different properties, some exceeding hydrogen in terms of energy density, ease of storage, efficiency of production, and so on. Methanol, dimethyl ether, etc.

Manufacture of synthetic fuels pairs nicely with overproduction of cheap renewable energy sources, and some amount of it is necessary for a niche of applications that require energy density or other aspects of combustion.

So, exactly as you said, why should we pick winners wrt hydrogen vs any other synthetic fuel?
Thank you, this is an interesting example.

A Charitable Remainder Unitrust is a very specific thing. It does not make sense to create one unless you actually are charitably minded. If you look at it merely as a way to reduce taxes, you'd end up preferring to keep the money yourself (and pay taxes normally), because the amount you have available to spend is higher that way.

Also, it can't be inherited.
0.1st world problems
CERT/CC: Sensational bug names spark fear, hype; we'll give flaws our own labels
Time to release a few tigers and fix it.

When newspapers claim that "people is struggling with a new birds/pig/deer plague" it often has a direct translation as: "That's yummy, I want an excuse to shoot at it for free".

Those are just big pheasants, is not a health problem, and is a noisy creature, but otherwise harmless for man or pets. At 100 dollars the alive bird, losing some maize as exchange for a royal dinner is not a big fuss.

Maybe the time is ripe for a new exporting peacock business, from NZ to your table.
Guidelines for choosing React Libraries
> The problem with (too much) simplification is that it removes political steering capability.

This is not a problem, this is a benefit. If you separate tax collection from tax policy you are still able making economic and social policy via other tools.
so if you already had experience with Rust/etc, why did you decide to choose OCaml?

Also why not to choose F#/Mono (and now .NET core) for example?
It was an interesting business decision to begin with, trying to build a company around a simple spec and an LXC wrapper.
Google Chrome will use its own Root Store in the future
>with a vastly smaller number

Fun fact, there are a _LOT_ of prime numbers. There are about 10^22 prime numbers smaller than 10^24, so about every 100th number is prime. The ratio decreases the higher you go of course. The vastly smaller number is actually just a few bits smaller :)
Author here. Thanks for reading.

> * What build toolchains are suited to these arbitrary DAG arrangements?

In general any CI/CD tool that allows for easy composition of jobs/pipelines, where versioned artifacts are a first-class citizen and can be the outputs and the inputs of jobs. Preferably one where the graph is emergent, i.e. just a consequence of declaring which "jobs" (taken loosely) depend on which artifacts.

I've had good experiences with GoCD https://gocd.org and Concourse https://concourse-ci.org, the latter being a fresher, younger take on these concepts. I haven't surveyed the landscape recently so there may be other tools that work well.
> Ox aims to be an editor that takes features from some of the most popular editors out there, gaining the best of all worlds.

> Vim http://vim.org: Vim provides a plugin system for adding features to it as it is very minimal and only provides basic text editing functionality by default. [...] a “modal” text editor, having special modes for editing text. Ox is easier to use than Vim because it doesn’t have modes [...] however it takes the idea of being a keyboard-only editor and being able to act just like an IDE after some configuration.

Interesting, mentions vim first in list of taking features from popular editors, and explicitly doesn't take the one feature that everyone takes (when they take any)!
It's been a while, but Supermicro has/had plenty of options for workstation or server mainboards with ECC, special power requirements, etc.
If you're writing a while platform with a new ide concept, built in deployment and your own framework on top. (darklang) I think an ORM is the least of their problems.

They'll not going to pick F# because they're in competition with Azure.

They don't want ocaml because of marketability. It's technically the right choice and direction but the learning curve for developers is turning them off the platform as a whole.
Ask HN: Ethical hackers, do you ask for a bounty?
Recently I discovered a vulnerability that impacts several dozen of websites build by the same company. I reported it and they agreed on it.

They have a responsible disclosure wich says you get some kind of a bounty. But as you probably could guess they never mentioned it to me. I really do not mind the bounty itself but it is more of principal issue.

So do you or have you aver asked for a bug bounty?
That was a 1993 PC demo, not C64. I had to mess with my config.sys and autoexec.bat to get it to run, but watched it repeatedly.
Yeah! I think Rust is mature enough now that this isn't necessary from a novelty perspective. And it's not really an obscure language. "In Haskell" for eg is still warranted because it's obscure and uncommon, but I don't think this fits Rust.
High level:

Go where your customers already are and become a part of their community. Be a long-term person in a long term business. If they don't have a place, make it.

If you have that, you're on your way to Product-Channel Fit [1].

Low level:

I've also sent pointless emails and made useless phone calls and most people default to doing nothing when you contact them.

So:

If you think phone/email are where your people are, you need to follow up a lot. Steli Efti has lots of great content on this type of thing [2]. This is an unpopular view on HN because most people see this as spam, but this is what CRMs are built for.

[1]: https://brianbalfour.com/essays/product-channel-fit-for-grow...

[2]: https://blog.close.com/follow-up/
> I read about tax avoidance schemes like corporate inversions or sending all your patents to a company in some tax free haven and licensing your patents from your company for all your profits, and so on, and it makes me really mad. Companies making many billions of dollars paying no taxes.

This used to be a typical loophole but is being closed by the OECD, a lot of tax havens are now taxing royalties differently. 10 years ago after reading up on this, I've decided that it was only fair for me to read up and try the same methods. I didn't see why I should pay high taxes when the richest in my country didn't.

It's not overly difficult to do this completely legally (that's the difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion), it's not an issue of the laws being enforced, it's mostly that there are many countries in the world and some have an incentive to compete on tax law. So, you can do a lot while still being completely legal (it's easier though if you are willing to move and live in different countries and if you're not american but still possible otherwise).

In the last 5 years, the OECD has been fighting against this and forced a lot of tax havens to change their laws. From my read of the texts and has someone who has been impacted by this, it doesn't really make avoiding tax impossible just more expensive, meaning it's increasingly difficult and costly for a single person who is middle class like me to do it but still relatively easy for big corporations with an army of accountants to do it. I'm not sure that's really an improvement.
Canvas GPU finger print, network analysis, you get tracked one way or another. Surf web with lynx or lynx2 only!
> as far as linux on the desktop, that never quite happened... but again i'd wager there are almost certainly more handsets running android on linux than desktop pcs in operating existence.

Why does it matter than Android is Linux when all the benefits of using something like Linux aren't there?
That would be my guess as well.

Rust seems to be a good choice considering their initial reasoning behind choosing OCaml. It offers static typing with support for sum types and is reasonably fast, while certainly providing more in terms of libraries.
I always wanted a SGI, but the price was so privative for me as a student. I learnt that those workstations got outdated really quick and cheap pc market was gaining more and more power competing with SGI until it was eaten totally.
Why scientists fear the “toxic” Covid-19 debate
Your rust example isn't considered interior mutability, since it needs `&mut`. Since `&mut` references are exclusive, they're quite similar to immutable values in functional languages, despite the API appearing mutable.

In Rust the 'interor mutability' term is used for types like `Mutex`/`RefCell`, `Cell`, or atomics, which are mutable even through shared references. These come with the same problems as interor mutability in scala.
I have had a lot of success cold emailing them after signup with something that's clearly not automated. Most people are surprisingly responsive.
What Is Homotopy Type Theory Good For? (2012)
What's the hard aspect of doing personal registries? I found it easy enough, although only set up something very basic.
I recently read that grassland binds CO2 in the soil and is therefore better for wildfires.
Lizard skull fossil is new and 'perplexing' extinct species
Sure you can do transactions across services. Do you really want to deal with the problem of distributed consensus though? If software especially built to deal with it often gets it wrong (as I think Jepsen tests have frequently demonstrated), what are the chances your team is going to succeed and not build a distributed monolith instead?

I suppose in the end it depends on if you want to trade the hard problem of managing a monolith for possibly a much harder problem.

I find that for these discussions, the definition of a microservice is too nebulous. Personally I think that if you have "state" that crosses service boundaries (ie. a fault in either service causes the loss of that aggregate state) you have instead built a distributed monolith.
Ha, I actually tried to use VSCode, but went back to vim because it needed 'a few clicks' to set up everything.

I hate things not being configured explicitly in files that I can version control.
> "most other electricity storage mechanisms are stationary installations that can only time-shift, but not space-shift"

Time shifting is the difficult part of the problem. "Space shifting" is pretty easy to solve by extending and interconnecting the grid. HVDC cables can move energy instantaneously, in much greater volumes, and with much higher efficiency than with hydrogen.

Here is one ambitious project to do exactly that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia–ASEAN_Power_Link
> and it will still be able to run excel and outlook

You can run those in a browser, so they're poor examples. The only packages that are really lacking are, annoyingly enough, precisely those that required workstations in the past, such as CAD tools. Even Fusion runs very poorly in Wine for some reason.
Not sure what you mean but if you type in "ECC motherboard" into your favourite parts supplier website then you get plenty of results.
Only if you think all the security issues have been found in all the libs.

Lesser known libs can be riddled with vulns that nobody has found.
You're right, it looks like Zuck has 60% of the voting power of FB. [1] I wouldn't be surprised if FB's tax lawyers came up with a creative way to structure their international operations so that not all of their foreign subs are CFCs.

1: https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/5/30/18644755/facebook-stock...
A gentle intro of Differential Privacy, a hot topic for privacy preserving techniques
It's hard to not see fibre internet as a waste of money right now given 4G/5G costs coming down dramatically.

For me personally, 4G is extremely fast and cheap while being, importantly, low-latency.

Even gaming and other latency sensitive applications are possible on 4G/5G. Why not just roll out 5G networks?

Eventually, 5G will outperform fibre on a cost and speed basis (for a long time my FTTH home internet was slower than my 4G connection by a large margin). Of course, I mean practical terms rather than theoretical. Practically, fibre speeds are usually limited by 1Gbps-maximum middleboxes in community fibre cabinets that are not cheap to upgrade.
Micro craft with light sails propelled by lasers have been discussed quite a bit. My favourite instance of it is in Charlie Stross's novel Accelerando.
On each tree, the fossil fit equally well into two general spots. What's more, the lizard groupings in each spot varied from tree to tree. If Scarpetta had just stopped at one spot or one tree, he would have missed alternative explanations that appear just as plausible as the others.

... this study epitomizes why embracing uncertainty can lead to better, more accurate science.
Ask HN: How do I stop ending up on death march software projects?
I end up on projects that stall and slowly fail. The goal is clear, but no one knows how to get there. Stakeholders are more concerned with keeping a slowly deteriorating status quo. My role is described to me as "ripping things out," but no one wants to risk ripping anything out. How do I learn to identify these projects early? They are bad for my career and they're also very stressful.

I am "in charge of" a large installation of our products at a customer site. I have a team of five that gets whittled down to two. A big restack has been in planning for a long time when I join the team. I realize that we aren't ready to migrate. It's not clear how we can get any more ready. The installation is set up with many opaque plugins of unknown provenance. We don't know what they do or how many users rely on them. We are afraid to ask the customer about what features they use, because we can't give the impression that we don't know what we're doing. We don't know what we're doing. We go through the motions of planning the migration and repeatedly postpone it. Nothing is done by the time I leave the project.

I'm tasked with rewriting a big feature on top of a beta plugin framework. The feature is threaded chaotically throughout the application and comes in a dozen variations and code paths. No one seems to know what some code paths do. Several features no longer seem to be in active use. No one can say what's important to keep. The PM says the rewrite should keep all existing functionality and be invisible to end users. After months of dead ends, I obtain an internal transfer.

An employer wants me to fix some data pipelines. They have been missing SLAs by days and weeks. The pipelines are flaky because different parts are owned by different teams, and each has reserved the right to pull the ripcord, because the current setup shields them from the risk of shipping a broken result. The aggregate effect is that nothing ever gets released. I soon leave the company.
Nice Project, and always remember:

Have FUN!
Hah! Not seriously, no.

> REST is a solid, simple, and powerful transport method and let's maybe do without CORBA moving forward.

Chill. :-) The world agrees with you.
I think what can be inferred is that you are very set in your beliefs. I'll leave you at that.
Good luck stopping me is all I can say...
They also sell HDMI capture cards and HDMI splitters that can remove HDCP. As if those aren't encouraging infringement.
Yes, I can build my own. That's not comparable to the workstation heyday.
I believe an income tax should be the only tax, since it covers any and all economic transactions, and it's the only progressive tax.

- There's only a single loophole: People who use their business to pay for personal expenses. They are easy to catch, and the simplicity of the tax scheme allows collectors to focus on this one loophole.

- It's simple to collect: Ask all the banks for everyone's statement, and apply a percentage to their calendar year's income. You could even deduct tax when people deposit money.

- It's simple to forecast and calculate: Everyone knows how much tax they owe, and knows how much tax they will owe.

- It's progressive: The more people make the more they pay. Property tax, sales tax, gas tax, etc. all disproportionately affect people with less money.
If the tax law gets complicated enough, the incentives might not work because people don't know about them. I personally don't optimise my taxes to government incentives because figuring out what they are is too difficult.
You have my solidarity, but I do not see C having a resurgence.

Can share horror stories of expensive hires with MSc/PhD degrees, and years of experience having a fright of their lifetime when they see real world C.
Do you invest money in the project or you only give advice?

Do you ask for equity?
Nice flashy website. Should I just trust and install new OS on my computer? How I know it is safe?
No, you can't. Let's not weaken words in order to make a presumed point.

I do appreciate that these are factors which make DMCA more relevant than if these factors did not exist. But your last point is not even a current fact but a hypothetical future.

I always invite people not to be defeatist but proactive in materializing the future they want to see. Citing unfortunate potential futures is not the right way to solve our problems.
Um, how is this not an attempt to attract insider information? And trade on it?
I think the keyword here is "integration". The theory being, because the hardware and software are being done by the same company, it's easier to make them work together well.

This has been the case sometimes, Apple, Digital (VMS), and NEXT are good examples of this, but from what I've seen, in most cases the user experience was pretty poor anyway.
I think it's also a convenient way to get rid of piracy and garbage content.

You can't host MegaFileShare on AWS because it would cost too much and AWS doesn't have to bother about useless legal discussions since your value to them as a customer is really low for this use case.
> If only 1% of cpu time was spent on slow square root, and this sped it up by 100%, it would be barely worth it.

If you can do 10,000 things with 1% cpu time, and you are now able to do 5,000 more things, is it still not worth it?