skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know of examples from El Salvador, but couldn't find good info on their tax laws in Spanish. This report mentions that extortion rackets are so pervasive that larger companies hire full time negotiators to manage their bribes, and have it built into their business models. No matter how you codify it, or whether or not you really call them officially "tax deductible", they are in fact a real operating cost that an American business doesn't ever have to consider but a third world one does, and it drives up cost for the end consumer.

Extortion is mainly demanded from businesses, but local
residents may also have to pay “taxes” or renta to access
their homes. No business sector is spared, and goods
and professional services may be demanded instead of,
or in addition to money. Large businesses and transport
operators have dedicated employees to negotiate extortion fees, which are built into >their financial models.
Implicit risk starts as soon as someone is targeted to
pay, and it rises if they are unable to pay or the renta
charged increases. Those who refuse to pay are killed.

https://www.internal-displacement.org/sites/default/files/in...
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That's not a fix.

This is a field that cries out "decent regulation". Terrible IoT security? Please see massive fines, Senators on TV claiming national security at risk, never allow that brand to be sold "on our soil" again.

I know there is no obvious technical framework that can be applied as " best practise", that IoT is a horrible wild west and governments choosing winners will lead down sub optimal paths but it's hard to see a real alternative fix.
SMS is used for 2 factor authentication a lot if I read this correctly once implemented properly. A duplicate Sim card wont work as an attack surface
Fewer than 200 Americans die every year from rifle homicides. This includes mass shootings. More die from falling in the shower or getting punched.
I have had significantly better uptime with my production dashboard app running on an EC2 instance that has been up and running for 3 years straight, than every other team I am aware of that uses kubernetes. The more complexity you add, the worse things get.

Of course, you can't most of the time run production apps on a single machine, but my general approach has been to add the least amount of infra overhead - in our case it has been elastic beanstalk. It has been reliabile and zero touch for us for years now. I have heard of some people saying EB is good till it works and when it doesn't you're screwed - my backup plan for that case is to continue keeping that EC2 instance running, and generally make sure you can run your app without too much hassle in a fundamentally different stack at any given time.

In the end, by depending on RDS and EB we have never had to worry about infra or scaling in our team. This is in stark contrast to every other team I've seen or worked with, where upgrading your eks version, or certificates expiring or etcd getting unresponsive or environment variables leaking between multiple prod and stage or someone accidentally deploying to prod because they didn't specify the correct name space in their deploy script or a hundred other reasons made their k8s deployment a nightmare. You can argue that this is a sign of bad training or practice, but I'm working with the same engineers on this stack that's so much more foolproof so when can we start blaming the tool a bit as well?
They have taken a few 2A cases in more recent years. But true, it gets less attention.
I don't think it comes naturally to most people, at least not in the sense of effortless application. It takes deliberate effort, not only in laying out your memory palace, but especially in refining the loci imagery and becoming efficient at creating associations for new material.

I've dabbled in it just enough to develop an appreciation for it, but never became very skillful. You can compare the Method of Loci to poetry, which is an historically far more important and widely practiced mnemonic technique with more obvious neurological roots. Applying poetry for long works (not just your favorite song), either for memorization or especially composition, still requires significant practice, and is likewise a mostly forgotten [practical] art form displaced by ever more modern technologies.
Step 1: "I'll have an answer for your shortly."
Step 2: Apple calls FBI. FBI will take the call. Set up a sting operation.
Step 3: Call the LEO back, reconfirm the bribe "just to confirm, this is 100 ipads for XX CC permits?", this time with the blessing of the FBI.
Step 4: Arrest LEO, Apple claims PR success in rooting out local corruption.

Every other response, that argues the Apple employee had no power but to agree to this bribe, is wrong. So if China offers Apple free slave labor from Uighur camps and they accept, will people be explaining how they had no choice?

There is always a choice.
I think he is saying that for many people it's just too much money. And that if they would be denied care, then so be it.

This is where it gets uncomfortable, isn't it? That their lives are so miserable, that they would gladly trade away years and years of expected lifespan for higher quality of life.
Is there an open-source Heroku alternative? I've used Heroku in the past and the "just deploy application code" nature is great for most applications but you're locked in to one vendor. Cloud Foundry?
as a side note - it's great that the js is not minified :-)
Well seeing as a sizable majority of human history has gotten by without health insurance for...I don't know, 10k years plus, as I've said, I'll take my chances. As for paying out of pocket, there are plenty of local urgent care centers where their business model is basically only cash. They do things from popping cysts, removing hangnails, to stitches. Lots of stuff that if you went to a hospital, would cost triple or more simply because of insurance.

I'm saying low waged as in I make $14/hr or less. I mean it boggles my mind that you'd even say that because there frankly, is a large portion of the US who don't make Silicon Valley salaries.
I've been using Psilocybin to treat chronic migraine for about 5 years already. Discovered it by accident one day during my Uni days.

I have subsequently been following the literature on this effect. It annoys me that the opening line of this article reads "in a first of its kind"
Moreover, no one, I mean /no one/ in this world is 100% perfect. I respect RMS as I respect Nelson Mandela or Gandhi. Think of anyone else from the past.

RMS has done so much for the computing world. And I firmly believe that he isn't a pedophile. And he doesn't even support pedophilia. Just that he has uttered something, doesn't make him a criminal.
It takes me about 2 hours to setup docker container + Github pipeline. I don't see why this is difficult. I am not saying go all out and manage your kubernetes cluster. I am saying that packaging your application in a docker container and running it in a VM is pretty straight forward.
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I've had migraines for 10 years. I would guess about 1 per week/fortnight on average, lasting for 8ish hours. Never drank coffee until this year, when I started drinking it along with a high dose of aspirin (~1000mg) when I felt a migraine coming on. Almost a complete cure for me, much better than the medicine my doctor prescribed for me. So, for anyone else reading, like everything with migraines, your mileage may vary.
Youtube app has an incognito mode.
If this went to the proper channels it would IMMEDIATELY get flagged for conflict-of-interest.

All these big company "security chiefs" run in the same circle. It simply became known that the easiest way to get your CCW was bribery.

They already got folks at Facebook. Now Apple. They're going to get more.

And I love the quote that this is about the rivalry between "Rosen and Sheriff Smith." As we have repeatedly seen, even when the DA and Sheriff hate each other, the DA doesn't go after the police. If the DA is making a move, the Feds are already involved behind the scenes forcing the DA to move.

I suspect this fell out of some Federal security contract or a Federal security clearance background check for somebody.
It’s clear that this applies to uniformed cops performing duties in public places.

It is much less clear that it applies to a private conversation with a senior officer in a police station.
If you live in a place where you need to bribe a public official to exercise a constitutional right, you should probably move as well.
I love writing Haskell code, but the community desperately needs to agree on one method of install and project setup-- cabal, stack, nix, whatever-- and then make it WAY easier for new users to start projects.

I'm not at all saying simplify the language for the LCD, but I have to manage all three of those tools and more and their usability is horrible. The configs are all over the place, there's 2 or 3 per project repo, another several global configs, the command line tools have a thousand flags and switches, the compiler language extensions are insane (i have like 30 turned on by default, and those are just the safe ones), i could continue...

This project, at least, tries to help the new user get into it quickly, I appreciate that because it helps me get my friends to try Haskell for a nontrivial use right away, then they want to invest the time to learn the rest of the Haskell toolchain bullshit.
Higher prices per kWh after some limit is a regulatory tool to drive down energy use.

There's no regulatory reason to drive down data use. Given that, the 1st data allotment should include the cost of the last mile connection, and any subsequent data allotments should be significantly lower cost, closer to incremental transit costs (which aren't very much). Commercial internet connections are often billed at a monthly fee based on the interconnect type, and then a per Mbps fee for 95 percentile usage.

Most residential customers don't really want that though, they just want an unmetered connection that works, with a monthly price they can count on; and one where the more they pay per month, the faster it goes, and the more stuff they can do. A flat cap set across all of the tiers doesn't make sense. And how are consumers expected to control all of their devices to make sure they don't download hundreds of gigs of updates overnight?
Democratize Access to Hearthstone
It seems likely that different folks may have different needs or wishes or different circumstances and that "feeling safe" isn't the only reason one may want such a permit.

I have an amateur radio license for no particular reason. I haven't really used it in a decade but that doesn't stop me from renewing. I could imagine folks holding a CCW mostly just because they can.
Do you have any citations / resources that can be used to read more about your perspective here?
We probably would have kept working on nuclear powered rockets and have settled the solar system with the tech by now if chemical rockets hadn't been sufficient for ICBMs.
I don't have an iDevice so I can't check, but you have to enter a menu entitled 'Enable Dictation' in order to remove the speech-to-text button from the keyboard?
Pompeii excavation unearths well-preserved bodies of wealthy man and slave
I don't think that quite holds true. Big companies often have different pipelines when hiring for specific roles within special projects. When applying for a general software role, you typically get interviewed by random software enginespe, and so you end up with a fair amount of canned leetcode style questions. When applying for a specific role within a project, you typically get interviewed by engineers on that project; the interviews are usually more domain specific and less leedcodey.
How about personalised menu based on previous orders and fat recognition
> Convolution is mainly and primarily used as a convenient way to covert signals between time and frequency domain

Btw that isn't true. That operation is called a "transform" as in "Fourier transform" and "z-transform". The property of those transforms is that element-wise multiplication in one domain becomes convolution in the transformed domain. Element-wise multiplication in "time" domain is convolution in "frequency" domain and element-wise multiplication in "frequency" domain is convolution in "time" domain.
This really throws water on any claims that corporations are the entities we need to worry about. It's clearly over reliance on governments that is the problem. Restricting the 2nd amendment is bad enough but then extracting value from others to exercise the 2nd amendment is laughable. Anyone that holds California up as a model for the rest of the country really needs to start paying attention.
Patrick Quinn – Bucket Challenge co-creator dies aged 37
Airbnb exec resigned over data sharing with China
> Janko keyboard

That looks like an accordionist's nightmare.
Elon Musk Overtakes Bill Gates to Grab World’s Second-Richest Ranking
This is an awesome idea. Imagine if the YouTube platform itself let you swap out recommendation algorithm in your settings with alternatives like this one.
I don't think it would work to report an OOMkill. The process that would answer the healthcheck probe would be gone.
Gluing together libraries means I can build something bigger.

You could also say the same thing 30 years ago about people using the C standard library instead of implementing their or strncmp in assembly.
Being an Apple apologist is one thing but being an apologist for corrupt government officials is reprehensible. I side with the underdog in this case.
The office was closed back in March when pretty much everything was closed. AFAIK it's been open for months, but there's an enormous backlog because the backlog + reduced capacity (need to do everything by appointment for social distancing and keep appointment slots large enough to ensure physical queues don't form) + increased demand.

People are queuing for hours to get COVID tests, hospitals are reaching capacity, and people are rotting in prison because they can't get an appointment in front of a judge. In normal times I would be more sympathetic. There are greater injustices than waiting a few months for your LTCF, and more important forms of justice (habeas corpus) being delayed.
It's a sort of Yin/Yang mirror image. Lefties aren't perfected beings, eh?

One thing a lot of people seem to gloss over is that up until ~25 years ago SF was the weird city. It was like a refuge for all the freaks and weirdos (or if you were just gay and sick of taking shit for it) to come and hang out.

So all the "shiny happy people" with their nice jobs and no drug problems or social maladjustments come here and fuck it up for us.

It's like, you could go anywhere, why do you have to take my home and make it just like everywhere else?

(But as others on this thread have pointed out: THAT'S CALIFORNIA BABY! First the Spanish fucked the Indians, then the Americans fucked the Spanish, etc... The whole "Hey this is nice. Yoink! Mine now." thing is the theme of the thing.)
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I guess tractors went from low tech to high tech.

Here in Europe I think it started even before 15 years ago from my limited experience:

In the 80ies as far as I can remember everything was extremely basic: open cabins without even doors was common IIRC (I was <10 years old then).

There used to be one power outlet and one hydraulic outlet, often controlled manually.

In the nineties I think bigger machines became the norm, as did closed sound proofed cabins and 4wd. Also it seems to be the time when simple automation became available, like systems to (slightly) adjust plow depth based on the resistance in the ground.

A couple of years ago I spoke to the kid running the Fendt on a field nearby after he stopped next to my 3yo who was watching from his stroller from the curb. He says everything is automatic on the equipment he runs now. The fertilizer can be programmed ahead of time to increase or decrease output based on yesteryears (or this year's) soil measurements. It even largely runs itself in the fields, even at the edges and his task was more or less to babysit it. I wonder if he didn't also mention that it would do automatic geo radar measurements as it drove around the field.

At the same time we've seen a couple of different trends playing out:

- smaller farms give up. Last I heard 3000 farms closed down here here in Norway every single year, and the trend had been going on for two or three decades then. Larger farms will then rent the leftover areas.

- except for the largest farms everyone is dependent on a second income. On the west coast I hear often wife or husband will be working in the North Sea at oil rigs on a 2/3 - 2/4 rotation (two weeks on, 3 or 4 weeks off).

- farmers also find work in carpentry, road construction and maintenance etc. They are often popular because they are extremely hard working. Sometimes as employees other times as subcontractors (for example for snow removal it helps a lot if you already have a powerful tractor that will otherwise be unused during the winter).

- Around here I think there is a trend towards agricultural entrepreneurs who owns the newest combines etc and do the harvesting.
Ask HN: How do you go about designing / redesigning a framework API?
CONTEXT

I work in disease modelling with some epidemiologists where we're looking into diseases like COVID-19 and tuberculosis.

My boss has built a compartmental modelling framework which we use for all of our team's research and forecasts. It was originally implemented in R and has since been reimplemented in Python and then reworked significantly. Here it is if you're curious (the framework part is under "summer"): https://github.com/monash-emu/AuTuMN

We want to make it easier for other researchers to use our framework, which requires a much nicer API. As the person who has the best understanding of the internals, I want to make significant breaking changes to the API because it's clunky and unintuitive.

There are now quite a few models that depend on the framework and making any major API changes to the existing code would be like changing the tyres on a moving car. I've decided to create a new version of the framework from scratch so that we can migrate our existing models across at our lesiure.

So yeah, cool, time to cast aside the chains of past implementations and stride into the bright shining future of version 2.0 where we get it right this time /s.

QUESTION

Is there a methodology, process or set of principles that I can use to help me design the new API for the next version of my framework? How do you go about improving / redesigning a framework API? Are there any resources that you recommend? Do you have any advice or guidance?

I have a good understanding of the features I need and how to implement them internally, it's the API design that I'm unsure of.
Funnily enough, the Model 100 I bought at an electronics surplus store had two plastic rods with rubber feet included. You could push them into the screw wells on the back so that the Model 100 was angled like a desktop keyboard.
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It is an on/off toggle in a list of settings, so it reads like "Enable Dictation: false"
If you are already using Firebase, why not use Firebase Hosting or Firebase Functions?
Especially so for sci-fi. As Gibson put it, the short story is the quintessential form of sci-fi.
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I live in New Mexico where I could get a CCW permit essentially guaranteed if I spent $100 on a weekend course. I don't have one, because I don't really feel a need for one--but I could get one if I wanted, just like anyone else in the state. I find it abhorrent that in California, you can only get a permit if you're well-connected: see Dianne Feinstein being the only CCW-holder in San Francisco for years while simultaneously pushing for stronger gun control.
Can someone please record this somewhere before it’s taken down permanently: https://themorningcontext.com/internet/indias-whitehatjr-is-...
I guess I'd look at the crime rate of the area to assess the necessity of corporatist CCW permits.
The intersection of capitalism and freedom is certainly a rotten terrain though perhaps not in the way you'd hope me to think. Perhaps one can choose none of the above and be ethically absolved.
Yup. It's easy to pull out the trusty center punch and shatter the side glass when you're amped up on adrenaline trying to get to the patient, but as my Chief says: "First try the door handle." That usually works.
Looks like nobody here has read the Powell Memorandum.

They have stuck to that script ever since it csme out, and it has worked. People are easily persuaded by modern methods to vote against their own interests.

Almost half the voters chose "even more of that"!
USB cables are some of the worst designed crap I have ever seen in the history of computing. When you plug the cable in, it doesn't make a firm, snug fit, and jiggles around in place. If you press down on it it can even torque the connector right off the PCB.

I often have to design 3D printed housing to go around the USB plug housing to hold and lock the plug snugly in place, because the designers of both the USB ports and plugs are incompetent at designing something industrial grade that locks down firmly.

SCSI cables were fine, their ports were secured to the housing and they had nice screw locks so the cables wouldn't go anywhere. Any cantilever forces were absorbed by metal casing, not PCB. Super reliable.
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>gun reference, or izzit
Can you be more specific? The experience I had with house construction permitting in a big California city was completely above-the-table and reasonable.
Interesting that they won’t use Cloudflare due to competition in the analytics space. It makes me realize that there actually isn’t a legitimate competitor to Cloudflare and they are dominating right now.
You don't need to look at 1800 data, because it is irrelevant. If you want to show what CCP did, you have to show the data in range. [2] is the chart comparing India to China from 1950 - 2010, which is the period when CCP is in power. I wish economy, society and history is so easy and everyone can nail down to a single sentence on the root of any economy phenomena. I love how he describe being poor was because of arrogance, lol.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_GDP_of_China

[2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/GD...

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I don't think there's a realistic way for the tech wealth to be shared, I'm just explaining where the resentment comes from.

Most of the really cool folk in the city have already bounced (to the East Bay of further afield) so you're left with the desperate, the deeply committed, etc.
working with image processing makes convolution easily intuitive. you can get a "feel" of what the math is doing by looking what's happening with the images. while blurring is a common example (convolve a Gaussian function with the image), edge detection and other image operations are just a matter of changing the convolved signal (or kernel). in a simplified model, blurry photos due to poor lenses also share the same principle (the lens cannot form a perfect point, that imperfect point is effectively what is convolved). the same can be said for audio and other 1d data, but images are more visual.
You'd only have to pay for cellular data service for devices that don't connect to WiFi. So the only real cost is whatever the modem costs.

I think what'll really happen is they'll become always online devices where if you're offline for more than X days they quit working and claim they need an update - please connect to the internet.