skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used Windows Phone for a few years back in the day. I did find it a bit buggy (my phone would crash about once a week), but the UX was pretty good. Especially at the time, where screens were lower-resolution than they are now, the tiled interface worked really well.

I eventually moved to Android, and it took me a long time to get used to it - for a long time I kept thinking that just about everything had been more intuitive in Windows Phone.
> London based corporate shill to take the heat off the City of London being a tax haven.

Nice catch. It could be a Russian bot or just Russian activity.

Will ‘Global Britain’ clamp down on money laundering?: Regulatory easing after Brexit risks attracting more dirty money to London

https://archive.is/PR0oX
None of these are calls for wealth taxes. These are calls for income taxes.

This is called “pulling up the ladder.”
I'm excited for new features in Safari. Apple added support for web extensions last year and has slowly been adding new features to Safari. Hopefully we can get feature parity with Chrome and start getting a fraction of Chrome's extension library.
I personally like to use this site when this sort of thing comes up. It is not a perfect breakdown. But hits on what is going on on. https://www.usdebtclock.org/

Bottom line though is we are taking in about 3.5 and spending about 7. We are well past 'buy one less bomber'.
The headache this time will last for a whole week. I hope they dip an aspirin in the aquarium at least.
It's not even out of focus, it's motion blur.
“Just avoid the satellites” they said
The linked MathOverflow answer was written by Dr. Terence Tao, and it really is an excellent dissection of the many needs levied upon notation. I find the two "Suggestiveness" items to be most related to concision as practices in research papers.

This bit from the tail end should not be missed, in our context:

> ADDED LATER: One should also distinguish between the "one-time costs" of a notation (e.g., the difficulty of learning the notation and avoiding standard pitfalls with that notation, or the amount of mathematical argument needed to verify that the notation is well-defined and compatible with other existing notations), with the "recurring costs" that are incurred with each use of the notation. The desiderata listed above are primarily concerned with lowering the "recurring costs", but the "one-time costs" are also a significant consideration if one is only using the mathematics from the given field X on a casual basis rather than a full-time one. In particular, it can make sense to offer "simplified" notational systems to casual users of, say, linear algebra even if there are more "natural" notational systems (scoring more highly on the desiderata listed above) that become more desirable to switch to if one intends to use linear algebra heavily on a regular basis.
There is also the chance that these lab workers weren't actually ill with COVID-19, but the H1N1 flu. But there is still no way to tell which one.

So the evidence is still not there, and this is a poor exercise of journalism.
taxing people's assets is complicated as hell. How much is your house worth. And before you answer that question, have you been in a bubbly market? Quotes for houses in the place I've been have gone up by 10% in the last 4 months.

Now, suppose you have bought a house and suddenly all of your neighbors are rich. An appraiser comes to your place and suddenly you owe taxes and you basically get evicted from your home under a net-worth-taxation regime. 100% guarantee in your "ideal" situation, the rules will be abused to fuck over those with less clout.
The lesson is: never try and appease the woke mob, they want to be outraged. That's why they had to invent microagressions, so they could be outraged any time they want.
I think it's all state-of-the-art vs grassroots-tech-tree

Meaning - the state of the art stuff can't be explored by normal people, but over time the knowledge and tools trickle down and it becomes democratized.

Older cars were accessible to shadetree mechanics, who could work on most stuff. When they became electronic, it cut some people off... until things like canbus became known, and later tools became generally available to folks with a laptop.

Only twist nowadays is manufacturers are actively preventing some things through cryptographic signatures and the like. Hopefully, eventually, this will get tools to allow people to mess with things.
Claude Shannon was also an early pioneer in artificial intelligence, the minimax algorithm applied to game trees was one of his inventions. He built several machines to play games and demonstrate his ideas, some of which can be seen in the article photos.

I compiled a list of his game gadgets, most of which still exist in the care of the MIT museum.

https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/143233/claude-shannon-man...
But Germans love dictators!!! They will never introduce sanctions against any of them.
It will be far more now after the Trump tax bill as well.

You now have to be able to deduct over $24k to not take the standard deduction.
We might see some form of virtualization. With M1 in iPad, the hardware support is there and apparently the Hypervisor.framework we know from macOS is now present on iOS as well.

https://twitter.com/never_released/status/125053374055785267...
> I hate how it prefers to display everything as icons instead of details.

It's actually the opposite. The view for each folder is dependent on what's inside, and if Explorer is unable to decide, it defaults to Details view.
There's probably something to that.

I've accepted that my open source project, htmx, will likely never drive any significant income. It's too simple. Whenever someone starts talking about consulting, I tell them to read the docs and maybe jump on the discord, but that they'll probably figure it out.

In addition to the revenue angle, a lot of developers don't like admitting "that seems too complicated" because it can be interpreted as "I'm not smart enough". Arguing for simplicity often requires a lot of backbone (or disagreeableness, according to taste.)
Lines 1 & 3 had side effects, sad panda
The “integrated memory” comes from confusion on the “unified memory” architecture. Unified just means shared by the CPU and GPU cores, but it doesn’t have to be integrated. Alas, many journalists probably wouldn’t know or understand that.
While not exactly being what you're referring to (I believe you're solely referring to something akin to enterprise-esque application development), there are many jobs out there for those of us who build entire distros for public (and private) entities to consume. This ranges from automotive, to defense, to open source OSes like Ubuntu, SUSE, CentOS, etc.
I agree that I'm probably not worth the effort, but if this kind of domain wildcard strategy were to become more popular it is entirely feasible for a rudimentary machine learning algorithm to detect its use.

> unless you're keeping a lookup table you're losing a great benefit of the wildcard

That's true, I don't keep a lookup table per se, though I do have a deleted items folder that I could look back in. I'm not sure what I would do, though, if I knew what particular company sold my email address? Send them a nastygram they will just ignore? I just block the address and move on.
That's almost like making a website for people who dream about making big money managing an IT company, and calling it "hacker news".
Sounds like a step toward world government.
Using that link, I see the 128GB version for $768.99 a discount of $631(45%) from the $1399.99 original price.

The 256GB is $849.99 being a $650(43%) discount of the $1499.99 price.

I see no other discounts to get to the price you posted.
You assume everyone itemizes deductions. There is a thing called the "standard deduction" which renders your point moot for the people using it which I suspect has a lot of overlap with the people who would like the IRS to do the calculation.
You know, I think you’re correct.

Is there anything that offsets a flag? Does a single flag click create the flag label, or does it take several clicks?

It seems unfair that a single person could trigger an unremovable flag label.
I kind of wish HN would try to up its game in terms of moderation, because the signal to noise ratio here could be better.

It doesn't have to go to the extreme of AskHistorians, because there just aren't enough experts on all the various topics that get discussed here to mandate scholarly monographs in replies, but there's still a lot of room for improvement.
The Game Theory of Cleaning the Lint Trap
Agreed. This brings to mind a couple of other anecdotes:

* The Dutch translator who was hired to translate Amanda Gorman's work (AG is the youngest poet laureate in US history and while I'm not particularly informed on poetry, I liked her performance at the Biden inauguration). The deal was reneged because of significant complaints that the translator wasn't black and thus couldn't possibly understand Gorman (a black person) and thus couldn't possibly convey her sentiments. The translator noted that he was deemed fit to translate Shakespeare despite not being neither an Englishman nor alive during the 16th century, so the implication seems to be that race constitutes a greater distinction between humans than nationality and centuries of history.

* The San Francisco school board affair in which a gay white man was deemed unfit to serve as a volunteer because, despite being eminently qualified and having the support of the broader community, he was "redundant" in that there were already several white female volunteers. In this case, the explicit reasoning of the school board was that the candidate volunteer wouldn't be able to relate to students of color and thus wouldn't be fit to serve them. The implication seems to be that students would be better served by a volunteer their own race (irrespective of the experiences or qualifications of said volunteer) rather than someone who was qualified and perhaps had relatable experiences but of a different race.

> There is so much to being a person, but this is the first thing people see, so it becomes insanely overrepresented.

Perhaps, but skin tone differences have always existed, and this sort of emphasis on skin tone seems like a very recent phenomenon at least in the scope of my lifetime.
The usurious underlying financial system.
I created myusername@hotmail.com in 1999, then immediately lost the password. I couldn't recover my account or use the same name again, so I created myusername_@hotmail.com.

In the twenty-two years that have followed, the only website that has had a problem with my email address is Chapters Indigo, which explicitly rejects it as invalid.

For email validation, keeping it simple is best.
Wasn’t the 4 the first one with a “retina” screen? That was revolutionary at the time. Today, we take for granted high pixel density phones, but if you compared a 3GS to the new 4, it was mind blowing.
Somehow I talked myself into buying the 11" M1 iPad Pro, and now I'm beginning to wonder why in the world I did that. I really have no use case for that amount of power in an iPad.

I guess it means I'm at least pretty future proofed if Apple ever decides to give iPadOS the attention it deserves.

(And add me to the list of people who thinks they should just port macOS to the iPad already. I don't think they ever will, though.)
...surprise visit?

...unexpected company?
I felt your pain when I read that.

If it's of any help, I can promise you that creating a Terraform configuration to set this up will improve your life, happiness and general well being in the future.

Yes, Terraform has a learning curve, but it's also a black magic effery for the cloud.
I think a much more common problem than OOM is X itself. It ties programs tightly together, making it trivial for one badly behaving process to take down all processes with a GUI.
Complexity is a source of income everywhere, not just open source. It’s even worse in the Microsoft world. Just because you can’t see the complexity doesn’t mean it isn’t there.

The blog post is projecting a lot on the situation. It’s a blog. Take it for what it is.
I felt the need to come back and comment again, I've watched all of these and have started digging into Jacob's other work, his channel is fantastic. Well researched, well written videos about all sorts of stuff, but really giving the "Are Games Art?" topic the kind of study, or at least reflection, it deserves.
that's a poor comparison. The IRS are not cops, and the monied and lawyered do not commit petty crime at a high level whereas they do commit tax evasion at a much higher level.
>How long the democratic nations of Europe permit an autocratic regime in their bosom...

There have been autocratic regimes in the region throughout recorded history. It's the "democratic nations of Europe" bit which is novel. I guess gentle pressure will be applied and hopefully when Lukashenko and Putin die or otherwise go we'll get someone more reasonable.
https://www.charli.ai --> add hashtags and notes to bookmarks and visualize them in a Pinterest-like board. Has a web app and chrome extension.

https://www.teamsyncbookmarks.com --> create shared bookmark folders in your browser (chrome + firefox). Add your team to sync with their browser or can use it just for yourself when you need access to bookmarks across diff browsers.
Yes. Otherwise, an e-mail to Twitter's attorneys would have sufficed.
Given the sheer amount of money involved, I believe it is likely that there are players in the market who are far more capable than we give them credit for.
There is a saying in India "उल्टा चोर कोतवाल को डांटे", i.e. "a thief accusing the sentry".

There are very few(handful) media houses in India that stand against current Central Govt. politics in India.

If Govt. of India doesn't like Twitter policies, it's free to block it or create it's own propaganda machine.
Virtual buttons... no thanks.
> That said, I think everybody enjoys what they use most, so I don’t see Swift leaving the Apple ecosystem in the near future

FWIW I've used Python and C++ the most, and I deeply dislike them. :)
I'm on fastmail.
Use larger amounts and/or don’t use the ethereum network. The network fees are static and any slippage is told before hand.

All the liquidity and volume is in these AMM systems
It's good, but it's not really anything special. It feels like a mixture of the good parts of Scala, Kotlin, and Rust. Unfortunately lately it's getting pulled in a weird direction by SwiftUI (property wrappers and function builders are just unnecessary). It will be interesting to see how their actor implementation plays out. For the most part though it feels very restricted with its need for Obj-C interop and I suspect it will never make the leap out of the Apple ecosystem simply because it doesn't offer enough over the aforementioned languages to be worth the trouble.
Scaphoid fracture? Those are the worst
Cool, first time I've seen this project
Cryptocurrencies Keep Going to the Moon
I didn't downvote, but the comment did confuse me as it's an oddly specific complaint.

If indeed there are lots of very wealthy people who are calling for higher income taxes on high earners (and I personally didn't think that was something so common as to be a stereotype) then that's hardly the worst thing they're doing.

It comes across as someone who really doesn't like taxes, probably because they've listened to too much propaganda generated by very wealthy people who have a vested interest in taxes being seen as a universally bad thing.
Being Metafilter, they've recommended all the books I can think of already.

The first thing that came to mind was the Book of the New Sun (and the Long Sun and Short Sun books), since they were among the only books I read, then immediately started rereading, even knowing it would take me months to do it. While they were enjoyable on a surface level read, it was clear there was a lot I had missed. Huge understatement: 20 years later and I'm still rereading them every couple years (including right now).

This makes me wonder if there is an effective upper boundary on how many pages a perfect bound, paperback (presumably roughly mass market size) can have before it's not feasible to read it. And what happens to those books after the prisoner finishes them: do they get added to the library, or disposed of?
Why not just cut the corporate rate to 0 and raise the necessary funds through a VAT? No amount of fancy accounting tricks will eliminate companies' dependence on the US consumer market.
The problem already exists in states though. There is a disproportionate number of companies headquartered in Delaware[0]. That's not really fair when most of the actual business is done in other states but Delaware is currently leading the tax rate race to the bottom within the US 50 states.

[0]https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/76951/why-are-so-many-us...
Eh, I don't entirely agree.

I mentioned that Element is just an Electron view because it doesn't behave like a native Mac app. The correct thing to do is to offer a menu item which would bring the view back.

VLC is a good example of an app which works correctly in this way. There's only the one window, which shows either the playlist or the video. If you close it, VLC stays open, and there's a menu item which will bring it back.

Of course VLC can also open files, so Cmd-O is useful here, and Element doesn't happen to support more than one window... because it's a browser view dressed as a Mac app. If it were native, it would be a no-brainer to support multiple windows, each with a given user account.

So yes, there are some edge cases where an application offers exactly one window, and there's no reason to close that window instead of closing the app. But the Mac-native thing to do is to offer a menu item to bring that window back, instead of breaking consistency by having that program just disappear on you when you close the window.
Get yourself a router that support good AQM such as fq_codel or cake.

You will likely discover that 15MBps upstream was sufficient.
If you look at the full size image there's at the very least a large portion of palm print fairly visible. That's enough if you have a palm print, I assume.
Sure, but both of those will have other, potentially unwanted consequences. Besides, this isn't just "US hegemony," most of the EU wants this as well (except Ireland), as they want to tax the local profits of multinational tech.
So instead of actually fixing the problem - we should just hope that our government arbitrarily applies Tariffs to the right companies in the right amounts?

Certainly that won't ever be abused to screw over one company and benefit another for political purposes, right?

And, seemingly, a tax authority (the IRS) would be better equipped to calculate these amounts anyway.
Those are good approaches, and I wouldn't try to use manually set env vars for most things. I do tend to think they work very well for debug an dry run options though, because those are generally ephemeral, and things you might want to set ad-hoc in different environments easily without changing the config for everything in that environment, or passing around a special config which may not be updated when the real one is.

That said, I'm not married to it, if I saw something that seemed obviously better, I would switch. I also suspect that different languages may make one approach easier/better than others based on their capabilities, idioms, etc. In many scripting languages, accessing an environment variable is extremely easy. In some compiled or more strictly typed languages, the access and conversion to the expected type might be cumbersome enough to do on site that it's worse, and if you are standardizing in come parsing routine, that might tip the benefits in favor of some global context that is used instead.
In this case, it's good to emphasize (to everyone) that software engineers are all sorts of people.
Why frightening?
Show HN: Autopublish GitHub draft releases based on status checks
Publish and Perish: Coronavirus GoF research comes from playing the science game
I got a road bike for commuting (Giant Rapid) with bar ends 10 years ago and it felt really useful, you could get lower when grabbing them reducing air resistance (big deal in this flat windy country) and they've protected my hands a few times from accidents
> most citizens actually prefer for it to work the way it does currently, rather than not at all.

This is a terrible defense for forcing down the planes of people taking political asylum. The choice is not between disrespecting asylum or not having any justice system whatsoever, and it is ridiculous to suggest so.

> And I'd rather see Snowden face the music than defect to the Russian intelligence services

Ah yes, the classic strategy of defecting to Russian intelligence services by leaving Russia to go to Bolivia.
> From a UI perspective, it's 90% identical to windows.

That's convergent evolution. The UIs started off very different. MacOS's current set of UI abstractions was mostly enshrined in an era when its competitor was Windows 3.1.

> Why is it that when I click Finder, nothing actually opens?

I was going to give a few justifications for this, but I just tested it, and clicking on the Finder icon in the Dock does open a new Finder window for me. (In Big Sur. This definitely wasn't always the case; I'm not certain when it changed.)

But those justifications, for the long period where it didn't, are still kind of interesting/relevant:

1. the Desktop is a Finder window. IIRC, on some versions of macOS, using a switcher to focus the Finder would — if you don't have any open Finder windows — focus the desktop (insofar as keyboard navigation goes.)

2. You can do useful things with the Finder without any windows open. IIRC, Apple's HIG only recommends creating a new window in response to a click on the app's icon (and or having a Cmd-0 accelerator), if the app is useless without having a window open. But the Finder has a bunch of menu-items in the "Go" menu (with keyboard accelerators) to open windows showing specific locations, or to open dialogs for connecting to networks, etc. It'd be annoying if you wanted to open one of these, but focusing the Finder always opened a default window you had to get rid of first. I personally often focus the Finder and then press Cmd+K to mount an SMB share on my NAS, then immediately close the resulting window, because the point was to get it mounted for command-line use.
They can and they do if you don't file, and they'll charge you 5%/month for the convenience. The IRS can even file a return on your behalf, which they do to tax protestors. If you don't even have an SSN, they'll conveniently create one for you.
I think this can be mitagated with more abstract descriptions, like:

"Would have gotten all servers tagged foo (currently 1,341) and deleted them"
Most economists think corporate taxes are a bad idea: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/07/19/157047211/six-...

> Tuesday's show presented the common-sense, no-nonsense Planet Money economic plan — backed by economists of all stripes, but probably toxic to any candidate that might endorse it.

> Three: Eliminate the corporate income tax. Completely. If companies reinvest the money into their businesses, that's good. Don't tax companies in an effort to tax rich people.
It's literally two lines, yet it handles hexadecimal and octal too. :) Of course, if you set up some parser combinators with a nice library in C, it could be a one liner in C too.

I figure it's not the language, so much as the libraries and tooling around the language. Back in the day, one couldn't stick a term in the project definition, have the compiler automatically download and assemble a library, then invoke it with one line in the program code, all within 10 seconds. You'd have to start with "is this a digit?" and build up from there, like I did back in my CS courses with Pascal, once upon a time.
Do GMail et al actually prevent you from sending to and receiving from these zany addresses? Or merely prevent you from creating one @gmail.com?