skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's nothing stopping you from buying it with financing, and then immediately paying it off before you incur too many interest charges. My parents do that with every car purchase. It makes the deal making process and all negotiations way smoother, while ensuring they don't incur any unwanted debt.
> It raises many valid points against Propublica's article which was more misleading than this piece or its title.

That's your assertion, not a fact. It's a bit circular to use your assertion to support the idea that this is a quality article.
Filter paper? I'm only somewhat joking here, since I imagine the particles are micron-sized.
Traditional forums (such as phpBB) where posting "bumps" a thread are better in some regards. "Bumping" a thread at least requires you make more effort than clicking a button, posts inside a thread are unranked, and they encourage more in-depth discussion since threads can be long-lived.

RSS is great once you find interesting content but it doesn't help much in finding new content.

Otherwise... if you browse ranked boards such as HN/Reddit/etc., for topics such as politics (anything without a demonstrable answer, really), its also worth looking at both the stream of new comments, as well as the worst-rated comments. Most often the worst-rated comments are often just dumb spam or someone who makes no logical sense, but if someone tries to make a point and still gets massively downvoted for it (as opposed to just ignored), he may be striking on something.
I'm sort of surprised we haven't seen this already. It's not even that hard or expensive to build.
Templates for low coders like me?
Working out indoors I've noticed a pretty drastic correlation in measured splits/watts and CO2 over 1k ppm. I tend to notice it at the 1k mark and it falls off exponentially form there when working out with large numbers of other people in enclosed spaces.
It’s being flagged right now because frankly it is deeply popular to hate rich people, especially in this political climate. Since this article raises an unpopular, opposite point of view, it has been flagged.
It's sort of ironic that page loads 213kB of JavaScript from 8(!) separate scripts to show a large 0.
And, even if they do show you "the source code," how can you be sure it's the code that's actually running on the device?
Good luck. The one time I needed my Ring to perform (battery life shambles aside) was when my uncle's car was on my drive overnight. Next day it caught the postman, but no sign of the car moving - get home, car gone (uncle picked it up thankfully). Weird, and not great.
A mortgage is not a personal loan.
Chipotle hikes prices to cover the cost of raising wages
If Playdate uses Sharp Memory Displays, that explains part of the price.

These screens are expensive but also very nice.
> Why would a seasteading nation be inherently more vulnerable than a preexisting tiny nation?

Like I said, you can sink a ship with one or two missiles, but you can't sink even a small island with any number.

> Couldn't the same bilateral relationships with large states be developed by the former that afford the same level of protection that's currently enjoyed by the latter? And if you think not, how is that not merely a failure of imagination?

Because the whole point of seasteading is to not follow those nations' rules. Why would they offer military protection to a seastead that's trying to undermine them? The need for such protection also reveals the fundamentally contradictory and parasitic and nature of seasteading.
This is standard in Europe. I wish more companies in the US would follow suite with humane vacations.
Finally! A Cybersecurity Safety Review Board
This is exactly what needs to happen, and not just because Google is steering people towards their own products preferentially. All the big technology companies are providing services that are fundamentally necessary to live and operate in our modern society. Their ability to act outside the laws that constrain public agencies or other regulated private organizations is simply not acceptable. I am specifically thinking of their role in information exchange - whether that is books sold on Amazon, results shown on Google search, social media accounts/posts on Facebook, or other examples.

These companies are simply too big and powerful to be allowed to continue operating as unregulated private companies. They are more than just another random company, given that they have billions of users and control the public square as it exists today. The fact that they have massive network effects with billions of users limits their exposure to competition - for example, it's not possible to make a viable competitor to YouTube given that Google has an existing platform with a large number of content creators, advertisers, and users. The same network means that Google's decisions (to ban content, demonetize content, lock user accounts, etc.) are as impactful as a government agency or any other utility making such a decision, because there isn't a good alternative. And in many ways, the tech companies are more powerful than governments because they have more users than most nations have citizens.

In comparison, a power utility can't just arbitrarily turn off your electricity because they disagree with your speech or political position. The water company can't withhold service without explanation. Virtually all laws that companies have to abide by constitute "regulation". There's nothing stopping us from tweaking how companies like Google are treated.
Because "The best defense is a good offense." [1]

There is a reason why no other country has a system like the Iron Dome, they simply don't need it. They prevent such a problem from arising in the first place by moving the battle into enemy territory and using a disproportionate response.

Example: 9/11 terrorist attacks which killed 3,000 people in the US, resulted in 800,000 people killed and 37 million people displaced in the Middle East and other parts of the world.[2] There are no more repeat Al-Qaeda attacks on US.

Now imagine that the US response to 9/11 attacks instead was building and deploying a better air defense system, and not moving the fight to the enemy (and their allies') territory.

With each additional private jet hitting a building in NYC, they would incrementally improve their air defense capabilities. At first they would ignore attacks hitting the neighborhoods like Harlem, and only really respond to attacks on Manhattan.

But even a response on Manhattan attacks would've been bombing some sand dunes in the desert, and politely asking terrorists and their families to vacate caves before bombing them from the air.

Eventually the system will become "good enough", so it will become possible to ignore all attacks altogether, and convince the public that they have to live with the small civilian casualties from time to time.

Al-Qaeda would become a specialist in the creation of third-generation kamikaze stealth aircraft, while OBL would constantly brag on Al Jazeera how he brought Big Satan to his knees.

Of-course this scenario seems more SciFi-y than Iron Dome's Star Wars-like fireworks.
And that's because unlike Israel, US is a normal, healthy, and strong country, with better thinking and decision making processes.

--

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

[2] https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human
Might be slightly tangential to all of this, but what is the distinction between activism and journalism?

Based on the various threads I've seen about this today, I think it would be fair to say there are more than one reasonable interpretations of what this leak tells us about our tax code. But the article has a clear, singular perspective. And while I don't think we should return to fairness doctrine, it does seem to me that activism and journalism ought to be two different things, with some space in-between.
Just use templeOS...
Thanks for the quote. My original point about 'trolling' should have said 'linkbait'.
I think Google can bribe just as well. The difference is politicians feel like Google and its business model are more actively disliked because the media is very focused on it, particularly the more left-leaning and right-leaning media. I think outside of hacker news and politics bubbles, people actually still have a positive view about Google's services though
$8,550 is a lot of money to most Americans
Show HN: A simple Python 3 library to read your Things app data
I have experienced this as well. Similarly:

- Learning controls in a new-to-me video game can be tough (e.g. Rocket League, Quake Live, games with lots of mechanics.) Playing daily can slowly improve the ability. However, taking a few days off can sometimes result in a dramatic improvement upon return.

- Entering a flow state of code is great for churning out a lot of lines of code quickly. However, sometimes I see that while I am objectively achieving my goal, the code feels messy and hard to follow. At this point, I aim to just get it working by the end of the day, then stop. In the morning, I usually have a much better sense of how to refactor the code.
I'm feeling increasingly chilly towards those of my neighbors who have cameras pointing right out into the street. It's understandable that people want to point a security camera at their front door, but I dislike the feeling of being systematically tracked walking up and down the street which I get every time I walk past a camera pointing straight at me.
Or Fortran, ironically.
> I get it, I'm just saying it's not like they're selling essential oils or healing crystals.

You might have more of an argument here if this drug was only going to cost as much as essential oils or healing crystals, ironically. Would you suggest somebody go into debt for treatment with this product? It's likely to be quite expensive.
> Sorta. Inheriting cash is no different than being gifted cash. And you would have to report that as income.

Right and I don't think gifts should be taxed either. It's already been taxed.
Found: it was (not anymore) Exact Audio Copy¹.

¹=https://www.exactaudiocopy.de/en/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/...
> Propublica's framing is still wrong.

Could you expand on that?
A Hilariously Tiny Mini Excavator
Deutsche Bank warns of global ‘time bomb’ coming due to rising inflation
Nobody mentioned this, but for me big benefit is that you can remove everything related to css from webpack, and no dependency on ruby/dart/whatever else. Oh, also autoprefixer out of the box.
The Gremlin Chaos Engineering Practitioner Certificate Program
I think it's fairly obvious that the content of the accusation is something like "you took our idea of making a web front end to a bunch of virtual machines in which one can interact with programming languages".

Problem is, using a web-based terminal to access a host is not original. They have no patent on it.

In general, such an accusation could be legally actionable. E.g. say you were employed by some restaurant and stole their secret recipe, and then used it to offer the same menu item in your own restaurant. Type of thing.

There is no secret sauce here, though.
I don't use google products much anymore, but the transition takes a long time, especially getting off of gmail.

I'm also not sure it would even be possible to transition if you don't have access to your google account anymore. You would just be literally completely shut out of many of your online accounts.

And for watching online videos there really isn't any viable alternative to youtube.
NASA Just Saw Something Come Out of a Black Hole for the First Time Ever
> go ask Texans and Californians about their recent power bills.

FWIW here in Santa Clara we have not-for-profit municipal power that costs less than half the surrounding area for residential service: https://www.siliconvalleypower.com/svp-and-community/about-s...
Can't they just be flogged less hard on an ongoing basis?
Introducing chrome.scripting
This factory won't be purchasing last gen stuff, more like 10 year old gen machines (I heard 25ish nm machines).
I stopped short of flagging it myself, but I disagree that it "raises many valid points". At best it seems to miss the forest for the trees, and at worst reads far worse intentions into the Propublica article than I can see. However, it does so in a way that takes a disproportionate amount of effort to refute, where it's not just a subjective judgment call. This is a pretty decent definition of toxicity. Silencing it is really the only effective way to deal with it.
Potentially. But there’s also an inheritance loophole that allows them to avoid that: https://www.thebalance.com/how-the-stepped-up-basis-loophole...

Even without that loophole there are probably a bunch of tricks their financial planners have to minimise taxes (e.g. using trusts/charities, various tax free allowances).

Or alternatively, because they essentially get to defer taxes for as long as they like (by refinancing the loan), it means they have the full tax free amount of cash available up front to buy more wealth generating assets.
are these the six zero days that were used to get those bit coins back?
My team does something similar to this. We write our Terraform configuration as Python literals with list comprehensions, conditional expressions, etc., then use a script to dump it to JSON which the Terraform command line can parse.

Here's an example: https://github.com/DataBiosphere/azul/blob/develop/terraform...
The last 3 paragraphs confirms what I think is the most interesting point:

> The Bosch plant, which received 200 million euros ($243 million) in state aid under a European Union investment scheme, will start making chips for power tools in July, with output of automotive chips to follow from September.

> "The state-of-the-art technology in Bosch's new semiconductor factory in Dresden shows what outstanding results can be achieved when industry and government join forces," said European Commission Vice-President Margrethe Vestager.

> Kroeger said Bosch supported a broader strategic push by Brussels to revive Europe’s semiconductor industry. A recently unveiled plan targets doubling the region’s share of global chip production to 20% by 2030.

I saw a Guardian headline the other day that said Biden's mission at the G7 meeting is to find allies for a new Cold War against China[1], but the USA isn't actually a reliable partner for the EU, what with Trump 2024 a scenario they can't even rule out yet (thanks to the obstructionist party still being very influential and working very hard to disenfranchise voters). So it makes sense for the EU to ramp up chip production.

Interestingly for Bosch or other tech companies, it's probably a no-lose scenario, the EU money will probably keep coming for them.

[1] I DDGed "Biden new cold war" but the results are headlines that say he's accelerating it...
Under the description of The Co-Op it says "Players pay a membership fee to access resources like food, lodging, clean water, etc."

Did anybody think this through more than once?
Borrow and lever up to pay taxes while shorting your main (too concentrated) holding with long put options. What could go wrong ?

The IRS would more likely end up allowing you to take depreciation against your securities like they do for real property (which is subject to property tax)
Oh, now that sounds nifty. When I went to the page I didn't understand what it was for. A squeak derivative in JavaScript could be fun.
It's not a service if I can't opt out of paying for it. My money is being redistributed, through the implicit threat of force, to all kinds of things, whether they are good ideas or not. There are no competitors and I can't choose what my taxes are spent on. Politicians do not provide services, they redistribute money.
I think there's a conflation that confuses this: We have CSS in SPA components vs CSS, and inline CSS in HTML. In the latter, you may prefer inline to prevent flipping between files, and creating reusable data structures that are used once. In the former, you may have the same, or additional reasons like programmatically changing styles.
Im skeptical of the way these researchers declared so much to be "out of bounds."

Where can I find the source code? I wanna see if I can... Idk, patch that.

Since this is derivative of gpl code in Linux Kernel, whats our chances of getting to inspect it ourselves?
Cluster Monte Carlo: Modeling Dense Star Clusters in the Milky Way and Beyond
that's not a trend, that's just crappy documentation.

that's always been really common.
absolutely. and if there is a skill gap then train them so they can.
No ones using last-gen for automotive.
I’m most productive on my 10-minute walk during the work day when I rubber ducky to myself about the problem I’m working on.

I haven’t kept exact track, but I’m definitely hitting over .500 with that specific technique.
I have a couple of HP printers here, and the HP OfficeJet Pro 8740 is a multifunction device that has been completely trouble free. Scans to a CIFS share, emails stuff, wakes up from sleep on a print request properly. Amazing.

The older HP CP1025NW laser printer in my study is a complete POS though, for some bizarre reason the driver software completely fails to find it on a regular basis and it seems to forget how to print semi regularly as well.
> I struggle with whether to call the behavior I see consciousness since I can't really come up with a good definition.

Don’t feel too bad about it, Dennett argues that consciousness doesn’t even exist and I’m not sure he’s wrong.
>I'm engineer, so here my solutions

>reduce need for heating and cooling to 0

>light rail system connected to every house

>massive wave electricity generator

Ummm, all of these except maybe #1 are far less viable than the proven alternatives. The issue isn't a technological one, it's an adoption, regulation, and funding problem.
Nope. For about the same cost as the Covid stimulus we could have converted the entire US electrical grid to renewables.
It's both. Of course we have to rely on C now because most stuff is C but this is not an ideal situation and C shouldn't be used for new software.
Yeah. New Drugs are 'new', have probably just gone through expensive R&D and Trial periods, so there is a need to recoup investment.

Of course, there's the problem of when companies make a 'new' drug that is very similar to an existing drug/generic that already exists. A great example of that in my head is how Cymbalta is not that much different than Effexor.
I used to be able to just find my printer in Linux with the dialog, and it magically worked. Same printer on a newer release of Fedora, took several days of tinkering to finally be able to print again wirelessly.

This IPP stuff is broken IMO. I found an lpadmin command somewhere online and was able to mangle it to get my printer to work.

IPP is probably easier for some people if it works. If it doesn't work, it's going to be impossible for most people to figure out for a few years.
ISS is old yes. However the Russians currently don't have the funding to get a better and cheaper station. That's just a political ploy. The actuality of what would happen is that any Russian station would get locked up in politics while the Russian space industry stagnates for a decade. Just look at how hard it was for them to get the Nauka module built? That will repeat for any plans for a new station, but in an even more significant way.
Its one of the three major sites I use. Yeah...
It may be defining of pure functional programming. But not for "functional programming". Some arguments for why (and indeed some discussion for why not, too !) :
https://wiki.c2.com/?FunctionalProgramming

Ed: and I suppose if a function call allocates a stack frame it's no longer a pure function? Or are all functions of type crash-or-value?
I read through the ProPublica article. What I got from it was:

1. They have a lot of unrealized gains.
2. They have losses.
3. They take out loans against those gains. I assume the play there is "I'll deal with it later (after 20 years of inflation-rate interest)."
4. They set up charities.
5. They lose money owning sports teams.

Did I miss anything?
Sure, but it’s pretty toothless and there are many ways to avoid it.
Nothing gives away a software engineer with no experience then when they look at physical infrastructure and declare "that's easy to do".

This is the profession where getting an SOE imaged machine in a new employees hands on their first day is considered a big achievement.
Not just expensive, exclusive. In the early years they hired mostly out of Yale, before expanding to include Princeton. Similar to MI5/MI6 hiring from Oxbridge.

https://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/16/books/yale-a-great-nurser...
> is this games?

yes
I discovered IPP by accident/chance because getting the HP driver or PDD file was not easy. And it has been working perfectly for years !

It was the only choice on the CUPS interface for which driver was optional/not needed.
I did not use avahi-discoverh though, I typed the printer IP.

The fact that I choose a semi-pro printer, to get laser and reliability, probably helped.
It also allows me to scan directly to a network drive so I never had to install a scanner driver.
Good on them - even if they may be totally hypocritical in doing that. Search should be a public utility. Perhaps even an international public utility.

Google's statement that "Google Search is designed to provide people with the most relevant and helpful results" is untrue. Google Search is designed to benefit Google (or rather Alphabet) Corporation. That involves providing relevant and helpful results - to some extent, but it also involves promoting results Google favors and demoting or filtering out results it disfavors. For example, political content which Google does or does not approve of, respectively:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-google-interferes-with-its-...

this includes explicit conscious censorship of specific news and commentary websites (such as the World Socialist Website, AlterNet, etc. and sites on the political right as well, IIANM).
> Can we agree on those assumptions?

Kind of

1 - Sure. But the idea that your news of choice gives you a representative, unbiased picture of that is laughable.

2 - I disagree. Casting ballots to potentially swap heads of governments - who are largely symbolic and functionally impotent - barely qualifies as participating at all. Power in modern democracies spread very thin, and most of it is not elected.

3 - Sure, I suppose.
Antibiotics/vaccines are for exactly the purpose of "ensuring livestock health and welfare".
So fwiw I take Solaris every two weeks to treat Myasthenia Gravis and it probably saved my life. It’s an auto immune disease that causes voluntary muscles to quickly tire, and you would be surprised what actually qualifies at voluntary, eg your diaphragm…. So yea, these drugs may be unaffordable and that needs to change , but they do save lives.
I clicked on the link hoping it was a new type of bubble gum.
The funny thing about this offense is it seems that was created by the offended so they could become victims of it. Nooses used to represent suicide or maybe western movie culture. The race thing seems to have been kind of resurrected by social media. Though I'm only an outside observer of American culture so perhaps the noose=suicide is because that's pretty much always been their only use in my country.

Does this picture suggest to you that he's planning to do some black people lynching in the holidays or something else?

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSimpsons/comments/218bbe/not_tod...
I imagine quite a bit of the dustup might be language issues and cultural issues around what is and isn't okay / how to differentiate between planned feature and existing feature.
Exerting control over an elected representative is worlds apart from wanting control over a private citizen.
This subject was written about as well by the esteemed Jon Ronson, in "So you've been publicly shamed". Reading it today may sound quaint, but it's also interesting to know that he also wrote about Alex Jones several years before 2016.
or you can read the source markdown here:

https://github.com/Pustelto/personal_web/blob/master/src/blo...