skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it at least means not bulldozing the historical part and building a football stadium on the rubble.
Is this for Tax benefits? Where you could put in all your annual net profits for AWS credit?
If you can read Dutch, recommend this book: https://decorrespondent.nl/hetrechtvandesnelste

Very good introduction on how the few people (~15%) who really benefit from driving cars dictate far more than their share of public space, cause 99% of traffic deaths etc.
For companies operating on a cash basis with a standard Jan-Dec fiscal calendar (e.g. most small businesses), this would allow you to deduct future spending by prepurchasing AWS credits. It locks away whatever money you dedicate to it but that’d be peanuts compared to paying income tax on it in order to carry it forward as retained earnings.
The culture of policing in both places.
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Thanks for the reply. While you're here, I'll say that your resources for the CLI stuff made it possible to use those tools at all (for my current Clojure team) several years ago. depstar also is a great resource.

We had to scour the internet and engage in weeks of teeth grinding to get CLI/deps to do all the things our project needed.
Not to mention just general comfort, if it's 38c and you have a high fever, it's pretty hard to deal with as apposed to sitting in and air conditioned building in a nice bed.
And yet again I don't see why they'd need to do that. I can only guess you're alluding to some kind of slippery-slope argument.
I'm glad to read about the 20 year sentence for the other swatter. That needs to be widely publicized so people realize it just doesn't pay to jerk people around for fun.
>but I do believe it's better than rolling in with tanks on innocent people's homes!

I don't think you realize the irony of bringing tanks into the discussion. When you say tanks and gun control in the same sentence here's what most Americans think of.

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...

https://i.redd.it/o97mufqi8jo01.jpg

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...

(NSFL) https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...

And that's probably not something you want to bring up if you're in favor of gun control.
Conversations aren't the same as written articles. In a study or article you expect a proper and more precise use of language, hence the 4 million.
Just use the free tier? You’re notified when you’re approaching the free limit.

AWS, anecdotally, has removed 5k++ mistakes I’ve made with little question.

(One example they forgave due to my carelessness: ECS and Fargate service with logging to CloudWatch but with verbose logging on. The bill was 8k that month for just CloudWatch usage)
> Has anyone personally had to pay taxes to the US while living abroad?

Yes, I'm living in Iceland at the moment and paying income taxes in the US.

Iceland has a teleworker visa that lets you live here tax-free while working remotely for your current employer. That's a fantastic deal for most countries, but I'm not saving any money while we're here. (We're not doing it to save money, just doing it to social distance and enjoy the scenery.)
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> Firefighters? These people literally save our lives while putting themselves in danger.

It is the same in Belgium. In Brussels a few months ago there have been several incidents where gang of young people would purposely set something on fire (including a nursery: thankfully they did it at night when nobody was around) then they attack the firefighters once they arrive.

The targets were a nursery, random people's cars and firefighters.
Some interesting ideas, but it’s all conjecture and very little data. I’m sure Dr Kim knows this stuff inside out, but I felt like the content lacked support. Also, there are somewhat contradictory statements. Eg. The point about evolution being equivalent to millions of years of AI training is absurd - In a later sentence, the author states that computers were designed for computation (duh) and so it shouldn’t be a surprise that they are good at that one thing. The whole thing reads as being rushed and superficial.
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Was P=NP just an arbitrary McGuffin, or did the proof actually have plot ramifications?
I’m not talking about farmland. I’m talking about the basics like having a few trees that grow fruit.

Yes it’s not much, but it can be the difference between life and death when you’re talking about starvation.
Eh. Conda does this, and it creates its own problems for end users. It's not an ideal solution.
Nautilus, the file-browser of GNOME on Linux, provides a template system for this:

https://fedoramagazine.org/creating-using-nautilus-templates...

It is a good approach but lacks presentation to users. Most users require "touch new.ext" and therefore complain about the lack of this item. I've added one template "New file" with no extendsion and not content, exactly what I need to get started. It is better than a hidden registry just for applications but could be improved with well designed default behavior for "empty files".
Audacity's team is censoring legitimate questions
Again, you don't understand how testing for medicine efficacy works. Your comment history shows long exchanges where you end up in the same spot as where you started without gaining any insight so I am not going to continue this conversation, life is way too short as it is. An attempt was made to explain something to you, it is then up to you to extract value.

Have a good day, nevertheless.
International telecom agreements basically make caller id impossible to secure. It can be spoofed so easily that it can’t be relied upon.

It’s the same thing that makes it hard to block international criminal gangs that target the vulnerable.

If spoofed properly it’s impossible to tell that the call isn’t from a local number in Tennessee.
Toyota made a point of saying they're not running ads in Japan, but they're sure running them here. I was watching softball stream on NBCSN last night and there was two Toyota Olympics ads on the page running over and over again all night.
>4. Stockfish can't unilaterally terminate someone's license to the code.

Sure it can. It's the copyright holder.

>they almost seem to be hinging their entire case on this one point.

It has nothing to do with the network weights. Fat Fritz and Houdini are derivative works of Stockfish. Fat Fritz may be compliant with the GPL 3.0 (after being reported for violation) but Houdini certainly isn't.
I understand this works elsewhere, but unfortunately in America we have a long history with firearms. Growing up in a rural area it’s normal, times have changed, AR are seen as normal in places where it was a shotgun or a ruger in the past.

Point is most discussions related to strict control on these rifles to me is mostly pointless, the genie is out the bottle if talking about curbing assault rifles they have been flooding the streets for over a decade at this point.

Me personally I also believe these things make America America, problems and all. It may seem like a weird worldview to some, but some love the fact America has this wild edge to it, it’s not perfect but if you’re living right and being responsible it mostly works out fine. We have old people like everyone else. Making our country work like other counties isn’t as common as looking at what other states are doing in my experience. And states have their own micro cultures that are more or less permissive of this stuff, again that’s what many love about the US
money laundering or some tax fuddly-duddly would be my guess?
> Police is always paid, no volunteers there.

You would think so, but actually there is some sort of "Freiwilliger Polizeidienst" in several german states. Though only in Baden-Württemberg they are part of police proper:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freiwilliger_Polizeidienst
Not sure what your last sentence means - without evidence, there are cases when we guess right, and those when we guess wrong. Are you just choosing to ignore the latter?

The Mozilla case study is not a real world study. It simply looks at the types of bugs that existed and says "I promise these wouldn't have existed if we had used Rust". Would Rust have introduced new bugs? Would there be an additional cost to using Rust? We don't know and probably never will. What we care about is preventing real world damage. Does Rust prevent real world damage? We have no idea.
re 4)
That’s not quite true. The GPLv3 does foresee the possibility of a permanent termination of the license by copyright holders in case of a violation.

Section 8 of the GPLv3 [1]:
> if you cease all violation of this License, then your license from a particular copyright holder is reinstated (a) provisionally, unless and until the copyright holder explicitly and finally terminates your license, and (b) permanently, if the copyright holder fails to notify you of the violation by some reasonable means prior to 60 days after the cessation.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html
It's a lot easier for the "other guys" to justify not occupying a country that's equipped to put up a good insurrection.
If scientists can't tell good studies from bad and yet use the results of these studies, then in my mind those scientists are simply doing bad science and are adding to the problem, since their studies will also be bad.

The first example given in the article is of a researcher who published faked results. Other researches shouldn't be basing their research on these faked results. They can wait till the results are independently replicated, or replicate them themselves.

The main reason of using a scientific method is to eliminate bad theories and part of this is determining the truthfulness of other scientists.

In summary, using bad studies isn't fundamental unless you're fundementally doing bad science that can't discern good evidence from bad. The "surprise" you are attributing to my comments is essentially amazement at the idea that people trained to seek knowledge would be so careless that they take the results of studies as a base truth with which to continue their work.
>> 2. But the weights are already being released with the program they're selling. Otherwise, how would the program run?

In the same way that, e.g. Windows can run from binaries, without distributing the source code? That is to say, the weights are in a binary format that is not amenable to re-use without decompilation and reverse-engineering.
The phrase 'response to COVID' is pretty much a dog whistle for conspiracy theorists.

'4 million excess deaths in India: directly caused by COVID?'

Would leave it less politicised. TBH I'm fine with the headline anyway.
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Freiwilliger Polizeidienst (voluntary police service in German states)
Could you explain why it's a bad trend? I've had crap laptops in the past that have struggled to run the desktop apps I need, and something like this would have really helped me out.
I’ve seen this 50/50 split used based on ideology alone. Color me naïve, but shouldn’t the board have the same proportions as the population of people who want to work at GitLab? All this is running on assumptions, would be interesting to see some data.
True. Except ABBA is no more. I don't know whether that matters?
They're almost impressive in their commitment to Gestapo tactics: only 10 mins to close the issue and block me without any comment or justification.
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Being a pet parent demands responsibility. Looking after your pet on top of work, personal errands, and family time is quite difficult. Smart PetNanny changes the game. It allows pet owners to check on their pets and feed them whenever they're at work or out for a short vacation. PetNanny includes water and food stored inside the capsule, containing food for 7 days. Thanks to the capsule substance, the food is always fresh and crispy which is very important for your cat's health. The bowls slide out of the capsule and are designed for pets' easy usage. Perhaps your cat is on a strict diet and needs its portions controlled.
I imagine high air temperature would be beneficial for these with fever. You get hot for a reason. Artificially cooling yourself will not help.
> The enhanced rain is created using drone technology that unleashes electrical charges into clouds in order for them to clump together and form precipitation...Applying electrical shocks to clouds is preferred as it doesn’t require the use of chemicals.

Sounds pretty innocuous. I'm looking forward to reading comments about how this is dangerous and could cause unintended consequences. Only thing I can think of is perhaps that could reduce rainfall in neighboring areas which would have received the rain.
Definitely not the case with VOIP. I had a case where a roommate in college had to call 911 on our VOIP phone (bad cell service in the house) and we were connected to a dispatcher in a different state (where I had lived previously). I doubt if most people remember to update their location with the VOIP provider when they move.
GitLab team member here

These services have been restored. More information on the root cause can be found in the linked issue.
Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

From the guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It means that previously complicated ways of high tech surveillance become ubiquitous as they are accessible for moderate price to any entity. A proliferation issue. More of bad thing is worse than less of a bad thing.

But I seriously feel as you almost insist in uncharitable reading of my post.
The discussion on this topic here is just opinion and speculation, as are the votes. I think of the upvotes and downvotes in a discussion like this as nothing more than a poll of HN readers' opinions.
If many worlds is true, then there are actually countless parallel worlds, if pilot wave is true, then there is only one world. Those are metaphysical claims about the most fundamental aspects of the cosmos, I don't think it is fair to just file this under human meaning.
> However, even a catastrophic Kessler scenario at LEO would pose minimal risk for launches continuing past LEO, or satellites travelling at medium Earth orbit (MEO) or geosynchronous orbit (GEO) [0]

Blocking usability of LEO is not ideal, but blocking launches is really not the risk.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome#Implications
Also remittances from abroad.
> The tax relief goes to the charity itself, rather than the donor.

Half goes to the charity, and half to the donor.
>you would never ever ever come up with an ICE sedan

What's worse is that even sedans are losing popularity in favor of SUVs and full size trucks. In 2021 I find this staggering.

On electric cars: we've had politicians subtly suggest that EVs will be a magic solution to all our transportation problems, including traffic. EVs obviously won't fix city congestion.
I use ~/.config/envrc.d and ~/.config/zshrc.d for this. The former is only run "on startup" and the latter is run for every interactive shell.
There is no catch, think of us more of a google, apple app store equivalent to desktop apps where we intend to make money through the desktop apps publishers as we grow.

Why would publishers pay us? They dont have to worry about piracy and users environment as everything is sandboxed.

With us they can give on demand pay-as-you-go option to users as opposed to expensive annual licenses.
If that were the case, why have a quota? Removing barriers to meritocracy would do just as well.
I’m not saying it’s not the IRS’s position, it certainly is, but there is a pretty clear argument to be made that the IRS is wrong.

https://www.palisadeshudson.com/2013/09/if-gifts-are-not-inc...
Of course it's an extremely important question, if you can get data for it, awesome. Doesn't mean we shouldn't publish other numbers just because they are not useful to answer all questions - this is clearly labelled all-cause mortality estimated on extremely thin data. If you just take any random number you see and base your policy on that without context you'll always have problems.
> Charging speed is still not great, the new Skoda Enyaq iV can charge to 80% capacity in 34 minutes.

The Hyundai Ioniq 5 and the Kia EV6 can charge 10% to 80% in 18 minutes. They use the same platform:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCqcqy29ZCc

The charge curve is different from other EVs. It has two peaks. It peaks at around 225 kW initially and then has a second peak at around 175 kW.
The paragraph after seems to nullify that:

> Moreover, your license from a particular copyright holder is
reinstated permanently if the copyright holder notifies you of the
violation by some reasonable means, this is the first time you have
received notice of violation of this License (for any work) from that
copyright holder, and you cure the violation prior to 30 days after
your receipt of the notice.
> AFAIK volunteer firefighting is the rule everywhere in Europe.

I've got a friend who's an occasional firefighter in Belgium, in addition to his regular job. He's not an unpaid volunteer: I don't know how it works exactly regarding the pay but I know that once he'll reach the age where he'll stop working, he'll get two monthly pensions paid (the regular one + one because he was a firefighter).
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The half cent was eventually abolished in the mid-19th century of the US. I can see the penny fading away as well in the near future in the digital age.

Although, how will transactions paid with cash (ie, a bill of $15.97 paid with $20) be fully resolved? Would the business or the customer be shortchanged by a few pennies?

Even if a business does a thousand of these types of transactions (2-4 cent short changing on their end) they stand to lose $20-40 per month (or gain $20-40 per month if the business short changes the customer).
I think that's an uncharitable interpretation. I understood it as something like:

"Before Pegasus there were lots of regimes which would have liked to spy on their populace, but were prevented from doing so by their technical incompetence. It's fortunate that totalitarians are often not sophisticated enough to spy effectively, but that is mitigated by the availability of tools like this."
There's this, from today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27903787
How it worked was: you got mustered for the draft at 17 or 18, and depending on whether you finished school you got your draft notice between 18 and 20. At any point you could declare being a conscientious objector and apply for a spot at THW, firefighters or some care org. Spots at THW and firefighters were rare and sought after, and especially during the cold war you only got them through connections or with special reasons (important job you couldn't interrupt for en-bloc service). You also couldn't just apply to any village fire brigade because there was a mandatory number of exercises and trainings many of them couldn't provide. When you got accepted for a fire brigade or THW, you went to trainings and exercises. Every few months you had to report signed confirmations of those trainings and exercises. If you failed to report in time and sufficient number, because you didn't care, were unable, got thrown out, you could be drafted for military or civil en-bloc service after all.
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Not hiring Russians because they might be a government spy is like not hiring an Arab because he could be a terrorist.
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which means turning them into more expensive flats, which the majority of residents cannot hope to afford. It has been the case for plenty of others parts of the docks, hide new stuff in old buildings. but there comes a point when you dont need more flats/apartments
Go to a country with high cost of labour (eg. Switzerland) and you'll see that restaurants work just fine. However, they are a lot more efficient and hire less staff. Waiters carry their own card machines, menus are ready for customers as they walk in, service times are a little bit slower.
>You know what you could do to make NSO's life harder, other than develop more security? Fight them. Have your politicians attack Israel for allowing the group to operate. Use sanctions, take a proportional response, condemn their actions at the UN, stop protecting them. Block Israel from the Apple Store. It's a more direct route, and more likely to succeed than making your goal "perfect security". (Would there be huge political challenges? Of course; but those are more approachable than "perfect security")

but it's not just NSO, every reasonable country probably has people like them.
Article does mention however that "it was being used for packages of narcotics, particularly cocaine".

https://www.statista.com/chart/18527/cocaine-retail-steet-pr... shows 67 USD per gram, which means that if you've got 150kg of cocaine on board, the street value is just over ten million USD.

I don't know how much of that would be profit, but seems quite likely there's an excellent cost vs reward ratio - potentially even so high that these drones could be used almost disposably if they are intercepted less frequently than boats.
Would be great to have this HaveIBeenPwed type service for this list. I've heard this list of numbers is floating around somewhere... does anyone have a source?
The official religious doctrine of the San Francisco tax cattle zone must be ratified by the council of tyranny.
The U.S mint made 7.5 billion pennies last year. Each of those pennies cost more than a penny to produce. The people asking for pennies to keep being produced is the Zinc lobby. Over 20% of transactions are still cash and using pennies just adds extra inefficiencies to that process while wasting money just making the things.

I don't recall vending machines ever taking pennies in my lifetime to begin with either. They've been that useless and annoying to deal with for that long.
Who said we shouldn't publish that data? I agree with you that it should be published, and considered in context.

And discussion about the effects of lockdowns on the supply chain is part of that context.

The obvious inference many people will jump to is that the deaths are directly due to covid. It's important to remember there are other possible explanations.
Part of the reason why they lost the status was the high-rise glass buildings they built. What's in them? If you took that space and put it in buildings in the docks instead they'd be in a better position.
>Firefighters and Paramedics are also among the jobs with the highest trust/respect with the people in Germany. (Sadly, attacks on those groups from bystanders are steadily climbing...)

I live in an area where this happens somewhat frequently (Berlin-Neukölln). The attackers are almost exclusively men of Middle Eastern or North African origin. The newspapers and media omit this fact in a misguided attempt at not stereotyping thereby giving the impression that it's a general societal trend when the cause is migrants from Muslim countries and archaic understanding of honor - Banlieue culture now all across Western Europe and Sweden.