skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But there are books you don’t know you want and you won’t know you want them until they’re standing on a shelf in front of you.

This is why I love the libraries and old book shops. There's a lot of value in the serendipity of browsing, since you can discover related monographs that one's search queries somehow missed. Also it's great for inspiration: you see unconnected things which might spark new ideas or interests.

> It feels increasingly difficult to access forms of historical material which haven’t been diligently curated for your good, filtered into bland homogeneity to suit some corporation’s agenda.

It's good to escape that algorithmic curation of one's interests.
I do.

I guess it boils down to the fact that I don't find it significantly harder to use than Leiningen, there are great libraries and tools that work well with it (shadow-cljs can source its deps from deps.edn for example), and I wrap the entire thing in a task system anyway (lately, Babashka tasks).

I guess it helps that its the "official" way to do things, but that's not a primary concern for me.
Is Medicare fraud really a meaningful amount compared to how much it pays out? Europeans have had the same issue for decades, you can’t give things away without some grifting. But that’s part of the cost. Usually not a very large one either.
There are also things like Tornado.cash.
If only there was a shortcut to create a new file in Windows. New folder works, why not new file?

CTRL + N would be nice, as it would match the create new folder shortcut CTRL + SHIFT + N, but that is already in use by 'create new window'. WIN + N comes to mind, with a selection box highlighting the most commonly used New file (in my case, a txt file).
> The problem is that state-level actors don't just have a lot of money; they (and their decision makers) also put a much much lower value on their money than you do.

I think you have a false perception of the budgetary constraints mid-level state actors are dealing with. Most security agencies have set budgets and a large number of objectives to achieve, so they'll prioritize cost-effective solutions/cheap problems (whereby the cost is both financial and political but finances act as hard constraint). Germany actually didn't buy Pegasus largely because it was too expensive.

Without Pegasus, Morocco's security apparatus probably wouldn't have the resources otherwise to target such a wide variety of people, ranging from Macron to their own king.
Transparency and openness are things that in-house lawyers probably attack by default. They point all imagined risks re patents and bugs, liability, reputation, and security, and they specialize in CYA arguments.
Or vaccine researchers to more accurately engineer antibodies/drugs to bind to viruses or cancer cells.
Are there any left? The last one I knew of on the SF peninsula was on Castro St. in Mountain View, and they moved to Gilroy or something. I still had about $70 of credit with them.
Your comment came across very differently if that's what you were trying to say.
If caring about the political situation translated into action then the US would have no issues at all. Engineers are very much less likely to take part of protests anywhere because they're busy and think they're well off.
> Even Unix follows this pattern for process creation! To create a new process, you clone an existing one (fork) and then delete everything inside it (exec).

I love this observation.
> Xen is bloated and has a security hole history.

This is a useless security nihilism. Xen is much more secure than anything else in terms of hole history. And Qubes relies on hardware virtualization, not software. Most famous escape from it was discovered by the Qubes founder ("Blue Pill").

The size of Linux in dom0 does not matter, because it has no network, does not run any apps and is only used to manage VMs. There is just no way for an attacker to exploit a bug there.

>formal reasoning

I hope this is the future, but unfortunately it's not the present yet.
Well that, crime, money laundering, terrorist financing and evasion of international sanctions allowing hermit kingdoms to finance nuclear warheads. But half dozen of one, I guess.
(Simplifying:) Fees are set by law and derived from the value/damages they’re suing over (Streitwert). The winner can recover the costs up to that fee. However, attorneys can charge more, that difference is on the party that hired the attorney.
Well if I ran out of sick days I can use some vacation days and if that ran out I could get a doctors note and go off on medical leave. It is like unemployment in a sense and I would be eligible for I believe 55% my wage while off. If I just needed a few extra days and not really wanted to deal with the hassle of medical leave paperwork I am in good standing with my employer and would simply need to ask and could have some unpaid sick days for sure. So essentially the 15 days is just what you can take off and be paid my the company. Also not all companies offer these benefits I work in health care.
Do you have JavaScript turned on? No paywall here.
Tucker Carlson may have a baby face, but he's no baby. He's the very reason you throw out used bathwater: He's the scum that floats on top of it.
In Norway the system is similar to the Netherlands. I think you are missing the part where it is mind numbingly easy to go in and add your own deductions. Also, you aren't challenging the amount you owe, you are simply adjusting it.

Having filed taxes in America and Norway, the American system is designed to make you fail and to use paid for nonsense to do something that is incredibly easy.
Well, that's why I specified for "passenger" use.

Of course it makes sense for groceries to be transported in a truck.
Good Riddance, Tax. Americans Need Real Freedom.

https://apps.irs.gov/app/freeFile/browse-all-offers

If you can't figure out how to choose one of the above, I don't know what to tell you.
Assuming the worst includes assuming being used for swatting. Excessively violent response from US police is a big part of the problem. Also see Brionna Taylor. The police should always verify before going in guns blazing.
Windows goes way beyond 260, but for BC purposes historically you needed UNC paths (and UNC-aware APIs?).

Since W10 Anniversary Update, there is a setting to disable the MAX_PATH limitation in various APIs, but applications still have to opt into long path awareness via a manifest key.
(1) Regular police (as opposed to SWAT or SWAT-like equipped units) are dispatched for things that are not riots

(2) Police checks and verifies first, as opposed to kicking doors in shooting because a 13 year old made a call.

(3) Police is taught not to be trigger happy, even if there are reports - or actual sighting - of the suspect carrying a gun, knife, etc.

(4) Police doesn't get military surplus equipment fit for war, nor does it use it in civillian cases.

(5) Police doesn't equate a report of someone selling/doing drugs, with a chance to storm the place guns a blazing.

(6) Traffic police doesn't get to shoot you if they stopped your car and you had the audacity to walk out towards them. That's not even a thing.

(7) The police is taught to discern low-risk and high-risk situations, and not e.g. treat a guy with a knife 30 feet away, or a small black boy playing in a park as a threat.

(8) The police is taught to be an aid to the citizen, not to see everybody as a threat.

Some pointers:

https://www.amazon.com/SWAT-Madness-Militarization-American-...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/police-militarization-f...

https://www.pogo.org/analysis/2020/06/poisoning-our-police-h...

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/01/885942130/militarization-of-p...
Do you have children ? When there is no teacher ( or the teacher is online) the parent becomes the teacher. Learning from home - at least in Germany - is a mess.
IIRC this is from Vista
> The same procedure that is followed in civilized countries would be a good start.

Bad accidents happen in Europe, too. Mostly it's because of bad int and armed forces breaking in to innocent people's homes, with children having trauma for life. Sometimes they don't even apologize.

EDIT: Sometimes it's not even by mistake but on purpose. In 2014 after islamist extremists killed journalists over publications of images offending them, some young people expressed their approval for the killing, including a 10-year old girl. Armed police stormed her apartment in the morning while she was sleeping and detained her for 11 hours:

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/france-4-children-terrorized...
I love the text transcript
Thank god they swiftly banned scooters from the sidewalk in Austria. And enforced reasonable speed limits as well.

Right after Lyft, Lime and whatnot started to literally litter the sidewalks of Vienna with their (almost free) electric scooters (mind you, these sidewalks are almost always full of people), you were constantly almost run over by some Schmuck with headphones on and an arrogant look on their face, screaming "This is the future you peasants, now get out of my way..."
Last time I looked, few pmos devices used libhybris. They're mostly downstream kernels with no GPU acceleration, though they're getting progressively mainlined.

Mainlined phones generally try to leverage OSS drivers where possible.
SQLite also performs well when there is a large number of "files". A simulation I wrote used a large number of files (10k+). Eventually I had to transition away from using the file system as a key-value store because open, reads, writes, and directory listings were slow when you have that many files in a single directory and that many open file descriptors.
It's 2021 my friend
There are peer review rings and curation is a matter of who you know not what you wrote.
I've known about this site for years and never really dug into it much but I have to say it's still the best MUD-on-the-web interface I've ever seen.
Or, just go to a sketchy OTC desk, drop a burlap sack with a $ on it on their desk. They'll get you some USDT, then you USDT:USD at Coinbase, cash out and you're golden. Need a paper trail? Just sell your buddy an NFT of a cat or something.
I wouldn't know what I would be able to get tax relief for as an employee. What kind of deductibles?

Guess, I could claim that £6 per week for Covid work from home stuff. Wish you could claim the cost of repairing your bike, or public transport costs.
Worked in tech support. The finance director brought her laptop to me for troubleshooting. The issue was that her children were complaining that Age Of Empires was running slowly.
Thanks for the actionable advice.
Binary Trees are optimal except when they’re not
> So, the argument could be made, that removing attack surface from communication is analogous to hardening your code.

That's true, but this is one of the cases where obtaining the last 5-10% of clarify might require 90% of the total effort.

Now whether one actually already has plucked all the low-hanging fruit in their own communication and if it's already good -- that's a separate discussion.
Energy and time are conjugate variables, not energy and position. And as we would expect, energy is the fourier transform of phase. This is why E=hf. Frequency just measures the rate of phase change akin to how momentum measures the rate of position change. As far as current knowledge goes, phase is not an observable that we can measure. Phase shift is actually a gauge symmetry in electromagnetism.
Seriously, the number of people (maybe some aren't real people, who knows) that are applauding this, I am incredulous. Many of these people probably wouldn't pass up the opportunity to jump into every shit-on-america thread they stumble across to talk about how great privacy laws in Europe are.
Seek time on HDD is about 10ms for single IO, so it looks reasonable.

Good news: Windows 11 simplifies context menu explorer. It won't show customized menu item by default.
> Everyone knows where the real money laundering and terrorist financing happens.

> It is done by the likes of HSBC, Standard Chartered and other big banks.

> This is public knowledge, as we have seen with the Panama papers and most recently the FinCen files.

No. This is an observational bias. All we know is that they do that. But the fact that they do that, too, does not logically imply that resorting to them is the only way of money laundering and that BTC is not used for that a) at all b) at a much larger scale.
The video is amazing: https://imgur.com/X87bTej
I think the point was that using Turbo tax isn't an obligation. So criticizing something for not being free but charging for your own content seems hypocritical. You could use another tax service or file via mail. Seems to be a lot of choices here: https://apps.irs.gov/app/freeFile/browse-all-offers
what's the cost of melting the coins and extracting the copper though? It does not look very profitable
Gitlab Pages, Gitlab Registry and Docs.gitlab.com are down
Largest ever crypto donation to lifespan research (Sens Research Foundation))
There's a difference between "skepticism" and raving fucking loonery, and 99.99% of what's proliferating online nowadays is the latter. Shit like that also transforms democracies into dictatorships, at least as much as "blind trust" does.
> The US IRS already knows what how much tax an indiviual owes just like the Dutch government.

Citation very much needed; that’s not true for anyone running a business (even a side business), for anyone with shares of stock purchased before Jan 1, 2011 or mutual funds before Jan 1, 2012, and many other not uncommon situations.
You don't have capital tax? Here in The Netherlands we pay a tax over assets exceeding some value. If you have a million, whether it's sitting a bank, or it's stuffed in your mattress, you have to report it and pay (a small amount of) tax on it.

Afaik we also don't have taxable events, we just have income tax.
> I'm not totally clear how the machines could work without actually taking a measurement, though.

Here you're hitting on the heart of the Measurement Problem. In QM as it is understood today, unlike classical mechanics, there are two fundamentally different kinds of interactions between objects: quantum interactions and measurement. Quantum interactions are linear changes to the wave function, while measurements perform a non-linear update to the wave function (it becomes one for the measured value and 0 everywhere else).

Unfortunately, we do not have any theory so far that explains what is the difference between a quantum interaction and a measurement. The experiment I described works with 'machines' that interact quantically with the 'balls', but does not reproduce if the machines measure the state of the balls.

I will note that in the Many Worlds Interpretation, the measurement problem is somewhat different - it states that the state of the universe is always described by a wave function, but that parts of the wave which are sufficiently separated can no longer perceive each other somehow, usually called branching. Precisely when, why or how this happens are just as unknown, though decoherence seems to play a role
There are two things necessary for an application to use long paths:

* the system must have LongPathsEnabled set (though it might be the default nowadays, not sure)

* the application itself must have `{http://schemas.microsoft.com/SMI/2016/WindowsSettings}longPa...` set in its manifest
I've always found service in restaurants in the US makes me rather uncomfortable - I don't want people acting so servile.

I remember being particularly unhappy about being served breakfast in Houston while I was there for a conference and being referred to as "sir" - I almost asked the waitress to stop but I realised that would probably cause even more problems so I stayed quiet.

So I would reject the idea that the service in US restaurants is somehow fundamentally "better" than elsewhere - it's just different and some of us actually regard that style of service as a negative.
Thanks for the advice. I use 120% scaling on my windows machine but I find MacOS lacks fine tuned display scaling outside of the zoom option and 3-4 resolutions.

TBH I'm also a bit self conscious about using a massive zoom at work. I've already had some comments in the past which is why I just try to get through the day with the uncomfortable lenses. Some days are bad with headaches.

The main issue I find with glass/scaling/zoom vs lenses is that I am much much slower which just makes me feel depressed. My job in UI dev is quite demanding with long hours and overtime which is why I'm trying to move into something less visually demanding overall.
ipfs solve this well.
Does this apply to VOIP? A lot of POTS phones here in Norway are plugged into the network router not a physical landline.
The article suggests that if the government abolishes pennies then it would be legal to melt them down. Is there a good reason for believing that?

Germany had something a bit similar. The two Pfennig coins made before 1968 were pure bronze and worth more than two Pfennig as scrap metal in later years. But it would be illegal to melt them down. And they were abolished, of course, when Germany switched to the Euro at the end of 2001. If you found a hoard of them now, would it be legal to melt them down?

(Apparently there was an official exception to the law against destroying currency. Those coin-operated machines that squash a small coin and stamp a picture on it for tourists, apparently they were officially legal, rather than just allowed because "we're not going to bother enforcing the law in this case" as they would be in most countries, I guess.)
I can't agree more. It's ok if the file picker has address bar like standard one, just paste it. It's very frustrating to manually navigate custom file picker without address bar to specific location.
I use the terminal and the touch command all the time to create empty files before adding them to a project (for example touch include/MyClass.h src/MyClass.cpp )
"Good for Bitcoin" - Bitcoin people
If you cost your labour and other inputs at zero. Otherwise you're working for less than minimum wage.

Smelting on solar power? No.. then that KWh is going to cost. Or you're stealing energy.

Or you're paying seigneurage to somebody to do this for you.

Also: calutron silver! Can we measure radioactivity from the silver dollars used to purify U235?
In a lot of small business it are the land lords who get the best deal by a huge margin.
> You could be asked to sign a message provided to you by the government. That would be enough.

That would only link you to one particular address.

Modern wallets are typically "hierarchical deterministic" as described in BIP32[1]. They generate new keys/addresses from a seed value as needed. To properly register such a wallet, you would have to provide the root public key from which all addresses can be derived (but not private keys).

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0032
I contend that Americans need to rise up and require a government that makes federal legislative and tax "code" visible through a read-only fossil[1] repository. Maybe a state can lead the way.

For non-classified matters, the fact that we are paying customers and aren't privy to the who/what/where/when/why of these important decisions is just last-century.

[1] https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki
Thanks for sharing your experience. I hope you're able to improve your vision somewhat with lenses or glasses?

You're right that it can be done, but it's mentally challenging, especially when you become aware how much slower you are vs with 20/20 - I mean its frustrating. Something we have to adapt to as you said.
> It's not just that there are fewer guns elsewhere

I'm sorry but it seems to be the main factor though. When the probability of the suspect carrying a gun is very low, you are not that motivated to use yours.

> (many countries have heavy hunting population, and people will use shotguns, close themselves in their house if they're accused, etc).

That's completely different. You can't really hide your hunting weapon in your jacket. People don't walk around with their weapons in the town. The culture is completely different. Even in a country where many people do own weapons (Switzerland) it's very rare that someone would use them for crime.
Absolutely, state trust is obviously a cultural thing and probably depends a lot on your current and past relationships with the state. And yes I trust state were I live. When I compare to the US, one explanation is that in my country, the state pays for security, health and education for example, so it's a win-win relationship (I pay quite a lot of taxes now, but given my family history, I would probably be hard working in the fields for a very low income hadn't the state paid for my education, so I'm happy to pay). In this context it's easier to befriend the state, than when it would happily let you die if you cannot afford a hospital.

As I said in another comment, I think cash is also controlled by the state, so a totalitarian regime which would have issues with it could probably make it worthless anyway, don't you think? (You could smuggle cash from other countries, but cash from your own country wouldn't help too much). Also I'm pretty sure totalitarian dictators are some of the main benefictors (is that a word?) from the lack of traceability of cash.
An anonymous person saying "trust me. I am a professional in some tangentially related field and I did an analysis" won't carry much weight in a court (nor should it).
A fiancee who will sit with you sorting pennies? That's true love.
There are still a few around in Zurich. They're quite expensive, though, so I guess that's why they didn't really take off. I might consider buying one for say... twice the price of a good electric bicycle.
If they win, most of the lawyer fees will be paid by the losing party.
I usually enter the folder and click in the white area to the right of the 'folder breadcrumbs' bar. That transforms the 'folder breadcrumbs' into an (already selected) path. Ctrl+C and I have copied my file path.

I never knew there was a "copy file path" in the context menu until this topic.
I would argue that I am the only one commenting in good faith here. To me, the down-votes are evidence of the same.
Ask HN: Have any of you had a similar experience at a startup?
Here in Australia (as in other countries mentioned in this thread) filing taxes on the government-provided website is super easy. Wait a few weeks to a couple of months after the start of the financial year and most of the fields will be pre-filled from employers, banks, investment accounts, and IIRC private health (if any). Just need to fill in deductions and hit Submit.
I don't see any technical reason the US government couldn't build something similar.
I suspect very few American crypto enthusiasts are reporting their gains to the IRS. Who wants to pay taxes right? I guess someone else can pay for the roads and bridges we drive on.
Quick-n-dirty templating. The chances are the old document has all kinds of preferences set up - margins, default font, heading formats, for a word processor document. Line and stroke preferences for a graphics program, whatever. It's not as dumb as it seems.

The New File option on Windows is one thing I really miss on MacOS. I set up a macro or something that added it in for text files years ago, but it got blown away when I changed machines or upgraded a few years ago and I can't remember how I did it. I could google it, but eh. I'll just have a moan about it next time I need to do it instead. Bah, humbug!