skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I support vice taxes, at least insofar as their good intention is concerned - making it hard(er) to engage in the vice, while not prohibiting it.

However, consumption based taxes (direct or indirect) also disproportionately proscribe lower income people from engaging in such activities. Tax a carton of cigarettes? Worthless if I can just hit the Rez or hop to another town that doesn’t tax. Screwed if you don’t have that kind of mobility. There’s a disturbingly classist nature to them, which gets all the more concerning when it involves fundamental rights - if only the rich can afford to own a gun, get an abortion, speak freely, for example.

Additionally, vice taxes at some high point are effectively prohibition. Make alcohol too expensive (directly/indirectly) and bootlegging becomes more popular, with its attendant health risks, crime, etc. Make cocaine too expensive and meth gets more popular. Sell untaxed cigarettes and witness how laws are only enforced with an implicit threat of violence that may become explicit (ask Eric Garner).

Tough job, controlling societies.
I doubt this is an East-West thing at all. In Europe many famous buildings were destroyed in e.g. WW2 and have subsequently been rebuilt, same situation. The "West" here seems to equal the US, which mostly don't have such historical buildings in the first place.
I'm not trying to argue that being a celebrity is a Ponzi scheme. The virtual ladder being incentivized on current social media platforms is. It's a game, being a celebrity is the end result but mostly people are just in it to make money.

I definitely don't connect to any celebrity other than those I admire for their intelligence and/or skill. So I'm not normal.
Eh it was more about the affront than security. I know there are eyes in the sky just about everywhere :) . Especially with things like cops tapping into porch cameras.
> BTCs blockchain is rather power inefficient.

Pfff, a single transaction is only 1700kw/h (or 820kg of carbon dioxide) with as little as 90g of electrical waste left behind on average. From an economical standpoint that could be much more ... if you are to sell energy or equipment of course. /s
Now imagine that all of our computers would run an OS like the one underlying the BlackBerry (QnX), the responsiveness was to a very large degree a direct effect of having a soft real time OS as the basis to build the rest of the applications on.
I think you're underestimating the size of the demographic who care about FOSS, or who believe FOSS to be more trustworthy. It's not big globally, but I think it has a lot of overlap with people who use Firefox and people who care about online privacy.

There's no way that the intersection of people who care about online privacy, don't mind that Firefox is less web-compatible than a Chromium-fork, but also don't care at all about FOSS is big enough to sell a product that everyone else is providing for free, especially since you're not just saying goodbye to the Googlebux, you're also saying goodbye to part of your workforce (the volunteers,) free advertising (FOSS advocates and default installs on desktop Linux,) web devs (no one would pay to test pages on a niche proprietary engine,) extensions (most high-profile extension devs are FOSS advocates,) and most of the community. It wouldn't work.
Slick UI. Here is something I have been building for UI development https://imvetri.github.io/ui-editor/
I recently tried to boot again muLinux, I still think it's kinda impressive! http://micheleandreoli.org/public/Software/mulinux/
I'm not the GP but if HTML supported client side includes then that would be enough for most of my sites.
"Remember" what? Nobody ever thought that. That is just the kind of thing bitcoiners keeps saying that has no basis in actual history.
How does one reconcile moving fast like this with having fun coding? For me, I don't really want to use PHP, jQuery, etc, I want to use TypeScript and React simply because they're more fun to use, if a little slower.
How does your theory explain Rust or Python?
We routinely send over 100MiB videos as instant messaging attachments now.
C++ template programming isn't very popular either so that wasn't a very good counter example.
> If I ask an FP guy to turn me on three LEDs after each other, first they question whether that's a good idea in the first place

a proper FP engineer would model the problem of turning on LEDs one ofter another as a set of states. A simple way would be a bit set of the LEDs, in an array where each element is the LED's on/off state, like ['000', '100', '110', '111'].

Then, the problem decomposes into two, simpler problems: 1) how to create the above representation, and 2) how to turn the above representation into a set of instructions to pipe into hardware (e.g., send signals down a serial cable).

The latter problem is imperative by nature, but the former - that of the representation of states, is very pure by design! So the FP model provides a solution that solves a bigger, more general problem of turning LEDs into patterns, and this solution is just one instance of a pattern.

So if your boss asks you in the future to switch the bit patterns to be odd/even (like flashing christmas lights), you can do it in 1 second, where as the imperative version will struggle to encode that in a for-loop.
People aren't objecting to the fact that the rules misclassify people sometimes. They're objecting to the two-tier system that lets celebrities avoid bans but doesn't let regular users do so.
Why do you assume the browser would have become as popular as it did if Netscape had gone with Scheme? Or Unix with C?

It seems more likely there is a feedback between the popularity of a platform and it's anointed language.
> If Tony the Kellogg’s tiger had an instagram account,...

There is a twitter one, and it is quite... lets just say nsfw.
This shows how little cryptocurrency users know about how governments collect taxes. The government doesn't go around checking people's bank accounts in order to get tax information. This would be terribly inefficient. What they do instead is pass laws that require employers to disclose how much they pay their employees and to collect taxes on their behalf, before the taxpayer even receives the money. Therefore private transactions and 'unconfiscatable' money does nothing to prevent governments from collecting taxes, at least as far as ordinary people are concerned.
Will never fly because corporations will not adopt something that helps them pay more taxes.
I had to click the link to find out it's not FreeSCO (i.e. Not a free version of SCO Unix), which would have been quite... surprising.

Buried deep into SCO's FTP server there still is a bootable single-floppy demo of SCO OpenServer intended for POS devices or so, but it's lacking any kind of GUI and most command line utilities...
do you have some examples of books considered classics that "collapses in on itself..."?
wow, it almost but not quite fits into a qrcode. makes me think of distributing mini games through qr and js
> I like money staying local

If Ford sells cars for $5k, and Bob's Ford sells cars for $6k, then when you buy a car from Bob, he has $1k left over. That's $1k of money that "stays local".

Alternatively, if you buy it from Ford for $5k, you have $1k left over. That's $1k of money that "stays local".

What's the difference? Why would you rather fund Bob than keep the extra yourself?
Correct. This cannot be prevented.

Also for API keys you can just search for keys from basically any weather API and you will find credentials on GitHub. People also sign up 10x for free API services to circumvent typical request limits per day.

At some point I may have to block certain IP addresses or HTTP Origin referrers because of abuse.
Paper money is much, much more difficult to use for crime than cryptocurrencies.
So, you recognize imperative is a subset of functional? :-P

do-blocks have perfectly functional semantics, so if you consider that to be imperative as well, this means that a sequence of instructions changing state is both imperative and functional, as long as you declare where the state is being handled in your code.

And yes, of course functional code can handle state. The good thing about this 'Haskell imperative' style is that it doesn't fall prey of side effects, the bane of imperative programs (uncontrolled side effects are NOT a good thing). In Haskell, you control why and where you allow them.
codexon did a pretty good job but it's little more: the three main consumer email providers/hosters (google, microsoft, and yahoo/aol) don't have a great way to fight spam so use IP reputation, what this means is that if the IP address that you use to host your email server doesn't have a good reputation they will silently drop emails you send to their users and neither the recipients nor the senders (you) will ever know.

Only real way around this is to instead host your email server with them, aka Office365 or gWorkspace. This basically breaks the federated aspect of email and turns it into a siloed SaaS offering from two of the big cloud providers. AWS can also be used to send newsletters but doesn't really do consumer email hosting (they don't have a good client), and you're still tied to a SaaS cloud provider.
> If Netscape had decided to use a Scheme-like language or a BASIC-like language it would still be the most popular language in the world.

If whatever Netscape added as their scripting language had been too weird I think there is a good chance that a competing browser would’ve implemented a less weird language and that such a less weird language would have won over the hypothetical too weird language.

For me, Objective-C is too weird so I never bothered with it but I love Swift and only after Swift came out did I start making apps for iOS. And that’s even though I had been wanting to make mobile apps for iOS for a long time.
I think this is a case of UK=Europe, even though UK's claim of not being "European"
For Python, the platform is education.
Right. It means something very different to me, didn't know it had that other meaning for some people.
China and Russia step up efforts to control the Internet’s backbone
It reminds me of Omniscent [0], a 4k intro from 1997, that used similar techniques.

[0] https://youtu.be/G1Q9LtnnE4w
Some providers do it only for long-term forecasts, but not daily or hourly. Dark Sky might have been one of those.
Unless you buy within seconds of your transaction, or sell within seconds of your reception, how would anyone know who you transacted with beyond it may have been with a customer in one of the other thousands of transactions on KYC exchanges that day?
I’m not sure that this is a problem that can be solved solely through software and automation. It’s a business problem. Automation is a means to solve this problem - and the one Facebook uses to save money and operate at scale - but when it comes to making content judgments, people are often better than machines at doing it. “Report” buttons can be an input into the mechanism, but they need not be authoritative.

The problem for Facebook is that adding people is going to be expensive and hurt their bottom line. So they are likely incented to treat these disparities as collateral damage on the road to ever-increasing profits.
An art historian friend of mine explained to me one thing that could be part of the explanation. He said that in the East, what is valuable in art is the perfection of the human movement and technique, not the actual output artifact.

For instance, if you were to burn down the Monna Lisa, from a westerner perspective you have destroyed all that was valuable in the art. From an easterner perspective, you can reproduce the painting, as long as you prepare the materials in the same way and you use the exact same techniques that were used in composing the original. At that point, whatever you output, is exactly the same as the original and has exactly the same dignity.

Same with rebuilding a temple. As long as you use the same materials and the same building technique, even if it was burned to the ground originally it's still the same building.

The craft is fundamental, the artifact is incidental: it is just an embodiment of the craft.

No idea whether it is true, but it's interesting.
> Why do things like this generate so many responses along the lines of "this is depressing," "technology is terrifying," "humanity is doomed" and etc?

Don't worry about those comments, they were made by bots.
Helter Skelter mashup is my preferred one over originals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VhW67Ya8jo

Many WaxAudio mashups are top-tier, such as:
Bee Gees + ACDC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrlWWrSwaB8
Stevie Wonder + Metallica: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyvxHL5hLfE
> your body still used up 1800 calories

If you don't eat enough, you'll feel lethargic and unable to perform normally, so I doubt it will still use 1800 calories. According to the article, if you eat 800 calories and your body stores them all, you'll feel as hungry as if you never ate at all.

Of course this likely isn't so drastic ("50%") but it would explain why many people keep gaining weight over their lifetime (or until the body reaches a balance).
Mind sharing what location service you are using ? You nailed both my wired and 4g location, and I live in a small village here in Spain.
Outing without demonstrating highway speed noise level.

Great low speed product applications though.
Do you work at my company?
This is literally rampant. Nobody understands.
Matrix used to do this but doesn't anymore [1] and uBlock never had that feature. Please don't make stuff up.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/issues/927
You're suffering. I'm fine. Stop using "we" when you mean "I". If I wanted to speak for me I'd pay you.
Maybe this is it. Rebuilt-from-scratch temples have name continuity. To me, traditions and names are no less real than material things.

Edit: e.g. I lived in Suwon, where Samsung Electronics is headquartered. From historical records, we know it was also called Suwon in the 8th century, more than 1000 years ago. I think this sense of wonder is no less real than touching of 1000 years old artifacts.
If you have only wage income in Germany, as I understand it, there is no need to file a tax return. So you are correct there is no “pre-filled form.” But the system is simple and automated enough that a great many people don’t have to do anything.
> I’m sure they’ve heard every idea imaginable.

And they didn't try the one that is the actual subject of this subthread.

> asking “why don’t they just do this?” is not productive

That doesn't make your answer to it valid.

> the answer to that is that copyright is broken

Why not go further back? Why is there greed? Why aren't all humans brothers? If only we could fix that, some of these problems would literally disappear!
It's in the works and open-ra's devs are on it at the moment.
iOS has swipe to type built in.

I used Swiftkey for iOS recently, it’s no better than the built in option, and worse if you disable the spying “feature”.
FF might be better than Chrome etc now, but Surprisingly, firefox didn't care about the declining usage till a long time. It seemed to me, they let it go to Google. Speed, crashes etc were too often then and it never got fixed in time. that mattered to lots of users
and yet, a lot of people are opposed to sales tax due to it's regressive nature (they tax the poor proportionally more than the rich - which then is "fixed" up by adding exemptions to sales tax for goods that the gov't considers the poor to need, such as food etc).
Vulpecula
Fabrice Bellard doesn’t have Twitter. For all I know he might have never logged in to a Discord chat. He has still managed to create incredibly useful software (both open source and proprietary). Just sayin’.
> It is clear from the last 50 years of our industry that the relational paradigm (eventually) always wins

You cannot make a foreign key to link two different tables with RDBMSes. It requires to make another table. With graphs instead this is easy, just make a link from/to any node.
With RDBMSes the schema is fixed.
With RDBMSes you cannot have "metaproperties" (or properties about properties). With graphs you can easily say {caesar born{source "foobar"} "100BC"}. With RDBMSes this quickly becomes a mess to handle when you have more properties.

These are just some use cases why relational does not always win.
all influencers are AI generated
Common Brushtail Possum
Last year it came out that it was only great for white men (shocking, I know!)

https://www.theverge.com/22300931/mailchimp-company-culture-...

https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-mailchimp-mass-exodus...
Why would anyone pay this?

What next, a "cutlery" charge at a restaurant?
My take on FF "decline" is that FF user share (%) dropped because the pie started expanding (especially on mobile). New internet users are likely to be Safari or Chrome users for whom the browser they have is good enough. And Firefox on mobile is simply not as fast as alternatives (the bar set by Chromium Android is very high), kinda painful to use unless you have a highend device, esp. JS heavy sites like Twitter work much better on Chromium.

This doesn't fully describe situation, but over last 3 years, mobile users went from 50% to 75% users in my prev company's data. And Firefox is nowhere in those mobile stats.
Positively surprised to see may people missing it. I do so as well.

Started with 9870, moved to 9900 then Passport, Q10, Priv.

Last model was a disappointment since it was android based.

Besides amazing keyboard, BlackBerryOS was just amazing piece of software, probably due to large RIM experience in real-time OSes. System had no lags whatsoever, everything was just working how it should be.

Miss it dearly.
Barcode detection using Vision framework
How to run commands and scripts on Efficiency cores
https://ip-api.com/
You're right, but many of the newish projects are on Discord: Rust, Julia, Deno... I've seen many others that I can't remember now.
It also helps that Linux distros usually come with Python
QR code can only contain up to 2953 arbitrary octets, which is way smaller than the imposed 13 KB limit.
I switched to Key2 (currently on third...too many oopsies) after burning through two Priv, but I still know at least one serious Priv holdout locally (SWE wife of a EE friend) for strictly keypad reasons. The S8 did somewhat interest me due to its snap-on accessory keypad, but I couldn't get over paying a flagship pricetag and then some for a half-assed keypad that explicitly nerfs 30% of display real estate out the gate.

If OnwardMobility's eventual offering has a proper Blackberry-class keypad, it'll be an instant in for +2, and friend's wife will def be in for at least one as well.
Glad you like it! Bootstrap v5 helped a lot :)

I hope to improve the UX a bit further with a city-search for example. Unfortunately I am lacking a good geocoding API for that.
Actually it is WAY easier to use paper money for crime than cryptocurrencies.
Thanks, this is one of the more accurate ones I've seen, it's still a bit off (3-4 degrees). Do you know where I can get historical data going back at least 10 years?
That's my understanding too. Funding is not really an issue, 8200 has one of the biggest budgets in the army but they are bound to the law and regulations, NSO on the other hand can pass the lines and keep Israel uninvolved
Yes, because as I mentioned on the other comment you ignored, thanks UNIX, C, being born at AT&T, and the $0 cost of UNIX tooling up to the mid-80's alongside source code.

Had C++ been born somewhere else, e.g. Objective-C, and its popularity wouldn't exist.
What a non sequitur
What is a side effect? Getting the time? Pushing a result to an output channel? A debug printf? Setting a flag to cache a computation as an optimization? Is it not: evaluating a thunk? Implicitly allocating some memory to store the result of a computation?

Haskellers are trained to have a very inflexible view of what a side effect is. It is dictated by the runtime / the type system. In my views, there are lots of things that Haskellers call "side effects" that I would just shrug my shoulder on, and also lots of things that they do not call side effects but I care about them. It really depends on the situation.

This fixed dichotomy imposed by the language does more harm than good in my experience. NB: I'm aware that running a computation that for example gets the system time will get a different time it runs. That does not mean that I _have_ to consider it a side effect. I usually do not have a good reason to run the procedure multiple times and expect the runs to be totally identical by all means. In an imperative language, I have very precise control when this procedure runs.
Linux 5.15 Raises Its GCC Compiler Version Requirement
The list with Discord is an example of what "open source in 2021" as opposed to being responsive to github. So yes, some care.
And most educators decided on Python because? You don't think it has anything to do with people liking the language and therefore wanting to use it and teach in it?
> Correction: they happen in what you believe to be a theatre of consciousness. Belief without evidence is religion.

I have the highest possible level of evidence: direct experience. It just happens to not be communicable. Not everything is.

> You can demonstrate that such a theatre might exist by demonstrating some phenomenon which cannot be accounted for via mechanistic processes.

All the mechanistic processes that you can account for where observed within the theater of your consciousness. So was everything you ever learned about science, and also this present discussion with me.

What I am pointing at is just Plato's Cave. Not a new argument, nor a settled one.
Xiaomi Unveils Xiaomi Smart Glasses
Love the title, very apt. It's also the name of a famous Nigerian novel.
The biggest projects have enough momentum that they can be on whatever communication channels they want - if Linux decided to switch to avian carriers tomorrow, they'd still have thousands of people talking over that.

>neovim

Neovim is on twitter, and doesn't have a mailing list. They also offer matrix and IRC (presumably bridged). See https://neovim.io/community/
Ooh, thats pretty much exactly what I've been looking for. Cheers!
Should Data Teams Specialize and What's Up with Data Engineering?
> don’t see the value in those people’s lives

Fortunately most people see the value of human life beyond their political beliefs.
Offensive (by whatever definition of offensive in the context) images can be generated and poison the perception of the virtual persona.
Architect Bjarke Ingels Has a Blueprint to Rescue Humanity
Python is quite popular with the data / machine learning crowd. Think pandas, tensorflow etc.
Monero may not be the best way to curtail financial surveillance, but privacy coins are here to stay, regardless of any future laws or opinions to the contrary. Your opinion of whether it is the best way to curtail it is an irrelevant footnote as privacy coins march on.

Technology such as atomic swaps mean privacy coins will never be killed by legislation. The best we can do is outlaw their use by the honest, relegating them only to the blackmarket (which is precisely the place you didn't want them in the first place).
Dark patterns from Microsoft and Google. They nag users to set their own applications as the default. You can't expect users who don't know any better to to always say no, they get tired and then say yes.
“Success will be found because developers are lazy”
can someone explain me the ambiguity, I don't get it