skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Let's not even get into the fact that Capital gains tax is at its lowest ever, and at one point capital gains for top earners was 40%, and income tax was even higher.

Oh yeah. Gay right is also better than ever. Minority right is also better than ever.

Woman actually can get a degree from Harvard now.

Should we all just shut up?

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You also ignore that salaried employees already pay fair share of tax.

Why don't we tax billionaires more like Dems advertise for years?
So this is WAI per current copyright laws?
In other news, Nheko supports E2EE.
AFAIK you can't just put a reverse bias diode generator in a processor because it requires a different process and relatively high voltages (as ICs go).
Syncthing is a better alternative.
What would it take for it to also be offered on a commercial-use basis?
I wonder if they were still solely owned by the two founders, with a profit sharing plan. If so, it will be interesting to see how that is continued (or more likely, abandoned or harmonized), and the resulting effect on retention. If they’d awarded equity to employees there’d be quite a few newly wealthy folks in Atlanta instead of just two new billionaires.
With a friend and stimulated by the QNX demo we ported a Squeak Smalltalk graphical environment to one 1.44mb disk: http://swain.webframe.org/squeak/floppy/

Basically we use a base Linux and modified Squeak to use SVGAlib instead of X-Windows.

Later on some friends created a whole OS in Squeak (e.g. you could browse the TCP/IP protocol as a class in Smalltalk): https://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1762
I have been better trying to understand how the world will change under China's hegemony. To that end, I have been studying Neo-Confucianism. That being adaptations of Confucianism, the ancient Chinese philosophy of governance, to the 21st century. Facebook's policy seems very neo-Confucian.

"Moreover, Jiang rejects the Western concept of 'equality,' an idea that propagates liberal democracy. From the Confucian point of view, people are unequal—as they differ in virtue, intelligence, knowledge, ability, etc. Hence, it is not plausible to give everyone equal rights without considering their standings. Also, while every individual should be bounded by the law, this does not mean that everyone should have equal legal rights or obligations."[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiang_Qing_(Confucian)
Key and Tempo are (I think, I am far from expert / novice even) the 2 most important points to consider.

Most songs wont match so its required to pitch shift to align keys (which can also affect the tempo), and tempo because you want the beats to match up, otherwise it will sound like a mess.

Your "Dreams Nation Army" works well because 7 nation army is pretty much a copy of Sweet dreams and they fit well together.

VirtualDJ [0] allows to load multiple mp3's and can match key / tempo at the click of a button (manually or autodetect). They even built in the option to split stems using the spleeter tech [1]

[0] - https://www.virtualdj.com/ - if you want to use the spleeter tech, Win 10 is required. It can run in a VM though ;-)

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21431071
Random comment: I get how manufacturing works (batch) but whenever I see rows and rows of brand new cars just sit on seller lots like that's crazy.
> The PostgreSQL Association of Canada; Postgres Europe; and Fundación PostgreSQL will transfer...

The first two organizations are almost the same thing as the core team, for all practical purposes (unless you're a lawyer, say). There is very significant overlap in membership. A cosy arrangement, certainly. I imagine that this structure was based on certain practical considerations. Legal advice about IP and whatnot.

I have been working on Postgres (primarily as a Postgres backend hacker) for over a decade now. The people from the first two groups are friends and colleagues. There are problems, but on the whole these people have a significant amount of moral authority for good reasons. They have at least gotten us this far.

The idea that one of the first two organizations from your list are at risk of going rogue is beyond ludicrous. There are certainly legitimate criticisms that one could make about the project's governance, but this isn't one of them.

> It's just that we disagree what the governing bodies of that community should be, believing that the current ones are a great liability and need urgent reform.

This is not reform. This is a clumsily executed power grab.
for djing we can use the circle of fifths and the software “mixed in key” as a starting point:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_of_fifths

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_In_Key

and by adding beatmatching we get very nice mixes or transitions.

after a while you won’t need either of these as things will start working out by themselves.
The founders weren't really building the company with an exit as plan A, so stock option programs would have been a waste of time and full of lies.
> Incidentally, “tragedy of the commons” is one of those things like “inventing money because barter is inefficient” that exists in the lore of economists but doesn’t seem to exist in the real world.

Could you elaborate on how "'inventing money because barter is inefficient' doesn't seem to exist in the real world"? The idea that barter's inefficiency drives demand for money seems to me to be self-evidently true, so I'd be interested to hear a different perspective.
Why is it that iOS's PDF implementation has been the source of so many different exploits? This seems to be a pattern.
~98% of Androids use the default browser, which is an incredible amount of people, like in the billions. We tend to forget iOS is a minority worldwide.
> It's fashionable to think Tesla has the Better Way and that auto dealers are universally bad, but consumers largely don't agree.

There wouldn't need to be laws restricting Tesla from selling direct to consumer if that was the case.

Let the consumer decide what they want.
But these high earners already pay fair share of tax.

I thought we would target billionaires, no?
You can't attack another user like this, no matter how bad their posts are or you feel they are. Posting like this is a bannable offence on HN.

I'm not going to ban you because we haven't warned you before, but please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules from now on.
I loved it when my UT Starcom windows phone would crash mid phone call. I was able to convince Verizon to give me a free upgrade to blackberry because it was so bad.

Do I miss my blackberry? Not really, but I do miss how excited I was to have a device that was actually useful. I feel like we're just iterating over the same base design these days, which is fine, but the excitement isn't there for me like it used to be.
> We have to crawl about 60-80k news websites per day [0]

Can't even imagine that number... different languages or something?
Are energy imports realistic solution if we don't go intercontinental scale?
The "took #ms" line is output of the program. It does not include compilation time.
>Not sure you can really blame android, when Android allows Firefox as a first class replacement for Chrome

It's still the default, and defaults matter.
Disclosing Amazon FBA Secrets
I sometimes self-approve small changes too. But I really do think it's a bad habit and unnecessary. I don't like hassling people with tiny trivial code reviews, but I don't mind at all when people ask me for the same, so I don't think it is actually a hassle.

Catching bugs is only one of the reasons for doing code reviews (and not even a great reason at that -- plenty of bugs make it through code review after all). Another important reason is sharing knowledge within the team, and that applies to tiny changes as much as large ones.

I don't think mandatory code reviews regardless of size are really "rigid" or "unacceptable" at all, not in a good team where code reviews are a well-established part of the culture. In jobs where I didn't have admin privileges and wasn't able to bypass code review even for trivial changes, we reviewed absolutely everything and got on just fine.

Sure, sometimes the reviewer barely looks at the change and just rubber-stamps it. But that's a sign of trust, which is a good thing, and still gives you that little bit of team cohesion and knowledge sharing -- at least one other person is roughly aware of what you're doing.
Facebook undermines privacy of WhatsApp users despite Zuckerberg's promises
Alaska (my home state) implemented ranked choice voting and open primaries via a ballot initiative. This applies to both state and federal elections.
Probably depends on the filer's situation.
Not at all. Worse in every way I can think of.
Serious question, if a surveillance organization had control of a certificate authority trusted by your client, would that allow them access to traffic whose security relied on a certificate from that authority?
We probably did. Most of our players were off season football players.
How about rampant overfishing in the world seas right now?
Food also needs to be accounted for protein content and quality.

Beef, for example, contains 2x as much protein and mostly fat otherwise, whereas wheat has carbs, which are much faster to digest.

In order to consume as much protein as you would from beef, you have to consume twice as much of it. And since you can't really separate wheat protein from the carbs in household conditions, you're forced to overload on carbohydrates in order to get the same amount of high quality nutrients.

And I'm not even touching on essential amino-acids, some of which are missing entirely in wheat.

Which is why pretty much every single vegetarian has to supplement their meals with dairy or regularly boost with powdered protein. It doesn't matter much for sedentary lifestyles, but trying to be active on a vegetarian/vegan diet is pure hell.
It used to tell you. Does it, still?
What's wrong with it? That seems like a server-side rendered page/easier to deal with than waiting for JS to load.
Disclaimer: I'm smart (ask my mom!), skipped a grade, went to college at 16, F*ed around and found out, made it out alive on the other side, would not recommend.

Premature optimization is the root of all evil ...

"Some" smart kids should skip "some" high school ... maybe.

But more importantly, a ton of hand-waving here about how unnecessary high school was as a crucible of learning and self-improvement - hint: passing the GED is not the same as high school.

Also pretty optimistic (again, from experience) to expect a smart, lazy kid (the target audience for high school skipping) to "macro-plan" a 4 year "unschooling" experiment for their ages 14-18.
Wow. You got your two main point completely wrong.
Not really since you're trying to use 3 Scandinavian countries, one of which is attached to the mainland of Europe and Finland which is an entirely genetically different group of people.

If you're going to group countries together in an attempt to prove the measures are working you should be able to take that same theory and do it all over the world. Except if you were to do that then it wouldn't up.

So, sure apples-to-apples buddy. Get to explaining why your theory isn't holding up in the rest of the EU or the states.
There are other ways of structuring bonus and non-salary compensation besides "equity" which honestly can get employees just as stuffed in an acquisition as firms without any equity. The silicon valley model is not the only way to frame success.
I have. To infringe copyright at scale in the old world, you needed industrial hardware like printing presses. Centralized operations of significant size. Easy target for litigation.

Now nearly everyone on this planet has a pocket computer capable of creating and transmitting unlimited numbers of any piece of data at practically zero cost. People don't even realize they're doing it, it's so natural. They create truckloads of derivative works of copyrighted material every single day in the form of memes.
PostMarkApp?
Why does it matter if it’s the “good guys” or “bad guys” paying?

If a vulnerability only cost ~$100 then a malicious person could compromise an ex lover’s phone, for example. The fact that they are expensive means that their use is limited to targeted, strategic attacks. You don’t have to agree that those attacks are good, but surely pricing the average person out of 0-days is better than the alternative.
Obviously there's no going back - does anyone remember how much of a pain Google Maps was on the BlackBerry? - but I have to admit I miss some aspects.

The way BlackBerry integrated all communication channels into one place so it didn't matter which platform you were messaging someone on. The way you could just start typing on the home screen and would get suggested contacts etc. The fact that there were no awful "social networking" apps full of dark patterns to promote addictive behaviour (of course this came at the expense of just generally not having many apps).
But still, I feel relatively safe knowing/thinking that the Saudi government doesn’t want to hack my iPhone.
The pandemic has refashioned corporate dress codes
> I still feel like it was a better communication tool compared to the smartphone touchscreens of today.

Your daily reminder that newer is often not better, and the market frequently rewards regression.
> Geography is more than resources. Geography includes navigability, disease, and factors that would have encouraged and/or forced expansion.

Sure, but it excludes culture, which is the most important factor.

> Further, that paragraph only mentions race as a problematic myth. I don't see it mixing up race and culture so much as pointing out that Europe didn't expand because Europeans are somehow better. I fail to see a problem with teaching that.

You’re embracing the same ambiguity: when you say “European” are you talking about race or culture? “Eurocentric” narratives are mainly about culture, not race. There’s nothing wrong with saying Europeans were more successful because their cultures are better: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/09/joseph-henric...

Indeed, the “Eurocentric” narrative largely refers to the fusion of Christianity and Roman/Greek thought. The European “race” (Germanic people) assimilated into that culture. Nobody is talking about how great Germanic Paganism was.

Teaching that societal success is explained by “geography” rather than culture is bad for two reasons. One it’s false. Two, it encourages an external locus of control. It teaches people that success is the product of factors outside the control of an individual or group.
> how we choose to distribute those natural resources

Even this is subject to the limits/constraints of human coordination. I think there is a lot of play there, to be fair. But saying it's 100% unconstrained how we coordinate our decision-making is not accurate.

Memes, propaganda, democracy, dictatorships, republics, governance structures, these are all attempts to carve out coordination given the constraints. But there are constraints.

Then there's the enforcing of whatever we decide on. Add more constraints.
Good Local Solicitors in Rockhampton
Americans generally don't like the government running things that aren't natural monopolies.
initially - i just didn't think the first rollouts of on screen keyboards were that good.

I got android devices that always had a keyboard. It wasn't until Swype (discontinued - RIP) and SwiftKey that I really felt onscreen keyboards offered a lot that allowed them to surpass physical keyboards.

The eventual inclusion of touch-vibrate feedback on button push was a good add on too.

now there's really no point to blackberry.
Complete saying was “The Jack of All Trades is a Master of None, But ” (2019)
My best comment was a dumb in-joke for quite a while. But eventually I beat it with a comment was reassuring people who didn't excel as much as they'd expected during the pandemic. I actually feel pretty good about the comment itself, there were some people who followed up that really did seem to be relieved by the sentiment. But it still is, essentially, this bizarre fleeting interaction where we just see one comment from each other, and no real attachment is made. Then then afterwards, it is like, "am I playing some weird gamified thing where expressing actual human empathy is how you get a high score" which didn't feel good really.
Confluence has a lot of ways to 'embed' other documents but they look like junk and aren't searchable.
>Nothing about high school is relevant to the real world.

I wouldn't say "nothing." Going to school 5 days a week mimics a workweek, even if the timing is off. Being with random people of your age group in close proximity is a little extreme, but it has some similarities to working in an office with a random assortment of personalities. Having tasks assigned to you that you then have to complete isn't exactly how workplaces function, but having a baseline ability to complete work that isn't your favorite is a valuable skill.

Now, all of these things are taken to the extreme in high school and that should be adjusted. However, saying that none of high school is relevant is a stretch.
wtf?? I haven't been on FB for about 10 years now and every now and then a comment like this comes along which makes me realize just how out of touch with the global bureaucracy I've become
Optional service charge added by default. What a bizzaro world we live in.
Thank you that was very informative. Every organizing body that centralizes functions (like curricula) is an opportunity for a lot of good (like sharing resources), but also an opportunity for a lot of bad (like institutional capture). Do you have any thoughts on what a fix is? Is it simply greater decentralization?
> in fact taking a side just makes it easier to people to dismiss my point

The problem is that, it is pretty clear, that based on how many people have agree with me, that this guy was unclear.

There was obviously a lot of confusion here. And that is a valid criticism of this person.

> My point was that ignoring everything said

The fact that so many people are confused about what the guy is saying, is on him.

He should have communicated better. And no, it is not everyone else's fault, that basically everyone misunderstood his point.

> He goes into more detail here

Well maybe he should have done a better job of communicating his ideas, from the very beginning. That's on him.

The fact that he was so bad at saying what the problem was, and why we should care, from the very beginning, is a valid problem.

> is not a valid way to assess the information.

No, it is not on the public to have to cross reference hacker news posts, with tweets, with blogs posts, to figure out why we should care.

That is the job of the communicator. And if you communicate it poorly, then that is your failing.
If I remember correctly, the image quality on the Nokia/Windows phones were pretty good as well.
Please don't fulminate on HN or take threads on generic-indignant tangents. Those are much less interesting and usually turn nasty. Substantive critique is welcome, but if you reply to a comment you should really be replying to something specific in that comment, and you definitely shouldn't be blasting the other user.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28512954.
> "BlackBerry integrated all communication channels into one place so it didn't matter which platform you were messaging someone on"

Windows Phone 7 did a great job at this. It put people at the center of the mobile UI rather than apps.

Sadly it was anathema to companies like Facebook who absolutely want you to enter their app and absolutely don't want to be API providers for a centralized user experience controlled by an OS vendor.
>What the software want it still a queue, you could still send pointers if the memory they point to has been committed to memory when the receiving core see them

Which means that the sender will need to pessimistically flush anything that the receiver might need to access, which is likely more expensive than optimistic cache coherency.

Non-CC systems were a thing in the past, and still are for things like GPUs and distributed systems, but are much harder to program and not necessarily more efficient.

As the saying goes there are only two hard things in programming...
Do you know an open-data source for ocean visibility data?

I want to integrate regular wave forecasts in the next month, but I am unaware of something that can improve dive visibility.
A couple years ago I went to a party where a lady brought her pet pig-- a fifty pound potbellied pig named Penelope. Penelope had her hooves painted with nail polish and rode in a stroller. I noticed that Penelope was chewing something, and had been since she arrived. I later asked the lady what the pig was chewing. The lady said it's gum.

It was one of the rare times in my life where I was struck dumb and mute. I could only stare at her, and she further offered that it's Trident gum.

After a moment I asked whether Penelope swallows the gum, and the lady said no, never. She chews for an hour or two and then spits it out, presumably after it's lost its flavor.

I felt like everything I knew about life up to that point was wrong.
Why Monero
This was how 2020 was for me. It was awful, and I never want to feel that way again.

I did have a plan for how to spend that time in a way that was meaningful, but COVID trashed it and I was left with nothing.
One of the things I loved about living in Asia (and traveling to Europe) was all-in prices posted everywhere. Made it so much simpler to add up, and was great paying cash due to the even numbers and lack of change.

After moving back to Toronto (and now living in SF), my biggest beef at cafes and restaurants is with the Stripe/Square terminals that force the customer to decide whether to tip or not, requiring the user to interact with the screen. Just let me tap my phone/card and be done with it.

Raise prices 20% or do whatever you have to do so workers can be paid fairly. Don't make the purchasing UX worse by introducing decision fatigue or guilt.
Some of Wittgenstein's behavior towards certain children seemed to be on the spectrum of grooming, at least from a modern perspective.
For the moment, let's ignore the discussion about opt-out vs. opt-in... If the fee is truly discretionary, then you should be able to go to the front desk and ask them to remove the charge, and they should do so without a fuss.

Has anyone tried this? My suspicion is that you either can't actually do this, or that the staff have been instructed to make this difficult. In that case, it would obvious that the fee isn't actually optional, and the regulators should be having a field day.
He could have expressed his concerns in a coherent blog post, that maybe could have sprawled a more serious discussion, we all know he's a good writer. Choosing to do this in a series of tweets tells just one thing - "nothing of substance here, move on".
Yeah, plus many of websites are quite niche news (construction news, for example)