jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
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You can try Marathon Matches at http://topcoder.com/tc (SRMs which are, almost, weekly competitions don't allow Python)
If an employer treats you like an employee, and simply uses the 1099 as a benefit/tax dodge, you have options. Last I checked, such employees are able to go to the IRS and have the employer pay their taxes. So that's a risky thing to do as an employer.

Look up IRS 20 questions for details. But in general, if you can't hire people to do your work, and you lack freedom in how you accomplish tasks, then you're probably not a contractor.

Of course, in reality, there are probably people that'll just go along with whatever just to have a job
Something to think about is "the masses" are not going to quietly stop driving, stop working, stop eating, and die. They'll just pay more carbon tax. So if keeping 400M americans alive takes 400 train loads of coal, they'll still be mining and shipping 400 train loads of coal, just the next taxes paid to .gov will increase, everyone will be poorer, slightly lower standard of living, but the cops will spend money on more and better guns to shoot us with.

Its not like the mine owners are going to eat the tax losses out of their own pocket, LOL. The price of their product will increase.

As a side effect the more regulated an industry the more corrupt it'll be on average. So expect plenty of sweet tax loopholes to make up for it, so to be revenue neutral at the new higher tax rate the proles will have to pay even higher taxes.

Higher taxes always result in higher tax evasion, I'm guessing black market coal would be non-trivial to work, but black market charcoal or black market firewood would become a pretty serious issue under this carbon tax 2.0.
HTML would be much easier to write if it were based on JSON. Less bandwidth too. Has this been attempted?
He said it's like handing NSA the keys.

Google's very business model is analyzing your bits and selling what that reveals about you. They do what the NSA does.

Sonic at the moment (as far as I know) only makes money from moving your bits, and doesn't much care what's in them. Any telecom in the future will probably not be able to resist the profit in selling you to advertisers, but at the moment they mostly don't, the occasional DNS advertisement notwithstanding.
It's a bit of HN lore that nickb was pg's sockpuppet.

I'm not sure if it was ever confirmed, but the evidence was reasonable.

Things were a little different back then. ;-)
doesn't twitter do this? broadcasting whatever I do.
It sounds from the article that the Israeli airport security personal are all ex-IDF. It's a job they naturally matriculate into after serving their required 2yrs in the IDF.

I am not an expert, but I imagine that given the primary mission of the IDF in dealing with Palestine, they probably receive training and some experience (depending on where they are assigned) in how to spot potential terrorists using behavioral profiling. So when they leave and join airport security, they hit the ground running.

US soldiers on the other hand probably aren't given much behavioral profiling training. We seem to specialize in blowing stuff up, steamrolling it with tanks, then randomly throwing money at it afterwards. If any military or ex-military know differently, please correct me.

Gen. Petraeus may be slowly improving that SOP, in Iraq and Afghanistan at least, but I'm not sure how much his work there is getting rebased to general boot camp and officer training programs. Eg, are these kinds of soft skills percolating throughout the US military, or are only the Special Forces and other groups specifically tasked with winning hearts and minds in Afghanistan getting this training?

So the question remains, would filling the TSA ranks with military veterans and paying them higher wages provide a more Israeli-like airport security force? Dunno. Certainly worth considering, but there are some significant differences.
To quote:
"The idea is that it becomes a part of the culture, i.e. not one-off donations that need to be repeatedly processed, but something that is the default. "

The idea doesn't seem to be "Okay, I donated now I can go about my merry way making proprietary code."
And my fear over such a future, as a father of a 6-year old, is based on the track record they have with users' privacy.

I don't want my child's privacy philosophy decided for her DEFACTO just because That's the way FB has always done it*

Her idea of privacy should be an informed discernment based on her world view, not simply "Well this is just how it is".
A dual question: what hardware do you use?

Wacom tablets are expensive but drawing with a mouse sucks.
I have to say that I found Garcia-Marquez to be underwhelming. As an author, Borges is like a jeweller -- tiny little works of amazing beauty and perfection.
0D glasses - http://image.made-in-china.com/2f0j00ivNEORGlaqgf/Pastel-Jum...
In this case it's actually true. Try it out - it looks and feels a lot like airbnb, and it does so for good reason.
Talking about "Buddhism" as a homogenous entity is a bit misguided. Sri Lanka is primarily Theravada, while Tibetans practice a religion that is essentially their native shamanism overlaid with some Buddhist ideas. Conflating the two is like looking at a story in which Catholics pray to Mary and saying, "Nonsense! Christians only pray to Jesus. And he should know that, having lived in the largely Christian state of Utah for many years." Catholics are not Mormons, and neither is really representative of Christianity in general.

Obviously the story is fiction, but Tibetan Buddhism is steeped in a lot of weird old rituals (not that they're sinister — just ancient and exotic). To me, it seems plausible enough for fiction that there could be some weird offshoot cult in Tibet that believed such a thing.
Let me put it this way - a good idea is 30%. A bad one - is none. That's why there are a lot of crappy ideas, and people are constantly looking for something good.
There's nothing ethically wrong with it, it's just that they don't get open source and the long term value that it provides. The best part of awesome open source software is the ability to build even awesomer stuff on top. Oracle sees it as a revenue source to be harvested; in general their business model is not about building awesomer and awesomer things, it's about maximizing the cash value of what they have.

The best corporate sponsorships of open source are when the interests of the company sponsoring are aligned with making the open source software as good as possible. That is, the software is not a threat to parent company, but rather something that they want to be as good as possible because it enhances their product, and they're willing to let other people use it in order to help make it better.

I'm not saying there's anything wrong with what Oracle does, but at the same time, it behooves users of Oracle's open source software to be wary that they don't pull the rug out from under you.
>Good search is no longer a matter of indexing everything; it's a matter of indexing enough high quality information.

and I would add ability to digest that information into something usable would be next.
This is only partially true - the only cars which used "real" drive-by-wire (wheel -> computer -> steering actuator) were a few Infiniti vehicles, and even then they had a clutch which could re-engage a physical steering column.

Rather, a few cars in the early 2000s and many since the early 2010s or so offer electric power steering assist: the steering wheel is still very much connected by a physical steering column to the steering rack, and normal steering input is purely physical - there's just also an electric motor attached to the rack to provide the usual power steering boost. And, that power steering assist can be controlled over a non-diagnostic CAN bus to facilitate LKA.
https://archive.vn/QHkz8
2 meetings work fine for large company / departmental scope presentations, because only %1-5 of the people in the meeting have to do the midnight thing, but break at the 5-10 person level unfortunately. Someone is forced into a midnight meeting somewhere as part of syncing up planning between teams at the very least.
> there's a link to https://matrix.to and I don't want to fill my own homeserver every time.

Hm, for Element Desktop matrix.to should deeplink into the app, and so prioritise your client's settings there. If that's not working, please file a bug at https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix.to/issues.

For Element Web, the theory of matrix.to is that it remembers the URL of your preferred client (and ideally your homeserver) and so fixes up the links to do the right thing. In practice we rushed this in for FOSDEM and got it so you can provide the client in the URL (e.g. https://matrix.to/#/#misc:fosdem.org?web-instance[element.io... means "join this via the element web at https://chat.fosdem.org") - but we didn't hook it up to remember the default. I've just filed this as https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix.to/issues/197. Meanwhile, specifying a default homeserver (as opposed to client) is https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix.to/issues/15.

> I used the Communities thing from Element

Communities are a mess and being replaced by Spaces. Ironically Spaces behave the same way fundamentally (they filter your room list rather than switch you between namespaces), but we hope this will feel okay if executed better.

> There's no "community" for the default view

This should be fixed with Spaces (although quite how is still up for debate - the current behaviour still makes you 'click in the background' to unselect a Space).

So, good news: spaces should solve most of this. Meanwhile i've bumped the priority on the matrix.to issue you hit :)
I don't use the notifications - have them disabled. I just dip in when I have time and see what's happening. May not be the best strategy but works for me.
Honda LKA keeps you centered and lets you take your hands off the wheel.
I have to add that many of us were lucky to "inherit" the collections from our parents in the late 90s, early 2000s and the comic was and is still very relevant. The later versions which were coming out when I was a kid in the 2000s never clicked with me. I personally prefered the first 600 episodes the most having reread the most of them. I possibly liked even more the Maxmagnus comic which had a bit more bizarre vibe to a yound me. I wonder where the youger kids are supposed to learn the cinism and criticism in such levels. Is there a modern medium for the zoomers with the same tone?
From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy:

> Equally right or wrong is he who says that Napolean went to Moscow because he wanted to, and perished because Alexander desired his destruction, and he who says that an undermined hill weighing a million tons fell because the last labourer struck it for the last time with his pickaxe. In historic events the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself.
We’re not interested in exchanging one set of pigs for another.
> And in fact we can even use kernel threads most of the time.

Well, not if you need tens-of-thousands of them or more.

> However, there is one thread you don't want to block: the UI thread.

No problem. You simply multiplex fibers onto the UI thread, where they can block all they want. Here's an example in Quasar (Java):

FiberScheduler uiScheduler = new FiberExecutorScheduler("UI-scheduler",
task -> EventQueue.invokeLater(task)); // schedule on the UI thread

new Fiber(uiScheduler, () -> {
for (i = 0;; i++) {
assert EventQueue.isDispatchThread(); // I'm on the UI thread!
uiLabel.setText("num: " + i); // I can update the ui
Fiber.sleep(1000); // ... yet I can block all I want
}
}).start();
You need a majority of computing power on the network to agree to actually do this which is what the parent means.
It's because they view crypto like people viewed the internet/computers back in the day. "It'll never work it's too complicated. No need for it, mail workers just fine. It's just used for illegal activity. Why do I need a productivity boost when I have my assistant to do everything. "
This is really cool! I have been adjusting to life without Bloomberg recently. Does anyone know of something similar to this for rates, credit, or the ABS space?
Whats stops them from doing a wire transfer ?
I train ML models on my Macbook (Intel GPU) by SSHing into a machine with a Tesla A100.

In this case it really is more than thousands of times more powerful.
For better or worse, if you look through the #asahi IRC logs, it's pretty clear where this is.
The trouble with Cryptocurrencies is that very few people seem to be using it for exchange of goods, where it could be used independently from banks.

It seems that the vast majority of retail sales is into and out of USD and other fiat currency for speculation/investment. Here central markets will always have the advantage that you'll get a 'fair' price due to the mass of buyers and sellers (ignoring market manipulation) over finding someone to trade with you.
What do you anticipate being the problem? I have several single-letter commands myself.
I've also deactivated FB and Instagram about 2 weeks ago. I kept telling myself I was in control, but the truth is that I wasn't, somehow my brain was craving that infinite scrolling of pure trash. I feel like I've regained control over my life and I am much more productive now. As if they had managed to get me hooked and sell days of my life away for a few cents here and there. I blame myself
Because fb was all of those things? If people were more honest with themselves about what fb does for them and a healthy alternative like WhatsApp comes out that appeals to Americans, we'll be on our way. The Next Big Thing is never planned, it just happens.
When society views Facebook as part of your identity you're forced to also keep it. It's not always possible for individuals to reject it.

You end up with this self-feeding cycle of people keeping facebook around because they have to. Eventually what ends up happening is an alternative comes along and people essentially forget about the platform that it just shuts down and collapses on itself. We're slowly inching towards that final outcome.
People want crazy profits for their crazy funding. I think a more viable solution is legislation to force data to be open. It’s a complex thing to do however.
Both are necessary but neither is sufficient. If you have someone who perfectly understands the algorithm but can’t write the code, that’s a different utility than someone who can write code but doesn’t know the optimal algorithm solution. You can say “at work I’d look up a reference” but in an interview setting that’s not helpful where the interviewer needs both. That’s kind of why I really don’t like remote tests. It’s really hard to filter out those trying to cheat. I’ve observed how leetcode stuff tries to track you looking stuff up and it’s theater. Just get a tablet or second laptop (or even use your phone) and the site can’t track if you’re actually looking that up.

I get annoyed with those tests and interviews too, but I’m aware of the challenge on the other side so I take it with a grain of salt and would never let my ego make me arrogant enough to take umbrage at being asked to write down a piece of code. I can understand the frustration, but this process is applied equally along all levels. Hell, the most talented people I worked with were regularly interviewed on coding by people more inexperienced/less talented than them. I would have a hard time any of them expressing anything other than mild annoyance at the system that this is still the best we’ve managed to do and no one would think to say “what right does this young inexperienced person have to ask me questions”. If anything, that attitude would instantly disqualify someone on the “fit” axis of the interview even if they passed on the technical merits.
Very cool. I have been thinking about the same idea but more towards geospatial data. Whats the best way to contact you?
The best way to understand all this is that the US basically acquired Western European Empire in all but name after WWII.

If you look at history, the US exercises about as much control of Western Europe as Rome did. Basically the areas were free to run their daily affairs but military matters went through Rome. Similar to now.

The fiction lasted well throughout the Cold War but is starting to fray. It will be interesting to see what happens going forward.
Add up to reduced time spent indoors.

The messaging telling people not to spend time outside was terrible. With reasonable spacing it isn't a big risk, and there is less opportunity for it now.
I’m 2 years older than you, and I’d say in my friends group, Facebook is still moderately active, with the more social people posting daily still. But it’s also active for my (very large) family, with a lot of my aunts and uncles being on the platform and engaged.
Tesla is the most interesting one. Elon was so happy about it, but I'm sure it will come back to him in time. Still, it was worth it even if China steals all of Tesla's IP.
Having a very quick look, I see a websocket connection, which IE can do just fine.

The only thing I see that it can't is the desktop notification, which you still have some ability, in fact 'pinned' sites in IE let you have a number badge on the taskbar, which is quite good for a chat app, see Skype.
I work with companies both in Kyoto and Tokyo and honestly there's not so MUCH of a difference between them. It depends much more of the company culture than the location in my experience. You can get over-conservative companies in Tokyo as well. As for the whole paragraph about Nintendo's company culture, it sounds very much like every other Japanese company out there (no individual leadership, everything through the group, veto from top managers) and nothing specific to video games businesses.
Well, it was developed on earth. However, they have a 3d printer up there now, so you never know, the next one might not be.

Also, you seem to be confused as to the purpose of the glovebox. While there may be an experiment to test it, it is not an experiment, it is apparatus for experiments.
I've being using Mosh for some time now. I really like it that apps like JuicySSH also support is so when my server goes down I can fix it on the go.
> But in React you can arbitrarily change HTML because the render method returns a string to be compared to the earlier situation.

I'm pretty sure the render method returns a vdom node (which the library can then diff and merge into the actual DOM)
I'm in the UK. That doesn't change my point though. Despite the unlimited text messages in UK/US people still use Whatsapp.
So why is every text editor I have ever seen embedded in a website an abomination?

> text display, scripting, styling

The only thing that really matters is scripting. Every serious editor has solved displaying text and styling since ages and those two points aren't even that important in programming languages. All you want is a syntax aware highlighting. Maybe underlines and a little bold here and there.

Scripting is the really hard part. There are many flavors, languages, APIs to chose from. Just because you now can script things in <hip-language-of-the-day>, the problem isn't solved. My editor uses a lisp dialect and I'm perfectly happy with it, not because of the language choice but the APIs and amount of integration.

One thing that is incredibly important for text editors is speed: something web engines are notoriously bad at.
its pronounced like the last name of the famous drummer of led zeppelin, not the male body part. its my dogs name :)
I suppose that's why skennedy writes "without opting in first". What you describe is called "opt out", it's the opposite of opt in.
Well, your comment mentions a specific top-level post, but then it goes all meta and rants about non-specific top level posts in general.

That it's not "top level" itself, well, I don't find it as much of a differentiator.
One of the big vendors is MicroFocus.

https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/home

Their variant of COBOL has a number of extensions beyond the regular standard in GnuCOBOL. One that springs to mind is around data serialisation and file formatting.

They also implemented an API layer for access from more modern stacks.

Incidentally, if you're interested in getting into software development, I believe the DWP in the UK are still currently taking on apprentices to work on the COBOL-based systems in the department - I think they also get training in other languages too - perhaps JS, Ruby or Python?
This article is interesting, partly due to the blatant political biases which are present but unrevealed, and partly due to the attempt to address those biases in closing segments. This line in particular was telling "the state—the only way to address the most important issues of the present".

The author of this piece is a left-wing statist, and they interpret all of the data they reference through this lens. That does not mean that their conclusions are wrong in whole, as there's definitely some intriguing things in this article. Their ending statements are relatively on-point and don't align with any particular political leaning.

A good read, but unfortunately didn't tell me anything I didn't already know just from watching the news and paying attention.

Perhaps the most disappointing fact is that the author hinted at but failed to make the correct mental leap. This change in our society and economy is largely a result of globalism. Those in the top elites were able to improve their personal margins at the expense of the rest of the population by moving both production and knowledge work outside the bounds of the US, and in so doing increase the divide. The interaction of state-backed industrial interests in other countries and the anointing of new billionaires at their behest is not to be overlooked either.

I don't see any immediate solutions, as anything direct action will result in chaos, and anything taken slowly will not produce a positive effect in my lifetime. Like many other people in the professional class, my focus is on my own self-reliance and ensuring that I am not beholden to society any more than I must.
You should think about that a little bit harder. First off, you don’t need to guess, this is already happening. Second, there is already obvious societal harm being done. How do you think we ended up with an antivax movement, or hyper polarized politics?