jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You can let someone in a tax neutral country setup a UK corporation and then get a letter from HMRC stating that the company is not tax resident in the UK.

Then you could persuade your employer to pay this corporation for services rendered.

Of course, the heart of the company would still be with you and if you are resident in the UK, you are doing something illegal.
Giving paid assignments to see the candidate's job performance is not new. It has been used by a lot of companies. Even we hired our first guy using such a process. And it has worked.
Pretty sure I've read somewhere in the HBGary email leaks about a company that bought and developed exploits and sold them to the government.
The problem: enforcement.

The people who violate such principles (yours being not far from the USA Bill Of Rights) are the ones entrusted with enforcing them. They will and do impose creeping "reasonable exceptions" until just a shell remains.
Frequency and time capping are actually a common sense in retargeting. Having said that, current tools are not great at it as it's hard to do proper cohort campaign/analysis. We're addressing it with both time and impression caps, as well as cookie lifetime. Retargeting people on leisure sites or in times when they're usually in 'downtime' mode can also be a problem, which is why precise insight into individual placements is necessary.
Granting access to the source is not the same as having an Open Source license (assuming we're using the OSI definition).
Then why have incognito mode at all? Anyone with access to the computer could install something to observe the browser as it navigates around 'privately'.

In fact, almost any of your applications could already be doing this, since it's not sandboxed. Game over. Might as well remove it. Users hate being logged out anyway.

edit: I'm quite serious. incognito mode is "privacy theater". by the same logic, it should be removed.
Completely agree. This is extremely basic stuff you should be doing on supposedly secure systems. It should be difficult to disable logging, and logs obviously shouldn't be stored on the same machine with write access to anyone who might be doing something nefarious. This paints the NSA in an extremely bad light from a security perspective and contradicts all of the bogus claims of impenetrable security by politicians.
90) I have no traffic. How do I get traffic?
Shut down your business.
> stated vs revealed preferences

It doesn’t matter what your stated vs. revealed preference is when that preference doesn’t matter to the status quo.

> How did every country manage to come to an agreement on phasing out CFCs?

Every country /didn’t/ come to an agreement on CFCs, that’s how. China is still emitting measurable amounts as recently as 2019[1].

1. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1193-4

They were not more reasonable, the system and incentives were simply different. A world view where people are more or less reasonable based solely on the year they are being examined is not a world view based in reality.
$4 billion has got to buy an awful lot of compute time, but still, how did they decrypt the file?
I can't afford such services, but I can use the laws in my favour. For example I lost the password to a youtube channel from my teenager years. I wouldn't have wanted the content associated with adult me, so I simply DMCA'd myself and had the videos removed.
Portland has some neighborhoods like this with uncontrolled intersections. They also allow cars to park all the way up to the curb, so it becomes a game of go and pray since you often can't see cross-traffic until you have already entered the intersection.
It's revolting that we've allowed functionality to betray its owner to be legally mandated into "our" devices. It's no surprise that they keep this so very discreet.

Edit: I am specifically referring to the e911 ability to without owner interaction or knowledge send GPS coordinates, not to network-side triangulation, or even to sending GPS coordinates when the owner initiates a 911 call.
What I don't understand is the justification for supporting more than one version of a single library at a time. That just seems crazy to me, and an utter pain for maintenance.
> That's literally what a shortage is. This is like saying, "there's no shortage of chips, people just need to buy less electronics."

Not being able to buy a $100k car doesn’t mean there’s a car shortage, and not being able to buy a home in Boulder doesn’t mean there’s a housing shortage.

There’s plenty of housing.

Folks aren’t homeless for lack of affordable housing.

> The latter is the real rent-seeking behavior.

The propaganda coup of real-estate investors is astounding.

They have people like you advocating for their ability to extract rent in perpetuity as if it was a moral imperative.

Meanwhile, you think the individuals that own a home and enjoy being a part of their community are the bad actors.

It’s truly amazing what they’ve managed to convince people like you of.
> PG&E doesn't embrace, extend and extinguish. Why not?

Regulation?
I've taken two of those courses. I often typed the example code from the lectures in or took notes as I would in a brick and mortar class. This meant slowing the lectures down or pausing them or rewinding them. That's great for me...but I'm on Norvig's ten year plan.
Lots of split brains. Serious bugs making it through the alpha and beta channels into stable (and our boxes auto-updating only to become useless). Fleet units dying purely due to problems with fleetd/systemd. A particularly painful one was an Akka deployment on top of CoreOS where a sidekick unit would fail to start because fleet hadn't actually copied the unit file to the remote host. Only happened with sidekicks but due to how we ran our networking, it effectively killed the application. Almost every redeploy required manually getting fleet to copy the unit over.
It's clear to me what my code needs to do, however there are a myriad of environmental factors that can fuck up what my simple code needs to do. For instance, a common thing that I need to do is to look up one Active Directory property based on another. Depending on the environment, I may have access to that property using the logged-in user's credentials, or I may need to use a special service account set of credentials in my application, defined in a database or an app/web.config.

At some point, an over-zealous administrator can disable the rights for the account that my application is using inside a client organization. Then I end up on the phone for an hour or more, figuring out why an account that used to work no longer does, and getting my clients to raise a change request with the admins that broke our application in the first place to put things back.
> What causes us to segregate and discriminate against our fellow humans?

Evolved psychology to a large extent. Discriminating against some group and wiping them out or taking their resources has been a big part of history. Doesn't make it right of course. "Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above"
I don't get why MOOCs are so focused on video. I think many people enjoy the relaxed experience of watching a video more than reading, but why ignore people who rather jump right into a text? A text is easier to skim search and reference than a video, and easier to keep up-to-date for the creators. However, I think the best option is a combination of text with visual and interactive content, such as graphical representation of complex ideas and manipulable formulas or code.
I have always been fascinated by the intersection of technology and psychedelic use. As in, that I feel as if a higher percentage of those of us in the tech space have experimented with these drugs than in other fields. Although, this observation is purely anecdotal.

I think that I read a good article about this intersection but I am having a hard time finding it.

These comments remind me how out-of-touch society is about who actually uses psychedelics. My educated guess is everyone here who has admitted to their past or current use of psilocybin/lsd/etc is a highly intelligent and "productive" member of society. I wonder if a tipping point on the stigma around these drugs will be reached in our lifetime, of if the exploration of our own consciousness will continue to be forbidden.
Did Julius Caesar take his legions off-site to get them to buy-in to his invasion of Gaul? Successful leaders had to stand out from the crowd and use their superior skills to inspire, cajole and sometimes force people to do what was necessary.

So JC in the military behaved a lot like... officers in the modern military. They don't fraternise with the enlisted folk, and are all about leadership. In fact, they do less bribing to get the common soldier to do what they want than back in JC's time. Legionnaires were routinely offered loot and land in return for service; it wasn't just "hey, that guy has a striking profile and a commanding demeanour!".

The article has quite a romanticised view of Roman slavery - for example, the treatment of slaves in the article is all about household servants. It doesn't really discuss the treatment of slaves in the fields or in the mines, which was pretty brutal.
The video poison is spreading to software documentation too. I can't imagine a bigger waste of time than watching someone type code or work on a command line, yet I've gotten the request many times. For GUIs I can somewhat sympathize, especially if the software changes the layout with every release (I'm looking at you, Blender), and it really does take 1000 words to describe where to click. But typed, word-oriented communication does not benefit from videos. And unless you're Vi Hart, teaching mathematics probably isn't going to benefit from an all-video presentation either. So, kudos to the author.
As an owner of a border collie, I'm starting to think that certain animals are too smart for domestication. Raccoons, like border collies, might just be better adept at training their humans, rather than the other way around.

:-)
I'm too old - when I read this my first thought was "Microsoft's stillborn 90's project?"
Think Millipede, where Milli is 1,000. Milli Milli = MM = 1,000 * 1,000.

> MM ("thousand thousands", from Latin "Mille" ...)

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%2C000%2C000
I honestly don't know what the difference is but the number of hops is probably a contributing factor to the decrease in speed. There could be some translation layer happening when going from the CloudSQL instances private IP to public IP with some security checks that slow it down.

I didn't have to worry about the 'ease of connecting' when using CloudSQL as all my GCP services are in the same VPC.

Also, private ip is one less security problem to worry about.
https://www.frbservices.org/resources/financial-services/wir...
You mentioned your backend being a Rails app + serverless functions, what's the benefit of doing both there? What does your video processing infra look like, is that in one of those systems?
It is possible - depends how granular the data is.

For example - drug manufacturers want to know demand so they can plan ahead. But in the UK, doctors, NHS, DOH etc don't share that data of usage as would be granular enough to be possibly identifiable - so how do they get the data.

Well, chemists/hospitals are supplied by a few companies(Think Amazon for drugs/medical supplies) - they can from ordering terminals from those customers, give hourly totals level of demand to the manufacturers if they will pay for it. See, the distributors are and have been in a position for decades to cash in upon selling such data at a level in which you will not identify any single individual ever. Also was secure back then on many levels for transfer. Oh and those rare drugs that only few people have - that and other area's of data is never sold. What data is sold is you everyday drugs, as manufacturing really does have to plan ahead more with some drugs than others, more so when the shelf life various as does storage and then some customers will only take drugs with at least X time left until expiry. So planning supply and demand really does get very complicated, very quickly. Hence knowing as real-time

I've worked upon such a system at a large EU based company 20 odd years ago, also worked at the UK DOH during the transition days from Conservative to Labour and ironical just the other day found the old Tony Blair letter introducing the new future ahead to DOH staff.

Now in this case they say aggregated data, which can be done in a way that if you can pick out an individual, you would of already mastered unscrambling eggs.
is it?

> At present, the soundex, metaphone, dmetaphone, and dmetaphone_alt functions do not work well with multibyte encodings (such as UTF-8).

I#m not sure but most postgres databases use utf-8
Bad analogy. Ban private property when people move on to robbing, then it's just sharing
I am so happy for you. Obviously you are very talented and determined and despite the obvious handicaps this too often shitty world gave you, you are breaking out to the world stage. Congratulations!

How can we help? Do you need money for housing in Europe, better computers, anything? I am quite sure a lot of us would be glad to chip in.
I don't really understand how you can not know the colour (barring turning this metaphysical) unless you live somewhere without any mirrors and even then you'd have to be a very strange child (yes, mathmos, I know) to not be curious enough to ask.
Interesting. How does it work? How can it be free?

I would love to try it, but there's no Linux version.
> What benefit do we as the public gain from this knowledge?

I'm from the EU, but I can imagine that, given that some of the NSA's operations today are only semi-constitutional, where these operations are supposed to be going is relevant to the debate.
tl;dr: deciduous trees send 'scissor cells' to lop off the leaves as winter arrives. This disconnects the plant's "water pumps" (since evaporation through leaf stoma draws water through the plant xylem up from the roots). If the pumps were to run relatively heavily on a relatively windy and warm winter's day, the fresh water in the plant's veins would freeze overnight and present a serious risk of death or inconvenience to the tree. The tree thus sheds its leaves to avoid over-reacting to nice weather in the midst of winter.
I wasn't crazy about not being able to edit the Tweet. It certainly was spammy-sounding and far from my own style.

That said, I trusted Patrick. I figured the content quality in a production with Andrew Warner and Patrick would be high. The relevance to me was high.

Anyone interested in online marketing would likely do well to lend an ear to Patrick's thoughts on SEO. That fits my following well enough. I save $99 and potentially help out followers to get the same content for (nearly?) free.

I'm not sure I'd be interested if the video were completely free. I think they created scarcity that got people to act today and leveraged it into targeted, visible, free marketing. I don't see what there is to complain about. Maybe the deal wasn't meant for you?
> So, how come Ruby is more marketshare than, say, SML?

How much of that still applies if you take away Rails (and all the marketshare that came from it, and all the resulting tools, etc.)? Having a killer application makes a big difference.

The killer application of SML seems to be teaching, and awesome compiler research. With all due respect to SMLers, that's much less likely to interest hordes of average web developers.
This to a certain extent reminds me of the yellow vest protests that we had in France end of 2018, beginning of 2019.

Well it started for a somewhat different reason (a new "eco" tax on gas) but 1 of the protesters claim was that the president had only been elected by a quarter of French people and thus had no reason to stay in power. And we saw some protests turning violent with some protesters losing an eye, hit by rubber ball or gas canister (seen such comments on twitter about the US BLM protests and Trump/BLM protesters clashes). It was said that an helicopter was ready to fly the president out of Paris during the peak of the protests and some protesters managed to storm some ministry.

The social unrest for me is partly to blame on social media. We also see that with the conspiracy theorists on covid19, but people don't watch traditional media anymore. They get information from Facebook groups or some twitter feeds, spend their time commenting on the same topic, see that some other people share the same opinion and thus think a large portion of their fellow citizen share the same point of view. It just reinforces extremist views or make them become dominant within a group.
That're obviously the police...
Sounds like SolarWinds hired a good PR agency with the goal to deflect blame and make it sound like a big conspiracy. JetBrains being a Czech/Russian company makes it the perfect scape goat. As was pointed out, "solarwinds123" hints at very bad security practices which makes some unpatched system or weak password the much likelier scenario. It might well be that the intruders then manipulated the SolarWinds TeamCity config. Would have done the same with Jenkins...
Nice work and great presentation.
> That's pretty neat. Is it actually any faster than just doing four 8-bit adds, though?

The operation itself is not necessarily faster (it could be faster due to pipelining, I think, and it would probably ne faster when storing 8 8-bit ints in a 64-bit int), but it can save the hassle and runtime of packing and unpacking into four variables.
What if Google says, "no"? What if they choose to implement a service that they don't have keys to?
Its a custom-designed niche product. It will be priced accordingly.

You can tell from their "dollar savings" chart that they plan to claw back the money you save in price of the machine!
According to the rep I chatted with this is only open to residents of the US and they've run out of servers for the program.
It was still news to me.
The Taliban have significantly more military skill than the Afghan warlords they've been fighting for the last decade.

Documentation? Plus what does "war lord" mean in this context?

As I understand it, the Taliban would simply represent one faction of rural lords and clerics within Afghanistan. The former-northern alliance was simply another with the groups distinguished a bit by ideology but mostly by the Taliban being comprised of the dominant peshtoon ethnicity.

I mean, both the Northern Alliance (war lords presently making up the Afghan state) and the Taliban were groups origianly brought into existence by CIA interventions in the 1980s. Each faction becomes more or less corrupt, makes one or another alliance depending on the shift tides of war.

The Taliban would have the same difficulty controlling the entire country that the US and its allies currently have
Actually, I was serious. Sales are what count, not plans. Business plans turn into academic exercises. Some of the findings can be valuable, but at what cost? Do you invest months preparing a thorough industry and competitive analysis, or spend that time talking to potential customers to identify and prove a pain-point in the market?

There is certainly a case to be made for business plans in specific instances, such as businesses that require substantial capital, but in most cases, formal business plans are not the best way to invest precious time, and the competitions are poor predictors of future business success.
FWIW, on Windows WPF, Silverlight, and I think Direct2D were designed from the ground up to be resolution independent, with everything vector-based and all dimensions expressed in "virtual pixels", but a lot of programs still use GDI, which is pixel-based. So it looks like the situation is roughly the same on Windows and OSX: new APIs are resolution independent, but until their use becomes more widespread people won't benefit much.
Does any of this research actually matter with the technology we now have? We can sequence a virus. We were able to build a vaccine in one day based upon the sequence. One thing I don’t understand is how the spike protein was identified as the important piece. Was this done by diffing sequences against other coronaviruses?

I’m bothered by the fact that GOF research was banned in the USA, and then the NIH setup funding for it in Wuhan. I think the need and safety of this research should come under serious scrutiny.
And I'm an albino penguin from Mars. If you'd actually have relatives in China you would be able to see very clearly that they handled the pandemic far better than the US. It's disappointing that this generic "don't trust the communists" comment is the top comment instead of any actual debate about the merit of the report or the US gov't's accusations.

> shocked at all if it was a lab virus

That's a useless statement. It's just a weak appeal to authority with no proof in any direction. I live in the US. Me saying that "I wouldn't be surprised" it came from the US wouldn't mean jack squat without evidence.
Is Zig's comptime feature like D's CTFE?
Why is this supposed to be important? It literally doesn't matter if a virus comes out of a lab, if you can find an equally dangerous virus in the nearest bat cave. Being able to blame someone would not solve your actual problems.
1 colloquial or dietary calorie is indeed 1000 scientific calories or 1 kcal.
Targeted exposure and sexual aggression. There’s a difference between “hey dad why is that person naked on the train” and a person masturbating at you while you’re heading to work. Sex crimes due to nudity, or eliminating, are unjust.
Dr Fauci told people masks where ineffective early on in the pandemic, allegedly for the "altruistic" motive of ensuring "front line" workers don't have issues getting hold of masks. Do you attribute a percent of transmission to him?

The final verdict on the efficacy of masks against this virus is still TBD once we have more information and the passage of time removes the political agenda's that cloud this conversation. Your "own the libs" certainly doesn't help either.
I mean, if you say “don’t ever trust” an entire race/sex, then yeah, by definition you are racist/sexist.
I'm all for correcting oversimplified news stories, but I don't understand why you call this "significantly less direct". As far as I can see, it's exactly one step less direct, i.e. as close as you can get without killing them directly. As you say, milkweed is essential for them. It's literally the only plant this species lays its eggs upon.
Surprising. >10us sounds pretty slow to me.
Yes exactly, I'm wondering the same as well...stock trading platforms generally have "good to cancel" GTC or expires at the end of the day, I'm assuming GTC??
Interesting example query choice...
It does as well in a separate request.

There are 3 request locations that I've spotted, at least one to ajax.googlemaps.com, one to amazonaws.com and a few to openstreetmap.org (a.tile.openstreetmap.org and static.openstreetmap.org). Open Street Map provides the map tiles, a jQuery plugin and some CSS. ajax.googlemaps.com provides jQuery itself. I haven't found what AWS actually provides. I just thought it was amusing that this application designed to show off a "security hole" that tracks the user has to use the network in order to work, potentially tracking the user.