skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, I live in Toronto and I have been working exclusively for US based companies because of this.

Good Canadian companies offer a maximum of 120k CAD entry salary if you are very experienced, that is 90k USD and taxes are pretty high in Canada. It makes no sense for me to accept work here, thankfully I know a couple of uncommon and old school languages that have kept me employed as a remote developer.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9177105

(This is a longer article about the history of the thing.)
What exactly is a “garbled circuit”?
I would think diffing trees would be necessarily more complex than diffing lines - you can think of the line-by-line description of a file as a tree with at most one child per node, so any algorithm for diffing trees should also automatically be able to diff lines.

Tree diff algorithms definitely exist (I know React.js uses diffs on a virtual DOM to minimize operations), but I'm not sure what the state of the art is for those.
This reminds me of Nozick's Wilt Chamberlain example, which I will quote here:

> Nozick's famous Wilt Chamberlain argument is an attempt to show that patterned principles of just distribution are incompatible with liberty. He asks us to assume that the original distribution in society, D1, is ordered by our choice of patterned principle, for instance Rawls's Difference Principle. Wilt Chamberlain is an extremely popular basketball player in this society, and Nozick further assumes 1 million people are willing to freely give Chamberlain 25 cents each to watch him play basketball over the course of a season (we assume no other transactions occur). Chamberlain now has $250,000, a much larger sum than any of the other people in the society. This new distribution in society, call it D2, obviously is no longer ordered by our favored pattern that ordered D1. However Nozick argues that D2 is just. For if each agent freely exchanges some of his D1 share with the basketball player and D1 was a just distribution (we know D1 was just, because it was ordered according to your favorite patterned principle of distribution), how can D2 fail to be a just distribution? Thus Nozick argues that what the Wilt Chamberlain example shows is that no patterned principle of just distribution will be compatible with liberty. In order to preserve the pattern, which arranged D1, the state will have to continually interfere with people's ability to freely exchange their D1 shares, for any exchange of D1 shares explicitly involves violating the pattern that originally ordered it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchy,_State,_and_Utopia
you're wrong. this shit has gone to shit in the past few years
Announcing the PostgreSQL STIG
I'll take the walk of shame with you. The wrong mixed drinks can easily be ~300 calories. Down eight of those during a bachelor party and then get tacos from the 2am drunk taco stand - easily ~1600 there. Boom 4k. Then let's say you had a normal 3 meals that day @ 2k calories. You just consumed 6k by friend.
What Does War Look Like in the Cyber Age?
If Google (or whoever) decides to reinvent what the word "family" means in a way that doesn't type-check with what the person understands a family means, whose problem is that? The excess child in a 4-child family? Or Google's, when people decide to either start violating ToS and/or move to "Channel Bittorrent"? Maybe it's because I'm one of those Australians with our notorious national tendency towards online piracy I'm a bit biased but it does seem like Google might sensibly choose to err on the side on inclusiveness - just as a pragmatic consideration.

The intent is pretty clear - I'm sure there would be a rather suspicious number of "15 person families" that interlock, span 4 different countries, etc. etc. the minute Google relaxed their ToS. And I can't help but wonder how many really large families genuinely have members spanning an age range where the oldest kid is still at home and little Timmy actually needs his own Google account.
Well, at the rates usually proposed it's a massive tax increase on the poor (especially the working poor benefiting from the EITC) and middle class, and the rates usually proposed don't actually preserve revenue, so in reality it would be an even bigger tax increase on those groups. And it's an even bigger tax advantage to the capitalist class than the existing tax preference for capital income is.

Which is why "FairTax" support lines up with support for other proposals that hurt the poor and benefit the rich.
Chaos: Making A New Science -- James Gleick

I can't recommend this book enough. Go get it right now. It's worth it.
My company does this (although I never thought to refer to it as a "PLaaS" company). While most services out there focus on promotion, launch plan, sales automation, advertising, etc. I find those activities to be mostly about execution. Most startups struggle much sooner than that, with strategy. They struggle in the planning and validation of the product idea and the business model itself. Basically, they shortcut this stuff (often because they love their idea and are already convinced the world wants it). Then they find out after launch how real the real world can be. In reality, there is a ton of work to do way before any of the tactical "go to market" stuff can happen. You have to have an impeccably clear understanding of your value prop, your audience, and your sustainable differentiation. After all, if you don't have a sustainably unique idea that clearly adds value to a well defined audience, you don't need to launch or market your idea. Instead, you need to go back to the drawing board and identify your core value creation more clearly. Also, you need to have a well vetted, living business plan that does more than simply document your intentions. For new business/product/service ideas, we use a proprietary business planning system that focuses on risk management, among other things. As part of the process, we help entrepreneurs understand their customers really well. From there we can build the business around delivering value to them. Any respectable entrepreneur should be busting their a$$ day and night to get their business going, but that doesn't mean they have to do it all themselves. It simply means they have to find a way to get it all done and they have to understand it all. No business gets off the ground by one person working in a silo. So I have respectfully disagree with he comments that the founder must do this work. I strongly believe that founders, just like everyone else, have certain strengths and weakness and the most successful ones find a way to get help in areas where they are not so strong.
I wonder how much effort it would take them to actually get to fully reproducible builds.

edit:

here, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=885777
OK, I know I shouldn't feed the trolls, but this is just crazy.

So, in your scenario, HRC wants Gaddafi's money. So she orchestrates an attack on a US embassy nearly a year after he died, as a false flag operation. And then we sent people in get the money. Of course, officially we didn't send anyone in Libya in response to the attacks except some more marines to guard the embassy, so this group that went in to get the money did so secretly. But then why did they need to orchestrate the attack on the embassy? Why not just send spies in under cover? Also, where is the money in scenario? Is there some big fucking safe filled with gold bars in his palace that none of the militants have touched in that last year?

Oh, also you don't think Gaddafi's execution had anything to do with a prolonged civil war and numerous human rights violations? Or did Clinton also invent the Arab Spring and force Gaddafi to be a brutal dictator for decades?
>>Could you perhaps expand on this observation? I genuinely find it interesting.

Look up "Seattle freeze". It's a real phenomenon sociologists have studied.

Essentially, it's easy to make acquiantences in Seattle, but extremely difficult to make friends. Everyone is polite and friendly on the surface, but any attempt to get to know someone is met with (polite) stonewalling.
Assuming the Westinghouse bankruptcy does not relieve them of pension obligations, etc.
For people paying alimony and child support, you must work or go to jail. And buying cheap stuff goes along with that.
Could you please provide an example?
The lines connecting each explanation to the relevant part of the command line could be tricky to squeeze into a terminal window. You'd could instead create an interface with a movable "cursor", which highlights a single "chunk" of the command line, and presents the explanation for that "chunk" beneath the entire command line string.
So what? Fat people running a marathon does not change the fact that calories in/calories out is, not the most effective, but the only way how this works.

Any diets, workout routines, lifestyle changes, etc. will change in input/output ratio that will give different results.
When I last looked into it, there were over 20k most years (26k in 2016 alone). so more likely closer to 200k (over 8 years), been a while since I looked... In any case, it's a horrific number.
The S&P 500 index is close to that (inflation contributes a bit) for the last 30 years.

Not at all unreasonable.
How many times more effective? As the difference between what humans can do and what computers can do increases, we become relatively closer.
A major theme in non-fiction writing today is to construct a narrative around the events and objects.

That the writer couldn't do this with Chiang is hilarious. Chiang sounds like a great guy at a dinner party: incredibly nerdy and learned, but not playing the normal social games.
There were brands and advertising from the very beginning.
You should probably use king abdullah or vladimir putin as your baseline instead of gates/bezos
Could you tell in README.md what problem does it solve or how different it is in comparison to React?
I'm a quantum physicist (well, we don't say that, I'm an atomic physicist, but for anyone not aware it is 99% quantum mechanics we do all day), and the MWI isn't universally accepted, but it's not universally rejected either. Plenty of important physicists interpret quantum mechanics that way, and I do too (I am not important though). That's not to say I'm confident it's correct, just that it's the most sensible way to understand the theory as we know it so far.

It might not completely solve the measurement problem, in that the purported derivations of the Born rule are hotly contested, but neither does any other interpretation - it gets further than most. I don't see anyone else except pilot wave theory (which violates locality) deriving the Born rule either.

"measurement is not special, and observers are just quantum systems like any other" seems like it ought to be the default assumption to make, in the absence of any evidence to the contrary, and honestly I think the reputation of MWI as a bit crazy comes about for purely historical reasons. Namely, Bohr didn't like it and he held a lot of sway.

Physicists are human, and parallel universes is pretty strange, so most people reject the idea without thinking about it in much detail.

Most physicists' opinions shouldn't count for much anyway, because the measurement problem simply doesn't come up in our day to day work, so most haven't thought about it much.

Furthermore, plenty of physicists don't actually grasp the fundamentals of their own field - they specialise a lot and can use specialised theories to get what they need done without understanding in detail where it came from.

So I really think the decoherence people, as cranky as their website looks and as oddly as they write, ought to be the ones whose opinions count on the matter.

Edit: seriously, check out their website, straight outta the nineties:

http://decoherence.de
Isn't the better population comparison the MSAs (metropolitan statistical areas)? For Boston that's ~5M and for NYC it's ~20M.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Boston
Just the US?
The thing is, there are a lot of people and industries lobbying to keep the tax system complicated: real eatate agents and home builders want the mortgage deduction, oil and gas industries want the depletion allowance, hedge funds want carried interest, et cetera ad libitum. It's nowhere near 0.5% of the influential people in the economy, plus the people it benefits, it benefits a lot, while everybody else, it grinds away a few percent of their welfare.

EDIT to add: plus the incentives for lawmakers are to keep the system complicated, so all the contributions keep rolling in.
Thanks for the awesome writeup. Since you opened up questions:

From the start of your cutover (when you started seeing the 500s) to resolution of the various issues along the way--how much time elapsed? (e.g., deciding to swap client libraries, A/B testing, redis upgrade, shifting load to dedicated instances, implementing proxies/memcached)?

And what was the end user impact (e.g., 50% of users would see timeouts during peak usage for the day, or users using certain functionality would be affected 1% of the time, etc.)

Just trying to get a sense of the level of urgency involved in terms of chasing down all these leads. It seemed pretty methodical, so it's hard to tell if it was a slow-burning persistent nagging issue that you chipped away at over a couple of months, or an all hands on deck sequential process of trying a lot of different things in a relatively short period of time to keep the site afloat.
An obligatory license is a kind of patent. That modifications of our current patent system are possible is not something I'm likely to argue against, and haven't here.

The guy tried. That a spaceship or marvelous benefactor or coincidental prize could have landed and paid him money is true, but not probable. Governments weren't in the business of mining (the application then.) They had no interest, but in any case do you really want them picking winners today? Their record is horrible in that way. You cite a military example with Eli Whitney, but I had answered that in advance. As for industry prizes only he understood that such an advance in fuel-efficiency was possible.

I really don't think you've ever tried to sell an idea of this kind.
there is an issue discussing that; the problem is that the work was done at adobe labs, so they will determine the license.
The other problem with "only tax three things" is that the government wants to raise a lot of money and so [the combination of] those rates end up being really high, and enormous resources are invested in finding ways to make X-instances not technically count as an X for purposes of tax law, and the tax code must balloon to fend off these increasing "attacks".
This is such a great archive.

Our tech team is partially in Minsk, Belarus. As a result I've had the opportunity to sneak to nearby countries and photograph them anytime I go back for work.

The region is still relatively undiscovered to photographers and in many places there are many remnants of the old Soviet Union still around.

There are ghost military towns in Latvia. Soviet spy dish, numerous memorials to WWII, old train stations and tons of brick chimneys that still spew a lot of smoke and steam to provide heat to the city.
There is also something about aged faces of the region. There is so much character and wrinkles in them.
Then you have places like Georgia that have amazing historical village from 12th century and very beautiful mountainous views.
If you have nostalgia like me for the photos in these archives, there are still opportunities to photograph some yourself.

On the side note. Belarus just recently opened a 5-day visa free access to the country.

Georgia and Armenia don't need a visa and they love American tourists. In Tbilisi the main road out of the airport is named after George Bush.

Best of all, US citizens have the best visa options of western citizen to visit Russia. There is a 3-year multiple visit visa that is not available to other European citizens (AFAIK) and with the World Cup hosted there next year, it might be a good time to apply for your visa now.

edit: added some photo samples

https://www.skypixel.com/photos/soviet-secret-spy-dish

https://www.skypixel.com/photos/me-monument-and-snow

https://www.skypixel.com/photos/dji_0680_0686-panorama_skypi...

https://www.skypixel.com/photos/me-monument-and-snow

https://www.instagram.com/p/BMe3U1ABrQS/?taken-by=photojourn...

https://www.instagram.com/p/BLpvdTDB0rS/?taken-by=photojourn...

https://www.instagram.com/p/BHNV4ZfhkD0/?taken-by=photojourn...

https://www.instagram.com/p/BHGEV3ahjDb/?taken-by=photojourn...

https://www.instagram.com/p/BB4qnkbsDnR/?taken-by=photojourn...

https://www.instagram.com/p/BLg2V_OhzHh/?taken-by=photojourn...
Android Auto vs. Apple CarPlay Head-To-Head
presumably because there are other ways to obtain the active ingredient and bypass a high price.
sennheiser 598. Forget that they are on, sound good enough.
For noise cancelling, I use the bose quiet comfort.
He never stated "eat less volume of food", so I take it he ment the general term "calories of food".

How you do it doesn't matter. (eat more volumetric food or stop drinking soda, doesn't matter)
Right! We can't make the government less awful, because happy people might not show us the support we need for our cause to make the government less awful.
Ask HN: How do you deal with anxiety?
I suffer from anxiety and have a hard time dealing with it. Any suggestions?
Yes, obviously mknod is capability checked in the kernel, as there is a capability with that very name. Where else would it occur? I never suggested otherwise.

My point was that in your talk and comments you make some suggestions which I feel are misleading or inaccurate. In some cases this is probably because you are discussing your own implementation. In other cases this is because I believe your use of terminology is incorrect or misleading, eg. capabilities are not 'part of' namespaces, any more than block devices are 'part of' the filesystem. Similarly, the phrase 'unprivileged namespace' comes across as exceptionally obtuse, given that most security checks occur in other kernel subsystems, and a holistic conception is implied by the word 'unpriveleged'. Naming is hard, but kernel terminology should already be consistent.

I can't see us getting anywhere further with this discussion but an honest thanks for taking the time to respond.
It's not a stupid question at all.

In practice the U.S. tax code is not quite as simple as "Here is the tax burden for your income level; tell us if you have any deductions." Right off the bat, you need to determine your "filing status" (single, married, head of household, and some less common options) from a list of five choices, each of which has different rules for all the calculations that follow. Furthermore, for a large portion of people making modest incomes, various tax credits, most notably the "Earned Income Tax Credit" but also education and child-related credits, cause enormous swings in their taxes, for example perhaps from $1,000 to -$3,000 (many people pay negative income taxes).

None of these things can be determined by information the government has. So for many people any "provisional" return that the government is likely to create will be very inaccurate.

Now, you suggest that maybe this would just be some sort of provisional return that could be adjusted to match your correct situation. That is a fine idea. But in order to make that convenient, the government would basically need to develop their own implementation of TurboTax. That has its own issues (is the government likely to do a good job? will they apply the laws in a biased way?) but even if they are resolved we are still talking about a vastly greater effort than "just give people a pre-filled return." So I would ask advocates for simplifying tax filing to either admit that they are demanding that the government author its own fully-featured tax preparation software, or explain how they will otherwise address the complexity of the U.S. tax code.
Honestly, I think it'd be better to start a non-profit that releases tax software, first. It could compete with tax software, like from Intuit & H&R Block, as most of the needed services are rather simple. It would either charge just enough to cover costs, or be completely free, if donations for the year was sufficient. The tax software support could be done on a contract basis, where people certified people could login and handle queries on an hourly rate. The work from home crowd would love it.

Build it out enough, and then push a few legislative mandates:

1. All taxes have to be easily payable in tax software.

2. All taxes have to be payable online.

3. Every tax jurisdiction has to offer a tax estimation service, where they can download pre-calculated data to use in tax software.

Should make predatory companies like Intuit disappear in less than a decade.
Iceland (where I'm from originally, so I'm familiar with it) is already your worst nightmare when it comes to this. There's a 500 page PDF[1] exhaustively detailing every product category and what tolls & fixed fees you pay on certain products. Ketchup 0% toll, Mayo 0% but 19 ISK per kg etc. Turn to page 50 and you can see different tolls & fees for different types of cabbage.

It's an entirely byzantine system, but because it's happening when products are imported, or at the point of sale, it's vastly easier for consumers than an equivalent system that works through tax rebates.

Things on that list occasionally become a political issue. E.g. the tax on added sugar has gone back & forth a couple of times depending on who's in government.

Still, this adds zero complexity to your tax return, or to the average person's interaction with the government or private businesses.

1. https://www.tollur.is/library/Skrar/Tollskra/Tollskr%C3%A1%2...
Both solved by only allowing politicians in office to receive money directly from individuals at the rate limit and of course their pay checks. SuperPAC's can't give them money. Lobbyists can't give them money. That eliminates large part of the incentive.

There's other to tackle such as advertising. One way to do that might be that any paid advertisements for or against a politician must be paid for by the politician's registered donations. Corporate media might then try to offer extra due to their bias or for favors. That's an unknown right now, though, given they currently do it in exchange for the ad revenue that would go down a lot.
Which is also one of the big reasons the US is one of the few countries that don't automatically add on sales tax.
One of the first industries to see automation happen was the textile industry with the invention of the punch card and eventually the power loom.

A hundred fifty years later the (manual) handloom textile industry is still the second largest source of employment in Rural India after agriculture.

So why has automation of the loom not displaced all these weavers? There are many factors and one of the big ones is - automation isn't magic. It doesn't self-fix flaws. It doesn't upgrade itself. Master weavers can.
Some South Koreans have been predicting NK's demise since the 90's. They didn't collapse then, and I don't think they would now.

For nearly a decade South Korea's conservative government said they may collapse any time, and South Korea's strategy to deal with it was essentially "cut whatever ties we have, guard our borders tightly, starve them out and (some magic happens here)." First, it deprived us of whatever small leverage we used to have, and second, collapse of NK will be a total economic disaster for SK. Europe has trouble dealing with five million Syrians. North Korea has 25 million people and all they have to do to enter South Korea, should their nation fail, is to walk south.

That's not discrediting that North Korea is a thoroughly unpleasant criminal state which has no right to exist. But they do exist, and will continue to do so in the foreseeable future, and anyone trying to deal with NK had better take that into their plan.