skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I think one could reasonably attribute the growth for the first decade or two after tax rates began increasing to the momentum built up during the previously laissez faire era.

It's a bit much to expect growth to peak during the era 20-40 years after laissez faire ended, and think that it was because of the previous laissez faire policies.

>Supply chains, investor sentiment, etc all take time to change so a tax hike might not make its effect on GDP immediately evident.

These things did not use to be so sophisticated a century ago.

Without a doubt at least, high taxes and health and wealth clearly coexist in many countries. In fact, outside of some tiny countries and also some countries with oil wealth, it's the only form in which wealthy countries exist in this world.

And at the state level in America, this pattern is even clearer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_income

Except for Alaska (small population, vast natural resources), every state in the top 12 by income is liberal-leaning in its voting patterns.

Likewise, except for New Mexico, every state in the bottom 16 by income is conservative-leaning in its voting patterns.
May I suggest that you prepare mentally to read all the recommended books in the next ten years or so.

After you get into that mindset, pick one from the curated list and stick with it.

This will greatly enhance your experience with the book by reducing the anxiety that you might be reading the "wrong" book and missing out on the unicorn book out there, which you will read eventually.

In my experience, having that mindset (all vs mutually exclusive) diminishes the importance we give to the choice of the book, because we'll read them all. When the choice becomes less important, we spend time actually reading books instead of deliberating on which books to read.

My book recommendation include:

- "A Course of Higher Mathematics" - V.I. Smirnov.
- "Differential and Integral Calculus" - N. Piskunov.
- "Problems in Mathematical Analysis" - Demidovich
Sounds horrible overall but I found this part interesting.

> One intriguing finding is the frequent report by subjects, both during and after recovery from the drug experience, of the illusion of red coloration of the skin, both their own and that of undrugged personnel who are with them. One or two individuals have thought their hands were bleeding when washing them under the tap. Whether this is an optical phenomenon related in some way to engorgement of retinal blood vessels or is central in origin is not known.

Reminded me of one's own (and other's) skin looks to be very `crocodile-like` and almost as if you can see all the veins underneath it when one is under the influence of DMT.

Found the following to be a quite amusing way to put it:

> [The] particular concatenations and distortions of language elements are almost impossible to imitate – they seem to result from an extreme loosening of the entire verbal associative system. As such, they may create a humorous effect,since the shift is so rapid and unpredictable that at times their remarks have the flavor of creativity and wit (the things that subjects say and do, in fact, are often very funny and it is sometimes difficult to keep from laughing at their antics, professional standards of decorum notwithstanding).

> During severe delirium, attempts to clarify the intended communication by asking the subject to repeat or explain something are usually futile. It does not do good to say 'What do you mean by that?' because the subject does not know what he said, does not really grasp the question and my not realize what he is saying when he answers.
A real problem I've found in Australia is the overuse of fog lights. People will drive around the suburbs with four lights blasting from the fronts of their SUVs. It's widespread, it's dangerous, and it's illegal, but it's apparently not enforced.
I prefer to do database work on the database, instead of wasting network traffic with useless data.

Never was into a project where the overhead of writing DB independent code was worthwhile. Usually moving to another DB meant rewriting big portions of the application anyway.

Stored procedures are also a good escape hatch for some of the ORM limitations regarding SQL capabilities.
The GitHub wiki for VIPS has a page [1] very relevant to GP's question. It lists two dozen alternatives to VIPS (both command line tools and libraries) and compares how they performed on a load-crop-scale-apply convolution-save task. The source code for each implementation of the task is right there on the page.

[1] https://github.com/jcupitt/libvips/wiki/Speed-and-memory-use
The statistics you cite say absolutely nothing of how CPD treats the homeless, or how many of their homeless are off the streets because they're instead incarcerated.

If you applied Chicago's policing practices in San Francisco, you would have a whole lot less homeless people.

Chicago also enjoys the luxury of being relatively unattractive as a destination for the homeless. San Francisco is a magnet for the homeless, which certainly contributes to the disproportionately high numbers for its size.

San Francisco obviously has the resources at its disposal to do good things about it. I look forward to something positive in the future. I am not an SF resident, nor do I own property there, though I have spent quite a few years in the area.
> advertising where we convince people to buy things they don't really need is a far worse form of heat loss.

The core business of advertising is making people chronically dissatisfied with their life. Not only does it cause economic waste, but it brings people down. Ad blocking (online and IRL) is not only a matter of privacy, it is a matter of sanity.

On your original point, please sing along gaily...

Grow theee...
Grow theee...
Grow the economy

Exponentially
we rise and we rise
and we tear up the skies
we...

Grow theee...
Grow theee...
Grow the economy

Like a kick-ass cancer
Hyperinvasive
And when everything's ruined
What will we do?
What will we do?
Cancer thank you!

Grow theee...
Grow theee...
Grow the economy

Just like rabbits in Australia
Grow the economy
Wildfires in California
Grow the economy
Nagasaki, Hiroshima
Grow the economy

The earth is like an apple pie...
Let's eat it and let's die!

Do you want some more? It's delicious :-)
That's a logical bias,
if that's how you did psychology experiments you'll be relegated to posting on the hacker news of psychology.

There's a reason why most human experts are blind.
On Windows, CapsLock is my Push-To-Talk key, so I remap it to F9 or something "useless" via KeyTweak.

On Linux, it's my meta/compose/whatever key, so I can write äöü on UsIntl via caps-aou ( https://github.com/winks/dotfiles/blob/master/.us-intl-germa... )
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/pay-attention/201511...
Dont have to read the article, yes you can.
We know this. Other people have just had no reason to think or care about it, despite not necessarily being stupid.

Even when the information is readily available (and obvious to those who know), if nothing prompts you to look for it, you won't see it.
A domain name is--in a sense--property. It can be bought and sold, garnished to pay off debt.

Utilitarian logic doesn't apply here.
Take a look here:

https://archive.org/details/usenethistorical

"This historical collection of Usenet spans more than 30 years and was given to us by a generous donor"

This group for example, from that collection:

https://archive.org/download/usenet-comp/comp.emacs.mbox.zip
[69.8M]

includes posts spanning from December 1988 to June 2013.

For some reason the mbox files have an odd format, with From lines that look like:

From -8118066241627336028

I wrote some scripts to fix that so I could open the mbox files in Mutt.

BTW, found the above links on this page:

http://ryanfb.github.io/etc/2015/02/23/early_usenet_history_...

which has more info & links about historical usenet archives.
Yes. "Obey our rules or stay out of our market" seems like a reasonable thing.
>a person's view of the factual reality you live in, which tends to remain intact even in stressful situations.

if youre forced to stay awake for a week straight your view of reality will entirely dissolve.
Your statement about new shiny smartphone being a heat loss implies that there's some objective measure of what's worthy of resources and what's not. I don't think so.

Life has no meaning, and there's no inherent value in anything. How people decide to spend resources that they have is their responsibility. Thankfully, money, together with open markets is an extremely effective mechanism of conciliating millions of such decisions. So, if millions of people decide that they would rather buy a new phone than, I don't know, help starving children in Africa – it's their responsibility. Blaming it on advertisement is a view that presents these millions of people as helpless children, who are so easy to manipulate that they can't even be responsible for their own decisions – which is very far from the truth.
First time I've heard of this problem there was "Buzof" - maybe nearly 20 years ago? I just googled and it still exists: http://www.basta.com/Buzof
I think many businesses are implementing productivity improvement work which consists of a) an investment in engineering time and b) moving things around. I think to most people moving things around is the only really visible part. I think this leads to others simply copying the 'moving around' part in order to attempt to gain productivity improvements. The most common example of this nowadays is people moving their infrastructure into a cloud provider. If this is not done right and the investment made in the engineering time to deliver a more productive result, it's going to be worse than not moving around.
Every site has privately-owned provider. The provide runs on privately-owned platform (like AWS) or has a computer in privately owned data-center, connected to privately-owned ISP.

There are no street corners on the internet. And there never will be.
I can definitely relate to your position and I imagine a lot of other engineers would also relate as our skills sets tend to mean the engineering part comes more naturally but the soft skills take a lot of work.
I would recommend reading books or forums about non CS specific interviews, body language and soft skills.

I'm in my mod thirties now so have had quite a lot of experience interviewing and recently being the interviewer so have noticing a lot of patterns. It is amazing how often the questions get repeated, if you spend an hour writing down all the likely questions I am sure you will cover 80% of the questions of any interview. Then spend a few hours writing two or three ideal answers to each of the above questions. Such questions would include :
-what has been the proudest project you have worked on?
-what have you been doing the last few years with your time while not working? (I'd, recommend referring to your open source contributions or doing background learning here)
-what are your goals?
- how do you deal with confrontation?
- how do you deal with pressure etc?

You could say all boring questions but you are very likely to come across them in an interview and crafting a positive response to each one and practicing it out loud, ideally with a friend or two in the mirror will help tremendously.

Also get an experienced friend to review your resume, it is amazing how many talented engineers get overlooked because of lack of attention to detail on their resume.

It was good advice above by @saganus about interviewing a lot as it is definitely a skill which takes practice . After each interview push for feedback, some will say they can't say but a lot will give you honest feedback which is very helpful. You can also try this with a friend or someone online over video chat.

Finally I would consider getting a less glamorous CS job in the interim to help pay the bills through school and get back in the industry. Tons of web agencies are crying out for engineers and while it may not be your long term goal, a role like that could help you get your foot back in the door, pay the bills and give you time to get setup for your end game or save for more expensive university.

I've thrown a lot of advice here but hope some helps, as mentioned above getting interview and career ready is an ultra marathon not a sprint. :)
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The issue is that cases set precedent.
> I believe there are power and compute related reasons that you actually do need there to be a central service that manages location data.

That may be, but they could open up that service for me to run on my own server, rather than through them.

> And I guess at that point you could say "but then there should be a single tool that does location management for apps and location tracking should be entirely separate", but I'm not sure why that's any better than "there's one app but you can toggle off the objectionable parts in a really straightforward way".

I'm not following what you mean by this. Can you expand?

> If every app had to do its own geocoding, you'd have disparate experiences in apps.

And? I already have disparate experiences in apps for tons of reasons.
Lewis just turned in his grave at the context to which you've applied his quote
You know how in the 1980s everything was corporate suits and shiny expensive PDAs and that was fashionable, and then in the 1990s grunge happened?

Well, maybe the 2020s will look like Neocities.
Not claiming "weirdest" by reading the other comments - but this is one off the top of my head.

Application A is multi-threaded, huge, hardly maintained. It also constantly crashes. Would've probably taken a few ace C++ programmers quite a while to iron them all out.

Solution? Write a custom watch-dog application that restarts it once it crashed. (This was on Windows, and a while ago. Being a *nix guy myself, I've no clue if something -available- like daemontools could've been used back then).

Let's say I didn't know whether to facepalm or stand in awe.
> while I believe most French parents do not spank their children, nor did it in recent years, the Law is rather new:

I think the French law on this topic is more or less aligned on international standards which are quite recent at WHO or in EU.

But one of the first regulations in France about spanking in school was passed in 1795 (even if I saw some violent teachers in the 60")
There are so many things wrong with this.

But ok, if you assumed that "survival of our civilization" equals the survival of certain biological lineages, wouldn't the most efficient solution be to increase research into in-vitro fertilisation and synthetic sperm and remove men from the equation completely?
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The US government doesn’t need hate speech laws to abuse & suppress unpopular speech, the just use national security laws:

http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/encycloped...
Cleaning Up Domain with Domain Registry
How do you blacklist people who cheat when a proxy server and a freshly generated public key can make them appear as a new node in the network?
Appealing to people’s sense of outrage is perfectly justifiable if the outragenousness is rooted in facts.
It's really surprising to see that even here people can't see where this is heading. I thought it was in a hacker's most basic instinct to be able to see how tiny little, almost insignificant, steps can lead to something big. But fine, maybe you haven't been paying attention to the other parts of this.

For a start, have you talked to people outside of your bubble? Do you know what "web browser" means to most people out there? It means Google. Honestly, go out and ask people.

The Internet is not such a big place any more. It is very centralised. You might think that if the worst happens you can just host videos yourself but I think you would be mistaken. To do that you need to use one of a small handful of CDNs. Good luck trying to host your own server now.

It's been the case for a while that most people have had asymmetric lines, ie. a poor upload speed, so we ended up going the centralisation route.

Add to that the loss of net neutrality and the prevalence of "devices" as opposed to general purpose computers and I would ask you: do you still fail to see how the slope is true?
While i agree with your view here i think app developers have proven over and over again that this is no longer a reasonable expectation we can have as users. We need more and stricter sandboxes for everything.
A few things:

Yes, normal setup for TLS 1.3 always does ephemeral keys for forward secrecy first.

If some alternate protocol started by sending data encrypted with a remote server's public key this data can be replayed by attackers, just like with 0-RTT in TLS 1.3, this problem is unavoidable for 0-RTT protocols.

But where should we get a public key from anyway? If it came from a previous session, the resumption PSK is better. If we got it by guessing, maybe checking a central store of known public keys, then it might be wrong and we have to start over any time it was wrong anyway.

We have to wait to see the certificate (and transcript signature) in the normal case because until we see the certificate (and signature) we have no proof we're talking to whoever we wanted to talk to, and even if the wrong person can't decrypt the message they can replay it at their leisure.

Note that "waiting" for these is an exaggeration, in TLS 1.3 the server sends both its half of the key exchange AND the certificate with the transcript signature AND any extra metadata in a single message, it's just conceptually separate because the latter part of this message is encrypted while the first part agreed the keys for encryption, so the client needs to think about them separately.
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Maybe you can be one of those solo entrepreneurs where everything is automated. Pick a niche that is very boring and are currently done by mundane manual work. For example accounting. Kick start by taking an existing product and sell the patchwork/scripts as a module/plugin. Maybe something like SAP. Don't quit your job until you are profitable though, and can just kill the project if it doesn't work out. It usually takes a few tries and a lot of learning until you figure out what works and what doesn't as an entrepreneur. eg. selling something people want (a faster horse) vs trying to sell something you think they desperately need (a car). Eg. pick the low hanging fruit, and don't be tempted to solve the hard problems until you have enough resources.
1. Convenience is fuckup of all the privacy

2. Old enemies Google and Facebook unite when it goes to privacy breaches.

3. Do they know my porn preferences (damn you cross browser fingerprinting)

4. Well, Instagram showed my that pretty unknown girl follow, suggestion just hours after getting out of train. That was pretty coolscary.

5. Insomnia made it. I woke up in the middle of the night just day after I put custom mod on my ole Android phone. Found out that Google Keep wanted to have my location (just like from nowhere). Went to the store next day and bought iPhone. Never looked back.
All effective political organizing appeals at some level to emotions. Appeals to pure reason is the domain of dusty technocrats who are content to fiddle with the knobs on a fundamentally unjust system.
The general public probably also expects a guy with the name Nissan to be the owner of the company selling cars under his name. The available namespace is limited and sometimes the expectations of the general public are wrong. https://firefox.org/ isn't owned by Mozilla either.
Indeed and it also well describe my feeling as a parent about France's (sometimes) invisible ADHD.
There is this thing called email.
Ask HN: Conflict of Interest while freelancing
I'm a freelancer in Germany, and I'm waiting for the new project to be finalised. Meanwhile I'm working on a ML based app, and a startup approached me to do some hourly work. The startups is in the same space as my product, and is similar in some ways to my app. We've not signed a contract as I'm planning to work only 10-16 hours for the startup. I've not yet started the work (for the startup) yet.

Will there be potential conflict of interest/ legal issues in the future if I launch my product?

Should I take some steps to indemnify me from the other startup?

Any help is highly appreciated.
Such bullshit. My father believed this nonsense that “ADHD is a conspiracy (theory) to control children, therefore it doesn’t exist and medication is unnecessary.” No, they don’t understand how the other kids will label the ADHD kid as weird, exclude them and they won’t be able to complete tasks they start.. because it’s emotional and/or executive function disregulation. Watch the great videos on YT to learn more about the horrible possible side-effects of untreated ADHD: homelessness, joblessness, friendlessness, lovelessness, depression, anxiety, suicide, etc. And ADHD is extremely treatable as well.

- Lifelong undiagnosed ADHD
>Now within the new law, this gives a small business a good opportunity

No. Laws and regulations are never a good environment for startups. Big Cos, on the other hand love them. Until they become too much even for them.
The lesson here is to be cooperative and nice to people, with this being a two way street. Neither Nissan was nice.

Nissan the company could have asked nicely before going in heavy with the lawsuit.

Instead of the lawsuit they could have played the long game and just bought the better URLs - nissan-cars.com, nissanUSA.com, nissan-usa.com, nissan-colorado.com, nissan-kentucky.com and just buried the problem that way.

In time the domain would come up for renewal, in time the owner might give up interest in owning it. In this instance, due to the surname, it is unlikely that the Mr Nissan would just give it up, but if Nissan the company really did not appear to be interested in the domain beyond a fair but reasonable price, what could Mr Nissan do about it?

By pretending he is in a David vs Goliath struggle for freedom and democracy, Mr Nissan has proven himself to be an idiot. He could look at his computer service offerings and laugh at how unmarketable his services are. Nobody would hire him except an old grandmother using a computer for the first time ever and needing help to plug in a mouse. By no stretch of the imagination does Mr Nissan offer goods/services that befit the marketplace.

Why is this?

Because he has decided to have his petty spat with the Nissan motor company. His website is an embarrassing folly.

Another aspect of the folly is ego. If you have a common name that can be confused with other things then you don't use it in the confusable form. 'nissan-computers.com' - as proposed by Nissan was generous, 'a-b-nissan-computers.com' with some initials at the front is fine. Or you use your street name, or your cat's name. In putting your customer first why would you present a confusing business name?
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