skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard to take the article serious when it starts with "Germany uses a complicated formula to calculate taxes" and then shows... six tax levels plus an addition.

"This rather complicated formula" is a seventeen-liner (including closing parens on their own line and including the function signature)!

I mean, yes, German tax law is notoriously complicated in all kinds of corner cases and with many exceptions and special rules, but this article is only concerned with the straightforward and easy main calculation.

And what a great presentation of the findings!

"The line chart above tells us that there is a "sweet spot" at around the 7th month or at the 1280 hour."

Unfortunately, the accompanying chart doesn't show months or hours, but is labelled with days.
GitHub asks to change password
ISTM that amounts to the same thing? MIME is Base64.
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This reminds me of an incident that was entirely my fault where I was using a USB dongle that allows you to use standard RC aircraft transmitters (joystick controllers) as input devices for software flight simulators and I somehow ended up sending a 3S RC battery (11 volts) through it to my computer monitor’s USB port, completely frying the monitor.
If Rust doesn't find its "killer app" I don't see it rapidly growing like Go (network services, containers) or Swift (everything Apple). Widely displacing C is a pipe dream. A more realistic hope is that it will become the wasm language. But if it misses that boat I fear it will remain relatively niche.
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Rust is increasingly frequently taught in schools; and when Haskell or OCaml are taught in schools, it's usually as part of a "programming languages" survey course where you learn a little bit of a few languages of different paradigms, and I expect that most students won't really retain much from the class a year or two later unless it helped them develop an independent interest in functional programming.
I recall somes states are [going to?] simply making any forced arbitration clauses unenforceable (much like no compete clauses in California)
Eh, took a couple of weeks at max for me. Although my coworkers keep wondering why I keep toggling Caps Lock on their machines if I ever need to help out with something.
A non-starter. The US company would have mandatory binding arbitration with a no class action clause in the contract noone pays attention to when they get the service. The arbitration details are secret. You would never know what others have attempted in the same argument against a similar US company. US company would, of course, know all the past attempts against them and know best how to argue.

As the arbiters may be blacklisted by the US company for ruling against them, they tend to bias to ones that favor the corporation against the human being.

In Corporate Ruled America, he'd have never received his "day in court". You do not get to use courts of law against a corporation in the US.
I'm about 99% sure that this will get about < 10 downloads. Heck, I've already switched to PR #4855 code, and am applying my other changes forward on top of it today. I've also got a followup post where I talk about the next steps I'm taking.

Good code is good code.
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Our stack and processes: Union is Rails, React, Redis, Postgres, Elasticsearch. We run on AWS, and our operations are powered by Ansible. We use scrum because it provides just enough process to make us productive, but we try to avoid some of the major pitfalls by letting our whole team chime in on the process. We do continuous integration and delivery.

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This happened to my machine! It fried almost all my peripherals including causing my USB keyboard to spark and smoke (ruining a $300 HHKB). After a bunch of frustration and a long week, Apple just replaced the logic board, but I am afraid the problem will return. I recommend bringing your computer in on any sight of weird shocks or sounds before all your data is fried.
soner or later you will need to solve the same set of issues that virtualenv and pipenv try to solve.
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Couldn't the service providers simply counter by offering Domain fronting as a premium feature at $1M/GB transferred? Or are we going to over-legislate service providers to essentially place them under government control when they refuse service to a given customer out of rational self interest?
Your right, not apple music, I mistranslated there:).
Appreciate the fact checking:)
My experience with the new USB-C only macbook pro has been a complete and utter disaster.

I had one machine fail within the first month: all usb-c ports stopped responding. You can't charge it, you can't reset the SMC because it requires the charger to be plugged in (through a usb-c port... which isn't working! hurrah!), you can't dump anything from it to external media. Basically a paperweight. Returned to Apple.

The second machine is still up, but the "hub" that apple gives you the honor of paying 75 dollars for to get any subset of reasonable ports won't properly handle external displays and a usb-3.0 hub unless I plug them in in a very specific order.

I have to do that every time I unplug the machine to go somewhere else. It won't accept the charger through the hub anymore, so I have to plug in multiple cords anyways. It won't handle multiple displays through the hub, so I have to plug in 3 connections.

Not gonna lie, I was very excited by the usb-c push early on since it consolidates all my chargers to a single cable.

On my XPS it works fine. There's only one port, but everything works as expected, it charges, it handles thunderbolt.

Apple screwed the pooch in a huge way with their latest macbook models. shittiest computer I've used in a long time.

I genuinely believe that apple's implementation of USB-C in their products is just crappy, since I've used other machines and docks without issue.

Throw on top that the battery life while running a VM on the thing is literally 1% drain per minute (I wish I was joking...) and I'd recommend literally anything other than the new 15 inch touchbar macbooks.

They're shitty machines for developers. Honestly, they're shitty machines for anyone, but they're particularly painful for anyone trying to work on them.
Good on them for letting you know.
"Is the movie in 3D?"
"No, but your face is!"
Today we would consider his role in Valley Girl as stalkerish.
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Snap plunges after missing on revenue and daily active users
As a woman, it's a basic safety protocol to at least check that a man doesn't appear obviously crazy before going out with him.
(slightly off-topic) Am I the only one who notices the static(?) happening when Macbooks are plugged in? Symptom 1, brushing your hand against the aluminium feels weird, this doesn't happen when you remove the charging cable. Symptom 2, back when I used wired headphones I could clearly distinguish the static noise when the system was plugged in, it would go away if I touched the laptop or, again, remove the charging cable.

edit: I'm in Tunisia right now, and every socket here seems to have the 3rd prong thingie which I can only assume it's the ground connection. So I can confirm petronic's account, no symptoms here whatsoever.
> So anyone building a consumer focused business that relies on a graph should be pretty paranoid about what the future may hold, just as anyone in the retail/ecommerce world is already scared of amazon.

Just don't go after generic solutions, but choose a niche.
What do you mean by companionship? And what does FB meets Tinder actually entail?
Unit sales across the iPhone, iPad and Mac were a bit disappointing but better than I expected. Still, AAPL is a behemoth and the buybacks and dividends are welcome news
Doesn't this violate standard vertical tying laws?

"The basic idea is that consumers are harmed by being forced to buy an undesired good (the tied good) in order to purchase a good they actually want (the tying good), and so would prefer that the goods be sold separately. The company doing this bundling may have a significantly large market share so that it may impose the tie on consumers, despite the forces of market competition."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tying_(commerce)
Looks like a cool product
On the other hand, I own only the Gear VR, and this looks like the logical next step up for me.
chasing the symptom is easier than identifying and addressing root causes, which are as varied as the people who are homeless, do no real good.

I think more people need to do more good in this world.
Let's say I have an account on a federated server and a censor then blocks my ability to access that server from my home country.

While it's true that my friends on other servers might be able to send messages that will arrive on my chosen server, that distinction isn't very meaningful because I am unable to connect and retrieve those messages.

I wouldn't be communicating with my friends until I switched to a new server and rebuilt my social graph.
After Years of Denying He Built Facebook to Get Dates, Zuck Adds Dating Tools
I am very hesitant to remap anything since it ruins me for other computers. So I just travel with a small mechanical keyboard instead. Has the added benefit of always having a USA keyboard with me when I am in europe.
ESC key is big downer. It isn't my laptop but I would not buy or suggest anyone buy one without said key :).

I didn't had problem with USB, so I see it as a win, when single charger can charge laptop and my phone.
How is cheating only an issue in academia? It shows a lack of ethics and a lack of knowledge on the part of the student, and these are things that are quite important to being able to do a good job in the real world.

You say "the current system is stupid", "academia is an artificial world", and "past projects and word of mouth" are what matters. Past projects and word of mouth are both systems that are ripe for manipulation by having the right social / marketing skills. Coincidentally, you can also appropriate other people's work and pass it off as your own, perhaps without getting caught. I think I'm beginning to understand why you value these highly.
ET was a bankable director's hobby project.

The two Star Wars movies were still sequels, even if the franchise was new in the 70s. Star Wars wore many of its pulp Hollywood adventure series and World War 2 movie influences on its sleeve.

The three Indiana Jones were two bankable directors' hobby project. In turn, they were heavily based on early Hollywood adventure serials and pulp adventure novels.

Ghostbusters was bankable comedians' hobby project.

Beverly Hills Cop was a "cheap" film in a bankable genre (cop film), that was easy to franchise if successful (which it was, and did).

I won't directly harp on BTTF that much, but some combination of all the above applies to it, too.

5 of those 9 all directly involved Spielberg, in one capacity or another, which is another way for Hollywood to avoid risk by betting on the non-riskiest "risk taker" they can find. (Given Lucas' relationship with Spielberg, you can argue that Star Wars also benefited indirectly from Spielberg's "golden touch" in the 80s, bringing the count to 7 of 9.)

But looking at the Top 10 isn't particularly fair in any decade. For every ET and Ghostbusters there were six of the seven Police Academy movies and seven James Bond films, for two easy 80s examples.
FWIW I do the same on Windows. Not usable without that change.
"If everyone just behaved themselves" is a solution to basically every problem humanity has, but it is pretty clear by now that that is not something we can depend upon. The tragedy of the commons is real and ongoing.
> Given that Redhat directly employs most of the kernel and system devs that contribute to Fedora, I wish I could contribute in some monetary way

Aren't you contributing by beta testing Red Hat's products for them?
>You can't use TLS and load balancing hacks to pretend to be us in oppresive countries

They're not pretending to be Amazon, they're pretending to initiate a connection to an Amazon domain. The "conversation" goes like so:

Clear text request: "Hello, I would like to speak TLS with souq.com"

Clear text response: "Why yes, let us do that with these parameters"

Encrypted request: "Please give me the page for signal.org/api/whatever"

etc...
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Is that surprising? What's the typical error margin?
Please re-read. It's spiped. Fixed 1k blocks, but otherwise reasonable.

But #4855 is going to be merged, and my tests show that #4855 is actually faster than my changes, so ... :)

I like not having to be responsible for writing SSL/TLS code, even if I just spent 9 weeks doing it. :P
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Fair enough, but it's getting better, especially thanks to CT as you point out.
What country are you from and how old are you? I find it incredible anyone could be so naive about how oppressive organizations operate.
Please edit title to "remote (US only)".
Ah yes, David Chisnall. Another Cambridge wannabe without a hope of tenure track who thinks he is cleverer than he really is and makes a bunch of trite points over and over hoping to get some attention -- not realising they've been made for over 20 years. Have an original thought David, and stop feeling smug. You're not.
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