skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is your management asking you to do things you wouldn't normally do? As others have said here, this phrase normally means lowering your standards for more money.

But the literal interpretation is somewhat tautological; we all work for money, and we all would like more money. Most of us would do boring things we wouldn't normally do if offered more money -- because most of us are already doing some boring things we wouldn't normally do, for money. Think about it this way; if you won the lottery, would you stay at your current job? Why or why not?

During my 20s and 30s, I worked in film and games and pulled a lot of overtime. At some point, I suddenly realized that I was trading all of my waking hours and all of my available energy for the salary and bonuses I was getting. I was paid reasonably well, and I enjoyed the work and don't have many regrets, but I realized that I had had a price. I was giving up the opportunity to do anything else with my life other than work. After that, my price has gone up, I will no longer do 80 hour weeks for extended periods without the payoff being much higher. I probably still have a price, but thinking more carefully about what I'm trading for that price has led me to make different decisions, and to value my time more.
We call it Filternet now.
ZIP codes don't align with taxing authorities 100%. You also have different types of products that have different rates - no standard "master file with all the zip codes" is going to express all that other stuff.

Yes, it is hard to 'get the right rates' 100% of the time.
Safkow estimated Koko received between 70 and 100 pills a day

Woah!
Let’s say he promotes the subordinate over a few other candidates who all thought they were worthy? You’ve just killed the corporate culture and reputation for meritocracy.
As an engineer the first thing to look at is verbosity. We tend to try and convey as much information as possible. And that too in a single sentence. The end result is that our sentences tend to have 2-3 thoughts all at once. These sentences are easy for an engineer to read. But normal people will be confused.

A good example is the question you have asked. It is overcrowded. You need to decide which piece of information is necessary and what is the sequence which makes the most sense. It might be that "you are fluent in speaking four languages" and "but you have difficult to come up with a clear structure" etc. You get the drift.

If it is possible try and get a copy of "Brilliance Breakthrough" by Eugene Schwartz. I have learned a lot from the book.
If we live in a world of three spatial dimensions, plus one of time, what use is a camera that only captures a two-dimensional image?
This exactly.

Or looked at it the other way: If two people have feelings for each other but suppress resulting actions due to company policy, how would that not influence decision making?
Yes, there are affordable sales tax APIs available for calculating sales tax. Usually massive lookup tables are at the zip / postal code level and don't provide enough granular detail by jurisdiction to accurately collect sales tax. They also don't contain logic around product exemptions, customer exemptions, shipping taxability, sales tax holidays, etc. I recommend using an API if you want to avoid under-collecting or over-collecting sales tax.

However, this is a HUGE change. Instead of registering for a sales tax permit and remitting tax for one state, smaller merchants will have to do this in many states if they meet a certain threshold. They will likely have to use sales tax compliance software to aggregate all of their transaction data across multiple platforms (Amazon, eBay, Walmart, etc) and their shopping cart, then report / remit accordingly.
On top of this there are also conditional taxations and tiers. For instance you pay $x in tax if you've moved $y in product $z in jurisdiction q unless condition c applies. This seems pretty nasty for any business that doesn't have full time legal and accounting teams.
What tools in FF do you think are better than Chrome? Honestly, my computer is beefy (and firmly attached to a power source) enough that performance is rarely an issue with any browser, and Chrome dev tools seem to be superior in most ways, with the slight exception that it's harder to see what events are bound to an element, but the software I develop usually has fairly tight couplings so that feature isn't needed often.

I need someone to make a case that FF dev tools are better than Chrome, simply because without performance being an issue, I need confidence that switching would be a net productivity increase despite having to learn the slightly different tooling of the FF dev tools.
Actually, raw milk has an ivory / yellow tint (depending how much grass the cows have eaten vs hay). Grain and soy feeding tends to produce white milk however.

Holding up a glass of grass fed cow milk to store bought milk really shows the difference. The store bought milk suddenly looks bleached white, like liquid paper.
Shopify/BigCommerce/Authorize.net/eBay/Amazon, etc. will handle it for you. Everyone uses SaaS software at some point in the process nowadays.
"They" sure do want to be paid.

This is a policy, and a lot of people want to and will game to varying degrees. They want to extract money from others using this regulation.

Sure, this sounds nice to have a license, and sure negotiating with Google et al. is very hard, and I'd be happy to help content creators somehow, but this is basically legislating the BuzzFeed model. Mo' clickz, mo' moneyz. That's a very risky deal to enshrine in law.
I'd warmly encourage you to not make excuses or find reasons from your past to justify current maladaptive behaviors. If you're 18+ and grew up in safety, comfort, and with education you possess all the necessary executive functionality to take hold of what life will deal you.
Something you can choose and is not necessary to live (like being the CEO of Intel) cannot br deemed “cruel” in my sight.
Paying sales taxes online for the one state where I have a business that does retail sales takes between 10 and 30 minutes, depending on how complex that quarter's sales were.

Multiply by 50 states, and it's up to 25 hours a month of work.

For those of you who have never done this, sales taxes are a lot more complicated than they seem. In the three states where I've had retail businesses, different types of products have different sales taxes and each has to be reported individually.

It gets exponentially more complicated if your state also has use, consumption, or other retail taxes; and if it requires you to report purchases your company made out of state.

If I had a popular company, even with small sales, I could easily see this becoming a week-long headache I offload onto my accountant, who will then charge me extra.

So not only do I have to raise prices to include the sales tax for various states, I have to factor in the extra accounting expense.
I'd say the burden of proof is on those who claim she did have language.

If you watch the videos, her interpreter takes very simple words, changes them, adds context, turns them into longer sentences, and basically forms Koko's language for her.

I firmly believe Koko had complex and nuanced thoughts and desires, but I don't believe the interpreter was practicing science or interpreting honestly.

There's evidence of this in the sexual-abuse allegations against the interpreter, where she admitted to changing "nipple" to "people" and explained it away as, "Nipple sounds like people!"
Same reason you can reasonably refer to a male-looking acquaintance as "he" without enforcing a policy of using "they" until you have the opportunity to ask what gender they identify with.

Yes, you will get it wrong ~0.1% of the time, but the cost of slight embarrassment one one/both sides is far less than the cost of using non-standard and confusing communication the remaining 99.9% of the time.
Many C programs assume that initializing a variable to all-bits-zero, through memset, calloc, the .bss section, or on the kernel the GFP_ZERO flag, will initialize all pointers within it to NULL. See also: http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=940 ("all 0 bits should be a null pointer on POSIX systems").
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I always think zebras, so i can keep getting surprised by horses.
> As for "UB is frequently described as this scary monster that will eat your hard drive", setting aside that UB could be exploited by an attacker, it's not hard to imagine, for instance, a recursive file deletion routine that is affected by UB misbehaving and erasing more than it should.

I'd figure it's much more likely to happen as a result of a logic error introduced by the programmer, without any UB involved.
New Report Says FAA Should Revise Its Drone Risk Assessment Processes
And where exactly does he say that? Or are you just putting words into his mouth?

BTW, I know exactly where he's coming from. As a computer nerd I've done my fair share of accounting-type work over the years. And when I once downloaded a massive climate data set and looked at it and did some basic analysis on it (it was being used at the time to make some questionable claims about the climate), the first thing that popped into my head was "OMG, they're really cooking the books! Call in the auditors! Call in the law!" As far as I could tell I was looking at either a massive fraud or a major computer screwup; I could go either way here.
Regulations are the problem, imagine wanting to build something and finding out you'll need to spend $20K on lawyers to go through thousands of pages of GDRP.

That's even before hiring a developer to actually build an MVP.

... And people laughed when Trump said he wanted to eliminate two regulations for every one being added.
Very interesting chart in this article that shows more educated people (masters, bachelor's, some college) are less entrepreneurial than they were 25 years ago. On the flip side, less educated folks (high school graduates and non-high school graduates) have seen an increase in entrepreneurship.

"In 1992, 4% of 25-54 year olds with a master’s degree or PhD owned a small company with at least 10 employees. In 2017, this was true of only 2.2%."

Could it be that the cost barrier is lower today than in the past, but there is much more money to be made as an educated employee today than 25 years ago?
Sure, but priorities are a thing. I don't think it's fair to compare this to an origin model exploit.
You're misrepresenting the OP. They were perfectly clear that they weren't objecting to the conclusion, but the poor, cherry-picked evidence that was used to support the conclusion. You can disagree about the quality of the evidence, but please don't put words in others' mouths.
Having lived through a 25 year family court battle that saw multiple new wills materialize, cracked safes, lawyers paid "go away money", possibly the bribe of a surrogate court judge... the same judge who threw two 70+ year old women in jail for contempt of court and then encouraged their lawsuit counterparty sibilings to file for PoA over them without informing their lawyers or their own children...

I believe you.
Still no bounce scrolling! That's like table-stakes if you want to pretend like you're making a decent Mac app.
I've seen other people's browsers with about 40 to 50 tabs open. I think the fact you close them is atypical.
States not having jurisdiction outside of their borders isn't exactly a loophole. If California wants to punish people for buying from Oregon, a state free from sales taxes, it should use its existing use tax and take it up with its own citizens. This ruling is saying that California can tell Oregon businesses what to do.
Refactoring for business owners: understand it and do it right
He also invented JavaScript. Good riddance indeed.
I assumed all of them do it, but maybe not. I’ve been complying with this in Indiana for years, but I agree that I’m almost certainly unusual in that regard.
Buying and Using Cryptocurrency Is Still Hard for Uncle Sam
Time for a new job?
Quick-to-scale architecture for task-based processing
How do you connect GDPR, a European policy, with American regulations? Not everything is politics.
No but they absolutely should. On a slightly tangential note I think there should be a handful of programs focused on domestication of species similar to the Soviet experiments in the domestication of foxes. We could learn a lot more about domestication and in a few hundred years have new pets! I doubt it would even be that expensive on a yearly basis to attempt to domesticate eg lemurs (who are great candidates due to their social/pack behavior in many species, similar to dogs)
Should documentation be entertaining?
Mercedes turns coal power plant into energy storage system with car batteries
And there was that standardized sales tax system that the states were going to adopt but only ~15 did if I recall correctly. I can't remember the name but I do remember that each state then added their own idiosyncrasies to the "standard" and they inserted incorrect data we had to catch.

Or the 100s of thousands of literal exceptions such as "windows 98 physically shipped to a customer once in California on CD so you need to calculate the tax on it as a physical good forever, even when it's sold and received over the internet"
I think that Microsoft is still working on a Chakra version of Node as well. That's probably what I'm most excited about, V8 hasn't had much competition, which means that there's nobody to question its approach to resource usage, garbage collection, etc...

V8 is great for some things, but it falls down hard on low-resource environments. This is one of the reasons why Electron apps are so greedy, you have to kind of do a lot of fighting with V8 if you don't want it to balloon RAM usage. If you have open RAM sitting around, sometimes V8 will decide to just take it so it can defer garbage collection longer, or so it doesn't need to waste time asking for it in the future. From what I've heard, Chakra is better about those kinds of situations.

I would really like to see a runtime ecosystem for Node and Electron that is as competitive as browsers are. Microsoft is probably in the best position to push that.

There's some potential that with a solid competitor they could open the floodgates and encourage other developers to start building browser runtimes that are optimized for specific scenarios rather than a one-size-fits-all approach.
Yes, those platforms may handle sales tax calculations automatically for you for their specific platform. That's only the very first step. Merchants will then need to report and remit their sales tax to each state. If those platforms plan to handle the entire process, trust me they have a ton of work ahead of them if they decide to handle it in-house.
Not sure if you're a US citizen/green card holder or not, but it might be worth mentioning that if so all of your worldwide income is subject to reporting and taxation. If your tax liability in your bona fide tax residence is less than what you would pay in the US, then you owe money to the US.

AFAIK, for US citizens and green card holders, there aren't any income tax advantages to working in a place like Dubai.
Exactly. No tutorial claims to teach you EVERYTHING about the subject. A tutorial is a light weight introduction to a topic.

You're using it wrong if you expect it to be prod grade. New comers have a big task of understanding the language & framework. Writing "prod" worthy things is the last thing on their minds
Political favors are a thing, and the rewards aren't always spontaneous.

These sort of things typically help next time your name is up for a promotion.
> If an EU country is owed tax by people resident within its borders, then perhaps the country's tax authorities should arrange for it to be collected, rather than relying on some foreign entity (e.g. Chinese company) to collect it.

That's the case, no? When I order stuff from AliExpress, the seller's only responsibility is to declare the item value honestly, it's then up to the carrier and local customs to charge VAT, import duties and fees.
Seems like there should already be a service that does this. It's just static data, a microservice would be easy to run.
Technically you're supposed to pay your state's tax, even for a purchase where you were physically in another state. Even if that other state actually charges its own sales tax!
> But what good is it to you, say, to know that I had a warm friendship with my grandmother's partner and that he was the only person ever to manage to teach me how to play backgammon well? I'd guess- not much.

I think you dramatically underestimate the power of people to empathize, which requires great intelligence and (yes) is vulnerable to manipulation.

When you, a virtual stranger to me, write about a "warm friendship" with an elderly person who taught you to "play backgammon well", an avalanche of emotional associations surrounding happiness, childhood, security, caring and many other things wash over me.

Which brings me to the point that communication is an intellectual, emotional, and all-encompassing phenomenon and our attempts to scientifically understand communication between sentient beings (including interspecies) is at present unequal to our ability to perceive meaningful communication is occurring.

One day our scientific understanding of primate cognition may better explain the ability of humans to communicate with non-humans. Until that time, I am among those who trust the reports of Dr. Francine Patterson, Dr. Ronald Cohn, and others who have communicated directly with Koko that Koko was capable of communicating meaningfully.

EDIT: add "scientific" to first sentence of last paragraph.
> Procrastination is the avoidance of activity due to a discomfort/fear/anxiety and subsequent inability to scale the discomfort wall that exists between you and the tasks' completion.

The cause isn't part of the definition. Procrastination is simply the delaying of something, whatever the reason for doing do. One can procrastinate due to wanting to do something else. It doesn't have to be from an aversion.
Ah, the old No resources to do it right in the first place, but plenty to fix it when the sh*t hits the fan and it costs 2x-10x as much.

I've quit multiple jobs over that type of repeated stupidity, and left pay and options on the table. Just intolerable.
I like using google keep. It's more for notes, but has a checklist mode, an android app and a browser mode.
I'm a fan of Kibana, but AnyChart does support some more templates (not that you couldn't accomplish the same chart in either). There's a million of these visualization libraries now and it seems like all of them are basically extensions of D3, so the selling point is the opinionated integrations.

That being said TimeLion has been great for doing some basic exploratory work.
Tesla sues ex-employee for hacking and theft. He says he's a whistleblower
The bias should lead to more caution, but the disclosure was made. The disclosure would have been more ethical if it had been at the beginning - especially because of the likelyhood of people not reading to the end of the multi-paginated format.
Yeah but humans don't have a single consistent logical model for all reasoning - i believe that all my models can be in fol, but i don't believe that they can be unified in fol
The unintended consequence may be to drive business offshore. The de minimis import duty was quadrupled to $800 a few years ago (meaning no duty while US retailers pay duty buying in bulk and incorporate into the US price) and this could be yet another advantage handed to sellers outside the country.
I really looking forward to the actual trial and evidence provided by Tesla. This can actually make or break Musk and maybe Tesla's image. They have insinuated in the mail that this might be an act of sabotage by oil/gas companies and/or short sellers. If Musk/Tesla can't prove those allegations they will be labelled as someone who cries wolf at the first sign of trouble.
It's fun to speculate, but it's worth pointing out that science progresses via actual work.

If you know how to build a machine that senses more than 4 dimensions, please build it and run some experiments! If you can't, then recognize the limitations of critique. Anyone can sit back and say "hey, what if we're doing things wrong?" Scientists already spend most of their time in this area of thinking.

The operative question isn't "what use are our limited experiments?" Scientists know their experiments are limited. The real question is, "how, specifically, can we do new experiments?"

Or for theoreticians, it's not "is our model incorrect?" Scientists know the theories aren't correct... not totally correct, anyway. The real question for a theoretician is, "what new model can I propose that matches all known evidence, and also opens the door for new understanding?"
There's a difference between the feeling, "hey that manager I pass in the halls occasionally is attractive", and "I am in love with that manager".

The first is unavoidable, and although we try to correct for it in internal hiring/promotion processes by referencing assessments from multiple persons and making a data-driven decision, the second is completely avoidable by not dating the person!

After having graduated high school, most adults don't just fall into relationships. It is reasonable to assume intent is present once the connection between two individuals can be considered a "relationship" in this context.
Same as Apple; as a warning to other employees.
More transparency and control in your Google Account
No, they just asked what it's like working as a contractor. They said they were offered a job through a company similar to what I was employed through.
> The idea that artificial intelligence will be achieved by adding a few layers to a "deep" neural network, or by throwing more data at it is laughable.

It's called "cargo cult science" and it's an important part of the AI hype train to keep funding coming.
Last time I reported a security issue to Microsoft I got reply same day and a confirmation that it was in fact an issue some day later. And then a few days later they notified me that my report was eligible for a bounty (I didn't have to ask).

This was the opposite experience of my previous report where the bug was acknowledged 9 months later and then fixed another 3 later.

I wonder if it just depends on whether your report ends up in a escalation path with lots of busy people.
GP means the whole sentence refer to 'the government' as historically it has been the US govt that actually sells arms to Saudi as opposed to individual firms.
The author of the article uses "start up" to refer to a business less than 2 years old - fair enough. As someone who runs a business which falls into this category, it certainly is frustrating to know how heavily our government subsidizes well-funded, monied large corporations (whereas small business owners have very little government-supplied - or otherwise - financial incentive to fuel their endeavor).

I don't suppose I would want them to stop subsidizing certain deals in the private sector with corporate America. A lot of that seems to be smart business to me. But I certainly would like to see the government to place a higher value on small business innovation. Starting something from nothing is already hard enough.
Basically you just described the situation at my first workplace in 2007. To be fair it wasn't a software company, and most of the software was for internal use.
Still. The first proper installation of SVN happened only in 2010...
Recently tried to purchase a batch of P102-100's for mining and hit a dead end, so I'm pretty sure this article is BS.
How the Disposable Straw Explains Modern Capitalism
Tennessee also has a "Sales Tax Holiday" on which certain items are tax exempt during certain times (during the holiday). And because we know how much programmers love date and time manipulations, it starts on "the last Friday in July" (I mean, it kinda had to, to be a weekend).

[1]: https://www.tn.gov/revenue/taxes/sales-and-use-tax/sales-tax...