skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Really not a big deal.

Says someone who has never experienced being beat up by a group of young men because of my race in just such a neighborhood as you described.

Growing up in a bad neighborhood, I didn't exactly have a choice to leave (until my parents bought a house in a better neighborhood in my late teen years.) I remember vividly the frozen blood on the concrete sidewalk across the street from my childhood home when leaving to walk to school - someone had been bludgeoned the death in the middle of the night.

Before I had a car, my girlfriend at the time lived in an even worse neighborhood (where shootings were a common/daily occurrence) the anxiety I experienced walking to the bus stop from her house, then waiting downtown for a transfer at a bus stop across the street from public housing, etc - that feeling is so vivid in my memory even though it's been 20 years. Not everyone shares the same experiences, and thus have the same values & priorities. Even after getting a car my troubles weren't quite over. I was nearly carjacked after dropping off the same girlfriend at her house at 11pm on a Friday night - he managed to open the car door, but not before I did a 180 in reverse and sped off.) Because I hadn't learned my lesson, I also had to change a flat tire in the same neighborhood at 3am one night. There's nothing like the threat of being shot or beat up to force you to learn to change a tire in a few minutes.

I'm happy in my suburb with a big backyard and a big dog and my truck (and yes firearms (gasp!)) It's fine if that isn't your cup of tea, just don't judge me for it.
So I'm going to rant about taxes because this is what the underlying issue is: the ultra-wealthy increasingly not contributing to the societies that made their wealth possible and continue to make it possible.

I'm reminded of the talk about the tax cuts passed last year. One of the reasons given for cutting the corporate tax rate is double taxation (paying corporate taxes then taxes on dividends). Australia has had a system for years that solves this problem.

The concept is dividend franking. What this means is that if a company pays 30% corporate taxes on $1 and then passes you the remaining $0.70 as a dividend, you're actually getting two things:

- Income of $1

- Credit for $0.30 tax paid

If you're an offshore investor that tax credit gains you nothing. You don't need to file a tax return. You've paid $0.30 in taxes.

If you're resident then if your marginal rate of tax is lower than 30% you'll get a refund on the difference. If it's 30%, no difference. If it's more than 30% you'll pay a little more.

If the US/EU adopted such a system and also applied it in some form to capital gains a lot of these problems would simply go away. By this I mean that some form of withholding taxes are retained from capital gains that you get credit for in your taxes. This is a little trickier than dividends because you have to work out a cost basis but this is a solvable problem.

Then you combine that with:

- Revenue apportionment of profit. If you earn x% of your revenue in country A then country A taxes x% of your profit; and

- Loans taken out in country A for $x when an entity has untaxed profits in country B is the same as repatriating $x.

Then you have a much improved situation (IMHO). It also means things like buying citizenship, at least for tax purposes, largely goes away so who cares?

Also, other than outright citizenship there are a number of so-called golden visa programs that give you a path to citizenship but are often much cheaper.
The $20B Question for Guyana
Oh, this looks fantastic! I always look forward to new Zachtronics releases - I've been playing their games since back in days when they made free stuff like Codex of Alchemical Engineering and Ruckengineur.
Google does no evil. Yep :)
Yes, exactly, there are many things to consider and I never even suggested that money is the only factor - but you will definitely gain nothing (and not just money, the individual might e.g. start a business in your country) if you straight-up refuse. I have no idea how any of it relates to the legal status of the government, if that's what you mean by business; governments definitely do operate for profit (and again, not just monetary).
I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing; just what we've developed our vast infrastructure around.

My commute is 30 miles one way. Luckily, I go against all the traffic, so it's a rather relaxing commute. It's one of the few times I get 30-40 minutes to myself a day.

We spend many weekends at my in-laws' place on the lake. Even though it's in the same state, it's a completely different view, weather, and life style. It's about a 200 mile drive and many great conversations have happened on that commute.

I went to college in a completely different state about an 8 or 9 hour drive. It was perfect because I wanted to be away from everyone I knew. I wanted to be self-sufficient. When I was too poor to afford a plane ticket, I could always afford the 3 tanks of gas it took round-trip to drive home whenever I wanted; at any pace I wanted. The reflecting time I had on that commute was pivotal to my career and life choices.

Plenty of out-of-state family vacations have been haphazardly planned over long weekends and a few days of PTO. We never need to worry about leave time, TSA security checkpoints, our fluid bottles being too large, my guitars I bring with me, or anything else. We just get in the car and go.

One of my bucket-list items is as-complete-as-possible trip down Route 66. I want to see America as it was, before vast interstates took you through nowhere to get where you were going.

Roads (and therefore cars) are an integral part to understanding the vastness of the United States. If you haven't experienced it, I highly recommend it.

Lastly, our rental properties all require handyman work. Access to a truck bed most weekends out of the year has saved me countless hours and money renting and borrowing.

I only wish electric vehicles were more available, absolutely no other qualms about the Americans-and-Cars debate.
Canada does not have an "investor passport." And AFAIK, neither do Australia nor NZ.

They offer _residency_ visas, not citizenship. Once you are a permanent resident, you can apply for citizenship once you fulfill the residency requirements (3 years over the last 5 in the case of Canada), but the article is about countries that offer citizenship _outright_.
Im afraid I have to agree with the negative comments, chances are its going to be a complete disaster. But I ignored similar advice once and had a great time! :D

My suggestions (SEA exp):

- Brief your CEO on how she should introduce you. She should big up your background, your skills, your accomplishment. Make it clear your here to help. And if she is good she will pitch it in a way where your not appearing as a firefighter or saviour.

- Start by telling everyone how unbelievably good they were to get as far as they did. Its likely they were working their asses off at bad salaries and poor communications. The last thing they need to hear is how wrong they are getting it.

- The things you mention about hierarchy is ridiculously dependant on geography. The right thing to do in Bangladesh could be the absolute worst thing you could do in Indonesia. Both are hierarchical, but in extremely different ways. You need location specific advice!

- On the actual improvements just do whatever is practical to ship the product. Try to see why they were tripping up on the basics and help them sort it. If its extremely poor skills get your CEO to cough up and start bringing on good guys to help teach. If its because people are pissed ease off the pressure and improve the working environment.

A final note. Of the dozens of foreign owned companies in developing countries I have encountered - I cant remember a single time a bad dev team was not as the result of poor management. Typically from the foreign component or their direct reports. Skills can be improved but only in the right environment.
A lot of people is choosing a map because of visual appearance. This is a great advantage of MapTiler, which has a tool where you can with a few mouse clicks totally change the map design, select one of 57 languages or a font for labels[0].

Advanced users can totally change the whole map by switching on/off map elements (schema based on OpenStreetMap tagging)[1] or add own data (MBTiles format - both raster/vector)[2].

There is a support for multiple JavaScript APIs like Leaflet, OpenLayers, Mapbox GL JS (source code snippets in the administration), mobile SDKs (Android as well as iOS) and desktop software development (QT + Unity game engine)[3].

Price calculator is available at [4].

[0] https://www.maptiler.com/how-to/make-own-map-design/
[1] https://www.maptiler.com/how-to/completely-change-the-map-de...
[2] https://www.maptiler.com/how-to/hosting-on-maptiler-cloud/
[3] https://www.maptiler.com/blog/2018/05/openmaptiles-gives-you...
[4] https://www.maptiler.com/google-maps-platform-alternative/
AD/BC has a fundamental counting flaw [1] which is accounted for by ISO 8601 [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_zero
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Years
This was my question as well. Seems odd to start from scratch when this already exists. Unless the MS version is a fork of the Palantir one.
New GFC technology rolled out after Trump Tariffs?
Friends in Southern China reporting none of their well established and rock solid access tools to free and real internet working any longer.
It really depends on context. If you have a bunch of people sharing one lane at a rec center, yes, you could be a huge jerk if you constantly were forcing people to stop by touching their feet. If there is one other person in your lane and there isn't a massive skill gap, touching their feet and having them stop is perfectly reasonable.

I swam in college. I was a distance swimmer. We would have warmups during the break with people from all sorts of different teams at different skill levels doing different events. When I'm warming up for the 1650 and there are sprinters in my lane, they are going to touch my feet a lot. That is just part of it. It takes literally a second for them to pass and allows them to do what they need to do. Context is key for sure, but in general feet touching is the international sign of please let me pass in swimming.
Can you share a little bit more? What passports are you talking about? And also, do you have a specific reason motivating this project?
which four? and how have you done it without money down?
So is this where we are going, application level dns implementations?
The list would be totally different if the question was where could you get permanent residency for cash - I would guess the US would be at the top of the list along with Singapore, Australia, Cyprus, Canada, and Switzerland (who I think used to let super rich people negotiate their own tax rate)
Explain? I haven't used Samsung since SGS3, a flagship device which only got updates for 1 year.
It’s fine that it’s an option but there is still nothing on the OS stopping an app from getting more permission. Why is the other permission even an option?
Would it be possible to make use of the built in JavaScript garbage collector (I'm assuming not) and/or separate to the Go runtime into some kind of shared linked lib so that at least you only pay the download cost once?

(Of course that would open up all the sorts of issues that static compiles get rid of.)
Having interacted with the Google Maps sales team, I would imagine these posts are a result of these companies hopping on a sales call expecting something ‘google’-like and are surprised that the Oracle sales team is on the call. The value extraction mentality was a bit surprising compared to the image the rest of google presents.
Interesting read. Thank you.

I wonder how many programs are still using low level access these days given that's more a throw over from the DOS days and most languages will have proper frameworks for reading and writing from the NT console. del et al being obvious exceptions because they're just cmd.exe builtins.

Unfortunately I don't have a Windows system to test that assumption but when I think about when I last did my testing, that was only against the cmd.exe builtins so it's possible this bug I was experiencing isn't as widespread as I assumed
Not sure, but perhaps if you think this through, you'll come to the conclusion that in order to get what you want, you'd have to get rid of the entire concept of "countries". Also, where would you pay taxes?
The EU fining Google over Android is too little, too late, say experts
I think really there's been a lot of campaigning going on since it was first enacted back in 1983. Even the Attorney General warned of unintended consequences.

The supporters of the 8th are highly organised, and motivated (as anyone would be if in their head they actually equated any and all abortion to killing of actual babies), and any revisitation had been continuously thwarted.

However, it's really in the last 5 years since the Death of Savita Halappanavar [0] that the issue took hold in the public consciousness, and campaigning really began in earnest.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Savita_Halappanavar
Wouldn't a completely border-less world rely even more on "force" as primary mean to assert claim on land? If anybody could take their bike to get to your cabin, wouldn't you be even more at risk of being removed "manu-militari"?
Very strange. My work rig is a downright geriatric Core2 Quad @ 2.66Ghz. There has to be some reason for the difference.
The people who sell the computers in your country.
Has WASM bridges the DOM problem with a nice solution yet? If not, it isn’t even a way to run on the web yet.
Steam (and others) really should scan for that kind of spyware in the files they provide to the players. Add a warning maybe (Contains a known spyware) or flat out refuse the editor to bundle that file with their game/app/whatever.
Awesome :) congratulations re. graduation!
How does this work from a security perspective? If I'm an Amatino client, are you storing my customers' financial data?
As I can remember previous video of their 'super' nuclear-powered missile proved to be a complete render, since prototype flew without any nuclear propulsion and therefore for a short time.
He's in an uncommon situation as he's a couple of hours away from anything. And still, "fans... have been taking an eight-hour round trip to Fort St. John".

I mean, Disney does have the power in this regard. They're the ones with the product. Theaters are just technically middle-men in this regard.
You can render raster on the fly from a vector based tileserver, and optionally use vector maps for clients where it makes sense (mobile for example).

I've been running a large OSM raster rendering stack for a while, for the whole planet. Moving on to a vector based stack right now, which is what you should do if you are starting today. The reason being the server, with vector tiles pre-rendered, can very quickly render raster tiles on the fly. It's fast enough that for most cases, there is no need to cache them. Once I get the new stack fully burned in, we'll swap our raster rendering stack out for the new vector stuff and do raster on the fly. I might cache the rasters depending on throughput, but from what I can tell it should be basically a non-issue.
Given that dates in the past were often counted from the beginning of the reign of the local king, they're probably used to it.
My wishlist for AWS Lambda including warmed pools and finalizer handler
Just to mention a real life use case: We are using WebAssembly for the image recognition features in our Visual UI Testing browser extension "Kantu". Before switching to WA, we tested many other approaches, including WebGL (old demo here: https://a9t9.com/demo/templatematching.js/ ).

Whatever we tried before, it was either too slow (pure Javascript), too unreliable (WebGL) or required 3rd party installations (C++). Finally, switching to WebAssembly solved all these problems.
Congratulations, Mr. President
If I understand this study correctly, their conclusion is that it is likely that intelligent species are very rare in the universe. This still implies a "Great Filter", but it would have to be behind us.
I don't know why you're being downvoted since it is something that is done by some individuals.

Just marrying somebody is usually not sufficient though, and there are other requirements (put in place exactly to avoid this practice). For example you may be required to

* Being married for a number of years

* Residing with your spouse in the target country for number of years

After meeting all the requirements you need to request the citizenship to the relevant authority, and the whole process may take quite some time.

An example: if you marry an Italian citizen you may request citizenship after 2 years of marriage (3 if you're not living in Italy), but then it will take usually 3 more years for your request to be processed.

Also keep in mind that some nations don't allow double citizenship, or require special circumstances (I think to remember it is the case for Germany and Holland) so you may have to choose between the two.
The IRS can now revoke your passport if they feel you owe more than $50k in back taxes. One could think of a number of reasons that could be quite bad for you. Like if you need to travel for business and suddenly cannot until you wade through the bureaucratic mess to settle the issue. Or you are an expat living overseas and suddenly cannot renew your visa because your passport has been cancelled, and for the same reason you also cannot travel, so end up in some sort of weird limbo. A second passport could come in very handy in those situations.
You realize they own Java and are it's biggest contributors?
>Animals don't care and just move where ever they want to.

A very very high fraction of animals are territorial and will fight to the death over land claims. You can see this in your back yard if you have squirrels or bird nests.

>But just hypothetically, if I want to grab a bike, ride to some isolated forest in France, build a cabin and live the hermit life, I can not to that.

This is actually a result of fairness on the part of the French government - you are a "nice person" and presumably would not ruin the environment for anybody else if you did that, but if it were legal to show up and make houses in French forests it would only be a matter of time before unscrupulous individuals began to show up and clear-cut the forest, overtaxing it and turning it into an unregulated slum city. Indeed if everyone were nice there would be no need for laws or governments at all.
They did get quite a few negative reviews on the Steam store page about this issue, and there's also a large thread with users complaining ( https://steamcommunity.com/app/289070/discussions/0/17095641... ) which probably led to this action.

As an aside, complaints might have been even more numerous if the game were actually good, as of now Civ 5 has a peak of 30K users playing daily, while Civ 6 a peak of only 20K.
Well these days people are using tree-shaking and ES6 imports to only include the lodash functions they actually need.

My point isn't that Go should be banned from WASM or something, but that "5x increase in library size for zero functionality sounds fine" is a disappointing view to see given how hard the JS community has worked on bundle sizes.
I hope this tracking software never made it into the macOS versions of any of those games.
A lot of the time they have enough in house talent to not need to
> Citation required?

Are you saying that it's difficult for you to google those search terms?
The definition of PII needs to be expanded to "combinations of attributes that can uniquely identify a single individual with high probability."
Don't start a nationalistic flame war please.
The Maddison Project has global GDP data imputed to the year 1.

https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/historicaldevelopment/maddison/
That doesn’t help. No app should need general access to the sd card.
Actually there is not much of tax benefit to being a citizen most places (vs resident) - meaning you can accomplish most tax avoidance without actually becoming a citizen
I'd be surprised if Valve didn't have their own fingerprinting tech, e.g. for tracking users across multiple accounts (practical, benign use case: banning cheaters who were VAC banned but make new accounts).
Went down a rabbit hole on this one, and though this was an interesting related chart: https://www.henleypassportindex.com/passport-index It shows which countries have the best passports as far as access goes.

Edit: Add some data from these countries

Countries from the Article:

-Austria 186

-Cyprus 171

-Malta 182

-Turkey 111

-Vanuatu 129

-Grenada 141

-St. Kitts and Nevis 151

-Saint Lucia 142

-Dominica 136

-Antigua and Barbuda 149

For reference:

-United Kingdom 186

-United States of America 186

There does not appear to be a correlation between access and price. Though the most access is the most expensive.
Don't see that happening anytime soon, with how things are going right now.
Because the will to survive is stronger than the will to have nicer stuff.
Facebook, Google and more unite to let you transfer data between apps
This was the dream of genetics, but unfortunately it's not everything, just one piece of the puzzle.....especially as far as the brain is concerned. Kind of like trying to troubleshoot application layer problems with physical layer intuition (sort of)
Can someone confirm if I've understood this right?

When you view a red shell enabled ad, a script on the page (or perhaps the ad server itself, based on HTTP headers) computes a fingerprint of your browser (IP address, browser version, fonts installed, screen size etc.) and stores (ad_id, fingerprint) in a database somewhere.

When you install and run a red shell enabled game, it computes the fingerprint of your machine and sends (game_id, fingerprint) to the server, which stores this in another table.

By joining these tables on the fingerprint, you can get some info on which ads are correlated with which game purchases.

Apart from this, red shell does NOT modify your browser settings, inject code into all pages you visit, add a browser toolbar, constantly run in the background, MITM your TLS or anything else like that.
[EDIT: not trying to defend red shell here, just checking whether I need do a full reinstall of my PC to get rid of this thing]
> I'm not sure that religiously sticking to the baggage and constraints of obsolete hardware

> But you just can't change existing shit willynilly in Windows, with the kind of install base and legacy it has,

You do see the irony, right?
you'd likely need this as well as the brain profile and several other profiles/fingerprints (liver history, etc) to really get to a complete model of drug action. so its a piece of the puzzle.
Yeah exactly this. We’re not finding any solar systems like our own because we _can’t_. It’s possible that the majority of stars that we don’t see planets around look exactly like ours and we wouldn’t know.
Man, I understand your frustration, but you are pushing your own subjective opinions and situation here. When presented with some hard facts, no reaction to them, just another bland "we should" statement that would maybe work great for you.

You didn't convince me. Bring some cold hard facts, and I am happy to listen again.

For now, whenever I travel I can see millions of people being lifted from utter unimaginable poverty. That means to me more than somebody from 1st world whining on internet forums. And if this lift of the former is at the cost of the latter, so be it even if I am part of it. It's a good direction.
For animals, moving to land claimed by others often leads to death, so in most cases, we are doing better than that.