skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there any detail offered on why the IRS (and not, e.g., the SEC or the FTC) would have advance knowledge of public company mergers? Typically, these are announced when the merger agreement is signed and then any required approvals are obtained before closing.

Tax filings are typically made after closing on the normal due dates.
Yeah if she learned Python and for-loops that day, and was able to ship the desired project to the satisfaction of the judges, that's pretty impressive, right? Even if she used some existing code for facial recognition, isn't gluing together libraries the bulk of most software engineers' work?
It's actually worse than there being only a couple of big providers.

The problem is that the same sort of people who are trying to shut down sites through legal pressure tactics against Amazon, Google etc are absolutely happy to use illegal tactics too. In particular once sites are booted off large providers onto smaller ones or self hosted sites, that's when the DDoS attacks start. Infowars already saw one, for instance. How many firms can sink large DDoS attacks without needing to kick out the target? Not many.

If a pressure group or activist employee base can get content off CloudFlare, Google, Amazon and Microsoft then DDoS-wielding ideological zealots will do the rest and then the site is gone for good.

Where does speech go then?

It's a very dangerous game for the people at these content platforms to play. I don't see Republicans sitting back doing nothing as their worldview and voter base is systematically wiped off the internet. Legislation seems likely.
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If these guys where not so often basically preventing the kind of growth they are paid for- maybe this would be a acceptable state of affairs.

But looking at the patent-machinery, the lawsuit-crusades and their murderous buying sprees into any space where a challenger could grow- these guys are really expensive, for humanity as a total.

Also take note, that the agreements to not enter bids for software developers - basically limiting wage growth, seems not to apply for CEOs.
Often it's not so much that the billion dollar program was created to make defense contractors rich. It's that the attitude of the US military and intelligence agencies is that if it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. The defense and intelligence contracting industries simply aid, abet, and exploit that propensity to enrich themselves.

So where a simple and cost effective solution would work, the US Military/Spy Agencies would want a platinum-plated solution that would give them total dominance in the situation at hand, which would spiral the costs and complexity to the point that the solution doesn't work at all. Contractors are never going to be a brake in that situation because it makes them filthy rich. And any employees who object get swept aside because the powers that be want to pursue the most aggressive and ambitious solution possible.
It costs folks like you and me.
Just to flip your assumptions around here's an idea; no personal knowledge here, just a potential alternate narrative.

Perhaps competition drives executives salaries faster than general workers. There is intense competition for those who can have a large impact on the bottom line. In tougher/faster paced competitive environment the demand for qualified/experienced individuals must be intense.
There are essentially six pieces to a browser: a platform support library, a graphics rendering platform, a networking layer, the HTML/CSS rendering, the JS VM integration, and the browser shell on top of all of it.

Getting a first cut of really basic HTML rendering--essentially saying, here's a string that's X color and Y font, display it--is probably doable in a day if you have robust implementations of everything else. I have to imagine your director thought that doing HTML rendering was "all" you'd have to do. Of course, what makes building browsers especially hard is there is very tight integration between all of these different components, so that you have to maintain all of these pieces.
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Is it news of interest to hackers? I say yes.
Seems like the sentence might just be a poor translation from Swedish.
I dislike knee-jerk media criticism on HN (or anywhere), but in this case the story is actually based on one anonymous source, whom the journalist has never met, and on nothing else. Quality journalists corroborate anonymous tips with multiple sources and documents. The journalist's own description of the evidence:

> Just so you know, I spoke with this whistleblower a couple times by phone and he sounds credible. Plus I was able to confirm that he was with the IRS, in the position he says, during the time this was alleged to be happening.

Also, the NY Post is partisan conservative (which is fine, but important context), part of Murdoch's News Corp last I knew, and a part of the conservative partisan agenda is to discredit the IRS.

All of that doesn't make it wrong, but doesn't make it credible IMHO. I'll wait to hear more.

EDIT: A few clarifications
I think this is what the article addresses here:

"There’s something you need to understand. The IRS places its workers permanently inside many companies where they continually receive privileged information while doing audits."
Playing music is a completely different experience for me than listening to music. I actually listen to recorded music (unless I'm making a recording, which is basically playing) a lot less than most people would think. But I play almost every day.

I also have a couple of different playing modes - public performance (usually with bands), and private improvisation. The improvisation is a critical part of my mental health. The ongoing stream of planning and surprising myself on the fly is probably the purest mental flow I experience.
I understand where you're coming from.

I have a little stack of benzos (valium, xanax, some others) that I use on the odd occasion, despite not being prescribed. Obviously possessing them is illegal. I know that I'm sound enough to know when to use them and when not to, and they've saved me a lot of avoidable pain. I wouldn't go so far as to say they've saved my life, but they've come damn close.

I also use my fair share of recreational drugs, as I've mentioned in previous comments. I know I'm good for them, I practice harm reduction strategies and rave safe. However, I am aware that not everybody is me. There are people who have amphetamine habits, or benzo habits, or {{drug_of_choice}} habits. It's by luck,good planning, and good friends that I don't have a habit and manage to use drugs without causing excessive harm.

That's something that a lot of readers here seem to forget. The average HN reader is very intelligent and usually very capable of looking after themselves (although I am aware there is a fair share of HN readers who've had struggles with addiction). Not everyone is as switched on as the average HN reader though.
For stateful processing you need something like:

* https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/streams/ - Kafka Streams (and its KTable)

* https://flink.apache.org/ - Flink

* https://spark.apache.org/streaming/ - Spark Streaming

* https://github.com/asavinov/bistro - Bistro Streams

The focus of Benthod seems to be performance and resilience (implemented without persistence).
How much his security their concern?
I haven't, but I'm willing to bet whatever is causing the lag is a solvable issue. Even with loads of cash and time, no one has been able to make an Electron app tolerable.
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So what? Twitter and many other sites hosted in the cloud are flooded with similar hate speech against other groups, and are typically left alone. See the case of the journalist who got hired at the New York Times despite having a Twitter account riddled with racist hatred directed at white people and men.

These platforms aren't doing censorship because of some systematic application of content rules. They're doing it as part of an overall ideological battle.
No. A BIG no. Stanford has been offering an on-line MS in CS for about 30 years using videos of the same courses taught on campus. Same tests. Same grades. The degree is exactly the same, on-line or not. Same for U of Illinois. Same for Ga Tech. The word "online" does not appear on the diploma. THESE ON-LINE DEGREES ARE EQUAL IN EVERY WAY TO ON-CAMPUS DEGREES.

Yes, there's a HUGE range of quality in on-line degrees these days. Many of the degrees are sold by degree mills calling themselves universities and cheating the hell out of their students. Almost all MOOCs are watered down subset of an on-campus course.

But the on-line degrees from these top tier schools do not suffer from that.
The router will try to reassign it, usually.
Man the markets must have moved a lot last night.... Turkey should feel a little better...
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Not into politics, but what is the point? I neither understand BBC nor HN to publish a story like this one?
It's notorious that Ramallah has shops like and other city, so in Israel, and people have normal life here.
Just 2 month ago I got a interview for a company (freightos) which has both branch in jerusalem (west) and ramallah, so I suppose that people success to get their things together somehow?
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Bitcoin backer sues AT&T for $240m over stolen cryptocurrency
Ouch, that's the worst of both worlds approach. Insecure and you get all of the work to re-port the code regularly.
The salaries they are quoting are market for the top tier. IBM is not the top tier.
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Not the first time he's done something like this: https://archives.cjr.org/the_audit/bogus_new_york_post_story...
I imagine much of the explanation is firm size growing.

You don't have to scrape out a lot of Walmart's revenues to get a huge salary. You have to scrape out a pretty big chunk of the revenue of a 50 person firm to get a large salary, never mind a huge one.
Not necessarily a contradiction; many of those people will be diligently producing the appearance of work, which is most simply measured by long hours.
In all fairness, it's not clear to me.

I really don't know currency conversions and maybe it is $360 million ....
That's a situation created by Congress, not federal agencies. Federal agencies with dire needs for high demand/high pay skills would love nothing more than to be able to hire full-time employees at market rates but it is very difficult for them to do so because of the federal pay scale and hiring guidelines.

It's part of the whole charade of smaller government. The number of actual government employees is reduced but then the government pays contracting companies 2x or 3x (or more) for contractors and ends up with same number of butts in seats.
Simplest explanation could be a macro-level decrease in competition through greater levels of consolidation and monopoly.
If Chinese government was only censoring racists / misogynists / homophobes, I'm sure less people wouldn't have a problem with that.
"(Also, after seeing the below 350-line function that's part of a 3113-line file, I now know that whenever I'm yelling at CSS layout behaving weirdly, there's someone with a much, much more frustrating job.)"

Browser authors are on the receiving end of over 20 years of standards all written by people who were not, personally, the ones implementing them, plus a healthy dollop of "code that worked in this one browser once and become a de facto standard", for which the way tables format themselves in all their myriad ways comes to mind, based around whatever was convenient in already-crufty codebases now long dead.

And then all these nightmares get together and interact. And the end users expect this to be fast. And web developers expect to be able to reach into the middle of this epically complicated data structure and tweak a style and have what may literally be the entire page rerender, and they expect that to be fast and easy. And using a language that was never written to be fast. (If anything, Javascript was written to be implemented quickly, if you read the story about where it came from. There was no time to be worrying about how well it could be JIT'ed 10ish years later.)

I don't spend a lot of time wondering why my browser is so slow; I often find myself wondering how it manages to be so fast. The spec for a browser is insane. I definitely believe that a future of browsers will be a combination of web assembly and a much more raw rendering layer that will offer access to font rendering and the OpenGL primitives, and a non-trivial number of the biggest websites will eventually implement their own renderers. I say "a" future because the current web rendering system will be around to the end of my prognostication powers. But I suspect this bypassing of the "legacy" renderer is also ultimately inevitable. Give it about 5 years or so.
You don't have to be impressed, but I don't necessarily think it's disingenuous. A "small" Wayland compositor which doesn't use a library like wlroots is nigh impossible. The code for handling DRM+KMS alone is over 2000 lines of code, and that's tangental to the goal of "make a Wayland compositor". I'd compare it to saying a game written with GLFW isn't impressive because they didn't do all of the work to set up an application window.
>and you get all of the work to re-port the code regularly.

Secure job though, with predictable repeatable work.
It also states that it is 93% effective when used typically.

Clinical studies have shown that Natural Cycles is 93% effective.*
* Even with using the app perfectly, you can still have an unintended pregnancy. Natural Cycles is 93% effective under typical use, which means that 7 women out of 100 get pregnant during one year of use. With using the app perfectly, i.e. if you never have unprotected intercourse on red days, Natural Cycles is 99% effective, which means 1 woman out of 100 get pregnant during one year of use
The online program has actually been available since 2010 or 2011 I believe, the on-campus program since the 00's. The difference now is the price.
Brit banks must disclose outages via API, decrees finance watchdog
I like that Victor Hugo's 19th century version of "deleting apps from your phone" is "deleting your clothes".

I have found that an easy, milder nudge, for either computer or mobile device, is to remain logged off of things by default and explicitly log out whenever you're done.
Interesting. Perhaps I'm being overly optimistic about companies' internal controls, but someone doing an audit should have access only to historical information.
Conventional wisdom is that job hopping leads to better salaries. Of course, conventional opinion is also that changing jobs once every year or two shouldn't be viewed as a red flag by hiring managers and it certainly is in many cases.

Personally, I've been a reasonably long tenure at most jobs I've had.

I do think there's a reasonable medium though. If you've been at some big company for a couple of decades and try to switch jobs later in your career, that can be difficult too.
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Exactly. It's like if I took VTA Light Rail from Campbell [where I currently live] to San Jose, which is comparable to your commute in terms of time, only to have people look down their nose at me. Fortunately, instead, I often receive "Oh Campbell yeah, I like that town" or similar.
> Bezos ... took home $1.7m in 2017 while the average Amazon worker earned $28,446 - a ratio of 59-to-one.

The claim is highly misleading. Bezos owns a large amount of Amazon stocks. The stock value growth is a huge extra to his salary.
>Or better, any non-standard configuration.

Sure, if your definition of better is generating a ton of false positives as a pretext for patting people down.
One easy verification (that unsurprisingly, the NYPost skipped) was to either ask the whistle-blower to name an egregious cases, or to check if any member of Congress has had suspicious transactions prior to a merger. It feels like both the list of mergers and members of Congress are small enough for this to be doable.
Aren't you always guaranteed (and required to have) a job in China? That's how it was in Eastern Europe before the fall.
That makes sense. I wonder if they do anything to add extra O2, or if that carries too high a risk of blackout due to low CO2 levels. I clearly am not a free diver.

Either way, the all caps warning stands. And even experienced free divers black out on occasion, so be careful out there.
OpenPGPjs has passed an independent security audit
As the US's gini gets closer and closer to Brazil's, its politics start to look similar also.
That's what I was wondering. This is way beyond the level of accuracy that I have seen from anything else.
If I put my shareholder hat on I can believe that competence at the CEO level is 312x more valuable than at the worker level.

Personally, I'm suspicious that all the extra money won't correlate with any sort of useful increase in performance. How is paying these people more going to encourage better decisions? It just means they'll have more comfortable holidays. I've seen head-office politics, and believe that the system used for promotions can tell great from terrible. But there is no way it has the capability of picking who would be best choice to run a company out of 50 senior management figures. There is a lot of pot luck in whether the market conditions are favorable in any given CEOs tenure. Anyone 3-4 levels away from the frontline probably has a reasonable shot at being the best choice to manage a large company.
Most state senates, as far as I am aware--and while I used to do work in this space I am no expert--are elected by roughly equivalently-populated districts. They're an "upper house" that might be elected on a longer cycle but they're still fairly similar in partitioning (just usually fewer of its members).

Which is fine to me, tbh. Land doesn't need to vote.
It's not Mandela Effect. It's just that I know her only by her works from that era. I have never seen her perform in my life, TV or otherwise. Not saying she didn't, but I only ever saw her in these old music videos...
"California Bill Would Shield PG&E, Edison from Some Wildfire Liability"

https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2018/04/26/487452...

On a national level, the same thing happened for ATT etc. when Room 641A was exposed to public scrutiny. Otherwise there would have been lots of lawsuits on that. Actually, aside from the post facto nature of these particular laws, I'm glad that the courts have to defer to the legislature in defining the Law. Judges are on average even more corrupt than legislators.
I'm under the impression from anecdotes that competition is decreasing in the American economy (though I would love to see data on it). Industries have been consolidating and even startups seem to avoid actually competitive markets as they are less profitable.
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Well, the noise and distractions caused by not being able to isolate yourself for tasks that require concentration for longer periods should be enough to have people dislike open-plan workspaces. For tasks that require concentration, the only way seems to be noise canceling headphones. I wonder if we will get to a point where VR/AR collaborative spaces will provide the next phase of co-working. It certainly would open up options for working from anywhere and for organizations to hire anywhere and still have teams to work in a similar way to being in an office.

https://uploadvr.com/virtual-office-commute-vr-replacement/
That might be able to detect something like a hand grenade (but honestly I'm dubious), but finding "non-standard configurations" seems like it requires a full up strong AI. It has to be able to look at a jumble of components in a configuration it has never seen before and recognize that it is a bomb. This is hard problem for humans and hits on several hard aspects of AI at once.
me too. the majority of pple sharing this on twitter are far-right accounts and the language is what you'd expect.

nypost hasn't exactly got a reputation for facts & credibility either:

>According to a survey conducted by Pace University in 2004, the Post was rated the least-credible major news outlet in New York, and the only news outlet to receive more responses calling it "not credible" than credible (44% not credible to 39% credible).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Post#Criticism
Any programmers here use pomodoro? I expect 25 minute interruptions would do more harm than good for my focus when writing code, especially the continuous expectation that I will be interrupted. I don’t have a pressing interest in finding productivity tips, just curious to hear about programmers who have tried this technique
> Almost noone in Europe is “forced displaced”

You are wrong.

http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/...

"538 000 asylum seekers were granted protection status in the Member States of the EU in 2017"

These have gained refugee status, which is a subset for the forcibly displaced persons category.

That's quite a bit more than noone.

Fairly safe "closer" countries may not accept you, or be much safer to the particular individual. It may still be too close so that people affiliated with your tormentor may be able tro track you down there and harm you.

So it may make sense to try to get as far as possible. Also "farther" countries may have offered to accept you, so while you're crossing many coutries you may be doing it on the offer of a remoter country.
Australians who won't unlock their phones could face ten years in jail
What are the salaries the CIA is paying? I doubt they have "the best" on it.
The Rolling Stones are still touring. I’m not sure why you’re surprised that people from the 1960’s are still alive.

Unfortunately she had pancreatic cancer, an extremely deadly disease.

It doesn’t feel like 10 years since Randy Pausch died of pancreatic cancer:

https://www.cmu.edu/randyslecture/book/index.html
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That's an interestingly unique problem to the USA I think.

Here in Australia, I haven't been to an optometrist in 5 or 6 years. I just keep ordering new glasses for $60 a pair online, my vision hasn't changed enough that I feel that I need to go to an optometrist again. The optometrist is legally required to give me my prescription, which I can then use as I want.

I haven't bought glasses in a brick and mortar store for 5 or 6 years (last time I got an eye test), but I'm fairly sure they won't/can't refuse to make me a pair to my specifications. Actually, I did get a pair made in the shop in Vietnam 2 years ago, and they were more than happy to make them (overnight too, I might add), although they did laugh at how blind I was.
What teams need are ready access to dedicated collaboration spaces when needed. My experience with open floor plans is developers need uninterrupted "heads-down" time to work through complex tasks and open floor plans make that difficult to obtain. Developers endure interruptions which in turn limit the complexity of the tasks they're able to complete. I believe it's this desire to get uninterrupted time that's causing the paradoxical result that they actually collaborate less.
You don't need to break the code, just notice a pattern of use/behavior.
If you haven't yet, listen to her performance of "(You make me feel like) A natural woman"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHsnZT7Z2yQ
> can't believe the tech press isn't picking up

? It was widely reported.