skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeaa but if you go to some third world countries, you'll see high tax rate yet not enough benefits for your tax rate. Prime example is India where people still have power cuts yet business/salaried middle class pays north of 30% tax.

People there will happily pay 60% tax if they get even Rome level of infrastructure access

So, it's no brainer a lot of them move their money offshore.

Edit: people who feel they are not getting fair share of their infra quality, with this line of thinking will move money aboard doesn't matter if it's ethical/legal thing to do or not.
I've worked for Fortune 50 sized companies, as Chief Architect, and I've worked for some amazing software engineering companies in a similar capacity.

Doing software architecture for the business side of the house, traditional IT, at any company is next to impossible. We are at the mercy of the business and the business doesn't care about standards, efficiencies. or anything, except making the quarterly estimates. The business is very supportive of all efforts right up until they decide that it might impact quarterly estimates, and then everything is out the window. When operating in such an environment there is no way software architecture, or security and compliance has a possibility of success.

On the Engineering or product side of the house especially for software product companies, software architecture is easy, and welcomed.

It all comes down to who you work for and what you are doing.
That isn't true, it depends on the whims of the people who determine what those optimists say and write.
You need more tables for case folding.

Also, case-folding doesn't round-trip in Unicode. In particular, only to-lower-case conversions work well enough.

Case is a mistake. Case-insensitivity is another mistake though. Don't do it. It's a pain for users (me, for example).
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> a functional democracy requires tolerance of unpopular opinions not just by the government but also by society at large

If you insert "some" before "unpopular", I'm with you. If you require "all" before "unpopular", then no, I disagree - e.g. people who believe "LGBTQ people should be done away" with, well, that's an "unpopular opinion" that should not be tolerated and, in fact, should be made anathema for anyone to express.
> On the other hand, at what point do we accept that we have different viewpoints and live and let live?

The government, soapboxes, homes and places of business that are happy to have them.

Freedom of Speech is not the right to be heard. If people don't like what you have to say, or how you are saying it, they are free to walk away. If you don't like what someone is doing in your place of business, you can also throw them out. That includes being allowed to throw a loud ranting racist out of a, say, pub or a website.

These individuals are free to create their own businesses and websites which facilitate whatever kind of discourse they please, nobody can take that away from them (unless they venture into fighting words). They, however, seem to want to be where their ideas are not wanted[1].

Patreon would likely be happy to have a conservative on their website if the primary concern of the content was not intolerance.

> I'm torn about this.

Karl Popper helps clear it up[2]. His wording surrounding FoS is particularly illuminating because it doesn't specifically calling out left-extremists or right-extremists; both have been pretty awful about attacking speech, especially the escalation over the past few years.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vote_brigading
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
That PDF doesn't answer any of those questions.

The only thing I saw that sorta was related to the comment you were replying to was "Our customers are affluent, educated, digitally savvy — and loyal. Over 90% of our sales come from repeat customers" other than the 90% sales figure, that's just meaningless marketing fluff, no data/figures was given to back it up. The rest was just about the logistics of selling on QVC.
I do tend to agree that unicellular life has a mind boggling diversity of forms and you can find similarities to most things, simple or not-simple :)

That said, humans have a very specific notion of "simple shape", intuitively incorporating symmetry into it. Symmetry is far from guaranteed in mathematics (although mathematicians, being human, also tend to search and study symmetric things). Even in the most symmetric objets - let's say groups, there are many more non-abelian (i.e. not commutative ab != ba) groups than there are commutative groups.
That you can learn facts from books is fairly self-evident. That doesn’t obviously extend into gaining raw intelligence from reading, IMO.
While an effective indictment of his moral character, that's not him advocating genocide, which is what I was responding to. I never claimed he's a good person.
This is missing the point. Can I expect to always be able to remove DRM from any ebooks I might want to buy in the future, no matter what the platform vendor does? Obviously not - that's not a "trivially easy" operation in any real sense. "Just remove the DRM" is always a band-aid and a last-resort, not a real solution.
> If it was issued and marketed by a single entity the participants would be in hot water by now for violating the Securities and Exchange laws.

What laws are being violated by Bitcoin's participants?
Didn't see much of anything beyond a generic "educated, affluent" passing blurb regarding customers.

I was more surprised by how QVC requires vendors to pay thousands for QVC's own prep, like makeup and hair, among other things. Seems like a scam all around...except unfortunately the junk they vend seems to be selling.
That's essentially the approach Monero has taken. From [1],

> In sum, we strongly believe that it's beneficial to preserve our ASIC resistance. Therefore, we will perform an emergency hard fork to curb any potential threat from ASICs if needed. Furthermore, in order to maintain its goal of decentralization and to provide a deterrent for ASIC development and to protect against unknown or undetectable ASIC development, the Monero team proposes modifying the Cryptonight PoW hash every scheduled fork, twice a year.

[1] https://ww.getmonero.org/2018/02/11/PoW-change-and-key-reuse...
No sane person thinks murder is good, rather people differ in what they consider to be murder. Soldiers killing enemy soldiers in combat during a war is not really murder, who cares what some judge 3000 miles away says.

Btw when you say "recent murders, like those in anti-abortion extremism", that makes it sound like that's much more recent/common than it really is. The last three such cases were in 2015, 2009, and 1998, per wikipedia (granted the 2015 case left three dead). I wonder why those cases get disproportionately so much more attention than, say, the ongoing genocide of Christians by ISIL.
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> Sanders has not specified which one clearly yet afaik.

That's absolutely not true.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/180...
Classic. I already knew about this, but the "cylindrical Earth" thought experiment is new to me and as a sailor (lapsed) with a physics degree I have to say I find it immediately convincing. It's not controversial that you can sail faster than the wind on some angles, so with a propeller in the mix I don't understand why so many smart people were willing to make absolute statements that this is not possible.
No, the difficulty is based on the average rate of generation of blocks over the last few weeks.

If people put less computational power into generating blocks, fewer blocks will be generated. After each n blocks, nodes adjust their difficulty based on how long it took to generate those blocks, to try and achieve an average of a block every 10 minutes.

But how much computational power people are willing to put in depends on price. It only makes sense to mine if you get more out than you put in in the cost of buying the hardware, amortized over the life of the hardware, plus the cost of the power used in mining. If the price of Bitcoin drops, there are fewer people for whom it makes economic sense to continue mining, so some will turn off their miners, reducing the hash rate.

When global hash rate reduces like this, and the difficulty drops, then the people remaining will get more BTC per unit time from mining, so it can make economic sense for them to continue mining, as long as the price doesn't drop further. So indirectly, the total hash power of the bitcoin network is linked to the price of bitcoin; or, the price of bitcoin relative to the price of electric power.
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If you're just comparing strings then just do character-at-a-time comparison, which allows you to decompose (no need to recompose) and only one character at a time (look ma', no allocation needed), compare the two decomposed characters' codepoints, then fail or move on to the next character. I call this form-insensitive string comparison.
According to Carl Benjamin himself, the comments were meant ironically. He was reacting to a chat stream, which is missing context in that video, and the chat used slurs like this. So Benjamin used the slurs back at them.

Having said that, we have to assume Benjamin’s inner thoughts to know what he really meant, so I’m not arguing we should disregard it completely because of his alledged good intentions.
> Does the math to calculate a coin change based on... price?

Indirectly.

> "the mathematical problem"

The mathematical problem is producing blocks. A block is a collection of transactions and a bit of metadata, including the address which gets the block reward. The block is hashed along with a counter or random factor (nonce), which is manipulated to try to find a sha-256 output with a certain number of leading 0 bits. The number of zeroes required by the network is the difficulty (this may be somewhat oversimplified).

Hashing has costs, hardware and power mostly. When the price of BTC rises such that the expected income is greater than the expected costs, people switch on more equipment and the network hashrate goes up.

As the hashrate goes up, the difficulty is adjusted by the network in order to keep the new block finidng time at about 10 minutes. If the price falls, miners find it unprofitable, go offline, the hashrate drops and then the difficulty also drops to keep the block time about the same. In this way the costs and rewards balance out.

But this also means that as the price of BTC rises, so does its (already huge) power consumption.
I'm not the expert you're looking for, but surely we are not far from being able to generate movies with bespoke content for every person.

Performance art itself is about to be upturned.

AI can already string bad poetry together, surely in not long it can do a 5 act play, vary the characters a bit, jumble up the situations, create 3D realistic models, and put the whole thing together into your very own Breaking Bad that caters to your particular biases.

It can then take your feedback and do spinoffs, parodies, and so forth forever. You'll never be able to get up.
Ask HN: How do large and complex organization make “data-backed” decisions?
-- Im looking for more of a general answer, references, or even tooling.

A naive example is Amazon Web Services and their offerings. How do they decide what to build, offer, improve, remove, etc in their AWS catalog? Givens would be things like their employment capabilities & constraints, work in progress, expected outcomes ($) , time, and Im sure much much more. Maybe it would be many decision trees that ultimately form a singular tree where they could feed it data from the past and run simulations to produce forecasting? I'm just left wondering how do they standardize this across the organization and make it simple for everyone to provide their necessary inputs (ie an engineering team providing WIP and velocity).
Even in the same project, you might have multiple people working. The specifics end up not mattering, because the goal here is to always be unambiguous by default. If you want to have your own setup in your project, you can use a loader resolve hook and come up with your own rules.

Assuming that everything you import is esm is doable, but we want cjs to continue being a first-ish-class citizen, since so much code uses it.

Right now you can opt into a dual mode package by having a file.js and a file.mjs and setting main to `./file` without an extension, and it will "just work". You can also have index.js and index.mjs without a main field in package.json.
No way they do, I included go packages and npm modules that were not vetted by others or myself. They do have a license review, with many licenses being pre-approved.
Right, he agrees with white supremacists, and is happy to repeat their talking points, up until public advocacy of genocide. He's happy to say things like this[1]:

> it's about gaining attention and it seems like k*kes are ruining everything

The reason I'm posting this is because you mentioned that Sargon was arguing with, and insulting, white supremacists. Which, to those who are unfamiliar with Sargon, is not a claim that captures the nuance of the situation. As I said, this spat was infighting between people who are largely in agreement with the content of each other's bigotry.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ87Wf-0rZg
> If true that's disturbing.

"Jihad Watch" seems a fairly obvious hate site.
He's quoted in the article as saying his brand is politically incorrect. Its a calculated decision to add shock to his act. This conflict is not something he's trying to avoid to get his ideas out there. Its painfully clear.

The content itself is irrelevant to my point as it is a general statement about adding shock value to any act and the faux-consequences of it.
Windows, I've been using it since the release of 3.0 (1990) and developing for it since the release of NT 4.0.

I realised this year that Microsoft don't really care about it anymore so why should I.
Those look like pretty standard 48-inch desks comparing to the size of the 27" screens - just like 99% of other workplaces I've seen. Do you know of places where larger desks are remotely common?
There were also some restrictions on lines used for broadcasting purposes, where you could dial in to hear a recorded message. This was used by mostly right wing commentators from the '60s-'80s and sometimes derided as "dial-a-hate."

The lines had to announce the subscriber's name and the recordings could be required to be taken down if found defamatory.

When 900 numbers with paid recordings, like messages from celebrities or gambling advice, became available, they had to announce their fee structures upfront before people were connected to the paid programming.
Ahh, yes, in that sense you're right.

But I'm not sure that it's a meaningful standard.

We've seen "the bubble" being poked sharply from the inside with relative trivialities like cryptokitties. We've also seen the more blunt effect of undermining prohibition policies - access to a wide variety of (psychoactive and other) forbidden medicines has been difficult to achieve since the garden of eden; this seems like a breakthrough to me.

But yes, your larger point is sound: broader worldwide adoption hasn't happened, at least yet. I'm confident, though, that the next cryptokitties won't be cryptokitties and that the next OpenBazaar will be more effectual. We'll see.
> What puzzled me is how comes blockchain startups did not sell their crypto for fiat just after their ICOs.

I'm not sure what's puzzling: The startups who base their business around crypto believe crypto will rise in price. A crypto startup selling all their crypto because they think there's a high risk crypto will crash in value is also sending out a very bad signal to potential investors.
> Then you see counter-arguments, like "well if you don't want to get banned, don't say bad things!"

That's a very strawman-ish way to discuss matters. I won't deny that a few people think that way, but it is neither the only, nor the strongest counter-argument.
I don't see if it's mention in this article (there's a hard paywall), but notably Sam Harris, among other things previously one of the top authors on Patreon, quit the platform over this incident.

His own explanation for why starts around 5 minutes into this podcast: https://samharris.org/podcasts/drive-interview-peter-attia/

Briefly, while he doesn't defend what Carl Benjamin said, he himself feels he can't financially rely on a platform that boots controversial authors from the platform.
Funny thing, I was this close of re-watching Barry Lyndon with my gf last night too, but instead we chose the Incredibles 2, and I also read today this very interesting article from the Economist on the concept of identity: https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2018/12/18/esta...
There are a lot of ancient inventions like the wheel, the compass, gun powder, swords, and so on. Even more modern stuff like the pound sign is from an anonymous creator.
All of these were probably also invented independently by multiple people, because whenever one human culture has made first contact with another human culture, they typically have many of these things already.

For example, the inhabitants of North Sentinel Island, one of the last uncontacted peoples in the world, have bows and arrows. Also, they tend to use those bows to shoot arrows at everyone who attempts to approach North Sentinel Island, which is why they remain one of the last uncontacted peoples in the world. Other examples include American Indians, some of whom, like the Comanche, were able to use bows effectively enough to consistently defeat Westerners well into the 19th century.

It's also interesting that not all of these inventions are universal--for example, the Inca civilization did not have wheels, because the Andes are too rugged for wheeled transportation to make sense. But they had lots of other things and fairly advanced mathematics, which was important because they had a relatively advanced mercantile culture where goods were traded by means of pack animal.
The slurs seem more like a natural symptom of him thinking that black people act subhuman.
Isn’t that what the majority of str8 daters (more so women?) do unconsciously already when using Tinder, OkCupid, etc? Like wow they are attractive.... I’d have his kid.

Maybe an upcoming dating app will allow you to connect your profile pics to those who have swiped right. From there this app creates images of what your offspring would look like.
>Edited addendum: While OP didn't say they want the ability to commit crimes, it took about 20 minutes before a different poster literally said he did, so the intent/desire is out there and pretty obvious.

Moate, I checked your profile, but I don't see your name or address. I shudder to imagine the obvious intent/desire that implies. I question whether or not society will stand once the reign of terror you are planning has run its course.
Rare?

Practically every programming language is case-sensitive. Unix filesystems are generally case-sensitive.

You statements make no sense anyways. What is the antecedent of 'it' in "... any API or programming language that is based on it ..."? Since when are APIs / programming languages "semantically thought of as English"?!
Yeah but that doesn't just come up that much as an actual limiter. Like say you have a graph search algorithm that is provably non parallelize-able, ok, fine. If you only have 1 graph to search, you are stuck. But likely you have many graphs you can search and spread them around.
This would require some discussion of international wealth and income distribution, but to me the injustice is not at the state level here, but rather in the fact itself that India is a third world country. The Indian upper-middle class should really be demanding reparation to the UK for the effects of colonization rather than moving money offshore damaging only their poorer countrymen.
If nobody's buying what you're selling, then you have no business.
>>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_worker_deaths_in_Unite...

Thousands of people die in the US every day. The most important factor for reducing the death rate is economic development.

Productivity, wages and life expectancy were rising much faster in the late 19th century, when the right to freely contract was not violated, than today, when we have hundreds of thousands of regulations instituted by nanny-states telling us what and we cannot do with other consenting adults.

Occupational licensing alone costs the economy over $184 billion a year by some estimates:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/instituteforjustice/2018/12/03/...

And what is all this centralization and Big Brother control getting us? We have a highly regulated medical system, largely subsidized at the expense of the taxpayer, and captured by highly regulated opioid-manufacturing pharmaceutical giants pushing opioids to the vulnerable, through licensed doctors, and creating the worst opioid epidemic in history:

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/15/17355722/op...

>>That's why we were much more free when we had company towns with company stores and company scrip

In defense of the company town:

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/01/in...

>>when attempts to unionize were countered by well-trained private police.

No, attempts to blockade company premises were countered by well-trained private police. Do you know what strikers did to "scabs" who crossed to picket lines? Replacement workers needed hired protection, so that their contract freedom wouldn't be violated.
True, I have no reason to care about DRM for truly throwaway content that I'll never want to backup, format-shift or port across platforms-- like most fiction books. But the thing is... there's plenty of such content on the Web already, available at zero cost! It's exactly the sort of content that plenty of people will happily write for free, or perhaps in exchange for some crowd-funded support on Patreon.
The package manager I always wanted (and still want) is SGI IRIX 6.5 inst(1M), not npm or anything built on top of it.
games is a special case,
video editing is a special case,
compiling code is a special case,
running a development environment with a database, web application, and browser is a special case,

rendering a web page is a special case

lot of special cases!

I know for my day job software development machine the point of diminishing returns is definitely at 4 cores (or maybe more, haven't tried yet!) 2 cores is terrible.

However when I scale down and am NOT running two databases and a web server along with visual studio, then 2 cores is fine. Also when I do that I am making a game that makes effective use of all the cores, and it wasn't hard (granted it is another special case)
> I disagree with the extension solution

As do I. I loathe it. But I'm struggling to come up with strong rational reasons why. Part of me says that hurts interoperability, but I think that's mostly rationalization.

Why do I care so much about a file extension? Because I really really do.