skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Portugal is one of the countries with highest income and social security taxes in Europe (not to mention VAT and other types of taxation).

This is objectively false. Portugal ranks about middle in total taxation, against the rest of the EU. Taxes are about 34% of GDP, which is pretty average in Europe.

You have all the data here, with the most interesting summary in the "Tax Main Aggregates" document:

https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/economic-anal...
talking about ground effects, uncle car honks when he actuates the wipers; very comical and instructive at the same time
>Building a city around cars means building it around people who live far away.

No, that's what the suburban rail is for (see: NYC).

If anything, the suburban people can always park on the outskirts of city centers, and use public transportation (or walk) in the city.

But no, the cities had to be designed for the automobile. There was a lot of money to be made that way for the auto companies.

Think it sounds like a conspiracy theory? You are right, except that it's actually true[1].

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...
That's twice in the past couple of days that I've mirrored a comment because I've clicked new tab on the reply rather than just replying immediately
Yes, it may be impossible to create a filter to detect new (previously unseen) copyrighted products on the platform.
However, once a copyrighted product has been through a dispute and the owner has been established by Amazon - it's completely feasible to programmatically detect and flag this product once it re-appears under other accounts. It would actually be quite easy, given Amazon's technology expertise.

From reviewing the thread the artist posted, it appears that's why he's frustrated - that fakes keep re-appearing, and Amazon is asking him to jump through hoops again, even though his authorship had been established.

So, no - I don't feel it's reasonable to ask the author to enlist people to help him police the marketplace, Amazon can easily solve this problem (future infringement) with technology.
Other than making some people really rich, what problems would it solve that aren’t better solved by existing solutions which don’t burn energy to create secure entropy?
Not in DC where their employer is.
How a Guy with a Camera Outsmarted the United States
Yes but ghost shift goods are counterfeits unless they are free of any logos and other intellectual property. The first sale doctrine doesn’t apply because it was never purchased from the IP owner at any point in the line.

If I have a factory in Bangladesh print some t-shirts with the Nike logo on them, I wouldn’t be able to sell them (at least in the US) because I didn’t get permission from Nike, which owns the rights to their logo. It’s the same thing here. It doesn’t matter if the factory happens to also produce legitimate Nike t-shirts.
Since audiophiles are so gullible I wonder if you could sell even more stuff for them. For example:

* plastic surgery for ear lobes (Ferengi audio Inc.)

* ear wax removal and ear hair trimming services
I mean, aren’t they pretty much useless within a year of graduation anyway?
>Hmm, always suspect when you see a thesis about a large and varied group of societies doing anything en masse.

No, history is not just a confusing mass of details. There are larger patterns, and I bet you make use of them in your own thinking.

More specifically, the picture the author presents is in fact what the scholars who have studied the issues have determined to be true.
A point of contention, the charts in those articles dont take into account cost of living, so its difficult to compare real salaries
Here's a simple comparison using nativefier (electron based single-site-browsers) vs something using WKWebView:

https://imgur.com/oG2Dm5y

Both are playing low-quality HTML5 video.

For any sites I could think of, the memory usage, thread count, CPU time, and idle wake ups were considerably smaller using WKWebView.

The disk usage was also crazy smaller, as is expected. ~122MB for nativefier vs ~14MB for WKWebView (and a lot of that is due to being written in Swift).
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> More games should be honest about death

No.

Do we not see how Gamers get irate at people from the outside coming in and telling them what they should like and participate in?

The Cancer, Rape, Mental Illness games are a scam. And take away from real treatments and as we can tell from sales figures, don't work even if they did, which I doubt compared to proven scientific treatments and education programs.

Just like games about "learning". They are a rort. To get kids to learn put them in a classroom.

What they have produced here however is art. Which is great and has value but the title really pisses me off "More games should be honest about death"
Example with how the French grid handled a little added demand lately: https://translate.google.fr/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&u=https%3A...

Dams used as batteries charged by pumping water.
If you hear high frequency noise it's just means the amplifier has too much gain for your headphones and doesn't automatically mute when there is no signal (many do). But all amplifiers have noise. If you use the line output though, it doesn't go through the amplifier and of course doesn't have its noise.
At this level of fanatism I'd probably hold back with criticising them, because they might actually stab you if their lunacy bubble pops.
> people are noisy and smelly.

Indeed. And trains usually don't go from people's homes to their destination, so they typically cause traffic of some sort around train stations.
You have to pay people enough, and not much more.

Excessive pay doesn’t motivate performance.
I've found that's how I have to do it, too. Best decision I ever made was moving an hour away from where I worked too. I never see kids out anywhere, and never feel pressure to not do things I enjoy that might be looked down on in a rural conservative community (drinking, mostly). I also never really have to deal with seeing students out so no awkward convos there, either. And it gives me time to wake up in the morning and prepare as well as dissociate from it in the evening.

I also always try to leave at 3:20,which is when we're free (7:30-3:20,tho I usually get there early to copy).

Work life is great, and I don't do anything in my breaks, either. But I'm still looking to get out for various other reasons I've documented elsewhere.
Interesting point. Descartes, who influenced science, math and philosophy, also placed god at the center of everything. Even his own existence ( cogito ergo sum ) depended on god existing and being fundamentally good. Newton also credited god for the natural motion of the planets and gravity in principia. And of course some of the giants in biology like Linnaeus and Mendel were clergymen.

They were men of their times and their belief that god directed the natural world ( or that the natural world worked according to god ) didn't stop their scientific pursuits.

I doubt religion is solely responsible for the arab world's lack of scientific research. It's probably a mix of political instability, levels of poverty, lack of leadership by the elites and dependence on oil, gas and natural resources for wealth.
I fully agree that an external USB DAC can have a much better output quality than the motherboard output that can be influenced by interference; I have an external DAC myself, but I bought it for about $50 (list price was $200 in a hi-fi store, I ordered it from a small reseller).
Not talking about the $400 box with $5 parts in it, but about common sense (plus some physics and math) in understanding what a DAC does and does not.
Not an audiophile myself (well, not that kind of audiophile, but with some passion for the music), I cannot provide good and trusty advice to others, but a digital-out (very common) to an amplifier with a digital-in (very common) is a very simple and cheap way to do it; I am not aware of a cheap way to get very good quality analogue signal out of a PC, for example, as add-on sound cards are very rare these days and very good audio on motherboard is fairly restrictive, but the digital path is wide open. Coax or optical out is the cheapest, a DAC is the next, but the difference between a $50 DAC and a $500 DAC is negligible.
Jitter is itself an audiophile scam. The audible consequences of extreme jitter is an increased noise floor, which itself is being drowned out by the sound in a typical "quiet" room.
That complaint doesn't make any sense. I can understand teachers complaining about kids disturbing their lessons, are unruly and threaten them with violence and so on. I can not understand teachers complaining about kids being extra ambitious and doing what they can to get the highest grades! I'll get downvoted for this, but if your moms worst problem is overachievers and parents caring about their children's education, she needs to suck it up. :)
>Perhaps the author has heard of Leibniz's seminal work, Monadology? In this work Leibniz essentially argues that all action and causality in the universe is the result of God's great plan unfolding, that every action and reaction is predetermined, stored in every fragment of matter and that causality effectively does not exist.

Leibniz's strange philosophy has had no impact at all on science in the West.

> It is simultaneously true that Christians have been scientists, and that Muslims have been, and that both institutions have, at various times both endorsed and indicted the scientific method - and more specifically the idea that natural phenomena are causal without the influence of god.

The author did not deny that. He is talking about the overall trends.
No, you have to put the display cases inside another, larger display case for it to not count as hoarding.
Ryan Hoover on no code tech. What's the dev take, is it “here”?
That is not how public healthcare works in Canada at all.
Ok you want to get really specific about guns, let's do that. The reason guns are so popular for suicide is because it is immediate, unlike filling your car with carbone dioxide (gas) or figuring out how to hang yourself. The immediateness give suicidal people a lot less minutes to further consider their decision, an minutes are very important in the case of these people, specially when the decision hasn't been in their heads for years but only for days meaning a emotional response to an traumatic event, for example that's what happened to Katie Stubblefield, broke with his boyfriend then took his brother's rifle and shot herself in the head at her parent's house, you see... when you fail to kill yourself by hanging there is not pretty much any lasting damages due such failed attempt, unfortunately for Katie the same cannot be said for rifle shots, she was found by her mother with pretty much nothing left of her face but lots of blood and exposed bone and still breathing; so yeah, guns make the suicide issue a lot more complex for multiple reasons while there is no upside for society, America would be pretty much the same if after 1900 guns had been banned, of course you think otherwise, you give it some emotional weight or some false protection purpose, given countries without guns on their streets don't seem to be doing any worse.
You kind of asked a loaded question, but to answer your question; whatever thing needs decentralization.
At least your wife's perspective makes sense—it's treating music as deeply experiential and contextual.
In the first Ghost Recon games all soldiers had permadeath and the incentive not to lose them was them gaining (significant) experience and abilities with each mission, which are lost with the soldier dying.
When marketing a product one must consider the four basic segments: the smart rich, the stupid rich, the smart poor and the stupid poor.

Obviously you are not going to make any money selling to the poor, so strike them. Good luck trying to separate the smart rich from their money- they tend to save. Thus we are left with the stupid rich. High end audiophile products are a perfect fit for this lucrative segment.
I agree that not just bash, but POSIX shell is beyond salvaging, at least for many use cases where it should be applied.

The way I think of it is that I can't tell my (former) coworkers or my sister to learn to program shell in 2018 "with a straight face". More than 50% of them had Ph.D.'s in some other field like statistics, math, biology, or physics -- i.e. the kind of person who has no problem with Python. But they would struggle with shell or make.

They're the kind of people Mike Bostock (author of d3) wrote this post about Make for [1]. He's absolutely right that they should use Make, because like shell it's a great tool to combine different programs that weren't designed to be combined.

But I feel like this is basically a losing battle -- I don't see that shell or make is an exciting thing for most people to learn, even though it would make them more productive and increase the quality of their work. I think that a language free of legacy would go a long way.

I guess I can see POSIX sh being used when confined to the lower level of an OS, by specialists. But I think it has a lot more potential than that. I'd say it's more important now than 10 years ago, because there's so much more software out there and systems are increasingly built of large heterogeneous parts.

----

FWIW I mentioned Morbig here [2], along with several other shell parsers, like ShellCheck in Haskell and shfmt in Go.

[1] https://bost.ocks.org/mike/make/

[2] https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/ExternalResources
To me, my iPod Shuffles, launch day iPhone, and modern iPhone all sound very different from one another when I play the same song. (I prefer the Shuffles.)

Is this a real thing, or should I upgrade to a better brand of crack?
This is often the case for internal comms in a large company overran with administrators / coordinators. Yet parents are more like customers than colleagues - and no operation can ignore 90% of external / customer comms and stay alive (to say nothing of effective!)
> "existing solutions which don’t burn energy"

Like what?
> Sometimes it looks like the Silicon Valley is trying to solve transit problems either against the laws of physics and economics or, alternatively, ignoring solutions that were there already in the 1800s.

That, or the Old World is simply stuck with cities where no more roads can be built without tearing down many inhabited buildings, so people are forced to use smelly, uncomfortable public transport. I'd appreciate more honesty and less ideology in such debates.
I'll give you some government funded counter examples: space flight, the Internet, WWW.
I have interviewed a lot of developers, and floating point precision is one of my common phone screen questions.

My experience is; those who should know about it, do. Of course, a lot of apps or web developers don't. And I think that is okay.

The bigger issue is code designed for float32 (for performance reasons) being assumed valid for float64 data. And in these cases the issue is always, what is the appropriate way to communicate to your user the intended use case of the function? When the writer is long gone, a user will not intuitively know. Whenever I have to use a 3rd party library (ahem, PCL). I peruse the code and grep for float variables... If I see too many, I simply assume I need to recenter my float64 to be near 0.0.

Not everybody has the experience for this diligence, thus it appears as if developers don't understand.
Similar situation. After leaving teaching for development I spent the first two years in something like a state of grace. I loved teaching, but my gosh, the stress levels weren't even in the same universe.
This stream of "cars are the devil" articles from citylab is growing rather monotonous.
And then ironically it's also worse to drive a car in the US. Where speed limits could be higher without risking anyone else they are still stupid low and many drivers don't know how to zip or even merge or even use their turn signals. It's really the worst for both drivers and pedestrians.
> a DAC can "open" or "close" "the stage" by low quality processing of the signal

In principle a low enough quality DAC certainly could affect "the stage", but in reality even cheap ones are likely good enough.

> There is no way to convince these people they are wrong

I'm pretty sure many of them don't want to be convinced since it would make their hobby pretty boring. I also wouldn't be surprised if industry players actively spread myths like these to sell more (expensive) products.
My approach to modularizing from the start is to do bottom up development, and to treat each namespace as a little library. Ultimately, pretty much all problems can be viewed as data transformation pipelines, and those naturally map to independent components doing different kinds of transformations. I find that the APIs tend to form naturally around domain boundaries as you move data from one context to another.

The REPL is indeed a major component of doing the Clojure workflow where you literally run each function as you're writing it. This approach also encourages refactoring as you go since you can make changes and see the results immediately.
[video] How does a whip break the sound barrier?
But you won’t be able to play it at leisure then :P
I believe you are trying to classify what they bought as something it isn't (ghost shift goods). They legitimately bought the surplus from an authorized retailer.

If you go buy a bunch of Nike shirts from a Nike store they cannot stop you from selling them on eBay or Amazon (at least legally). At best the shoe company could have sued their authorized retailers for the bulk sale if it violated a contract.

Amazon happily complied with an illegal request to restrain trade causing damages to a small company. The lawsuit would have been huge.
Facebook pays $238k to settle lawsuit and will halt political ads in WA state
"...a single component in an energy mix". And that mix relies on the grid? With nuclear or other centralized power source, yes.
Such audiophiles don't believe in real, measurable things. And they certainly don't understand how power supplies really work.
> and building trains makes people ride trains.

Only if the trains carry people to a place they want to go.
You're agreeing with him.

He's responding to people saying "hey, why are you criticising ETH, don't you like this stuff?" And he's saying that even the "blue chip" cryptocurrency projects are still very experimental phases and he takes them seriously enough to criticize them.
Based on the TLD for the provided link, I was thinking that this might have been something from a non-US source. However, this is a study from NYU being presented in Germany. I have no issue with this, but I do find foreign analysis of US anything provides a much different perspective an internal US analysis. Many times I've been in conversation with someone that has said something that I immediately wanted to say "Hey" about, but then after a half second thought I realize their comment wasn't really far off. Probably my favorite thing about international travel. The different perspectives can be so rewarding. And it doesn't have to be political either.
Here's an implementation that is equivalent to the modern C++ example (playground link: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=release&edit...):

use std::time::SystemTime;

fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
let t0 = SystemTime::now();

let triples = (1..).flat_map(|z|
(1..=z).flat_map(move |x|
(x..=z).filter_map(move |y|
if x * x + y * y == z * z {
Some((x, y, z))
} else {
None
}
)
)
);

for triple in triples.take(100) {
println!("{:?}", triple);
}

let elapsed = t0.elapsed()?;

println!(
"{}",
elapsed.as_secs() as f64 + elapsed.subsec_nanos() as f64 * 1e-9
);

Ok(())
}

It takes about .376s to compile in debug mode, about 0.491s in release mode. This was after warming caches; the first run took about 2.071s, of which a large portion was probably loading the compiler and standard library.

In debug mode, it runs in 0.047586s, in release mode, 0.002304.

I was pleasantly surprised to see this is actually better on the build times and debug build performance, given that those are two often cited sore points in Rust.

I would also say that while this is a little bit noisy, it is more readable than the proposed C++20 version. "1.." looks more like a range starting at 1 than "iota(1)" does. There's an actual "if" statement in there.

In fact, while Rust doesn't officially have generator/coroutine support yet, it is available in nightly builds for the implementation of async/await. If you use the nightly compiler, enable the unstable features, and wrap an adapter type around Generator that implements Iterator, you can write:

let triples = IterGen(||
for z in 1.. {
for x in 1..=z {
for y in x..=z {
if x*x + y*y == z*z {
yield (x, y, z)
}
}
}
}
);

It's expected that at some point in the coming year or so async/await, and probably the underlying Generator feature, will be stabilized, and I presume the standard library will implement the Iterator trait for appropriate types of Generators (though there is some bikeshedding about the details of that).

Rust doesn't have generators yet, so this is only really fair to compare to the generator/co_yield example in C++ (which is also proposed but not yet standardized). I'd say Rust's syntax compares favorably to that example; the ranges are more clear than the traditional C-style "for" loops, there's native tuple syntax, and it's just be "yield" instead of "co_yield".
(sound of capacitor popping)
It was a compromise. The only way they could get Joe Lieberman's crucial 60th vote was to kill the public option, which he strongly opposed (for what reason who knows).
I agree. Your position is reasonable and cautiously stated. Unfortunately the crypto hate here on HN is real and pretty disappointing really.

Crypto Currencies are an emerging technology that have value far beyond currencies. IPFS for example, d.tube etc.
The President having veto power over the budget is not the problem, the complete lack of any sort of ability to compromise amongst either party's leadership is.

Without veto power Congress could ram through all manner of pork barrel spending without anyone to check them.
In many areas like DC, poor streets are a few blocks from rich areas. Land is plentiful, and density is cheap. It’s only artificial constraints that cause high housing costs.
It is a very curious thing that administrators in school districts are held in higher regard than the teachers.

Programmers are held in higher regard because they do the actual work, if you know what I mean. Everyone else is in a support role.

And yet in school administrators are paid higher and have it easier, because they don't have to deal with parents directly.
Interesting how they decide to remove features like 'seen' and 'online' in an effort to prioritize the actual message.

Offtopic- I hate those features to begin with, but I know I'm the product not the customer, and those features are to keep people on the app.
I didn't realize message queues were used for this type of task. I'm assuming you would then also use autoscaling pods that respond to the number of messages in the queue. How do you scale pods fast enough for a messaging application or anything else trying for 100ms or less per operation?
I had a similar problem with an aluminum Silverstone case. Turned out there was a grounding washer connected by wire to the front panel that had to be attached to a screw on the motherboard (I think). Fixed USB disconnecting issues right up.

(See: https://superuser.com/questions/64098/static-when-metal-usb-...)
I think a generally cheaper and easier way to manage it would be to require all children, rich and poor, go to the same schools. The economic factors would change pretty dramatically for being a public school teacher.