skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OVH's answer: https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/1085284004721541122
What you describe already exists with things like franchises, trade groups, and consumer organizations. For example, if I told you that I stayed in a Hilton last night, with no further information, you probably have a good idea of what the place was like and what kind of rules it had, despite having no idea where it is or who owns it. If I tell you that I stayed at a AAA approved hotel, you’ll know it met certain standards.

What you say also describes governments pretty well. They just tend to base membership on physical location. For your example of sink depth, if a business doesn’t like California’s rules, they can resign their membership and join a different government by moving there.
Free software binaries are freely redistributable. Source code need not be provided with binaries as long as there is offered method on how to get the sources. Thus free software binaries can be copied and distributed as many times as one wishes, and without source code, as long as there is access to source code, for example, by writing a letter with the request or by providing the download link.

It should be same source code by which binaries have been made.
I was nervous the first time I stayed at an Airbnb and needed to remember a gate code and apartment code (in addition to the complex set of turns required to get to the apartment once you were in the gate), but eventually I realized that I’ve never not got my phone on me and in the absolute worst case I can blow the money on a hotel room for a night until I can get things sorted back out.

Of course in the scenario where you get mugged in a strange city none of that applies and I honestly have no idea what I would do... show up at the embassy and cry on the door until they opened on Monday, probably.

As for a safe for your passport, I guess it depends upon country. In many you’re required to always have valid ID and proof of visa (ie: the stamp in your passport) at all times. Usually those are also the more likely countries for being robbed, so there’s a bit of a catch 22 there.
I'd just like to point out that your figures don't add up. First of all, you're not taking into account that Sweden has a progressive tax rate, like the US. The figure you quoted in your second link is for the highest marginal tax rate.

If you were to be consistent, you could use the figure for America's marginal tax rate listed in your second article, which is 37%. So apples to apples comparison would be that the US pays $22,000 in taxes at the highest marginal rate on 60k.

Keep in mind that the US also has state income tax, which can be upwards of an additional 15%.

Anyway, these figures are all kinds of wrong. You need to account for the progressive tax rate for each country, the state taxes you might be subject to, and the tax benefits / write offs that are available to you for your tax bracket.
Those cheap restaurant supply knives he's talking about can hold an edge just fine. They look cheap because they have that plastic handle, but they are very durable in my experience.
Lots of talk about professionals earning more than this. But you can do this kind of thing with no education at all. Right out of school. All you have to do is, be willing to get your hands dirty.

One of the best business models is, selling something that is mandated. Like cleaning restaurant floors (health and safety rules).
Well sure, but chances are you're enriching the majority shareholder in this case. It's a per-share system not a per-person system.
I've thought the same (and heard the same booking "blunder"), until I visited a city I had visited before, and went for the exact same hotel...
Well, one could argue the more complex the ownership structure is capable of being, the more opportunity for abuse arises.

For example, by saying he has "special" shares that grant him 10x the votes of "normal" shares, he can sell way more than 50% of the company and retain 100% control.

This means shareholders are 100% along for the ride, and get no say in how he runs the business.

I could see a strong argument for the SEC coming down hard and saying "Okay, enough is enough. 1 share, 1 vote."
The other problem I find in git is that there are many GUI interfaces and none of them are consistent. In Eclipse I had a different interface depending on what project I opened, despite both the projects being in Python.
Just curious -- why does that matter? In either case there's a single moment wherein people can trade on it. Why is it better for that moment to be at 9:30 instead of say noon?
It's an engineering tool. You'll be using it all day every day for the rest of your career, the investment is worth it.
I don't live in Sweden so I can't claim to be an expert (I like in the UK), but I find it highly unlikely that your claim of a 61% tax rate in Sweden is correct. It's likely the highest tax rate possible (in the UK that's 45%).

If you look at a tax calculator you will see that for a Swedish salary equivalent to $60K, the effective tax rate is actually ~27%.

$60K USD == ~540K SEK, which is 45K SEK a month.

Plugging 45,000 into [1] and choosing the municipality of Stockholm results in a net monthly income of 32,587 SEK.

That's a tax rate of ~27%...

https://statsskuld.se/en-sv/jobs/berakna-nettolon
If the company can't get out of the deal then that rent is a sunk cost. It might still be better for them to sublet at market rent and find a larger property for themselves.
Distribution of binaries is allowed. It is another matter and subject on how to properly use trademarks.
While not as in-depth, this is a fun analysis of Windwaker's graphics techniques done via observation and and emulator. https://polycount.com/discussion/104415/zelda-wind-waker-tec...
If a PC port of RDR2 never happens, an analysis may still be possible. We may just have to wait a long time.
>SpaceX BFR has about 100t capacity to Mars. While the total cost of a Mars mission has not been publicized, I suspect it would be fair bit more than $20k.

While we don't have SpaceX numbers, Zubrin said in 2012 that if given to NASA Mars Direct (A Mars proposal from 1990-1991, updated in 1996 in Zubrin's book The Case for Mars) would cost 30-50 billion but a private company could do it for around 5bn. That still put you at several million dollars per metric ton delivered to the Martian surface BUT that included all design and administrative costs.

You can see some of the Mars Direct figures here http://www.astronautix.com/m/marsdirect.html

We also know what SpaceX quotes 90 million dollars for 16.8 metric tons to Mars with Falcon heavy which puts us at 5.35 million dollars per ton which is already quite a bit cheaper than the most optimistic Mars Direct figures. https://www.spacex.com/about/capabilities

BFR should be able to do way better than that if it ever becomes a viable system.
Change comes from within, not from arrogant temper tantrums. EU is not going to be able to convince a country that leaves on a whim. For God's sake what is EU is the second most Google thing in the UK right now behind what's Brexit. It wasn't a very informed deliberate decision.
Agreed. Even the most zealous socialists aren't suggesting UBI handouts could replace healthcare insurance.
Presumably the UBI would be untaxed, so you can reduce the liveable wage amount by around 30%, right?
This is a matter of custom, fixed-width is for code [0]

It is more typical to italicize a blockquote, perhaps with leading `>` to mark it out:

> like this

- and this is a list-item

- and so is this

it's just a matter of courtesy to those using smaller screens and assistive technologies

Thanks!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
> Used to be it had a lot of old things, and not much of real value.

Ah ok I see. Well for the old things that are done well are more valuable as movies than just random new things. And if ratings are an objective sign of quality, I'd say they had been reducing the IMBD Top 100 movies and adding a lot of B-movies. Their original content redeems that a bit, because it is quite good, but it just wasn't good enough.
I think they are very good ( I host with them ). Excellent support.
Let's Fix the Internet Together
tailor-made, unless we're talking golf, ha
Isn't that just YouTube or Spotify? Free music is freely given out legally these days, don't see the need for this.
My dad pays a guy to come to his house in a van and sharpen his fishing knives in the driveway. He fishes a few times a week and has quite a few knives. I was surprised at the price he paid (although I forget exactly what it was), but he only does it a couple of times a year (I assume due to his large knife collection).

The guy has all the equipment in his van and does everything on site, and it's his full time job. We're a coastal town with year-round fishing, and the guy apparently makes a decent living because of that.
Your scenario sounds not only plausible but highly likely. Especially the point about individuals or other principle-driven organizations being relatively unable to reproduce the closed-source advantages that they could tie into open source projects to make them significantly more useful on MS-blessed platforms and systems. This is all a very real possibility.
But you can be a good founder/CEO and have a controlling interest in the company without using multi-class shares if you simply retain the majority of shares.

Problems such as the one mentioned in this article start occurring when multi-class share schemes start allowing the founder to effectively sell off most of the company while still retaining total control.
After reading the other sources, it appears that this exploits the way Windows executes things without warning the user. You download a video file, you click on it, and Windows unexpectedly executes some hostile code. What the payload does after that isn't really all that interesting, it could be made to do anything.
It does make sense the way you describe it.

But the ads I see are way off target.

Hell Google's news ... AI or whatever they're doing has been absolutely convinced I'm a Nebraska Cornhuskers fan, probabbly because my team plays them and I google something about them once in a while.... but in the past even when I told Google directly "I don't want to see stories about Nebraska Cornhuskers" ... after a while it again becomes convinced I'm a huge Cornhuskers fan.

I'm just not sure these systems are ... that effective.

Not to say it is easy, the systems have to be really complex / interesting.
I'm pretty sure Sweden have progressive taxes!

The number is closer to 16k USD if you make 60k USD, see:
https://statsskuld.se/en-sv/jobs/berakna-nettolon
So, basically, Trading Places but online?
Not too long ago, I had communications with Elsevier's technology team, and through that experience, I also spoke with some of their directors. Let me say that the experience was kind of mind-boggling and surreal.

My impression is that Elsevier is a company locked into the past by a couple of decades. The leadership that I spoke with seemed to have worked in publishing for a very long time. And, probably because of that, they had an old-school publishing mentality with regards to how to reach their customers, provide value, and create revenue.

I sensed that many in the technology team seemed frustrated with their leadership. They had new visions for how to evolve the publishing model to reflect the rise of sci-hub and changes in the industry. However, they were stymied by a very bureaucratic, well-entrenched, and siloed organization.

I expected that the leadership would have some strategy for dealing with this, but it seemed like they were aloof, probably grown fat from decades of near-monopoly. They had a net profit margin of 37% in 2017! Talk about a business ripe for disruption.

Elsevier has been around a very, very long time (wikipedia says 1880), and it shows. I can't imagine getting anything done within that company. So, it's no surprise that some of them are finally leaving to try out a new model. Let's hope for the best.
It was possible to control Internet connected Mill heaters worldwide
I guess it prevents people hammering the servers to get the earning reports ASAP.

With this, people have a few hours to get the reports which means miliseconds matter less.
> experienced Perl developers always tell the less experienced ones to avoid shelling out from Perl if possible

The reason for that is obvious, right? By induction, shelling out from Perl would only result in the called process shelling back to Perl. So it's much better to just call that Perl code directly.
>There seems to be an archetype in silicon valley today of people viewing companies basically just as convenient extensions of themselves rather than distinct legal entities with separate interests.

100% with you here.

When companies grows so much ego becomes part of the game.
Great idea. This kind of culture is why there are a lot of people that don't and probably never will use git.
Trade deals aren't always comprehensive, but can be sector-specific.

(I have no idea whether the number 500 is correct)
Or, sometimes in my experience, something I was selling.

I browsed retailers to copy the specs into my ad.
> Capitalism cannot function without people exploiting the system for personal gain.

What national economic system can function without people exploiting the system for personal gain?
But then companies could use it to assault rms’s Freedom ;)
You still get that if you shop online, everything you ever bought suggested as an add on to your basket.

I can see how this could cause embarrassment and, maybe, awkward questions if one's partner also uses the same account.
It sounds like you’re on the fence, so you must also have some reasons you’re considering staying married. What are they?
My only question is: how safe is this? If they create a mini black hole then that would obviously be disastrous. Sorry but I remain skeptical of all their research. If they don't understand exotic matter, then why muck around with it so haphazardly?
So only industries that get government support - like rail, electricity supply in UK? Food production in USA? Farming across the EU?

Then there's the premise that "private property is theft", so perhaps all industries that use land ownership or natural resources owe their utility to the public too?
Meanwhile, NYT experiments with predicting readers’ emotional state and using that information to target ad placement...

https://digiday.com/media/project-feels-usa-today-espn-new-y...

NYT is deeply hypocritical when it comes to digital advertising.
It's probably a figure of speech, not to be taken literally. See, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy#Places_and_institutio...
From what you said I think you overestimate how happy working on your own goals will make you and I think you underestimate how happy your marriage is making you.

It doesn't have to be either/or. Look at the excluded middle.
That's pretty smart
Then Apple would have to give up the truckloads of money they get from Google for making them the default search engine on Safari.
A niche yet to be exploited?
You can find some explainer video creators on Fiverr.

https://www.fiverr.com/search/gigs?query=explainer%20video&s...

10 Awesome Software To Make Explainer Videos?
https://www.wowmakers.com/blog/explainer-video-software/
> Do you get to demand 20degC at work?

Yes, if it's office work or other work without physical activity. Limits are lower for more active work. (and of course special rules exist for environments where working in cooler/cooled rooms is required)
The concern of having your wifi password hacked vs being tracked may be of different concerns for different people.

(Besides, it can be useful to treat your LAN as hostile, anyway, with rampant IOT and friends etc.)
Incubating a culture of corruption has some obvious negative impacts.

There's also a variety of complications, from pension funds that do invest in VC funds, to national security implications of foreign principals funneling investments to individuals. You also have disruptive market behavior if we allow the boys with access to VC capital the ability to do whatever, while publicly traded real estate trusts need to meet regulatory requirements that prohibit that type of activity.
Never had a similar experience with Airbnb. But I switched back to Hotels and I found it way more comfortable and easier. Just good reviews and reasonable prices. Hotels are in good competition these days and you don't hear these scary stories about them.
> You be surprised how much less sophisticated Googles and Facebooks ad targeting is!

If Google's ability to discern my interests for ads is as bad as is their ability to discern my interests for news, then I would not be surprised.

I have never been aware of listening to any music by the band "Foo Fighters". I've almost certainly heard their songs in passing, but never in a context that gave me the name of the band.

A friend on Facebook posted a link to a YouTube video called "Dave Grohl brings kid on stage in Kansas City to rock out", in which Grohl, who is apparently the lead of the Foo Fighters, invited a kid from the audience at a Foo Fighters concert up to play a song, and I watched this video. (The kid asked to play a Metallica song, which Grohl and the Foo Fighters knew and played, so I still have not knowingly listened to any Foo Fighters music!)

Google has latched onto this and decided that I am interested in Dave Grohl news. Every time I go to Google News, for the last several weeks, the top of the "recommended by your interests" section is a story about Grohl or the Foo Fighters. Even though I hit the "show fewer stories like this" link for most of them, still they come.

Furthermore, they are almost all negative stories. The one thing they have of me showing any interest in Grohl and/or Foo Fighters, that video of the kid on stage, was a positive thing. But what they are giving me is a parade of stories about Grohl screwing over current or former bandmates, Grohl misbehaving while drunk, etc., from what appear to be trashy gossip publications. Yet a bit of research shows that Grohl is apparently actually a nice guy, well regarded. If I click the link to tell Google to not show me anything else from one of these trash publications...it obeys and just turns to other one to find Grohl gossip for me.

What the heck, Gooogle!?
Carbon emissions is a grave problem with existing desalination infrastructure, but this seems something that can be solved. I'd expect desalination to be well suited for opportunistic use of solar or wind power. Build up reserves of clean water when it's sunny or windy, then deplete those reserves when cheap spare energy isn't available.

Of course this goes for new desalination plants. Whether there's political will to convert existing plants to non-fossil fuel sources is another matter. But at least from an engineering perspective there is a way forward.

What I get out of the article is that disposing of brine is an ecological hazard. This shouldn't really be a surprise since any engineering effort at large scale is going to have some kind of environmental impact, but this is a new consideration for those of us who don't work in the industry and hadn't thought too deeply about the process.
Things I Wish I Knew When I Started My Business
Re-read what the WeWork CEO did. It was not commingling of funds, it was what would loosely be termed as double dipping. One of his corporations, doing business with another. ie - each of his corporations making independent decisions, via the mechanisms not wholly dependent on himself, about what to do with money in their own accounts. Not money in his accounts. It happens a lot nowadays precisely because it is legal. Usually in parts of the business that deal with real estate, like we see here, or another one is benefits. For instance, you get a basket of funds to choose from for your 401k, but some of them are funds run by "Bigshot Investor X", who also happens to be an investor in the company at which you're working. If you tried to go after corporations or individuals for these kinds of things on the basis of alter ego you would be laughed out of court.

That's why this stuff is legal, because it by definition, is NOT an alter ego situation. My point is that while it is not illegal, it is definitely unethical, and probably should be illegal. Not because of the doctrine of Alter Ego, which is obviously not violated in these sorts of instances. But rather because all of these corporations, while acting independently, are clearly acting in concert to benefit a third party that is NOT the general shareholder class. There is no explicit, sort of generic, law against that right now.

As I said, if your companies are private, do whatever you like in this regard. All of your companies can, and probably should, concert to benefit you and your family. I'm just saying for companies with public investors, that's just not cool.
I might be wrong but aren't these called spikes?

I do exploratory coding in a similar way, usually with a repl next to my text editor, and this first single file version is usually always trash but helps me understand the problem space. Then I write it "for real" with the knowledge I've gained.
Assuming that five different websites would all run a re-targeting campaign for the same lamp - it's tricky, and you would probably be relying on the retargeting cookie expiring, or you hitting the frequency cap for each.

It's possible that at the level of the ad network the products could be disambiguated, and then cancelled so that other companies did not waste ad spend. This would be difficult as the products would have different SKUs.

At the level of a single retailer, the retailer places a burn pixel on the checkout page which registers to no longer place ads for that product.
I can only echo that! We did an around-the-world trip for an entire year from 2017 to 2018 and did not use AirBnb a single time. We looked up AirBnb places maybe a handful of times only to find out that the quality and location of AirBnb homes was worse for often a more expensive price than a good hotel. We ended up booking everything via booking.com and hostelworld.com.

Hotels were often cheaper, in better locations, had a better service (longer reception hours, etc.), often breakfast included, room service, other guests which we could connect with and most importantly, no creepy cameras!
Read the SEC commissioner's speech that I linked, seriously. He doesn't propose banning them entirely, just phasing them out over a period of time. Clearly there is a flipside to carte blanche founder control when the CEO/Founder is underperforming yet can't be removed (e.g. Evan Spiegel).

Do you think Mark Zuckerberg's children should retain majority control of Facebook after he dies?
Yes

macchanger (I use a custom script that works better for me. Also does magic in places with limited interned, e.g. free 100MB limit)
I wouldn't use this for my own moral reasons but we have different definitions of free. In this case you use "free" to mean: providing personal data and being subjected to a targeted marketing campaign in exchange for music.
> I'm going to assume you're not in the USA. Washington DC is over 70% Democrat (which is our left wing party)

In American English, in political contexts, “Washington” is a frequently used idiom for “decision-makers in the US Federal Government”. (This applies mutatis mutandis, to the names of political capitals generally, which stand in for the leadership of the government seared their; in the context of discussions of a particular corporation or other organization, this also applies to the names of cities wherein regional or central HQs are related).

Anyone who misses this has really no place commenting that other people must not be American because of ignorance free of the partisan alignment of the electorate in the capital district.
Types cannot be inferred in dynamic typing systems. That is the whole point of dynamic type systems: type might change during runtime.