skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect that Google ceasing to do business in the EU would be considerably more harmful to Google's revenues than to the EU (actually that whole argument works better the other way round. If Google is truly struggling to make any profit at all on all that investment they make in the UK, why don't they just leave?)

Please do yourself a favour and educate yourself on what VAT is before you Dunning-Krugersplain what the EU wants from it, how much you think it is worth to the economy and what you think an accountant would recommend a business does (I can recommend a good search engine as a starting point!). The entire point of VAT that it's a tax on the consumer of the final product only, and that businesses get to deduct all the VAT levied on intermediate goods they've purchased to make and market the final product. That's literally the most basic, definitional aspect of VAT that sets it apart from traditional sales taxes. Since Google Ads are bought almost exclusively by businesses, EU member states (the EU doesn't actually levy VAT itself) receive a net tax benefit from VAT paid on Google Ads only on ads bought for personal enjoyment or by VAT exempt organizations, which must be a tiny proportion of their sales. Now there's an argument that Google's customers' customers would buy fewer taxed goods and services if they didn't see the ads, but that's a very different argument and certainly not something you could object to journalists not counting as "government income from Google's operations"
Sure, so if you have the ambition to work there then it still cannot hurt to do both. I do recognize that networking might be overrated for pure tech but on the other hand it cannot hurt; for instance if you fail the whiteboard at the company of your dreams at least you’ll walk into another place effortless. Remember that by far most of us are here to earn a living or start the company of our dreams and also most will never work at Google/Facebook; then it definitely does help to just lifted to the prime hire by the C*O you met at a party.
I said the same thing in my comment. You get max productivity with selective use. Nine times out of 10 you don't need them. Overuse of them led to LISP code being hard to read like you said. We don't need to repeat mistakes of history. So, I said add them with a warning to minimize them for maintainability if language is trying to be like Go.

On the other hand, they should be most of the code if taking a DSL- or MOP-like approach. The people using those will be very familiar with the higher-level language. There's a solid, lower-level language underneath for when the VHLL's don't work out. The macros help there.
Possibly... I might try using Charles Proxy mobile app to observe what domains data is being sent/received from, then on your home network use something like Pi-Hole to block those domains.
Most people spec'ing out machine shops are not experts in lighting other than more = better. This is a really, really low risk we're talking about. Like basically the stars have to align for someone to get hurt.
App Analysis: Air Canada
I don't think that just because a business exists, it isn't predatory. Maybe payday loans are on net bad and should be eliminated. Perhaps what people say about trapping customers in a cycle is true.

However, I don't think that just because an APR sounds extremely large, that makes the loan predatory or otherwise unnecessary. Just like with housing and everything else, when you rent something for a short period of time, there is a fixed overhead, and if you annualize it you can clutch your pearls over how high it is. But that doesn't in itself mean it's not a useful or even vital service at a fair price.

If people need money for a few days to avoid being evicted, jailed, losing their job, whatever, and the APR includes, say, a $20 service charge, it seems disingenuous to attack it solely on the annualized interest rate.

You might as well say that we should eliminate $100/night hotels because that equates to a $3,000/month price which is clearly outrageous.

On an unrelated note, I wonder if the payday loan places are the same as the check cashing places where you take your paycheck if you don't have a bank account. Should public policy consider that attacking one side of the business might affect another?
I have no idea who's down-voting you, but you are absolutely right.

To find acceptable the exploitation of animals while finding immoral the exploitation of humans, you must believe that animals differ from humans in some fundamental ways!

Comfortable, caring bondage is still bondage, and we should not forget that.
> including potentially abroad

On my reading of the A&A bill there was no extra-territoriality clauses, so I think it only applies within Australia.

However, I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice.
Succinctly? :P
I don't think you were "age" discriminated here my friend

I think I definitely was. The attitude of one guy changed when he was looking through my resume and realized how old I was. There's this condition and particular set of reactions that accompany people getting strangely willing to believe you did something bad, even when they have scant or incomplete evidence. I grew up someplace where we literally had to drive 50 miles to visit friends of our approximate ethnic group. It's something that's familiar to me.
The California Consumer Privacy Act (coming into effect in 2020) definitely does.

From https://privacylaw.proskauer.com/2018/07/articles/data-priva..., the California Consumer Privacy Act specifies:

> 1. the right to know, through a general privacy policy and with more specifics available upon request, what personal information a business has collected about them, where it was sourced from, what it is being used for, whether it is being disclosed or sold, and to whom it is being disclosed or sold;

> 2. the right to “opt out” of allowing a business to sell their personal information to third parties (or, for consumers who are under 16 years old, the right not to have their personal information sold absent their, or their parent’s, opt-in);

> 3. the right to have a business delete their personal information, with some exceptions;

In fact, this entire facebook announcement looks like it's just compliance for #1.

Good for them for not waiting until the month before like GDPR, but don't be fooled that they're showing this information out of the goodness of their hearts.
How about Sir Topham Hatt? [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fat_Controller
It is pathetic that HN childishly downvotes you instead of engaging in a fruitful discussion.

For an unbiased review of foods, go here: http://www.diagnosisdiet.com/foods/
Boutique+–+FSFE
This concerns me. About a year ago I went onto a website and ordered 56 led bulbs for my entire house and thought I got a fairly good deal. They worked seemingly well but my eyes always felt strained when under them. Just took my iphone and can definitely see the flicker with slow motion. And when I look at items as I move my head across the room I feel like I can see it as you say and never really knew what I was experiencing before. As someone who always talks about having sensitive eyes to light I am definitely not happy about this and am now thinking about buying flicker free bulbs. Thanks for sharing.
> Environment variables are good for long-term, multi-program configurations

Not just that. They're also useful for when a program is called by another program and you want to control something about its invocation without having to modify the source code of that other program each time.

For example, I might use a different value for LESS when calling man than when calling git.
Information asymmetry results in market failures, and can justify regulation. But the Obama payday regulations aren’t directed to information asymmetry. They do not, for example, require certain transparency measures. Instead, what they do is place limits on who lenders and lend to.
To me it looked like a culture of taking the maximum that a person could be expected to do in one dimension, and expanding it to multiple dimensions. So, having one person watch both sides of the ship might be marginally possible - if they were only doing that. Similarly, teaching someone else while on watch might be marginally possible - if you only had one side of the ship to watch. Putting the two together though? Total failure.
Rust's procedural macros let you write Rust code that generates Rust code. In combination with tools like quote, it's just a much clunkier version of the same thing that Terra offers!
Ron Joyce, Force Behind Tim Hortons Doughnut Shops, Dies at 88
To buy lots of advertising and sales staff.
Well there are a number of ways you could handle the situation:

1. Ask if you could think on it for a bit to buy yourself some time to finish your other job interview and then make a pros and cons list of working for each company to decide.

2. Accept the job from the smaller company but keep doing the interview (Who said you can't have two jobs?) and then just work at both companies.

3. Accept the job from the smaller company and end the interview.

4. Decline the offer from the smaller company and prepare for the interview in the meantime.

5. Accept the job from the smaller company and keep going with the interview process and if you get accepted you could use that as leverage for a higher position in the smaller company.

I don't know your exact situation but hopefully this helps.
I'm all for scratching an itch and coming up with a new language. And yes there is potential in this space.

But it's definitely a wasted effort if the goal is to write a light weight chat client...

Implementing something, disliking the tools we use and deciding to implement our own... I think we've all been there.

But a language takes years of work by dedicated people to reach any level of maturity.
Would be cool to see a non-TechCrunch link. TechCrunch shows blank pages on mobile for me
Developer Essentials – Quality Products for Better Coding Sessions
Why shouldn't ALEC exist? There is a sizable fraction of our polity that believes in the principles underlying ALEC proposals. Are you upset that those people are organized enough to write model legislation, or are you upset that the countervailing forces in the US don't have something as effective as ALEC?

We have the same thing for judges. The conservatives have the Federalist Society. The liberals have the ACS. But for whatever reason, the Federalists have better branding, and are a perennial bogeyman. But all either organization does is keep track of judges that fit their policy goals. What's wrong with that?
You're right, but the reason they're doing this is less conspiratorial than you suggest... it's just compliance for the California Consumer Privacy Act coming into effect in 2020.

From https://privacylaw.proskauer.com/2018/07/articles/data-priva..., the first major provision is:

> 1. the right to know, through a general privacy policy and with more specifics available upon request, what personal information a business has collected about them, where it was sourced from, what it is being used for, whether it is being disclosed or sold, and to whom it is being disclosed or sold;

The UI mocks in the article are literally a checklist of each of these items.
Honestly makes me wonder if either of these services are long term sustainable without basically not paying the delivery workers. It’s less a case of two companies making huge profits being evil and greedy and more the case of two overfunded unicorns optimized for growth at all cost with bad unit economics and bleeding cash
*rooting
Don't just think of shipping the container back to the bottling plant. Think of producing raw materials, then shipping the raw materials to the refinery, the refined materials to the container factory, and the new containers to the bottling plant. Roughly, this seems like x < x + y + z + w, which should be uncontroversial.
My mentor was Nick At Nite: The Donna Reed Show, My Three Sons, Gidget, Mr. Ed, Dennis the Menace, The Patty Duke Show, etc. Also similar shows that syndicated during the late 80s and early 90s, like the Andy Griffith Show, Webster, The Jeffersons, and especially Good Times--which despite being white and relatively rural I identified most with. I grew up with near zero supervision so I would often watch these shows into the wee hours.

I knew that the behaviors in these shows were idealized and in large part imaginary, but I also believed they represented the types of relationships and goals I should aspire to if I wanted to learn to behave like the non poor. In retrospect I think my beliefs were pretty healthy considering the circumstances, and in particular more constructive than, e.g., aspiring to be like sports stars.

There's something to be said for demanding, if not mandating, strong moral codes in our popular entertainment. In many ways those old 1950s era shows were far more mature than the current fare. We tend to think of those characters as naive, but I don't think the characters, writers, nor audiences were naive.
Sounds too good to be true. If this is released it'll be serious competition to Rust, Nim, Zig, etc. Lets hope for the best. There's just so many amazing features. There's even a graphics library in it.
"Trust" goes beyond just reading licenses. Actually I would say that if I have to hire a lawyer to read license files to tell me what is meant and how it's enforceable, I have quite the opposite of trust.

"Trust" means that members of a community generally presume good faith in each other (because of a record of past successful interactions, not because they believe in presuming good faith as a virtue) and believes they're working towards the same goal. This requires having some form of shared values. You don't need trust to implement a system of contract law, which is all you need if you're reading licenses. But then you merely have a civil society, not a community.

"Trust" means not only that you can expect other people to write open-source code but you can expect them to share the belief that writing open-source code is valuable.
I think back on instances like that as dodging a bullet. Can you imagine the hell that actually working with those people would have been?

That's very true, but it has changed my attitude for the worse about interviews. The particular situation where someone can take facts and reality itself away from me (not really in reality, but in terms of the outcomes of the immediate proceedings) is like hell itself. The possibility of that lurking, because I am indelibly "marked" by my age is awful.
Sure, you can always find special-case exceptions, but I still don't see why the result is surprising in the general case. There are a lot more arithmetic progressions than geometric ones.
I see that you, like most of people here, have gulped the vegan propaganda hook, line and sinker.

http://www.diagnosisdiet.com/foods/
Has anybody ever seen a knowledge database for a large organization that actually works? I always see these efforts but usually they turn out pretty useless because nobody keeps them up to date.
I started reading this book because of your suggestion. Unfortunately it is at best a product of its time (1967) and at worst actively antagonistic towards the naked apes who are not straight, white, and male. I got halfway through before I had to quit. If anyone is still reading this thread, I recommend passing on this book.
Do ArXiv papers get deleted after a particular period?
Hi everyone,

This question has been bugging me since long. I am not able to access papers on arxiv that are more than 7 days old.

For ex, today is Feb 6th. The oldest paper I can see is from Jan 30th. Not before that.

And I see this happening for almost 3 years now.

Do they delete their papers periodically?

Am I doing something wrong here?

Any suggestions would be highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance for any help you could provide.

Memento Mori :)
The laws and treaties exist because people believe words to have specific meanings, not the other way around. "Bourbon" and "champagne" meant something concrete before there were laws about what could be sold as bourbon and champagne.
Looking at some grocery stores online shopping sites, I had this idea about a service that delivers a CSV file listing all the price information from various grocery stores in a given area.

Users of the CSV might be people who shop at a variety of grocery stores, buy the same products periodically and want to know when these products are currently on sale.

The motivation is that a user might not want to shop only when her supply of a product runs low but more strategically when the price of a product drops.

There are certainly other ways offline and online to get this information but AFAIK not in a spreadsheet-friendly format that combines price info from multiple stores.

Of course there might only be one user: me. I have no idea if anyone else would see this as useful. It was an excuse to make more CSV to play with in kdb+.
The data controller, in this case the "original" company is responsible for collecting an informed concent to use your data for that specific use unless the use is a requirement to do business (i.e. invoicing, not advertising). It does not carry over to another company by shifting this to the processor.

The intermediary is just a data processor, and while they also have to follow gdpr it's the data controller who is responsible that the intermediary actually follows the laws.

As far as I can tell facebook will just tell you who is uploading your data but then you can pursue them if you do not believe they have your concent to do so.
> V is compiled directly to x86_64 machine code (ARM support is coming later) with no overhead, so the performance is on par with C.

Direct compilation to x86-64 machine code does not get you performance on par with C (by which I assume the author means GCC or Clang). The optimization pipelines of GCC and Clang have had decades of work put into them by some of the best compiler engineers in the world.

Since the author states that the compilation time is linear, this would seem to imply that a full suite of optimizations are not being done, since many optimizations done by GCC and Clang have nonlinear complexity. It is easy to get fast compilation if you don't perform optimizations.

> - Thread safety and guaranteed absence of data races. You no longer have to constantly ask yourself: "Is this thread safe?" Everything is! No perfomance costs either. For example, if you are using a hash map in a concurrent function, a thread safe hash map is used automatically. Otherwise a faster single thread hash map is used.

This description doesn't guarantee freedom from data races. (Java's memory model basically fits this description, for instance, except for the specific case of hash tables, which aren't built into the language.) Even if it did, the tricky part is determining what a "concurrent function" is. The obvious ways one might imagine doing this tend to fall down in the face of higher-order functions.
Version 0.7.0 supports a super mode, which delegates any git command/alias. The usage is

gita super <repo-name> <any command/alias>

For example:

gita super repo2 commit -am 'fix a bug'
Take the job, hopefully it comes with insurance. Talk to a doctor. Get a brain scan. Finding the right medication and dosage for your exact condition(s) will take time. Flow-state is not magic, it can be learned, or re-learned if necessary. Good luck!
Does Wikipedia count?
> See how this guy in a lab coat holds up a beaker?

That's a flask, not a beaker.
Source: https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-announce/%3C201902062237...
Chinese satellite takes stunning photo of the moon and the earth together
Blumhouse, not Netflix, is the film production innovator to watch
I'm rooting for it don't say that sheeesshh :)
That's great for simple stuff, but without implementing some extremely hairy bitmasking logic via the callback to createContext, if you have any kind of complex state, how do you prevent rerenders of vast chunks of the UI, and the performance hits that causes? Context is really nice, and works fantastically for simple stuff where it's fine to just redraw the world (authorization or theming for example), but it's not a replacement at this time
There are like 50+ services from AWS alone, I doubt you have deep experience across those from a few hours a week of study, let alone learning about Azure, GCP and all the other cross platform offerings out there. And that’s not even touching the custom architecture required when you hit real scale.

Yes it’s easy to get going in the cloud, but becoming an expert, like anything, is hard and take time + experience.
I don't know, at my current job I've been introduced to DACPACs[1] and I really like it. The ability to do schema/data compares between arbitrary environments and generate the migrations in real time is awesome.

[1] - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/da...
IPO’s are always about money and getting rid of unwanted investors
Oregon was perfect. It had it all but the biggest thing was the people. Very kind, enjoyed life, respected the environment, valued fresh/quality ingredients, not too 'busy' but still productive. It had the best parts of California and Washington without any of the stuff that annoyed me (I won't go into it because this is subjective). Plus, as a single man, I got a ton of matches on Bumble, a lot more than any other state. Made me feel very welcome.

Montana just felt WILD. Missoula had a vibe that is hard to describe. I just felt like I was at the edge of civilization but still had fast internet and a Target close by when I needed it.
C# is a mess. I'd love a C# light.
A suis vide is much different than a slow cooker. I use both quite a lot, and they seldom overlap. The temp control is crucial.
What was the ultimate outcome of that infamous strategy?

To quote from Bob Dylan, "Everything is broken."
It was Mattermost, the company that just raised $20M in the article. He says it in the first sentence, though I didn't see that at first either.
It's insane how we just accept regular natural gas explosions as a thing, but we over-react at even the hint of non-lethal nuclear contamination.
Are you looking at the list of recent papers? That would explain it.

Here are the hep-th entries from August 1991, which was... a while ago:

https://arxiv.org/list?year=91&month=08&archive=hep-th&submi...

Here is the list of recent submissions to hep-th:

https://arxiv.org/list/hep-th/recent
Granting a license to software that a company has invested millions of dollars in takes less than 10 minutes as well, but that doesn't mean they are obligated to give it to anyone who might find it useful for free. Sunk cost is an orthogonal issue.

It's reasonable to expect compensation for your work. Caveat that they don't sell it to someone who will exploit it.

Building or acquiring something of value in the hopes of profiting from it later is a fundamental part of life. It is why we go to school, invest in machinery, develop products, do research, etc.
Not a ledgend. Many now famous people lived on dog food for years. Phillip K Dick comes to mind.
Spam classification by email service providers is generally quite opaque but we can at least check that we're doing everything in our power to prove that the email is legitimate. Like ensuring it passes SPF, DKIM and DMARC, and that it is being sent from an IP that is only used for transactional emails. Beyond that we would need to try to work with individual providers.
Wikipedia is pretty phenomenal but I was thinking more about a company. I have never seen a company that has the culture of continuously contributing to these efforts. They all fizzle out quickly.
Because the point was to try to improve the educational opportunities for all the kids in California. California has nothing to do with school funding in Alaska.
I'm currently a sophomore in high school and I'm studying a low level language called Rust and I'd be interested in what you think about the language and what languages you have a lot of experience with.
they are too difficult to peel.