skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No it doesn’t. Norway has a relationship with the EU, anchored by treaties and all.

The UK explicitly rejected it in favour of hard Brexit as it currently stands and won’t.
In the USA, the historic path for that demographic to gain a broader world view is joining the US military. Bonus points if you use it to pay for college.
The issue is that there are more people who are talented enough to learn complex jobs than there are positions. So the system is built to make sure the children of the well-connected get first dibs on the available positions. No matter how well educated everyone is, we will always need more food prep workers than surgeons. In other words: the people in charge of the country understand that a lot of talent is wasted, they just don't care. And to make sure that working class people don't get upset about their class status they use the language of "personal responsibility" and "the land of opportunity". That way you make it seem like it's their own fault for being in the situation they're in.
This is not up-front lower pay with the expectation of tips. This is low pay where tips effectively go to the company, not the worker.

I would not be OK with it if I tipped at a restaurant and the restaurant reduced the staff's pay by the amount I tipped.
Has anyone tried treating these transactions as actually fraudulent, and asking their credit card company to investigate and reverse the charges? I've heard the card companies will sometimes be pretty aggressive on the cardholders' behalf. That said, this would probably get your account banned from whatever service you try it on.
> As reported above, the full communication highlights the fact that this information is subject to any transitional arrangement that may be contained in a possible withdrawal agreement, which is an ongoing negotiation between the United Kingdom and European Commission.
Are most people migrating over a million loc? And if they are, is it one million loc Python service, or a bunch of small services that could all be rewritten independently? Chances are the worst case scenario is very rare.

Golang really isn't that different from Python. They are both incredibly imperative languages with a one way mentality, and most people who learned CS in college will easily recognize both. The major difference is that Go has much less to learn, and very few patterns to speak of.
Not true at all, I've reported MANY of my unauthorized posts and all have been swiftly dealt with by Instagram. In my experience, they take it seriously when you provide proof of your post, and theirs.
With the head tax, it was hard to say there was not incompetence or at least gross miscalculation. The city council passed the tax, the mayor signed it, and then less than a month later it was repealed.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/about-fac...
if you were not following this is a response to this open letter:

https://medium.com/@workingwa/instacart-heres-our-22-cents-n...

Instacart reduced payments to workers because they got tips. Basically stealing their tips.
> Russians in the '90s had the excuse that the government that had built the ship had collapsed and the replacement hadn't bothered spending a dime to maintain it.

It sounds like this is uncomfortably close to the truth about the US situation too; the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan had unlimited money to waste, but this must have been at the cost of other parts of the military. And the political system is increasingly dysfunctional above it.
I find the Clojure Slack to be a great and helpful community. There are certainly plenty of other Clojure chat systems on Zulip, ClojureVerse, etc.
I suspect Estonia is going to get a lot more e-Residents if this happens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Residency_of_Estonia
In large part because of these revelations, I'm no longer going to tip delivery drivers or feel bad about not doing so.
Can we just go ahead and split computer programming into vocational and science-based tracks while we're at it?

There are a lot of people who can or could stitch together existing libraries to accomplish results. There are a lot fewer people (than are currently participating) who have any business writing those libraries in the first place.

My hope is that if we just acknowledged the difference in these two problem domains we might get more quality over quantity in the places where it really matters.
I'm working on a blog post about this.

The issue isn't decentralization or issues like upvoting.

The issue is one of economics.

As long as we don't address the core fundamental flaw with capitalism - that capital flows towards central actors, we will never have a decentralized and fair communications structure.

What's sad is that I think it might actually be impossible without major efforts to understand the problem.

It just happens naturally and without some sort of aggressive taxation policy it's just going to keep happening over and over again.
Does that mean you cannot use it for any regular Ethernet data signaling at the same time, or is the signal overloaded on the DC?
The data is already there. Find someone corrupt enough in the government and buy it.
I can imagine an improvement in many UI's if I had a way to tailor it for what I want, not some corporate one size fits all.

Like:
1. See no likes.
2. Filter out comments that are deeply nested quotes.
3. Filter out specific people on a specific subject that I don't need to read again.
4. Switch off all adverts.
5. Never see a public post.
6...
Har dee har. Non-whites were forbidden from moving into many zip codes by law until, IIRC, around 1958. Real estate agents kept enforcing those laws long after they were struck down, and there are still tons of properties that have "racial covenants" which forbid* the current owner selling to a non-white buyer. And such neighborhoods change their composition very slowly.

So no, the causative effect is the reverse of your implication: there are many well documented zip codes that significantly determine your genetics

* though enforcement of such clauses wouldn't stand in court today
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19087558

(Also, weird framing IMO in the hed)
Most of people here do not rely 100% on investment income, I assume, thus such a situation would be impossible for them, since labor income tax does not allow to deduct this much. But I have successfully lowered my taxes at occasion where I incurred some substantial investment losses (the startup I owned stock in folded). It didn't make my tax to zero (and thank God, because this would mean I've lost as much as I make, I don't want this kind of losses) but it did reduce my taxes.

> Why cant we have a sceptical approach when the topic in question is large corps?

Sure we can, in fact we must. But skeptical approach means get the facts, verify them, then make decision. Not read the outline, feel outraged, reject any reasonable explanation because we must be skeptical about large corps. Having losses carried over from previous years is nothing wrong, and one part of being skeptical is being able to recognize there's no "there" there, and move on.
An excellent example of not forgetting to revisit the past with the present's frame of mind.
On Monopoly: It has been a though I have for some time. I wonder how could they not form monopolies. Who has 4-5 taxi apps on their phone? Who has 2-3 social profiles? Who has the habits of jumping from a searching engine to another? A minority. Their product are almost natural monopolies.

They are very difficult to fight against monopolies because when they have user commitment, the need for the product is filled entirely by one company. In addition, it is very difficult to make the user change, it's part of a habbit.

I might be wrong there. Just a though I had, but interesting to discuss. Is it really possible to avoid monopoly with these products?
Nice article. High frequency trading is probably one of the most advanced fields in low latency live streaming due to the significant impact latency, which in some cases is measured in nanoseconds, has on profits.

One standard in HFT is the FAST Protocol[1], an adaptation of the FIX Protocol. One of FIX's newer developments is Simple Binary Encoding[2], which is designed for minimal latency. There's many differences between FIX and "normal" protocols that are really interesting when you realize how much thought went into shaving off as much latency as possible with FIX. Unfortunately, FIX is one of the few solutions in HFT that is publicly available as many firms make money from being the fastest in a particular area.

I doubt many HFT developments could be adapted for use in video streaming, as bandwidth is rarely an issue and hardware can cost much more. However, I would not be surprised if at some point in the future an HFT firm creates a general solution applicable for video.

[1] https://www.fixtrading.org/standards/fast/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_Information_eXchange...

Edit: Grammar
[edit: original parent said "no idea what you mean" - just noting b/c my response only makes sense to that, not b/c offended by it or anything]

spoofing identities (or, I guess, making sockpuppet ones) to @-everyone and post porn gifs & racial slurs from slackbot in #clojure

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Yes, the Clojure community is awesome! I only mean that Slack has problems that allow malicious people to spoil the fun. I don't know if it's been addressed. I logged out the last time it happened.
Dude who made it posted on /r/golang recently. Apparently his next masterpiece will be in Go :)
Me too! One of the others with the same name signed up for a dating website (match.com IIRC) a few years ago and they sent enough information that I was able to improve his odds and help a bit with his decision making.
I am unsure how a .exe file "crumbles".

Most websites are already broken, due to anti-adblocking, newsletter signups, GDPR consent, etc. I don't really care if most websites requires Chrome, most websites are broken anyway.

Plus this is Firefox. It has been down this patch before, heck it was born in it.
>Or maybe that is the role of regulation and government to keep the amoral corporate compass calibrated.

That's one of the reasons for government regulation and why you should carefully examine calls for "less government regulation" to see who benefits and who is worse off.
I think Like buttons and other forms of social media voting are destructive to intelligent thought. They can generate argument ad populum fallacies so bad ideas can appear to have merit based solely on popularity. They are a good example of why true democracies always devolve into mob-rules tyranny.
Another city that forces private companies to provide them surveillance data is menlo park.
Do you have preference for a particular line of Ikea bulbs? (Ryet, Ledare, etc)
There's much more that's not just not liking taxes.

- https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/12-millio...

- https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/like-terr...

Or see the city council's total failure at dealing with homelessness. Or their 180 on the head tax.
So the only alternative is to let corporations offload their training externalities onto higher education?

If that's what you're saying, it's a false dichotomy.

Cry me a river for the corporations, who cares what they want? It's always their agenda that wins these days anyway. That's the way the world is going.
That's not a law, just an event venue rule based on their union contracts.
(I'm pointing out the fact that one of the reasons Hawaiian shirt days are a bust is because it ends up being a continuous peer pressure situation when some employees don't participate. Seen it happen to so many people whose workplace enacts some kind of "[something] t-shirt day".)
I think the point there was Silicon Valley is not unique in this. Many other industries have used similar tactics for years.
VAT isn't refunded, but since Google's clients are typically directly deducting the VAT paid from their corporation tax bill and not many people buy ads for personal use, the net benefit of VAT paid on Google Ads to governments is pretty minimal.

The case for income taxes paid by Google employees is better, but then most of them would also be paying high income tax if working for businesses that didn't use elaborate schemes to repatriate their profits.
If python offers type safety, and language x offers type safety, what reason do I have to pick language x over python?
I wonder how viable a class action lawsuit by the content owners against him would be.
One potential solution would be to standardize the driver and lighter assemblies and allow them to be independently replaced. You could even then have lamps with a single large driver which connects to many small lighter assemblies without duplicated effort. Of course, that standardiZation process could take a very long time and have a wide variety of form factors, output levels, etc... which is sort of where we are anyway with light fixtures and bulbs today!
Do you think there's a way we could run apprenticeships that makes them more attractive to adults seeking to retrain?

I wonder sometimes how much of the problem with switching careers comes down to the usual scapegoat - lack of humility - and how much of it comes instead from infantilizing the students.

If we're going to keep moving the workforce around every 15 years then we need a way for someone^W most people to comfortably have 3-4 fairly distinct careers in their lifetime.
Norway is in the EEA. The UK has chosen to leave the EU, not to join the EEA (because it's all about kicking out black British citizens, and damn the cost [0]).

This is a consequence. It's a trivial consequence compared to the damage the UK politicians are insisting on doing.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/30/it-is-terri...
This. Agreed 100%. Don’t say one thing and do another sneaky thing. That should result in such entity losing the trust of its clients.

They deserve the backlash they get. One would hope they get fined as well.
To Freeze the Thames: Natural Geo-Engineering and Biodiversity
Consumer Protection Bureau Aims to Roll Back Rules for Payday Lending
I wonder if it was really a set of collective decisions like this that drove the change and apology?
It's basically just a way for businesses to advertise a lower price than the actual price which in turn leads to more profit. Tipping doesn't benefit workers or customers. It only benefits businesses.

It needs to be abolished.
Chris Anderson: My 12 Rules for Kids and Screens
and a wikipedia page dedicated to its slow and inefficient methods of deliberation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_process
That’s because Norway is part of the EEA.
Warren Buffet is a pattern recognizing machine that can forecast trend growth by analyzing a boat load of data and has learned how to be a master of negotiation.

With that said, Warren Buffet is not someone who invents things and or is very creative such as Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, etc..

But someone like Buffet can amplify adoption of products and ideas by investing early and seeing potential of the companies.
The CEO did a thread in response: https://mobile.twitter.com/jackconte/status/1093223206805106...

I'll just say here what I said there: "You lost the plot. No one outside your VCs are asking why you struggle to scale. Everyone wants to know why you're scaling before getting the fundamentals right. You can't even manage feature #1: paying creators reliably."
There's a broader historical perspective that's missing in this article.

The Second Industrial Revolution (1870-1914) was much like today. You had extremely rapid growth of new industries fueled by widespread availability of capital; a pervasive bubble economy punctuated by massive stock market panics & depressions; rapid development of new technologies; widespread fraud & corruption; a feeling that the common man was missing out on these developments (hence the term "The Gilded Age", a reference to it being shiny on the surface but dull & black inside); a widespread populist movement; political discontent; and globalization. And these technologies proceeded in overlapping waves: ironclads were replaced by steel ships; steel made steam engines possible; steam paddleboats replaced sailing clipper ships; propellers replaced paddles; steam turbines replaced triple-expansion engines; oil replaced coal in boilers. It was not uncommon for a ship to become obsolete before she entered service in the early 1900s.

The effect of the mass availability of capital during this time period (other than in destabilizing society) was to dramatically increase the rate of adoption of these new technologies. Without the massive capital influx into railroads, it's doubtful that there'd be enough of a market to drive widespread adoption of the Bessemer process, which made steel cheap enough to use in ships & skyscrapers. Without the mass capital investment in shipping, it's doubtful that there'd be an impetus to develop & perfect the steam turbine or switch from coal to oil as a fuel. Without demand first from the kerosene lighting industry and then from the shipping industry, it's doubtful that there would be gasoline (then a waste byproduct of petroleum refining) to fuel the automobile industry.

Similarly, O'Reilly's looking at Uber and Lyft at this snapshot in time and lamenting that their market power is preventing new ridesharing companies from entering. But the point is not to perfect ridesharing; it's to replace it. Uber and Lyft are arguably already obsolete, with Waymo in active testing in Arizona and California, and will be replaced shortly by self-driving cars. It's doubtful that self-driving cars are the endgame either; I suspect that we'll see intermodal transportation pods that move people & cargo through and between cities automatically.

The point of massive capital investment is to get us to the future faster. It'll be wrenching and cause massive societal dislocation - the first industrial revolution gave us wars of nationalism for the US/Italy/Germany, and the second gave us 2 world wars, the fall of centuries-old dynasties, Communist revolutions, and eventually the Holocaust. But we don't really have a choice.
It should be assumed that company will try to do these kind of thing unless they are forced to do otherwise. Yes it's your role or goverment role to do so
This example is a deliberate obfuscation by Facebook to hide the "Sponsored" element from scrapers: https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-blocks-ad-transp...

> Our tool recognized ads by searching for that word. Last year, Facebook added invisible letters to the HTML code of the site. So, to a computer, the word registered as “SpSonSsoSredS.”
To be fair, I've been following YC for 12 years and I didn't recall that Instacart was a YC company until I saw the parent's comment.

There are just too many to keep track of, even for the big guys.

That said, I don't know that who they raised money from is particularly relevant to the story.
https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/10-years-...

"A .eu website tells customers that the brand concerns a legal entity in the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein or Norway and, as such, is subject to the trading and consumer laws of these countries."

Norway is part of the single market with the EEA and follows EU commercial laws.

The UK, as far as we know, won't.
The longer time goes on, the discussions I see and hear about "data driven" business sound more and more like the discussions my father used to have with my mother about how the bean counters were ruining the ability of the company he worked for to operate and do business.

Ultimate problem being, if you're only staring at data, it's hard to tell the difference between critical systems that look like they don't do anything and useless systems that drag the system down. You need to understand the whole system, and not just the measures you're extracting from it.
Interesting thoughts, really.

But maybe change contexts—would you call Coca Cola a monopoly? Certainly Pepsi gives them a good run for their money, even if they aren't as large technically speaking (I have no idea).

I mean, people will always have their preferences. I'm not sure if that makes for a monopoly on its own.

How much that preference is formed by the company's inherent pursuit of a monopoly, well...

I'm not sure if it's that different from other contexts, or if it is.
I don't think these kinds of surveys are (1) accurate or (2) particularly useful, but the gold standard for this kind of stuff is the Verizon DBIR:

https://enterprise.verizon.com/resources/reports/dbir/
Not unless we add another slot to the Supreme Court.
I don’t have all the answers but personally I keep coming back to a shared wiki, current approach is a private GitHub repo called companyname-guides and the README just said click through to the freely available wiki in the repo.

My process has been to be deliberate any time I’m teaching someone a new skill or process. Either I tell them, wait a bit I’ll write something up first or I review the existing page and then we go through it together. That way updating the knowledge base becomes part of the standard knowledge transfer process, I think that’s the key.

Once we start that way it’s also made it easier when I’m quickly retraining someone and I say now can you add that to the wiki page. For them it’s not some random page it’s a page we worked on together and they seem much more confident then to go in and change it.
Amazon's grocery and restaurant service also has a variable base rate that depends on tips as well. FYI.
https://github.com/tamarit/edbc for those who want to see the implementation
This is a poorly sourced article. Where does this metric come from?
> Submit 48 credit card applications at four US-based financial institutions, resulting in the approval of at least $65,000 in fraudulent credit
How does one even open a line of credit with just an email address?
Sweet!
The docs say "since version 3.1.1", and the latest release seems to be 3.0.4, so I guess this has not been released yet?

Do you think that the changes help with simpler algorithms -- like in StringHashList [0], where destructor specifically calls Dispose on each array element, and then deletes the array storage itself?

[0] https://github.com/graemeg/lazarus/blob/95d183bacd5f895d3e6c...
GP IS skeptical, by asking that the facts be made clear. The non-skeptical people are the ones implying "this MUST be wrong just because".
There's an entire industry dedicated to telling these people how to say these things. I'm confident a consultant provided the exact wording in order to find the best (least bad) long term outcome.
Fuck that guy too.
I have used Buck for many projects, and in practice it is not complicated all... in fact I think it might be simpler. The reason why is that you define the includes relative to a single path, and the layout is just a Python (well, Skylark) dictionary in the build system. You never have issues with includes happening from the wrong paths, or the build breaking because files have moved around and someone wasn't including things in the correct way. Proper globs are also amazing from a build maintenance perspective.

You can also wire up Protobuf headers in the map.
This is the only solid rebuttal I've ever really seen someone come up with when seeing complaints about tipping, but my general response still applies: The reason I "buy" from a company/service is so I don't need to worry about "how" my request gets completed. If I need to pay your employee/contractors, i might as well look at hiring them directly and skip the middle-man taking a cut. I'm not your HR department, pay them properly and don't expect me to tip them based on my judgement of their performance.
Reddit is quite unknown in Brazil, India and several other countries where social media are used by millions of people.

This represents an opportunity, but also a risk. Opportunity to grow in these countries, or see another company offering similar service arise and gain momentum.

If @spez give me 10 horses with food for 20 days walk I could come back with more than 30 million users from Brazil alone.