skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You missed the opportunity to spell Microsoft with a "$". Seriously, you are quoting 90's tribal chants.

I'm sitting in front of an 8 year old PC with a quad core, 2.4GHz intel cpu with 8GHz of RAM. It will run rings around any raspberry pi. I use linux machines for work all day long and my home pc for all my personal use. I had one hard drive die a couple years back, but that has nothing to do with the OS. That is all the data loss I've had in 25 years of using PCs. No viruses, and BSOD's are a distant memory (BTW, the linux machines at work crash sometimes too).
Definitely true. I knew a guy who bought a BMW 5-series and was annoyed at a whistling sound that it made. When you pay $50k+ for a vehicle, you expect that it will perform at exacting standards.

Also, the fact that it's under warranty and the BMW dealership will give you a loaner makes you more likely to take it in for extended troubleshooting/repair.
Not necessarily, equity and loans both have conditions around them. Sometimes loans are more punitive than equity. Taking common stock has almost zero downside for instance, it's when you get in to preferred equity and the rights that come along with it that you can get in trouble.
Why Tech Companies Hire So Many Economists
I think so as well, though not because of the focus on the "website" but because of the focus on "commercial sites" and the exemption for tiny sites.

If my read is correct that means you can self-host a decentralized networked service, let users use it for free and you are not subject to art 13.

So for example the typical Mastodon instance would be fine.
I've never seen a Michael Moore movie toted as a documentary, supersize me either. So I'm not sure where that comes from.

Although I would argue that Michael Moore movies are indeed great documentary on some aspect of American culture for a foreigner point of view.

The Fyre festival one looks much more like a documentary, perhaps with an agenda but it looks like it is re-tracing the steps while showing a shit ton of footage. So I'm still on the fence.
I'm not the one claiming that people who don't work shouldn't have a wage, so I'm not sure why my views are relevant here. (I have complex views on this that start from a totally different set of assumptions. But you can round it to "No, I do" for now.)

I'm trying to ask why someone who believes that people who don't work shouldn't have a wage - i.e., not me - should believe in the ancestral exception.
(From the wiki text:)

"[...] an exhibition celebrating Miłosz's life and work, entitled Exile as Destiny."
Large corporations avoid taxes by different methods (operational transfer pricing, off-balance assets, special purpose vehicles etc.) It is the small and medium business, as well as the middle class who pay the bulk of the taxes, and yes, I believe in smaller government, regardless of the party stance.
They did hold congress accountable, that is why you now have a different congress. But I don't see this one roll back the tax cuts so far, and even then it would have to pass in the senate.
Deep Compression: Optimization Techniques for Inference and Efficiency
AOL. (I have two - daily driver is a 20 year old KZJ95 with some 220k miles to its name - I have owned it for the past six years (80k miles) - it has cost me less in parts and labour than wife's 2012 VW Passat 3c which has covered less than 20k miles in the same time. The Passat wins on gas mileage, though. Cough.)

The other is a 1981 BJ42. For the first 35 years of its life, it was owned by a utility company which put more than 420k miles on it doing HV line inspections. Still just works. As long as I can keep the rust worm from taking hold, this thing will outlive me.
I feel a sense of dread whenever I see this box. Is it going to let me through, or am I going to spend the next few minutes futilely clicking signs and lights, only to give up and leave the site?
https://github.com/dessant/buster

A very good addon against the shit from Cloudflare and Google.
I stick to my HP-50G (which is pretty much the best all-around calculator ever made) and intend to eventually maintain the iOS emulator myself, as it seems there is so little interest.

I do not understand why people do not use calculators, if you are in any engineering profession, it makes life so much easier. No, wolfram alpha, google, siri, python or bc are not the same thing at all.
A few: https://www.marutitech.com/top-8-deep-learning-frameworks/
Can someone make a comparison between this and the Elixir Phoenix 2m websocket conmections example.

I want to sleep.
They are federal charges: "... according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Newark, New Jersey, which filed criminal charges against Levoff".
Literally every layer on top of raw machine code adds overhead. Whether that's the JVM, garbage collection, shared libraries that aren't specialized for your application, VMs running on a shared server, even operating systems themselves. All of these layers trade computational work for developer work. By doing so, they reduce code complexity and allow much more advanced software to be written and distributed to more platforms with less friction. Time that isn't spent debugging an application on the Nth platform can be spent improving features.

We can debate whether an individual one of these tradeoffs is a good one, but layering is a fundamental aspect of software engineering and it's hilariously misguided to suggest that it's an inherently bad thing to do.
Then that was the mother of all under-promises!
Steve Squyres from Cornell answered something kinda related on the jpl channel today[0].

"If you had the opportunity to bring a hundred and eighty kilograms of stuff back from the surface of Mars, the last thing I wanna bring is something I know exactly what is made of."

Opportunity did her mission amazingly and is resting in peace in the place where she was designed to be.

We learned a lot from her and her sister mission, now, the effort is better spent building over their shoulders.

[0] https://youtu.be/cnddzE4YSzg?t=4045
I guess something like that is going on in my brain too. The code I come up with often feels exciting because it is a solution to a problem, but then the next several 100 code-solutions overwrite the memory of what once felt important. It is no longer important, so I think it's good my brain let's go of it. But often I lament having not much documented why I wrote some code the way I did
the experiment is here:

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2399-6528/aae224/... [PDF]

from this page:

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2399-6528/aae224/... [HTML]
Now that's a beautiful rig.
Well, there are two different things here: for-hire status or not, and assignment to employer if not.

For-hire status is different since the employing corporation is actually deemed the author, which affects things like duration of copyright. Maybe it depends on whether a state-law employment relationship was in place or what the state says your job functions are. I'm unsure about that point but I don't think either of us is claiming meaningful differences between California and New York on that point.

In either state, if you do something within the scope of your employment (i.e. programmers writing software for their employer's use or in-house accountants writing notes to a financial report for their employer), the employer owns it as author regardless of contract, unless the employer explicitly assigns it in writing to the employee.

Also in both states, nothing the employee does in their spare time outside of the scope of employment is owned by the employer by default, in the absence of a contract saying otherwise.

The only difference in this regard between California and New York is that a California statute restricts what the contract can assign. New York has no such statute.

But your example about a programmer writing a novel is interesting: if the content of the novel relates to the actual or demonstrably anticipated business or research of the employer, or uses the employer's confidential information / resources / time, an assignment provision covering it would be enforced in California. Same if an accountant writes software useful for the Kubernetes hackers at their employer.

Neither of these examples would be a work for hire or assigned by default, but both California and New York would allow that to be assigned by employment contract language (with the individual and not the corporation as author for copyright law purposes).
Most brokerage firms will ask if you work for a public company or a FINRA-registered firm at account opening. If you didn't directly tell them you're employed by one it's still safe to assume they've gathered the information from your direct deposit information or from source-of-funds information sharing with your other financial institutions.

If you work for a FINRA-registered firm they'll send a letter to your employer asking if they'd like your transaction information to be added to the data feed. I'm guessing they can facilitate the same for publicly traded companies and their employees but I've only ever worked on the financial firm side of things so I don't know for sure.

Scary huh?
Yup, and this is the primary reason for why I avoid commercial products (or, even worse, services) like the plague.

When shit's broken I want to at least be able to go in there and fix it myself, not email some support vendor who's just going to ignore it.
Well, that's a fair response, but it also is unconvincing - the op shouldn't have implied that you're malicious in wanting a tax on capital gains. Still, the question remains - does it have a chilling effect on investment? Since you seem to know about this I'm curious what your retort would be.
The effects of dust buildup on solar panels was largely unknown though. Many expected power to slowly dwindle away over a short period of time.

Turns out the panels clean themselves with enough wind.
There should be more protests like against ACTA then. I haven't seen such now.
Watch "7 days out" on Netflix, it's exactly this but for the opening of a restaurant (at least on ep1). It's stressful as fuck.
There's some indication it'd work, at least a little:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/telephone-scam-artist-p...

> A telephone scam artist picked the wrong target — former FBI chief and CIA boss William Webster.
I'm feeling humbled by NASA's achievements compared to those of our profession here wrt sustainability and longevity.
'Dielectric Elastomer Generators' could rival traditional off-shore wave power
What would it cost to Wardial a whole area code with TextToSpeech + SpeechToText on twilio?
Farther down, it mentions that the 1871 Chicago Fire resulted in a wood-construction ban "still partly in place".

Britannica notes that "The [1871] slums became kindling for the downtown conflagration, where even the supposedly fireproof stone and brick buildings exploded in flames as the destruction swept northward."

https://www.britannica.com/event/Chicago-fire-of-1871
Also: https://www.ed.ac.uk/news/2019/device-could-deliver-wave-ene...

"The device costs less than conventional designs, has fewer moving parts, and is made of durable materials. The "design could be used in fleets of low-cost, easily maintained structures at sea within decades, to take advantage of powerful waves".
Yes and no, I'm the author of the P2P tech behind notabug.io, d.tube, and other sites, (https://github.com/amark/gun) so I have some experience with this:

- It works as well as WebRTC does. But browser vendors (Google, Microsoft, Apple) have kept WebRTC crippled. Firefox is doing work to make this better.

- When WebRTC fails (which is like 60% of the time), you have to fallback through a DHT of IPv6 peers.

According to the law, I believe, any one of those peers could be liable.

As a result, anybody who has a consistent IPv6 address or domain winds up needing to run a peer-specific "blacklist" of :( :( :( DMCA take down or else they could possibly be sued or have their door smashed in.

We're trying to make this better by creating a network of WebRTC DHT signaling peers called AXE (check the github for more info).

This will let users comply with the law (even be protected by things like GDPR) and then transfer data directly to their friends (not using any middleman service) and this data can stay protected with encryption (see our WebCrypto wrapper that makes this easy, https://gun.eco/docs/SEA ).

This will be the best way for users to stay legally compliant while not screwing over people's freedom and property-rights.
Very cool, Tyler. Just applied. :)
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I don't think NPM themselves have done much here. The original owner of the module sold(!) the package name and transferred it to a new owner. It's not like this was somehow sneakily stolen.
This effectively removes income tax entirely for rich people. I can simply create a corporation and never take money out of it. If I need to spend money, I can just borrow (whether directly from the corporation or indirectly). Even if you remove the latter loophole somehow, you're effectively only taxing consumption, which is highly regressive.
Or did they just get better at fingerprinting us?
I split my screen in three sections:
1. The ebook I'm reading.
2. Emacs editor
3. Anki to write cards of the things I want to remember.

Anki is software to do spaced repetition, which is like studying Flash cards but you get to study them as late as possible, before forgetting.
Razorpay is hiring senior back end engineer in Bangalore
Razorpay is hiring backend developer in Bangalore

Razorpay is India’s first converged payments solution company. We act as the payments layer for businesses and provide end-to- end solutions required for operating payments at scale in their business models, not just as a software but as an actual extension of their business. Our clients characterize Razorpay as the entity which builds the future of payments for them today. We have designed products to help organizations control their entire flow of money, starting from accepting payments to managing them internally to disbursing required payments to vendors. These products serve as a layer on top of the payment gateway and provide different functionalities like charging recurring payments, collecting bank account transfers in the same dashboard, generating payable SMS links and mail invoices and so much more. In its 3 years of existence, Razorpay has been able to garner over 75,000 merchants who trust us including the likes of IRCTC, Swiggy, Zomato, Zerodha, GoIbibo and may more. We are on a mission to simplify the journey of money throughout India and we are just getting started.

As a senior backend engineer, you will get to:

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What do we expect from you?

● A strong product design sense

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.... tax law they're benefiting from here.

I did not read the "from here" part of the comment you originally wrote that I responded to. I thought you asked for examples of Amazon lobbying for tax law changes in general. My mistake.

I did not claim that Amazon lobbied for the specific law mentioned in the article though. Indeed I can't because it hasn't. I did give examples of how Amazon has lobbied for other tax law changes. The comment I originally replied to was in regard to "the game". In this case the game being politics and lobbying.

The things I wrote about Amazon doing remain true. The complaint isn't against Amazon though. It's rational for them to take advantage of the system in place. The overall point I've made and believe is that the system is not fair and that Amazon has outsized power in the U.S.
AWS – RDS – Canada Is Down
Amazon Relational Database Service is currently down in Canada.
There is no official ETA on this and nothing on their status page yet however, our stack is completely down and the support told us it is a large scale issue in AWS canada.
Agreed. A lot of the docs focus on the upper management and having to deal with the issues at a high level. I feel like a lot of the in person horror of overnight was fully missed.
Eh. Both of my last two jobs were through LinkedIn, so if nothing else, it’s worth it for that. Having said that, the social features are fairly useless, and other than when I’ve been actively searching for jobs, I don’t really use it.
I really dislike posts like this one. For technical stuff like this people should start out with definition so everyone know what the author means by, for example, "perfect hashing".

> By implication, the hash must be at least as many bytes as the key and the function is theoretically reversible

No. At least not by the standard definition[1]. In standard context, the problem of constructing a perfect hash function is, given (ahead of time) a list of items, you find a hash function that can map them to a smaller "range" without collision.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_hash_function
"Napster is the future of the internet. It will come back."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19034200
They make a point of showing that Reddit admins delete less content than the various subreddit moderators do. I would guess that 90% of the stuff being removed by mods (or AutoMod) is spam, making it a bit of an apples to oranges comparison
The german azure location is a joke. Only the most basic services are available, there are so many missing in germany...
We're in the thread I started, where I lauded them for taking advantage of tax loopholes to not pay any tax. So, I'd be interested in why you believe I think what Amazon is doing is wrong.

What I don't like is that companies are allowed to do this at all - I support more government sponsored measures such as universal healthcare and education, far greater investment in sciences, etc, and I believe corporations paying higher tax rates is a fantastic way to pay for these things.
It was not that obvious to me. I think it was malicious, yes, and it was insane, true, but I can see how they could have thought that they would be able to make it. By make it I mean, charging enough money, and getting people to have an OK experience. Probably they thought people would just lie like they're use to do on instagram anyway.
I have done this many times (including with Lufthansa) but I would ask them to check in the bag only until where I want to stop the trip. I don’t know if they wasted time waiting for me during those times.
> A company with happier, more productive...

Union workers, including professionals, across the U.S. report considerably lower trust and comfort in the workplace, and feel more distant/guarded from their bosses than non-union workers in every sector [0]; and I'm not exactly sure how you measure productivity, but I can't exactly assume that that's higher in a union shop either (anecdotally, it is the exact opposite of the case).

Now, some of this might just be a matter of unions being more common in crappier industries, which is plausible, but it certainly doesn't indicate a positive impact of union membership.

[0]: https://news.gallup.com/poll/146687/Union-Workers-Score-Lowe...
Every time I fill one of these out I get the picture test, and I answer them correctly...but am asked 3-5 times to identify which blocks contain a school bus or stop light. It's very annoying.
Apple Invites Hollywood Stars to Video Service Launch Next Month
Glad I’m not the only one. I thought something was wrong with my brain. Or that I might be a robot.
If that is what you got from the available materials and the track record of the EU DPAs to date then you should probably do some more reading.

EU companies have as much or more stake in being compliant than the few US tech giants active on EU soil.

I see the impact of the GDPR on EU based companies every week and it is definitely moving the needle towards more secure operations and a much better attitude towards stewardship of data-subject related data.