skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand you are helping to differentiate between political and social stability and the easy metric "money", however, poor means something very different in Mexico and central America than it does in the Midwest. I agree with you- there's more going on than just money. But your example isn't convincing to me, because there is a huge difference in the financial capability and stability of the very poor in america, and the very poor of our southern neighbors. Also, just because someone in america is very poor doesn't mean they don't benefit from the wealth of our country in other ways- stronger prisons, often better schools and police, though that does vary a bit by community.
In the rest of the world, Pi day is the 3rd of February next year. Overflow error.
That is what happens when a global superpower starts funneling guns and money to rebel groups to overthrown democratic governments and replace them with easily bribed authoritarians. This is what happens when you bomb a peaceful civilian populous so they give into a foreign fruit companies exploitative demands.

Things would be a lot better if we didn't spend the last 60+ years doing everything possible to destabilize established and successful political institutions in the name of corporate profits.
Arguing from the point of logic and formalisms the author is talking about, this would seem to be true.
.net core was released in August 2017. That’s basically one and a half years ago. Depending on how fuzzy the one and a half year time is, it may not have been released. Like it may not have literally been 18 months exactly. That’s all I’m saying.
But shouldn't the "spectrum" be decided by what actually happens to people, and not just public opinion? Wrt automatics vs non, handguns are (iirc?) the deadliest weapons in the US. So yeah, the spectrum may change, I'm just saying I think it should be based on real world risks and not just individual perception.
The answer to your question was in the comment:

> for policing, for prisons, for making sure corruption and taking bribes from crime is less of an attractive choice

Does this rural Midwest area have an active police presence? How well policed do you think a rural area in Mexico is?
Not everyone follows best practices.
Not to say “no” but to understand the company’s direction and only say “yes” to things that align. Important in this mix is communicating direction to the team and explaining the yes & no decisions.
Guns are like a megaphone for violence. Violent people will still exist but their reach is far less with a knife
>A common argument against gun control ("should we ban hammers next?") is obviously fallacious

obviously fallacious...
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/04/09/london-m...
It would be fair, but the EU prohibits it. So the company creates fake expenses in tax-flexible countries to avoid paying taxes in the country, where they generate revenue. That's the issue.
All the Presidents' Meals
Just wait until you hear about Wernher von Braun.
They’ve been promising that since spaceship one, 15 years ago.
In the pure EV market isn’t Tesla eating everybody else’s lunch? One stat I saw from Sept 2018 was that Tesla had something like 2/3 of the market share for EVs in the US.
I don't know. Look at Canada; separated by the same distance yet it remained a colony until 1931.

While rebellious space colonies has been a dependable sci-fi trope since the 50's, I am skeptical things would really work out that way given how dependent Mars would be on Earth for everything other than the very basics of self-sufficiency. I am talking about things like art (music, books, films) and the kinds of developments in science, medicine and engineering that can only be generated by having a support base of 8 billion people.
"why aren't the gun homicide rates higher in the United States than Mexico?"

Mexico has vast lawless areas where there is nary any law enforcement, and cartels fight with other cartels for power.

For reference:

+ Canada has many fewer guns than the US, and many fewer gun crimes
+ European countries have vastly fewer guns, vastly less gun crime
+ Japan has almost no guns, and almost no gun crime.

When looking at civilized states where laws are actually enforced then there's a correlation between guns and gun crime.

While most legal gun owners are not more likely to be criminal, the preponderance of available guns just gives the statistical chance that someone in a bad mood can get one much higher.

In other words: loose gun laws mean low level bad guys can get a hold of guns in a much more easy way.

Every car you pass on the highway in the US, there's a half decent chance there's a gun in there. In Canada, there's very little chance.

The 'odd man out' is Switzerland: they have a lot of guns. Their guns are however for civil defence: rifles, not hand guns, and they definitely do not have 'self defence culture' whereby people actually carry weapons. They are locked up in the basement or at the armoury. Also, they are amazingly civilized with low social strife etc..

It would be nice to see America have much stricter gun laws while not so much infringing on the essential right to own a gun. I think it's possible.
Good one. I'll update the list, thanks.
> What exactly is the expose here?

Facts & Names.
Did u try the expanse?
can someone please give this outsider-noob an eli5 explanation why golang do not adopt a same policy/attitude/implementation towards package management?
The idea is to support small companies. I don't see how this would punish small companies at all. Those companies, due to the inability to avoid/reclaim taxes pay more than 10% now (even with an accountant). I know a lot of companies (a few people large) to pay that much.
Guns are part of the problem. It is as dishonest as saying that cigarets are not bad for health.
That's a great statistic and I don't want to diminish it in any way, but part of the reason why the Model 3 is selling high right now is because sales* that were made over a multiple year period have been clumped into a shorter period.

* When I say sales, I mean the time when Telsa "won" the customer, not when contracts were signed or they received full payment.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. The reality that many people don't realise that every software product faces a commercial viability - time and money is not unlimited.

Agreed that the most senior people have experience than the junior engineers but that's obvious. Other than previous experience, what about senior people makes them better predictors and decision makers? According to research studies by Philip Tetlock, who conducted one of the largest and longest running studies of the performance of experts at predictions, his results showed that statistical models outperform "expert judgement".

Btw, this article was just sharing a quick thought and not a "how to", hence the structure. If you're interested in something more substantial, feel free to read some of my articles such as how to produce more reliable estimations (https://hackernoon.com/how-to-do-smarter-estimations-7d67f27... - I've also added this link to the article for those who want something more substantial). We use estimations to make decisions but they're often misleading because the way we produce estimations lacks discipline.

Also note that I do plan on sharing some preventions and interventions which can better our decisions.
> if they were literally at his bed safeguarding information, that seems quite intrusive for someone who did monumental tasks for the government. and it isn't even clear what their gameplan would be in this case.

The British state forcibly sterilized Turing who was instrumental in the allied war effort in a greater or equal capacity to von Neumann. "Quite intrusive" is a monumental understatement of what governments will do to protect their perceived interests.
And a country can be leading in both statistics
Yet the US has the highest numbers of mass shootings.
lets have a serious discussion... knife is like number 5000 on a crazy persons shopping list. gun is probably 300 but also easier than 1-299
> Countries that treat companies as if they a problem that need more tax (much of Western Europe) tend to have high unemployment and poorly performing economies where young people leave.

Maybe countries with high unemployment and poorly performing economies have a problem with companies paying too little taxes.
Canada has substantially fewer guns than the US, and handguns are basically banned. As a Canadian I've never seen one in my entire life other than on a cop or military.
Do the drug cartels have better funding? Mexico's Federal Budget was $314 billion dollars last year, estimates put America's illegal drug expenditures in the region of $100 billion [0], I imagine a lot of that money stays within the country. But I don't see how it's possible for Mexican cartels have even 25% of the budget of the government.

Why do you think the Mexican drug cartels have better funding than a government with a budget of $300 billion/yr?

IIRC, El Chapo is in America because Mexican prisons couldn't contain him. All his prison breaks involved corrupt guards, in fact, during his trial it was claimed that El Chapo paid a $100 million dollar bribe to the sitting President of Mexico. I think it's more plausible that Mexicans would rather join in the festival of corruption, saying that the Government is outclassed by the resources of the cartels seems false.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_drug_trade_in_the_Unit...
Starvation, poverty, vengeance. Would you willingly let yourself starve to death? Would you willingly watch your kids starve to death? Most crime is done out of desperation, and if you and enough other people around you are desperate enough it becomes normalized behavior in order to survive. You get robbed, so instead of dieing a hobo, you rob somebody else, the problem perpetuates itself because there are so few alternatives available.
I recommend the subreddit r/gunsAreCool
I still remember the amount of pain I went with trying to use Qt5 on python, the compile errors, the compile times, the differences between what QtDesigner showed and the actual output, made me appreciate CSS and SASS a lot more.
I wouldn't be surprised if some of the government officials who made this deal possible are now working for Oracle as highly paid consultants.
We’re still in the popular phase.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=r...
You really think that range on flat terrain is the same as range when climbing thousands of feet in elevation?
/. comment system is the best. before you dismiss that, just think for a while how well HN would fare against the same user base.

you have meta moderation divided among a vast population of users, who have to give up commenting rights for the article. you can filter for a variety of personal tastes (funny, insightful... even troll), a friend/foe modifier and so much more.

but yeah, the sanitized community and centralized moderation on HN or reddit makes for an /infinitely/ superior first visit experience, but after you log in and learn the minimum of the system (which fits nicely with the /. proposal anyway) it is in a completely different class.

on /. i actually learn some deep arcane stuff about a topic (and have a few laughs) as opposed to the serious HN hive mind, which i personally use in lieu of the (missing) article summary.
yes, but there are some companies which would pick up the old stuff and sell it for you, taking a part of money received from sale. Maybe something like this will become even more popular. They can also employ handicaped ppl.
GP is making a serious point.
The cartels will easily get their guns from wherever they need, surely.

Highly organized, powerful crime outfits will always have access.

That said - with Supply and Demand - it may be that their front line guys are weakened.

Instead of the mock-AK or high powered rifle, they just have a pistol or a revolver. It makes a difference.
Canada has a much stronger, better funded government and, in particular, they don’t have the drug trade pushing amounts of money rivaling state budgets into crime syndicates.

Mexico has been destabilized by U.S. influences fore decades and the widespread corruption is in no small due to the number of areas where honest cops and prosecutors are dead – there’s even a phrase “plomo o plumo” (Silver or lead?) describing the decision so many have been told to make. That’s a huge inflection point which is hard for any country to recover from.
>So here’s the punchline: if you want to be a good programmer then learn a technology and language agnostic formalism. Logic, statistics, and game theory are probably good bets.

I think in an abstract sense control theory is a reasonably good bet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_theory

I can't say I know it deeply, but a lot of the ideas resonate when I think about software engineering. If you think of everything as basically an n-dimensional vehicle with an interface to control it and the control mechanism is used to set all the parameters relevant to the system then a few things follow:

every system has a safe operating envelope
parameters are usually linked to eachother such that turning one up turns another down

I find there is a lot of mileage to be had about thinking about which parameters are linked to eachother and when you get excited about turning one of them up (ie you bring in TDD or a Kubernetes type solution) what is the effect you are having on the other parameters? That's where a new source of pain is going to come from. The biggest mistake I see in reasoning about these kind of things is being blind to the negative side of the trade-off due to the overwhelming excitement of finally being able to jump on the bandwagon and join the cargo cult. You have to train yourself to hunt for the parameter that is being affected indirectly as that's the most important side of the trade-off. You need to reason about whether or not the indirectly affected parameter's new value would take you outside of the safe operating envelope.

With every decision we make about systems we build and run we are essentially trying to steer them, albeit clumsily, in this manner.
This sounds similar to my journey with Python. For years, I used it as a go to for programs that were bigger than a bash script but smaller than an application or service. I mostly wrote single .py files with maybe the odd module and avoided setuptools and friends. In the last year, I’ve been working on a larger library in Python, which has meant getting into the packaging and deployment tool chain and structuring a project with dozens of files, tests, etc. My background has been in mainline languages such as Java and C#, with excursions into Clojure, F#, etc. We adopted the new Python type annotations and they seem to increase the visual clutter of the language without delivering many benefits in terms of confidence or ease of development/code completion. Our library is aimed at data science, so I’m sure not many users will actually bother setting up the tools to do type checking.

I do still appreciate Python, but I wonder whether my issues are due to our approach, my current level of familiarity with Python and the ecosystem or the fact that we’re working in the data science world which is new to me as well.
> They'll just make EVs

I wish they would, but they're lagging way behind. Developing a good EV drivetrain, and particularly a good battery is not trivial and so far no one is matching Tesla. Hyundai has some reasonable models now and Renault/Nissan have had some basic models out for a while. Nothing compares to Tesla yet so if I was Mercedes/BMW/Audi/etc I'd be very worried right now.
Lots of people owning guns are downvoting anything that is not pro-gun.
That's not an undisputed fact. https://fee.org/articles/the-myth-that-the-us-leads-the-worl...
Where do the rest of the illegal guns in Canada come from?
They could, but that isn’t a conclusion that the statistics show.
The most common cause of traveler’s diarrhea is E.Coli, and antibiotics are quite helpful. Many doctors will Rx them if you’re a frequent traveler to areas with known outbreaks and sketchy quality control on their pharmaceuticals.
Just the fact that a manager doesn’t code doesn’t mean they’re providing their teams with any support.
That's true, but it's still a lot harder to reliably murder people with a knife.
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I'm not saying that guns should be legal (I'm also not saying they should be illegal). What is important is to focus on the root issues, and I don't believe that the root issues are "guns".
"Most crime is done out of desperation"

This is just wrong.

The vast majority of Mexicans don't commit murder, and they are definitely not starving.

Greed, egoism, pettiness, rage, psychopathy, nihilism are more likely reasons.
Most rural Midwest areas have very little law enforcement presence. There may be only a few sheriff's deputies on duty at a time to cover a large county. It can take a long time for help to arrive, so residents learn to take more responsibility for themselves.
How much of it is cultural? Were the indigenous peoples of the Americas particularly murderous (I seem to remember depictions of human sacrifice where large cages were filled with people to be burned)? How much of it came from the Spanish inquisition/conquistador culture? These are the questions I ponder whenever related subjects come up, but unfortunately I have no answers.
From wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shootings_in_the_United_S...

> The United States has had more mass shootings than any other country.
LOL you can't be serious
I think you are completely missing what's going on...

Google generates revenue in Poland. They have operations in Poland and all (so they use all the public goods like employees, infrastructure, safety etc.). They should pay taxes in tens of millions of Euros for this. But instead, they generate fake expense in Ireland, send an invoice to the Polish office, call it "branding" or something else, the invoice is big enough to generate a loss. They do not need to pay taxes in Poland since they are at "loss".

That's the issue. Not that Ireland has a different tax system. The issue is that companies are allowed to avoid taxes by generating fake expenses and the EU prohibits other countries from doing anything with it really.

IMO 1,5% fixed tax is very attractive rate.
I wouldn't be surprised if White Collar drew from this, especially for the art thievery, considering how liberally it drew from the life & career of Frank Abagnale as an FBI consultant.
>Does this rural Midwest area have an active police presence?

Not anything like you'd see in a more developed area. We had a county sheriff - I recall going months without seeing a law enforcement officer, I think we had a police to citizen ratio about 1/4th that of the nearest major city. Over the holidays, even getting emergency services can be really dicey. One time my neighbors were screaming and yelling at each other, we called the police and the dispatch told us that unless we heard it get physical, they wouldn't be able to send an officer out until the next day or the day after.

>How well policed do you think a rural area in Mexico is?

Probably equally as well, but the police in rural mexico are much more likely to be an extension of the cartels than police in the rural Midwest. If those cases, increasing patrols would actually increase cartel power. Until Mexico figures out their corruption issues, it's not clear how things can get better.
Not going to happen with Xi "President for Life" Jinping.
It makes sense except for the US, which is sort of a strange outlier for gun violence.
Actually 39.04% according to this website. Still, 30% is closer to correct than 55%.

https://smartasset.com/taxes/income-taxes
I mean of all cars. Here's an example of fresh data. 37k is the average purchase price for January 2019 and there aren't many brands/categories below 30k:

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/average-new-car-pri...
The same effort can be put into inventing these in the absence of conflict. You do need funding and you do need urgency, but that's a question of national will.
Link to original source: http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/51620/Sinclair-ZX-Spe...

HN Guidelines: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There's no lock file in that project.

But moreover, you stumbled upon one of the worst cases, a soundness problem that has yielded a lot of discussion because of that crate specifically: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/50781

The issue here is that the typemap crate was found to be relying on a compiler bug. The compiler bug could be exploited to write transmute in safe code: in other words, all the safety guarantees of Rust go out the window unless we break that crate. It's a bad situation, but I don't know what we could have done differently. I think everyone agrees it's not worth sacrificing all the safety properties of Rust to keep typemap building.
I spent three months traveling through Central America and it’s beautiful and the people are mostly lovely.

The violence is concentrated in a few parts of the country. It’s not like you walk out of your house and get shot at every day.
Yes, it's uncool if you break the rules. Please don't do it again. Obviously companies behave badly sometimes, users only give one side of a story sometimes, and these threads are not the place to hash all that out.
Inherited https://broadbandmap.nz/ the frontend was done by a external contracting company, the frontend looked like it should once i got it to run.

They gave us a stock rails CMS/static site generator that did the frontend part.

almost full rewrite as we where a Python shop and there was a mess of JQuery pubsub involved so you wouldn't know what was happening in what order or if there would be a bug because something wasn't subscribed to this event bus in time. almost goto level.

We met with the external company a few times and they made it clear to us they wheren't getting paid to fix tech debt or make the handover process smooth for us just that they where getting paid to make it look like the design.

This is actually a better state than the other projects i can think of, more because its a small project and the levels of technical debt are thus lower because theres not as much code/complexity, not that the code that is there was good.

All the tests where failing (very flaky by design, using browser driving to check for very specific parts of text on the page that had long been replaced), we also deleted all their tests/writ our own aswell as the almost full rewrite.
Wikipedia as primary source?

If you'll check the references for that statement, they're all news articles based on a single study.

A study that the link above already discussed. A study that "excluded gang-related shootings, drive-by shootings, hostage-taking incidents, robberies and acts of genocide or terrorism."[1]

In other words, it's a custom-designed, cherry-picked statistic designed to make the US look worse than it is.

1: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/05/does-us-l...
It's easy to establish the duty to pay your taxes even using "freedom of contract". By stepping foot on a public road, you accepted the terms and conditions.

Market extremism is a funny thought experiment, but ultimately absurd.
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