skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once worked in a complex enterprise software environmnt at a large natural gas company in the US. We had several incompetent programmers who were safely "promoted" into low-level business and managerial positions, one of whom had heard about stand-up meetings and wanted to show their managerness by imposing them on everyone else. Since most people were working on specialized business areas or very specific problems in an extremely complex code base, they were a total waste of time. Recognizing that these "meetings" were for show only and actually had negative value, the senior people began to avoid them and they slowly died the death of attrition that they deserved.
False positive/false negative rate? Is this fully vetted or simply a POC? Theranos' reception makes me, perhaps unjustifiably, cautious regarding medical device claims that seem very positive.
You could also encrypt them before uploading them (even if most people won't do it)
Protest against the EU radio lockdown
Unfortunately, no. Not at this time.
Might anyone have insights on why they're stopping at 5%?

If the idea is to tax the internet giants on the business they do in France, why not seek to tax them at the usual corporate tax rate? The internet giants will, I presume, fight it either way, and it's not like a tax is going to stop them from serving French customers.
Tax evasion is already illegal.
It's the about the "extremeness" and out of balance weather patterns compared to before, not whether it's warm or cold. The ocean currents are out of whack, creating these highly irregular waether patterns.
As I understood the article, this is a tax on sales, not profits.
My guess: Big corporations often have more potential to outsource, and are better known, and have a stronger PR and legal department. These traits give them a much better negotiation position (don't remember that governments profit from taxes, so it's a bit of a demand and supply thing: If taxes are high in one country, a big company will threaten to move to another, which costs the country money in the end).

At least, this is the argument that the Dutch government uses to abandon as many taxes for companies as possible.
What's worse, we failed them not because we're incompetent or unlucky but because we're greedy. It's malice.
There is a difference between implementing a reinventing a new solution with knowledge of the past mistakes that prevents those mistakes from occurring again and a new solution without knowledge of the past mistakes, which leads to those mistakes being repeated again. In my observation, the JS community tends to go towards the latter.
It's because for an international company there is really no clear cut way to say what is tax evasion and what is not. If your company is incorporated in France, has offices in Ireland and serves customers all over the world, how do you calculate where to pay what?

Sovereign countries are free to set their tax rate to 0 in order to attract companies there.
Write, doesn’t have to be perfect just whatever comes out.

Drawing, mostly doodles.

Read, I like reading people’s stories more than fantasy.

Meditation, it works.

Silence or Radio. Viberadio is one of my favorite.
Tax evasion is, but tax avoidance isn’t.
> managed strikingly complex communication with creatures as small as a sparrow

You got me curious - care to share more about it?
It's weird that most of the page is dedicated to the custom icon feature. I'd move most of the explanation to a secondary page. Perhaps left only one screenshot here, and use the empty space for gifs to show how the cat changes the speed at different use levels.

Can I reverse the animation?

What about a spinning icon? Just add one icon and the program will spin it automatically. Perhaps a wheel, windmill, spiral, ying-yang, ...

Perhaps the paying version can include some additional icons?

The custom icon use the alpha channel, but I guess most people is more use to the grayscale. Have you tested this with non technical people?

The text has some errors / strange use of words. For example

> You can register Self-made Runner. *

> * This function is a fee-charging content.

I could try to provide a better version, but I make a lot of mistakes in English, so you'd better get someone else with more knowledge.
To ddebernardy's point then, why not charge VAT?
Not the same, but related. :-)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19279489
A dead man's switch API
Would it have to understand the difference? You could do pretty well with a crawler that detects such fields (by checking a simple increment, say) that then spits out URL/field combinations. Then you just need to scan through those and follow up on the ones that look like security holes.
>Sovereign countries are free to set their tax rate to 0 in order to attract companies there.

Then those companies should only sell products and services in those countries. Otherwise, something should be done about it. I'm not saying it's easy, but it can be improved.
Yeah, I know some women that are way better at unix then me. Heck I learned to program, to the extent that it wasn't auto didactic, mostly from women.

Anyway, it's poor form to put gender into the mix of what good coding looks like. Don't man up, do it hard core or bravely. Don't pussy out, chicken out. Don't try something ballsy, try something gutsy.
I think it's simply a way to distinguish between old style JS ecosystems and new. It encompasses a range of benefits and lessons learned in JS. Of course not everyone is going to agree that the "modern" way is the right reaction to the problems of the past but most active JS programmer will have a good idea what it means.

C++ has a similar issue. There's a very distinct difference between C++11 and what came before. And C++20 could be another big shift (especially with modules). Modern has a useful meaning, even if it's fuzzy and temporal.
I'm sitting on my couch, just idly watching live footage of some people doing stuff 200 miles above me. Above the place I will spend the entirety of my life. Watching them do complicated things that, if we're lucky and don't destroy ourselves first, will ensure our species becomes multi-planetary. Maybe even space faring someday.

Life is weird.
Tax on sales is bad.

It will hit the startups the most. Why? Most big companies have economies of scale and small companies must pinch every dollar. Already tax avoidance is best done by large players, not small ones. So please vote against it if you are an entrepreneur and wanna become rich through entrepreneurship and hard work.
The main reason that AA/NA helped me was that it brought me around sober/clean people that I could hang out with and make friends with. The step work is BS in my opinion. But the sober friends kept me alive.
It's a difference though between spying on another country's government organizations (which is ok) vs. spying on its citizens (which is never ok).
Yeah it’s not like if there were not big Cloud european player like OVH that doesn’t comply to US secrecy laws
To be more accurate, swap "global warming" with "climate change" and see if your original argument about the double standard holds up.
For the last five or so years, I've had more or less constant pain/stiffness in my lower back, which is definitely aggravated by lifts like squats or DLs. Heck, running too often aggravates it. At work, I have a sit/stand desk, and I have to alternate between sitting and standing throughout the day, because doing too much of one or the other starts to hurt.

It seemed to come on gradually. What initially caused it I don't know... I played football in high school, I've lifted weights since I was a teenager (only cutting out squats/DLs when they became too... risky), I was in the Army for a bit, who knows... should probably get a doctor to look at it.

My father started having problems with his lower back around the same age (30s), so maybe there's a genetic/hereditary issue. Though at least he still manages to do squats in his 60s. I wonder if having a longer spine (I'm about 5 inches taller than him) would make my issues worse?
I assume this is on top of VAT (the article does not say).
At least in US Amazon already adds tax in purchase price. Similarly when you buy copy of software, tax is already added. For ad bills to publishers, I would think it’s the same. So what does this “digital tax” is about?

The big issue here is that eventually all taxes will be transferred to end customers. The profits for businesses don’t get lowered because of more taxes (unless demand drops). So people in every country should be worried when government eyes for more taxes.
Since this is applied to revenue, is this like a reduced VAT reclaimation or something?
Which would you recommend from an ecosystem/performance perspective?

I’m thinking hard about picking up a new language and I think it’ll be oCaml, but F# does have the .net ecosystem behind it... how is ocaml’s stdlib? Is it easy to find what you need in 3rd-party modules?
Why?

I don't see what the correlation is between a user's file size and how long the user will need it to remain.

Generally people use these services to host a file for around the time it takes someone to check their e-mail/ticket/etc. to download the item -- hopefully within a day, usually a couple days, worst-case scenario a week.

The time-cutoff is based on human behavior.

Plus, it's too much mental overhead for a user to have to worry that each file uploaded lasts for a different amount of time.
That sounds very fixable without abandon sales tax altogether.

Lots of rules already target larger companies and not smaller ones.
Wget is a browser.

It invokes many things like flash, JavaScript engine.

If all you want is http, use CURL it comes from Sweden so it's relatively safe than Russian spywars lik Nginx.
The one nice thing about AWS and its ilk is the ability to spin up big chunky VM for few hours/days for ad-hoc data processing for pretty small amount of money. That can in many cases shift the boundary of annoying sized enough, with the added bonus that your own workstation is not fully occupied by the processing. Of course such approach is not applicable to all scenarios, but it is a useful trick to keep in your sleeve.
True. I guess I wanted to avoid shelling out, but it probably wouldn't hurt.
Here is an article [0] which may define the background to some serious concerns about Huawei. It was almost like Microsoft's purported 'embrace, extend, extinquish' philosophy.

"Many Canadians believe that Huawei stole the core technologies and business strategies from Nortel and used that knowledge to drive Nortel out of world markets and into bankruptcy. "

[0] https://www.assemblymag.com/blogs/14-assembly-blog/post/9063...
What's 'tax avoidance'? Doesn't everyone avoid tax when they claim expenses and make deductions?
First, it is not tax evasion if the law is being followed. The real problem is that tax laws have these various loopholes, and the question is why the law is written that way. Almost always it is because wealthy people benefit from the loopholes and lobby for politicians to either keep them in place or replace them with new loopholes (which is the likely outcome from this French tax). When the tax code is complicated enough, as it will inevitably become over time, you wind up with a situation where accountants find creative ways to combine different aspects of the tax code to minimize a company or individual's tax bill.
A troubling discovery in the deepest ocean trenches
The new hcloud is actually fairly impressive. They are considering their go client and they terraform provider as an integral part of their product and had them out on day 1. And it looks like they are taking a pretty fast incremental approach based on customer feedback, with new features every couple of months.

Sure, we can go on how the big cloud providers have all of this and it's small steps, but it's pretty exciting to see a german hoster go into this direction.
tax evasion is illegal; tax minimization is lowering your tax burden using existing laws and is not illegal.

Governments should reduce the number of unintentional loopholes but (a) it's far easier to pass new laws than amend old ones, (b) if you change a law that an existing big domestic firm or voting block is exploiting they will let you know at the polls; with a new law you can sell it as "balanced fiscal justice - righting a great wrong by making big foreign multinationals pay their fair share!"

I'm definitely not against tax reform, my big concern is the common approach of new taxes as political theater without any honest attempt at simplification, broad application or coordination with other jurisdictions. All this tax is doing is targeting a small, low-vote target that will figure out a complicated way to shift taxable revenue into a different jurisdiction, perpetuating the exact problem it supposedly addresses.
So exporting should be illegal?
Ask HN: What to do on a year long sabbatical?
I am 30 years old (no spouse or kids), a software developer about to go on a year-long sabbatical after burning out at the current job.

The burn-out is so bad that it's difficult to even get excited about the upcoming sabbatical. I know once I rest a bit, the ideas for what to do will come.

But I am curious to hear from anyone who had done a similar thing. What did you end up doing? What came of it? Do you have any advice for me? Did you figure out what to do next?
VAT is generally not paid from b2b transactions which are the vast majority of ad sales.

To be precise you do pay VAT in some cases but then it is refunded. So no money to government.
I don't see how this can be a target of their joke: they have problems with their GUI (I am assuming that's what Sourcetree is), you solve them with your CLI. If they want to laugh, they 'd better fix their own problems themselves, I guess?
BLAS Level 3 in JavaScript
I'm pretty sure Google does not have a problem figuring out that the source of it's profits are not occuring in Ireland.
These complex solutions allow one operations engineer to manage thousands and thousands of servers/containers. Guys that just knew how to bang together bash and Perl scripts got laid off all over the place in favor of people that know cloud stuff.
Companies dont pay VAT. And google's reveneus are mostly ads for companies.
TFA says: it applies to companies with global sales of "750 million euros and French sales above 25 million euros"
Exactly, and when companies do the same thing it’s legally considered perfectly fine.

Morally can be a different matter, though.
Yet, it was actually redone nearly from scratch and only remotely related to the cargo Dragon.
There are certain substances I've found to be helpful for managing intense stress in-lieu of alcohol. If interested, I'd suggest experimenting with each and seeing if any work (or work in combination) for you, as they're all significantly less harmful than alcohol.

1. Agmatine

bonus, reduces alcohol cravings:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/288735721_Effect_of...

2. L-theanine

3. Taurine

4. Rhodiola rosacea

5. Tulsi
It may not matter what you believe, but it matters what the aggregate total of your fellow voters believe.
A no-nonsense guide to environment variables in Go
Mononucleosis: The Disease Every Kisser Should Be Aware Of
> But to deal with Terabytes of data quickly and efficiently, these tools totally break down

Scaling up to 400~500GB of logs with awk and parallel has not been a problem for me. I dont think TB will be particularly hard, especially if one is reasonably proficient with the tools. Of course, if one has the mental bias that one has to throw hadoop or spark at it, thats a significant obstacle right there. Upton Sinclair effect also plays a role -- It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

Of course at some scale simple unix tools become impractical, but usually people reach for flashier tools even at scales where unix tools will suffice.
VAT would be only partially refunded. Unless you’re selling your product/service for less than it costs you, not a good business model.
After skimming the paper without having a strong understanding of continuations, chapter 4 on focused/stressed words was the most understandable to me, I recommend to start there.
yes - so maximizing your use of any method to reduce your tax burden is (a) the smart thing to do and (b) the (a)moral imperative of a corporation.

not a judgement call, just not sure how you frame the raison d'etre for something that oesn't embody life to begin with.
Someday company by any entrepreneur will also do 750M in sales, should we tax such entrepreneur who risked his everything just so that bunch of politicians are able to plunder that money and pass on to their relatives?

Thing is tech companies are very efficient compared to old type of companies like Real Estate etc ..

Politicians/Mafia see that money is being made but they don't know how to get cut of it.

Most of the money is moving digitally and politicians are growing poorer day by day
Some of the misunderstandings I see in this comment -

1. Winning a debate has something to do with political success.

Not true. Connecting with people does. There are many ways (good and bad) to connect with people that have nothing to do with pandering to them. To get understand that deeper take a social psychology 101 course.

2. Centralized media produces better politicians/political debate. No it does not. Chomsky's classic "Manufacturing Constent" will give you a good model to think about the media. Or here's a modern iteration by Matt Taibbi - https://taibbi.substack.com/p/introduction-the-fairway
They will also show that winning a debate is not the point of the story.

3. Modern Populism created via social media/news media programmed to chase likes+views, and politicians pandering to their fan clubs is unbeatable and can't be intellectually honest.

This is half true in the sense there is a modern dimension. Namely the Internet. Thanks to which Information(good and bad) is flowing at unprecedented and uncontrollable rates through the population. Everyone assumed this would be good thing but the last 10-15 years have shown the negative consequences. The good news is there are many lessons in how society handled such events in the past. History is full of these transition moments. They also show how populism was beaten or broke down. Decent coverage of the subject here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSacH_1BtVA
Here is the main BBC article, scroll down to "Does climate change have a role?" to see what they say about the climate change link, which is very measured:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47360952

As the submission article says, in the UK a lot of the media coverage of temperatures 15C over what you might expect has actually been celebratory, 'cheery headlines such as “Fabruary” and reports about ice-cream sales.'

I mean, you are certainly correct that a lot of media outlet are unreliable in reporting of science. I don't see why that would change your opinion either way. If an unqualified journalists writes an incorrect article in support of some position which you know to be true, you are hardly going to change your opinion on that account. And the incompetence of CNN does nothing to the overwhelming weight of evidence, and the overwhelming consensus of expert opinion on the topic.
I wonder what you see that Elixir doesn't fix. Syntax-wise, Elixir definitely makes writing the code a much much more pleasant and enjoyable experience. And I would say the package ecosystem has been great and really promising so far. I guess the biggest complaint against BEAM would still be its performance and lack of easy AOT compilation, as you wrote there. However, the dynamic nature of Erlang/Elixir makes the development process much easier and more rapid in many cases. Also, compared with most of the dynamic languages that I've used so far, it's amazingly easy to maintain and bug-free. Of course you can always pine for the one perfect language, but PL design is always a process of making tradeoffs, and IMO Erlang/Elixir already satisfies the vast majority of use cases while being extremely enjoyable to work with. There are also some attempts to develop statically typed languages targeting the BEAM though the message passing between actors makes it not that easy.
Data portability and how it affects everything in Singapore
To portray taxes as only being paid by the end customers is a massive oversimplification, if businesses could charge the amount extra the tax supposedly increased prices by and retain optimal profitability, they already would.

Taxes hit profit margins first, possibly pushing companies into non viability (unlikely to be much of a concern in this arena).

Remember that businesses don't just operate based on the cost of their inputs, they operate based on the price customers are willing to pay for their outputs aswell, which is often divorced entirely from the cost of inputs, especially in markets dominated by a few companies.
In 1970 it was global cooling.

In 1990 it was global warming.

If it's climate change, then what are the eventual outcomes? Is the world going to warm up by 5 degrees or is it going to cool? Does it even matter? Surely we can just shift the goalposts if we turn out to be wrong.

But in the mean time, we really need you to pay enormous amounts of money in carbon taxes.
Thanks for this (and the child comments). I was just about to post a “which functional language should I pick up” ask HN but I got most of my answer from this thread :D

I learned to program in Caml (20 years ago now... it still seems like yesterday) but switched to curly brackets land when I started working, and more recently Python. Last month I started reading Learn You a Haskell for Great Good and that made me nostalgic for FP. Haskell’s syntax and strict management of side effects is a bit of a turn-off though. The article and the comments have firmly put me in the Caml camp, but now I have to figure out which version (OCaml, F#, ReasonML) to go for.

Advice or opinions on the topic are welcome!
Memory Models: a case for rethinking parallel languages and hardware
There's various analysis tools that can identify common packers, and I think you can at least guess UPX by looking at the file contents and seeing the string "UPX" a few times, which it uses as markers for something.
Assembling the C-4 Optics 4.9mm f3.5 Hyperfisheye Prototype
I find it mind boggling that people have such strong opinions about policy debate when they have no idea of the work and skill required to be competitive in it. Policy debate is literally teaching you how to deal with "intellectual DOS attacks". It explicitly trains you how to deal with large amounts of arguments being thrown at you and how to parse out important refutations with limited time.

Being fast is a side effect of optimization.
Dr. Topol is making some reasonable observations and then extrapolating wild and wholly unsupported conclusions from them. The Mediterranean diet data is better than many pharmaceutically funded drug studies that medicine bases wide ranging guidelines on. It’s harmful for scientists to be led into such wild speculation when there are plenty of studies with endpoints like death that are measurable and real vs these bizarre end point measures.
But shouldn't they like pay taxes for where the customer is from?

Suppose a guy from US purchases the service, shouldn't tax be paid there. Isn't that how its supposed to work? Taking only in terms of Giants.
Emotions are physical. They register in the pits of our stomachs, in our hair that stands on end, in our racing hearts, in sudden flushes of heat. Most animals, and certainly most mammals, have nervous systems very similar to ours, up to and including the mid-brain structures where emotions "report" to our cognitive structures, which are the only part of us that's really different from all those others. We can articulate our feelings and make more intricate plans to change or prolong them. But there's no reason to think our racing hearts FEEL any different from theirs.
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