skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
much like the trolley problem and driverless cars, you can easily get lost in the weeds in a legitimate, complex theoretical question, when for a concrete problem a simple answer can easily be obtained. In fact, the theoretical question obscures or acts as cover for the concrete case. For driverless cars, you just apply the brakes. For google, do you outlaw "The double Irish with a Dutch sandwich"
I’m fascinated by this response: Black has been the first Python autoformatter I have had that problem with and felt comfortable enabling as a pre-commit / CI check.

Do you have any examples of things which were so bad? The team has been pretty response for the handful of things which I reported.
You haven't answered the question. What is your definition?
Very good but where the 5% come from? I’m reading another article in French about it and they’re speaking of 3%.
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Money collected for services rendered through a French IP. That is, on ads shown to French viewers, on GSuite accounts paid while connected to a French IP address, etc.
You are assuming that somehow that tax revenue is theirs in the first place.

What if that tax rate makes a business non-profitable in France but a money-making machine in Ireland?

Also, too much focus is centered around taxes when spurious regulations are generally more damning for a lot of companies. For example some friends of mine have attempted to start escape rooms, they have all abandoned their pursuits because here in Spain the legal framework is unclear. All escape rooms in this country are in a legal greyish area.
sigh Knowing how to eat healthily isn't a hard problem. The problem is sticking to the diet. But that one's hard, so instead we're constantly solving the first, solved, problem.
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What would be the motivator for this kind of clause? I can't imagine radio-device manufacturers would appreciate the additional expense, and at least some of them must benefit from consumers buying those products specifically for customization.

Are the national governments pushing for more radio control? Is there some kind of crisis of radio abuse? Or is it an indirect way to give governments more punishment tools, by making radio modification a subversion of manufacturer controls, so you can be slapped with an additional charge if you ever use a custom radio device in a crime?
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Thanks for sharing. I like the short format of the article, and the content.
> without any honest attempt at simplification, broad application or coordination with other jurisdictions.

The problem with that is that the other jurisdictions have no interest in closing tax loopholes. The irish bend over backwards to let Apples unique sheme qualify as double irish (their tax office had to issue several private rulings) and they had no interest in getting rid of the double irish itself either. For a tax haven making even a cent in taxes they wouldn't have otherwise gotten while costing a different country a million is a win.
It's not that a simple answer can't be obtained, it's that many different simple answers can be obtained...
I'm a novice in both, but my general impression is that they are so close in this regard as to not matter a whole lot as far as practical matters go. An expert can of course get detailed on the minutiae.

Put another way, OCaml only works on Windows via MinGW if I recall correctly. While that isn't a problem for most folks, I prefer to steer clear and only use a language on a platform with a significant number of users. Python is used extensively on Windows, Mac, Linux, ARM...etc, so I'll use it on any of those machines. I would guess nearly all OCaml use is done via Linux and next to zero on Windows, so I avoid it on Windows (not worth the effort). F# on the other hand has some support from Microsoft (not a ton, but enough) and a decent amount from the community with some neat innovations (at least I think they are) like type providers. It has full .NET interop when you need it.

Most of the syntax and method of using pattern matching everywhere is the same between them. The difference with F# that I find annoying is that I'm not super familiar with C#, so the times when you need to call .NET (Ex: iterating through a directory) directly, it is super obvious for someone with C# experience, but involves lots of digging through horrid Microsoft doc for me where only C# and VB.NET is covered 80% (I just made up that number, but F# is the least documented of the three official Lang's) of the time.
You could buy an exercise bike?

Or do cardio exercises by watching various YouTube channels? (This is how my friend keeps fit.)
> it's still facilitating an immoral action (running an oppressive government that doesn't respect freedom of movement)

In that case, Google and Apple should completely withdraw from Saudi Arabia: no iPhones, no appstore, no AdSense, ...
Any of these lead to tax revenue which facilitates running that oppressive government.

That's not what people are demanding though: they want some inconsequential app removed to demonstrate that they can coerce big tech companies to do their bidding.

The icing on the cake is that they essentially work with strategies straight from the "fake news" handbook, by making it sound as if the app provides a new means of control ("government app which lets men track women and control their travel", straight from the title of the linked article).

Even more annoying to me is that one of these campaigners is D-CA representative Jackie Speier who promotes herself on Twitter (https://twitter.com/repspeier) as "Fearless Fighter for women’s equality, LGBTQ rights & the disenfranchised."

Given that women who demand equality, LGBTQ folks and the disenfranchised (e.g. Filipino immigrants) still have to fear for their lives in Saudi Arabia, where's the house bill to setup a full blown embargo until human rights are universally respected? _That_ would be fearless.

Demanding removal of that app? That's merely flexing their muscles in a US domestic political battle. Human rights don't deserve to be abused like that.
Sometime burnout and depression are connected, and a solution: make the first project improving one's personal fitness and nutrition.
Reminds me of the ongoing fight over crypto-legislation.

"They only have to win once, you have to be vigilant and win every single time"

I also suspect that the current patent mess is a result of failing to win the continual defensive battle.

I'd be interested to hear from any law or political theorists regarding this seemingly deep flaw in the system. What could be done to mitigate it? How do we stop the same bad laws being proposed in slightly different forms again and again when vested interests combine with a poorly informed legislature?
No, you have to be there.
I don’t think knowledge of the loopholes is the issue. It’s reasonable to determine what loopholes were used after the fact. The problem is actually closing them and the political fallout involved.
Interestingly enough, I have seen gas stations very close to each other with very different prices. This was close to an airport so I assume the idea is to rip off tourists who don't have time to search for cheapest fuel before returning the rented cars. At least that was the only explanation I could find that didn't involve conspiracy theories (Catania, Sicily, Italy).
But how can groups debate if a law is good or bad, isn't proposing such a law the way the debate is started? Maybe some bad laws have good intentions but some poor wording can have bad consequences.

Also why do we think constitutions are perfect, don't countries have to update them periodically to fix them?
Emacs has the best implementation of vim.
Oh man, now you can pay to have AI tell you not to eat high-glycemic, insulin spiking foods. Wait until people figure out the algo wants them to eat less carbs ... "Terminator ... Skynet ... The Matrix"

God forbid it ever mention "keto"
The money is collected by Google Ireland. So they're going to charge Google Ireland? It's probably safe to assume they're not charging Google LLC in Delaware.
I feel like this article wrongly assumes that the switch from coal to alternative would take a very long time and presents a nifty graph of total energy use.

The reality is that current policies worldwide favor coal for many reasons - most of which boil down to self-preservation. If a switch in policy was enacted quickly, that chart would see a dramatic rise in alternative energy sources. The trick is enacting self-harming policies that limit economic prosperity while ensuring the other guy does the same. This is where international agreements come in, which some countries ahem simply ignore.

What is the ultimate solution? I don’t know, but it feels like we need a huge shift in political values that put climate as the one and only issue that matters before all else. This would require and educated public willing to put aside other policies that they may disagree with. Ultimately we are probably doomed because our individual self-preservation will trump our collective well being (however flawed this view may be given that we are all living on the same rock).
Allowed frequencies and transmit power varies in the world, so the cheapest way sell to all markets is to set a few different bits in firmware to make it fit for those regulations. That could be a factor.
Companies do pay VAT when buying ads (but it’s Google Ireland doing the sale, I think).
Yes. Original usage is anything but assembly is high level. Anything that has auto memory management is "very high". Words change in our field faster than most and those were just terms in the glossary of textbooks that have been made into other textbooks.
I find the easiest way to force myself to eat healthy is to just not have any “undesirable” foods around, planning my grocery trips in great detail before hand, and to cut back on how much I eat out. Cutting off any sources of unwanted foods and focusing on only desirable foods cuts away any of the self control or discipline problems.
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Just a few weeks ago I was working with an 11TB dataset which I processed with just unix command line tools told on a single Linux VM.

You can get a lot of milage out of parallel xargs and other of the shelf tools.
Point taken. We definitely have a problem but I really don’t see any solution anytime soon. Even if we committed to building a ton of new supply tomorrow, it’d still take years to get approved and actually physically built.

I’ll push back a little on your point back alternatives not being too far behind the price of a 1 bedroom though. I know several people with units <$1800. Some converted rooms go for <$1500.
A higher tax rate for very large companies helps start-ups by compensating for that economy of scale you mentioned in your previous comment.

If you disagree with the concept of taxation in general just say so, don't pretend that this is somehow unfairly targeting small businesses.
> Governments should reduce the number of unintentional loopholes

They are intentional. Source: tax lawyer friends.
Because in a world lacking traditional religious figures to worship, Elon Musk fits the bill.
I really agree with aspects of this, and I think CLIs and Unix pipes are way more powerful than we treat them, but be forewarned that there are problems with doing everything with pipes.

You need to code more defensively with them. For example, it is rare, but every so often a newline will be fail to be emitted.

kinda\n
likethis\n
\n
example\n

There are many other gotchas, but that one is a doozy because if you're using, say, tab delimited data and cut you'll miss a line. It's one of the reasons I use line delimited JSON if at all possible.

Also, this constant re-parsing of text does mean your string validation needs to be more paranoid. For example, some JSON parsers parse curly quotes as normal programming quotes. Horrible practice, I know, but it could have been avoided. Also, it's easy to accidentally do shit like this when you're in a rush. Some string matching tools handle the character matching of the different ways of creating, say, "ë" will also make matching quotes more relaxed.

Anyway, all of this to say that I 100% agree with the posted and linked articles, but each method has its own security considerations and software folk should be aware of them before starting.
The double Irish was gotten rid of in 2015 https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/double-irish-with-a-dut...
The company posting the bounty. Third party verifies the bug. Why sarcastic?
Vim style is not Vim. Tons of editors and IDEs support Vim style key bindings. Not one of them works for me. Even evil mode, which has undeniably put the most effort into duplicating Vim features, breaks my expectations enough to be annoying and sending me back to Vim.
ENJOY the EU reg suffocation.
Lol. Was it a good decision to describe decision making in business from 38,000 feet?

My first thoughts of business decision making were about complexity of relations. Myself, I'm tasked to maximize certain business goals, armed with heuristics from management. All while our consultancy's clients are trying to maximize my time and minimize their expenses.

Color the emotional state of everybody and now you have some good and bad choices.

I like the Harvard Businee Review (HBR.org) for articles that get down to detail, though articles are really tuned to leadership in all business.
The availability of easily-hackable, low-cost Chinese hardware?

I'm not as familiar with EU law, but similar changes in the US were prompted by "Import hardware configured legally, but manufacturer winks / doesn't care about flashes to illegal specifications" scenarios (indeed, it may be a way to boost sales).

The correct legislative solution seems to mandate locked RF firmware... while also mandating customer access to tinker with the remainder of functionality.

This addresses the tendency for manufacturers to simply lock down everything as the cheapest path to legal compliance.

TBH, if you want a right to tinker with RF firmware, a ham (or equivalent) license seems a low (probably too low) but necessary and fair burden.
> What? W^X implies that Write and Execute or mutually exclusive,

The truth table for XOR also says that "neither write nor execute" is impossible.

> It's not so much that they "invented" it, but that they're much more diligent about making sure all the base system and ports use

They've definitely taken it further, and turned on by default and all that, which is great.

However they did at the time say that they both invented it, and that it couldn't be done on x86. Of course grsec had been doing it, including on x86, for many years. Theo's defense of why they've not done things Linux has done is that they're not interested in Linux, and don't look at it. Which is an interesting way to assure you're "state of the art"; don't look at what others are doing.

So both at the time and now they say they "invented" it.

Later of course they "invented" how to do it on x86, too.
The difficult part is telling if they are that extreme. The UK only has full, reliable temperature records since around 1910, so when articles like talk about the highest or lowest X they really mean since 1910. If you think about the number of months, the number of different kinds of weather measurements, etc, you quickly realise that we should expect a reasonable number of record-breaking events like this.

(You can find a full set of the monthly temperature records the Met Office tracks here, by the way: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/climate-extremes... )
No thanks I don’t want to give away my last piece of freedom.
this is such a sad sad story. I lost my Aunt in 2014 to Alcoholism and a good friend of mine on October27th 2018, just last year a few months ago. he was only 48 and my Aunt was only 56 years young. this breaks my heart and his little girl doesn't have her Dad anymore. He must have had alcohol poisoning or maybe his heart just stopped. Praying for his family during this sudden unexpected death.
I've never seen that Grace Hopper bit, but that's awesome! Thanks for sharing. Definitely going to show it to some co-workers
I don't know which mission it was exactly, but I think it was the first one where they tried to recover two booster stages (I hope that's what they are called). Watching the live stream of both of them landing simultaneously back on the pad gave me goosebumps and sent shivers down my spine, in a good way.
I would try to come up with a project that you can focus upon. Whether it's writing a book or learning to sail, you'll be less likely to feel untethered. Also, you'll be able to look back and appreciate the time you had off.
What?

I can understand that absolute values aren't very meaningful, as they're probably missing a lot of necessary context. BMI is one metric that doesn't paint a clear picture on its own -- but no doctor would ever rely solely on it.

I can't understand dismissing most of medical science. Can you expand on that part of your statement?
Reusable rockets is new.

Rather than ditching in the sea, the rocket landed back on earth and could in theory take up another payload a few days later, which is much cheaper and more efficient. It opens up space to a lot of other uses.

Compared to the cost and use of the shuttle (nominally reusable but not so much in practice), or other disposable rockets, this is a large step forward in reliability and efficiency, which will enable things like travel to Mars at low cost (by refuelling in orbit with multiple reusable vehicle launches for one mission).
That's just not true.

By default in an OS distribution, yes I do believe so. But by the time OpenBSD introduced it I'd been running it on Linux for years.

I'm not wet behind the ears, here. I've been running OpenBSD since 2.1.
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I've been using some sort of Unix-like OS or another as my daily driver for 20 years so I know a thing or two about it.

I can do it all, and if I can't I'll figure it out. Yes, I can develop that CRUD website for you, I can do a heck of a lot more if given the chance, though. Feel free to reach out and talk about your project, I won't bite.

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The EU becomes a worse and worse idea every year. It was good while it lasted. This will be the first year I vote for an anti-EU party locally. It pains me, but it's been enough already :/
> I didn't see a single monacle

Thanks, I just spat coffee up a wall!
sure, if you are trying to solve the fully parametric abstract equation over all possible inputs, which is precisely what I was saying to try to avoid.

In absence of a grand unified theory, tackle obvious concrete instances when they crop up.

If the different "simple" answers (which I am not sure exactly what that means) solve the problem, then I really do not care if there is some equivalence principle there; just pick one as long as it produces the concrete outcome that you want.
That's an extremely narrow definition of the word "invent".

They adapted it to OpenBSD and I do credit them for doing great work being the first to do it by default in a vanilla OS install, sure.
loceng, I will email you. A quick note on pork. The quality of pork meat varies greatly depending on what the pig is fed. A pig, being a pig is capable of eating a wide range of foods including really bad stuff. When it comes to the ruminants like cows there is a far more narrower choice of foods that they can eat. This means that overall quality of red meat from ruminants is likely to better than from pork. Go for grass-fed and grass finished meat as much as possible.
What exactly are you saying they "invented"?
The company would pay corporation tax in Ireland. The French citizen, if resident in Spain, would probably pay taxes in Spain (generally countries tax residents).

The customer may need to pay sales tax on the purchase to Brazil, if Brazil has such a thing.

But I agree with your point - it does get quite complicated and bureaucratic.
Basically the EU has discovered SDR (Software Defined Radio) and wants to limit its use.

The usual excuses are given, electrical safety, emission on protected bands...
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the issue is the usual: eu is so far removed from constituents it's pointless to try and save it.
Really reflects how I feel at King as well. Spot on!
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There are such friendly shells, such as https://fishshell.com/ with auto completion and nifty features.
I don't get the motivation of this article, it links to the taco bell programming article which says exactly the same. I usually wouldn't write an article to repeat the same another article says, or if it is something that could have been just a comment in the original blog.
I think you misunderstood my whole point.

It appears that OpenBSD chose to spend months starting from scratch researching exactly what needed to be mapped in virtual memory, instead of just confirming the x86/x64 platform needs that were already researched and published by that time.

I'm not talking about the two months (or whatever it was) Linux had as head start. I'm talking about the post-publication ~two months.
I think you misunderstood my whole point.

It appears that OpenBSD chose to spend months starting from scratch researching exactly what needed to be mapped in virtual memory, instead of just confirming the x86/x64 platform needs that were already researched and published by that time.
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Are they cool with you installing whatever you want on whatever you own - or are you in "cutting off the nose to spite the face" mode?
Can confirm, I've been on the TGV and also a few bullet trains in Japan - the bullet trains were practically luxurious in terms of comfort and space, and the service was fantastic.

I also found the bullet trains to be great value, especially when compared to the expensive, uncomfortable, over-crowded, slow, dirty, late trains here in the UK.
If I roll a d6 and get a 6 twice in a row, is it loaded? What about if I get a 6 10 times in a row or a 100?

You can't definitively state any one extreme weather event is the result of climate change. What you can say is that extreme weather will become more common.

Also the UK experiences relatively mild winters compared to the US because Atlantic currents bring warm water up from the tropics. Global warming may well lead to colder British winters by breaking down that system. So yes global warming can lead to cooler temperatures locally.
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I should think so. They don't have consent; vital interest, public task, legal obligation and contract do not apply; they must be relying on legitimate interest. I can't imagine this would pass an unbiased balancing test.
It sounds like Tristan did alot of good for people and was very successful in his Career, He just had an addiction and couldn't overcome it. I feel especially bad for his Parents, Family, his girlfriend and his 3 year old Daughter most of all. When she gets older she will fairly barely even remember him or maybe she wont remember him at all. This is such a sad story and he was just so young.
It's the first new crew vehicle launch from the US since the end of the space shuttle program in 2011. It's also in theory a lot cheaper than the Soyuz.
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