skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This may be an unpopular thought here but it seems to me that these momazonians may seriously consider unionizing. If executives at major tech companies are not willing to meet the needs of their female workforce (both current and future) then it seems that collective bargaining would be an effective means of making their position more convincing.

The risk is that companies may increasingly try and avoid hiring more women in the future; but it could also be that employers, who want to seem more socially responsible, may take the financial hit and invest in the up-front-costs in order to get access to a larger labor pool.
I really really love the idea of this Pinebook Pro but find this Pine64 ecosystem a risk. I would love it if I could buy this with an RPi heart. At least then I'd know I could easily run fullHD video on the GPU, I would for certain get a nice modern Ubuntu Mate desktop that is reasonably nice speed-wise. I'm pretty sure I could do most of the things I do on my 800 dollar laptop on a Pi3. The Pine64 eco-system makes me very weary though and it is again echoed here in the comments.
Headline should be "High-tax states like California and New York do not like it when you pretend to live elsewhere in order to avoid taxes."

Every example seemed to be about people who were trying to dodge taxes while still actually having the "high tax" state as a de-facto primary residence.
> The distinction in the vernacular between statically typed and strongly typed languages is so narrow at this point that pointing it out is a bit pedantic.

I'm not sure why you think this has changed today, or what you mean. It appears to me that many programmers don't realize that the two are orthogonal, so I find it an important, not pedantic, distinction (it just happens that languages generally improve on both fronts over time, hence asking for one also gives you the other, but it's because of correlation, not causation). I'll make an attempt at describing it here, please tell if I'm missing something.

Strong typing means that types describe data in a way that the data won't accidentally be mistreated as something else than what it represents. E.g.

(a) take bytes representing data of one type and interpret it as data of another type (weak: C; strong: most other languages)

(b) take a string and interpret it as a number without explicitly requesting it (weak: shells, Perl; strong: Python, JavaScript, Ruby)

(c) structs / objects / other kinds of buckets, (strong: C if type wasn't casted; weak: using arrays or hash map without also using a separate type on them that is enforced, the norm in many scripting languages although usually strengthened via using accessor methods which are automatically dispatched via some kind of type tag; also, duck typing is weaker than explicit interfaces)

(d) describe data not just as bare strings or numbers, but wrap (or tag / typedef etc.) those in a type that describes what it represents (this depends on the programmer, not the language)

(e) a request of an element that is not part of an array / list / map etc. is treated as an error (similar to or same as a type error (e.g. length can be treated as being part of the type)) instead of returning wrong data (unrelated memory, or a null value which can be conflated with valid value)

These type (or data) checks can happen at runtime ("dynamically") or compiletime ("statically"). The better a static type system is, the more of these checks can be done at compile time.

For security and correctness, having strong typing is enough in principle: enforcing type checks at runtime just means getting a failure (denial of service), and systems should be designed not to become insecure or incorrect when such failures happen (fail closed), which of course might be done incorrectly [1]. Testing can make the potential for such failures obvious early (especially randomized tests in the style of quickcheck).

Static typing makes the potential for such failures obvious at compile time. It's thus a feature that ensures freedom of denial of service even in the absense of exhaustive testing. It can also be a productivity feature (static inspection/changes via IDE), and it can enable more extensive use of typing as there is no cost at run time.

[1] note that given that static typesystems usually still allow out of memory failures at run time, there's usually really no way around designing systems to fail closed anyway.
Tcl has the concept of "safe interpreters" which can be spawned as slaves of the main interpreter. There is a default safe interpreter policy, which is fully scriptable for customization.

Among the available customizations in a safe interpreter are: restriction of use of individual commands, ability to set a time limit for execution of code, a limit to number of commands executed, and depth of recursion.

Memory usage can't be directly limited, but Tcl has trace features that allow examination of a variable value when set, so one could write custom code that prevents total contents of variables from exceeding a specified limit.
>I strongly suspect that it’s not new in the US either, or at least was only unusual compared to a status quo that existed only for a blip of time during the 20th century.

You're entirely correct. I'll go a step further and say it never even went away--at least in my experience as a child of lower middle class White baby boomer parents in the South.

I have a great uncle on my mom's side who stayed at home while he finished college and then him and his wife lived with his parents for a while after he graduated.

My dad's oldest brother and his wife lived with their parents for a while.

My dad's youngest brother lived with his parents for years.

My grandparents eventually moved in with my dad and his wife--partially because they were getting too old to maintain a house, but also to help him afford a new house after he'd gone through a bankruptcy.

Both sets of grandparents also provided my parents with free childcare, and my parents and aunts and uncles all borrowed plenty of money from my grandparents over the years.

I have many friends who've had similar experiences.
Thanks for the feedback!

>Icons should be used to help clarify things, but most of the icons seem to be just arrows pointing right on links. You can probably omit them!

I discussed my opinion on icons in the article, and I stand by it in this case.

> the source tree, I had no idea I could click on the file names until I hovered over them by chance. Blue text alongside black text is a very strong signal that the blue text is a link and the black text is not. (Also note that in the file path at the top, the ancestor directories are blue and clickable while the current directory is black and not). Here is where an icon would be useful: to disambiguate between directories and files.

Good point. I don't want to add an icon, but I should make filenames underlined or something like that.

>for whatever reason, keyboard navigation doesn't work for me in Firefox.

That's bizarre, it works fine for me. Can anyone else reproduce this?
You can't rely on income taxes a proxy for tax rates.

Many states with low or no income taxes have monster property taxes. State, local, and property taxes are all one bucket. You have to make sure you are counting all of these together when you talk about taxes.

I live in Maryland and my property tax is like 1/4th of my parents in Ohio, and there are a lot worse states for property tax than Ohio.

Texas is an outlier, however, due to its history with oil and mineral rights. Alaska is another one. These states didn't earn the natural resources they are exploiting, but they have benefitted from them considerably, and this has allowed them to operate differently than most other low-tax states.
Quite common in the UK as well:

https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/advice/buying-and-selling-guides...
> So, how will this help with things like fake SD cards? Those are usually sold unbranded.

How can an unbranded SD card be fake? Fake with respect to what?

A brand brings this value: expectations.

If I buy a no-brand item, I'm not sure what expectations I can have, and I'm not sure I can even claim that it's a fake, since I have no reference point as "the true item".

I mean that's literally the biggest value that a brand brings to you, the consumer.

That's also why brands work hard to build up and maintain good reputations.
This is completely unrelated. Please don't use threads like these as a way to voice your complaints about Macs in general when doing so isn't relevant.
This! We may end up back in NC eventually, which has gone both ways in recent memory. Would be happy to try to help restore sanity to what used to be the more moderate of the Carolinas.
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This article is a waste of time.

If they do not provide or offer what you want, go and work for someone else that does. Is that not simply enough?

It essentially read as a hit piece against Amazon.

When enough people leave that are detrimental to Amazon because lack of day care, then Amazon will change their policies.

Until then, it is going to be business as usual for them. How hard is that to understand?
Why is Snapchat (Snap Inc.) among the top companies when you move the slider? Since the beginning, Snap Inc. has had a clear downward trend.
Ive said it before. The rich dont pay income tax because they dont have an income, they use long term capital gains and carried interest.

Not sure why I am getting downvoted. Did I say anything factually wrong?
The tests don't just help you think about the code, they force you to do so. For those who are tempted to think "I can just do this quick change this one time; nothing will go wrong", tests force you to actually think.

Or they don't. If the tests just continue to work, then you ask yourself whether the change should have broken them. If not, you go on your way with a fair amount of confidence. But if the change should have broken the tests, then you have to look at why it didn't...
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Maybe. The O.P. seems so sure in his conviction that "South Asia's" culture in this regard is superior without evidence, and yet his forebears felt compelled to emigrate from there. O.P.'s argument appears to be that inter-generational independence is hard therefore we should give up and not feel bad about it.
Never has a username been more apt than "NotAnEconomist" here.
I take articles like this with a grain of salt. It might be completely accurate or it might be heavily exaggerated nonsense to drive clicks.

I work at another tech company. We’ve been in the news a few times about employees being upset and demanding leadership change some policy. Reading the articles, it gave the impression at least hundreds of people were demanding this change. In reality, it wasn’t even a dozen.
>You have this backwards. California and New York subsidize the nation (along with other productive, higher tax states), not the other way around.

The overwhelming majority of federal money is spent on safety nets (SS, medicaid, etc) and military. Whether a state is a net contributor or recipient basically depends on ratio of rich people to poor people and how many military installations you have. Even transportation spending is a drop in the bucket compared to those and it's mostly based on area (kind of hard to fit hundreds of miles of interstate in RI).

It's really not as cut and clear as many here would like it to be.

Edit: Since apparently it is that cut and clear would anyone care to elaborate why?
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Its a statutory service in the UK I seem to recall
For what many terrorists want (at least historically, in the 1979s): attention for their cause.
Well," Back then you could write a desktop application with a GUI, controls, a window, and needed one language and one environment. " you still had to learn the different gui frameworks and how they work.

Also, if you want, you can write GUI in the browser without html/css, with the canvas element. There are frameworks for that, not sure how mature they are, though.
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Maybe it does both.
When you purchase something at a store in California is the city sales tax calculated on the pretax price of the item or post state and county tax?

If you look at other forms of compound tax rates you'll see the same pattern AFAIK.
I disagree, but what do you suppose people do then? I'm afraid it's unrealistic to expect a society to collectively agree on donating to charity any excess money originally intended for helping their offspring.
> an obvious and overlooked middle ground between "massively complicated infrastructure" and "a cheap VPS"

It's called a dedicated server. These days you can get a monster of a machine. Even on AWS you can get a machine with 2TB of RAM and 128 cores.
My parents left south asia because of the corruption and theocracy, not so they could live an independent life and die alone. I'd hazard a guess, though, that the difference is more manufactured than real. My wife's family came over from Ireland in the 1600's, but the idea of tallying up the time grandparents spend taking care of kids and categorizing it as "unpaid labor" would seem odd to them too.

I suspect the real difference is between middle/upper-middle-class Americans and everyone else. There was a brief spell when a kid from a middle class household could go to college at 18 and afford to start a family, and not look back. The NYT finds it remarkable that its often no longer true. But it wasn't true for much of America even in the 20th century. Multi-generational entanglement was always common.
He beats me, but only every other day...
That sounds pretty good.

Mine diverges a bit. Because of the hours I work and the fact that I don't have a car, Amazon is more convenient even for a lot of small items.

So for us Amazon us probably closer to 20%.

eBay is maybe 0.0005%. I'm fortunate there's a reasonably priced local dealer for used/refurb computers. One who even has been dealing in Macs for ~15 years!

Come to think of it—most of our shopping at all comes from groceries. I can't bring myself to use any of those delivery services or pre-set meal services. I like to select my vegetables and meat myself as I grew up learning how to do.
Like Harry Potter?
If Oscars reduce the picks to movies unavailable to the general population, I think that's relevant. Maybe. The Oscars is already an overwhelmingly an absurdly scoped and self-congratulatory event, so maybe it couldn't get any more so.
Not only that, but our local county library acts as a homeless shelter, so you get to enjoy stepping over sleeping people who stink to high heaven while browsing the stacks. And if you want to, you can reserve a "study room" that the same homeless people took a piss in the week before.

Yeah, it's that bad and worse. The local hospital waiting room is now a homeless camp, too.
Again that’s an oversimplification. States have moved people to SSDI while removing them from their own social programs. You really need to look at total government expenditure per person adjusted for gdp per person to see how things have changed over time.

Tradional welfare programs really have been cut. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare#/media/File%3AWelfar....

Social Security and Medicare play different roles today vs 50 years ago, but they are just one slice of a larger picture. That includes an aging population and other demographics issues, but also ever shifting bureaucracy and social norms. We created welfare under the belief that single mothers should raise their kids, now norms have changed.

Remember, the first Social Security recipients never paid into the program. It was created with the belief we should support the elderly, now people need to ‘pay into’ the system. Further SS was created in 1935, meaning once again the USA used to have a more progressive outlook.
Life IS unfair.
'It feels unfair' can describe myriad aspects of our tax system.
That was the case for Terry Prattchet at my local UK Library.
I am a straight female :)
Ah sorry, I didn't mean side effects in lifecycle methods, I meant DOM events like click, etc. If you click a button that deletes a resource on your API, there is no time traveling because the outside world doesn't time travel along with your debugger (unfortunately). :)

You can isolate your side effects somewhere, but they still have to respond to actions/events/messages so if your time traveler dispatches actions you'll end up making duplicate requests.
Is there any way to prevent VS from changing the layout every time I build/finish a test run/etc.?
They do pay property tax..
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Your Hard Drive May Be Listening
What are the right warnings?
Probably the same reason mom and dad don’t try to figure out who started it.
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Whenever I attempt to teach myself a programming language I get partway through the coursework and then lose a lot of interest because I'm not able to use it for anything relevant to me. Is it just a matter of grinding out the course and overcoming the monotony?

How would you recommend a thought process for coming up with beginning projects that have utility and aren't complex enough to be intimidating?

Would helping work on open-source projects that I use be a good way to make what I'm learning relevant to learning language? Are there any good resources that beginners might not be aware of that will help that beginning hump?

Thank you
Starting out in tech support 100% made me a better developer. I've seen the user vs developer tension from the side of the user who deals with broken things every day, hoping that the dev team will eventually fix them. I know how to talk to users now and find out what they really need. And I know how to talk to developers and managers about prioritizing issues.
My parents are also Bengali. It's given me a different perspective about the topic. The nuclear family is kind of a unique thing on a world stage. At least in Bangladesh, it's hard for people to place trust in wealth they can't hold themselves (this includes pensions given by the government), so they'll spend their money on gold, property or land (assets in general). Having and raising children becomes a give and take, where you can only expect to be taken care of in old age if you take care of and invest in your children. This an incredibly old system, and it's because it's been proven to be effective regardless of location or time.
>> Did you read the article or are you going by the headline? They are upset because some of these buyers got their vehicles days before the price cut.

> So what? You buy something if you feel it's worth the price. They bought it for the price, regardless what the price is after.

When I was a kid, my parents bought a TV at Best Buy. That model went on sale the next week, so my parents went back to the store that weekend and were refunded the difference.

Obviously there are some limits to policies like that, but IMHO, they're the right way to treat your customers.
> It is my personal belief that the change in the tax code here was specifically targeted blue states for political reasons by the republicans

While this is definitely true, as someone who also lives in a high tax state and is impacted by this change, it is the policy-wise correct way to do taxation.

Under the old system, state goverments, by enacting an income tax of their own, could essentially steal part of the federal government's tax revenue. There's really no good reason for this. State government's revenue collection shouldn't funge against the federal government's revenue collection.

While I don't like the higher tax burden I think from a federal policy perspective it was the correct move. I'd like to see the states lower their taxes, or switch to a tax scheme other than an income-based one in response, but I wouldn't want to see this change repealed. Unfortunately for my personal finances, it was the right thing to do, even if the motivation on the part of the republicans was as a "fuck you" to blue states.
Yeah but that’s not going to drive clicks to Bloomberg. I’m being 100% serious here.

To be fair, Amazon is now in the ad space and a direct competitor to Bloomberg, NYTimes, etc who earn a non insignificant portion of their revenue through ads. Why wouldn’t these outlets go after Amazon? Bezos could literally gobble them up with the next Amazon announcement about some acquisition.
Is this article implying that previous generations did not have assistance from family? Were families too poor to help in previous generations, but now are better off? I'm a bit confused on the take-away here. Instead this reads as a smug piece about how lucky some families are to enable their children to live better lives. The article isn't even framed as a matter of them being lucky or not. It's as if we're supposed to feel bad that these people aren't making enough to support themselves.

I certainly didn't have any help from my parents. So hearing that my peers did during all the pivotal moments in their lives certainly feels heavy.
I'm not even American, and for the record I got a couple of K a year at uni which I'd have survive without and never a dime since. Having to live under the control of your parents (which is fundamentally what happens when they hold the purse strings) past the age of 18-21 depending on taste is messed up. I know plenty of people from both camps and it's definitely bad for you to have your parents controlling your life past 21. It's different when you're younger, but even that is painful - at 15 I was ready to operate independently and my parents having some control over me until 18 probably messed up our relationship a lot. Not everything which is cultural is also arbitrary, as humanity advances we tend to promote individual freedom to the maximum extent we can support (and this is coming from a lefty). This isn't even bringing it how it will perpetuate class-systems, even for the beneficiaries I think it's incredibly harmful.
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Hijacked airplanes typically end up on the ground, surrounded by police, SWAT team, Navy Seals, plus whatever etc.

Hijacking historically wasn’t primarily aimed at killing people.
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There is funny (or would be funny if it was not so serious in the societal concequences) research by Paul Piff on this phenomenom:

https://planetsave.com/2013/12/23/a-rigged-game-of-monopoly-...
> New York City, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco or Washington, D. C.

Maybe they need to accept that they can't all live in the cities that they want to.
> savings might not be as strong because of that,

Is incredibly tone deaf way to describe people living paycheck to paycheck.
was this project inspired by the Usenix ;login: article Safe Parsers in Rust Changing the World Step by Step ?

it seems the philosophy behind it is very similar

https://www.usenix.org/publications/login/fall2017
Just wanted to mention that the creators of this channel, Rachel & Jun, have one of the most beautifully filmed cooking channels on Youtube, Jun's Kitchen.

https://www.youtube.com/user/JunsKitchen
I wish them the best of luck. As someone who had to save two years of vacation time so that I could have any paid time off for the birth of my child while working at Amazon, I'm not surprised that Amazon is a late mover here. They've since changed their policies, but it definitely was later than their tech peers.
When was the last time this worked for the Average Joe?
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