skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Granted it's a great invention for the highly educated and computer literate. I rather depend on it myself!

But that is a tiny slice of the world. Which, as I said, is largely out of touch with the rest of it.
There are different kinds of discussion, I don't think a discussion site is the right forum for design, do you?

Also discussion requires some content, not empty complaints without any backup. For example propose a different mechanism for reporting errors, like optional types or exceptions (both have potential problems). The OP would be more interesting if it actually tried to engage with the problem.
They do. Sales tax.
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> The thing is though with audio or video chat you can visit with your colleagues and office banter all that you (both) want even though you are remote.

Technically yes, though in practice I haven't heard of it happening. There's something... different about it, more distracting. It takes screen space and the noises carry differently - including various grunts and burps that the person over the next desk in RL would not hear, but your Skype buddy will.

The kind of unstructured, background interaction between co-workers that naturally exists in offices is something very hard to replicate in remote setting.

> Or interact in a 3D or VR office space.

This I want to try so hard. I actually upgraded my PC recently with the intent of getting VR gear in the future, and a big motivation here is to explore the experience of shared VR workspaces.
My primary reason for desiring remote work is less time spent travelling and more interesting companies. The impact on social life on the job is the main downside.
"QuTiP example: Qubism visualizations"
https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/qutip/qutip-notebooks/bl...

And in my PhD thesis, there is a longer part on using recursive 2d visualizations:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.6796

3 Visualization of quantum sequences
3.1.3 Visualizing sequences
Using the bisect command to quickly find a bad commit
Debugging Pipelines/Groovy is horrible. The stacktraces are horrible. You don't even get a line number for the error!

Also, the documentation badly needs updates and examples.

(Also, amusingly, we chatted a bit by mail on April 25th 2018, but there was no follow up on your side, I guess priorities changed...)
If you ever find yourself in a situation where you want to find a commit that first introduced a bug, git bisect or hg bisect will save you a lot of time. It uses a binary search algorithm to efficiently find the bad commit.
My assumption was also that performance is the reason we aren't getting more esthetically pleasing line breaking. Until I read a comment[1] by Philip Walton, who works on WebRender at Mozilla, that is.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19473277
>Having a representative sample is essential to being able to do statistics.

That's orthogonal. Whether the collection is representative or not individual data elements are still anecdotes.

(Plus, not all data is used for statistics, nor do we always have an advance knowledge of what is representative -- e.g. when researching an unknown domain).
Qubism: Self-similar visualization of many-body wavefunctions in Python (2014)
If you are outputting a layout for a reflowable medium like HTML or EPUB, you are not putting glyphs in positions. You are constructing graphical objects and defining their relationships (and how those relationships change based on form factor), and you are permitting the output device to render glyphs and put them in positions.

This is why we don't use PDF for web pages.
One could argue that the consumers are the ones paying this too. Sales tax is almost always passed onto the consumer in the form of raised prices.
One option is to outsource this to another company, e.g. a US-based company can set up an arrangement with a European company to be the official employer and to handle all the legal stuff, and then to fully dedicate that employee to the actual employer.
These are Photoshop Alternatives from 2010.

You should do some research, there are many new programs! https://www.techrepublic.com/article/photoshop-alternative-n...
Out of interest, what are the advantages of LaTeXML over Pandoc's LaTeX to XML/HTML conversion? Why did you choose LaTeXML?
> Unless this is a part of Google Maps, Waze, Uber, or Lyft

Litterally all the apps you mentioned have trackers builtin. See https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/search/ to find out about them (through static analysis).

I remember the time when SOME commercial software was not bundled with spyware. These days are long gone and only free software can be trusted because the only reason not to share your code is to harm users without them knowing.

For Android, you should try setting up LineageOS (free Android distro with the binary firmware) without Google Play Services, and use F-Droid as an app store.

https://f-droid.org contains only free-software applications that do not spy on users (and apps anti-features are advertized, not hidden away).
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Contrary to your belief, the entire asset of technology known to mankind was not all invented due to capitalism. We had a lot of political systems throughout our past.

Patents, and copyright, are only in existence because of government's law. Without such, you could still live in a perfectly capable society (with capitalism as its political system, but not necessarily).
Fiber is affordable in cities (a market nearly impossible to service by satellite anyways). Even developed countries struggle with deploying fiber in rural environments.

Every satellite internet offering targets rural settings, ships and planes. StarLink is no different, just that they will be competitive in a wider range of such settings.
Or it could be a loose piece of harness floating around the sea that the whale got trapped in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra_(medicine)
"Chinese influence, how politically corrupt they are, and the excessive violence and human rights violations exercised against minorities."

I know your heart is in the right place, but you could replace China with "The US" or "Russia" or "North Korea" or "colonial Britain" or almost any other country and it would be true. Those who wouldn't be worthy of the list are those who've never had the resources or opportunity to make the list.

It's sad, but I believe it's pretty close to the truth.

In relation to China, "The West" gifted it the power it now wields by outsourcing manufacturing there because cheap labor meant much higher percentage profits for all the savvy business owners who didn't want to pay local rates. And didn't they do well over the last 40-odd years! Can't deny it being smart business back then. Also can't deny that China's current world power status wasn't predictable 40-odd years ago if businesses everywhere decided to follow suit. And they did, and here we are, and all the countries that host companies that contributed to this are now having a cry about the actions of the monster they profited from creating.
> For group discussions with no negative impact

And remember, we're talking about cases of negative impact.
That pair is apparently pretty popular in stock images. I saw them just the other day in a local newspaper. [1]

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[1] https://sobranna.postimees.ee/4460337/kolm-sodiaagimarki-kes...
Been trying to use Airtable for a few apps (project management, quotes, etc) and it just lacks enough that it can't be used practically in a reusable fashion.
My experience of Bamboo has included:

* Broken base Ubuntu images being recommended by Atlassian as the default for agent Image configuration, only to be fixed to a usable state months later;

* Being generally years behind other CI tools, even the traditional ones;

* Data exports corrupting themselves despite apparently succeeding, blocking migrations after upgrades or server changes;

* The official documentation somewhere recommending copying across password hashes directly for setting up new admin for a migration, but I can't find this anymore so they've hopefully improved the process and documentation for this;

* A bug in an earlier version in which a strange combination of error cases in an Elastic Bamboo image configuration could spam EC2 instances in a constant loop, which we thankfully spotted before it ate through our AWS bill;

* No clear messaging from Atlassian about how the future of Bamboo compares to Pipelines. The official line seems to be that Bamboo is for highly custom setups who want to host their CI themselves, but you get the impression from to the slow pace of development that they're slowly dropping it in favour of Pipelines. I'd rather they be honest about it if that is the case.

Those are just the problems I can think of from the top of my head, anyway.
Way to kill businesses that relying on subcontracting and surviving on small margin.
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Germany, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium at least appear to use a period as the thousands separator. Quite of lot of population and GDP there already.
One could argue that consumers are the ones paying every tax.
I don't understand: What's the difference in them passing on the sales taxes and passing on the corp. taxes, or indeed any other expense?
The huge amounts of marketing aimed at kids would suggest kids on average have a lot of influence on decisions in their household
I actually feel the opposite. People do seem to be interested in the stuff I do, but the idea of creating a blog to brag about it is pretty horrifying to me.

Instead, I just send pictures of the stuff to those closest to me via SMS or other social networks, and call it a day. I don't need the whole world to know about my personal interests.

If I decide to try to make money from any of those hobbies, then I would start a blog or portfolio for that, but that'd be business, not personal.
The Vim Experience
> Yes, and there certainly do exist people who identify as victims of others' drug use.

Please come up with examples. And if possible stay clear some people merely taking offense.
>That is the _definition_ of criminal, is it not?

Official definitions (like etymologies) are not really relevant to actual language (though they are relevant to court).

It's the typical intended use / understanding of a term (as used casually), which can even change between contexts even when used by the same person, that matters.
How do you know for sure that the story is false? As you've mentioned Bloomberg hasn't corrected or retracted the story. Governments and companies have in the past denied things that have been true.

Do you seriously think Huawei vehemently denying that it has backdoors in its technology makes it true all of a sudden?
If it was true it would be trivial and painless for them to provide proof. They haven't, therefore it's misinformation.
> This is why I'm ashamed to be an American.

Then don't be. No one is forcing you. Just leave.

Yes, terrible things were done in the founding of America, but terrible things happened all over the world throughout history (including between warring native tribes). But what we need to take from this isn't that our ancestors were horrible human beings, but that they did wrong things and more importantly, we need to strive to learn from it, not repeat their mistakes and generally be better people.

> the current property "owners" are criminal trespassers in my view.

Then pretty much every single American is a trespassers because basically the entire United States (or North America in general) was settled by native American before the Europeans "discovered" it, and in most cases, they didn't sell them their land.
> Would Musk be given a pass for offering discounted or free internet to 3rd world countries, and what strings would investors suggest he attach?

Why would he want to do that? Facebook wanted to do that, because that would drive more users to their platform. SpaceX wants to use Starlink in order to bankroll BFR[0], so what they want is to simply sell the service at a price point that generates them enough money. It's not beneficial to them to discount it, make it free, or play other shenanigans.

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[0] - Or whatever it's called now; it'll always be the BFR in my heart.
People’s sense of control is significantly reduced when they’re angry or afraid
We can choose who we want to be spied by.
The speed of light is insignificant for such a short distance. Even if the signal travels as much as the circumference (40000km) of the earth at 70% lightspeed it shouldn't take more than 180ms. The lowest possible latency between Australia and Europe would be 60ms. Congested networks and network routers with suboptimal routes introduce far more latency than the distance. I regularly get between 100ms - 200ms latency between California and Germany and the latter number includes the realtime encoding/decoding of the video stream.
Denials made under oath in court might be worth considering. Public denials are a penny per gross, i.e. meaningless.
> I think the main thing you should have in mind when you make a personal website is to not have any expectations. Nobody cares, nobody will read your words, etc - until they do, until you're suddenly discovered, and people go back through your years of posts and find a lot of gold stuff.

It depends on what your expectations/goals are. I don't have any expectations to find regular readers or to have XXX monthly users. However, I have the expectation that people will find my blog post if they're looking for a problem which I have solved. I also have the expectation that I can link to my blog post in discussions, so I don't need to repeat myself.
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They shouldn't whitelist known user agents, but use feature detection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_detection_(web_develop...
so basically he want to use a IDE, not a editor
High latency has been the dealbreaker for satellite internet. No one wants to use satellite internet if they can avoid it.
.. but not within their capability to get approved for sale.
> How do you know for sure that the story is false?

That's not how journalism works, at least until fairly recently
How to conditionally wrap an element in React?
Am I to believe Bezos and his investors will simply take the hit of paying taxes, or will that expense get passed to consumers?
Anyone looking for a more back-to-basics self-hosted CI might be interested in Laminar[1] - this article reminds me why I was inspired to write it

[1] https://laminar.ohwg.net/
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I'm aware that prop 13 requires a ballot measure to repeal -- I think we may disagree on the semantics of what constitutes a "government solution" though.
Lol very funny dog dance
Just try to control your laugh
https://dai.ly/x770n1f

Even these birds have love in their hearts
See how this Turkey saved the life of his friends
https://dai.ly/x770n4q
And then you got the SQLite guy who did everything for many years. A true outlier, though.
So increase sales tax and drop corporate taxes maybe?
Yea sure.. good way to kill incentives for businesses to re-invest their revenue and grow/innovate. Just tax on revenue he said... Holy shit the minds these days...
0 is merely a convenient numerical value that also has business meaning - no growth. You can then contrast any numerical value with this, 10% meaning it grew by a fraction of .1, and so on. For most percentage quantities, it usually makes sense to start at 0 if that has some business meaning.
It's divided exactly as it is in string representation: 4 bytes time_low, 2 bytes time_mid, 2 bytes time_hi_and_version and then: other stuff - 8 bytes.
I agree. My point was by showing sequential quarters in the x-axis, that comparison is very hard to make. Instead the reader is probably more focused on quarter to quarter change.

A better graph would be q1 revenue of the past 10 years in the x-axis.
Voters are sick of it because of a general misunderstanding of corporate taxes, and sensationalized headlines are just making it worse.
Datacenters make deals with network providers. Why should it be any different with Starlink?
Multirepo pipelines behind a paywall is a good reason to say "No, thanks".
I actually got some IG followers.

Curious, do people use such services? Does it really help to get more visibility?
Those all sound like corporate tax policies. That's literally what they're talking about. Clearly, a growing portion of the electorate doesn't like those policies.

That's the first step in democracy, no? Engagement?
Or just leave it unmarked and hope the pile of remains outside the entryway gives the next adventurer a hint.

And then just accept human nature and let the pile slowly grow.
Hi Bernard. Can you shed some light on why Rivest's prediction that this puzzle would take 35 years of computation was so wildly off? In the paper he predicts that clock speeds would reach 10Ghz by 2012, he also predicts another 5 fold speed improvement by 2034. I am not sure what the actual technological improvements have been since 1999 but it seems our processors are way below his predictions of where we would be in 2012, let alone 2034. He states:

> "We estimate that the puzzle will require 35 years of continuous
computation to solve, with the computer being replaced every year by
the next fastest model available. Most of the work will really be
done in the last few years, however."

So how were you able to perform a calculation that should take 35 years in just 4? Where did Rivest get his assumptions wrong?
Everything fine at Google's mothership: $1.7bn EU fine, slower growth takes toll
It’s likely referring to routine data collection during police encounters. Michigan started doing something similar awhile ago.

Forensic devices were installed in patrol cars and officers could download phone contents during a traffic stop. I’m sure these devices are a lot more advanced now.

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/michigan-police-cellphone-...
Let's be very clear who we're talking about here, Martin Shkreli: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/07/shkrelis-former-...

By acting like a parody of an evil capitalist combined with a youtuber's penchant for stupid stunts, he's made a lot of people now believe (not without foundation) that all drug pricing is an arbitrary ripoff. He is now in jail for a mostly unrelated securities fraud.
Then it got trapped in it pretty damn neatly, with one part behind the fun and one on its "neck". It's like my dog getting randomly tangled in its chest harness with the legs in the right position.
Indeed. The more interesting question would be how many Googlers internally talk of people leaving Google as though they've left a religion vs those who meet it with a ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If it costs you 95 cents to make 1 dollar, an 8% revenue tax would means you would pay 1.03 in cost to make 1.00.
Surely you mean before serving text content, or we just block the ad and captcha and get on with our lives?
> carryforward losses from years when the company was not profitable

yes, this definitely should be talked about. Why can't people's income be carried forward like this as well?

If i made a lot of money one year, why can't i claim away taxes from years that i didn't make income (such that my tax bracket is lower)?
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So true. The vast majority of the web must surely be out of date, uninteresting, and not worth keeping.
Submitted data is still data, just at worst biased. Which may or may not be important.

The question is always what bias and whether collecting much less data yourself is preferable. Your non-submission sampling tactic may be biased too. (E.g. telephone questionnaires select for people having free time on demand. Emails select for people with bad spam filters and present in mailing list. Walking to ask has other limitations such as range and again availability. Asking third parties may be biased too, just like asking first parties.)

Usually when there are lots of unique submissions the question of bias or lack of representation can be put to rest.

If e.g. there are racial biases compared to baseline population due to submissions, this can be taken into account. Likewise if there is his due to some school districts responding less or more. You will have to handle these issues anyway.

If you guess what the representative sample might be, you may be committing scientific fraud...
The full report:
http://privacyinternational.org/sites/default/files/2018-03/...
That sounds like a terrible experience. You want to avoid latency spikes at all costs. People might not like latencies as high as 100ms to 200ms but it definitively is possible to enjoy a laggy game like that. Suddenly getting a 500ms latency every minute will cause a lot of weird and unfair situations that can basically ruin the entire game.
Internet gamers are fine with double-digit millisecond latencies, and this is what Starlink will offer. It takes less than 4ms to reach 1000km LEO orbit, so 16ms for the full round-trip (you -> sat, sat -> server, server -> sat, sat -> you). Make it 2ms ground-to-satellite and 8ms round-trip if you believe the model from this thread[0] (satellites at ~600km). Using its numbers, add 2x 2ms for each inter-satellite link you have to travel back and forth.

It still adds up to sub-100ms latencies. It ain't bad.

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[0] - https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/9wrkhm/starlink_l...
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> the plural of anecdote is not data.

... and the definition of experience is not anecdote.

I think that 2 years of experience qualify as data. Anecdote is when you walk in a street and slip casually in a banana skin once.
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Why do you use UUID's for keys? Unless you have many data sources which you need to aggregate using a 64-bit autoincremenet key is probably the best solution. 64-bits is enough for almost everything. They can be worth using if you have many data sources, but otherwise not really.
My 90s TV
> I'm not that interesting; I don't have anything to show off; and inevitably it'll either become a chore or go out of date.

The main goal of my blog was not to be interesting or show off (even though I do include my side projects etc.), but to write about specific issues I managed to solve. As a software developer, I'm googling for problems all the time. 95% of the time I land on StackOverflow or GitHub issues. But it's about those 5% that I find a blog post which really helps me. My goal was to contribute back the same way.

If you don't like to actively maintain a blog, just set up a GitHub repo + GitHub Pages (or even go for plain GitHub Gists). As long as the information can be found via a search engine, it's good enough.

Finally - don't create a blog just because you feel obliged to. It's totally fine as a developer not to have a blog.
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Agreed. But where the tax is coming from pushes society in one direction or another.

Picture this: all tax for the budget collected from pollution taxes, so: zero sales tax, zero wage tax, zero home owner taxes.

What do you think society will optimize in that case?

Yet currently we tax on labour and on home ownership, but not on Amazon. Look around an see the result.
"I made the blue/gold dress, and I intended it to be blue, so everyone who sees it as gold is ___" what?

What are you saying about the people who make such comments about your then wife's work? Something demeaning, I infer.
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