skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Radar-guided guns had the practical effect of doubling the firepower, due to more accurate shooting. This is an absolutely enormous advantage.
> All taxes are a slippery slope. Name one that has ever been repealed. Income tax in the U.S. started out as a modest 3% on only the highest incomes and look where that has ended up: full on wealth redistribution.

> We can argue whether that's a good thing or not, but not whether there's a slippery slope when it comes to implementing a new tax.

Dude what? Wealth redistribution? Lots of countries have much higher taxes that actually redistribute that wealth. Don't call our system socialist, it isn't. Have you ever lived in socialism (I have)? It isn't even here in California!
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Giving Amazon a run for their money I see.
personally I would classify this as malpractice. The inflammatory effect of polyunsaturated oils is common knowledge at this point.
"Being sent to Google" is absolutely the wrong way to phrase this question. Of course people understand that the device with the word Google written on it sends information to Google. That has nothing to do with the current story.

Better questions:

"Do you understand that when you ask Google Assistant a question, a human might listen to it and not just an AI?"

"Do you understand that the human might not be a direct employee sitting in a Google office -- that they might work for 3rd-pary company that Google just contracts out to?"
Reasons why humans won't be cloned
Yeah I think Americans often look for economic incentives behind policy and think taxes are carefully chosen. Most Europeans know basically if there is money there it'll get taxed sooner or later.
In 1944 the highest US tax bracket was 94%
Tesla Revamps Autopilot Team Amid Pressure to Deliver on Elon Musk’s Promises
That's usually called stealing, or something a little softer than that. It's interesting that you shared that experience expected for us to laugh at it. The rest of the comment was hilarious and I'm happy you shared it, but that bit is very odd. I also see where you're coming from. But your act was ethically questionable.
How to increase CDN cache hits
No! Now I have to work. :(
Is there a reason for C#'s reuse of the variable in a foreach?
Show HN: Which feature do you miss in this streamlined podcast app?
First, I think our general uptime metrics are trending upwards. Recovery times tend to be much shorter as well.

Big services are bigger, more mission-critical parts can fail.

Continuous development culture is designed with failure as part of the process. We don't spend time looking for obscure issues when they'll be easier to find by looking at metrics. This is fine when a staggered deployment can catch an issue with a small number of users. It's bad when that staggered deployment creates a side-effect that isn't fixed by rolling it back. Much harder to fix corrupted metadata, etc.

Automated systems can propagate/cascade/snowball mistakes far more quickly than having to manually apply changes.

We notice errors more now. Mistakes are instantly news.
We used to have one in my hometown, that wasn't far from where I lived with my parents; I could get to it easily on my bicycle (not that I ever went).

It was a large industrial building, with huge refrigeration systems on the outside - pipes, radiators, etc. Then a large building next to that. I'm not sure what all products they sold.

But I recall going with my dad one time to go get a bunch of crushed ice to make ice cream one summer. He told me to bring my winter jacket (basically a ski jacket almost). We got to the place, and I guess he knew someone that worked there (my dad worked as a maintenance and construction for the county road department - ran graders and other heavy equipment, or was out there shoveling asphalt and oil - but for some reason, he also knew a lot of people around town).

They took us into the main ice building - and it was crazy. I just remember it being very cold (I was wearing jeans, shoes, a t-shirt and my jacket), and there were workers in heavy winter garb moving around and handling large blocks of ice - refrigerator sized! We got a small tour (very brief - it was just way too cold in there!), then we left to the office, they brought out a few large bags of crushed ice, my dad paid and we left.

From what I recall, we only used a portion of the ice; the rest went into our chest freezer (probably to protect the meat we stored in there from power outages, which happened occasionally during the summer).
You don't like those taxes?

Go to China.

They steal your stuff without any chance of a legal battle?

Well... There is your reason for those taxes.
Hm. If you were going to plan a worldwide internet outage (or the appearance of one) you could test your ability to take down individual services first and then take them all down at once.
the anti-flash stance was mainly there because of the abysmal performance a flash app would have on the device and the device's battery life.
Can all of the geniuses posting outraged replies accusing u/idlewords of Grand Theft (Beer) please also include their vaccination status? Thanks. For research.
Wouldn't that have made you the one with a "perverse incentive"?
You really need to build a company that values that right down to its core. It has to be embedded so deep into the hiring process that you only select for people who share that value, and it has to be easy to let go of people who don’t fit.

Otherwise, it only takes one person to short-circuit that value to set the ball rolling on a shift towards lower standards.

You need to run a super tight ship, which I think is not as hard as it sounds until you put VC, investment, and shareholders into the mix. You at least need to be super diligent about those people you bring in who are not accountable to you, but you are accountable to them.

Basecamp is an amazing example of a company that has succeeded without compromising itself a jot. They do all kinds of things that we might consider unthinkable because they won’t budge on their values. Probably the one company I’d drop everything to work for if I had a chance at getting through their hiring process.
No, it is true.
>> he hit Control-C, and Twitter came back up.

Monolithic architecture. When I did security work I fought this every day. Moving away from it is a nightmare of technical debt and heated debate about who should control what. I'm reminded of a story from the early days of MSN. The legend goes that in the late 90s MSN ran out of one cabinet, a single server. The server had redundant power supplies, but only one physical plug.
KDevelop has pioneered this a decade ago : https://zwabel.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/c-ide-evolution-from...
6) White House social media conference just started.

https://www.10tv.com/article/trump-hosts-white-house-summit-...
I thought that it was implemented in Arc: http://arclanguage.org/
Sounds like the guy was bragging about his SQL skills to avoid locking the database but ended up locking the database anyway (thus, people running around)
I would take an extremely centralized Twitter to a vaguely federated neo-nazi platform a billion times over.
One possibility on 5) Too many KPIs and quarter goals to be reached, too many corners cut.
Not those things specifically, but take a step back and look at the Rube Goldberg inspired complexity of modern technology and despair.
I'm not familiar enough with the US but I don't think you'd find any French wine there.

From my experience in the UK, none of the French wines I could find in supermarkets exist in France. They appear to be specifically made for export and they are priced double or triple what a comparable bottle would be sold in France.

Given the US is a hell further than the UK, that's probably even worse, stranger wines and more pricey.
> hex calculator in ncurses

Okay, you're pretty much asking for the wrath of God here. Bonus points if you can compile it down to 666 KB.
Neither was twitter in 2008, it didn't reach $1b until the end of 2009
Well, there is a big difference between 99.5% (i.e. essentially everything) and 60% or whatever. You rattled off a bunch of functions most of which are both quite complex and pretty standardized across large business.

I agree that pretty much any large organization writing their own email or payroll system in this day and age is probably certifiably insane.

But even large "non-tech" companies have fairly significant custom needs even if it's just integrations and customizations of SaaS. Just because you're using Salesforce doesn't mean you just point everyone in the company at your Salesforce instance and call it a day.
> The site would go down pretty much daily, and every time the ops team brought it back up, Twitter's VCs would send over a few bottles of really fancy imported Belgian beer

Never understood this mentality but have seen it at many companies. Rewarding someone or some team for heroically fixing something after a catastrophic failure. Talk about misaligned incentives! Reminds me of the Cobra Effect [1]. When you reward “fixing a bad thing” you will get more of the bad thing to be fixed.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect
Thanks. I think the best metaphor I can think of is how you can't convince a meaningful number of people to give up meat and buy the new vegetarian imitation meats by telling them it's better for the larger good; the only way is to make it better than actual meat (also like the Tesla approach). Other than some financial applications, do you have a favorite current dapp you think is fundamentally better than it's centralized equivalent?
5k line Java files sounds awful
Actually deleting stuff at these scales takes many, many days if you don't want it to be trivially recoverable.
By no means am I a wine connoisseur, but having just returned from France with a bevy of wine snobs who enjoy French wine (and were hoping for their success) -- this theory, as tested, did not hold true.

I purchased a handful of cheapo bottles (in the 3-8 euro range) from Franprix as a surprise to my wine-loving friends, hid the bottles from them and prepared blind tastings for them, only to discover that they regarded even the best of them to be undrinkable.

Perhaps this is simply due to a discrepancy between French and American palates? Perhaps Franprix is a bad place to buy wines? Perhaps a lot of things, but the notion that any $3 wine in France is universally regarded as 'decent' is not one I can vouch for.
Spock: The loss to the galaxy may be irretrievable.
What competitors will Amazon have in France if all the local competitors cannot escape paying local corporate taxes and Amazons of the word just throw a few millions at lawyers to shop around for the most convenient tax haven.
Terminology question... is patent prosecution same as a patent lawsuit?
mastodon.social is also suddenly down.
If these are registered securities they will need to trade on regulated exchanges where the company knows all the token holders only and thus cannot be used in decentralized applications by normal people. Which seems to defeat the purpose in the first place. Or..?
This trade war might help Chinese capital equipment manufacturers as they can sell to the new factories in other countries.
“The PIN is more secure because it's really just an unlock code for a hardware private key.” so it is a password for the hardware private key. But rebranded as a pin so microsoft sounds as if it does something to innovate.
The audio files are worth checking out too.
Intellect as Social Currency
Just wanted to say that I enjoy reading your blog.
If the component is as responsive as the doc site I’ll have to take a hard pass.
Well that’s not what I think, it’s a matter of public record and is widely known here.

The city council had to remove parking from in front of shops in order to put the cycleway in. No parks means no customers.
It will be very difficult to fight company culture. You will either need to go with the flow or management and team leads will find a way to replace you.

Sometimes being the best programmer isn't what's wanted at a company.

I'm in the same boat: I'm working with legacy code and some new technology and I don't have much time during the day to learn anything in depth (and management just wants me to get things done).

Especially as a new hire, it's better just to figure out how to get your job done and worry about the details later.
Lots of people on vacation this time of year. Would be interesting to see if there is a seasonal component to the reliability of these services.
What will happen to the patent system when people start claiming AI generated patents? Like those generated with GPT-2 on this site: https://aipatent.wordpress.com/
DC here. Any time I’m distressed about the cost of living, I just look at the Bay Area. As far as I can tell, housing is at least 3-4x more expensive. Even on a senior engineer’s pay, your choices come down to something tiny or something that requires a very painful commute.
Cool, now put this on your cv and claim you are an open source developer.
Very nice repl with syntax highlighting.
Could, would, are known as 'weasel words' for a reason.

What the carrier actually wants is to force some applications to always be installed in the customer devices, because of shady business deals, a.k.a. 'partnerships'.
They can certainly find more talent in the bay area, if they were willing to pay even more.

In SV and SF, half the paycheck goes to the GOv and the other half goes to real estate.

If you want to cut labor costs, Simply find a city with a lower cost of labor. There's plenty to choose from: Austin, Dallas, Houston, Chicago, etc. All of these places sport roughly 100K salaries for senior devs. They could hire all the engineers they wanted.

And of course, there's always the final (least palatable) option: Improve your highering process. It's pretty ridiculous when half the employees of your own company wouldn't hire the other half.
What is the new fail mascot called? It looks like a cartoonish-alien with a PacMan/snipper hand and another hand that looks like a burning fuse standing next to a bomb with a fuse lit that is split open so it also looks like a PacMan
This doesn't invalid that hypothesis. A lot of people drink a mix of both. Artificial sweeteners can confuse your brain/hormone systems and you may consume more other calories (studies show this in mice).

We are more aware than mice though. Sugar is really bad for you .. really bad. Read up on keto diets (staying under 30g or sometimes under 10g of carbs per day .. limiting carb consumption to fruits with high fiber when you do eat them). I had a good friend who got on Ketro while he had cancer .. didn't tell his doctor, but within a few week a tumor shrunk by nearly a cm .. enough they could now operate.

Sugar is a powerful fuel source and modern humans don't need very much of it at all. The findings of this study don't really surprise me. All that extra unneeded sugar can totally feed young cancer cells.
Arc is a racket dialect
Agent Smith
yeah it was a cheap shot and hilarious, all of us "coastal elites" were scratching our heads during the whole charade looking at each city in the running wondering how the likes of Little Rock Arkansas, Nashville Tennessee, Pittsburg, Columbus etc would ever be desirable places, let alone if any of us would run the risk of being sent to one of those doldrums if we worked for Amazon, all for the conclusion to revert to the norm of coastal elite decision makers at Amazon echoing our preexisting sentiment because they are one of us after all

trolling level: phenomenal
> Monolithic architecture.

This particular problem had nothing to do with a monolithic architecture. Your app can be a monolith, but that still doesn't mean your BI team can't have a separate data warehouse or at least separate read replicas to run queries against.
Not if normal is close to zero.

"Homicide rates tripled in the last year!" could easily mean 3 people got killed when last year was one. Never trust a proportional statement when the baseline is not provided.

In this case, a pipe was measured to be leaking 800 becquerels per lite. One Curie is 37 trillion becquerels. It's 46 millionths of a Curie. A fatal dose is usually measured in the thousandths of a Curie. This is incredibly benign, and probably drops to difficult-to-detect levels 100 meters from the submarine.

Really, this article strikes me as low effort at best, fear mongering at worst.
Wow... I didn't pay attention to the URL and when I open this site I thought 'Who does an insane project like writing a new JS/ES interpreter all by himself (in C). Almost as insane as the guy who wrote that x86 emulator for the browser...'.

Just to learn that it is indeed the same guy (plus Charlie Gordon) :D
And now it's a full-blown sitcom scene
Does anyone know if it is possible to run Alphastar locally?
Patent prosecution is the process of drafting the patent application and working with the patent office to get a patent issued. So it's the work done to secure a patent before the patent is asserted in a lawsuit.
Reddit's down weekly, though, so that's no big deal.
"Celebrities die 2.7183 at a time": http://ssp.impulsetrain.com/celebrities.html
Don't you think that a company might just raise their prices to pay for those taxes?
Reminds me so much of The Best Page in the Universe.
BUT in the United States, where these jobs are being advertised and employing the works, there is only 1 currency.

I wouldn't expect to get paid in Argentine Pesos in NYC... would you expect to get paid in Rubles in Sydney Australia?
Oh, that explains why I felt the world become slightly less hateful all of a sudden.
Indeed I do not live in the US but the UK.

I hold similar opinions about Brexit - I think it’s a bad idea based on the reaction of everyone else but if it was just up to me I wouldn’t care much (although I think it was managed badly).

If it ends up bad for my business (software engineering consultancy currently based in the UK) I’ve already got a backup plan of moving elsewhere. Other than that I don’t have much power to prevent politicians shooting themselves in the foot so I just sit and wait with a good backup plan.
That's probably true; FFMpeg almost single-handedly created an entire cottage industry in video production. The amount of elaborate image-processing it allows you to do probably does overtake most PhD papers you're likely to read.
Twitter is not that popular. The problem is that mainstream journalists spend too much time on it and confuse it for the real world. How many "news" stories are just repackaged tweets? A lot.
Yeah, prying the frunk open and cutting the battery cables is the first thing they do in the video
#1. I think the art of keeping things simple is being lost. These days people will mush together ten different cloud services and 5,000 dependencies just for a Hello World.
This reminded me of something too!

I used to work(on backend) on a popular app(in my country) which had a good number of users. One day I was asked to work with some infra/sysadmin folks who wanted to fix some issues with the servers in our inventory. We happily updated kernels and even rebooted servers a few time. I came back to my team and saw them deeply engrossed into production logs. Turns out few of the servers that were "fixed" were actually production servers. I almost shouted the F word when I listed all IPs. This confusion happened because the server guys used data IPs and we used management IPs. This exposed serious miscommunication among our teams. But fun times indeed!
Not if the engineers don't want to live there...
who is this Charlie Gordon ?
Is anyone a little suspicious that every large US tech company has had an outage recently? Wtf is going on.

China messing with us due to tariffs perhaps?
I (don't) like how you exclude Russia, China, Iran and somebody from your definition of 'us'.
Absent all this talk about fairness or not, if one were watching CNBC today, Cramer and the other analysts were asking themselves "what exactly is France selling to the U.S" and this is the list they came up with:

1. cheese
2. wine
3. ....

After a couple minutes on the discussion, they came up with Airbus (not strictly French and made outside of France).
I didn't know about the tube, I def would've plugged that.
I have a MKIIV Golf-R and you can absolutely hear the "Soundaktor in action, its so goofy...

This, frankly, is my favorite sound mod -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_owsz8Za_Y
People are worth the use value they can produce. If they can produce a commodity faster than the socially necessary labor time they're worth more than average. If not they're worth less than average.
Datomic Information Model (2013)
There’s an opt-out clause, but I don’t know enough about talent acquisition costs to know whether it’s a good deal. My assumption is that recruiting agencies and internal processes are super expensive, so Upwork might be a cheaper option even with the opt-out fee.
Just because the seller is responsible for transferring the tax revenue to the tax office does not mean that the seller is the one paying it.
GP asked for a tax that was repealed, not reduced.
There may be a complication : As EU is a single market, US retaliation (except maybe on Champagne and Camembert ...) cannot be targeted on France but on the whole EU. For example, Airbus headquarter is located in the Nederland, and has factories all over Europe. As such, EU will have to enter a fight a single country started. I really wonder what will happen next. Maybe Texas could raise the tax on red sole shoes https://www.google.com/search?q=red+sole+shoes ?
Odd coincidence, seems like it might have been some upstream banks having a bad SCA rollout
What's to like about it? First thing I wanted to do is look at the sources, which is now a multiple-step process - especially since I'm on windows and usually work on a Mac. Not to mention mobile.
>People are worth what most employees' employers are willing to pay.

Companies must transact for labour at a rate that transfers wealth to them. On average, employees must be able generate more value to a firm than their wages, otherwise employing people would be a net negative to a firm.
There are some tools out there that can help with the drafting of patent applications too. I've seen tools that can predict the art unit the patent might end up, catch errors in patent applications being drafted, and even tools that can draft a simple preliminary written description for a set of patent claims.
Not the best quality, but there is a scene just like that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz7Niw29WlY
Saw this post a while ago: https://medium.com/@dadc/aws-appsync-the-unexpected-a430ff71... - did you hit any limitations with AppSync?
Why is rapidly decelerating on the highway not a safety risk? Pileups happen because of this
What is the the best anti-malware for an Android malware ?

An iPhone.
increasing taxes makes tax-reduction-strategies _more_ profitable, not less

also, tax-evasion and tax-reduction are two different things, equating them is an argument in bad faith
The job posts he quoted were all New York. I don't think he is suggesting to eliminate the currency, but rather to eliminate dev salaries that are lower than the poverty line.
Perl 6 is pretty "wacky ass" throughout. The crazy blending of object orientation and functional programming, the twigils, the built-in support for PEGs, the scoping rules, the operators, lots of things.

I like it, though. Perl 6 is a fun language in which to program, and it's therefore one I like trying to use, even if said use is less than practical.
There's a sublime text package that does this for a bunch of different languages:
https://github.com/vprimachenko/Sublime-Colorcoder

I'm not involved in any way, I just ran it for a while at one point.
This is the same group of folks who wrote the infamous ranty blog shitting all over Rails back in...'11(?) when it was pretty clear that their workload wasn't suited to an RBDMS and ActiveRecord. They wrote their own message queue twice despite suggestions to use known tools before eventually giving up.