skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>they are uncomfortable with the fact they they are rich.

The issue you're overlooking is that many $200k earners truly don't believe they are rich. It's not that they "secretly" think they're wealthy upper class and just want to lie to you.

It's not unusual for an employee earning $200k as salary from FAANG to feel like it's a middle class living. However, if that same person earns $200k/year purely as capital gains interest income from US Treasury Bills and therefore never has to work at a job for the rest of his life, that's the magic threshold to feel "rich". I.e. "FU money" means "rich".

(Yes, you can certainly disagree with those boundaries but I'm just trying to explain how people think.)

It's the necessity of working at a job that makes them feel like they are in the "middle class". It doesn't matter if it's a white-collar office job instead of a blue-collar factory gig. They can't be "uncomfortable with being rich" if they don't think they're rich in the first place.

I don't see how we can have productive discussions on social progress if we poison the well by slapping labels on $200k workers that they themselves don't actually believe.
Not sure if serious, but probably the contract you'd sign (at least in Germany there's usually a non-compete in there somewhere).

Also it feels like this would be a lot more effort than just working one well-paying job. Imagine all the context switching...
that's because they passed a law that made everyone use the same standard. The us didn't.
Somehow I have the feeling that like in medical the new technology will not drive down the cost for the customers of the patent lawyers.
I just tried building this on my Mac and it looked initially like it all was building fine, but it eventually failed when building qjs32.

Thinking this probably didn't matter much I went ahead and ran `./qjs examples/hello.js` which worked as advertised – cool! Tried `./qjsbn examples/pi.js 5` and it worked as well – very cool! Then I tried `./qjs examples/hello_module.js` and got this:

SyntaxError: unsupported keyword: import
at examples/hello_module.js:3

I don't know what I did wrong – anyone else try it yet?
Hospitality business Sonder confirms new investment, $1B+ valuation
This absolutely deserves a long blog post on its own. You and Ellen should consider writing it. Many founders (including my past self) would have wildly benefited from something like this.
Wall Street banks bailing on troubled U.S. farm sector
This is somewhat a sequel to WSJ's "Why Do the Biggest Companies Keep Getting Bigger? It’s How They Spend on Tech"

https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-do-the-biggest-companies-ke...
Indeed. Reduce is a catamorphism, but not all catamorphisms are reduce. On the other hand, it's generally underappreciated how useful unfold (ana) and refold (hylo) are, even if we're just talking about lists.
Mercedes Thieves Showed Just How Vulnerable Car-Sharing Can Be
Couldn't you replace v8 with this and recompile the node binary? If it passes 100% ECMAScript tests, that should mean it's a drop-in replacement for v8. Correct me if I'm wrong.
The WordPress plugin ecosystem is so fragmented, and most of the 54,000+ plugins are really low quality and good luck getting support for them when something breaks.

Magento/Magento2 is dying, if not dead. I work in the e-commerce space and have seen more businesses move off Magento into Shopify, or BigCommerce.

Shopify's app store has only ~3000 apps for a reason - Most of the functionality of a core shopping / merchant experience is already built into Shopify so you don't need to go through 50,000 apps to do what you need to do to sell. The apps on the Shopify app store also go through a review process that ensures the quality of the apps.
> I'm surprised it's not downright illegal

It actually is illegal in some states (or is it Europe? Whatever). Email/chat count as valid "unsubscribe online" solutions.
At what point do you just not hire Chinese nationals (aka, those who maintain current Chinese citizenship.)?
Common problem for many HN readers. Some partial solutions in an old thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17637835
The model is quite different to how people write code today. Instead of a process that takes code from your machine and sends it to prod (and thus has a lot of risk), you code in a sorta sandbox _in prod_. That is then enabled for users via changing the feature flag setting.

So to do code review, you write the code behind the feature flag, then ask someone for code review. (There's google-docs style collaboration, so they can see your code if you permit it). After code review, you can "merge" by toggling the feature flag, or changing the setting to "let 10% of users see this" or whatever roll-out strategy you want.

just safely. So you're writing code behind a feature flag (but "in prod"), but no users can see it.
If they wanted it to be considered a separate language, they should have changed the name. Perl 5 is not a different language than Perl 4 or Perl 3. Changing the meaning of the version number at that point is just hostile to being understood.
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So if you're a 10X developer, and switching jobs will eat up half your time... you could take 5 jobs and provide 1 developer's worth of skill to each, right?

Until Fred Brooks shows up and slaps you.
Hmm... what shopping cart does DoMyOwn use? The point I was trying to make is: you can bring in $10m/yr revenue with any shopping cart software. It just depends on marketing/SEO/traffic/conversion...
Thank you! I'm at https://twitter.com/paulbiggar or paul@darklang.com.
No. Tesla's adapter standard is available to all other vendors, as are their patents, if they merely agree not to sue tesla over the standards. Tesla also includes the adapter for free for j1772. Technically tesla's adapter is far superior to the adapters that came later and before technically - one small adapter for ac and dc, they forced the j1772 adapter to be higher power (100/80 amps max), they built their cars with enough internal charging onboard ac adapters.

The rest of the industry, the us sae hated the threat of tesla and refused to adapt teslas. Then they have iterated over a set of horrible kludges often called the frankenplug.
This is a very broad question. Garbage collection is a large topic. The general consensus is that reference counting methods give typically lower throughput than heap scanning methods but (I think) lower total memory usage and more predictable performance.

They do bookkeeping on every free whereas a heap scanning gc will typically do bookkeeping in small incremental bits on alloc and mainly on gc cycle (when space runs low).
New York Times makes you talk to an agent to cancel, and of course, when I want to cancel, I had to wait in a queue to get someone on either Chat or Phone. Completely absurd and unacceptable. And naturally, when I got through, their chat system hadn't even provide my account information to the agent.

I've felt inclined to resubscribe a couple times when hitting their paywall, but remembering their consumer-hostile cancellation process has stopped me. I don't mind paying for things, but you need to treat your customers right.
Science is never "settled". Instead, there's a consensus that most scientists agree on and build on top of.

Building on top of the consensus usually explains things — until it doesn't. Then they try to tweak that consensus in order to explain stuff that can't be explained otherwise.

Occasionally, you reach a limit in which there's way too many things that don't fit into the consensus that tweaking it is no longer possible. Then, someone proposes a paradigm shift that explains some of the new inconsistencies, and the rest of the scientists reexamine their previous "facts" in order to make them fit with the new consensus.

Let's use Pluto as an example. We were all convinced that there were 9 planets in the Solar System, and counted Pluto as the last one. Then, we've discovered more of Pluto-like planets, and discovered that Pluto is no more special than the rest of them. So, we redefined the term planets, introduced a new term called dwarf planets, and put Pluto into it alongside Ceres (that we knew of before Pluto, but decided to ignore), Haumea, Makemake, and Eris. Now, "must clear its orbit" is a prerequisite for the term "planet", while the objects that don't clear their orbits (but satisfy other rules for a "planet") fit into the term "dwarf planet".
If Google and it's outsourced partner can listen to the recordings, 3 lettered agencies can too. Even if they currently can't, they'll soon make a law to grant them access to Google's and Amazon's.

After this, a hijacking, explosion, or terrorist attack would occur. They would argue that it could have been prevented if place X had a listening device installed. And that's all it would take to push a law mandating the installation of such devices in open spaces, eventually private ones.

UPDATE

On second thought, there's a faster way to the goal. Just make smartphones listen all the time.
I also recommend privacy.com. The cards act as pre-paid cards, so I have seen some instances where a site did not take them. But probably 98% the service has worked beautifully.
These were old stockpiles manufactured by western companies, apparently with full knowledge of Washington. It's questionable whether they were still usable. Certainly not a reasonable justification for invading Iraq.

"All of the weapons found, however, were produced prior to 1991 as part of a crash program started in the 1980s and meant to be used against neighboring Iran during an eight-year war between the two countries. "In five of six incidents in which troops were wounded by chemical agents, the munitions appeared to have been designed in the United States, manufactured in Europe and filled in chemical agent production lines built in Iraq by Western companies," the Times says."
The linked article -- and others I've read on this topic -- suggest that it's actually a big bump in revenue, which is the source of the problem. The article quoted Outbrain's deal with Time Magazine as bringing in $100M, and while that may be an outlier, it suggests that bringing in millions of dollars with these chumboxes isn't at all out of the question. If your magazine/news site has been seeing its revenue steadily decreasing over the past decade, you've been through two rounds of layoffs, and Taboola comes along and says, "Hey, we can help you bring in an extra five million a year"...
This also goes for large art institutions. In my field (classical music, in Germany) these institutions live mostly on the public purse. As a consequence, their target audience skews hard towards government grant and subsidy committees. Many put on shows nobody wants to see, that speak to nobody, but have fascinating write-ups. It is in some ways a remnant of Milton Babbitt's famous article, "who cares if you listen?"[1] except without the intellectual honesty.

Cultural institutes and funded culture agents exist not just to create art qua art, but as a part of culture - ie with an audience. Of course they should take risks and push boundaries, but not exclusively.

[1] http://www.palestrant.com/babbitt.html
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Eat sugar (glucose), get glycation endproducts impairing immune system, ultimately increase cancer risk and age yourself.

I'd like to see if this is the exact mechanism or there's still more. Perhaps oxidative damage?
I suppose they controlled for weight and fat percentage right?
If you don't have root: set your DNS server to AdGuard's. It will block most ads and they have a strict no-logging policy. Otherwise you need to use a local VPN, but that will prevent you from protecting your privacy with an actual VPN.

If you're rooted, just use AdAway.
It will be, ending the unfair competitive benefits of tax avoidance big Internet companies currently enjoy in much of Europe.
Debian, Ubuntu, UNIX, Linux — none of these have an obvious pronunciation to a native English speaker from USA.

Why take such a defeatist attitude? I'm sure you can get the pronunciation right with a little effort.
Cold outreach will teach you more than anything. Talk with your customers, on the phone.
A good friend of mine is a broker dealer. He finds buyers/sellers of private companies and structures the deal.

If you're interested you can reach out to me and I can put you in touch.
Two seasons seems a little short; maybe 3 would be better?

Just look at The Expanse; that one I thought did well with keeping me engaged, but they ended it (by design) after 3 seasons, and it seemed to be just the right length for the overall story arc they were going for.

Whereas Game of Thrones stayed interesting for a long time (6 seasons to be exact), but after that started faltering and in season 8 really became disappointing, mainly because the books they were basing it on had run out and they were now making things up as they went along.
Exactly. iOS does something like this with notifications where it added an super easy button right next to them on the lock screen for silencing / delivering them quietly. You just swipe left. Neat, right?

Except I accidentally hit it on an iMessage notification somehow without realizing and silenced all messages for a couple days without realizing it. Missed an important one too. Was kind of hard to undo that too.

It’s a tough UI problem.
The reason is because they setup their company legal structures to avoid paying tax, either in France or the US.

Then the US every decade or so gives a money repatriation tax amnesty, effectively providing huge subsidies to US firms dodging all these taxes.

So the government decided to setup a new tax they couldn't. Can't really blame them.
Their own FAQ says that it takes about 45 searches to plant a tree. So at 10 trees / person, that's about 450 searches.

>We know that Ecosia earns an average of 0.5 cents (EUR) per search. It costs our tree planting partners about 0.22 EUR to plant a tree. 22 cents divided by 0.5 cents makes about 45 searches until we can plant one new tree. Depending on clicks on ads and how much search ad revenue these generate for Ecosia, it may take fewer searches. Think of it this way: we currently fund the planting of a new tree every second.
They should have designed their own font (professional commission) instead of using Verdana.
I had a common acquaintance many years back of someone with, let's call them "questionable" morals, who aggregated postings like this and contracted with dozens, farming them out to offshore developers who'd thought they hit the jackpot. From what I know, the guy made a killing. Not something to celebrate, but perhaps tangentially related to why these kinds of job offerings still see daylight.
Sonder is well positioned to continue to outpace its competitors due to strong consumer demand for a clean, consistent and convenient experience while traveling.

For those interested, here's a link to their job board:
https://grnh.se/f4fb16682
You are right, but this is a miscalculation in the long run. Any operation allowing these ads risk damaging their reputation.
Tangent: I used to work for a Telecom S/W company a decade ago, SMS/MMS/USSD products. We were privy to SMS/MMS exchanged between customers.

PKI is a must these days. Albeit, anything that connects to internet now can be monitored in some way or the other, no?
I would agree. Even something as low as $1 a month or $10 a year would change everything.
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I think they are referring to pesticides that contain boron, and not specifically to the individual chemical component B(OH)3 (s), a.k.a. solid boric acid.

I can easily imagine a commercial pesticide targeted at ants and roaches that contains borates, sugar, and diatomaceous earth, because that is exactly what I use in my own kitchen, made from the individual components. It is effective, and has low toxicity to humans and pets. But to be clear, it is abrasive because the D.E. component is abrasive, not from the boric acid.

D.E. is actually the only powdered pesticidal substance I am aware of that kills via mechanical means.
I’ve probably hired about $150,000 of contracts through up work and never once have we required the monitoring app to be used. However, we have a bit of a different approach, we will “pay” you through upwork for the first month, but if we are satisfied with your work after a month we pay you directly through PayPal or wire transfer and then we cancel the contract on upwork. Out of all of the contractors we have hired (20-30) I can only think of one who wanted complete payment through upwork.

I know how bad upwork is and when we hired we genuinely always set out to get the contractors we worked with off using it so they can keep more money.
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>- roads & infrastructure for shipping

Their whole point was that the shipper would pay taxes. Which they do. This applies to most of your points as well, they do get taxed on their warehouses.

What I find most comical about all this is there's already a 20% VAT on everything Amazon sells there. They do pay taxes already, France simply wants more, and this tax is written in a way where it will have a much larger effect on external companies than internal.
hey! Do you know if anyone is working on getting bpftrace to use BTF yet? Looks like one of the final chunks landed in Linux 5.2
It will probably never reach iOS since App Store rules prevent engines from JIT’ing (is considered “arbitrary code execution” and could circumvent their own static sandbox verification requirements).
Author and Dark CTO here.

> Reading on Darklang.com I see they kind of address this. The ecosystem they’re building is training wheels for developers, a way to make “coding 100x easier.”

No no no no no. This is not what we're doing. We're building something for experienced software engineers. (New developers will be able to use it too and it should be much much easier for them than learning in other ways, but that's a secondary audience).

> Dark isn’t actually making all the work of building and running a web application go away, it’s abstracting it all into a platform such that you can’t see it.

Some of it is being abstracted, but a lot of it being properly removed. Servers are abstracted, but almost all of actual deployment is actually being removed.
Understandable given it's a jigsaw and we are still finding all the pieces, have a rough idea of what the final picture is, but that changes for every new piece of the puzzle found. Happens in so many aspects of life/science - look at physics.

Still waiting for the theory that modern human civilisation was founded by time traveling refugee's from a doomed future returning to a time when the environment was not killing them. After all, had pretty much every other interpretation of human history played out in the media and the line between media and hollywood does seem to blur more and more as time moves on.
Actually no. Uniqueness is easy. The problem is more on the filtering out things that are not very good.
Malware intends to harm you, with intent to steal or destroy or hold hostage your information, data, and computing resources.

Does the ZoomOpener app have malicious intentions towards you, your computing resources, or your data? Not just “could it be unintentionally exploited” - note the unintentionality! - but specifically “this was intended to harm”.

If not, then you need to reconsider your use of the word “malware” - a word shortened from “malicious software” - and find a better way to describe software design patterns that aren’t compatible with “drag it to the trash” but also aren’t intended to harm.

Adobe Creative Cloud, any $$$$ audio software DRM, and HP printer drivers all use similar patterns of “can’t just drag it to the trash”, and are all similarly annoying to remove - but they are not malware, any more than this ZoomOpener is.
> the American wine is better,

Californian wine due to the drought has much higher alcohol %s in recent years.

This does impact the taste, and it's not all good.
No, that's not the lesson. Upwork the platform scammed him, not the 'unethical' clients. The clients were looking to settle the bill.
Bad how? Please substantiate the claims. I remember the intake limit being based on some very conservative theory on handling excess uric acid.
Maybe because of Ireland?
One also needs to be wary of tree planting as being necessarily altruistic. Nothing wrong with planting a tree of course, but many times they're planting a monoculture of financially viable & fast growing trees with the intent to log them in the future.

The forestry industry views forests as large scale gardening, and they spend big bucks to plant trees after they log an area. In many cases I think our good will is being hijacked to pay for something that they ought to cover.

I'd be much more interested in a program to plant a diversity of native trees in areas that are protected.

Failing that, I guess it's not the end of the world that we re-plant some logging company's patch, it just doesn't give me the same warm-fuzzies.
> I never understood the logic behind taxing large internet businesses.

> The idea behind taxes is that you use some public resource and you pay for that service. You own a home in a neighborhood, you pay property tax that funds the schools. You drive a car, you pay gasoline tax that funds the streets. You hire workers locally, you pay the tax to pay back all the contributions public institutions made to adding the skills to the worker.

Taxation is used to encourage activities the govt thinks are beneficial to society, and discourage activities that are detrimental. In the US, married couples and those with children get tax breaks. This in spite of the fact that children use government services, accruing greater public costs. However the powers that be find it beneficial to encourage marriage and family building, I suppose because it hypothetically leads to greater stability and encourages more long term participation in the economy (can't quit your job and travel the world if you have kids to support).

So in short yes, the government can and does tax (or exempt from tax) whatever or whoever it wants, within the limits of the country's constitution and their courts' interpretation thereof. There is no requirement that it be directly correlated to a service the government provides.

Leveling the playing field wrt the inherent advantages that a large tech firm benefits from (economies of scale) does seem to be within the reasonable purview of a government which wants to protects its constituents from a tendency of the free market towards monopolization. This tax encourages competition by smaller players, which keeps Amazon honest. It is only not necessary if you trust Amazon to always act in the best interests of the consumer even after stamping out all competition.
> These were old stockpiles

So there were WMDs. Case closed.
Well, going by superiority in tech is putting it very simply. The different sides had very different logistical/tactical concerns. For example, the SCR-536, which was a man portable radio was a bigger technical feat than any tank or battleship.

You don't think that the US, the leading industrial power at the time, couldn't build better tanks. The Sherman got the job done that they needed it to do.
Sorry, I misread your post. I think that the tax don't apply for points 2 & 3, since it only concerns revenus made in France.
I would never do such a thing (my morals, ethics, and personality) but I am always amazed that it works. If they are able to keep the employer/clients happy, then good for them!
Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich. Companies like google can charge their profitable branches in other countries royalties to use Google software or platform moving the profits out of a higher tax country like France into Ireland where there's little to no tax. Even after they patched the Dutch part that allowed even the marginal Irish taxes to be avoided companies can still artificially lower their profit by transferring IP to an Irish company and charging for it's use.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/double-irish-with-a-dut...