skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question is much of an outlier is it from normal? My taxes often vary significantly due to restricted stock units, sign on bonuses, crypto transactions, etc. 36% higher than the mean might still be within a standard deviation if it's normally high variance.

It's a large number, and it's part of a global scale problem. But, the presentation of the number has been worthless because it hasn't shared how abnormal the number is and most people have zero frame of reference.

For example, I live on a small lake. About 400 access. The lake level, in the absence of rain and inflow would drop about 1.5 inches a week. Surprisingly, that comes out to more than 9000 tons of water evaporating a day. From a small lake. In normal conditions.
I don't agree. People with enough money and expertise follow complicated routines to minimize taxes. People without the money or expertise don't have the same advantage. I don't think arranging tax payments in such a way as to require accountants and lawyers to get the most efficient tax burden is a good system.

I'm not saying Blizzard employees or owners should be jailed for doing this. I'm saying we should realize this is a problem we should consider solving
Well if there is written material (like the Harry Potter books) then it is considered history, not archeology. And the historians would be able to read the book and consider if it was treated as fiction or a religious text at the time, especially by comparing to other fiction books and religious texts which would also be available.

While not every historical culture had a clear distinction between the two, our culture have a concept of a "novel" which is distinct from both history and theology. A historian looking at books from our time would be able to understand that.
I knew a retired guy just like this. He had lots of investments and shares in subchapter S corps (and some influence in the distribution rate). His idea of fun was gaming out the different options he had for filing.
American Pie’ Still Homemade, but with a New Twist
Hi friend, This is a humble beginning. Now docs are in YAML-like format and soon they will be published in a readable and interactive format on our new website. For now, I just wanted to share it earlier and to involve other developers in the process.

Thanks for understanding. ;)
You're not fending for a small business with 3 employees, which anyway, let's be serious can't afford any fancy tax shenanigans, you're fending for a big business with several thousand employees.

This company had a record revenue year and yet they decided to cut 800 jobs.
Could you share with us the correct amount of taxes Activision Blizzard should pay?

As long as this remains an impossible question to answer then they should probably pay the least amount possible.

I'm all for improving current tax regulations, but first we must agree that the problem is with the regulations.
Assuming any of these services actually have all of the music you listen to at any given time. Entire albums, songs, artists could be lost to you not because they were so forgettable but because they became lost in the sea of abundant music streaming. Your favorited artists went from something like a count of 237 to 230. What was lost? And when were you supposed to notice? This is what you lose by not owning your music. Not to mention music that simply does not exist on streaming services, which a very large amount of worthwhile music. At the end of the day, why are you giving so much control to others about what music you would have shared and preserved?

You can also rip your CDs so that the music is no longer tied to the physical media.
I think you think all this stuff is bad because you’re imagining having this power in C or JavaScript, in which case these features would be awful.

However if these features are exposed through clean abstractions in a language that is syntactically bare to begin with, you might have different thoughts.
Alas, its a very academic and dry field in terms of interesting literature, but you can definitely learn a lot from a few books ..

Safety Critical Systems Handbook:

https://www.elsevier.com/books/the-safety-critical-systems-h...

IEC 61508 Compliance Guide:

https://www.perforce.com/resources/qac/how-comply-iec-61508-...

ISA Safety Series:

https://www.isa.org/standards-and-publications/isa-publicati...
Depending on your health records, staying voluntarily in the public insurance is the best thing you can do.
> the cruft in the (San Franciscan) taxi industry

You're probably right. San francisco's problems - or even america's are not "the entire world's problems"
I regularly write cheques for $345m because of unclear phrasing. Who doesn't???
That's a good example of a VR usecase I hadn't considered, but to be fair this kind of thing perhaps shouldn't be considered VR at all from the app developer's perspective. By which I mean, the developer wouldn't ever have to know or care that a user would use their regular 2D app in this VR setting, it should just work like any other monitor / web browser etc.

I was more talking about applications that are 'native' VR, for want of a better term. Apps that couldn't exist or wouldn't make sense in other formats than VR.
"faster than native arrays" as in: native arrays crippled by the requirement of immutability.

Appending to a "native array" is amortized constant time. Secondly almost all operations on a "native array" will be faster because there is no overhead in indexing, there is cache locality etc etc. Requiring immutability will almost always reduce performance (yes, I'm aware there a couple operations like concatenation that can potentially run in O(lg n) rather than O(n) when using a tree representation for arrays).
Some journals do this. It is an interesting approach.

I am however ambivalent, or even perhaps against allowing public comments directly into a paper. We've all experienced, no doubt, the a naive but loud internet com-mentor spreading FUD on comment sections and social media on topics they simply know nothing about, and do so prolifically. It is nice to think that good arguments will float to the top, but often it is the loudest and least nuanced argument, right or wrong, which gets taken up.
I have yet to see any success story involving web components or even a convincing article that explains what they bring to the table. I am not sure what would be the added value of a component usable by all frameworks given the variety of programming models out there.
At a certain level of complexity even the tax authorities can't decide what is legal and what isn't and they will basically try legal action against you to see what the court decides. I've pursued an official statement from my country's tax authority about a tax issue I had pertaining paying taxes when you do business in several countries at once, and after months of hassling the tax office through a lawyer we finally got a letter saying that "we cannot see anything wrong with what you are trying to do, but this letter is not binding, it is neither a promise nor a guarantee that we will never take any legal action against you if we decide differently at any point in the future. This is all advice that we will be providing on the matter".

Guess what happened - a year later they decided it wasn't ok, and of course the letter they wrote was worth as much as toilet paper in the court. It took 5 more years and a very decent amount of money to fight against it and finally get them to admit they were wrong and there is no issue. But of course no one will give you 5 years of not being able to run your business back.
The dock certainly appears to be fragile enough that I'm nervous about putting it in a suitcase. And, of the one dock that I know of that has seen moderately heavy use (again, n=1), the plug that connects to the Switch has gotten damaged in such a way that HDMI stops working if the Switch is pressed all the way into the dock. It works fine if I carefully insert the Switch very gently so it doesn't go quite all the way in.

For traveling, I would certainly prefer a small dongle just as a matter of size.
It means they can not be subpoenaed for a message that you have already received. That is an important distinction, since much of the time, not having received a given communication is a defense against its incriminating effect.
Military lock-in would be a perfect reason to nationalize AWS-- Maybe cloud agnostic architecture really protects the cloud vendors
And as a look out of the window, on a sunny Sunday, all I see are hundreds of unnecessarily large SUVs riding around (1 person per vehicle, usually), contributing - like every day - their good share of superfluous greenhouse gases to our atmosphere. Probably going to/from a place where a walk or a bike ride would suffice, or where public transportation could get you to in no time.
CO2 emission per capita continue increasing [1], and its no surprise why.
In the US, personal vehicles account for over 25% of greenhouse emissions - that accounts for about 0.1ppm/year C02 increase in the atmosphere [from 2, 3], or an extra 10ppm in the next century if things don't change. That only from cars.

But things are not going to change. Companies are already studying how much money they will save by shipping things over the artic when all ice is gone during the summer. That's due to happen within the next 50 years.

[1] https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_greenhous...

[3] https://www.co2.earth/co2-acceleration
i posted it with the title "Ubers lossed will be $4.5B" or something. not the title of the article but it's what grabbed my eye on twitter
this mechanism also could underly apathies like privilege blindness--having the world seemingly match your expectations makes you unaware of how it can be skewed in your favor and against others.
I had issues with more than a couple of the statistics in the column, but that one in particular stood out to me. Saying that guns were only used in self defense when the perpetrator is killed (or even injured) is super disingenuous. It would actually be quite difficult to account for every real time a gun is effective in self defense. For instance, a potential perpetrator deciding not to take any action at all either because an area has concealed carry and anyone in that area could be carrying or because they see someone carrying and decide not to take the chance.
I think this is broadly correct. The open question is how much of the revenue/profit in that market can such a platform capture. There is enormous revenue potential from such a platform that doesn't involve AR per se.
> hardware diversity (that is absolutely not a general rule in railway)

I don't know where you're working in the industry, but in my company (THALES) its definitely a thing, and we are absolutely working on diversifying the 3-of-3 and 3-of-5 configurations away from Intel.

And maybe we're talking about design obsolescence in different terms, but yeah .. 30-year old CPU's are still being shipped to customers, yo. They WANT it, so.
Love, with Limitations
Imagining the Western Other in 19th-Century Japanese Prints
Heh, the amount of people that think crypto is an asset class that would be taxed differently than any other asset class is astounding. Sounds like your tax jurisdiction was in that group (!).

Though there are a bunch of unanswered questions in a lot of jurisdictions: How do you treat a fork?

Is it income? A dividend? A stock split? A spinoff? Some of these require the originator to file paperwork, and no crypto chain could possibly do that.

And what initial value? $0? Day1 trading value?
It's not black and white. I have a MITM proxy on my network that I use to remove ads, modify pages, and block sites, among other things.

In fact, I recommend anyone with "smart"/IoT things on their network to use one, and find out what they're saying... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6759426
> In my opinion getting a 'sound' VR project up and running is far more straight forward learning process (if not process) than getting e.g. a 'sound' single page application up and running.

I'm very glad to hear that, as someone with no experience of game / 3D graphics development I had honestly assumed it would be more difficult and/or involve many more people to build something basic. Really cool to hear that's not the case these days.
Doesn't look like doing it in the forest is the best idea. From your link...

> Ecological impact

The amount of salt that goes to the region's soil and rivers is enormous. The Werra river has become so salty (up to 2.5 g/L chloride ions, which is saltier than parts of the Baltic Sea) that few freshwater organisms can survive in it. The groundwater has become salty as well.[4] K+S are licensed to keep dumping salt at the facility until 2030.[3]
Thanks for the links and comparison to Jasonette! Any ETA on when Engine will be available?
It is because that assumption is reasonable that it doesn’t work as a defence. My objective is also to act in rational self-interest. And so it is no surprise that I will use mechanisms other than law to bring pressure to bear.

For instance, someone is legally permitted to call me an asshole. They may choose to do so completely in self-interest. I am then permitted to ask my friends to shun him and they may. I may use this implicit threat to ensure no one calls me names. I am not required to change the law to prevent being called an asshole in order to reconfigure the incentives.

In the same way, I may determine it to be in my self-interest to have a large company pay my government extra taxes, even in an ex post facto manner (though the constitution bans laws, it does not ban agreements that clearly are mechanisms to bypass that prohibition). I may then bring other weapons to bear to get things to happen. The most common such technique is by directing public opinion in a certain manner.

If someone were to tell me that the company dumping, entirely legally, in the waterway is just acting in self-interest, that’s irrelevant. I still don’t want the waterway dumped in so I’ll tell everyone anyway and we’ll kick up a fuss and make life hard for them, even though they are acting legally and rationally in their interest.
Let's see Paul Allens resume.
Thanks, why don't ppl post outline links instead?
How to Prove That a Turing Machine Is Universal
I think you're just proving my point. Justifications such as you proffer do nothing to convince me otherwise:

We in the West are very xenophobic when it comes to assessing those nations we've destroyed in the last 20 years. We're not really being fair about such propositions as 'long term stability', really, when we do everything we can to make sure the region stays unstable...
Perhaps, but as we've seen, USB-C power supplies vary in quality :)

In any case, protecting against or even 30V should cost essentially nothing. A few series diodes and a resistor should do the trick, no? Diodes are cheap on a CMOS chip.
Separating mixed things always means putting in work because it reduces entropy. Around 3% of US energy goes just to distilling oil, for instance.
IANAP, but I don't think that photon energies are quantized. That is, a photon can have any energy. But the sizes of those energy/momentum packets are quantized.

But energy levels in atoms are quantized, and each sort of atom has a distinct set of possible energy levels. And so can emit/absorb a distinct set of possible energy photons. That's what emission/absorption spectra are all about.

Free-electron lasers, conversely, can be built to produce coherent photons of any energy. Albeit constrained by construction methods.
In most modern browsers you can't capture this when find-in-page box has focus. Only if you manually select text after searching can you capture it (or, like the other reply stated: capture the scroll distance).

But you could easily disable ctrl+f and throw up your own search box with keypress capture. Not all browsers show the search box outside of the browser viewport, and even for those that do (such as Chrome), you could display a hovering modal inside the viewport, as most users won't remember the exact location of the search box.
If any such decryption key exists that can decrypt single votes, it's already a failure. Not only can we not trust that it will stay secret, we also must ensure its secret from the vote counter themselves.
While I agree that this should be mandatory in many cases, it doesn't prove too much. I've experienced many cases where the open code worked fine with the test data provided, but failed completely when I tried it with my own real world data.
Yes, ResumeThread is. NtResumeProcess is what I had to use, because Go immediately closes the thread handle.

I’m sure it’s safe to rely on NtResumeProcess. I have used it since XP without issue. But I definitely wish there was a better way to go back from a process to a thread. The best I could find is using Toolhelp32 to iterate all the threads on the system, which I believe is just wrapping NtQuerySystemInformation. Would’ve worked but definitely wasn’t fast.
I don't know if it's too off-topic but I'd be happy to hijack these comments for a quick discussion of the best way to get rid of mosquitos from around your home. I live in the mountains in California and the little buggers are everywhere.

I bought a UV bug zapper without realising that mosquitos are apparently not attracted to UV. I later learned that they are attracted to CO2, but discussion of CO2 traps on the web imply that they also work very poorly.

Is there anything that can be usefully done?
If you can solve one, we're not much further from solving the other.

People do a lot to solve annoying.

Here's Winnipeg Canada's Nuisance Mosquito Fogging Program:
https://winnipeg.ca/publicworks/insectcontrol/mosquitoes/nui...
There are a couple of issues with this; none are dealbreakers.

1. As others have mentioned in this thread, people are reluctant to talk to people wearing earphones. Although perhaps this is less of a problem than the stigma of "hearing aids".

2. Earphones don't usually contain microphones. If you want directionality, the mikes have to be located in or on the ear, not on your phone. Some earphones do contain microphones, and they are the place to start.

3. IOS has pretty low latency in its audio channel, but Android is (or was) terrible. There were so many layers of software in the Android audio path that there was no way to process live sound without so much delay that a hearing aid wearer hearing both live and processed sound together would just hear mush. I read somewhere that Android has fixed this, but I don't know.

4. Bluetooth induces some latency into the live audio path as well. I don't know how much.
This website asked me to disable my ad blocker, then showed me an ad for their subscription. I guess they follow the footsteps of porn sites again ...
I know it's nostalgia speaking but the turn of the century was such a cool time with tech for me. I remember coveting a Psion after speak to a journalist that used one to file stories from remote areas though some kludged link up with a sat phone if I recall. It's not impressive to anyone today relative to what's available but it was so cool in my mind. I never did get one or really NEED one but it brings up memories.
> which anyway, let's be serious can't afford any fancy tax shenanigans

Dunno, I feel that as a small business it is much easier for us to minimize our tax burden than it would be for a larger business.

Much easier for 4 friends working together to relocate than it is for a big business with thousands of employees. We've got far more tools at our disposal.
Both Caddy[1] and Cloudflare[2] use a published technique to detect MITM, and (speaking as the author of Caddy), we want to make sure our systems can detect this travesty as well. If you are on an affected network and if it is safe to do so, would you please let us know if Caddy's MITM detector picks it up?

[1] https://caddyserver.com/docs/mitm-detection

[2] https://malcolm.cloudflare.com
I remember tapestry, which was heavily component based (but still compiled down to servlets).

Heck, I remember ATG Dynamo, where everything was a javabean, including all the server side components.
JavaScript Promise combinators: .all(), .race(), .allSettled()
Yes you do [have to state that in your privacy policy].

Compliance with a legal obligation is valid grounds to store and process data, but the information requirement still applies - you need to inform the customer what you're collecting and why, you just don't need their consent in this case.

E.g. the GDPR article 13.1.d / 14.2.b - you need to inform the data subject about what exactly is your legitimate need that justifies the processing of data; and customers then can judge whether that need (and the collected data for it) seems reasonable or warrants a complaint to the regulator.
There was an article linked to here in 2016 about an inventor who developed a process that reduces the need for brine disposal by nearly 100 percent. [0]

Not sure what progress has been made since

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/desalination-brea...
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12191089
The macros support is a pretty big deal.
Yes, America Is Rigged Against Workers
Unpopular opinion: why is that necessarily the case? I’m 45 for context.

If the company needs someone that can work 60+ hours a week, with less than market pay, but a promise of equity (or if I were starting something risky with friends) , if I were younger, wanted to build my resume and didn’t have grown folks bills, that would be an opportunity I would jump on. On the other hand, if I really didn’t need the money and wanted to work on something interesting, I might do it. Does that necessarily mean the “company isn’t worth working for” or it’s not the the right company for me?

If I cared about paid paternity leave and the company couldn’t offer it, that also doesn’t mean it’s a bad company - just not the company for me.

On personal note, I’m at a point in my career where I’m being heavily recruited for consultant type jobs that require a lot of travel. I have a son graduating this year. I had to turn those types of jobs down even though they pay more than I make now. Is the job necessarily bad because they require travel?
Just wanted to illustrate that it's not as simple as "legal = blameless".

For a less extreme example, what about Keurig's coffee DRM? Or the DRM on printer cartridges? Or Microsoft pushing the patented FAT32 (and now exFAT) filesystem? Or Disney lobbying for extended copyright? Google promoting AMP pages? Online stores using pressure tactics like "Hurry, only N left in stock!", and other dark patterns?
Nope it isn't.

De-platforming happens to more politically moderate such as libertarians and conservatives.

It is normally done by a small number of people with a harassment campaign.

Any sort of soft censorship occurs it gives people an excuse to whine saying they are censored.
It all comes down to how you're using them. Good tries can perform dramatically better than std::vector-style vectors, given the same development effort, on many kinds of system.
> Boeing changing Max software to use two computers

Does that mean we will find the MCAS in the 737 MAX 8 MMEL (Master Minimum Equipment List)?
(Used to be here but right now it's not loading: http://fsims.faa.gov/wdocs/mmel/b-737-8_rev%200.pdf)

Isn't this the single biggest failure point of the whole affair? Adding a critical component which can bring the plane down (as it has happened twice) but not making it redundant?

One can perhaps argue (pardon the roughness of my analogy) that if pilots aren't trained to not open the door during the flight, and then do open the door during the flight, then it's a training issue.

But this analogy doesn't apply, because while the door is not motorized and cannot open by itself, the MCAS is a computer system which can fail (not just because of a faulty AoA sensor, but e.g. because of a chip failure or a software bug) and then actuate the trim into a dive where the pilots aren't able to fix the issue manually anymore due to high wind pressure.