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You can pay the social insurance for the equivalent of the minimum salary (around 75€ monthly) and pay yourself a dividend. Personal tax on the dividends is 5%.
This is a dumb article, let me count the reasons why:

Startups do not create wealth "in the US". They create wealth in a very small number of place within the US. Is there a link within the US between startup wealth created and tax policy? Given that California has a state capital gains tax and a state income tax. I'm waiting for the startup boom to move out of California to many of the states with neither. Any day now.

SV's dominance of venture funded startups is totally sui generis. It cannot be the case that this activity is totally centred in one place within the US and simultaneously that broad comparisons between "The US" and "Europe" (which is an even broader category) can be made by SV vs "Europe" without first making those comparisons between SV and the rest of the United States.

Literally in the article: "Likewise, a handful of countries hew to the American approach on compensation; Britain, Italy, Portugal, and, interestingly enough, France, tax options as capital gains when they’re cashed in."

Ok, great. Is this why the hubs of tech startup activity are in Lisbon and Rome? They interviewed a German guy because there actually are tech startups in Berlin. If this theory is correct then there should be some kind of link apparent between capital gains tax policy and startup activity.
I really really like the first sentence

> RISC-V ("risk five") and the Rust programming language both start with an R, so naturally they fit together
People still farm this way. Carrying an extra pound absolutely makes a difference.

You can ask any athlete, or look up calorie expenditure charts for people carrying different weights if that more your thing.
To be fair, there are strict FAA rules that tons of people completely disregard. It seems like it'd be in the companies interest to do its best to ensure their market doesn't collapse due to further regulation.

Seems like it could be an attempt to understand and police some of that activity rather than "appalling snooping".
For some general Edification; here is Shashi Tharoor's longer speech "Looking back at the British Raj in India" -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB5ykS-_-CI
These figurines are found all over Europe and were made of a period of hundreds or thousands of years. It was a culture, I'll give the professor that much.
Resin 3D Printers You Can Buy
> google will now have the DNS data

It wont necessarily be Google... From what I understood from the article, if you're currently using OpenDNS, Cloudflare DNS, etc., after the change you'll still continue to use them, only the protocol used to access them will change...
Real Estate Transaction Management Software Makes the Difference
Yes, it's not something you typically think about when writing code even if you're security-conscious. IMO it's not good that the double-free bug has these consequences.
Count me in as a fan who's going to miss it. I use it extensively for a lot of things. I hope it makes a return some day.

It's a pity that it wasn't marketed/documented appropriately.
Can confirm, I'm Polish and it's the first time I've heard of this.
Sadly what you and me find painfully obvious is a mind-blowing revelation for many younger workers.

I wish there was a way to educate the young without greedy bosses taking 5 years of their total life expectancy by forcing them into all-nighters. :(
Curiosity strikes: I have to wonder how much these benchmarks would change on an actual Linux kernel? I don't know if the PostgreSQL team is necessarily tuning their project for macOS/Darwin. I'm sure Redis would still be faster (because memory vs disk), but I wonder by how much.
Its faster, but then, thats the point of it.

Its like saying that memcache is faster than postgres.

they do different things for different purposes.

I still wouldn't trust redis for anything other than ephemeral storage. Most of the use cases where we use redis assume that the data will at some point go away. The places where we use postgres assume that data is permanent.

Infact, we use both together, and it works really well, best of both worlds.
Yeah, there are a few games with a similar mechanic! Probably not the one you're thinking of, but there is: https://sourceforge.net/projects/slingshot-game/
It depends on your sources and whether you want to do real-time or not.
Writing Linux Kernel Modules in Safe Rust – Linux Security Summit 2019
Enhance your results with Brokermint real estate transaction management software. Make transaction management easier with this software.
Ncnn: A high-performance neural network inference framework optimized for mobile
Planet Nine may be a black hole the size of a baseball
Google Faces iPhone Privacy Lawsuit After Court Reinstates Case
Given the amount of time people on hn spend using their computers, it isnt that surprising. Most people probably spend much less time commuting, but that amount of money is considered reasonable for vehicle maintenence expenses that probably recur more often than people buy a new computer
Having had a chance to talk to the Libra Foundation folks (where development of the actual underlying technology is going on), they are themselves distancing their organization from Facebook in every way possible, and have been since the start.

To them, Libra is an open (to consortium membership) blockchain network, whereas the thing Facebook is bringing to it is just a wallet product (Calibra) for holding and transferring the Libra-native cryptocurrency. They speak of Calibra with not-just-a-little distaste, in the same sense that you might speak of a rich investor in your company that you never really wanted investing in you but were desperate. They don’t really offer any special support for, or primacy to, Calibra; to them, it’s an unseemly app by an unseemly company that’ll happen to boost usage of their network from “some unknown blockchain” to “a blockchain 80% of the world has access to through an app they already have on their phones” (so they can’t exactly just tell it to go fly a kite.)

It’s interesting that, from the perspective of other companies in this consortium (or perhaps just the news media’s interpretation of it), the Libra Foundation “is” Facebook. It’s no more Facebook than, say, WebKit.org “is” Apple, or any ASF Committee “is” one of its sponsoring partners.

In all of those cases, there are employees of the sponsoring company steering the project, sure, but not in their capacity as employees; rather, it’s something they’re doing for the Foundation, not even billed to their employer. (How do features get developed? The employees, as the employer, using billable hours, create and submit PRs “upstream” to the Foundation. Then, the employees, as members of the Foundation, along with other Foundation members, vote on the PRs.)

Importantly, if the sponsoring company decided to withdraw its support from any of the relevant projects, the Foundation would still exist, and those people who are employees and also members of the Foundation would still be members of the Foundation—because they are personally, themselves members, not members as delegates of the sponsoring company.

Importantly as well, the employees who happen to also be members of the Foundation almost always have an understanding with their employer that—because they would be kicked out of the Foundation’s steering committee if they showed any favouritism toward PRs made by their employer—they have to treat their employer’s suggestions just like anyone else’s. With most such projects, if you subscribe to the mailing lists, you wouldn’t be able to tell they had any sponsoring partners at all!

I just want to highlight this, because it seems like nobody really understands this until they work on at least one project run this way. (My own experience is with Apache CouchDB, whose main contributor is IBM Cloudant.)
Many business owners and middle managers are really good at manipulation. I observed it happening in front of me, many times. And many people respond as they are expected by the higher-ups, especially when guilt-tripping is involved (which is very often).

Sad but true.
I don't usually install apps (especially games) with in app purchases. The only time I sometimes do is when I know what they are up front. Can you explain what the in app purchases are in the description?
The nasty dilemma that capitalism poses is that of "take the moral high ground" vs "know whether I'll afford rent next month". It's not your moral compass that determines your worth to society, it's how much people are willing to pay you for your work. If they aren't, you are worth so little to society that you may be out of a home.

Developers may be in a pretty sweet situation, generally, but if you don't have money saved or another job lined up you don't have much choice.

I also think that people are great at finding excuses for what we're doing. I've read somewhere about a hypothesis that conscious thought is mostly just intellectual justification for subconscious urges.
It was panic. They guaranteed it, probably with a lot of pressure from other EU nations to stop a run on other weaker banking systems around the EU. Haggling with investors to only return some of the money would've ended up in court and would've taken forever, they couldn't afford the time.
“Memory is faster than disk, more at 11”
The minimum salary is about 280eu, how do you pay for 75eu?
Since there are missing parts: Do you have a sheduling plan for the remaining posts?
Yes it in the midst of all the complexities of the various monopolies, oligopolies and inefficiencies in the modern marketplace, its refreshing to see the system work as promised.
Just like in the Athlon days, even people who would never in a million years use AMD's product, or even know of its existence benefit from its products.
If you run your own DNS server at your local machine, you'll be exposing all your queries to your ISP, which will log and monetize them. You'll gain support for a DNSSEC protocol that virtually nobody on the Internet uses --- DNSSEC only functions on signed zones, and in 25 years almost nobody has signed a zone --- and so your ISP will almost always be able to manipulate your queries anyways.
I know Gitlab, Zapier are remote could you please disclose what are the other two?
Plus I have a safety deposit box at my bank for important documents.

Did you see this article and discussion about safe deposit boxes? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20545276
Look AND taste. They are starch-based, biodegradable and nontoxic. Not very tasty but I've tried one!
to quote Bill Hicks

>The world is like a ride in an amusement park

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/494647-the-world-is-like-a-...
As the article states, our finance minister should have been more selective in terms of the banks it decided to guarantee. However this is perhaps easier to say in retrospect. At the time it might not have been clear exactly which banks were irredeemable.
Lots of very cool photos :)

Have you thought of also doing video with it, via stop frame animation, although that could be very time consuming!
Both. They're made of corn starch, which is what puffy Cheetos are made of, and manufactured literally the same way, except without the cheese flavor powder mixed in. They taste like "nothing" (well, they probably taste like pure corn starch but I've never eaten that so I don't have a reference.)

Source: a member of my immediate family worked at a company that manufactured them and brought home many samples. We'd freak people out by eating them. The joke was always "What do you pack packing material in for shipping?"
Moved from Vancouver, Canada to Bulgaria 6 years ago. Best decision I've ever made. Sooooo much fun here and living in a free country is really relaxing.
Is Brex some kind of tongue-in-cheek reference to Brexit?
Exactly correct but is happening all the time nevertheless.
This is really cool! I built something almost exactly like this, though we used the ESP32 instead. [1]

What I find interesting is that I never had an issue with dropped columns over network using the ESP32 as an AP. Did you connect the ESP8266 up to an existing network?

I didn't see a mention of how you designed the brushes in this write up, were they all just images on an SD? I experimented with a palette app to design the brushes (solids, gradients, images, manual) and to send the frames to the brush. Curious what your solution was!

This year I am adding a gyroscope to the device to experiment with 3D space and holographic content. Also trying different LED attachments (like a circular or matrix display) for different effects. There's a lot more to explore!

I'm happy to see this today, the denser version looks very nice!

[1] https://twitter.com/JeffScript/status/1178446997507977216?s=...
On the other hand all the straws have to go somewhere. If you're picking up one straw a day from your garden, you'd expect each household in the city to generate at least one improperly disposed of straw per day.

How do you think they generate statistics for this kind of thing? They don't count everything, they take samples and infer from that.
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Alibaba Open-Sources ML Inference Engine, Mobile Neural Network (MNN)
Is it suggesting that the current itself breaks down the amyloid plaque? Does this destroy prions?
It's not about if areas X, Y or Z are hard -- it's about how much time it takes to do something productive.
very few really need more then 1 core...
I owe a great deal to National Semiconductor and their application notes. Prior to college I tought myself a lot of what I know about analog design from this handbook [0]. I remember in middle school calling up the support line and having an extremely patient applications engineer walk me through my design and point me at resources to learn. He always answered my emails, even though I'm sure he had more important questions to answer. I tried several years ago to track down the emails to contact him again and thank him, but those emails seem long gone.

http://mirror.thelifeofkenneth.com/lib/electronics_archive/N...
And firefighters definitely used helmets in 19th century
Perhaps this is why: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/02/zenefits-fires-nearl...
Also when developing on Linux I had more luck getting Godot to function than Unity. Had quite a bit of fun making a sidescrolling game in Godot :)
What proportion of the GDP before 1990 was from power production then? Your argument is anecdotal. Those reactors were vanity projects, not big contributors to economy.
It's definitely not free software as we know it. I'm curious what you mean by unenforcable? I checked out the Chef announcement (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21049822 right?) and I don't really see where there's a relevant discussion about enforcabillity?
you mean vimR?
You do not have to pay the salary, just the social insurance.
One navigation paradigm I miss on iOS that is very consistent on Android (and all desktop browsers including some desktop apps like Spotify) is the back button. The strong touch - a completely new and unoccupied mode of interaction could have been consistently used to "go back", regardless of context.
> There's a trend of economic equalization which starts after a country joins the EU, ...

This is true for both sides. As a resident of a wealth EU country working conditions have become so dire with the constant flow of workforce from countries like Bulgaria, Montenegro, Macedonia and others.

Good for the employer who benefits from reduced employee power, bad for those who have ever been there.
Yep, consumers win. In fact, Charles Schwab just dropped there trading fees yesterday and equity trading stocks completely tanked. Shares of Schwab fell 9.7%, TD Ameritrade plummeted 25.8%, and E-Trade shares cratered 16.4% due to it [0].

[0]: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/01/charles-schwab-is-eliminatin...
The $5k range is not uncommon in Poland for senior people. You can even see this much in stack overflow ads.
Increasing taxes on the very wealthy would make the problem worse, by making people a lot less willing to invest for long-term projects of all sorts. "The very wealthy" are doing that pretty much by definition - "wealth" is just money that's being kept around as an asset and invested for a return, instead of being spent for final consumption.
Except it is much more intuitive. A repeater- like construct (a foreach) just works. Collections just work. No thinking about data binding at the correct time in the life cycle of the page. You can even call front-end javascript in a sync-like (using async) matter. You can just call a javascript confirm if you like. It is awesome.
Twitter and Tweetdeck Outage
If the goal is to live well, that has nothing to do with doing jobs that a machine can do. Automation is not in conflict with the goal of people living well. If anything, it's the best tool we have to achieve the goal.

The conflict with the goal of people living well is that we don't want to take wealth from those that have it and give it to those that don't, without making the ones that don't have wealth "earn it".

Otherwise, there is nothing stopping societies from gathering up all the extra profits from automation, and using it to invest in education, healthcare, reducing number of work hours, increasing vacation time, i.e. living well. But we would rather not have that.
SpaceX also 3D prints the SuperDracos [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperDraco#Manufacturing
We know what Alzheimer will do to a person. Don't we have enough data to determine if a new treatment works. I lasted 10 months in clinical trials, and still think it is unethical in the extreme to put in control groups for things we know will kill you. Having watched a control group lose 70% of the people while the people getting the real drug survived is just inhuman.
A bit of both
just look for "remote" on the page. the location for each company is in the last column.
> What were the problems the 2nd Amendment was written to solve, and what happened to them?

Google this. Get a factual basis under your feet and our conversation can continue. Figure out what Britain was trying to do at the time to the then-colonies, what laws it was passing. Go read federalist paper #46, understand Madison's contemporary writings of the time to get a better view of the mindset of the author of the Second Amendment. Read other contemporary writings, read opinions on the various Supreme Court decisions.

Do some homework, then ask the question again because while I could give you this lesson with my viewpoint already embedded, you need to arrive there on your own if your mind is actually going to be changed.
Sure thing - that's a good point. I will add something to the store descriptions.

The first 10 levels are free (and you can replay them endlessly). To unlock infinite levels, there is an IAP for ~1.99 USD.
Why can't Postgres implement a transparent caching layer similar to Redis?
Stop raising awareness and start triaging. At a certain point, everyone is aware of the top line issues and you just need to prioritize public attention.

You (obviously) can't do this on your own and, at a certain level, the environmental movement's focus on bogus, small-time, feel-good issues reveals its cynicism. BUT PLEASE, stop defending it. You're just empowering those looking for a reason to resent the movement.
It is definitely needed and ethical. Consider that most there are many many people in the world that don't get to participate in this experiment at all, neither as active nor as control.

Being control just means you are still part of that status quo.

If we had like 99.9% confidence that the procedure would work, sure roll it out to everyone ASAP, but I don't think we are there yet.
What if a filesystem error forces /var (or whichever mount point hosts the entropy seed) to remain read-only and seed is never replaced? Seems like unlike systemd the BSDs are fine with crediting entropy even if it has been used already in a previous boot. That's wrong though.
> Blazor code executing on the server has the flexibility to do anything you would normally do on the server, such as connecting directly to a database.

Frustrating to see even the splash page off in lalala land.

Write once, deploy no where because surprise, the 3rd party package you were using requires a database connection, or some other server side feature.

This kind of messaging is why Blazor code is a mess; its not a seamless change to run on WASM when its ready, its server side lock-in, making db calls from your code behind file.

..and for anyone who thinks this isn’t webforms back from the dead:

> If you are a Web Forms developer and want to build a new application on .NET Core, we would recommend Blazor which provides the closest programming model. [1]

The sad thing is, the WASM c# end-to-end, using real full dlls in the browser is actually really cool.

...but somehow that got lost along the way.

[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/net-core-is-the-future...
Oh, we do. We are generally pretty great at filling in good details in the body. I didn't mention that originally because I didn't think it was noteworthy.

The main problem is very commit titles that end up looking like:

feat(SomeScope.OtherScope.Class): add support for abc and xyz option
Christ, if all I'd needed was to know more about the thesis topic than my advisor, I'd have been done on day two.
My team built a heavy duty load testing simulator in preparation for a upcoming launch. We kept dialing the simulated clients up until we finally saw timeouts talking to Redis (we used RedisLabs). The cause? We had saturated the 1 gig Ethernet link our AWS C4 instances had. Upgrading to the next tier of NICs solved the problem and Redis kept up the pace.

That said, Redis is hugely expensive for any meaningfully sized data set. Thankfully our use case allowed us to keep our data size bounded over time, or else I would’ve traded latency for drastically reduced cost (eg use Postgres).