skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I pay by card in a restaurant in Germany I always leave one or two Euros in coins on the table. You can also ask your server to include it in the bill and put it on the card. It would seem quite rude to me not to leave an tip at all.
> it's the solar falling faster than gas can switch on

Is "switch on" really the problem? As Germany showed during the solar eclipse (https://www.dw.com/en/german-power-net-survives-solar-eclips...), as long as it's a predictable event, you can have the necessary generation already "switched on" and running at a low power, and the limit becomes only how fast you can ramp up their power. Which is still an issue, but not as much as it would be if they had to turn on all the gas generators with zero notice.
>In the US, you pay for your meal + tax + 15% tip and call it a day.

Yeah, I think this is what Europeans have such a hard time with - why should you pay more than what the sticker says.

In US we accept that more readily, because the combined price: sticker + tax + tip is still smaller than what an official sticker price would be in say Europe, and you get more for the same price, you get the chance to reward someone.
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I'd call it massively offtopic political flamebait, even if it might have a kernel of truth.
Typically when you file anything that is going to trigger a new set of due dates for you based on the date of filing, so it is standard practice to file everything the day it is due, or perhaps the day before at most. That being said it is also standard practice to use docketing software to handle calculating due dates, it isn’t the sort of thing you would ever want to handle manually so I wonder how the screw up occurred.
You wouldn't do charity, or anything for that matter, if it truly did not benefit you in any way.
I have to be honest, I struggled a lot with the title here.

But basically, it's why you should be wary of any 'services' that promise to make your life easily by giving you monthly access to media or everyday things, and why you should buy things outright as much as possible.
The employee of a bank that approves your loan is not your customer, you are his/hers. Go get a credit card or a loan and try tipping the bank's employee. That's a certain way to get them fired.
This ^ ^
It's important to understand that yes, legal pedants are correct in "theft is theft", except that the police asymmetrically enforce it against the poor, no matter which side of the theft the poor is on.
I'm currently serving some of my "internal" services (a wiki, a coffee tracker; things like that - nothing fancy) only from a zerotier network my devices can connect to.

Thanks to letsencrypt "now" (for some time, I know.. but I wanted to do this way before they allowed one to) allowing wildcard TLS certs, I host the above on a domain which doesn't have a single public IP DNS entry, yet has full proper "validated, browser approved" TLS cert.

IOW, I fire up my zerotier client on my phone, open brave, put the URL in, and off I go. https, and for my eyes only.

It's great!
I thought the entire idea of the Internet was “disintermediation” where you could go directly to the consumer? Now we want to force middlemen into the equation? Would you also be okay of indie artists couldn’t exclusively sell their own content on their own website? Should Netflix also not be allowed to have Netflix exclusives? Let’s take it one step further, should Apple not be allowed to sell their OS only with their own hardware? What about the consoles?

Do you really want the government to get involved in all of those situations?
I asked this on stackoverflow: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/62190/mathematical-...
Money is the only thing behind the media's coverage? I think that's a touch naive.
>It's like a tax collected from black, ugly, or fat girls and given to 20 something females with nice boobs.

Also from the back-of-house staff, who are rarely tipped fairly and often not at all, despite arguably having an equal or greater role in providing a good experience at a restaurant.
they forgot the best tip nowadays which is:

* declare you are from EU even if you are not

then any provider is damned scared of messing with your privacy
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In Vim

CTRL + [

is the same as pressing the escape key, it took me a couple days, but now it doesn’t bother me in the slightest.

I’ve been using a combination of (Python shell & IDE), Working Copy (Git, can monitor and commit changes a folder in your iCloud Drive which Pythonista can also access), and Termius for ssh.

I’ve been trying to figure out how to fit Buffer (editing files on remote server via ssh) into my workflow but haven’t yet.

It’s not perfect, but I like traveling with my iPad more than my MacBook Pro because it’s smaller and as an added bonus I can also edit photos from my DSLR on it.
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So your 7-paragraph argument is to say, "The issue is not as black and white as purely color and is more nuanced depending on many other factors" ?

I mean, duh. The argument is that color is a large percentage of the end result, and that doesn't change just "because there are many other contributing factors you didn't mention".
Not sure what the other poster is using, but you could try https://add0n.com/useragent-switcher.html?version=0.3.2&type...

or https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/random_user_a...
Sometimes it is legal tactics... Some court cases are cheaper than the money you are earning before the result of the court case ends your business...
Not sure what the other poster is using, but you could try https://add0n.com/useragent-switcher.html?version=0.3.2&type....

or

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/random_user_a...
"Dude" tipping IS complicated. It is the industry treating unfairly its employees and then asks for you to cough up the extra £€¥$ so they save more on salaries, taxes, and pension contributions.

If you don't just dismiss all the comments and have think about it then yes it is a big deal.
Have you tried Monoid [0]?

[0]: https://larsenwork.com/monoid/
Here is why "too little spending" occurs: Smartphone Revolution. Here is why:

1) No more need to buy a dedicated device for photography and video recording

2) No more need to buy a Speech Recognition specialized software

3) No more need to buy a specialized remote control

4) No more need to buy a flashlight

5) No more need to buy a landline wired phone

6) No more need to buy a sound recorder

7) No more need to buy a physical storage (CD, DVD, etc)

8) No more need to buy a ... you can continue

All this affects a lot of companies. Just think how many of them will either run out of business or will stay in a niche consumer mode.

There are only two smartphone operating systems controlled by basically two companies.

There are only few hardware for smartphones companies, like silicon fabs, and several fabless design companies.

Anyway, most of the needs of a typical consumer are satisfied with only one device: The Smartphone
Not just debt holders. Deflation encourages people to hoard cash, so economic growth slows, wages stay stagnant, investment doesn't happen, and there's far less opportunity for social mobility.

Inflation reduces the value of money over time which encourages investment and economic growth. It also punishes those who hoard cash and rewards anyone who engages in economic activity like say, working or starting a business.

There's a reason that governments support inflationary policies.
>Not at all, and it was aimed at you.

>When you asked for support for the assertion, it was given, but you continued to disagree.

The "support" that the other poster submitted was: "Most people believe (at least as far as I know them) ..."

I don't suspect many folks would accept that as anything more than anecdotal.

>However, for people who prefer Google, using Google results is an advantage. You seem to be working under some stronger definition of advantage (for example: "an advantage is only an advantage of everyone agrees it is am advantage"), and such advantages are rare enough to be an unreasonable requirement.

Look, I get it, you like Google. You work for Google. That's all well and good. You're argument(s) toward me come off as a bit defensive, however. There was a baseless assertion given in response to someone asking for information and I called that into question.

My arguments here aren't for or against Google, but in support of substantive dissemination of information which the original comment I replied to was not.
disagree with some points here.

I watch many youtube channels with 100Ks of subscribers. Those creators are not out there spending resources getting an audience and those audiences are not coming from personal connections - the platforms are facilitating the connection.

Re : how "attempting to work in the art world" works : this is a very interesting subject/discussion - at what point is someone regularly publishing entertaining youtube videos about small engine repair "working in the art world"? When they get enough income to quit their day job or some lower bar - I dunno - both ? neither / never?

Re stardom: what you're saying is 1000 true fans != total number of fans/casual followers. Agreed.
I don't see that as a flaw of the ideology itself.

I have similar quibbles with other ideologies. Really, my strongest criticism is reserved for ideological purists who come in all shapes and sizes. To put it plainly, I believe all ideologies are reductive and lead to absurdities when broadly applied, particularly to other human beings.

Pragmatism is the approach I prefer. What separates it from an ideology is that it doesn't attempt to cram the world into a tiny box. It's a tool that would work even in an unreliable universe and it affords complex human beings the respect they deserve.
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Let me try to rephrase your point: A well-dressed black man will get less scrutiny than a poorly-dressed black man,

but you don't address at all that they're still both more scrutinized than their white counterparts?

What is your point?
Incorrect. It is not in all the ways that matter. Have you been to SV recently?
Absolutely second that. I never understand how people can concentrate with their headphones listening to music. For me it is only helpful for recreation.
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I see some companies doing this, especially if it's something with a trial. So I assume it works. But it seems like if you try too many times, you end up getting people who are not that interested, but have some free time, and aren't willing to pay much. Which is fine for larger companies who have to sell to late adopters.
> We just need to take away some of the street space that's been devoted for vehicles (which don't scale properly to a city of this density anyway

Don't get me wrong I prefer them to cars, but bikes and especially e- anything are vehicles too and are dangerous and annoying to the pedestrians who are far and away the most efficient users of space.
The path in the thumbnail really gives it away - /var/customers/webs/timvisee/saferequest
Ah who can forget Paul 'Genius Journalist' Carr that when the Snowden story was breaking was making fun of Ed and doing his best to downplay/bury the biggest story in years with an avalanche of bullshit. I also see that he wrote a book titled "Bringing nothing to the party: Confessions of a new media whore". That's one thing you got right, Paul.

Not surprising "pando" got sold to ad peddlers given the caliber of their editorial staff.
Uber in Europe does ask for s tip, buy also gives the option to leave none.
For me the main performance problem with Julia is how long compilation takes. Yes, using it only in conjunction with Jupyter Notebook avoids the issues for the most part, but writing large programs across multiple files that way is so cumbersome(if even possible) I won't even try.

A program that otherwise takes 4 seconds to compile and run takes 30 seconds when I also let it export a diagram, because each time I run "julia file.jl" it recompiles the plotting library.
If there is a way to have a Julia runtime in the background and letting it execute iterations of the program I haven't found it yet.
I would argue the real question is sustainability. The universe is finite.
I love these arguments.

"Abundance is the process through which more and more citizens gain unconditional access to the material resources for survival and participation in society. Abundance is not receiving an income high enough to afford all you need, because income is conditional upon labor, which retains scarcity, or the conditional access to resources, as the organizing and motivating principle of one’s time use.

Rather, abundance has more to do with wealth: unconditional access, or ownership, to all the material resources one requires."

In other words, with the current workforce, the GDP pie is real big. So we're going to take the pie, and cut it so that people have a high standard of living without having to work. The wonderful thing is that, like magic, the pie stays big! Even as the workforce plummets as people retire and young adults fail to enter the workforce.
I do this and I rarely have a stored procedure that's bigger than 25 LOC. Most are around ~5 LOC and look like this: https://gist.github.com/ericbets/a6a82041a9fd9181ee52ac0d346...
This has always struck me as odd, how can _any_ competent developer suck at SQL especially after spending maybe a week or two trying to write logic in it? As "languages" go it can't get any simpler, you're just directly forced to think about data in a model that's extremely close to the data itself. Seems to me that a dev that can't think well in SQL with minimal training is not a good dev at all, and this could actually be a nice filter.
You can see this in cryptocurrency. My hypothesis for a long time has been that the 2017 Bitcoin price blow off was actually a hyper-deflationary collapse. Before that peak Bitcoin was starting to see adoption. The peak and its aftermath coincided with the abandonment of Bitcoin by adopters like Coinbase and Steam. Now it's pretty much only for speculation.

As it got adoption its deflationary nature really took off, igniting a speculative bubble that made it useless for actual commerce.

Bitcoin is unbelievably deflationary, much more so than gold. You have a hard limit combined with breakage due to lost keys and hoarding which causes more deflation which causes more hoarding.
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So kinda like dynamic programming ? Recursion with maps or object stores to quickly recollect information already calculated.
So.. what you really mean is "totally irrelevant"? Ok.
Social media is not new.
Android is a bit of a siren... since there are many devices on current hardware working great, it looks like it should be possible to be the starting point for a lovely FOSS solution.

But it isn't, due to the Android approach of piling together unmaintainable vendor junk like gpu driver and sensors on old kernel that doesn't work with FOSS gpu apis, radioactive horror story wifi / bt stack using non-upstream apis. The different kernels as a whole are individual flies in amber that are impossible to keep working on newer upstream basis.

Therefore your 'secure FOSS phone' becomes the usual Android security apocalypse as soon as the vendor stops patching the security holes found monthly; that's if your vendor even bothered patching and updating those pieces quarterly or even once.

Purism got it right that there's no way to get the needed result - that it's like putting linux on your x86_64 laptop - out of Android / existing devices. The story seems to be about whether their laptop business and the kickstarter gave them enough runway and ability to pay suppliers up front for initial production.
Sometimes you need to break backwards compatibility to fix a security issue or implement a new, desired feature. Most often the breakage is small, but it's still nice to know as a library user when the build may break.

Yes, try to avoid breaking backwards compatibility, but have some mechanism to handle the rare case when you do need to break guarantees.

Most of the libraries I use that follow semver rarely break backwards compatibility, and it's still helpful to use semver to note bugfixes vs new features. New features can be a liability and introduce bugs, bugfixes are frequently quite safe, so it lets me know how much effort I should expect to spend testing when pulling in a new version. When I'm close to a release, I'll avoid new feature releases, but probably pull in bugfix releases.
Income tax (at some bracket) is a percent of income. What does it matter if it's "5k to cover taxes" lol, it's not like its a flat expense that 5k may or may not cover.

Even 3000€ or even 2500€ take home pay per month would let me live a very good life (for me) in a sunny, safe, beautiful place in Europe. All the while I'm working for a free software project, one which I'm a fan of (not working to make my boss rich, not inventing better ways to make people click on ads). What else could I possibly ask for.
> It’s a place where I’ve been sexually harassed more times than I can remember. It’s a place where I’ve been lied about, where VCs have arm-twisted editors to fire me, where billionaires have threatened those doing business with me to cut all ties. It’s a place where I’ve had people turn on me again and again and again simply for doing my job. It’s a place I’ve been betrayed by people I trusted. It’s a place where one-time friends threatened my children because I wrote about things they did.

Wow. I hope she writes a memoir of her time as a journalist. We need to hear what she has to say because this is a side that I have not yet experienced, and hopefully never will.
While I agree with the general premise that the police pay more attention to property crime affecting businesses rather than people, most people that own bikes don't 1) paint them in very identifiable colors, and 2) have GPS trackers built into them to aid recovery.

It's substantially easier for the police to find Facebook's bikes than a regular, unmarked bike; conversely, it's exceedingly difficult to recover a bike that has no tracking or special identifying features.
Every time we fail to keep companies accountable, we reinforce the belief/precedent that there is one law of the rich corporations, and another for everyone else.
This is going even beyond that: a company can repeatedly break the law and threaten the city.

Why should the common man respect the law when this keeps happening? Why should he not conclude "if I can steal and get away with it, it's just payback".
Do you think it's an acceptable excuse for a dev to say they don't know SQL?
Why do the ground crew in picture have hazmat suits?
That’s what the extern “C” does
It probably depends on knowing your chances for the appeal to stand. If you know the appeal is not going to stand and appeal simply to delay final judgement (penalties, basically), you are going to wait until the last moment.
This is an old pattern (like early 2000s MS SQL app development) and works wonderfully for the majority of applications.

It does become complex and awkward in two case, 1) variable option selection and 2) at a certain "scale" / quantity of inserts/deletes.

Variable option selection

Take for example a search interface of dependent items and item options, like cars. The query for car options for different car models generally returns a variable list of options. Further filtering results based on the variable list of options, when the list of options is all in one table, is most efficient with an "in clause". Trying to represent the "in clause" using functions/stored procedures is a little awkward as there is list construction and deconstruction involved, and sql is not great at list/string parsing.

Number of inserts/deletes

At some point, a successful app will reach a point where it's more efficient to batch insert & delete -- a couple hundred rows. This goes back again to using "in clauses' and the stored procedure approach makes things a bit awkward, as then the store procedure will need to argument parse and check.

Not saying what's done here is bad - it's actually really good for many, many reasons. I'd actually recommend the approach and avoid what I've described above unless it makes the desired functionality hard and complex.
Andromeda Strain?
SOAR platforms and how ML can help is a good topic for you. (Check out siemplify and demisto). No FOSS solutions to date for SOAR!

Cheap and good cross-platform endpoint security,reducing and simplifying the overhead of managing endpoint security is also another.

Email security is also big but not as popular of a topic (again,no cheap or foss solutions other than a DIY mess you hope management will accept).

I am personally interested and working around the area of methodical approaches to blue teaming. MITRE's ATT&CK techniques have laid some basic foundations. Different people or companies basically throw money on an expensive solution(s) and even more expensive staff and basically put forth a best effort use of tools and skills,which isn't bad but even with good threat modelling,attackers will still find a way and typically you just throw darts in the dark or use buest guess (or popular trends). Methodically defining attacker techniques against your specific environment,threat hunting based on attacker techniques,continually updating your tools+skills+processes will allow for measurable increase in maturity and actual ability to find and respond to attacks.

Like it or not,the biggest gaps in security are architectural,process and managerial in nature. But I hope the more technical ideas I mentioned helps, there are also other trendy things like "zero trust". As a dev and admin you should definetly look at SOAR and challenges around collecting and storing very high volume of logs efficiently and cheaply.
I've been in Tasmanian for 6 years now, without a doubt the best place I've lived in, of the handful of places I've lived in Australia.

Contact email in my profile.
I assume you’re joking.

In the sad case that you’re not, what:’s the difference between “infinite divisibility” of a bitcoin and, say (for the sake of argument) joint ownership (perhaps through shareholding of a firm with a single monetary asset) of a single dollar cent?
Edit: Fire is bad. That's all.
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Most likely they're working with very hazardous fuels and oxidisers like hydrazine[0].

Edit: it seems that the orbiter was upgraded to use hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide[1] from the somewhat less toxic hydrogen peroxide/JP-8 combination originally specced for its AR2-3 engine.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrazine

[1] https://www.airspacemag.com/space/spaceplane-x-37-180957777/
Umm... it shows no fires at all. (Edit: tried in both Chrome and Firefox.)

In fact the Kincade fire is actively burning and only a few percent contained while 180,000 residents of Sonoma County have been ordered to evacuate.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/10/26/kincade-fire-authorit...
Hydrazine is hella toxic
Maybe opportunity cost? Other deadlines looming closer? Giv8ng less time to the counterparty to counter-sue? Who knows?
Any US lawyers know whether the attempted-appellant has a cause of action against his lawyers for professional negligence here?
The Reaction Control System (RCS) [1] uses hypergolic fuels [2] which are highly toxic. Such fuels are desirable in this application because they combust whenever the fuel and oxidizer are brought in contact. There's no need to an ignition system, which reduces the chance for failure.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaction_control_system

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergolic_propellant
Hydrazine is one nasty substance and that's whats being used for maneuvering in orbit[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrazine#Occupational_hazards
A revolution in Chile sparked by U.S.-style economics
The nerve of some people!