skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't accurate as far as I know. IR35 was introduced by the Labour government specifically targeting PSCs, many of which include IT contractors, who Labour claimed were avoiding taxes.

While there is a lot of accuracy to this (disguised employment via a limited company has been a rampant problem in the IT industry), the fact is it is targeting specifically one of the few ways for a middle class person to escape the income tax trap.

There is a lot of systematic tax avoidance in the UK that is entirely ignored by the government. Much of London's service economy is driven by such wealth management schemes. Consider for example the network of crown territories which the wealthy use to avoid paying taxes (as, e.g. the Panama papers showed even David Cameron benefiting from this). Why doesn't the UK crack down on these mass tax avoidance loopholes used by the wealthiest? What about the policies propping up a property market that is impossible to get into for my generation, and supports the wealthiest in the country (including most of the Royal family). Why do leaseholds exist?

It feels like the middle class are truly hated upon in the UK. Labour thinks anyone who makes over 60k is "super wealthy" and should be heavily taxed. Tories on the flip side focus their support on the wealthiest and increase taxes specifically for the middle class only.
This is what's referred to in some circles as a "suicide burn"; in that you wait until the absolute last second, then ignite the engines at full throttle to zero out velocity. Assuming the engines work, it's very efficent as you're not accruing what's called "gravity drag" as the velocity goes to zero very rapidly and you're not fighting 9.8m/s acceleration.

If the engines don't start, or you don't get the predicted thrust out of them, well, that's why it's called a suicide burn.
> Then you'd have to redefine what a berry is.

Why? I don't see pressing need for a waterproof definition. I'd think for general use "I know it when I see it" definition suffices, and for where exactitude matters having explicit list is better anyways
Thanks for expanding :)

The badass part is interesting. Knowing that someone who knows more BJJ than you will beat you, regardless of size and strength I think balances people out. Also, aggressive jerks either self select out or get the aggressive jerk beat out of them while learning. I haven't met an aggressive jerk yet whose ego survives getting choked out by a 120# woman.
Deciding that you don't intend to maintain a project is labor. This sort of decision is hard to make and extremely hard to undo. Much easier to keep thinking, "I'll get to it next month."
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I know. And my point was, that you can take the statistic too far, especially when dealing with humans. And this is happening in my opinion since a while. Even Stalin said: "the death of one man is a tragedy, but the death of millions just statistic." And by his actions, they were just statistic to him.

Humans are more than a number ... but when you are at a desk remote and only have numbers, than you are disconnected and it is much easier to make inhuman decisions as you are dealing with numbers and not humans anymore.

So that being said, yes, having the numbers additional that signal a decline in morale for example, is probably not a bad thing to have. If this does not replace actual human contact, because human moral also drops, when they not feel treated as humans anymore and just as numbers.
Last year I went to a talk by John Papa where he mentioned that a lot of people seem to think that it's inappropriate to approach speakers to have a chat or tell them that you enjoyed their talk; while in reality, most of them would welcome it. That's why the first thing I ended up doing right after the talk was to thank John Papa for the positive influence he's had on my development as a software engineer. Nowadays, I try to continue my effort to thank people that have a positive impact on me, however small.
Bryon Cook, a principal scientist at Automated Reasoning Group gives an overview of various solvers in-use today at AWS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKqVY0SSbus

Here's a presentation by Eric, a distinguished engineer, and Neha, a principal engineer, on analysing IAM policies (Zelkova?) and Network reachability (Tiros?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6wsTFnU3eY

This webpage has many more links to blog articles on the topic: https://aws.amazon.com/security/provable-security/
Thank you for explaining the scene to me. After all, I've only been involved with it since the 1990s.

I can assure you that many of us dreamt of working with computers in some way and the fact is that many of us do, today - including a lot of those who were previously involved in illicit activites.

That doesn't mean it was a driving force behind the scene, but of course people had a yearning to employ their skills by working with something they percieved as fun and exciting.

(edit: spelling)
I never understood this argument. Don't retire if you like your job. It's that simple. The reality is most jobs that pay well are mentally exhausting/stressful so the type of person that wants to retire early isn't the type of person that likes their job.
I did read the article but know nothing about Angola.

My take was that she seems to have a similar background to a typical Russian oligarch. Being smart enough to take advantage of a particular situation doesn't mean that you should do that.
> that weighs as much as a bullet

No clue how heavy that is. And don't bullets come in a range of sizes?
Hahaha! The horror!
Ah. I see the disconnect. You managed to misinterpret both the point of this conversation and my specific claim.

The original poster I replied to suggested that if men pulled their weight in relationships wrt household tasks and childcare more often, women might have more time to devote to work.

You have decided to argue that women of course should spend more time in those areas, because they don’t spend as much time at work.

My claim was merely that women are in fact “responsible for disproportionate share of household and childcare related tasks” which is fully supported by all the data cited in this conversation.

You seem to be arguing that this is a perfectly fine thing. This completely ignores the possibility and frankly likely conclusion that the expectation that women do more of these tasks might have something to do with the fact that so many women aren’t in fact able to spend as much time focusing on their careers as they might otherwise.

To chose a concrete reason from too many relationships for too many women, if they don’t pick up the kid, then no one bloody will. So they don’t get to spend time to focus on work at the end of the day because they suddenly have to leave the workplace at a fixed time no matter what is happening or what thing they might want to spend a bit more time to nail down, because they are responsible for a disproportionate amount of childcare. Which then results in them being less able to be engaged and succeed in their careers, which can result in them opting for more flexible or reduced schedules, which then results in less take home pay, which then results in dudes on the Internet arguing that this is fully fair and there’s no mismatch whatsoever in response to a comment that merely points out that women perform a higher share of household and childcare tasks in an average relationship with a man.

What a mess.
It doesn't but this discussion is about an event in the United States, so an unqualified statement about what is a crime will be interpreted that way.
Interesting to read this to see the Netflix perspective. My intro to colour management came from digital photography approx ten years ago, where the goal was 'ensure that colours in printed pictures look the same when printed as they do on the screen'.

Printing introduces an additional complexity to the already complex situation described in the OP. Specifically printers have different primary colours (cyan, magenta and yellow) to screens (red, green and blue) and colour is subtractive, so that adding all the colours makes darker results, unlike screens, where increasing the red, green and blue ultimately makes white (actually printers have to add black - the 'Key' in CMYK - to get true black). The colour management and calibration issues are conceptually similar, though.
> Perhaps you are getting your views exclusively from German newspapers?

yes it must be all those German newspapers I read while I was living in the UK. /s

I don't make armchair philosophy statements! my experience comes from living abroad since the age of 16 and never having stopped (e.g. never live in the same place for more than 5 years). So you can insinuate whatever, I _know_ what I experienced.

Seriously the number of times British expats in Germany asked me "how I feel about the war", one guy even said once "aren't you ashamed of your grandfathers sins". He assumed I was German which isn't the case. This was the kind of Brits who have an open worldview. The type that actually leaves the UK to work abroad ... None of them bothered to learn the lingo and preferred to hang out with other English speakers rather than mix with locals. Not to mention the number of times they thought I was British and thought it was OK to make degrading jokes about foreigners.

My mother lives in Spain. And I used to live in the South of France. Both places have a large British expat community. Not once have I seen the Brits integrating into the local culture. Instead they mix exclusively among themselves like some Raj ruling class. Rarely ever hanging out with the locals, despite themselves getting invited by locals, ... or while other foreigners would try to mingle with everyone else, Brits rather stay among themselves. They can't be arsed to learn another language either.

I may sound like I hate Brits. Actually it is the most fascinating and funny people I know. But oh my god - it is an awful lot of work to make friends with them if you aren't native English speaker yourself.

The only other people I know who keep treating you like an outsider even if you've been among their midst for years are the Japanese. I know not because "armchair philosophy" but because I'm married to one since >20 years! AMA
Oxfam publishes essentially the same report every year. And it is wrong ever year. Don't listen to them.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-24/oxfam-...
I read up on these things some time ago, and what amused me the most is that while almost every vegetable is a fruit, the Juniper berry is, in fact, a cone.
> The fee is refunded if the issue is on Facebook's fault.

Does this model actually work? I'm sure there are some reputable companies that could make it work, but I'm not sure I know anyone who would trust Facebook to get this right.
Right, the main question is can one murderer murder lots of people at once with new technology. Can they buy a machine gun, or reprogram every car to crash, or lobby the government to force doctors to prescribe the opiates they sell.
Should police only protect public property?
the standard response to every unhelpful communication to a FOSS project should be either silence or a "Fk Off".
Did you have any specific examples of Red for non-web CRUD interfaces?
> almost every vegetable is a fruit.

I think you'll need to clarify that a bit - most vegetables are roots, leaves, flowers or stalks.
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Oh my. Comparison sorts are still slower than counting sorts on typical architectures, esp. radix sort. (Coupled with insertion sort of small sizes.)

Or burstsort if the data size is truly huge.

As usual, StackOverflow is missing the forest for the trees.
Also, coffee beans are not beans, but the pit (that usually comes in two parts) of the coffee fruit. It's the same with cocoa beans, but with 30-50 seeds per fruit.
Burntsushi, as part of the mostly silent crowd I also want to share, for once, how much I learned from reading some of your code, mostly in the rust regex crate. Amazing work, truly inspiring.
The distinction between different domain terminologies is prescient for software development.

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/359604

Especially when there is conflict between domain terminology and coding concepts.

For example my company at large refers to Booleans (meaning search expressions that are vaguely Boolean in nature in our sense, that job boards enable for CV searching).

Ultimately mutual understanding trumps being correct in my view.

That said, when I have to weigh vegetables in supermarket I still pause before selecting the vegetable category to weigh tomatoes.
A typical bullet weighs about 8 grams. And usually range from about 4-16 grams.
> Inmates do not have first amendment rights.

Which part of the first amendment states that?

(OK, it doesn't - the first amendment, and indeed the constitution, limits what government can do, not what people can do)
Series 21 episode 5 David Mitchell's rant is splendid.
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> Is it possible on one of the other hosting services, like Gitlab?

Looks like you can on GitLab under "Settings" > "General" > "Visibility, project features, permissions".
In what real-world situation could you be convinced that supposedly-two provers really actually can't communicate?
We publish several installable products. I've been looking for a way to track all mentions for all product names. It's not critical, but it is definitely something that we can use.

But I am not sure if we are going to get something relevant or just some random flotsam from SEO spamfarms and such. That is, you made something that may potentially have a value for us IF we can gauge the quality of the results for our products. No way in hell I'm going to pull out a wallet and subscribe just to valid if your service is any good.

Basically, you have no reputation and you expect us to pay you to check if you are any good. That's a firm No. In fact, it's not a matter of money, it's a matter of your general attitude towards establishing a working relationship being wrong. You are throwing the baby with the bathwater.
Ticket quotas are explicitly illegal in some states[0]. I would imagine arrest quotas would be legally similar.

[0]:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticket_quota
Indeed, if you read the employee reviews on Kununu of MB's hip internal Berlin startup you'll find the same toxic culture has been carried over from the Mothership. The problem is German bigcorps don't know how to do culture in modern software. They want to carry the same level of strict manager focused micromanagement from the factory production lines to the software developers.
+1 for a MIDI export button.
Nice thing to do. Thanks for the idea, i will do it
Any idea what the copyright situation is on these downloads?

The page for Windows XP (Whistler) shows this message:

> Microsoft has asserted their copyright status regarding Windows XP. WinWorld respects this and therefore will not host Windows XP.

> Microsoft still supports various incarnations of this software, and its availability competes with newer Windows product sales. Windows XP is not rare or in danger of disappearing, and therefore has no real place on WinWorld anyway.

However, the pre-release versions are available for download?!
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This explains why Quora is such trash. Curious as to why they don't crack down on this form of spam though.
There are too many different tradeoffs and dimensions to the problem to say that one sorting algorithm is the "best". E.g. quicksort without fallback has a denial of service attack against it.
You might want to read this small section on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato#Fruit_versus_vegetable
In some sense all white collar jobs are sitting at a keyboard typing, but I think we can usefully go a bit beyond that and look at the interiority of the people performing the labour - and also the management and economic structures surrounding it.

Programming is really unusual in that it doesn't have the "profession" structure of doctors, lawyers etc - nor does it have the classic Taylorist assembly line. What does characterise it is traditional companies trying to structure it that way and being absolutely obliterated in the market by "outsider" companies doing things with smaller, less hierarchical teams.

At one edge it resembles (and competes for hiring with) the "quant" side of financial trading. Also a focus-heavy industry.
I enjoyed Alexandrescu’s CppCon 2019 talk “Speed Is Found In The Minds of People”

About optimizing generic sorting routines for modern hardware.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJJTYQYB1JQ
Fair point - almost every vegetable plant has a fruit, but not every vegetable is.
Mirror: https://archive.li/xVdFy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21927963
> The idea of quitting because I earn significantly less

> than other people with the same years of experience (or

> less) is insane. I can admit that they're better engineers

> than me. That's why they get the big bucks.

Sure, and that’s just fine and sensible. But you might feel differently if they were in fact worse engineers than you. Which is the position that women are in, unless you think that sexism and gender bias doesn’t exist.

In a sexist and gender biased system, the pay gap is not “someone is making more who is better than I am” it is “I am making less than everyone else outside my gender group whose experience / talent matches mine and some who aren’t even as good as I am.”

Can you see why that might be a little less fun and why you might feel frustration towards a field structured that way?
Makes sense. I understand now. Thanks a lot!

I guess the aspect of variability of speed of light with respect to the observer (as opposed to the source) may still remain. In other words, if we were to talk about impact of the revolution of the earth instead of the the star, the difference between the two may not be large enough anymore.
What he describes is basically how things work in big corporations in IT, sans gender talk. You don't progress fast, but build momentum relatively slowly, this gets recognized and as you build your capital you ask for raises and promotions. Or raises are decided completely independently on a whim of manager high enough, like in my place. Not ideal, but big corporations are anything but ideal in many aspects.
I found it really uplifting to read so many people do it. Echo the sentiment of feeling like a weirdo when I do it. All the same, I try to keep at it, because I think nothing feels better than knowing you've made a positive difference. On the few occasions I was on the receiving end, it made me feel more elated than what any other compliment could do.
I have not seen this at all, thank you for sharing!
Hmmm. At a glance I can’t figure out how Bernoulli’s law applies. The blender trick looks very similar to the original article to me.

Could anybody explain in more detail?
There's a fairly large "bubble" of coders aged 45-55, who grew up with home computers (Amiga, BBC micro in the UK, Commodore 64, etc) before the internet, and went into development after that. I'm one of them. Spent my 20's and 30's building desktop apps, and only moved into web development in the late 00's.

My CV looks like a complete mess from an HR perspective. It's not the clean, clear, story of school -> CS degree -> internet company -> promotion ladder. I can understand how it's hard for a large company to grok my experience and where I'd fit in with a modern web dev team. I'm usually older and more experienced than the development manager in modern web dev teams, and that doesn't sit well with some managers (especially as I have an MBA, so I'm usually also more qualified to be a manager than they are).

Also, I can't stand (and I'm no good at) big-company politics. So I almost never apply for these kinds of positions, and stick to smaller companies and startups where my breadth of experience counts for more and I have more control over the tech environment. But smaller companies don't pay as much.

I'm clearly not represented in this survey, and I wouldn't be surprised if there's an under-representation of my cohort in this survey. I meet a fair few people like me at tech meetups, we're definitely a cohort. But then , I also don't live in California or Washington, where this survey focuses. We may not be a sizable minority in those places.
Not strictly related to SoftICE but those days make me reminisce about another useful tool, “Sourcer” from V Communications, anyone remember that?
Dang, there is something odd with the (unusual high) number of newly registrated comments on this post. Good comments, but could all be from the same person?

From zwb’s bio: “(..) Hacker News is an online game you can play where your score is up in the top right corner and there's a leaderboard, and you get points by posting stuff and making comments people like. (..)”
All through primary school I had one teacher who actually have a fuck about me. About 10 years after high school I tried to get in touch with him to let him know that he mattered, but he had died.
That isn't what disclosing these sort of vulnerabilities is about. The core reason for just going full disclosure is that the vendor has absolutely not incentive to fix any sort of bug that is kept private. The customer is impacted, never the vendor.
I still remember those times when I forgot to switch SoftICE off and whenever Windows fucked up I ended up in SoftICE's debugger.
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Maybe it is because the company Securus already has a monopoly on inmate communication and they don’t want Facebook to take from their pie, be it via fees or personal data: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180511/09405239819/priso...
Amazing article, I like to understand the why behind things like that. Kudos to you.
The plea bargain system in the US pretty much guarantees a fair amount of convicted people aren't guilty of anything other than making a very tough risk management decision.
They'd be the one investigating a high profile case if anything went wrong, paying huge overtime and having everyone breathing down their necks... why wouldn't you want them to work on a preventative / preactive approach to security at given those stakes? It could have saved the tax payer millions.
*for scar execution.

SIMD and GPGPU record-breaking parallel implementations use radix, bitonic, etc.
Another +1 on this. This seriously fixes a lot, not everything, but a lot. Been doing it for almost 10 years now, and when you fall off track or get in future ruts. It's such a great tool to get back on track. Getting a great workout in always seems to right the ship and set you up for course corrections. Oh also give Brazilian jiu jitsu a try.
The app is on F-droid as well, but the audience there is much smaller. Also, F-droid apps can't use push notifications from Google,and it severely limits their capabilities.
What's the longest distance that can be traveled by using free transportation?
As a former owner of that model of device, whose phone bricked itself irreparably after updating to Oreo, I'm surprised it hasn't been destroyed by the bootloop of death. I'll never buy a Google hardware product again after the runaround they gave me.
> I'd have a lab and employ engineers and workers to create all the crazy stuff I always dreamt of.

That's exactly what they are doing with their businesses. Isabel dos Santo has worked hard to get where she is. She doesn't have the time to run a lab she's creating all the crazy stuff she dreams of.

Unless you are talking about the kids who are not working in the business, which is why they are not working, to not work.
Have you looked at the original? Luhmann Original Zettelkasten was scannend and is online available. Though, it's all german.

Tutorial: https://niklas-luhmann-archiv.de/bestand/zettelkasten/inhalt...
Zettel 1: https://niklas-luhmann-archiv.de/bestand/zettelkasten/zettel...
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