skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if they will solve the mystery of how executives either didn't know, or didn't do anything about it, for so many years even as it was widely reported. It might have been more appropriate to use a federal investigative body and start with whatever misconduct, or deficit of attention, has been enabling the counterfeiters to thrive on Amazon for years.
I use Googles dns 8.8.8.8, so this must be something else.
Olympus to Exit Camera Business After 84 Years
> The difference I see is that a landlord’s kid has to do 100% of the job his parent did or risk losing his landlordship

Lots of people who own small numbers of properties just hire a broker/property management company to do all the work for them. Also, renting out even a single family home requires damn close to zero labor even without hiring out the work. I rent one out and spend approximately one day a year on managing the property. Property management is a job. Property ownership isn't. The former does not pay nearly as well as the latter, and for most property classes, the former mostly amounts to paying other people to do the actual work once every few years.

TBH I imagine that maintaining a copyright with significant associated royalties also requires as much or more work than managing a property. You'd probably just hire a law firm or publisher to do all the work for you. If you didn't then you'd have to be monitoring for abuse, handling lawsuits, collecting royalties on contracts with publishers/distributors, etc.

I think you probably over-estimate the labor involved in most property management, under-estimate the labor involved in IP management, and under-estimate how divorced management and ownership are in typical cases.
I'm guessing they can count the number of paying customers on one hand.
You're deliberately misrepresenting what's being said. We do understand the legal concept of an estate. But its validity is what's being discussed here.
Honestly the exemptions are the problem. People find ways to exploit them.

Inheritance and Estate taxes don't kick in until over 1 million dollars or more and impact less than 2% of the population.

If you're the 2% of the population this applies to, you're probably already doing estate planning and can plan for a portion of the inheritance you're passing on to be immediately liquidated to pay taxes.
I wonder what would happen with those luxury goods when the wealthy party dies and nobody else can afford the maintenance costs on these things.
On my 4-core i7 Macbook Pro:

time ./startup_time.pl 0.016s
time ./startup_time.py 0.295s

Parsing a 20Mb log file with a regex:

time ./parse_log.pl 0.683s
time ./parse_log.py 1.534s

For which metric are you claiming Perl is slower than Python?
https://flarerpg.org/
I do something like this. You can write HTML almost as simply as text if you ignore some current best-practice.
According to the Modern Perl author, Five things Perl (Still) Gets Right:

* Compatibility

* Quality

* Usability

* Scalability

* Availability

https://pragprog.com/titles/swperl/
No, because it started explaining why computers are good and I didn't need a recap.
its a hit more convoluted than that.

One example I have personal knowledge of... The foundation leases an office building owned by ABC, Inc. ABC is owned by child of foundations grantor. The lease payments are double the mortgage payments. Within a few years, the mortgage is paid off. ABC then sells the building and gets the money.
It's not reasonable to compare on resolution alone. Not to mention, the iPhone 6S and Pixel were both flagship devices in the period OP is discussing.
> "Accessibility" has a special meaning in design/development

Side note: The meaning doesn't change because we talk about a different space. Access is access is access. If we ever apply the word differently, it's just because we're focusing on different aspects of access.

But that's not what's happening here. What's happening here is that OP is whining about things they don't like while pretending that their taste has anything to do with _any_ definition of accessibility and then getting defensive about it.

Like you, I also think that de-prioritizing the languages was a positive change. And yet it's OP's very first complaint under the guise of losing access. Like they'd been wronged or something.

Calling the new design "awful", "awkward", and "less accessible" over really petty marginal shit like stars, followers, and languages without recognizing what was gained as a result (latest release!) or the subjectivity of taste feels like a real "I demand to speak to your manager!" moment.
It's only considered "unfair double taxation" if it hurts wealthy people [1]

1. https://www.thepatriotaxe.com/wp-content/uploads/dividends.g...
Lack of a working home/end function is literally the biggest reason I dislike working on a Mac. I don't understand what would be so hard about just having them work like they do on a PC.
I use an Atreus [1] as my daily keyboard, and Phil has been experimenting with various forms of "cyberdeck" based on that [2,3]. Something like that, with a minimalist emacs config like [4] would be an awesome portable writing device.

1. https://atreus.technomancy.us/

2. https://atreus.technomancy.us/decklog

3. https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberDeck/comments/d2rwp1/atreus_de...

4. https://github.com/rougier/elegant-emacs
Maybe it's just me, but "we just took his word for it" doesn't strike me as particularly good journalism if that's what happened. If they really wrote these articles without that level of basic corroboration then that's pretty bad.
Python Super PEP Week
If it works, it works...
Of course they don't understand it, their field is technology. Agriculture requires years of specialisation and most people here if they do have a degree are computer scientists, doctors, biologists, etc. But it's rare to find someone who has genuine passion and knowledge of agriculture. It is far removed from the city lifestyle and it is incredibly hard to break into, both for land reasons and because it's a hard job.

Moreover, agricultural sciences is probably just not a very commonly pursued degree for people in the city (citation needed).

So that brings me to my main point: disrupting an industry is usually done by people who want money when all the other good ideas have been taken. There is nothing wrong with this, but the cost with this fast paced approach is that the oldest and most complex industries like agriculture are going to put you in your place if you haven't done the work to understand them.
They needn't sell it at all. The important thing is that you're using a browser more often to do things that were traditionally done with native apps.
Swift-Corelibs-Foundation
They make it much easier to do certain kinds of things as expressions (as opposed to, say, an if/else chain which in many languages is a statement and not an expression, or a switch statement which I don't think is ever an expression)
Hydroxychloroquine: US stockpile stuck with 63M doses of the drug
I was wondering the same thing having read on multiple occasions that the majority of Americans are prediabetic they just don't know it yet.
> Am I missing something?

Yes, the form used in function declaration (the inverse of the form in function calls) which is pretty much exactly the same as the new use, “collect a sequence of things specified individually into a list with the given name”.
A country can be a society, and if that society decides that its dead bodies and their belonging need protection, then so be it. Doesn't seem like the most beneficial thing to do, but you're free to disagree with me. If a dead person's organs can be used to save the lives of others, vigorously protecting that body seems like a selfish thing to do.
Listed corporations are not "private companies."

They gave up privacy when they sold stock/bonds on public markets.
At this point I don't even know what's their main chat/video product. Meet? Hangouts? Duo? I have all three on my phone for some reason but still end up using Zoom and Whatsapp
How does this keep happening Win10 updates? Seems like every update now for Win10 is "critical failure" and causes XYZ problems. In house QA is a complete failure. Any insight as to why this keeps happening?
You could query your authoritative name server(s) first and only query other resolvers once you see your new record. Shouldn't be to hard to automated that using something like dnspython.
duckduckgo, as far as I recall.
Bayer Reaches $10.5B Settlement over Weedkiller Roundup
I already have Preparing for Perl 7 on LeanPub (https://leanpub.com/preparing_for_perl7)
Ask HN: What are books/hacks/actions for becoming an influencer at my workplace?
All ideas are welcome, personal experience is preferred. Shoot.
> Target of all places seems more curated than Amazon.

Isn’t this going to be true of any “pure” retailer? The nature of FBA and third-party sellers just means there will always be at least some percentage of fraud and so on that’s higher than “trick various people in the retailer to sell fake goods”.

Particularly as it’s much easier for insiders at a retailer to steal from their employer (and then resell via whatever means), I think the utility for “put fake goods on the shelf” at a retail shop is basically zero. I dunno, maybe you can trick/bribe the person near the start of the supply chain, but it wouldn’t take long for returns to pile up and an investigation to find “Jim and Sally colluded to sell fake gym shorts”.
One of the key features is no way for user-driven internet interactions. Backing up data in the background doesn't have to let me hop on hacker news.
Fed has flooded the market with cash like never before. Buying up debt to the point that they're picking up junk bonds.

Once Q2 earnings hit next month you'll see a massive market correction.
Oh, sure - I'll spend extravagantly on their education, take them travelling around the world, do everything I can to set them up for success - but if I can't leave them my company, there's no reason not to run it into the ground for short-term gains before I die. Stock market "only cares about next quarter" anyways, after all...
Does your microphone work in the stereo hq audio case? On my headphones the mic only works in the crappy audio mode. Maybe they are trying to "fix" Cortana by un-disabling the bt interface that has a mic? Idk
Strongly agreed. It’s much more about the team, the conventions used, the organization of the codebase, and the coding culture of the team, than it is about a specific language.
> the government decides it gets to tax that money AGAIN?

This is what happens pretty much every other time money changes hands. I get taxed on my salary. I get taxed on my purchases made with the remaining money. I get taxed on the capital gains I make by investing the remaining money. The people I pay bills to get taxed on that income, and so on and so forth.
Of course, nothing is ever black and white. I did not mean to imply all of the GOP is terrible and the other side is good. I am merely stating, looking from afar, it's the GOP politics that seems most familiar, in general.
I can't think of another mechanism from preventing a permanent aristocratic class from passive investment
JS is probably closer to billions.
Taxation is theft. Nothing to discuss about it.
I know that was the plan, but the end result is quite different!
I'm interested when I see this critique, because I definitely agree with you, but I also see a strong bias against new pedagogical approaches like Common Core math that focus more on teaching concepts like numerical composability and less on memorization and recitation. Personally, as someone whose mental map of how math works lines up much more with the CC standards, I wish I had been taught that way; the memorization & recitation approach fell apart for me when I reached higher level math classes.
Also, no mention of drought and other extreme weather events. Additionally, no talk about how the Ogallala Aquifer (and others) is being decimated and continued trajectories would be catastrophic in just a few decades. The higher yield and minimal water and and getting rid of pesticides/fertilizers and removing transportation pollution are interesting things to research and see if we can do better. It is already a high bar of productivity but so where horses compared to walking but they were replaced with something better.
Wow! This is perfect, for a long time I've been using a bluetooth keyboard with my iPhone for writing but every notification means distraction while trying to write :(
> ~ 70% of Americans will spend a year in the top 20%

The 80th percentile is the top 20%. Nobody said anything about the average person ever being in the top 0.1%.
App Clips for iOS
Yeah, I've got a Perl codebase that's conservatively tens of thousands of lines, and it's honestly a struggle to write anything in it that isn't a big ball of mud. There's about 50 different ways to do anything in the language, the syntax is infuriatingly obtuse, and you can't rely on any documentation because it will recommend doing things that experts don't recommend doing.

The system is from like 2013 and still going, but I really wish I could rewrite it in a language I can actually train people on in a reasonable amount of time. It took the one junior I have about 6 months to get to the point where he could read the syntax without tearing his hair out. It's not really built to create maintainable structures.

The libraries and stuff are full of opinionated little "gotchas." As an example, the Test::Simple module will throw errors if you use a number to title a test which is infuriating when you're writing a test which tests all the numbers in the space of acceptable or possible inputs.
I actually close Netflix because of this.

However, Netflix is full of smart people, so I have to assume that they've tested it and it increases engagement. Perhaps we're the outliers.
I use Safari for personal surfing, and separate Chrome accounts for my various business/work related surfing.

Keeps things separate and tidy, and I keep Chrome closed as much as I need it to be closed.
If mentioning it in a one-liner is a stealth ad, I assume this was also an ad for Notion, Zoom, Twitch, Apple, Instagram, and TikTok.
"How to Win Friends & Influence People" still stands as one of the most prolific books on this topic for decades...

Also, my company has weekly Lunch-N-Learns, I give 1-2 a year on various topics related to writing, testing and deploying software just like I would at a meetup group.
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Still big in Japan; https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/coronavirus-ja...
> That's more or less what some cities are going for albeit with shifting the released funds to community support programs, training, and other resources instead of into the pockets of donors and the rich via tax cuts and putting the strain on the deficit.

Agreed. The solution for my community? Simply reverse the trends in the graph found here:

https://voiceofoc.org/2020/06/oc-shifted-millions-from-publi...
I suppose you are accurate. My friends use it for showing their streets and neighborhoods. We sometimes use it for trip planning.
I would hope that the savviest of SV or startup folks recognize that the actual planting, growing and harvesting of crops isn't the thing that they are trying to innovate on.

Rather it's the disastrous logistics chain and resultant waste, leading to overproduction and augmentation of our food system, is the problem trying to be solved.
To clarify this: if v5.32 can run your code, you should be safe. There have been various small changes in Perl 5 that might not handle something you wrote in 1995.
I feel at a certain level of leadership in large companies, you just make it into the club and no matter what you do, some other large company will pick you up due to the same mindset of "no one ever got fired for buying IBM".

The last SVP of my working org dropped the ball so hard our client walked away from hundreds of millions of dollars in hardware and infrastructure just to be done with it. He got canned then picked up by a similar company inside two months with the same title.
Pattern matching is implemented as syntaxic sugar on top of if/else in the bytecode.

Behavior doesn't change at all.
Rust Breaks into Tiobe Top Most Popular Programming Languages
Would it be any simpler when running on-prem or in another cloud?
The article deservedly bashes Google in a way that many here agree with, and praises a number of services that many here at least somewhat agree with.

Validating people's spleen is generally a good way to get to the top of the fp.
I think the issue there is that the users did want faster horses... the same way that asking someone what they wanted would have lead to "a bigger blackberry" instead of "an iPhone"
As a society it's fine to execute a will, as long as it doesn't harm society. Entrenching generational wealth and furthering poverty seems like it's harmful. This is understood, after all that's why there is an inheritance tax in the first place. I'm argueing that it needs to be way higher.
The important inter-generational wealth transfer these days are a) moving to a neighborhood with good schools, and b) paying for college. To intercept this inequality with taxation, you’d need to tax the beneficiaries of these gifts enough to wipe out the lifetime earnings advantages associated with skilled labor.
Duck Duck Go and Booking.com were/are Perl backends.
It is unfixable.
This isn't a political issue. It's just a fact. Absent a complete totalitarian economy where every transaction is acrurinized, it will always be an easy tax to avoid.

Consider income tax... consider the massive involvement of the govt required to enforce this tax. That is, employers are required to deduct the tax from every paycheck, reams if forms, thousands of agents... all that for one simple transaction: namely, paying someone for services.

You can't have the same type of scrutiny for the totality of transactions that can effectuate the tranfer of money from one person to another.
This has the infuriatingly common fatal logical flaw of wrapping "farming" in one giant layer of abstraction and comparing indoor vs outdoor at the broadest scale.

Indoor farming, or greenhouse farming, or high-tunnel farming, or a zillion others are all incremental adaptations of particular plants and particular markets. You cannot compare the global corn and wheat markets to the nyc lunch salad market. "Farming" has always meant thousands of different things, and for some of those things there will be markets for indoor grow ops. This is not an assertion, we all know there's a very robust one right now.

Debating indoor vs outdoor farming at this broad a level is like debating cars vs bicycles as if we have to pick one.

If anyone would like to see an extremely deep dive into the exact scientific measurements at which certain plant markets become viable at certain energy prices you will find this half hour very well spent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsaufB5F8dk
The purpose of the inheritance tax is to prevent any competition for the truly elite. Wouldn't want the middle/upper-middle classes from actually achieving financial independence over 3-4 generations and checking out of the system would you?
It's enforced better than in the US, on many levels.

First, they can't really arrest you without motiv, they can't even detain you without motiv.

Second: you can confront a police officer in EU, they won't shoot you or handcuff you, unless you pose a real danger to public safety.

I had a fight with one of them three months ago, he almost ran over me with his bike and when I confronted him he removed his jacket and told he was a police officer. I said "you are two times wrong then"
He yelled at me he was going to bring me in, I said "no way" and meanwhile people gathered around me and started saying to the police officer he was abusing his powers, that they had seen what he'd done with his bike and where ready to testify against him, if he didn't apologize.

He went away.

That's almost impossible in the US, where officers are trained to respond physically to basically anything that they consider a threat.

Stefano Cucchi is a very peculiar case he wasn't lawfully tortured, he was killed by the police and then they tried to cover it up.

I went to many events in support of his cause.

After years of trial the officers have been condemned and many high ranking officers asked for forgiveness to Stefano's sister, Ilaria, a great woman who stood alone against the injustice her brother faced.

But it's been a very popular case all over the news, for years, there have been a few others in Italy, but the point is it is unlawful and you can count them on the fingers of one hand.

The real problem in Italy is that it takes decades to get a final judgement.

And right now the right wing parties, that also support Trump, that wants free guns for everybody like in the US.

Anyway, torture is a crime in Italy and it is considerd an aggravating factor if it is committed by an officer.
> you can't influence national or global politics with your wealth, which is my point.

> And sure, not all billionaires are created equal, but that doesn't disprove my point.

If your point is that billionaires can influence national or global politics by virtue of their wealth alone — that's a pretty steep claim and the burden of proof to substantiate it is on you.

Nevertheless, I'll try to show you why the empirical evidence is simply not in your favor.

Hillary Clinton outspent Donald Trump by 2x in the 2016 election, and still lost. In fact, she had far more corporate backing than Donald Trump, and still lost.

In the 2020 Democratic Primaries, Michael Bloomberg spent $1 billion (!!) on his campaign, and won just 9.4% of the popular vote (1.38% of pledged delegates).

As I already pointed out, Tom Steyer spent $343 million on his election, and won 0.38%. Interestingly, you would think he would have at least 1/3 of Bloomberg's vote, which suggests that the vast majority of the variance in Bloomberg's vote share can be attributed to his existing name recognition as a famous businessman/politician, and not simply the money. No amount of money was enough to make their core message resonate with ordinary voters.

Bernie Sanders spent $195 million on his election, having spent less than Bloomberg + Steyer and while having handily beaten both. Joe Biden spent $105 million on his campaign, less than Bernie, and still beat him by 3 million votes (and counting).

Elizabeth Warren spent $121.31 million on her campaign, and also handily beat Bloomberg + Steyer while having spent far less than them, while losing to Biden while having spent more than him.

Those are just the anecdotes (of which there are many more).

Decades of research[1] suggest that money probably isn’t the deciding factor in who wins a general election, and especially not for incumbents. Most of the research in the last century found[2] that spending didn’t affect wins for incumbents and that the impact for challengers was unclear[3]. Even the studies[4] that showed spending having the biggest effect, like one that found a more than 6 percent increase in vote share for incumbents, didn’t demonstrate that money actually causes wins. In a time period where voters are more stridently partisan, there are probably fewer and fewer people who are going to change their vote simply because they liked your ad.

While you may be right that money affords one the platform to disseminate their ideologies, at the end of the day, ordinary voters need to accept that ideology, go to the ballot box, and check the box next to the name. If I'm a left wing progressive, no amount of money will convince me to vote for a right wing politician (and vice versa). No amount of money will install a leader that cannot convince voters to vote for them in a democratic election. As such, the claim that $23MM+ is "middle class" continues to be beyond bizarre.

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2605401

[2] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0002764203260415

[3] https://www.jstor.org/stable/2138764

[4] http://www.sas.rochester.edu/psc/clarke/214/Gerber98.pdf