skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I wonder if they arrived at the phrase independently. I think Jacob Kaplan-Moss was inspired by Python's standard library.

It seems the owner of that PEP could probably provide more context. He wrote "Meditations on the Zen of Python" recently which means he's still thinking about pythonic software design:

https://orbifold.xyz/zen-of-python.html
> "But, it is true that most Americans pay very little taxes."

no, that statment is only applicable to income tax, which is intentionally progressive. most other taxes, like employment taxes, are highly regressive, so it's not true that most americans pay "very little taxes". americans pay their fair share of taxes, but not the same proportion to each taxing entity.
Thanks for the support of open source authors!
Physical switches also seem to require more deliberate action, unlike the touch controls, where the the act of touching is not much different from an accidental touch.

It's interesting to learn that F-22 side-stick had to be modded to add more physical deflection movement vs. a sensitive but nearly monolith handle. This was requested by the pilots accustomed to effort feedback common to earlier gen of the planes.
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Convert crewmembers to fertilizer until you reach equilibrium.
I don't know, tracking everyone's speed to issue tickets doesn't sound nearly as bad as having a recording of 100% of all remote conversations.
Seems like it's both.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23685915

260+ points
So, I've been responding to several, often unclear and inconsistent, though absolute claims, made by several commentators in this thread, for which any counterexample would be sufficient refutation.

I'm also not defending the Indian law, only making clear it is not as fully exceptional as portrayed by some here.

Answering your specific question as to the US and detention without charge or due process: yes, definitely. Guantanamo Bay is an extraterritorial detention centre for supposed terrorists, held without trial and subject to torture, since the prison opened in January 2002. 779 prisoners are acknowledged to have been held at some point, 40 remain. I don't find a statement of longest detention, but that could be as much as 18 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indefinite_detention#United_St...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp

Tens of thousands of detainees are held by immigration authorities, with nearly 400,000 having been booked into ICE custody in 2018. Detentions are on the basis of (suspected) immigration status, not criminal disposition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_detention_in_the_U...
> To start, let me say that I would never do hiring this way now. It was a flawed way to do hiring.

I'm curious on why you view it as flawed. At a previous place I worked we had something like that (we had a small puzzle in the code version of the homepage source).

We treated it as one of the several "acquisition channels" we had for our funnel (recruiters, job-boards and job fairs were others). All channels were treated the same with regards to evaluation, so for us it was just an additional way to get candidates.
It was atrocious but there was much better tooling behind it that made it all make sense.

I just wish flash would have been stripped down into a web only version that was safe and only for things like flash games.
I think I've seen most Google's technologies dissected and/or explained in detail over the years. Lots of their own papers too. If you look into how and what they're doing regarding data collection, including scraping, there's nothing.
pdimitar I totally feel you. For full context: I have never passed a leetcode style phone screen in my entire life. Even after studying for 6 weeks, every night for 2 hours and buying a couple of courses on how to pass coding interviews.

I've gotten my last few jobs and oppertunities by following co-workers from job to job. AKA doing good work and building good relationships with the people I worked with. I've been able to leverage these relationships to skip the phone screen at some of the big tech companies but still freeze up on the the white board interviews unfortunately in real life.

At the end of the day though I know what I have to do: Either study for 3 more months, stay where I'm at with my current pay, or switch careers entirely. Right now I'm leaning towards switching careers entirely.

At the end of the day though, if you've never worked with a person before, and your company doesn't do a good job firing people who aren't performing, I'm not sure of a better way to screen people in 45 minutes :(. And this is coming from the guy who's screened out himself.

There's _plenty_ of engineers out there. We're not special.
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> Many Lightning accessories I've played with have mirrored pinouts in their connectors

And some, like the “chimp” cables mentioned later, do actually care which direction you plug them in :)
Any recommendations? I usually end up with Mexican beer, Presidente or Imperial.
"Democracy is like a train: when you reach your destination, you get off" -- Erdogan
NYC is open 24/7 on paper. In reality, I was surprised to find the nightlife at night very poor. Except few bars/restaurants and McDonald's, there are few people. But maybe I was spoiled from Bangkok, Tokyo and the other Asian cities who are hardcore at staying late.
There's other ways. Ask them for their passwords, ask them to hand their phone and riffle through their conversations and photos. If I know they won't be offended them I'll ask them to send me nudes or if they would let me put a camera in their shower.

After all, if you're have nothing wrong you have nothing to hide, so why should you close your shower curtain?
Gutenberg doesn't include a fairly important piece of context - these are the practical, battle-tested & known-to-work rules on how to actually run a democracy with diametrically opposed competing interests.

I'm not sure what the Indian government uses but I suspect Robert's Rules are state of the art.

Similar to First Past the Post voting where there are probably some easy wins tweaks that could be made based on the current academic literature - but the sheer number of popular "sound good, don't work" ideas floating around make change highly risky because it will have to run the political process and still be a good idea when it makes it through. In practice everyone wants their pet topic to be able to bypass normal procedure.
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>50 for car insurance since you're gonna be living in a rural place. Thats 900 for a roof and ability to pay for it.

Someone in this situation is not paying cash for a car so there's probably $100-$200 for a car loan on top of that.
Even HN does this. It is the magic of the reply button. As a result, they pull more screen time and have a stickier crowd to show "we are hiring" ads.
Twitter takes down Trump photo meme for “copyright report”
What is the magnitude of this problem? What are the possible solutions?

Can it be addressed with, say, liability insurance premiums (and is it already)? Do we need a stigma associated with unnecessary trucks? More laws?
It also changes the math when you have an old car in need of repair and have to decide whether to fix it or replace it.
This is the reason the $16 wage floor exists.
If I have this wrong, btw, I'm more than open to correction. Downvoting without commenting doesn't say "You're wrong," it says, "You're right, but ptthhthhhth."
There is a subjective element, but they are not ENTIRELY subjective. It's pretty clear that less pollution would make for a more sustainable environment... it's just more expensive. It's pretty clear that it would be safer (prudent) to cut back on carbon emissions... it just has negative economic effects.
San Francisco has the lowest percentage of kids of any major U.S. city. 13% under 18 vs 21% in NY and 23% in Chicago.

This was particularly eye opening: “For every 100 apartments in the city sold at market rates, the San Francisco school district expects to enroll only one additional student, the report said.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/21/us/san-francisco-children...
Hiring process for a fast growing startup (part 1)
Irony abounds
In Denmark most apartment building have a bin for recycling electronics.

I like to open the one on my building, and have a peek to see if there's something interesting. I like repairing (often just resetting) discarded electronics and donating them to people who need them.

Anyway, I find loads of broken Apple cables, but very few plain USB cables.
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A decent 3br in SF would be at least 2-3x that.
Thanks, just to be clear I made it up after clicking reply!

If you want to make more of them I just combined a plausible data analysis project with some of the creepiest insitutional aspects from previous surveillance scandals.
What if we just get rid of VC-backable. Why does something need to be VC-backable to exist. That is kinda messed up.
Right, this seems to be mostly reverse-engineered personally. I am sure that the people replicating debug cables have a fairly good idea of what’s going on inside of them.
Low wage and part time workers are typically not employed all year around. The tax back can be hard to predict in these conditions and vary quite dramatically. It's really hard to work with when one lives paycheck to paycheck and needs the money now.
A new container system that gets rid of all waste - Design and manufacture a set of a few dozen or hundred re-usable containers of different shapes and sizes, and a system for printing environmentally friendly ink on them that can be easily removed. Start a department/grocery store that does not use any disposable packaging. Give tax incentives to companies that use this packaging. The printable labels would allow for market differentiation since package types are now standard. Trucks come around and pick up the empty containers from customers, or they can bring them back to the store.
Still an annoying and anti-consumer practice. Another "growth marketing" tactic that doesn't take into account the number of people who never visit that site again because of the spammy stuff.
Doesn't it also reduce the incentive to outsource jobs overseas? It's harder for lower-skilled jobs in the US to compete with overseas workers working for less than minimum wage.
it's also speculated that his supervisor [Walther von Tschirnaus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehrenfried_Walther_von_Tschirn...) was the original inventor of European porcelain; and that Bottger had stolen Tchirnaus's notes from the family's tutor after von Tchirnaus's death and claimed the invention as his own

> In 1719 the arcanist Samuel Stölzel escaped from Meissen to Vienna and betrayed the secret of porcelain production. He claimed that Tschirnhaus and not Böttger had discovered porcelain. Also in 1719 the secretary general of the manufacture in Meißen, Caspar Bussius reported: "that the invention of porcelain is not due to Böttger but von Tschirnhaus and that Böttger received the written 'science' from Steinbrück

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Friedrich_B%C3%B6ttger

> Three days after Von Tschirnhaus’s death, there was a burglary at his house and, according to a report by Böttger, a small piece of porcelain was stolen. This report suggests that Böttger himself recognized that Von Tschirnhaus already knew how to make porcelain, a key piece of evidence that Von Tschirnhaus and not Böttger was the inventor. Work resumed on 20 March 1709, by which time Melchior Steinbrück had arrived to assess the dead man’s estate, which included the notes about making porcelain, and had met with Böttger. On 28 March 1709, Böttger went to August II and announced the invention of porcelain. Böttger now was nominated to head the first European manufactory for porcelain. Steinbrück became an inspector and married Böttger’s sister.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehrenfried_Walther_von_Tschirn...
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Beyond that it seems more than reasonable, when the average cost of a new vehicle is in the 30k range or whatever it is these days, a difference of 500 or 1000 dollars like the parent comment gives as an example is a solid couple or few percent of the cost of the vehicle, almost by definition that will make or break around the same percentage of sales.
You must be young, kid. My GF's laptop is 2GB and runs everything with Slackware and even Chrome really fast. Double Celeron, Intel Mobile 4 series.
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>Most of the people suspected of being involved in the production and assembly process, including the organisers and heads of the illegal operation, are residents of Moldova’s breakaway Transnistrian region.

this and Donbass are regions where reality is significantly distorted from our typical everyday reality. In particular, laundering helicopters (and the components for them like engines) through there wouldn't look as anything exceptional. It is strange that it was located on Moldova controlled territory though - while right on on the border with yet still not in Transnistria proper.

Update: According to the shop owner it were just full-scaled models which he's been using to develop his innovations, and he does have some patents for various equipment for helicopters - in Russian https://dumskaya.net/news/vladeletc-vertoletnogo-zavoda-pod-...
Most businesses don't make sense for VC because they can't grow at the rate VC needs in order to work or reach the size.

Pick any large industry and look at the software used. It is probably not great (there is a difference between old software that works or works well enough and badly designed software that does not do its job well). Within that lies what is actually interesting, which is customer pain, and potential customers who will pay to have that solved.
Also small employers are generally exempt from contributing to programs that help with employee healthcare or insurance.
> There are obviously places where it makes sense, but a $15/hr human is preeeetty cheap compared to the price, programming, and maintenance of a robot.

But such a robot is a good insurance against further increases of minimum wages.
Perhaps the story isn't so crazy if the operation is performed by bootsrtappy aerospace and mechanical engineers with experience building real Kamov helicopters but who simply don't have the authorization to do so. I mean, it's not the first time where resourceful engineers from former soviet republics show their skills to earn a living.
I ran a complete KDE3 desktop back in the day with 256MB of RAM shared with Kopete and inline videos, Konqueror with several tabs open AND Amarok in the background.

These kids are truly spoiled. Even with 1GB today could be enough if you know how to set Unbound + a light browser.
Why has Denver suddenly become a spot compared to the rest of the country? I'm not too familiar with what's happening there.
You are assuming that money ever gets to Canada. Half the time it's just kept in an account in Panama to be used when the family is on vacation or wants to buy a second home in another country.

Either that or it's brought in in literal cash. That's why the stories of Chinese home buyer showing up with literal briefcases in cash are all over the place.
it's not the force, it's the angle.

lightning is much better when you are plugging it in in the dark(for example).
Why live in FiDi if you're here for recreation though? It seems like a pretty dead area outside of office hours? Thought I admit I haven't spent much time there.
How do you avoid the sorts of issues that plagued Milton Keynes?

Social infrastructure is inordinately complex; I am not aware of a planned city that is pleasant to live in.
Don't be afraid to put yourself out there
For the longest time I held off on creating a blog. I felt like no one would care or read it. I also felt like why blog on topics someone else has covered?

Then in 2018 I went to the Microsoft Ignite conference and spoke to Ben from the MS Cloud IT Pro podcast. He told me how they started off small. They kept at it and eventually got some traction. Now they have a decent following. He said he initially had similar feelings but they just kept at it and creating content. Eventually people took note and now they have several sponsors.

After the conference I was motivated and inspired. I created my own blog and started creating content. Initially I remained unknown. My blog was specific to technical issues I encountered throughout the day. One day I decided to write about some other random bits regarding the IT industry and received several emails from people all over. I found that people related to that so I continued throwing in some posts that weren't specifically technical.

Two months ago I was contact by Cloudberry/MSP 360 to create content for their blog. They contacted me and told me they found my blog via Twitter and really liked it! I was blown away by this. I've been working with them and have already submitted 8-10 pieces of content. I never thought I'd end up here.

After seeing the power of social media and putting myself out there I've decided to take it one step further. I've been seen as a mentor in the last two organizations I've worked for. I've decided to bundle all the advice I've given into a guide for stating a career in IT. In addition to this I'm going to create a podcast which discusses several aspects of the IT industry- Career paths, trends, and how to continue to be successful in IT. I've noticed this is quite popular in the software development space but not so much in general IT.

I created this page- https://makingithappen.tech/ as a landing spot for these projects.

Anyone else have a similar story?