skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All the comparisons are apples and oranges usually.

In the US if you're someone that works for a living you pay a lot of taxes once you add all the various ones up. In return the government provides you nothing at all. Where in places like the UK you pay a lot of taxes and you get public benefits in return. Like healthcare, decent schools, maternity leave, things like that.

One year in SF as a single man I calculated my total tax rate was about 45%. Add Federal taxes, withholding, state income tax, and 8% sales tax. Then add $800/mo health insurance.
Anyone interested in an Action/rougelike from yesteryear should check out Cave Noire for the original Gameboy. Surprisingly comprehensive rougelike for the time.
If you can't calmly go "ah, I see why they did X, but I would prefer if they did Y," I think the problem is only on your end. Let's be adults/engineers.

I've found that if all you can say is "I hate this", you usually don't actually understand the trade-offs.

In the meantime, you have Sorbet available. What's the problem?
AWS makes re:invent 2020 free and online
I try not to think too hard about how my recent progress toward not being completely hopeless depended on a few inflection points that could easily have gone another way or could have been inaccessible had a few earlier events gone a different way. Luck is a force multiplier that can go wrong as easily as it goes right. Circumstances determine how much you can prepare for either type.
• Total Payment Volume (TPV) of $222 billion, growing 29%, and 30% on an FX-neutral basis (FXN); revenue of $5.26 billion, growing 22%, and 25% FXN

• Cash flow from operations of $2.4 billion, growing 103%, with free cash flow of $2.2 billion, growing 112%

FY’20: Reinstating and raising full year guidance based on strong momentum

• Revenue growth now expected to be ~20%
The newspaper is also for profit and while commerical speech may have more restrictions (truth in advertising) they aren't barred from those areas. Not a fan of Facebook but the objection appears to be pure novelty bias because it hasn't been as normalized as the old ways.
Money: Investing During the Coronavirus Pandemic
> Type annotation takes away from readability.

I don't disagree, but I think it's a very minor issue given that it's trivial to use color to highlight code these days. By comparison having to switch between two files (and keep them in sync!) when making changes is a far bigger usability concern.
No most apps aren’t ad supported mostly games are. The ad supported apps are not real business but side hustles or one time, one hit apps that die quickly.
Show HN: MeetingBar – A menu bar macOS app for calendar meetings
I'm not sure if you've seen a map of the region? I don't understand how you can have an understanding of the geography and claim HK independence is feasible. Even in this impossible scenario, economically it would be ruined beyond repair.
Let's replace the term "billionaires" with "rational actors" then
I just want typescript for ruby. That simple
1000-mile low-latency uncompressed audio using GPS-derived clock with jacktrip
Is there any publicly-available data or studies on the behavior patterns of people who caught the virus? I’m very curious about what the relative likelihoods involved. e.g. what % of cases are people that don’t wear masks and brazenly party at bars, versus people who limit their activity to outdoor exercise and 1 or 2 errands a week.
thanks i feel like there should be a special place in the unemployment line for writers that are so lazy they cant find a picture of a robot and instead sub a stock image of some spilled prego like that adds something to the article at all.
This post portem is gold. I recall seeing it before and realizing how sometimes gold really is just a few brushes of dust and dirt away, but you need to be diligent in testing out new ideas for the sake of seeing a product in different versions. Its an exciting process
I'm glad I've trained my brain to acclimatize to TTS, trivially easy to compile epubs into audiobooks now. Think we're a few years away from neural TTS solutions making passable audiobooks. Tons of services for articles sound OK now. Even youtube wiki TTS spam are becoming not bad.
If you can stomach Hakelius then Fokus was some good quality journalism when I was a subscriber.
After several Win10 upgrades nuked grub on a dual boot system, I have found a much simpler process. Create a rEFInd [1] USB boot key once and for all. Then whenever grub is hosed, boot on this key: rEFInd will find the Debian partition and allows to run it directly. Then once in Debian just do an "update-grub" to fix things.

[1] https://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/getting.html
Apparent Molotov cocktail explodes outside federal courthouse in Portland
I'm sure some upper management is fine with "we will work on these features and some of them will be done by December."

But in a lot of organizations upper management asks middle management when those features will be delivered so they can plan client communications or internal teams around that.
Nope, women were given a generous 3 years off work after birth. In general since all work was equally paid (sort of) and you could just choose your profession, it's possibly harder, more dangerous jobs had issues with filling up positions and you couldn't solve it in a capitalistic way of just paying more (or increasing immigration for cheap, slave labour). Too many people wanted to be writers, artists, etc.. and since there was no invisible hand of the market to force them into more needed profession the labour market was broken.
That's both mischaracterization and irrelevant.

Seeing posts on Facebook is going to change your behavior on Facebook, whether Facebook studies the relationship or not. Paying attention to that effect isn't sinister.
Management could also communicate to concerns coworkers that the absences are excused. They could also work with the employee to notify teammates in an appropriate way.

Just allowing employees to disappear with no notice or trace is an environment where I won’t want to work.

There are obviously situations where I have to not be at work suddenly (eg, medical emergency where I don’t want to share details) but I can just send a text to a boss or corworker and have them do the rest.

If HR said they didn’t want to act to not hurt feelings that seems like there was no additional info, unless they thought that was a proper way to protect medical info (it isn’t).

Sounds like a bad place to work and seems like a negative factor for companies wanting to do well or me awesome.
Which is great.
Ok, another example: out famous "Cotton Scandal": http://shorturl.at/fzLPU

For more than 10 years thousands of party members from soviet republic of Uzbekistan were sending fake data to Moscow (this included corruption on many levels across the country) about production of cotton.
Everyone was involved, from top to bottom, I don't see how creation of any network would help with that.
In fact programmers across USSR were putting tools into the software for state companies to produce "fixed" results for central planning committee. And in central planning committee they were also corrupt :) (my relative worked there in 80s and I know how it was organized on basic level).
> One year in SF as a single man I calculated my total tax rate was about 45%.

I'm assuming that's because of your salary bracket. For a similar level compensation in the UK would most likely be at least 60%-65% if not more.
You're really not sure?

I would not trust any poll that thinks the use of the term "internet giants" is going to yield results without biases imposed by the poll itself.

Just about nobody polled on this question is going to know what qualifies a company to be gone after for anti-trust violations. They have never read the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. Then the question tacks onto the end, "given that they offer largely free services." This is supposed to do what, exactly? Inform people that offering "largely free services" is a violation of the anti-trust act? This kind of deceptive wording is clearly endeavoring to mislead people.

There does not appear to have been any effort at constructing an accurate picture here, and let's be honest as to why. In all likelihood, this poll was designed to construct and reinforce a specific narrative, not to report on public opinion.
I mean would it feel better if you got paid $10 but then Apple immediately billed you $3 for marketing and sales services?

Because that’s basically Apple’s whole thing. If you want you can just ignore their existence. You can run a very successful business on the web, Android, Windows. But getting your app on iOS and in front of their customer base is really valuable. Better than any billboard or FB ad. They know that customer acquisition is hugely expensive and that being able to sell on their platform will make you more money than not and so they charge like it.

The difference between having Spotify on iOS that can’t mention that premium exists (because that would be using iOS as a marketing vector which Apple charges for) and therefore has to do their own customer acquisition, and being able to convert customers in-app makes a big difference.
Agreed. I grew up shooting a 500. It's like the gun version of a daily driver. Might pick up a new one when I move out of the city (no ranges near me)
> As they mention in the post, they followed typescript's approach, here.

They didn't, though! That's what's confusing me. TypeScript has inline types. .d.ts files are typically for JavaScript files that don't have types embedded.
It’s almost as if Americans have realized that speech, like all other actions, has consequences.
You can, but clearly the people designing this system have weighed the pros and cons and found that there would be more benefits to them to leave the source code unchanged.
Notably, it's a somewhat recent change for Stripe.

They had refunded fees but iirc it meant they were paying a small fee per refunded transaction (which in a sense subsidizes apps that incur frequent refunds) which they wanted to stop doing.

A quick search showed they started refunding fees in 2012 and stopped in 2017. Here's a discussion from the past couple years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22371330
These are all the same thing. Or at least, they all reinforce each other.

You can make quick decisions because you don't have to communicate with a large group. You don't have to communicate with a large group because you own your space. You own your space because you have clear external interfaces.

If the external interface needs to change (from your side or the other side), it requires external communication and is probably slow, so you (and the other side) try to get it right the first time and minimize changes.
A Look at Dart
Since GPT-3 transforms sentences into high-dimensional vectors with connections between all the words and of course its internal weights trained on both the English language and all languages in general, I find that it has a basically flawless ability to interpret normal language.

I tested a prompt where the input was English and the output was Swedish, and it did a really good (but not always perfect) job at translating Swedish. I would assume the amount of Swedish in its training set is relatively tiny, so I find its ability to do that kind of translation in addition to all this other stuff really impressive. This also shows in its ability to translate really well between English and bash shell commands, or JSON data structures, or XML.
Yes, far enoug away to need a moving truck. No and no.

I guess we have different measures for hardship. I read what you say and think "and?"
Soutaro is indeed a code member of the Ruby team, he also happens to work at Square. Soutaro is also one of the main contributors to RBS and helped define that standard.

He was going to keynote on this at RubyKaigi this year until it was cancelled, and had a talk at RubyConf as well on this.
you can start here:

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer
I tried it but it seems to be missing some questions that worked with other prompts.
Ha, well played, Doctorow. I preordered a dead trees copy of this release of Homeland/Little Brother (both of which I had already read) to read the Snowden intro. It arrived not long ago, and I did just that.

Today it’s in Wired. :D
Yep. I use a CNC router converted to hold a paintbrush/pen/whatever, but also an HP 7575a, which is glorious.
Assuming their recommendation system is structured in the same manner as the feed ranking system at FB [1], I'm assuming this means they will be publishing their value models (easily interpretable by anyone), and not their probability models (black boxes, even to them). In other words, we'd be able to see that they value P(click) 2.5 times more than P(comment), but won't tell you how they actually predict clicks or comments.

This feels pretty meaningless to me, since knowing that they are ranking something highly because you are likely to click on it seems fine until you find out that the reason you are likely to click on it is that it is a viral hoax.

[1] https://blogs.commons.georgetown.edu/cctp-607-spring2019/201...
They're doing something incredibly hard and I'll cut some slack to turn the idea into a usable product.

Also their desktop OS is pretty sweet. If they converge the two (texts, clipboard, calls), it will be worth the bumps in the road.

I will pick one up when 14nm is introduced. It's a damned server in your pocket.
Spacebus is better. Better hop on the Spacebus!
Thanks for the link! If you're able to find the image I'm interested, please PM me.
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That's like saying that no one is forcing workers choose to accept horrible working conditions, so they are equally to blame for agreeing to those conditions and not choosing another job.

But in practice whoever has more monopolistic power is the one setting the rules, and in this case it's undoubtedly Amazon.

And just like in case of poor working conditions, failure of regulation is to blame for Amazon's ability to do that. Specifically in case of audiobooks, a loophole in the first sale doctrine as someone else mentioned.

Blaming individuals for making selfish or myopic choices is appealing but is not going to take us far out of this situation.
Is it? Maybe 1% of all retail, but is Whole Foods 1% of "supermarkets" in the US?
Former Google Engineer Argues Prison Term Is a ‘Death Sentence’
I haven't used Ruby in ages but this seems like a really odd way to incorporate type hints in the language.

I much prefer the Python 3+ approach of type annotations in source code.

I can't imagine having to look at a separate file just to figure out what the type of something is. You may say "tooling will fix this" but it's just far less overhead for everyone at the end of the day to just make annotations in source.

My more existential question is, is there really an advantage to doing static type checking in Ruby?

When I was doing Ruby, the way you can change objects on the fly, add methods on the fly, the vast amounts of metaprogramming, are types at "compile" (I know, not really) time really the same as types at runtime?

Like, it might be nice to get some autocomplete, but AFAIK tools already do that (RubyMine, others).
Now just someone has to build a converter (like pandoc) for these formats and yaml and dhall and xml and ini and gron/greppabblejson/mozilla format and we finally can use any format we want

and two other questions:

* is there a comparable site for xml?

* is there a python module for each format? :D
Building a PWA at Google, part 1
The article's use of "typed vs untypes" instead of "statically vs dynamically typed" is really unfortunate, and doesn't exactly inspire confidence.
Yes and probably anything they thought is wrong is subject to their law. Self censorship and afraid of them is what they want. Gradually one may even internalise that and report one’s neigbhour even.

From free to slave, from Hk to mainland, from anti- to love of your master. That is how they want Hk becomes.

It is not because we see any hope we fight. Be water, my friend.
Really cool story. One of the best engineers I ever worked for started as a psychiatric nurse. He got to know the guys in the computer department at his hospital and got a job doing desktop support. When he hired me, he was running application support at a fin tech startup. He wrote their distributed application monitoring system from scratch in Perl (this was a while ago when that actually made sense).
Playing around with the Fuchsia OS, including vmcall bug
Your claim is that a Chinese company can simply opt out of Chinese law by moving their computing outside of China?
Yes! Overdrive and Libby apps. Login with your library card. Enjoy!
Damn that's really cheap. I wonder what happens if deliverables are for whatever reason not delivered? What visibility and cadence does a corporate sponsor have with their assigned dev?
Nothing, it's in everyone's best interest to share a vaccine with the entire world. A vaccine for this is not something to profit from.
Right. The key innovation of the internet was the invention of TCP/IP for the purpose of inter-network communication. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite#Early_...
I hope your health gets better. Thanks for the course!
Mackenzie Scott Gives $1.7B to Historically Black Colleges and others
This is essentially the process used for installing the base system in Arch. As usual, the Arch Linux wiki page on this topic [1] is a good resource, even if you're using a different system.

If you want to learn more about how a typical Linux system is organized, but don't have the time or patience to go through the Linux From Scratch book [2], installing and configuring Arch once is pretty insightful and also kind of fun.

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide

[2] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/
Riddles have common features that make them readily identifiable as riddles, prompting a certain mode of thinking. Identifying and solving riddles doesn't seem inherently beyond the abilities of GPT-3.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23877872
We've changed the URL above from https://www.badger-technologies.com/blog/autonomous-robots-r..., which is a corporate press release (also dated 2019 - not sure if that's an error) to an article with more background, and yes a robot picture.
I also know some people who have a poor mentality. That is, they consistently refuse to seek out better-paying opportunities despite abundant mental ability in the name of "happiness," complain that their series of low-paying roles deserve more money, and advocate for hard socialism to enable redistribution to make that possible. The problem, you see, is all the other people.
https://qz.com/1683460/what-happens-to-your-itunes-account-w...
-fraudulent gift card

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208856
-a problem with the payment method

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250384392
-credit card fraud

I asked for you to cite sources on Apple banning people for repeatedly claiming a refund. Not for using a stolen credit or gift card.
I used Limewire the same way for music - you could browse other sharers directories. I found more off the wall stuff that I liked that otherwise I would have never found. My spending on CDs went up dramatically too (something the music industry swore wouldn’t happen).
Ok, but, like, that's a rounding error. They were acquired for what they raised, to within a rounding error.

And as they say in Vegas, a push is a win.
I think the point of the OP is that HK is in a fairly bad situation to survive as an independent state with one potentially hostile neighbour. Nearly 80% of HK's water supply is imported from China [1]. Only about a quarter of food imports are from China [2], so the situation there is better. But what if China were to close the land borders and impose a maritime blockade? It wouldn't be pretty.

When Japan invaded Hong Kong [3] in 1941 during WW II, the city fell after a bit more than two weeks.

Lastly, China is for historical reasons extremely protective of its territorial integrity (because loss of land often presaged the demise of a dynasty and subsequent disarray, and the touchy "century of humiliation" during which many territories were conceded to foreign powers [3b]), as you can see in its attitude towards Tibet, Xinjiang, Taiwan (China promulgated a specific law in 2005 authorising "non-peaceful means" if Taiwan seceded [4]), and HK and Macao. (See [5] on the contrast of the CCP vs western attitudes - not only can Californians discuss secession if they so wish, but Scotland, Quebec, etc. could vote on secession. Unthinkable in China.)

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

[2] https://hkfoodworks.com/research/food-supply/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hong_Kong

[3b] https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/29/asia/china-separatism-ind...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Secession_Law

[5] https://www.chinalawblog.com/2020/06/on-secession.html
Tip: You don’t need to type the space. For example, you can search for “%ycom” to see open https://news.ycombinator.com/ tabs.
Resource allocation is still a hard problem. We might be better as a society if we reallocate all the physicists to HR until that is solved.
I'm not the person you're asking, but I can probably try to explain.

Take other payment processing platforms like Stripe as an example. Stripe charges $0.30 + 2.9% to process a purchase.

To help build your (and my) mental model:
Price of item -> Stripe revenue (rounded)

$1 -> $0.33

$5 -> $0.45

$100 -> $3.20

Apple's 30% cut makes sense if they were expecting most apps to be roughly $0.99 (anecdotally, I remember this being true during the early days of the App Store) and the (presumed) few apps that cost more than $1 would be the "whale" developers that would subsidize Apple software development. But nowadays apps are a lot more powerful, feature-full, and development-intensive so higher prices are required for any hope of profit.

So the math you have is right, it's just that the path to profit is a lot harder when the ONLY way to sell your product is to have >=30% cut out immediately upon sale. Some stores set a minimum (e.g. $5) sale amount for using a credit card and those payment processing platforms have fees orders of magnitude less than Apple's App store
You are vastly overestimating the effect of showing slightly more pro-China content or whatever.
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This isn't correct at all.

This is a serious misunderstanding by someone in a pretty incredible way. Literally a single person claiming this and _multiple_ people refuting it from their own experience.

Yet it's top of HN. Amazing. A lesson to never, ever trust anything here because the masses clicked an arrow.
This argument doesn't seem particularly strong.

First of all, for books that are entertainment (most fiction), how is this any different from series that are exclusive to Netflix? The answer given by the author is a non-answer, claiming you can "buy DVD's online". Yeah right, please show me where I can buy Tiger King on DVD? I didn't think so.

Second, for books that are more in line with libraries' missions to make information accessible for an educated citizenry, the original print and ebooks are still available, right? And if you have vision impairment, there are also methods for automated screenreading, since most books don't have audiobook versions.

So I don't really see any valid complaint here except "we want to sell things exclusive to other stores" which, yeah, and I'd like to have a billion dollars.

If you want to have the conversation that there should be laws breaking up creation and distribution and making exclusive distribution illegal, then go ahead, but that would shake up everything, a pretty radical change. But if you're not going to go there, then there's no reason why audiobooks shouldn't be exclusive while other things get to be.