skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The VAT rule is on the EU though. It was implemented without much thought about collateral damage. They even forgot to have a minimum threshold for it, which resulted in some online micro businesses shutting down. It took years for them to implement a minimum threshold. As the rules were initially, it encouraged very small digital businesses not to sell to other EU countries. Think about that.

You are in the UK. You create knitting patterns that you sell online. Somebody from Latvia wants to purchase your knitting pattern. However, you don't have any other customers from Latvia. You're better off not selling to that customer to avoid the paperwork for VAT to Latvia. This is a digital product that can be copied at nearly no cost.

Politicians saw the light at some point and implemented a minimum threshold for VAT for these kinds of payments. I still cannot understand why this took years.

From 2015: https://euobserver.com/opinion/129961

Sorry, but I'm still salty about it.
Meh, I'm not one to throw the baby with the bathwater so all suggestions are welcome (my main external kb is MS sculpt). I was actually looking around at PCs some moths ago, when the mbp16 came out, and among them the surfaces. But I find Windows gets on my nerves pretty quickly and Linux support seemed sketchy last time I checked (2019). If I had to buy a pc, it would probably be a Lenovo X1E or something similar.

Anyway, my mbp is still powerful enough for my needs and works perfectly, so I'm not really in the market for a new PC (nor mac). I just like to more or less keep an eye on what happens, just in case.
From corporate politics, there is no respite
This is of course true. But is a particular fashionable technology the best way to solve that business problem, or is yet another layer of fun? I suspect that being able to deliver simple scalable solutions without bandwagon dependencies is going to be a differentiator, in _business terms_
Also the fact that the Epic Games Store exists is a step towards countering Steam's monopoly on mainstream titles.

People complain about the loss of functionality like screenshots or the in-game browser when using Epic. And there are exclusivity deals. Complaints against those things are valid, and the actual implementation of the storefront needs a lot of improvement, but I'm wondering if a Steam monopoly would have been any better for consumers and developers.

To me it sounds like a lot of consumers were happy with the monopoly and saw the exclusivity deals as disruptive as they had to migrate their friends list and set up a lot of things just to play that one hyped title. But when it comes down to the hard issue of staying afloat I can see how the money Epic offers to game studios is enticing.
Wouldn't be surprised. I think a lot of the original data also comes from whitepages.
Presumably all the barrels sit in just a few buildings.

At the very least it should be relatively cheap to destroy by passing the air through something like a blowtorch.
> Is anomaly detection not a timeseries classification, which they do implement

It can be a time series classification if and only if you have labels that say a given sample is an anomaly. But then what if it runs for a while and a new kind of anomaly starts happening that it’s never seen before and isn’t in the training set: will it detect it based on your labels?

Ideally anomaly detection should be a more unsupervised learning scenario where it can automatically determine what’s normal and what’s not.
I don't have an opinion about the conduct of trial because I haven't been following the trial. If you asked me about whether I think Assange should be extradited to the US, the answer is no, I do not.
I feel these discussions are a bit hyperbolic because of the use of the term "dongle" to talk of adaptors. I know it doesn't make any real difference, but it somehow sounds worse / more complicated.
Shell Script Arguments
a) That would kill the EU in an instance. Most people don't identify with the Bloc, they do with their countries and language is such an important fact of that.

b) The EU has exactly as much power as their member states (which are sovereign, see Brexit) give her. And the members have decided to not give her that particular ability.

Despite what you might read on the Internet the EU is NOT the United States of Europe. It (or a successor) may be one day, but that day is at least a century away.
Working on the cutting edge implies some sort of combination of greater talents and ability to work harder than others (hence increased competition), which means that the artificial barrier is a mere pittance.

The people interested in doing cutting edge work will find a way to be there no matter what. The vast majority of people overestimate themselves.
Dont even need to buy data anymore. Just contract a company already doing this.

https://www.babelstreet.com/
Possible to plug directly into the banking system, and also provide common savings/checking bank account experiences to customers. The key difference is in being fully reserve backed (no fractional reserves). David Kinitsky and Marco Santori from Kraken talk some of these details in a podcast called "On The Brink", if you'd like to learn more.
"What people should absolutely have zero concern about, and I mean zero, is that Tesla will achieve a 10,000 unit production week by the end of next year."
FWIW I think that's the same in the US as well, unless you strike it lucky with stock options. As obscene as Silicon Valley salaries are, it would take remarkable financial discipline to get to the point where an early retirement could be had.

I believe that due to market forces, engineering salaries are set as high as they can be without producing "escape velocity" for said engineers.

That said, I'm not in the US proper but in Canada, but I'm in the same position as you: highest tax band, make very good money, but unless I were to dump everything and move to an area with a much lower cost of living I will be in no position to retire before 65. Doing that (major cost of living reduction) becomes difficult once you have children.
GE to stop producing coal-fired power plants
(Author) ha! I didn't know about that law. I guess this doesn't really fit the law because my answer would be yes, revenue model IS more important than culture. With a lot of caveats I cover in the article.
In my mind, metaphysics is asking "why", axioms are asking "how"/"what"
Thus it's meaningless. Put "lifetime" or "unlimited" into a pricing plan and the one thing I know is that neither I nor the vendor can think rationally and honestly about it at all.

Thus it is a reason to look for another vendor who shows signs of realistic planning. If I can pay $50 for something that costs them $25 and it is obvious that it is roughly like that, I know I am partnering with a 'sustainable' business.
If they got data from MasterCard and Experian, they must know the her real name.
Yes, heed the scary warning of the complete stranger on the internet. You might want to quit the hobby altogether. I heard that there was risk involved. Eeks!
Logorrhea
This is an example of why humans are terrible at evaluating risk that comes with a time lag. Airline travel was becoming safer on regulatory standards and decisions probably made for the most part 20 years ago at critical design stages of the current fleet of aircraft.
I am kicking myself right now.

I knew I should have added 'cross-platform'. You're correct Nitendo certainly counts. Naughty dog would probably want to contend my claim too.
The Hydra API
How Work Became an Inescapable Hellhole
As American as beer? As American as cookies?

From other countries it still sounds like a weird saying. Dutch people love apple pie every bit as much as Americans do. Apple pie is something quintessentially loved by people all over the world. From my (Dutch) perspective, cheesecake is far more specifically American than apple pie. I love cheesecake, but it's not as rooted in my tradition as apple pie, and feels more like an American import.
I have a BS and MS in mechanical engineering. I started working on simulation software, and now I work in edtech.

This is an interesting thread, but my advice is to never take comments on the internet as any sort of representative sample. It is unlikely someone happy with their job would comment on a thread about quitting, because it makes for a boring addition to the thread.

I sometimes wonder what my work life would be like if I switched back to mechanical engineering, but I'm very happy working purely in software. Engineering requires a ton of capital and fairly large teams to do cool things. With software, a single person or a small team on a shoestring budget can build pretty neat things. I also work 100% remote, which I'm not sure would be possible with a mech eng job.

I do wish I spent more time in the machine shop at school though. Many of my neighbors in my HOA are either "real engineers" or retired blue collar workers, and they can fix things much better than I can. I can help reset their router though! :)
Perfect example of why so many people hate high school. "Avoid this thing you're interested in because it won't help your career prospects. Also it's a waste of time."
The reason I am doing that is because there is some UI that appears _after_ you start typing in the input/text area. So I can't show the walkthrough until you do that. You can always just close the tour and interact with the page.

I'll think on how to avoid that though. Thanks for the feedback!
The Future Will Be Technical: Present Day Party
Yelp's Phoenix office: Insiders allege racism, sexism, partying
Great, yet another acquisition. So eventually everything will become one company or what?
I like free markets, at least the idea of competition. I hate conglomerates. Am I contradicting myself?
This is an Australian citizen being deported by the UK government to the United States for being a journalist. This is something of international significance and international observers should be allowed to be present if the UK wants to have any semblance of being a liberal democracy.
> "Once, if you had lots of data, you had to store it in fully normalised form, because storage was expensive."

> I don't think normalization was ever about storage space.

I'm not the GP, but...

I had to sell the "extra" work and complexity to a nontechnical stakeholder who considers themselves a power user of Access and Excel and wants every report to be a single simple query with no joins that they can write and run on their own.

BTW, the same stakeholder also wanted to shard data by month through table-naming conventions (ie. SELECT SUM(Total) June_Total FROM June_Sales) and get aggregate reports by looping through these tables.

So, yeah, the winning argument came down to money for storage (larger hard drives & bigger backups of the duplicated data) vs. having an employee run reports for him.
Ads don't turn people into cattle. That is a huge exaggeration, or at least, you should only speak for yourself.

The sort of ads that make the big bucks for companies like Google and even Facebook are niche or local firms buying very simple ads that let people know they exist. Brand advertising on publisher websites is not the biggest source of value, and these tech firms started out by trying to get rid of it entirely. AdSense's entire reason for existence was to chip away at the terrible brand ads that littered the web beforehand, and of course, those are the only kind of ads that you get on other media so they above all others have done more to rid the world of that kind of thing.

Publishers can use subscriptions today if they want to. That's no solution to psychological manipulation. Look at how many cable or satellite TV news channels there are which spend all day trying to create as much outrage and hate as possible, all paid for by subscription.

I haven't watched it but the documentary is probably junk. Seeing the Sundance Festival logo and reading the blurb is enough to get the gist of what it'll be like - a bunch of social activists who want you to feel weak, useless, sheep-like and filled with hate towards people who dare to make and give you useful services. No thanks.
Only on TV. People in casinos can be sticklers when you verbally announce one action and then tack on another. Imagine saying something like, "I call" look for a reaction and if that person looks dejected quickly follow Up with, "and raise you $x". It is sometimes referred to as "Angle shooting"
That hasn't been true for a while now. Xbox Game Studios has acquired Rare, Obsidian, Double Fine, Ninja Theory, Mojang...
Effect of password length and mask on brute-force attack
1,433 days since Elon Musk started charging Tesla customers for 'self driving' that he said would be able to drive from Los Angeles to New York city with no human intervention by the end of 2017.
That's really interesting. Thanks for sharing your experience.
> lack of news seems very odd.

Why does it seem odd? Go watch/read news from a variety of sources. You'll notice that "news" is quite different from country to country and region to region. The same goes for history. The BBC is a government funded state propaganda machine. They cover and then spin whatever benefits the state. Easily the best in the world with reach in almost every one of their former slave colonies which constitute the british empire/commonwealth today.
That is a very nice substitute, thank you for sharing your feedback!
Is the US allowed to extradite journalists?

Apparently yes.

Do I think they should be?

No, I do not.

Now, can you just take what I posted at face value instead of assuming a whole bunch of other opinions you think I hold?
The Spanish version is somewhat ancestral at this point. Mexico... It's generally hard to pick Mexican and American cultures apart from one another. The Rodeos didn't migrate, the border migrated.
While thoughtful, this missed an opportunity to write about a deeper dynamic.

Most of us spend our lives chasing the creation of transactions (with employers or the market, whether grants, purchases, or contracts) and maximizing the benefit we receive from those transactions. While I appreciate that this holds us to producing in ways that others adversarially agree is valuable and can incentivize efficiency... It also holds us in competition against rather than cooperation with. It focuses us on transaction creation, not on life improvement. If something would make everyone better off but that value can't be captured it often isn't done. If something should efficiently make us all happier but costs the decision maker any money it often isn't done.

These are necessarily generalizations. Instances of it being otherwise occur. Some contexts, like families and collectives allow for contradictions to my statements. These rarely scale.

I think of the dynamic that children will happily help out the family and do chores. Many parents find that when compensation for chores is offered the children become less helpful. They switch from joyfully (or at least meaningfully) participating in the family endeavor that supported and supports their growth and well being (and if lucky showered them with love). They switch to demanding compensation for everything and end up doing less to help.

If this describes our economic engagement, how much more could we all be happily accomplishing at greater efficiency with our time and energy?

I recognize this could sound like it would depend on some idealistic prosocial world. What assumptions hold that in place? What if the little supports we give and the forgone advantages were noted to our credit? What if our game theoretic strategies for engagement influenced the rules under which we labored and the willingness of others to interact with us? How do we better optimize?
Perhaps this is why, to everyone’s astonishment, Google and Facebook have moved well ahead of Microsoft in the generally accepted “evil” rankings.
I've been in software for a decade now and I would absolutely call my job stress free.

My broader family is almost entirely working class though, so maybe it's just a matter of perspective.
The whole goal of Google/Apple "increasing privacy" in this way is to basically have a monopoly on user data, and thus gate any mobile advertising behind them. This is all revenue based, nothing to do with actual privacy.

When I can take a smartphone, uninstall any apps that phone home, and then block/uninstall any apps that listen for external traffic, all without breaking core os functionality, then I would believe that those companies are truly concerned with privacy.
I am unreasonably amused the the existence of camp stoves with USB ports:

https://andrewskurka.com/biolite-campstove-review/

They're pricey ($150) and heavy (2 pounds, heavy if you're carrying it around all day), making them less than entirely practical. But it tickles me that you can plug your phone into your campfire.

I don't know if you could pull off the charger and plunk it down on the crust of a lava flow, but it would be worth trying out. Assuming you had $150 to burn (literally).
Most customers, including those in Europe, shouldn't see any noticeable change. The longterm improvements customers will see is for more/better funding options (for everyone) and new banking products (for some regions).
This exact idea is something i m advocating for decades. Some countries already have english as a sec language (cyprus and i think malta).
Can't you do that now?

Edit: https://www.thedrive.com/news/5273/alex-roy-shatters-electri...
I disagree, one of those intangibles is the easiness to learn, so most of the time you get paid less for working on boring or undesirable but easy to learn things like one CRUD app after another. And you get paid better for more difficult and interesting things, because there are less people able to do it.
No because that's not informed consent. Different countries have different requirements, so the minimum varies by country, but all countries require some level of information about cookies for the consent to be "informed". At a minimum you'd need to link to more information about what cookies are and how they are used.

If the cookies do not involve personal data, then GDPR does not apply, and a popup/pushdown/modal with text, a link, an accept button, and a reject button is all you need.

If the cookies do involve personal data (e.g., IP address), then GDPR applies. For cookies where GDPR applies, the legal requirements depend on the purpose for using the cookie. Wach purpose for using cookies requires its own consent. For example, cookies used for analytics require separate consent from cookies used for third party advertising. If a website only used cookies for a single purpose, the consent window could be pretty small. If there are multiple purposes, it's basically going to be a privacy policy just for cookies.

There are several billion dollar lawsuits against online adtech because it's not clear under GDPR whether anonymous but unique cookieIDs are personal data. If they are, the entire industry violates GDPR.
Good move, Sony had up to now more exclusive titles for their Playstation lines. Many people wrote off the new XBox because there were not enough exclusive titles. Now perhaps next Doom etc. will be time limited exclusive for the Xbox.
And why spend money yourself when you can just let other people spend their own money cleaning up your mess.

After all a corporation’s civic duty is to maximize their profits so they can’t be expected to clean up their pollution when they can off load it for free!

Hashtag capitalism gone wrong.
How I miss the old days simplicity. One php
File you just uploaded with ftp and that was the deployment. Now you need to know so many frameworks and processes to deploy a simple web app. It’s overwhelming and I get anxious because It’s so hard to choose what to learn.
Worth mentioning, Milton has made Billions on Nikola. Even if he's convicted of fraud, he's unlikely to serve any time and will still have billions he fleeced off of people.
what is the deal with the software engineering -> woodworking pipeline? is it that programmers get so fed up of working with abstract concepts that they immediately pendulum-swing to the most concrete form of building (that can still be done by only one person) that they can find?
I know that talking about propaganda and shills on HN is frowned upon, but it seems relevant to this discussion. I believe that the negative opinions of Assange mostly consist of either propaganda by sock puppets, people that heard this propaganda and repeated themselves, or a bit of both. Assange was held in high esteem by the public until they finally got a foothold on how to bury him. Intelligence agencies and their contractors have been trying to smear and shut him down since before he was arrested, such as the Palantir/HB Gary fiasco [1].

In short, when you see smart people saying silly things, sometimes it's not due to emergent organic causes.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/02/the-ridiculous-p...
I don't believe Assange was ever charged. He was just wanted for questioning.
I'm not personally a fan of his but this comparison is nonsense.
Thanks you are right, its not a palidrome. However the language it matches is still not a regular language.
Support forum for dyslexia sufferers
What’s the Algorithm for Spaced Repetition?
I want to make a quick command line app to help me memorize stuff using spaced repetition but I can’t seem to find the algorithm spelled out anywhere? How often to show missed facts, how often to show ones you know?
That's a different, and perfectly valid, choice. It's not my choice, however. I can't have my choice with Apple, which is why my personal machine is not a Mac.
Should we 'translate' Shakespeare into modern English? (2015)
Well, a fresh graduate can get paid $100k in USA, but to get 70k Euros paid annually, as an experienced developer, you have to jump through hoops with HR and management in Europe. Europe will continue to lose their talent to USA, as long as the pitiful salaries do not increase to an acceptable degree.
That's some impressive mental gymnastics to try to redefine a market to be more like one you want it to be. Here's a tip: Markets are defined by demand, not supply.
Advancing the accurate tracking of energy poverty
Under half a pound is adjusting for the lower population. 65m pounds of fish sticks and 156m people.
Boeing is too big to fail and everyone knows it. Nobody is going to jail.
I love it.

At the same time, I would never buy it unless I was somehow earning residual income by having it.

SASS pricing not a good model for the average consumer due to the way costs accrue.

If there as a free tier for unlimited personal usage or a one time reasonable fee for unlimited personal usage, I’d probably jump on this. (If I’m going to bother to use a tool, I want a level that I can use on all my personal projects - the model of a few for free is just a waste of time for me) And then a paid tier for people want to use it professionally - eg sharing permissions etc.

Otherwise, awesome tool!
That does depend in some areas of technical /systems programming back then you normally developers where expected to know the basics and be able to do all that - the original full stack developer OSI 1-7.

Trouble is they tended to be interesting but poorly paid jobs
Yeah I did the same. I went from being an avionics/aviation electrician to college and then to being a software engineer. I hated being in the elements all the time so I wanted to have an officer job. Overall it's been good for me but I do miss working with my hands more.

> Turning my hobbies in jobs killed off a lot of fun I used to have.

Yep. I haven't really worked on any of my hobby projects like I had before.
Plus Oracle is being shady with their licensing terms.
They're both basically a great value gaming PC at this point. With a handful of hardware-level optimizations making them cheap and powerful for the price.
States’ rights?