skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If a tax scheme is poorly designed and has loopholes, the correct way to solve the problem is to redesign said tax scheme and close the loopholes.

Not to complain about individual actors following the schemes that you set up.

Why do you feel Airbnb should voluntarily donate money to the government beyond what they are legally required? How much should they donate? Will all other companies be required to provide this donation, or just the high profile ones that upset you?
"[Fraser] worked out how long a rope is needed to allow a goat to graze in exactly half the volume of an n-dimensional sphere as n goes to infinity."

That sounds way too much like the punchline of a stereotypical mathematician joke.
Interesting - are you using something like jacktrip for low-latency audio?
The downside of disabling active resources is huge. It would mean a catastrophic interruption to the customers application exactly when its the most popular/active. And theres no practical way to determine whether the customer is “trying it out” or running a key part of their business on any particular resource.

On the other hand retroactively forgiving the cost of unexpected/unintentional usage doesnt impact the customers users. And with billing alerts the customer is able to make the choice of whether the cost is worth it as it happens.

Note: Principal at AWS. Have worked to issue many credits/bill amendments, but dont work in that area nor do I speak for AWS.
Cannot upvote this enough. I wrote an article on this recently, shameless plug:

https://alexstlouis.medium.com/apple-vs-the-web-e88b9362c010
SPAC could be the "better" way perhaps.
I have a payment plan setup with Chase to take money out of my Chime bank account. First month, payment processed fine as expected. Second month, payment didn't go through (I had enough money in the bank). I call Chase, they say "its fine, sometimes things take a few days" Call Chime "No, there are no pending transactions, don't worry. Rinse, wash and repeat for 10 days. Today, Chase says "we reprocessed the payment after Chime returned the transaction" Chime says "There have been no attempted transactions. I start a three way call, Chase says "No, state law prohibits us from having 3 way calls. We need a written letter." We're really going to preplan a 3 way call in the future after I send a letter? Fuck right off. Chime says there is nothing they can do. I tell both parties that I consent but they both can't speak to each other and can't even have a three-way call with me.

Banks are all dumpster fires of bureaucracy and regulation. I doubt any banks are "great"
I'd look around just to see what options are out there.

I think many places will have similar issues. For example, I work at a highly rated company. The company expects you to show more dedication the higher you go. They measure that by the hours you work (even though policy says not to and sets them at 7.5 working hours per day). This is a financial company that constantly pushes technical people to increase financial knowledge.

So in order to be given the promotion, you want me to increase my working hours by about 13%. The new position has more responsibilities. You will give me only a 7% raise. Why the hell would I increase my hours, effectively taking an hourly pay cut, for a job with more responsibilities? Hey management, I can see you paying me less to do more. How's that for financial acumen.
Might not seem critical for today’s needs... but it’s more about enabling future use cases which may not even exist yet. Think super high res VR streaming, etc
Dupe
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25378155
Given how many discussions revolve around the big tech companies here, it might just be a matter of more people souring on them. Unfortunately it's often easier for a company that dominates a market to use that leverage to squeeze out more revenue than it is for them to produce exciting innovations; something we're seeing play out a lot these days. I still see a lot of excited comments about companies I have little to no knowledge of, and have found some neat products through those discussions.
I'm absolutely astounded that cloud providers allow stuff to get this way and don't even go "ope, this looks out of the ordinary, we should look into it" Nor do they offer the ability to straight up kill all services if exceeding a certain price set by the customer.

Cloud is still good though, I believe it's the future. I just don't believe in deceiving your customers to hopefully rack up a high bill with them.

I view not having the ability to say "Shut everything down if I go over $100/mo" the same as pre-checked hidden cross sales that MasterCard/Visa cracked down on in the adult industry few years ago. Just money grabs.

I will definitely be putting such measures in my cloud platform.
> get better performance by violating emissions standards

Good. 95% of emissions standards are bullshit.

In any case, the ability to theoretically violate regulations isn't a reason to preclude people from DIY or third party repairs.
Your analogy would apply if 3rd party car mechanics had a history of installing GPS trackers and hidden microphones.

We decided to punish people criminally who betray our trust in that way in physical space, and that usually works well enough that we can have enough of a trust-based society that we can let someone else have unsupervised access to our car for short periods of time.

For a variety of reasons, that trust has completely broken down with cell carriers and app developers. So we have to resort to a feudal system in which we rely on the local Lord to protect our interests.

I hate it too, but I need someone looking out for my privacy and the security of my mobile device. Apple is the best I can find.
Bing is unmatched when it comes to searching for porn videos.
They have also threatened to "become a Singapore style tax haven"...
> The committee voted 17-4 in favor that the known benefits of the vaccine,

I watched most of the discussion. There was a lot of discussion (I would, perhaps call it woodshedding) about the whether 16 and 17 year olds should be included. Not because it's not safe for them, but because they're far less likely to be as negatively impacted by the disease as older age groups and therefore the very small risk is more meaningful. I think that's where some of the 4 no votes came from.

Final step should come soon:

> Following the advisory committee meeting, FDA’s career professional staff will consider the input of the advisory committee members and continue their evaluation of the submission to determine whether the available safety and effectiveness and manufacturing data support an emergency use authorization of the specific COVID-19 vaccine in the United States.

https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/vaccines/emerge...
God this sucks. Last to the party and with the worst version.
I thought tech companies were moving away from degrees?
>What's more, we tend to think of the "West" as "won" but these states are mostly still growing as part of the American Westward expansion. A lot of Western State land only became easily accessible with the completion of the interstates in the 1960s 1970s and even 1980s.

On the one hand, this is true in a literal sense. On the other, there are as many people (~20M) in the SoCal triangle southwest of the Transverse Ranges as there are in the remainder of the Colorado and Great Basins (NV+AZ+UT+CO = ~20M) combined, yet we continue to ship water from Lake Mead and Owens Lake to Los Angeles. Improving the situation in California would take a lot of stress off of everyone else.
If they didn't have a semi-legal business model, someone with a lot of money would have eaten their lunch already. By being in a gray area, they can avoid competition from the publicly traded behemoths. After all, AirBnB isn't that hard of a website to copy. Facebook could have ripped the whole concept off, if they wanted to get into that business, in about 2 months.
I also reccomend these.

Off brands could be a cheaper option to look at too. Seems like Gunnar is more expensive now than when I got them over a decade ago.
I think java as a language is fine, it's all the java culture around it that makes it bad. Kotlin is a big improvement and I think it will eventually become the next java in java codebases as it expands out of the android world.
Yeah it very much depends on the faculty member.

Keep in mind that some academics truly love this stuff too. They’re enjoying socializing and keeping up on the field and it quickly changes the “work” dynamic when you’re not writing as much code anymore. I think you’re both correct though.

I would agree that doctors and lawyers have the most hard working hours. No room for error as the doctor, and just mounds of tedious paperwork as a lawyer.
> the runtime, the development tooling, and selection of libraries and other integrations is about as good as it gets

This is a great feature of Clojure, being able to access all of the benefits of the Java ecosystem and the zillions of hours invested into it.

There may not always be a ready-made Clojure wrapper over libraries, but the java interop tools are excellent and writing your own interface into a library is usually quite straightforward.
The fact that it's 2020 and this comment is not buried in downvotes is what makes those times really scary.
I think you might be overestimating how much merit is a factor in the selection of board members. Corporate boards are incredibly incestuous. The most reliable way to get on a board is to be in an old money family and know other people on the board.

One could argue that the current system of selecting corporate executives produces no better result than the general election process used to select some government officials. Certainly there is no lack of poorly run companies in the modern world, especially when compared to highly competitive companies like Apple under Steve Jobs and Tesla/SpaceX under Elon Musk. The advantage to corporate boards is that candidates don't have to spend time and energy with public campaigning, but they gravitate towards conservative governance that is unable to adapt to changing times.

At any rate, the competence of the leadership at companies doesn't really matter. If they make money they can be taxed on that. How competent the leadership is may or may not impact how much money they make. Poorly managed companies may even make more money in the short term.
As noted above, DOCSIS 4 supports "full" duplex which allows 10Gb/s down and 6Gb/s up, partially by sharing the same channels for upload and download.
> I prefer functional programming, and have a background in functional programming, but I still primarily work with Java... In my opinion, Java as a language is gross and unlovable, but the runtime, the development tooling, and selection of libraries and other integrations is about as good as it gets.

It sounds like Clojure is perfect for you then. You have all the upsides of Java you mention here with Clojure because it's hosted on the JVM (among other platforms). You can use Java libraries and SDKs seamlessly from Clojure, but the language itself was designed specifically for a functional style from the beginning.
I’ve run the foreign-language education app https://pollylingu.al few several years now
It doesn't matter if the "majority of Airbnb use now" is business-like.

That still enables the personal-experience ones to exist -- and there are tons of them.

One doesn't negate the other. A supermarket can sell conventional and organic produce at the same time.

Travelers and hosts have different tastes. Why wouldn't you cater to a broad range?
So looking at that list,

We have group meetings to cover the majority of:

- What's going well

- What's not going well

- Team priorities

- Brainstorm

My boss in general doesn't really give feedback.

And the answers "Ask for opportunities", "Career Planning", and "Ask for extra resources" is basically, "This is the job, if you want something else, go find a new job"

I did manage to get a raise and a few extra responsibilities by going out and getting a job offer at a different company.

I think probably the real answer is that my job is a dead end and probably an unhealthy environment to have spent so much time in.

But also I have outstanding work-life balance, which is my highest priority at the moment with three young kids at home.

In a couple years maybe that changes.
> someone inevitably shouts "use the simplest tool for the job!"

I think one problem is that configuration needs start out simple and evolve to complex - as opposed to being obvious from the start you'll need dozens of discrete components to deploy. At that early stage, anything beyond a few lines of YAML seems like definite overkill.

Eventually, it becomes clear that it's very hard to maintain, but by then there's thousands of lines of hard-knocks battle-tested, working production config to try and basically recreate from scratch, without breaking anything.

Until you've gone through this process once (or maybe a couple times..) it's hard to see why you should make that initial leap to a much more complex, tools-required workflow. "But eventually, we will probably need..." is a tough sell against someone arguing to do the simplest thing.
I use Java professionally, and it's a factor in why I recently decided to look away from Clojure and pick a different after-hours language.

The problem for me is the JVM itself. I don't like all the excess complexity that comes from its unsurpassably enterprise-grade level of configurability. I don't like being trapped behind a distressingly awkward FFI. I don't like being required to adjust control levers for aspects of memory usage I'd rather be automatic, while simultaneously having little ability to control the aspects of memory usage that matter to me. I don't like having Java's half-baked type model hiding just under the surface no matter what language I choose, just waiting for a chance to jump scare me. et cetera.

Don't get me wrong, other platforms have their problems, too. Oftentimes they're even more of a headache. But at least they're different headaches. Yes, I like to program for fun, but that doesn't mean I don't like a change of pace on the weekends.
They did. Brave ads are opt-in only, and served via system notifications.
No, they're copying Twitter 4 years after they copied Instagram 4 years after they copied Snapchat.
> iPhones or Safari are any more private. Just because it's a fixed size browser that you can't customize with extensions

Do Content Blockers qualify as extentions?
iOS apps are searchable with the system search, if they choose to export data to it.

Web apps can be searchable of course, but it’s a lot more work if you can’t just expect Google to index the page.
There will always be loopholes.

Companies don't HAVE to create a double Irish dutch sandwich, creating webs of companies that loan IP to each other and other such nonsense. They make a choice to do this. This isn't about them overpaying or "donating". This is about them doing the right thing.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/nov/28/netflix-to-sta...

They can do the right thing. They just choose not to.
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> Only Gigabit? I'm holding out for 10G!

10G is for newbs. IEEE Std 802.3ca-2020 does 25Gbps (50G if two lambdas are used):

* https://blog.siemon.com/standards/ieee-p802-3ca-25-gb-s-and-...

* https://www.cablelabs.com/25g-50g-epon-standard-crosses-the-...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_in_the_first_mile

Though most PON fibre deployments seem to use the ITU GPON standards, and not the IEEE's EPON. An ITU group seems to have been formed for 25G:

* https://www.lightwaveonline.com/fttx/pon-systems/article/141...

* https://www.csimagazine.com/csi/25GS-PON-MSA-group.php

AFAICT, both technologies use the same underlying Layer 1 fibre and laser power budgets.

Besides ISPs, a lot of this PON infrastructure is also used by telcos for mobile tower backhaul.
Watch the lawsuits fly from their trade violations during COVID-19. I think the early shutdowns violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act will hit them hardest - my house was delisted without fair notice - hitting me so hard the property had to be liquidated. Looking for an attorney if anyone knows of a class action.
Kotlin now has a new master and needs to decide how much they want to innovate on the JVM or keep the language compatible with ART capabilities and Android libraries.

KMM can only help so much, specially when all the big Java projects are all integrated into stable releases.
Volkswagen should be able to make their cars as difficult to repair or modify as they want. There are so many other options for cars out there, if I care about modifying my car why would I buy a Volkswagen in the first place? I'll just go buy a different car that is more friendly for what I want to do.
If a Google person is reading this, the blog has a dead link at "Please install it by going to this link: goo.gle/wasm-debugging-extension"
Yes, I know about GitHub and the like.

But working in collaboration is always a hassle, you spend a lot of energy in reporting and getting people to agree. So what you usually do it to do your work locally, maybe have your own TODO list, and when you are done, you clean up your work and make a nice commit. Sometimes you can't even do that, you have to send it to an integrator who then assigns your work to a reviewer and write a test, and... lots of stuff.

What you see on GitHub tends to lag significantly behind what is actually being worked on. In fact, a lot of developers tend to dislike messy histories. They take great care of squashing and rebasing so that the history looks like a nice, linear, well documented process. This is not reality, reality is "forgot to add file", "removed debug trace", "fixed merge didn't compile".

Now back to the spying. Imagine you are working on an open source project, with a bug tracker, continuous integration, and all the bells and whistles of a modern collaborative platform. Because you don't want to show others the ugly truth of actual development work, if can take a few days before the thing you are working with appears on the platform, if not weeks.

Now imagine a rogue actor who doesn't like to collaborate and really wants to get an edge. Instead of getting the nice, clean version from the main repository, he goes to the main developer computer and copies his workspace, and then rush to release something before the next nice commit hits the mainline.

That's the idea behind such hacks: try to copy a work in progress, not understanding what went behind it, and, by limiting collaborative effort and testing, try to get something out as fast as possible.
It is an inflatable mattress which is inflated with air, and a mattress is a bed, hence an airbed. When not in use you deflate it, fold it, and put it away. When you need it, you pump it up in the living area or wherever there is space on the floor.
> The question is then who is doing criminal activity? Is PornHub liable because couple users sneaked something that is illegal? Or is there something we are not aware of and PornHub engaged in it? There is no information on that.

You are missing the point here.

MasterCard doesn't care.

They have zero interest in fighting legal battles to retain PornHub's business.

> If it is the case that only minority of users are responsible then Youtube

YouTube spends a ton of money building extensive controls to catch illegal content and remove it from their platform as quickly as possible. So much so a lot of should be legal content gets sucked up and blocked/ removed.

From the sounds of it, PornHub doesn't have similar controls even as they are in a business which neck deep in potential legal/ ethical challenges.
I think people tend to overestimate how much bandwidth they use. Pandora and other services stream audio at something like 256kbps. And for most people who aren't audiophiles, that's a high-quality stream. Uncompressed CD Audio is something like 1.5mbps.

Netflix serves up 1080p video at around 4-6mbps. Just for fun, lets round that up to 10mbps per stream, you're talking about being able to handle 50 simultaneous streams at 500mbps.

And really, you're only serving one stream outbound to your video chat service, assuming something like Twitch or whatever. And that always gets compressed to hell. Not to mention, most webcams aren't going to serve up Netflix-quality video, so there's not even a point to trying to use that much bandwidth from the incoming feeds.
How are you enjoying solvespace? I wanted to use it for a project but I found that I was completely unable to use it for integer-parametric designs. E.g. if I wanted 10 of something stacked end-to-end, I couldn't figure out how to do that without breaking the solver.
> And which part of your discerning mind has the superhuman ability to process and fully investigate every bit of information you run across vying for your attention?

Good question. Of course, there is no individual human mind capable of such a thing, and so why should such a mind be permitted to decide what the masses get to see?
Judge Kenny's judgement is below:
https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/...

For the specific claim that we are discussing (poll challengers being kicked out at TCF), his ruling does not address the substantial number of affidavits that were provided.

The only place in the document where he addresses the meaningful observation issue, is in page 8, where he considers just one of the plaintiff's affidavits. Many affidavits on this issue were provided, with testimony to the effect that Republican observers were not allowed to do their job, kicked out, and they were not allowed to replaced. There is testimony that the Republican observers that were removed, were replaced with Democrat observers, resulting in many tables having 2 Democrat observers at the same table, and no Republicans.

The vast majority of the issued in these affidavits were not addressed by the judge. The closest that Judge Kenny came to addressing the above is with the below quote from page 8:

> Democratic party challenger David Jaffe and special consultant Christopher Thomas in their affidavits > both attest to the fact that neither Republican nor Democratic challengers were allowed back in during > the early afternoon of November 4th.

First off, this is 2 affidavits, compared to the dozens of affidavits that were provided by the plaintiff.

Second, it doesn't address at all the issue of Republican observers being kicked out. It only addresses the issue of observers not being allowed back in. It also does not address the imbalance of Democrat/Republican observers.

For this specific claim that we are discussing, dozens of affidavits simply were not addressed. This judge, as did the judge prior, simply ignored the vast majority of affidavits without addressing them. And then labelled the entire case as "not credible".

Again - we are discussing a specific claim (by your suggestion), so I would very much like to see where these specific claims/affidavits are deemed "not credible."

Outside of this specific claim we are discussing, I'm curious if you think this woman is similarly "not credible"? The issue that she is outlining seems pretty illegal to me with very little room for interpretation. Other witnesses made similar claims as well.

Christina Caramo testimony starts at 1:34:45
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZXkAv7yKgw&list=UU8Ioh4atND...

> The only question, is, is the USA still a democracy?

Very valid question.