skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
severity of the sentence in Germany depends on who. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uli_Hoene%C3%9F#Tax_evasion_an...

a brown person and refugee who gets convicted with a few gram of weed AND for not having a registered address with the police (as is law in Germany) often spends more time behind bars than somebody like the above. Bavaria (CDU/CSU) is especially notorious for being tough on immigrants or foreigners.
This is how a milking stage of a product looks like, it's a last stage before death.
If four words alone can change the entire meaning then I would say that is likely to mislead people.

I am sure you can agree they didn't do their best in making the nature of the contract as clear as possible here.
Delaware LLCs take literal minutes and just a small amount of paperwork. We created a LLC because we bought a boat. since my partner wasn’t a US citizen it couldn’t be documented with her name on it so we created a LLC who technically owned it and me holding 50.1% ownership.

Any documents to the LLC goes to a POBox in Delaware. There is very little attaching my name to it that you could find without a court order.
What is that supposed to mean? Fail fast and move on is one of the mantras of the industry and as far as I can tell from reading HN most startup founders and employees all have numerous startups under their belt unless they accidently unicorned their very first one.
The Economics of 24/7 Lo-Fi Hip-Hop YouTube Livestreams
Just split them into separate variable definitions:

int i1 = 1;
int i2 = 2;

The "usual footgun" is:

int i1, i2, i3 = 0;

Only i3 will be initialized in this case. And since one needs to write out the assignments anyway, adding the type for each variable doesn't hurt either.

(today's compilers usually have uninitialized-warnings for this though, but sometimes people forget to add a -Wall to their compiler options, especially beginners, and then get stuck on such trivial problems).
Which is over 5 years after Powershell became common.
I doubt most HN readers even know what 8051 is.
Domino’s starts making autonomous pizza deliveries
Ok, but the reason he (kind of) knows a bit about Marxism it is because he's a right-wing accelerationist (more specifically, a neoreactionary), and this needs to be properly said in context before just naively moving on with "he's a billionaire who has actually read Marx and has the caliber able to critique him".

Accelerationists are people who view that capitalism can be a liberating force for humanity, whether it can contradict and end itself to achieve a communisty society (left-wing), or its capitalist systems will supersede humanity itself towards a technological singularity (right-wing). There are also some other kinds such as U/acc (Unconditional accelerationism) and G/acc (Gender accelerationism). But regardless of political position they all acknowledge their influences from Marx (since he's one of the first scholars who have articulated the revolutionary aspect of non-linear capitalist growth, and often hailed as a proto-accelerationist). Though Deleuze/Guattari is perhaps the more important figure here, as (in their book Anti-Oedipus) they map out how capitalism is a deterritorializing force that scrambles away previous territories of tribe, nation, religion, family, and ideology.

To be honest, Thiel's perhaps far more dangerous than any previous right-wing populist such as Trump, since he actually has some capital and connections (and the will) in order to actually achieve his techno-feudalist dream. His dreams of an America as a monarchist society run by a CEO might be really good for the current rich elites in tech, but clearly the most of us are not them, and we would still be getting fucked anyway (previously by a corrupt neoliberal government, now by a fascist-libertarian one!). Even though some of his assessment of the pitfalls of liberal democracy in the US might be agreeable, we really should be able to think a better future society for the majority than anything of Thiel's vision.
Yes, there are[0]. We call them tyttebær.

[0]: https://www.raavareguiden.dk/frugt/tyttebaer.html
Yeah, I understand that. Took me a while to get past it too.

What helped was the realisation that almost all of the history of Science is made up of wealthy individuals scratching their creative itches. Art and Music less so, because patronage was a common method of funding that, but we lost out on a huge amount of both because patronage was rare. Imagine what we will discover, what vast wealth of new knowledge and talent we will enjoy, if we can free up those who can make a genuine contribution from having to pay rent? (and yes, 90% of everything is shit, but the 10% makes up for it).

Also, I changed my "scarcity" mindset. I enjoy what I do, and get paid enough to do it. Paying taxes is part of that. I resent the various governments I've paid taxes to for wasting my money in all sorts of ludicrous ways, including the vast subsidies to wealthy people and industries I flat disagree with. Paying my tax money to actual people seems like a great deal to me :)
You are making the same mistake as all the revolutionaries you mention - you completely disregard the problem of efficiently allocating limited resources, and that there are vast differences in capabilities of different people to do it. In other words, merely putting the means of production into hands of workers and asking them to manage these by consensus does not guarantee "society in which nobody has to worry for a place to sleep and food to feed their children". There are some cases which succeeded, yes, but also many that failed.
Reminds me of Pure Data
As others have mentioned, this doesn't have a sandbox escape so you need to run with --no-sandbox for the exploit to work
> It just has to be before you commit to the contract.

But then the other half [0] of this thread that claim putting the dropdown on the second page isn't enough.

> No, that page shows no prices whatsoever.

It states you can cancel and will be charged 50% of the remaining balance. That number depends on when you cancel, so it's not possible to give an actual figure to it. Could that flow be improved? Sure, you could have a page per product, but I do'nt think it's deceitful to have a clear link to the cancellation terms of the contract from both the marketing page _and_ the purchase page.

> Your minimum commitments should be shown before you agree to the contract.

One click on the purchase page shows this [1] which shows three options, one for prepaid, one for annual for paid monthly, and one for monthly. How much clearer do you want it?

> Here's an example of a more complicated flow from an Australian phone carrier Telstra,

That flow is almost identical to Adobe's - it doesn't show you the actual cost to the customer, it shows you the cost of the device, and separately the cost of the subscription. On the cancellation terms page, it also tells you you will be due "the full amount" - not what the amount is. (Unrelated, that's a nice recording).

This stuff is _hard_, yes adobe could do better, but at a certain point, you have to accept that the user understands the terms of what they're agreeing to. An "Annual Plan, paid monthly" couldn't really be any clearer.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26787289

[1] https://imgur.com/a/AOwlyoQ
There is nothing wrong with multiple declarations.
Tinder’s plan for criminal record checks raises fears of ‘lifelong punishment’
NFTs – The Future or Another Fad?
Not a single Intel Atom embedded (E3xxx) is currently available at Mouser
Is it irony? They all think they're slaying monsters.
The one from dalbasal on the last page of comments is pretty lengthy and good.

Also, user ailmanki (also last page) said:

>> Every system requires sooner or later another system on top. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory

That would explain what is happening.

The user narrator (also last page) also raises an interesting point:

>> I'm surprised this article didn't mention test driven development for building large pieces of software!

^ He then makes a good case for TDD.

TBH I don't see much improvement in quality at all reading the top comments. Some are dead wrong, for example, the user snidane says (which is/was in the top three on the first page if you ignore nested sub-comments):

>> The tooling is simply not there, so every software project keeps pushing the boundary of what is possible in its own unique fragile way.

Not only is that comment dead wrong (the tooling is definitely there, I've worked on some of these scalability open source tools), it contradicts another comment just above it (by user the_duke) which received just a few more votes:

>> At scale software stops being a technology problem and becomes a people problem. And groups of humans don't scale.
Blog Post Will Drive Thousands of People to Your Shopify App
This is a detailed article about content marketing for Shopify apps. Backed by data.
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This didn’t get any comments when it was submitted in 2017, but there were some 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21645181
In node, nearly all of the stuff has sync versions and global await is around the corner.

For every other saner environment (read: browser consoles), global await is a thing already, and you get immediate feedback, and have a canvas (with sync APIs!).

That being said, I do think that the best programming language to start learning is the one your parents/friends speak.
Researchers Postpone Test Flight for Geoengineering Project to Block Sun
> The trouble is that the baseline level of inconvenience doesn't phase a criminal enterprise, because to even exist it already has to incur the cost of operating unlawfully and risk being shut down and compensate employees for the risk of being charged with a crime, regardless of AML.

Operating an illegal enterprise in such a manner that cash can make it past AML measures and eventually be spent by the enterprise's owners, and the concomitant problem of structuring the enterprise's bookkeeping and tax reporting so it has enough plausibility to avoid prosecution, is more than an inconvenience. It's the central business problem the owners of those enterprises face. Talking about their business costs and risks "regardless of AML" doesn't really make a lot of sense.

> But the AML rules don't only inconvenience people who are really doing something wrong. There are obvious privacy problems with associating every purchase anyone makes with their name, and chilling effects for what people are willing to buy. It creates friction in things that aren't illegal.

This problem, the effects of which you're wildly overstating, has little or nothing to do with AML measures. (You mentioned a chilling effect on things that aren't illegal - are we just talking about stuff that people don't want their spouses to see on the credit card bill?) It's true that every purchase you make without cash will have a lot of detail associated with it, stored electronically and held by the banks and credit cards processors. This all predates modern AML rules by decades.

You would have to do something very unusual for one of your transactions to "create friction" with your bank under the guise of AML rules. If it has ever happened to you, I'm super curious about the circumstances. Insofar as AML and other more modern, security-related rules might inconvenience ordinary people, they tend to affect people when opening an account, not when transacting.
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Appreciated, upvoted you for being so understanding. It's easy to lose context in these threads often!
Seconding sibling comment -- I'm running Ubuntu 20.10 and Timidity ran the MIDI file out of the box just fine.
Et Tu, Johnson&Johnson?
It's more difficult to read and edit.
>Germany

What? ISP and similar contracts in Germany almody work exactly like this but with 2 years minimum not 1 and no cancelation in the last 3 months of the period.
What things are truly within your control?
Doesn't determinism imply that you have no choice whether you feel regret or not?
Fairy Circles in Australia My Be Due to Microbes, Study
Simple,reasonable fast Python Raytracer capable of rendering beautiful 3D scenes
I agree with you.

Not that I have looked recently, what I see missing is a 'northwid' or 'contoso' database. As well as some MOOC with a gentle ramping up of skills.

If you know of a good MOOC on RDF I would love to know about it.
Adobe isn't going anywhere anytime soon. It may at some point,but not in the next 10-15 years. The last time I looked at their SEC fillings, they are doing pretty good. Of course how they achieve this 'pretty good' is a whole new question on its own. Adobe is very strongly rooted in the design industry, there are very few alternatives that are mainly used by smaller shops or individuals. I do agree that they are absolutely riding on their own wave right now due to lack of competition, but someday, someone will come along with a better offering.
Well that supposition can be checked easily...

$ dpkg -S /etc/login.defs
login: /etc/login.defs

https://packages.ubuntu.com/login -> hirsuite -> changelog gets you to https://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/s/shadow/... where you can see this is an ubuntu-specific patch introduced in version 1:4.8.1-1ubuntu8
Why complain? If you desire to run Arch, then expect to read the wiki and pick up the configuration that the sloppy packagers won't provide.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MIDI
Something like the UK's Child Benefit?

https://www.gov.uk/child-benefit
I'm amused to see 'wmf commenting today about M1 ;)
No, I don't see how it is possible. First of all, West and East use different metrics and different words for describing political views. E.g. "left" in US and "left" in Russia are very different things (also, "left" and "right" are almost not used in Russia).

I happen to remember USSR collapse, then the awful years of Yeltsin, when everything went to hell: economy was dead, crime rate went through the roof - there were shootings every day on the streets, suicide rate went through the roof, population started to decline because people didn't want to have children (or didn't have means to raise children), millions were starving to death. And I remember how this started to change almost the next day after the first election of Putin. No more street shootings and businessmen cars explosions. Corruption started to wither (and continues to this day). Not only old buildings stopped to deteriorate, but new buildings, roads and bridges started to appear everywhere.

In short, just about every metric you can measure started to improve under Putin's rule. Except maybe some "freedom of speech" which is almost unimportant to me. I remember that "freedom of speech" was used to calumniate Russian past and present in 90s, I don't remember a single good thing caused by "freedom of speech" in 90s. Bunch of freaks were allowed to speak on TV and other media, what they said caused only strong negative emotions in everyone. It was obvious that it had nothing to do with making our life better.
Wealth inequality is known to exist because you can scientifically derive it from data. Income independent of debt shows a huge wealth gap that was not prevalent in the past.

Be wary of data and whether or not your speculations contradict the data.
Translation:

Sure thing. I'm going to buy Coinbase stock with leverage on the day of its direct listing and hope that I will HODL it all the way to the moon. When it goes back down, it doesn't matter if I'm wiped out or a bag holder, I can still get a way with it via asking for a bailout just because a big hedge fund can do it. /s
Thanks for sharing your story. Real life stories like your give far more insights to life than cooked up biographies of billionaires.
I don’t know. Incarceration is an old idea with surprisingly scant evidence, despite it long predating our ability to analyze it dispassionately. Besides, many white collar crimes, like money laundering, lack a proper victim. So you’re missing both the quantitative and qualitative justification to send executives to jail.

Your outrage shouldn’t be focused on this. Instead demand that all justice for all crimes be evidence based, especially for crimes committed by normal people.
Nvidia Reveals BlueField-3, BlueField-4 DPUs: 400-800 Gbps, 22-64B Transistors
Dont forget Sun. I remember a time when SPARC ruled the datacenter.....
-Wstrict-prototypes

"Warn if a function is declared or defined without specifying the argument types."
> Socializing some things ... kill all the intellectuals

This is a false dichotomy and huge oversimplification.

> Extremists are always wrong.

Another one. Who defines what's moderate and what's extreme? Completely rejecting slavering was called extreme, as universal suffrage was.

The current economical system is destroying the planet and hence completely unsustainable. We need radical changes to survive.
JavaScript itself is not async. It's the programs/engines that runs the scripting language that have decided to make it async with callbacks. For example Microsoft JS is not async.
* ES2022? do have some garbage collection hook that uses a callback, so if that makes it into the standard you could say that JS/ES is async. JavaScript itself does not (yet) have any async functions.
In the UK, house construction companies buy up huge tracts of land and then build at a rate that keeps house prices high.

Profit margin at the publicly listed UK house builders in around 30%
A lot of people pre-suppose that “wealthy inequality” is a bad thing. But not everyone agrees, and many people think the greater good is served by things that might increase “the wealth gap” as a side effect. PG’s essay was exploring that very thought - maybe we want a higher Gini coefficient, maybe it’s good that vast fortunes are being accumulated by young tech entrepreneurs who provide goods/services that almost everyone in the world wants to use, maybe this is what the more dynamic and broadly enriching economy looks like, compared to the stodgier, class-divided alternative.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool
"I started smoking meth, and my productivity doubled!"
Sigh this hits me really hard looking back. Oh well can only make the most of tomorrow
How does this work? Do all of the pre-SPAC shareholders agree to sell their shares to the SPAC? Or do they swap shares and become a part of the SPAC?
In practice it’s overwhelmingly common for Directors in a company to be shareholders. I’m sure there’s a counter-example somewhere, but it’s quite rare.
Good point, to be more accurate I should say that the crimes carried out because of pedophilia are more more severe than the crime statutory rape.
Is there more info on how your fao source performed the calculations? The Netherlands is actually a very significant meat exporter (78% of poultry and beef, 95% of calves, and 43% of pork is exported [0]). As a matter of fact, meat is the most valuable export product after flowers.

A lot of the exported animals are first imported, are then held and slaughtered in the Netherlands, and then the meat is exported again for financial gain. So in terms of meat,
I'd think they are a caloric exporter but still highly dependent on other countries.

Hence my question: how were the fao numbers calculated?

[0] (Dutch) https://www.trouw.nl/economie/hoe-nederland-uitgroeide-tot-e...
I'm not really into the idea of just killing everything that annoys me.
In a beta no less.
> Is the energy cost per transaction in real world for bitcoin going up or down? Everything else is trying to muddy it up from my personal perspective.

Energy is expended to secure the network as a whole and not for the transfer of coins.

But if you insist on computing such a metric with only limited applicability, the answer is: Yes, the metric goes up:

Estimated power consumption per day, 2020-2021 +5%:

01/01/2020: 0.2 TWh
01/01/2021: 0.211 TWh

Estimated number of onchain transactions per day, 2020-2021: +6%:

01/01/2020: 288K
01/01/2021: 305K

And this doesn't even include all the hidden private transactions that occur off-chain on Layer 2 solutions like the Lightning Network:

Number of nodes on the Lightning Network, 2020-2021 +60%:

01/01/2020: 5K
01/01/2021: 8K

Capacity of the Lightning Network, 2020-2021 +430%:

01/01/2020: $6M
01/01/2021: $32M
The 'benefits' of an individual element of our ecosystem can be hard to quantify directly but I'd hazard a guess at

a) abundant food source for larger animals,

b) waste processing and disposal, and

c) pest control, although 'pest' is a relative term - perhaps better to characterise their place as helping to keep other populations in balance, part of the dynamic equilibrium if you like
> Why do you think the government would have to produce new ASICs, when they could just buy or seize the existing ones?

There is not enough of them to buy on the market to make 51% attack. Of course seizing is possible but hard because I imagine it would be quite hard to locate them, apart form large mining operations they are quite distributed.

In case of bitcoin network it would have to be a large multicountry operation. Because the miners are really distributed around the world.
> Those who don't understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.

What a low value and needlessly dismissive comment. And based on HN's track record it probably means Arcan actually has a shot.
> In general in v8 exploitation, once you've reached a point where you can read and write arbitrary memory, you find that v8 will only create either RW or RX pages for you when the JIT compilation happens. WASM is a neat little trick for getting a handle to a RWX page.

It's not a neat trick, but a grave problem of WASM model.

WASM memory (in)security will be a big problem until all of memory security tricks from native code will be migrated to WASM world, and then there will be not much use of WASM anymore.
I wish we could talk about style in objective terms, not just opinion. Opinions are kinda stupid. Here's my opinion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26790701 (actually that's just a faux opinion to make a point, but you get the point)

And if there are no objective facts, then maybe we could just stop calling other peoples' preferred style nasty and "bad habits" as if it were objective.
Do you have multiple contact cards for Bob Smith?
Human trafficking is a major source of laundered money.

https://ngm.com.au/money-laundering-human-trafficking/

https://www.state.gov/report-to-congress-on-an-analysis-of-a...
> Ah, C. Still the language of modern high-performance computing.

Yet its major compilers are written in C++ nowadays, and C++ is the main language for GPGPU computing, including the memory model used by NVidia on their cards.

I suggest some benchmarks updates to the author.
In Europe and the UK that won't fly. If it came with a price printed on the box, that's the price they should sell it at.
if they could easily do that(competitor for xeon) they would do it, it's a huge and very stable market, there is no reason to ignore it, if you have such a big advantage.
That‘s not a feature, it‘s a bug. An unregulated, emerging industry that comes with a baggage of enormous energy use, fraud and money laundering is one thing.

Letting it get to a level of „Too big to fail“ where regulation or an outright ban might have repercussions on whole economies is a whole another thing that I‘m not exactly looking forward to.
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Sponsorship welcome.
Remember kids, the only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSUMBBFjxrY
In other countries you don't need the "well understood" part, it's all up front info.
I was agreeing with your comment until the last sentence. Wealth is stable access to money, which is a fungible resource. Used appropriately, it can provide access to stability that would otherwise be inaccessible. Without such a resource, other factors of instability more likely to be chronic or even inescapable.