skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True. And folks here still set up Android boxes for international packages, sports streaming, watching TV shows immediately after they air, etc.

But it's a lot less frequent. I can't imagine as many people would use BitTorrent to download MP3s now that YouTube and Spotify can stream songs for free, for example. Even back in the era of P2P downloading, I would often listen to free streaming online radio stations because it was easier than having to make a playlist. Playlist quality, for example, can win out over piracy for folks who've tried AI recommendations from Spotify.

I do agree though, the UX of pirated material can sometimes be much higher. For example, some services force ads even after you pay them (Hulu, cable TV) and other ads are completely un-skippable (Blu-Ray trailers).

But I'd maintain that "the exact same thing for free" often isn't entirely free, and that at scale, industry can offer services that are higher quality than that of piracy at a competitive price and with less risk. They could, they just often don't.

And I'd point out there's a minimum age and computer-awareness to use piracy services. Someone has to help you set it up, for example, help you understand what's good or not. Perhaps even filter content for you.

By comparison, I can pay $X per year to Disney+ and know that whatever the kids watch is quality content and they know how to navigate the interface. It works roughly as well on cheap Android tablets and TV sticks as it does in a more expensive computer browser.

That said, even piracy can be paid, rather than free. People pay for VPNs, they pay for Usenet servers, or sometimes cloud bittorrent services, or faster downloads on file hosting sites. People even pay for piracy with their time, waiting or finding or setting up their content to download.

I can easily imagine that in the right climate, pirate services spring up to make it easier to watch content without caring about where it came from. You see this today with alternative app stores for example. Even legitimate paid services like Crunchyroll and YouTube were started at first by uploads of pirated content with better UX on top.

Commerce is everywhere, ultimately people pay what they want to pay and pick and choose the experience they prefer, I think... as long as DRM and device lockdowns and -- as we're talking about here, internet firewalls -- allow for such innovation, of course.
Still make trains but the parts to mechanize em are sold separately
Dewitt (hi!), this isn’t about an annual cash bonus though. This is for a “hit this target and we’ll do award X”.

Given that a number of “achievement” awards are in the < 5k realm today at major tech companies, I think this should be compared to those, not annual bonuses. So in Google terms this is like an outsized spot bonus opportunity with clear (flawed) rules.
You've hit the nail on the head. It's the same for some other industries like courses teaching you how to trade stocks. The way they make money is the course, not the trading.
They had their chance when the corporate tax rates were 35% or higher. We know the game, nothing is going to change with higher tax rates, except more money being wasted.
This reminds me of my first job as a developer, age 21. I haven’t shared it before, so here goes...

There was a ‘crunch’ coming up at work (i.e. IMHO, bad planning) and so the boss offered everyone a bonus if they performed well.

However, the older employees warned me that the criteria for such bonuses were often ill-defined. I therefore pushed for clear achievable objectives. These pre-agreed objectives were promised, but never provided.

Anyway, we all work hard, some more than others, but we met all the deadlines.

Then comes bonus time, and they propose that I be given 30% of the maximum bonus. I explained that I felt this was entirely unreasonable, as I met all my deadlines. No other objectives were set, and therefore I felt I deserved the full bonus.

They didn’t agree, and we went three rounds of meetings with more and more people in the meeting. Each time they tried to convince me what I was asking for was unreasonable.

At this point I should add that I had seen this boss (CEO, small company) be what I would now call abusive. Verbally abusive to junior staff members, and insulting members of staff behind their backs. So my loyalty was, well, absent.

So on the third round of weirdly manipulative meetings, we come to an impasse. So I explained that I still stand by my request, and I pulled out my letter of resignation.

At which point there is a long silence. My boss puts his head in his, and the other two people in the meeting (another boss, and my coworker) looked surprised, to put it mildly.

After collecting his thoughts, my boss asks: what is to stop me threatening to resign every time I don’t get my way? To which I calmly explain that he didn’t have to pay (Ie. I could just quit).

After a bit more stunned silence, the boss relents, and agrees to give me the full bonus.

I wait until the bonus is in my account then I hand in my notice anyway. Abusive bosses don’t get loyalty.

The best part is, the coworker in the meeting also didn’t get the full bonus, despite working much harder than me. He’d only asked her into the meeting to try to guilt/manipulate me. So not only did the boss have to give me the full bonus, he had to do the same for her too.

After that I went freelance. And 15 years later I can say it was the best decision ever.
Does it really make a difference? Seems like it should be set fairly high, if your company is aiming for growth, and sometimes growth is slower for various reasons
And the worst deal for America. Just pay your fucking taxes you wankers.
I have read the study (DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(10)61462-6) and, although it's vaguely written, it seems to be estimating total society-wide harm given current usage rates. Statements from Nutt such as "Overall, alcohol is the most harmful drug because it's so widely used" (reported at https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-11660210 regarding this study) seem to confirm this.

This is, in fact, the only sensible way to compare the relative harms of drugs. Otherwise, you can't put a number on how harmful X is without specifying the quantity and frequency of use, and they vary widely. With alcohol we know that lots of people consume small amounts weekly with little harm, and some people consume large amounts daily with major harm. The same is true for all drugs. The only data we have is for the current usage levels in society, so it makes sense to report harms for those levels.

At any rate, the paper boils down to "We asked a panel of experts how harmful are X, Y, Z in various ways on a 100 point scale and we averaged those numbers using some weights that seem vaguely plausible and here are the results!" And somehow the Lancet published it.
That does look pretty darn close.

The other thing I worry about with internet radios is to keep the price low. It's just too easy to have the underlying webstrate (is that a word?) up and disappear. Think of Frontier or the death of the early Grace Digital radios (Reciva?)
From here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement#Contr...

The 2014–16 EU investigation into Apple in Ireland (see below), showed that the Double Irish existed as far back as 1991.

Early U.S. academic research in 1994 into U.S. multinational use of tax havens identified profit shifting accounting techniques.[7][36] U.S. congressional investigations into the tax practices of U.S. multinationals were aware of such BEPS tools for many years.[37]

However, the U.S. did not try to force the closure of the Double Irish BEPS tool, instead it was the EU which forced Ireland to close the Double Irish to new schemes in October 2014.[38]

Nevertheless, existing users of the Double Irish BEPS tool (e.g. Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, amongst many others), were given five more years until January 2020, before the tool would be fully shut-down to all users.[29][39]

tl;dr It was the EU that shut down the Double Irish. The US gave them until 2020, so they milked it as long as they could.
As if LoC was a usable metric when it comes to a language as verbose as java.

Plus all the boilerplate coming not from the language but the OOP design patterns.
But seriously, SoL. It's like the Norwegian police keeping their guns locked in their patrol cars. If you don't have your tools on you when you need them, as critical situations occur very quickly, they're useless and you might as well not even have them.

If a veteran, or anyone, is suicidal or experiencing deep depression, they shouldn't have firearms around until they get better in the first place. When people get better, then give them back. Another problem in the US is there isn't any comprehensive healthcare or mental healthcare, so veterans and anyone else just falls through the cracks and isn't recognized to have their firearms taken away temporarily unless they make specific threats of harm or self-harm.

Baseball bats, batons, chef knives, box cutters, and OC spray are good enough for 99% of home defense needs. Let's say a tiny, tiny fraction of home invaders have firearms and are willing to engage in a firefight; most thieves just want valuables and don't want a fight and it's unlikely to have a home invasion unless people know someone stockpiles cash or valuables at home. The primary advantages of firearms are range and safety that comes with it if used properly and skillfully to stop a specific, imminent deadly threat. If someone is well-practiced with a firearm AND they encounter a rare situation where some drugged-out crazy or gang is trying to kill them, then and only then would having a firearm help the situation. Not having one seems likely to be fatal in those sort of edge-case circumstances where preparation could've saved them. The balance is only letting responsible, trained and continuously training, trustworthy, and mentally-stable individuals keep firearms.. everyone else who doesn't practice regularly keeping them for a "what if" or has issues definitely shouldn't have them.

This isn't rocket science, but common sense.
Do you think it will solve the problem of getting lost in multiple open tabs?
This reminds me of the holiday gifts at Google. By the time I joined, Google had already switched from physical gifts (e.g. a new Pixel) to allowing each employee to choose a charity to which Google.org would donate $1,000.

Even years later, there was still bitterness among the employee base about the holiday gift. It was a bit mystifying to me (as I never had the expectation of a $400 electronic for a holiday gift from my employer), but really shows the power of anchoring. Once people have an expectation for some reward or benefit, any downward deviation from that expectation is met with great distress.
Just a naive reply, but seeing you are taxed on profits, wouldn't a way to be taxed less be to pay your employees more, invest more in R&D, pay off debt or just plain accrue assets such as real estate or even other businesses for future growth or do these somehow not count? I mean ultimately you are growing the value of the business which should show up in the share price, and you could cash out when the Republicans return to power and deflate the tax rate "again"

On an added note, in these times of looming climate crisis, a carbon tax or something associated with companies using/polluting "free" resources (air/water/petroleum products) seems like a good idea
Are you the only person working on it? How big are we talking here, because I’ve worked on a few Python projects that fall in the region of “a couple to a few thousand lines” both by myself and with a team. Working by myself was significantly easier but Python definitely hits a “tangled mess” point, regardless of how disciplined I was.

In comparison one of my personal projects is in Rust and while that’s currently maybe only a thousand lines it’s already significantly easier to deal with.
Many of these shops aren’t business so much as a labor of love/personal church. So you go in and obviously they try to convert you to their way of thinking
But bonuses are compensation! At my last job I had a negative slope on my total compensation, because I’d get raises every time that barely beat CPI, but the bonuses kept shrinking by thousands. I ended up quitting because my promotion to team lead came with a net pay cut and the CTO refused a pay increase flat. And thus ended eight years, because they wouldn’t pay me as much as my colleagues, and cut enough bonuses and perks that I was making thousands less than I used to make.
I bought a low end Alpha (DS10L) off of ebay about 2 years ago. I turn it on to play around with VMS occasionally. Alphas (and DEC, in general) were amazing.
What's "fair share"? This keep getting repeated without any quantification.
I just found the following to style HN like Windows 95:

https://github.com/chowderman/Hacker95
And they force socialist communism on the rest of us. Assholes.
Your cited article is interesting but does not support your assertion of major interference IMO. Policy maneuvers for political purposes are the norm for all countries right or wrong.
Hey, this is pretty cool. Any chance to add Hetzner Cloud?
There are people that I am uncomfortable with that I don't call creeps.

Just take physical proximity for example. I know some close talkers. I find it awkward but not creepy. Various cultures have varying degrees of recognizing personal space.
>> To me, "backpressure" means that if some stage is slow, then it should communicate to upstream stages to slow down, so that queues do not grow.

Maybe the kinds of streams you're thinking of are more like 'jobs' (e.g. task queues).

Streams in SC are focused around the pub/sub use case. They are end-to-end (user to user). So if new data is being output by a consumer stream faster than the user's front end can process it, what other option is there but to stop consuming (kill) the stream on the receiver's side?

The front end application could process messages in parallel, but if it did, the backpressure would not build up in the first place. Backpressure only builds up if you make the stream await the processing of each message in a series. If there is no explicit await, then the backpressure is always going to be 0.

End-to-end streams are far easier to manage than the backend-only 'task queues' advocated by Rabbit MQ, Kafka, NSQ, etc. Backend streams are unweildy because you can't give feedback to the user on the front end if something goes wrong, the stream has to process the message no matter what... This is because message queues are completely disconnected from front end applications. Not sure why someone would architect a system like this in the first place. That seems Kafkaesque (pun intended). Isn't it better if the system can catch an issue as soon as it happens and give the originator of the action an opportunity to resolve the issue as soon as possible? The originator of an action is usually best placed to figure out how to handle issues related to the action that they've just performed (e.g. retry, show an error...).

Dealing with realtime data end-to-end is far more straight forward.
My vision is to build Product Hunt for browsing trails.
How about the prison cell view? Or are all Americans too pussy to do anything?

Someone will put a bullet in the head of one of these bastards eventually, and that will beautiful.
> I actually think bonuses and equity grants are terrible for comapany morale.

Not just morale, even when things go well it can be a disaster. My wife's company just paid out a massive bonus and 5 people, nearly all of the people in this one small department, quit.
Be warned this was written by Glen Greenwald.

I don't understand, what is the point of this story? Is he just mad again?
> A treadmill is a dangerous piece of equipment.

Exactly. The only thing that's different now is it's a dangerous piece of equipment with a popular brand name. The people who are upset about this are going to be really upset when they find out treadmills have regularly been killing a few people a year for decades. And they're one of the less deadly pieces of workout equipment!
> would love to have access to fully compromised networks

If this became known the subjects of interest would stop using those networks. Only the low level criminals would be dumb enough to get caught.
Seems everybody who reads this headline instantaneously becomes an expert in the safe design of exercise equipment.
I visited China in 2000 and remember one night in Beijing I very poor sad little came up to me asking for help for food and I handed her 5 dollars. As I recall at the time the little ones always were asking for “one dollar” so i felt it very nice to give 5... after an hour or so eating in the restaurant when I came out a literal sea of children were gathered all around me begging for the same gift... I had given the little girl the only cash on me at the time so when a little boy very angry dropped the f bomb at me multiple times for not giving him the same - I stopped and asked, “do you know what you just said?”... he was thankfully much smaller then me but definitely didn’t seem to phased fortunately he gave up after a few blocks of walking... I’ll never forget this... both sad how desperate they were but also the effect of being generous... as they say you can’t win
> Taxes pay for all sorts of things in society. They pay for childhood education, they build roads, they pay for services like fire departments.

What's the government doing by just collecting its citizens hard earned money? It should also invest in companies and other ventures and make its own money. It also has natural resources (oil, natural gas, etc.) at its disposal. Only if those are not enough can it ask its citizens to pitch in.
Yep - I dealt with that once. My life got considerably less stressful after I quit.
If the government exempts you from paying taxes for low income that’s ok, but if the government exempts you from taxes for performing some kind of behavior they want to incentivize (like reinvesting company profits instead of paying them to shareholders) or structuring your company in a certain way, then you’re supposed to ignore that exemption and pay taxes anyway?
Also the plague of Justinian and cooling climate probably had more to do with people getting taller. Just like the Black Death of the 14th century, those who survived had access to larger plots of land which allowed for more food and more varieties of food than pre plague. I’m going to surmise that the Roman Empire may have been close to the population maximum and the poor had to survive on mostly a bread based diet, hence the shorter population.
That is a grossly over-exaggerated price for donuts imo.
I wouldn't expect parents to be experts in mechanical safety. I would trust that the company, who should be hiring experts in mechanical safety, have done everything in their power to make sure their device is safe.

The parent failure here was letting the kids around it unsupervised with the key in. But I don't expect parents to be able to evaluate the mechanical safety of every device. They should be able to trust that every reasonable precaution has been taken by the company.
Later Logo development took place at several firms, including LCSI in Montreal (I worked there for ten years). Later versions were cross-assembled on Lisp Machines, and later on on Apple IIGS with 4 MB of ram (custom lisp version).
الصحة و الجمال
تتطلب العناية بالبشرة الكثير من الامور التي يجب ان تقوم بها المراة بداية من كريم ترطيب البشرة و ايضا مرطبات الطبيعية هده المدونة سوف تجدون فيها كال مايتعلق بالعناية بالجمال وايضا كل مايخص مرطبات البشرة بكل انواعها وكل مايتعلق بوصفات ترطيب البشرة و العناية بها وكريمات الترطيب
Wait what? Who gets the tax break there?
Fatality is not everything. Plenty of people are walking around with permanent lung, heart, etc damage. Get your damn vaccines!
I mean, not everyone uses the same things at the same amount.
Ireland is the Delaware of Europe.
I use mypy + type annotations diligently and while it’s a big improvement upon plain Python, it misses a lot of stuff and definitely not nearly as good as a proper static type system. I’d say it gives you maybe another 15% more “scalability runway” before pythons complexity catches up again.
There's another option. Look up how Islam solved this issue over 1400 years ago in a much more affordable and superior manner by means of Zakat. No income tax, no corporate tax, not VAT.
> And yet those memories can’t be allowed to intrude on our perception of the present, or to be randomly rewritten by new experiences.

Assumes facts not in evidence? I feel it’s incredibly common for memories to intrude on perception of present, and be rewritten by new experiences.
Over half of Americans gained weight during the pandemic, diet is definitely not a zero sum game.
Probably not popular opinion:

Where were the parents in the video?

This is an adult gym equipment and it is not a toy. Why would regulator recall this?

For example, I am helping my son with weight training. I spot him. I never allow him to do it himself as he simply unable to control his strength yet. If he get hurt doing bench press himself for using too much weight without a spotter, is this the manufacturer’s problem or is it my problem? Of course it is my own negligence problem.
Seems like a staple for any frontend-focused person to redo their portfolio/personal site/blog in a Windows OS for aesthetic reasons. Luckily most grow out of it within a year or so
I did know that, yes. And -- Brad Carvey was the inspiration for Garth!

Just goes to show what an intense time it was to be an A/V geek.
My boss took me and my team out when there was a bit of ill-feeling brewing for reasons I can't remember. He bought everyone a few drinks, and asked what everyone's problems were. The issues came tumbling out with frankness. I kept my mouth shut, but generally agreed with the team. My boss, without warning, pointed to me and said basically "austinjp will take a note of all this and sort it all out" then left.

I had no budget, no control over any of the issues, no authority outside my team, no time... nothing. It was made clear to me that there would be no support in any way. I was young(er) and tried my best but it was a shitshow. I have never felt more exposed and thrown under the bus.

A couple of similar situations were enough to grind down my resolve and I became as disillusioned as everyone else. When the inevitable redundancy was offered I took it and left without hesitation.

Still bemused by how absolutely amateurish and vindictive the situation became.

So I didn't "overcome" it, clearly, but it helped me realise a few things. Firstly, that nobody has any idea what's going on in anyone else's head. God knows what my then-boss thought of me, but it clearly wasn't much, and it clearly didn't match how I thought I was perceived.

Secondly, once things are toxic it's almost impossible to turn things around. A couple of other people at the same place acted very poorly too, around the same time. Looking back, maybe I should have just quit. But it wasn't easy to see the wood for the trees.

Third, stick up for yourself and for others. Don't be an arsehole. Everyone's dealing with their own demons and people in authority should constantly try to remind themselves of this. Support each other and grow together. Fortunately most people aren't arseholes, even if some occasionally act like they are.

I haven't always got those elements right, but at least I'm aware of them.

So I guess what I overcame to a small degree was my own professional shortsightedness! :)
I love quality tools and products, especially when you have taken the time to find what works for your specific use case or body type. That being said, I started slowly shifting to an attitude that, to paraphrase an over quoted movie, "on a long enough timeline, everything is a consumable". The biggest factor isn't so much buying something for life, but buying a product that 1) matches the lifespan of my usage 2) won't frustrate me with its quality 3) will last a length of time somewhat in line with the improvement cycle of that type of product.
Yes exactly! Thank you!!