skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was talking to a colleague who has spent the last few years living in southern Sweden (as in, hardly the most arctic conditions in the country), who described the winter months as a perpetual “jet lag” kind of feeling.

I brought that up with my partner who is from Florida (we live in NY) and she said the feeling is mutual, even though the time difference is less extreme.

There’s just something about long periods of cold and darkness that messes with peoples heads, especially if they didn’t grow up with it.
I also like Contact, which I think of as Sagan’s struggle with reconciling religion and science for himself. Also, I nlike what the article mentions, I recall the book being based on the script.
How are the Swiss neutral? Chaotic neutral? They are some of the biggest, corrupt money launderers known the world over?
People using IE 11 “because they have to” is a hard thing to quantify without some sort of survey.

I say this because even though your anecdote rings true, I’ve seen many people in offices use IE 11 purely out of ignorance and comfort reasons rather than because they were forced. They had Edge, Firefox installed but stuck with IE because no one told them to stop using it.

We may be underestimating the portion of “if it ain’t broke why fix it” crowd are using IE 11 but it’s hard to say with statistical data alone.

Anyway, regardless of how it’s sliced, it’s low enough now for libraries to start dropping.
A universal ban doesn't make sense but removing it from all food products does.
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Sure, but tax breaks themselves are often fixed.

Buying stock options is a great example of where you might end up with a fixed tax break.

Buy 1000 options at your strike price ex: $1, pay tax on their current estimated value (say the value is estimated at $100, you pay tax on (100 - 1) * 1000 = $99,000 of "value" that you gained, probably about 20k).

2 years later: Boom, company goes out of business. That stock valued at 99k was actually worth 0k, but you paid taxes on 99k.

So now you can write off approximately $3,500 (for this case) in taxes every year until you've written off that 20k you paid in taxes - about 6 years in this case.

Has absolutely zilch to do with how much your P&L are. Those will still influence your final tax bill, of course, but they don't touch the break.

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Now - this case is not "avoidance" since you've paid the tax and are getting it back, but there are a lot of similar breaks related to loans, and the interest you're paying on loans - especially if the thing you're using that loan for is also taxed.

So it's VERY possible that Uber has generated a $1 billion tax break every year through loan shenanigans. That doesn't mean that they won't pay taxes, it just means the yearly bill will be 1 billion lower than it probably ought to have been.
Privileges for doing anything serious (e.g. perform payments or change security preferences) are not stored in JWT, all checks done on server side.
In case of emergency (e.g. we suspect user session has been taken over) we lock user account and purge session from the backend. Without session on backend - JWT won't do much.

It's a fintech consumer website (sorry, can't disclose the name).
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The good news is that Go have very little entry point. Thanks to that you can hire people, who are working in other technologies and are interested in learning something new. From my experience they can be productive within a week. It's totally not possible with Java I guess ;-)

It's probably a bigger problem to justify it on the company level. It's always some risk to go with a language that doesn't have such good position on the market ("Who will maintain it?", "Where you will find people who will fix it?", "Wouldn't this language disappear in 2 years?").

Fortunately, a lot changed in recent years. Thanks to Kubernetes, Prometheus, Docker and all other infrastructure Go is already used in the most of the companies. That's giving people much more confidence about Go.
Agree - which is why he says it's a systemic problem that needs fixing.

All of these, frankly, stupid arguments that he should just give the IRS money for no reason because they don't tax him high enough is ridiculous. Literally a drop in the bucket. Full year budget - $4.89 Trillion in 2019.
NB: There is no instrument approach to 17R @ KAPA.

I agree I'd have an extended centerline up (it's up by default if I zoom the MFD in close enough in my lesser-equipped A36), but this is a fully visual maneuver.

Almost no one is going to define a user waypoint near the touchdown zone for 17R and pull an OBS line off that just so they can use the FD/AP to make an entirely routine turn to final.
Personally i am very excited about: https://enso.org/ which is running on https://www.graalvm.org/. Code is interchangably dual represented visually and textually so you can use what fits best.
> A separate [...] service is a few times easier to create and operate

Because it relies on trust in the service. Blockchains don't. You can run a validation regime for anything you want on a blockchain: legal, illegal, anonymous, public, anything. Store any data you want and you can verify for all of posterity that it was stored before the block timestamp.

That's the feature, anyway. But you're right, in practice (1) it's generally trivial to find a trusted service for what you want to do (trust is cheap for almost everything) and (2) actually implementing this kind of thing on a blockchain is a huge mess (bitcoin et. al. are EXTREMELY expensive vs. just trusting someone).

Maybe (2) will be addressed at some point by improved technology. But really (1) is the thing that makes this a failing proposition. Libertarian fantasy-spinning notwithstanding, the only people who really need the blockchain are doing shit the rest of us don't want them to do.
I can't comment on the specific example of signing a form, but I did read about a case like this in Robert Sapolsky's "Why zebra's don't get ulcers".

It's a famous case in neurology, a man called "H.M."

Here's what's written in the chapter "Stress and memory" about H.M.:

"H.M." had a severe form of epilepsy that was entered in his hippocampus and was resistant to drug treatments available at that time. In a desperate move, a famous neurosurgeon removed a large part of H.M.'s hippocampus, along with much of the surrounding tissue. The seizures mostly abated, and in the aftermath, H.M. was left with a virtually complete inability to turn new short-term memories into long-term ones -- mentally utterly frozen in time.

Zillions of studies of H.M. have been carried out since, and it has slowly become apparent that despite this profound amnesia, H.M. can still learn how to do some things. Give him some mechanical puzzle to master day after day, and he learns to put it together at the same speed as anyone else, while steadfastly denying each time that he has ever seen it before. Hippocampus and explicit memory are shot; the rest of the brain is intact, as is his ability to acquire a procedural memory.

If you ask me, the CSI episode is definitely plausible if you consider that H.M. was real
The US and EU are the big end customers for Chinese goods - Western economies shipped off the pollution from manufacturing, so it's not as straightforward as "its China's fault"
Is your real name "Richard J Schueler", and is this true?

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/kwhjxa/why_...

>Why HEX is a Ponzi and not a solid investment (Part 2): Richard Heart

>Legal and questionable events from Richard J Schueler:

>2002: Sued and won by Peacefire.org for violating Washingtons anti-spam laws, he was known at that time as the 'spam king' and made a lot of money off it - source. The Methuselah Foundation, for which Heart volunteered at that time, was committed to extending the human lifespan and “making 90 the new 50”.

>Questionable events in Panama: Several of Heart’s alleged aliases (James Hart, J. Richard, Richard Schueler) were named in connection with a Panamanian criminal network. Heart, called "CharityLover' at that time supposed cohorts included robbers, blackmailers and corrupt lawyers and judges, according to posts stemming from the now defunct Panama-Guide website . Miguel Antonio Bernal (Panama lawyer) described the process by which American criminals flooded Panama to “rob, cheat and blackmail local businessmen using Panama’s weak legal system'' in the linked post under ''Panama".

You're the same "Richard Heart" who won the "Golden Pump Award" for "Best New Scam" for "HEX", correct?

https://twitter.com/JuanSGalt/status/1233242355995750400

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=857&v=tf-lJu5iDh...
Promotion does involve more than just technical chops so it is harder for those who just want to put their heads down, code and get things done without much funfair.

> You have to be performing at the next level

Apparently this happens more often than not, but I don't buy it. First of all, the next level should involve activities that your current level should not allow or leave enough time for you to do. So, no you can't perform at the next level.

If you have been performing at the next level, and for a while, then the company has been taking advantage of you. You should have been paid at the next level too.

It's very unfortunate but it does often seem easier to jump ship to get to the next level or skip a few.
Can that energy be utilised?
Utilities are super heavily regulated. I'm not sure for the US, but for example frequently they can't enter new markets, so they can't leverage their monopoly to crush competition in other markets.

And regarding working well, aren't a lot of people in favor of municipal broadband (an utility) vs Verizon & co. (oligopoly, not even a full blown monopoly)?
100% of $10 is still less than 20% of $100 but taxing corporations doesn’t do the same thing as taxing ppl and the purpose is to remove money from the economy not ensure everyone fairly contributes to the national coffers. We should be working on the most effective way to remove money from the economy not worrying about who’s paying what.
Perhaps we shouod be rethinking the entire premise of school assessment.

The goal is ostensibly to learn. We only assess so students can prove they learned to third parties, and perhaps secondarily for inatructors to assess how effective they are.

The more cynical view is that education is the exams, and we only care about obtainmentnof the credentials.
I love how the license plate in the first image gains a blue strip common in european license plates due to the dataset coming from germany.
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Haven't seen it, but

> it makes Back To The Future look like a children's cartoon

Do people think Back to the Future is hard to follow?
It may not be the fastest, but something like Common Lisp has extensive numeric capabilities built-in like computing with floats, bignums, complex, ratios, ... Extensive mathematical software has been written in Lisp like Reduce (written in Standard Lisp), Macsyma, Axiom, ... In education for a while something like Derive, MuSimp/MuMath, ... was used. Derive should also have been used in pocket calculators, which would be in the spirit of Lisperati1000.
2,4-D is better for dandelions. Doesn't hurt the turf grass.
With that logic there are no one-liners. Even binary code is just an abstraction interpreted by microcode.

The point is that there is a working http server already installed on your machine. And you just need to run this one simple, memorable command to use it.

Very useful if you just want to quickly copy some files from A to B in your LAN or WAN (wouldn't use it over Internet because not encrypted).
That doesn't matter, most people don't bump into the imperfections, but some inevitably do, and you can't fault those for getting angry, especially if there was a possibility for another option if the "perfect" system didn't stand in the way.
Coincidentally, Angular is going to deprecate IE11 support with Angular 12, and remove it with Angular 13

https://blog.angular.io/angular-v12-is-now-available-32ed51f...
"Based on an extensive industrial and engineering analysis, our new report demonstrates that an aggressive national commitment to electrify all aspects of our economy would create up to 25 million good-paying American jobs over the next 15 years and 5 million sustained jobs by mid-century. This is the first analysis of the job opportunities that would result from a rapid and total decarbonization of the economy as a whole. Unlike other approaches, which tend to see climate change policy as primarily environmental in nature, the study also imagines the electrification of America as fundamentally infrastructure designed to power America and its economy in the 21st century."

https://www.rewiringamerica.org/jobs-report
Interstellar had plenty of unphysical/unrealistic/fantastical content. Five-dimensional descendants of humans tearing open an Einstein-Rosen bridge in the outer solar system to screw with causality? Their ship requiring multiple-stage launch from earth, but taking off without similar assistance from subsequent planets? "Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space. Maybe we should trust that, even if we can't understand it"??

I think the point we'd agree on is that sci-fi definitely doesn't need to adhere slavishly to known physics to be good.
So this is part of the problem with DDD, there are so many ideas about what DDD is that it's hard to boil it down. Trying to measure without metrics and then blaming DDD sounds very silly. If performance is the issue, then measure and improve it -- adding more layers of abstraction (it really depends on what "implementing DDD" means) is generally not the way to do that.

ORMs are DDD (ORMs are also bad), but you can also consider SQL as DDD (declarative queries are a way of dealing with only domain logic), and so is the generic serialization problem (so you can use gRPC or JSON, let's say). Note that DDD is NOT creating DSLs -- I'm pretty against DSLs for most things because usually the problem space expands for super general DSLs.

People tend to go overboard with DDD though. So much so that there are some people who have snapped back the other way and think that basically nothing should be generic.
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I see a string of 1-3 year stints as a potential red flag personally. Anything less than a year will definitely be scrutinized. There have absolutely been resumes I've passed up on where there was a trend of ~2 years in a role before moving on to another company or team.

My rationale: Especially in more senior roles, 2 years is about the sweet spot where your house of cards can start to fall apart. You start a new role, spend 1-3 months ramping up, another 3-6 months strategizing/planning, and a year or so executing. By the end of all this, you're ~2 years into it and those initial ROI statements of $XM per year will start getting assessed.
VW should hire this person!
Some people are happy taking a 32% pay cut in exchange for not needing to wear a suit or attend pointless meetings.

The behavior you describe sounds like that of a good team lead/manager. Praising their team members for their efforts and drawing attention to successes and progress. It's a solid path for advancement up the corporate ladder, but it's not for everyone.
Because Guido is paid to work on it.
Doctor Hugh Mann and the whole narrative around him was one of the most cringe-worthy moments I've seen in a movie of that caliber/budget.

The motives behind the characters (Anne Hathaway's character deciding to sacrifice humanity to see her boyfriend, Caine's character withholding physics advancements for years, Murph's whole behavior... and so numerous others) was, objectively, bad writing. Of the kind that you really wonder how it got out in the public and into such a high profile movie. I can't think of a single person in that movie that acts realistically. To the point that I kind of believe that the "plot" was just a pretext for Kip Thornes awesome work on the visualizations of the wormholes.

The plotholes... well way too many. That was the movie that ruined Nolan for me. Up to that point I was a very big fan.
> Blockchain is a brilliant solution

It's not "brilliant". It is _a_ solution, with shortcomings even for its stated purpose.
Plus they're backporting features to v2 and making it the new lts
For example, the US could start to reduce their emission to the level of the EU on a per-capita basis. A 7% reduction in total emissions is not little. If you look at the population, it's expected that China will pollute ~4 times as much as the US.
> The plane flying missing half the fuselage suggests to me that fuselage was excessively strong (and therefore heavy and expensive).

It's probably the opposite: that the fuselage was only strong enough to resist the air pressure differential, and that the real structural component was the cabin floor. And that, luckily, the control cables for the tail were routed through the cabin floor, instead of through the top of the cabin.
>> The pilot is speaking about failed engine after the collision, like it is nothing. Fascinating. I'd be shouting something obscene in such a situation. For half an hour at least, I think.

When you get your medical clearance, one of the things they look for is signs of psychological issues or instability. Not saying that's you, and I bet you'd do better than you think. Pilot training also IMHO makes you better at that stuff.
TBH the only reason some clients are all the way on IE11 is because IE10 doesn't support TLS1.2, so they HAD to move to pass a security audit.
> All those things you mentioned were similar big announcements back in their day

Also, most of them released working code.

So I guess we shouldn’t be excited about that, either.
I've been involved in the European DDD community from the start, sparked the initial IDDD tour with Vaughn Vernon, and am still highly involved, so you could say I know a thing or two about DDD, and I consider the patterns most people think about when being introduced to DDD a bit similar to the inheritance part of Object orientation: it's pars pro toto and you are probably missing out on the valuable part of DDD:

First: DDD will not magically fix all your problems; however, it does ask the right questions: what is your common language, how does your code align with your organisation, what are the boundaries and the relationship between boundaries, what is your core domain and where might it make more sense to buy something existing etc... So while it is not the silver bullet, it might help you to pinpoint some typical issues with your current code base.

Second, people new to DDD tend to focus on tactical patterns and things like CQRS etc, which might be interesting but it's usually way less important than the strategic part of DDD.

Third, it also attempts to define nomenclature for developers, f.e. about responsibilities and granularities: aggregate roots, bounded contexts, commands, events etc...

Like every other methodology there is some cargo culting going on, and that is also the reason I decided to spend a few years outside the echo chamber. However, now that I'm back it's great to see how the methodology is maturing and the community trends to attract the right kind of people.

TL;DR: DDD can be useful, but don't blindly start applying tactical DDD patterns everywhere without understanding the bigger picture; this will only work against you.

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Yeah, but then he wouldn't get to feel smart and make fun of me :-)
This is obviously great overall, developing for IE is a pain. One weird anecdote though, I have an old laptop that has very little memory, running Windows 10. And I swear, IE11 works better than Chrome and Edge for websites that support it. Chromium seriously seems to crash my computer because of some memory issue. Any idea why this happens (regarding IE performing better)?

I only know this because I maintain a CSS framework that supports IE11, so I have to use IE quite a bit.
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It does though, Wikipedia and NBC both use them as legit sources despite them spending 90% of their time on Israel and 0% of their time on real atrocities. If you have someone who can’t even honestly tell you what’s going on in NK but calls himself a global human rights advocate you know something is wrong.
> Sometimes the type you end up with is too ambiguous and you'll need type annotations: E.g. what is the type of the term "2+3"?

I don't think your example works in the case of OCaml since the signature of (+) is int -> int -> int. Basic operators not being polymorphic is one of the specificities of OCaml.
Nope... came from Germany that way.

As other have notes though losing ~4 seconds a day is pretty accurate all things considered. Seiko's 3Hz movements can gain or lose _half a minute_ a day and still be considered within spec.
Contact was written by Carl Sagan... I believe the science holds together.
Does anyone else have the first link ("shutting down its Azure Blockchain Service on September 10, 2021") somehow open a weird empty page https://ytthn.com/blank-page instead of the expected URL https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/blockchain/service/mi...?
>For more than a decade, Feschotte has pointed to transposons as the ultimate innovators in eukaryotic genomes.

To be clear, there is a long history of scientific theories and studies on how transposable elements are key to eukaryotic genome evolution, regulatory network formation and genome plasticity, predating the review linked in that sentence - in fact, dating all the way back to Barbara McClintock. I would call this an under-studied area of genomics - I think there are still quite a few Nobel prizes to be made in transposon-mediated evolution.

The new Feschotte article (https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6531/eabc6405) demonstrates a transcription factor in bats and uses a reporter assay to link it to signatures of transposon activity, and also uses comparative genomics to identify lineage-specific signatures of transposon activity in tetrapods. This is a big step forward, especially in using reporter assays to link TE activity to TF networks in mammals, but I think the next step would be to do both the in silico and the in vitro experiment together (use a reporter assay to prove that lineage-specific regulatory network patterns are linked to transposon activity).
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The NYTimes hashes idea is brilliant, but if you were to try to scale that concept to thousands or millions of different global use cases, eventually it seems like you'd end up with a technology platform similar to a public distributed ledger, i.e. a blockchain.

I'm open to hearing about any other non-blockchain solutions to this problem, though. One seems to be IOTA and their "Tangle" graph, but I don't fully understand how that could facilitate a historical record of each transaction, as (unlike a blockchain) it is not an append-only ledger.
I wonder what explains the 10x speedup with patched memcached, vs the locking showing up as only 17.68% in the non-patched profile, in the 8 thread case. (disclaimer: didn't read the whole paper, maybe they explain it).