skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Googler here, but speaking just for myself)

I agree with you but I will say that most of my non-tech-savvy family members think that the big companies are selling their data and that’s what they need to worry about.

It’s important that they understand the difference between the big companies which collect and use your data but keep it safe from others vs the little ones who buy and sell your data from a ton of shady operators and cause all your spam emails.
Even development ones are dangerous, even more so because of the broad permissions they often requires. I’m pretty sure that’s how I got my credit card number stolen once.
yes, agreed.
But increasing salary = increasing worker satisfaction at current position, not necessarily a push for future growth and subsequent stock growth

Increased equity = Push employees to work for company stock growth.

But yes, $1 equity is not same as $1 salary to the employees
But lets also not forget that it is amazing that we can carry truckloads of data in our pockets nowadays :)
Being Curious can lead to several multi-million dollar startups
Dairy farmers don't sell cows, they milk them.
It doesn't seem as terrible as certain pymetrics tests, but still - I'd love to see that research before blindly trusting my recruitment to it.
> The term "shell companies" seems to imply something nefarious

Well considering they are mostly used by big corporations/capitalist firms to avoid all kinds of responsibilities to society, I seriously question your lack of critique here.

Maybe the way to frame this is that tax avoidance (or in corporate speak: 'tax planning') has become horribly normalized by the media.

I think most of the working class have no idea of the institutional terrorism that is going on on a daily basis, against their own interests. They are gaslit with propaganda day in day out (I'm looking at you Murdoch, yet also liberal news gives terrible systemic critiques - so you could argue that's actually worse since they claim to be a fair and objective news source).

Your arguments speak much too kindly about these firms (and the bourgeois government institutions that supposedly 'democratically' govern them), who are oh so happy to create as many 'externalities' as possible.

> It's also important to point out that they do not choose The Netherlands for low corporate tax rates, they are not the lowest in the EU by far, but because of "tax rulings". Those are agreements they can make with the tax authorities that ascertain them how much tax they will pay this year as long as revenue, costs, etc, stay within a certain bandwidth.

The way you're framing it, it sounds like you think this makes it fairer? The problem remains: multinational capitalist firms/corporations are leeches on the working class and are not adequately contributing back to society.
We’ve skipped so many additional things like Redis, Memcached, Sidekiq and tons of libraries because it’s so easy to write a module to replace stuff.

Switched from ruby to elixir 4 years ago and the only time we touch ruby is to maintain some old system.

It’s so darned easy to add functionality to an exiting app that you have to be careful of bloat.

And the functional paradigm is like second nature now. It’s hard to go back to a non functional language.
He's both, which seems an inevitability these days. If enough people glorify someone, a countermovement emerges inevitably.

The reverse, more worryingly, is also sometimes true.

I'm in the "hero" camp, yet I still made that comment about neuralink. I would probably be more shrill in my concerns if Zuck was doing neuralink. But ultimately, I don't think the individual matters much. The creepiness of social media ads and recommendations systems is mostly because of what those platforms are, not the individual publicly leading them.
For specific values of never, sell, personal and information.
Developer's email harperrodriguez31@gmail.com
I don't think Microsoft engineers uses gmail. It could be their real name?
Idea to Exit in 2 Years – Lessons from Selling a SaaS at $55K MRR – Arvid Kahl
Thanks a lot for your kind words. I really appreciate it! :)

Regarding "?"-functions.

Yes, the idea was this: to separate "normal" functions (that is, functions returning something or altering a value in-place) from functions returning a boolean values - let's call them predicates. That's not a rule, it's merely by convention (at least in the built-in library).

Re: "if" vs "if?", as I said before... the second one is a predicate, meaning: it does return a boolean value (that of the passed condition parameter). And the main use is... chaining with an "else". ;-)
The FCC’s big bet on Elon Musk
What's really weird in Western society is that we have to outsource some useful jobs (like actually making things) to other countries and reluctantly keep others (like caring for the sick or cooking food) in a low paid limbo so that educated people can engage in useless and still not at all rewarding or at least fun activities.
Without Dark Reader, uBlock Origin, and JSONView, the web feels broken to me.
I have also never met a flat earther, or seen any discourse online that seems like such.

I am not convinced that they exist in nearly the kinds of numbers that folks like to suggest.
It's similar to being "out of sorts", which today (and maybe even historically) means you're not feeling well. It came from letterpress where the case of type is collectively called a "sort" and if you were trying to put together a print run and you ran out of, say, the letter 'r', you are now "out of sorts".
I don't think there is any operating system or widely used software where there isn't a "$group called it dead ages ago" example. it tells us absolutely nothing interesting, and isn't funny.
It's understandable why they would shut it down temporarily if they could no longer accurately bill customers for usage.

At some point, however, it starts impacting the economy and there would have to measures in place to get the fuel going regardless of whether the corporate bean-counters (and their malware infested computers) were fully "ready". I don't know what that point in time should be. But the fact that there were news stories of imbeciles hoarding gasoline and emptying fully loaded gas stations within a couple of hours certainly makes it urgent to get the pipeline running sooner. Can't we all just get along?
Yes I do and I also think this may be part of the issue.
You can't see the details if they're cropped out, either. You would hope for a way to see the full and correct image in either case.
Do day jobs in Haskell actually exist? Are you working in academia?
They don’t care. A company that can soft-censor (by placing specific warning messages) videos about a virus a few weeks after it became a hot topic in the West could easily detect big corpo brand appropriation if they wanted.
>finding a commercial entity willing to lend access to a satellite for a few hours

The vast majority of satellites aren't made for this kind of mapping as far as I know. Of the ones that are most aren't private commercial projects. Wikipedia lists 6 such projects and i doubt their time is cheap enough to make it worthwile for Palestinian resistance. Israel is another matter but they'd probably just knock on the US door for those.
Symfonos Mini
Honest criticism of this is completely fine. I have difficulties if people demand firings. I honestly could't imagine working in that atmosphere. I just don't believe people that they get honestly offended.

I have some friends that are pretty sensitive on stuff like this, but they would never go that far like these people did.
Nice question, I'm just starting with Elixir for a side project. Has anyone else find it to have a steep learning curve? Coming from Java/Scala and Python, I find it harder to wrap around then Scala was years ago. Shortcuts with mix like mix phx actually make it a bit more complicated for me because I'm used to understanding what is exactly happening under the hood.
The problem is that there is a risk/compliance trade-off.

"The law" is not a compiler that compiles or not. Heck, companies can report whatever they want and get away with a certain chance. If you do the math it might even be probabilistically beneficial. But that does not make these actions social or socially beneficial or morally right.
How about criticizing both Hamas and Israel for shooting rockets at civilians? Blame can go both ways.

On top of that, many people, me included, criticize Israel for illegally occupying Palestinian territory, stealing houses from Arab Israels, and generally treating Palestinians as second-rate citizens and worse. There's simply no excuse for that.

Imagine yourself in a situation like that. Whatever you do, whoever you complain to, the situation only gets worse. You're helpless against enormous injustice. While I don't condone violence, I do understand why people resort to violence when everything else fails.
"Would you like to not receive our newsletter?" - Super interesting.

Not sure if any real site actually writes so.
Interesting, some of the libraries you mention such as graphql and http, I feel there aren't better libs that exist than absinthe and ranch/cowboy.

Which graphql library do you prefer over absinthe in other ecosystems?
How would Gaza compare with Ramallah and Jericho?
Am I the only one who feels this like a bot created work?
> There's a bit of an art to starting from seed

It really depends. Some plants grow stupidly easy from seeds. A good example is tomatoes. You don't even need to buy seeds. Just go to a store that sells high quality produce, buy the best tomatoes you find (and taste them to make sure they're good), cut them open and and take their seeds. Boom, now you have several plants that grow amazing tomatoes.
>Well considering they are usually used by corporations/capitalist firms to avoid all kinds of responsibilities to society, I question your lack of critique here.

Regardless of what the effective tax rate paid is having a corporate entity per country you operate in greatly simplifies the regulatory compliance situation for taxes, labor laws and any specific laws that cover whatever your business is.
For a tasteless topic. I'm not about to pour sprinkles on a cupcake of eroding privacy.
Moderate alcohol use is associated with some cancers, but is also associated with cardiovascular benefits. On net it’s as far as we can tell neutral.

All opioids build tolerance but not resistance. Overdoing is sadly common in very long term users even of medically sourced and therefore clean drugs. Even clean heroin by itself is vastly more deadly than Alcohol for average users over moderate to long timescales.

Which is why you need to compare habitual long term users of drug X to habitual long term users of drug Y.
I can't find my Chinese buddy in china this way. Weird.
Interview with F# designer Don Syme
I'm not trying to say it's a simple problem, but I think "it's a glorified Git" is a mischaracterization
I object to your characterization of Windows as "the least reliable OS ever". What Windows is, is popular, and that's for a lot of reasons but one of them is that it is actually quite good at being a desktop PC OS, unlike some other operating systems I could mention. The same things that make it a good desktop (like say, not having to recompile software every two years to get it to run on the latest version) also make it slightly easier to trick users into running things they shouldn't, and of course allows less advanced users to have more control in the first place, which combined with its popularity lead to a large number of infections.

Otherwise I agree with what you're saying, software (and hardware to a certain extent) is far more bloated and complicated than it needs to be.
Interest in CRO at an all-time high
Who do you hire to do that?

How quickly can you train them?

Where do they send the collected information?

How is the collected info processed and aggregated?

How much money is lost doing the above versus just shutting down?

I think their DR was fine. It is the HA that was not.

$5mil from net revenue of $400 mil is less than 2% of profits, and it has been operating for 80 years.

Honestly, I think the environmental damage the pipeline has caused is much worse.
Total tangent, but iirc, the lonely planet recommends driving past Malia without stopping... because of the "sunburnt british teens on quads" problem you mention.

I'll make an admission, and hopefully my HN anonymity holds... I stopped for baked beans, chips and a pint. I don't really know why I did it, and I'm sorry.
Been building backend systems for nearly 20 years in Java/Ruby/Elixir. Elixir is by far the most productive language/ecosystem that I've used. I've built 4 systems in the last 5 years and they've all gone smoothly and performed well in production. Only thing on the wish list is full static typing (there's dialyzer which is useful but very much feels like the bolt-on that it is).
Just like they have with Play Store.
Can we also take a moment to assign partial blame to Microsoft for this situation? Their authentication is a shambles, they try to force you to use their app rather than other 2FA providers and heavily steer you towards having to install Microsoft apps.

And that's if you're lucky and they arbitrarily don't mandate a phone number and an email address for a corporate account. Oh and the email address can't be the primary corporate domain that owns the account because of course what we need is personal emails to authenticate business accounts.

Lord help you if you were ever an early adopter of an onmicrosoft.com domain. You will remain in purgatory until you wipe your accounts and start again.
I can't get this PDF through my university nor do I want to pay 35 bucks for it. Anyone know where I can read it or must I buy it? I don't know if it's worth buying I'd just like to read it as an enthusiast but not an astrophysicist.
The Famine of Big Thinking
> and plant them everywhere you can

I guess you implied "at your home", but I do love the idea of guerilla gardening. Never done it with produce though, just flowers and trees.
Different issue, but related to video: if you build a server around high-end Ryzen chips, there is no onboard video. I could not find a no-gpu card that was a good fit for this scenario. There may be a market for a low-feature, low-tdp PCIe graphics card.
Thank you for Dark Reader... this has made a world of difference
Tourism in the State of Palestine

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_in_the_State_of_Palest...
Within some minimum bounds of course, we couldn't do it in a day even if everyone on the planet was aligned. But more in general, this type of statement is entirely useless. World peace is also entirely up to humans but despite pretty much every country and every major religion proclaiming they want peace ASAP, it still hasn't happened.
Yeah, the author is not running into a Linux problem. He is running into an SSH problem.

>Something worth noting to avoid confusion is that if you run the example python keyboard example in the introductory paragraph of this article over an SSH connection, the code will still work and run, but when you type characters, nothing will happen.

>What gives?!? That's because it will be detecting 'local' keyboard events from the machine you just SSHed into! If it's a cloud server like EC2 or something, there probably aren't any keyboards attached to it!

"What gives?!?"? Is this supposed to be a joke? What else did you expect? Expecting your local keyboard to connect to the remote machine is as insane as expecting your keyboard to read the keys you want to press from your mind.

The problem he is running into is that SSH only forwards a character stream to the remote machine and that is entirely an SSH problem and the solution to forwarding the keyboard has been X forwarding. What he is asking is that SSH should be able to forward the keyboard without X.

He even mentioned a workaround that involves compensating the lack of this feature by forwarding the keyboard himself.

>Well, you have to build your own client/server application where a client/server listens locally on the machine with the keyboard, and then forwards these events to the remote machine where you're running the applications that needs to respond to these events.

My suggestion is that he should send an email to the openssh developers to add keyboard forwarding without X.
How would you even prevent it?

I'm more tired of being told "Billionaires and megacorps will pay for X" when we know they never will.

Taxes are only for the working and middle class.
> Not seeing the vision; why would anyone choose to watch ads if there was nothing in it for them?

People do it all the time on Netflix, Steam, Amazon etc. Why do you believe people would stop doing that?
I seem to remember that Netcraft confirmed it.
Two of your links are to the same story.

https://theferret.scot/nhs-patient-data-breached-1395-times-...
Does anyone have the .crx file to inspect?
Primary energy consumption is not relevant.

What matters is the useful part and not the wasted part (released as mostly unwanted heat) in the transition to renewable.

For example electric cars uses one quarter of the energy of a fossil car for the same service (moving around).

Heat pump use one third or less of the energy to heat up water or air vs burning fossil fuels.

Etc...
A V2 rocket reached space in 1944, before the first nuclear test.
...the reverse is possible too, an extension that shortens short. Maybe there'll be a service that makes everyone more fashionable.
There are some in finance
Amazon starts a port of PartiQL from Kotlin to Rust
Outstanding work from the Elixir team. Very good community in the forum.

It’s winter of elixir land. The hype cycle has died. If I have to start a project I will think twice unless it really needs distributed system.

My personal opinion - talent pool, plugins and ecosystem is kind of stagnated. First talent pool is really limited and not readily available. Very few companies use elixir in production. More hobbyists in the community than people who actually use it.

Hex has a lot of plugins which are not updated from long. For many there won’t be a plug-in. You have to write it from scratch.

In Phoenix, they are reinventing magic with LiveView.

Few guys who do elixir consulting gain most from the ecosystem.

As a developer if I have to invest my time learning a new language, I would choose rust or Go.

As a company if I have to start a project, I will check whether I have a requirement of distributed systems.

PS: I have used elixir for past 5 years in production.
Speaking of hair, it’s not reliable either. The same goes for bite marks, blood spatters, shoe and tire tracks.

https://theintercept.com/2015/04/24/badforensics/
> it's a wildly misunderstood language concept here on HN.

An alternate understanding is that people are not as funny as they think they are.
Same here in regards to liking RabbitMQ until you need to scale it. I wasted a huge amount of time years ago trying to build a HA cluster that worked when you hit it with a load.

What didn't help was the pika python client had so many issues. One of my github problem reports had a 20 line demo showing how it broke with anything but a trivial load. I gave up soon after as I had further problems in other languages. Over a year later someone looked at it and said 'yep fails under load' and fixed it.

One of those projects that showed so much promise only to make me sad.
One advice I've read back in the day for how to deal with a micromanaging boss was "Overwhelm them with updates" and it anecdotally always worked for me. Lucky for me there was only a couple occasions I had to deal with a boss like that.
It's convenient to think this is some simple tax loophole that needs closing, but that's unlikely. Those 50 legal entities likely have no profit (on paper) due to fairly arbitrary pricing of intellectual property and the loans. It'd be interesting to see where the profit ends up disappearing into - if anywhere at all, because Uber isn't profitable IIRC, and it's profits that are taxed in major jurisdictions (IIRC, IANAL, I bet there are thousands of exceptions).

The real problem here isn't the dutch sandwich, it's the very notion of taxing profits. We should not tax profits nor capital gains; we should tax revenue and ownership - those are much harder to game. After all, that's what we do with individuals too.

Such taxes are, in principle, not new: VAT is such tax. When implemented properly, those taxes have the additional benefit that they encourage participation - after all, you get to deduct VAT already payed on your inputs when paying VAT on your outputs.

This is a much more resilient model, and thus a better basis for for corporate taxation; and it's open to tweaks (e.g. discouraging hyper-complex legal structures by allowing less than 100% deduction for input VAT); it's potentially regressive, but if you acknowledge that, you can attempt to compensate for that by altering (or even dramatically reducing) income tax, and considering measures such as universal basic income, and choosing to have lower tax on human consumables (food) than on e.g. services (vacations or medical care).

Fundamentally though, the real problem here is that profit is a mirage; it's much too easily distorted, especially with flexibly interpreted valuations of ever more intangible goods we have today. Transactions however, are at least a little harder to fake, so those should be where taxation takes place if possible.

Another advantage of VAT is that it can be levied by a consuming country; the US could simply impose this, and mostly ignore whatever shenanigans in corporations try to pull in foreign jurisdictions.

Which isn't to say VAT doesn't have it's issues (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_trader_fraud ) - but by and large those are much more easily dealt with, and easier to clearly label as fraud, not merely clever and antisocial but legal tax avoidance. And perhaps somebody can come up with something even better than VAT; but regardless - I'm pretty sure playing whack-a-mole with profit-shifting tax avoidance isn't going to lead anywhere very quickly.
I use Erlang, Is Elixir a better alternative now?
Frankly, I don’t care if what they’re doing with my information is considering selling, renting, repackaging, remixing, displaying in an art gallery, or anything else. As long as they’re using it to try to shove more ads into my eyeballs I will do everything I can to deny them that information. As well as to prevent said ads from entering said eyeballs.
"Directness" is an excuse that I sometimes hear to justify aggressive or rude behaviour, but it's possible to be direct in a polite manner.
"This new plan is stupid" is rude, whereas "I'm frustrated about this new plan, it won't work because X" is assertive without being rude.
They launched missiles in response to the thousand rockets that terrorist Hamas launched against their civilians.

Don't be posting such a biased, one-sided story.
I'd agree that is an important distinction for Google to make.
Uber [...] to dodge taxes.

The location or means are unrelated. Maybe you should fix your accounting laws, by making them more detailed/strict?
Slightly offtopic but I think the problem of rogue addons applies to firefox as well. I wish it were possible in firefox to limit which addons can be loaded on a per-container basis. The extensions I want loaded on banking websites, social media and youtube are completely different. And limiting them per-container makes it a relatively simple mental model to reason about.
>office buildings housing international journalists.

Weird how those journalist agencies themselves missed that.

What's the slow colonisation with settlements about? Liberation of land controlled by evil terrorists?

Also as far as Israel is concerned there is no recognised regime or other such government there. It's apparently a stateless area with stateless people to be slowly ethnically cleansed.