skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Android is basically a Google anti-privacy play.

That's uncharitable. Android effectively started as a pro-web play: a way to ensure Google could deliver their services to mobile users regardless of what mobile manufacturers wanted (we're talking Nokia and Blackberry, which dominated the sector at the time and, together with phone carriers, could dictate what would or would not get to phones). They later got greedy with data-siphoning, but Apple effectively does the same, they're just a bit shy about over-exploiting it.
Except that has nothing to do with what I actually said. I said be intollerant. That's the opposite of your retort.

Intollerance isn't the same response as forbiddance.

It's nice how you completely ignored my argument in favor of your talking point -- and a complete non-sequittur it was. Let's keep that shit to Twitter please.
This is the same discussion every time, the same points for and against get made. Aren’t you all tired of this yet?
I think that the proper reason why CDs and NFTs are different is that NFTs are non-fungible. You can distinguish an early minted NFT by the wallet of the author of, say, an artwork and a late minted NFT with the same value made by someone else.
Thank goodness.

They went out of their way to break things and make the 2 to 3 transition hard - burned and wore out a lot of people.

Remind me why things like u"" couldn't be used to help cover exist codebases?
There were the syndicalists/socialists/communists back in the early 20th century but Whatever was left of the European revolutionary movements dissolved into the current iPhone-wielding, latte-drinking Twitter mob we call the left today. I have little hope they will accomplish any real change.

I'm pessimistic and don't think we should hope for more than damage control once the effects of the climate change start becoming more evident in a few decades.
> It's infeasible that Microsoft had profits of 200 billion euros.

The guardian's headline is definitely mildly inflammatory, but it's a headline, and it's true. This particularly subsidiary had an income of €200bn, and very little expenditure. That's the textbook definition of profit, although it's definitely creative accounting!
The AMD driver bloat is the register definitions. They have like 100+ MB of autogenerated register defines, some duplicated 8 times for each unit instance, for every chip generation and variant.

It's not real code, though it is ugly as heck and I have no idea why AMD can't do it a saber way.
Yes; FB censored the lab leak hypothesis until very recently.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebooks-lab-leak-about-face-1...
Genuinely curious about alternatives. I have a simple node application that all I really need to do is run npm install and node index.js. Even with such a simple setup, provisioning hosts was a huge pain. Each one needed node installed on it, and I had to deploy the app to each new host. With k8s, I just change the number of hosts I want in a config file and everything just works.
A perfect time to release new features as most of the users are leaving the platform after they revised the Privacy policy...
Its interesting everyone just keeps referring to the Catholic school they escaped from as a school. Knowing what we know about things like the Magdalene laundries and usual Catholic way of dealing with kids, they were likely escaping from a prison like and abusive situation. They would be more likely to be cooperative to not end up back where they started from. There is really no comparison to LOTF here where the kids were going back to a middle class existence if rescued.
Time for corporate tax to disappear, - worldwide.
As long as there is money and private property, i agree with your point. Jobs that nobody wants to do by pleasure should be the highest paid and most respected. However that's not how capitalism works (quite the opposite). Like another commentator pointed out, i'm opposed to financial compensation (and all forms of money) as an organizing principle of society. However as long as money hasn't been abolished your point makes perfect sense.

Specifically about COVID though, I don't know about where you are, but here in France "thank you" for health workers was perceived to be very insulting. Because when the government continues to dismantle all forms of public services and keeps on overworking hospital workers (most of whom have months or even years of paid vacations they could never take because of understaffing) and destroying all their social benefits, it's hard not to take this as "fuck you".
And for mobile stick ".compact" at the end.
They need to repackage at least the user and system service packages which in Debian now carry .service files rather than other init configuration.
To invert that: if people understood how much the services being provided to them cost they would not consume them.

The goal of government shouldn't be to obscure the cost of government services. The cost should be justified.
Then we would not be living in the same world with the same parameters as we are now.
Please go tell Trump supporter Dr. Alveda King, niece of MLK Jr, that Trump is a racist. I'm sure your opinions on racism are more expert, valid and nuanced than hers.
What did Trump ever say that was homophobic?
Tracking is fine, the issue is targeting.
I use LibreOffice Calc. Ctrl+Shift+; (or Ctrl+:) inputs a time (or Ctrl+; just a date).

On each row, I have a start and end time of a work "session" or "pomodoro". Do a subtraction: end - start = duration (in days). I aim each day to be 4 hours, but sometimes I over or under-work, so I also have a running sum across days, subtracting 4h for each workday (so I should keep it near zero).

I also use ActivityWatch - https://activitywatch.net/ -, but more as a backup in case I forget to record. I don't trust it too much, because, say, time in the Slack window could be work or just chat.

I am brutally honest and only bill what I consider "real" work. That is out of appreciation for my boss, who is trusting as well as receptive, and contributes back to open-source projects we use.
A quick google search shows Irish citizens can voluntarily join and leave unions. Of course there might be more to it and I have no idea how things work there.
I’m available for hire to fire. You won’t need to onboard me, so I’ll introduce no unnecessary drag on your team. I won’t even show up to work, so I won’t be a headache to you. Just deposit a paycheck in my bank and fire me whenever you wish. Thanks!
On the upside I think reddit's search team has done a good job. It is not the joke it once was at least.
>>What can we do?

It's a tough question. The tendency is to react superficially: Moralizing reactions, emotional reaction, first principles takes. The way tax actually works is via accounting "standards," tax law and corporation law... across multiple jurisdictions. A thousand-detail complex , where morals, emotions and first principles are literally meaningless. Actual meaning can only be derived with scenario plans and spreadsheets. Words like "profit," "company," "revenue" and such don't have inherent meanings, in that world. They're just objects with associated rules.

The pro-corporate side of this debate (debate is the wrong word) deals entirely in the latter terms. Terms that the majority of journalists and politicians can't work with. They tend to win.

When the other side does consider the reality of mess, they tend to conclude radical/unrealistic conclusions like "throw everything out and start from scratch."

At this point, complexity is hardened by international agreements and trade rules.

IMO the actual place to start is corporation law, not tax law. If entities can own other entities, or part thereof in an endless cascade...words like "tax rate" have no meaning.

Another, more radical approach is rethinking the idea of public wealth. The currently ongoing collapse of monetarism is, perhaps, an opportunity. Tax public companies x% of their shares per year. Hold, to avoid price deflation. Offload shares as part of macroeconomic/monetary policy (ie, when we run deficits), to avoid inflationary scenarios such as the current one.

I would take the same approach for wealth taxes. Capital gains, property, etc. Tax x% of current market value annually, not income or realized gains. It won't be perfect, but everything gets marked to market eventually.
My point is that if the laws allow intolerance then our ability to be a tolerant society will go away sooner or later. This is why I have no problem with laws that forbid hate speech, such as hate speech exhibited by Trump.
I think the argument is that it would be collected on the sales and expenses of the companies that "feed into" this employeeless entity. Those other companies probably aren't located in Ireland or Bermuda, but around the world, resulting (in theory) in a more even distribution of tax receipts.
So "Harmony OS" is official, but I don't get it.
- Their watches run a "LiteOS kernel"
- Their tablets and phones run a Linux kernel
- An "open Harmony" project exists with an actual HOS kernel, but doesn't currently run on any devices
- Yet all of these are somehow Harmony OS?
Life is a feedback loop. What this means is if they hire to fire then the dead weight is not going anywhere, just the people who were hired to be fired and the problem is worse.
People who want to see backwards-incompatible changes, e.g. GIL removal, language & stdlib cleanups, or even mandatory static typing?
I agree with both POV here. It _is_ disgusting to see Big Tech playing politics. However, I don’t think Trump’s ban has much to do with that. He simply broke the rules.

Probably the thing that makes me saddest about the whole debacle is that there seems to be less and less room for valid conservative viewpoints. I lean conservative but it seems that the priorities of the Republican Party have changed from advancing conservative politics to defending Trump at all costs. Sadly I cannot support that and therefore, I cannot support the party.

I think I’m in a small boat here but if anyone else feels this way I hope you can take a little comfort from this comment and knowing you are not alone.
It's end to end encryption, but the same small set of companies completely own both ends so it doesn't matter.
For when you forget to record, check out ActivityWatch: https://activitywatch.net/
It's the advice I've received too, but I'm also new to most of it. One downside (I think) is that I can't take advantage of the R&D tax credits with this approach!
That reminds me that when USB came out (or came to our, my parents' computer) I thought if only we got a new mouse, I'd be able to plug both in, getting two cursors, and be able to cheat at solitaire. Heh.
>Individuals shouldn't see tax. That way the voters don't complain when you need to put it up.

If taxation is such an inherent good then why does it need to be hidden from people?

If the rate is justifiable the government shouldn't need to hide it. When you consider a democratic society where the government at least indirectly serves the will of the people the idea of the government needing to pull a fast one on the people or obfuscate its actions lest the people tell them to stop becomes even more absurd.
This kind of pragmatism is what saves us from pointless discussions.
> Too many seem to be OK with others' rights being taken away, as long as they disagree with those who are losing their rights

It's human tribalism in a nutshell. They'll argue until they are blue in the face for their team to not be persecuted but the moment it's "the others" they cheer it on.
40%? Usually that kind of rate applies to an upper progressive tax band. Where do you live?
Does that not describe crypto? Bitcoin is only making millionaires if more and more late investors are buying in and driving up the price for earlier investors.
Shoutout for another great online MOOC : https://www.edx.org/course/probability-the-science-of-uncert... (It is the same as MIT OCW's 6.0.41)

I did it as preparation for my Masters and it was genuinely helpful. Would recommend it to everyone looking to do a prob 201 before taking advanced-ish courses.
I used to work at Millbank Tower when in London. Which is next UK's Intelligence HQ (MI5) and close to a ton of cool places like Buckingham Palace and London Eye.

At first I was rejoiced for working near all these interesting places. But London quickly reminded me of the cost. $600/mo commute plus almost two hours a day on train/metro (which is even more expensive if you value your time).

No thank you.
Probably not. Dividends aren’t a deductible expense for a Corp.

Income is (which is why the rates are higher).
Saying someone has a conflict of interest reporting on financial matters because they are unionized?

So by your argument, we definitely can not trust nearly any other news organisation, because they have shareholders and are operating for profit? How about your conflict of interest? Do you own stock? If yes, by your own argument you have a financial conflict of interest and can't be trusted.
Computation: proof-of-stake is coming - expensive computation won't be a factor. With that said, if you did everything on-chain, that would generate a lot of activity. (In a separate reply, I have spoken of focusing on the chain for governance, and leaving other details in chain-connected registries.)

Proof-of-stake participants are strongly motivated to ensure the integrity and good reputation of the platform.

By analogy, this is a bit like the Netherlands Water boards. They have power and motivation to do whatever it takes to ensure the dikes are in good order. The population are motivated to support them in this. Everyone suffers if the water gets past the dikes: it destroys the platform.

Pure digital goods are easily duplicated with no loss of utility. For example, you can copy a piece of music and lose nothing from that. The value I see relates to scarce goods.
> I would rather pay someone to take my turn for me.

You're not wrong, but it's not (all) about efficiency but rather about solidarity and social cohesion. As an example, in Japan, children clean the school:

* https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2001/11/30/lifestyle/kids-...

* https://www.thejapanguy.com/japanese-kids-clean-their-classr...

* https://www.quora.com/How-do-Japanese-students-feel-about-th...
Since the decision made by Debian was that systemd will be the only supported init system, they had to fork to maintain alternative versions of packages depending on the init system, so I don’t think it’s fair to say it is on GNOME.
End to end, but to which ends? I seriously doubt that MS will cut itself off. There are too many reasons (national security response, marketing, police investigations etc) for them to keep at least some access to content in extremis. The "end" will be some midpoint within MS systems or control.
There you pay 40-50% incometax first
We should stop all taxation and use inflation to pay for everything instead. Much simpler and no one can get out of it.
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If you work 8 hours per day, 5 days per week, 50 weeks per year, the value of the time spent walking to and from work every day is worth 4.17% of your income. If you make $50k, that's $2,083 per year. How much are you willing to pay for the privilege of commuting?
It also depends on if you commute by car or public transport.

Some of us don't really object to 90 minutes a day of quiet time where we can read tbh.
> To invert that: if people understood how much the services being provided to them cost they would not consume them.

I don't think that's true. I think what is true, and what we've seen time and time again, is that people don't like the cost of services that others take advantage of that they don't need to.
> will attempt to take political control of the nation for their selfish interests

Kind of like the current lobbying going on all over the world?
Unregretted Attrition Rate assumes managers can tell the difference between a bad employee and a good employee. My experience is that 90% of managers don't have that skill.
I think you'll find it's consumers who are actually slaves to Apple and Google. Developers are not particularly happy to use iOS or Android, there is simply no commercially-viable alternative.
We're taking about being intollerant of bigotry here. What is it you're arguing to be tolerant of here? It's like you're picking two sides of the same argument depending on whom it favors.

I suggest that you reread your quote as well. The very premise of Popper's argument is based upon society being tolerant without limit. That's the starting point. If I'm saying explicitly to be intolerant then this paradox does not even enter the conversation.
I’d just want to point out that both Trump and Biden are “people’s parents”. In fact, they are people’s grandparents.

Considering we are continually being ruled by septuagenarians, maybe we can adjust our assumptions about what older people are capable of.
I'd be interested to know more about what type of content Trump published on his own blog, that proved unsuccessful. As someone observing from the UK, my assumption is that it was probably more long-form content. I wonder if comments were even possible. It wouldn't surprise me if short chunks of content, such as tweets, were far more popular with Trump's base than longer articles.

Edit: I see there are what I assume to be a couple of examples from his blog. They look very much like individual tweets. This turns it into quite an interesting case, one of a handful of examples I've seen where someone publishes the equivalent of their own twitter stream, on their own site. I used to have a great example, but I can't for the life of me now find it! In the case I've seen previously, the content was syndicated from the site to twitter — obviously, Trump doesn't have that option.

Edit2: It's Tantek Çelik's blog I'm thinking of: https://tantek.com/
A Jobs-Based Alternative to Guaranteed Income
Meanwhile, its founder preaches redistribution and calls the governments to raise taxes. "The wealthy should make a bigger effort to clean public finances"
> Who thinks like this? Computer numerologists? Surely what matters is feature support and quality, not big version numbers.

I don't think anyone's interested literally because it's a bigger number - you're responding to an imaginary argument nobody made.

People could be interested in Python 4 because they want another opportunity to make substantial breaking changes for the better, which you can only do on a major increment.

An example could be something like removing the GIL.

(Not saying that'd be a good idea or not.)
Oh, I think I've worked with you before! Perhaps multiple times...
The company is tax "resident" in Bermuda, a British Overseas Territory.

In fact I'm not even sure what the Ireland connection is here except that there is a registered office in Dublin. It seems like all the action is taking place in Bermuda, so this is really a story about UK overseas tax havens.
Of course they do, but if that's the proxy metric that makes them care about usability and user experience, it's a win-win.
What Bernie Sanders Doesn’t Understand about CEO Salaries
Yep. My commute in London is basically the only time I get to read books.
Developers Share How They Prevent and Manage Technical Debt (Part 2)
There's only two genders.
> Remind me why things like u"" couldn't be used to help cover exist codebases?

It’s right there in the Zen of Python: “Purity beats practicality”. Wait, no...
Say you redirect $100 million away from Microsoft's research into artificial intelligence and redirect it to a government project promoting artificial intelligence research + junkets for government employees.

It is certainly plausible that a tax will provide no additional benefit. Microsoft is one of the great value creators of the late 20th/early 21st century. it is not immediately obvious why redirecting money away from the company is a good idea.
The reason I don't like CSV is that CSV files can use any text encoding: ASCII, ISO-8859, UTF-8.. It's not nice to try to guess the encoding when reading files.

RFC 4180 also fails to define the default text encoding. It seems that text encoding can be given only when MIME type is given for the file.

JSON is so much easier.
Only from the perspective of the 'inferior' player - 'co-pilot' seems fine for competitive multiplayer, since as far as other players are concerned you could have been performing better, if you were only the better of the two of you, 'unimpeded' by the one being assisted.
Flatten-tool has more options and functions than just that one pandas functions (But I haven't done a full comparison to all Pandas functions. I wasn't around when the tool was started so I can't say what analysis was done at the time.)

For instance I note with interest their examples on nested data and arrays. We have various different ways you can work with arrays, so you can design user-friendly spreadsheets as you want and still get JSON of the right structure out: https://flatten-tool.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples/#one-... (Letting people work on data in user-friendly spreadsheets and converting it to JSON when they are done is one of the big use cases we have)
I find ironic to portray as extremists journalists who report on a company that pays zero (0) taxes on revenues expressed in billions. I would rather apply the adjective to the reported company for some reason, but maybe we have different measuring scales.
The main problem is see here is cooling. It will require energy and that might be a problem with earth quakes or attacks by North Korea.

In that respect Svalbard appears to be a better location (although they are having some problems due to global warming [0]).

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/19/arctic-s...
Amazing. As a spectator, it’d be awesome if she decided to take on snowboarding after conquering all there is to do in gymnastics.
There's roughly £12,000 tax free allowance on salaries and only £2500 on dividends. The common recommendation is to maximize your tax free allowance (pay yourself 12k PAYE) and then pay out anything else as dividends (though dividends legally require you operate at a profit).
We've been working on a new hypervisor https://kwarantine.xyz that can run strongly isolated containers. It’s still a WIP though.
> Its UI gets out of my way.

If you want the UI to get out of your way, why are you using a desktop environment instead of just a window manager?
The dilemma of WFH and why breaks are the solution
I think I take back my comments for a different occasion given that the headlines and likely the article body are blatantly false.
My theory is that they’re super successful in one area, so it probably doesn’t matter at all what the rest of the company is doing. Just one major successful project can float thousands of failed teams, due to the vast sums of money involved. I’m also positive the “golden goose” teams aren’t subject to the same kind of scrutiny and have more autonomy so they’re not subject to these kinds of policies
This is working as intended. The entire tax system is rigged to benefit multinationals, with employees and small businesses forced to pay the tab.
No one pays that much in a progressive tax system. Every time this discussion comes up people spout off these numbers but if you calculate out how much you actually pay it's probably in the 20-30% of total salary range. That's still high but it's just dishonest and makes people look like idiots when they throw around 40% etc. If you are truly paying 40% of your income in tax you are earning millions and are benefiting massively from the system already.
Yes. So you either pay income tax OR corporation tax plus dividend tax, but not both.