skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>you could get significant tax benefits

This is a significant piece of information in this discussion.
Website link of the product: https://www.zoho.com/contracts/
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3 came out in 2008. [0] I don’t think 13 years is “pretty well.”

There was still lots of python2 package installs [1] even after 2.x officially ended.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Python
[1] https://dev.to/hugovk/python-version-share-over-time-6-1jb8
So it has been admitted after all and Google knows it's true as I previously said in a recently flagged post [0]. Welcome to the lost and banned then.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27368638
Take a moment to comprehend those numbers:

FY18/19 - under $10bn profit

FY19/20 - $314.7bn profit (3/4 of Ireland's GDP) and paid no tax on it.

> The subsidiary, which collects licence fees for use of copyrighted Microsoft software around the world, recorded an annual profit of $314.7bn in the year to the end of June 2020, according to accounts filed at the Irish Companies Registration Office. Its profits jumped from just under $10bn the previous year and compare with Ireland’s 2020 GDP of €357bn ($437bn).

> Tax transparency campaigners described the “tax aggression displayed by Microsoft, and facilitated by Ireland” as “beyond belief”.
>The only thing I can think is that this entire thing has to be flipped into some sort of "VAT"/usage situation.

Then it's a consumption tax (aka sales tax), which we already have and is generally regressive.
That's why the documentation prod gatekeeping is critical to long term company health.

You're not going to stop them doing things -- because there's never "enough" IT / they always have Excel.

So what's the next least bad?

IMHO, give them something flexible enough (RPA) that they don't have to go outside of the box + require they leave a documentation trail of what / why they built. (Oh! And teach them about SLAs and SRE best practices!)

Then come down like a ton of bricks if they don't follow the latter. Carrot & stick.

Cheaper pressure release valves (RPA), not expensively overengineered containers (hiring more engineers).

---

Ironically, the hardest conversation at (insert F500 I designed an RPA practice for)?

"Business users shouldn't be able to use IT change control tools!"

Wait... isn't this exactly what we're always griping they don't do?
The legislature decided more good is done without taxation in some cases.
I asked the question because I was actually wondering your thoughts, like, maybe I'm being too negative to think what has been done so far has been far from what's necessary. I wasn't trying to be cynical about it.

In terms of suggestions, the book Drawdown contains many. It lists 100 contributing solutions to climate change. I'm going to go read it again, but the gist is that there are no silver bullets.

Two things that were campaign and earlier year promises we've yet to see.. planting 3 billion trees, and ending fossil fuel subsidies.. those still haven't happened.
The normal distribution is special in being closed under linear transformation.
It's good to see that they've added a Content-Security-Policy related test. I checked and Lighthouse 8.0.0 still penalizes you on "best practices" if your CSP does not allow inline styles.

Something that Lighthouse injects for testing tap-targets has inline styles, and Chrome will log a warning to the console, and Lighthouse penalizes you for that: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse/issues/11862
If there are, they are not framed in societal terms but in Darwinist terms.

In regular society, it's more profitable to be a criminal/mugger/what have you, viewed entirely in a practical sense. It only becomes unprofitable when (a) there's law to prevent you and (b) there's a general idea that preventing you from doing that is correct in some way.

If anybody's experimented with this, and I wouldn't be surprised if Amazon had as it seems like they'd try anything to see if it worked, I would guess that at scale stack ranking produces slightly more efficiency and productivity than it costs in harm to the well-being of workers. Since Amazon doesn't care at all about the well-being of workers OR employers… they're like a sort of pyre to the cause of scale and profitability… then stack ranking would stay.

If it didn't return some arbitrarily small (or large, as far as we know) benefit to the company at the cost of the well-being of the workers, it would be gone. Somebody's got to have measured this by now, and all these tech unicorns are smart enough to ditch it if it was actually impinging on their productivity. It's not, it's impinging on worker conditions, so win/win as far as the tech giants are concerned.
I think Yammer takes first place. It's required reading at work (the main feed). It loads incredibly slowly (I think it's like 5 redirects for auth and whatnot) and the default "What's new" view is entirely useless.

Jira and Confluence are excruciatingly slow, too, but at least the information isn't hidden behind useless feeds.
JIRA.

For personal stuff, bloated websites just get replaced with less bloated alternatives. At work, I don't have that luxury...
There is no artistic portion to the score in this event! It's form * dd (degree of difficulty). That's why there's controversy, they've changed the way they score this one move for this one person.
1992: Silverwolf
My current dog is awesome but he does not have a sense of humor. Whenever I play jokes on him, he just gets concerned.
I strongly disagree with that idea. Voters must know exactly how much they are paying for something for them to care about efficiency of government spendings. What you are proposing is how things currently work in Russia and trust me you don't want that
> As cryptocurrency miners and related software are commonly flagged by antivirus software, Norton says that this feature allows users to mine Ethereum without sacrificing their security.

This sound rather uncompetitive.
That is a point of a village as opposed to living in separate farmsteads. (there are other points to villages, but putting a group of people together is an automatic form of defense)
Agreed! And it surfaces problems we as publishers don't particularly bump into on the say to day so definitely a win-win!
Still not done. Plus the burden of having to upgrade applications that don't make sense to from a financial perspective is totally not cool.
Assuming the UBI works out as intended and doesn't lead to unmanageable inflation the definition of destitution will just change to reflect the new floor.

How many 70s government housing project apartments or leaky rural shacks do you think you'd need to combine to get one working set of appliances and utilities that every section 8 apartment and double wide trailer has these days? (I'd put that number at 3-5). That was the floor then. That floor is mostly the subfloor now.

As things get better our standards get higher. Progress is good but you will never "solve" poverty, destitution, or any other bad thing that is defined relative to the rest of the population.
Giving people too much freedom opened the Pandora's box?
Even better: `man configuration.nix` and `man home-configuration.nix`. I used the website first, but found out just using the quite good man pages is much much faster.
Definitely whichever one I'm currently working on
This is what Lenin did IIRC.
Jira, hands down. So slow! It's at a point we're looking for alternatives.
White House warns companies to step up cybersecurity
I once used 'The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants' (http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/#abop) to build a simple L-System web service while studying: https://lsystems.raphaelpour.de/
Another example is videogame development: Initially there was pure sweat, blood and passion (around the 80s for PC gaming). But nowadays most of the people in there are for profiteering.

Once the bean counters enter a tech field, they suck all the fun.
Hawaii and New York are the only states implementing vaccine passports.

Hawaii appears to have the strictest implementation in the country:

> Starting May 11, fully vaccinated individuals in Hawaii who uploaded their proof of vaccination to the state's "Safe Travels" system were allowed to travel inter-county without pre-travel testing and quarantine restrictions.

NY has a state-sponsored app that businesses can choose to require:

> New York has introduced a government-sponsored digital vaccine passport program called the Excelsior Pass, according to the AP. The smartphone app shows whether someone has been vaccinated or recently tested negative for COVID-19. At least some sports and performance venues, such as Madison Square Garden and Yankee Stadium, have used Excelsior Pass to prove vaccination
What Is "Kyushoku"?
Damn, driftwood.com is taken
People of Venezuela would like to have a word with you
I've been thinking about this, and if that CO2 tax results in that less CO2, who feels the brunt of it? What does it look like to people? Is everything 20-50% more expensive, so we buy less of it? Would be great to see the CO2 reduction, but I don't see our government going the route of forced austerity. I guess the idea is to then force low-carbon innovation to bring prices back down?
Yeah and also to mention the elephant in the room: people work much more when they are stuck in a room with others, and have eyes on them. And they work way less if they are at home and nobody is watching. This is just the truth, regardless of how little it applies to myself, of course!

I'm also annoyed by the amount of housework/cooking/preparation/cleaning I have to do when I'm at home all day, when half of that happens in the office/resturant otherwise.
And to get the hash of some file you download, you can do `nix-prefetch-url https://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/460.80/N...` that'll cache the file for you and give the sha256. Remember to add `--unpack` if the file is an archive.
Yes. It's a multiplier, you get exercise and more range than a traditional bike and it opens up a larger portion of a city to bike commuting.
I doubt OP has photos of the island's earlier inhabitants.
Point taken, and agreed with, but F1 is a traditionally pretty bad example for this. They regularly, including during the Schumacher days, changed rules to try and make things closer.
That's what I was thinking after reading the rationale, there are plenty of options that don't involve a hash map.

That said, linearly scanning is not much different from a hash map with linear probing that has no empty slots left, so it's not necessarily obvious that the hash map actually takes that much more space.
It wouldn't be impossible at all, you can of course cooperate with competitors to lower your taxes while competing for customers. Not that you necessarily need to band together with your competitors for this, there are plenty of companies out there.
So they pay ~$2.44Billion more than Tesla is what youre telling me?
Sales tax disproportionally affects the poorer. That's undesirable, to say the least.

Restructuring taxes will take a lot more work, and then end up with hundreds, if not thousands of extra taxes, each of which will be "avoidable" if you have enough lawyers, simply because the system won't be able to keep up.
The question was about what kind of testing that can be done on GMOs that can't be done on other types of organisms. The commenter that I was hoping to answer me claimed that it is harder to test traditionally bred organisms than GMOs.
Amateur Sleuths Broke the Wuhan Lab Story and Embarrassed the Media
> You have kids don't you? That seems to be a consistent feature of people I meet who espouse the virtues of going to work.

Yes. But my liking of bike commuting is maybe more related to the fact that it is a positive change from using public transportation, where I felt really miserable (had to take two crowded buses with an indeterminate waiting time in-between).

But you are right that having kids changes one's view to work... often, after an intense weekend, I go back to the lab and say "finally! I can relax and get some work done".
Cool link. I know some construction of the real and complex numbers, I was asking about the construction of the hyperreals used in the textbook. I couldnt find info about that on the page.
To quote another thing you said:

> Also, by 2031 (if not already), COVID will be endemic.
Sure, but imagine eating all your meals at work. Your existence would be work, eat 3 meals, commute, sleep at home.

For me getting home before dinner would be a massive plus to getting a free meal.
i've known about json lines for a bit (had to make a utility that parsed some output of a program that used jsonlines and was irritated it didn't use the json spec)...

but for some reason just this post made me realize something... i've always been irritated by CSV log files (or space delimited), but would prefer something more structured like JSON, but JSON log files are pretty obnoxious for the reasons mentioned in the comments, a lot of data duplication...

JSON lines for log files seems like a great fit, not sure why i didn't realize this until now, i suppose it was the context of the discussion!
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> At least cryptocurrency prevents censorship when sending funds, unlike centralized solutions.

right now, because it's not widely used.
If it ever gets mainstream, people will give governments whatever power they need to censor and try to stop things like child pornography. And once they can censor that, they can censor other stuff as well.

And I am sure you can come up with technical reasons why monero can't be censored. But i remember when China started their big firewall of china, people where laughing how trivially easy it was to bypass. And that their strategy will never work. Now 15-20 years later, nobody is laughing anymore. In fact a lot of countries seem to be moving into same direction.
I’m sure the punchline to the actual oldest joke is “Hello Hungry, nice to meet you, my name is Dad.”

It is likely something that took place in even the oldest family groups. And I expect it’s probably also used in the animal kingdom.
I think that 220bn is the profit of that particular Irish subsidiary. They got their revenue from all other Microsoft's subsidiaries around the world and only need very little expense ("directors", etc). Hence, profit.
Income is usually relative to the person’s location. It’s not very useful to compare my situation to that of a person in the global south. Income correlates closely to cost of living.

I fully appreciate that I make more money than “a lot of the world”. But I don’t think it’s wrong to ask that corporations and high-net-worth individuals, also pay their fair share and not just leave the burden to people like me.
What exactly is your background where you assume your answer is correct when you know even the experts have substantial disagreements on taxation. Maybe there are a lot of legitimate disagreements on how much and which taxes because taxes aren’t a universal good but rather a necessary evil.
At least in the enlightenment period, tend to come from political philosophy rather than history... though the two are closely related in this period. Notably, Hobbes and his "state of nature" concept.

Philosophy of this period (also Locke, Marx, etc) tended to speculate about the past using reason, rather than empirically. A lot of their ideas have been passed down to us.

Hobbes' saw life in the "natural" state "solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short." Eventually government arises, using its monopoly of violence to end day-to-day violence, cheating and such.

I don't think the original writers are compelling anymore, but they are hard to shake entirely. Memes die hard.

In any case, I think the reality of people at all times is that cooperation is a fundamental. There are no societies without cooperation, some form of solidarity, love, etc. We could have never survived without it. Violence is also common in history, but we don't need it to survive. We also know that primates, dogs and other creatures have demonstrably empathetic behaviours, a sense of fairness and such.

As I implied at the start, I think the mistake is literal fundamentalism. Human behaviour can't be logically derived from a fundamental nature.
That's both cool and a bit sad.
Old reddit is much better all around in that regard.
Facebook. Aside from all the obvious privacy problems, the product itself is also ridiculously bloated for what it is.
If Python is ever forked to allow for major breaking changes, they may as well release it as Perl 6
The old Reddit UI is still available under the old.reddit.com domain. I use browser extensions to automatically redirect to the old saner UI every time I visit Reddit.
I think the claims of sexism come from the fact that this move has only ever been performed by men before, combined with the low scoring as a way of dissuading other female gymnasts from trying it.
The bit players simply map Active Accessibility / whatever MS calls it now (Windows Automation Framework?).

The more serious players shadow Windows events.

The real stuff does process injection and directly shadow copies / modifies in-memory data structures.
Ask HN: What is your playbook for profitable SaaS without outside investment?
Edit:

What is your playbook for building a profitable SaaS without taking outside investment(debt or equity)? And how much time it took to reach profitablility?
> It's very unfortunate that the WFH experiment didn't turn out to be a 100% winner.

This "experiment" wasn't one unless you expect the pandemic to rage forever (in which case, going back into the office is very risky!).

As other comments have said, a smart company will allow employees pandemic-like freedoms to work from their home or office as they desire, and let this experiment you mention actually work out.
If that's true at all it definitely needs an 'in the US' qualifier - it's surprising to me in the UK, and even more surprising we would be so different in that regard.

Is the cooked-for-you food free?
From Competitive Programming to APL
But prevents optimisation, if that optimisation would lose the iteration order.

If you need defined ordering in your type, use it. Otherwise, don't specify it.
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Moving running apps across devices is a big security risk. Look up "Mobile Agent" research on Google Scholar. There are some severe security problems with moving running apps between devices. Foremost is the problem of a compromised host that corrupts the apps and then sends them on their way to attack other devices. It is very difficult to protect your app against a corrupt host operating system. There may be some known solutions to the security problems with mobile agents, but I suspect Huawei spent most of the last two years working on other things instead of rewriting Android from the ground up to provide security for running apps that can jump between devices. Even if they did it is all new and not proven in the field. In fact there is another name for apps that can jump between devices, worms. What a great way for an attacker to spread an infection, worm capability built into the OS! And don't tell me it will all be under user control when the app can popup "click here to listen to your music on your TV!" which is a legitimate reason to allow any app to jump devices.
The push for working from home is just two other things that have become taboo to debate and is manifesting through the work from home "movement", which is the loss of private offices, and the debate about reducing hours of work.

And if people are allowed to work from home, they have an alternative that fills the loss of the private office, and they can also take upon themselves to shorten their working hours to something more "reasonable".
The pair in lockstep is "close", in that it only includes the core and deterministic private resources like core private caches. Shared resources like a L3 cache are outside of the whole pair, and can be seen as accessed by the pair. All output is from the pair and checked for consistency (same for both cores in lockstep) before going out.

Not directly related but some platforms supporting lockstep are flexible: you can use a pair as either 2 cores (perf) or a single logical one (lockstep).
(I'm the author of the RFC)

Not sure why this is trending now, but this RFC is being revised now:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-shafranovich-rfc...

Suggestions and comments are welcome here:
https://github.com/nightwatchcybersecurity/rfc4180-bis
How long does it normally take to transition the community around a programming language to a new version that makes substantial changes?
Definitely WageWorks.
I couldn't see this practice working in Japan either. Companies here tend to avoid firing people because they'll be obliged to support that person for a set number of months while also exposing themselves to litigation. Really curious to hear more from someone working in their Tokyo office.
I meant when you want to compute the final orientation (lets ignore position): Each axis results in some orientation change which can be expressed as a quaternion. The final orientation can then be computed by combining the quaternions into one quaternion.
This is very similar to the computation of forward kinematics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_kinematics) for robots, which just have additional translations for the transformations.

As said before you still want to retain the actual angles somewhere.

Depending on your physical configuration one of the Euler angle variants (Tait–Bryan angles is another term to search for) could perfectly describe your case and you could just use these to store the angles.
Euler angles can also be converted to quaternion. But you can't recover the original used angles from the quaternion alone because of the 2pi wrapping of angles.

For others still wondering why quaternion or orientation alone won't suffice, here is a different example: Imagine an axis which can rotate more than only one revolution, i.e. can have angles like 4 pi, for example motorized volume knobs. An orientation alone can't represent that as it wraps the angles to 2pi. User manually turns the knob to two full revolutions (4pi) and then increases the value by remote control, which results in motorized knob to rotate. Should the knob turn back to nearly zero revolutions (rotate back 4pi) plus the increase? No, it should rotate to 4pi+increase.

By the way, when you have internally stored the "multi revolution" angle and have a sensor reading in range [0..2pi[ you can recover an multi revolution angle equivalent to the sensor reading with wrapToPiSeq( angle in radians before, sensor reading).

# to equivalent angle in [0,2pi[ range
def wrapTo2Pi(rad):
return rad % (2*pi)

# to equivalent angle in ]-pi,pi] range
def wrapToPi(rad):
return wrapTo2Pi(rad + pi) - pi

# angle difference between rad0 and rad1, in range ]-pi,pi]
def angleDiff(rad0, rad1):
r0 = wrapToPi(rad0)
r1 = wrapToPi(rad1)
return wrapToPi(r1-r0)

# rad1 to equivalent angle so the jump from rad0won't be greater than |PI|
def wrapToPiSeq(rad0, rad1):
r0 = wrapToPi(rad0)
r1 = wrapToPi(rad1)
diff = wrapToPi(r1-r0)
return rad0+diff
The article references Dixit et al. for an example of a root cause investigation of a CEE which is an interesting read: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.11245.pdf

> After a few iterations, it became obvious that the computation of 𝐼𝑛𝑡(1.153)=0 as an input to the math.pow function in Scala would always produce a result of 0 on Core 59 of the CPU. However, if the computation was attempted with a different input value set 𝐼𝑛𝑡(1.152)=142 the result was accurate.