skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder when giant corporation will start taking the place of governments altogether.

Not that it makes much difference for us mortals
20 years ago, I was working on an agency wondering why, if they issued me a mobile phone and a laptop why they were expecting me to be in the office daily. My boss wasn’t. He was trying to land mere business.

When I was on my own, I realized that if I was in my home office, I wasn’t doing the most important work - which was maintaining the customer relationship which rarely happened in their offices.

Today, the majority of my work is collaborating with people outside my home state. So…why do I need an office?
And possibly a felony charge for structuring.
> and the improvements worth it

No. That's just the Stockholm Syndrome talking.
If you think that you don't know very much about recent Irish history. They all have significant blood on their hands, mostly due to their relationship with the Catholic Church.
Does this mean that ad-tracking data control will move from individual app developers to system owners (Google for Android/Chrome on the desktop and Apple for iOS)?

Facebook must be ruing spending time on Oculus instead of developing their own mobile hardware ecosystem.
Maybe I didn't understand what joke are you referring to... is the punchline an answer to "I'm hungry"? If that is the case, there is no name here. In all non-english languages that I know, this sentence has not the same form as "I'm Hungry". For example in French it is "J'ai faim" (literally "I have hunger"), in spanish it can be "Tengo hambre" o "estoy hambriento"; if it was a name it would have different grammar: "Je suis Faim" or "Soy Hambriento". In most romance languages it will be similar. How is it in Russian, Arabic, Chinese?
What's the effective tax burden on a self-employed single person making $300k in, say, Massachusetts (5% income tax; not exactly the highest in the US)?

Based on 2020 US tax brackets, standard deduction, including the both sides of FICA (capped at the social security cap for the social security part) and the medicare extra tax they are paying, I am ending up at ~37-38% effective (not marginal; marginal is 43.8%) tax or so. This individual would in my mind be excused for claiming that they pay "40% in income taxes" and is not making "millions" (though obviously is not suffering financially).
That's to be expected - press releases focus on super-optimistic specs and timelines.

After reality kicks in and unforeseen issues arise (remember 2020? me neither), plans need to be adjusted.

The scale model was initially expected to fly in 2018 even [1].

I expect further delays to be realistic as well. They either going to deliver sometime in the next decade or go bankrupt/sold out within the next couple of years.

[1] https://blog.wandr.me/2017/11/false-hope-boom-supersonic-tra...
To be fair there is also nothing that really connects this piece of paper which is the title of my car to my car.

This application of blockchain seems to be only creating a chain of ownership. Which we already sort of have now with many things. It does not seem to bring many better properties with it other than one I can think of. That property is that it makes it harder to forge ownership.

The weird thing is coming from people creating NFT's for things that are basically not worth tracking who owns it. Then others buying that thing at a wildly overinflated price (which many digital easily copied goods fall into).
Apple doesn't actually pay well compared to competitors, I think most people are taking a haircut on their salaries in order to work there, because of the brand, the corporate culture etc.
Click on the "teenvogue.com" url next to the title and it will show you all the times Teen Vogue has been linked to from HN.

Spoiler: It's a lot.
Sometimes the solution is also "Get IT to fix the thing that you're working around"

There was a delivered process to do a particular job, but it didn't work. Nobody thought to tell IT that it didn't work, instead they built a Ruby+Selenium script and ran it on a spare computer. Which worked great until it didn't.
> * I save money by spending less on food, drinks, and electricity.

Weirdly for me the food and drink is the opposite. Maybe if you're lucky enough to have an office that provides full lunch meals for you but I haven't experienced that yet.

I really enjoyed work lunches but it usually meant 4/5 days a week was going out with colleagues to local restaurants and paying restaurant food prices.

At home I can make a sandwich with stuff from my fridge without the allure of "well everyone else is going out for sushi don't you want to join?"
Just two days ago I bought my very first iPhone. Apple was selling privacy as a feature, so I was buying. I wish I'd seen this first, I might have stuck with Android/Samsung, which I prefer over iOS/iPhone..
JFK is also a preferable location for staging supersonic flight because you don’t need to pass over/near a massive population center on a route to northern Europe
>A large % of people now believe that the finance industry only exists to work against them and make an elite minority rich.

And what on earth makes them think cryptocurrency doesn't exist simply to make an elite minority rich? Just because it might be a different minority doesn't change the equation. And oh by the way, there is absolutely 0 government protections in the new system. Don't get me wrong, over the last 70 years a lot of the protections in existing financial institutions have been watered down, but I'll still take an FDIC backing on my bank account over: "oh no we got "hacked" and all of your wallets are gone, sorry about that!"
> “Senator, We Run Ads” was the iconic response from Facebook’s CEO

> And that’s how Facebook still manages to stay free of cost today.

I enjoy articles that explain to the layman how the sausage is made. I've always wondered: if enough people know they're the product and know how Facebook makes money, would they delete their account in a fit of rage or continue to use it, knowing that they're victims of surveillance capitalism?

I know for me, I cancelled my account after looking at the 'interests' page and discovered how strangely accurate it was. They really can get to know you on an intimate level. The more you engage with the app, the bigger and more accurate the profiling. More people need to visit that interests page and decide if they want to continue using Facebook.
You've effectively combined the worst features of public school with the worst features of private school.

The government does audit schools, what do you think standardized tests are for? To assess whether or not the school is getting the students to the appropriate level.

And everything else sounds pretty much kind of like how it already is except with the conceit that what you're saying is in any way novel.

We need to stop focusing on students and start focusing on teachers and support staff. We all know the trope of the overworked teacher who does a shit ton of work off-hours, who buys supplies out of their own money.

That's the failure of the system right there. Classrooms don't need tablets as much as they need more bodies. Combine that with parent engagement is difficult in some communities due to all the poverty and what not. It's hard to get a parent working a night shift at their second job to a conference to explain to them what they already know, their child is failing and they need help with the material.

Help the school can't provide, because there's no one available to do it. Because everyone is overworked.
> In the UK you can get a seat on most rush hour trains

I don't what commuter line you're coming in on but it must be one with seats on the roof.
Use 1x fossil fuels to create 1.1x biofuels. Sell biofuels to companies wanting to pander to their woke audience. look how great we are!!
Fair enough. There are still people I wouldn't begrudge for using “whiteness” like that, but I probably shouldn't assume good faith straight off the bat. You're right that this kind of thing is important to stamp out.

That being said, we don't really have a good word for “originally-European (but kinda American too now) take-everything attitudes”. How would you describe this succinctly?
Reading threads about public school on HN and threads about WFH/in-person makes me wonder if there is a relationship between the people that are anti-public school and pro-WFH or if there is a dissonant-relationship between anti-public school and pro-in-person.

I am pro-WFH and pro-public school. But my experience (public school student, public state university, 7 years public school teacher, 6 years in-office programmer, 4 years WFT programmer) is drastically different from many of the posts I read in these threads.

If school is a "prison" full of incapable/ineffectual/communist teachers indoctrinating the "inmates"... what is an office?

The routine of school is prison, but the routine of an office is good? Ineffectual teachers? What about ineffectual managers? Lefty teachers indoctrinating children? Corporations have convinced us that if the minimum wage increases or taxes go up then McDonalds and Apple will just close their doors and decide to go out of business rather than make a teeny bit less profit!
You forgot an edge case where something has inherent value (like a cup) but has overblown valuation (used by some king), and is sold at an auction to bigger fools.
Latency is a huge barrier, and it does not come only from OSes.

For example, modern television sets have a "gaming" mode because in normal mode they somehow process the video frames to make them look better, in a way that introduces latency.

Someone who works on audio software told me that audio over bluetooth has a very high latency too.

There are several bits that can introduce latency in a system. The OS is the part that software developers can adjust and improve.
>[Concorde] used reheat (afterburners) only at take-off and to pass through the upper transonic regime to supersonic speeds

The Concorde was capable of supercruise.
There are a few more concerning proplists/keyword lists: [{:x, "y"}], [x: "y"], ["x": "y"], and x: "y" are the same thing (if in args). Erlang dictates one syntax for this instead ([{x, <<"y">>}]) (ok you COULD say that technically 'x' works too)

The pinning operator x = :x; {^x, y} = {x, "y"}

Exceptions are slightly different.

There are a few others that made me realize "oh shit I need to learn Erlang first."
The only nasty comment in this thread is yours.
It's unethical AF. Technically, it might be legal, but that doesn't make it less immoral. You know, from a societal standpoint.

It's not like they have to scramble to get by, unlike many people in those countries whose tax systems they (ab)use.
Even if they get an excemption, affected people will probably come with pitchforks and torches to the headquarter. These supersonic booms are really loud.
I admire the way he mentions other languages by lifting them up, as aspirational examples for Python to learn from.

(Keep in mind that Guido works for (with?) Microsoft, who made Typescript)
The Lone Ranger Would've Been Convicted of Genocide If He Was Alive Today
Reminder that Concorde, and the largely imaginary Boeing SST, had hundreds of orders. Orders do not, in themselves, guarantee a product.
Why Can’t We (Reporters) Call It (Climate Change) an Emergency?
"Edward R. Murrow, the preeminent U.S. broadcast journalist of his time, insisted on covering what became Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939.

Murrow’s bosses ordered Murrow’s reporters to cover dance competitions, explaining that Americans needed some happy news.

Murrow wouldn’t do it. 'It’ll probably get us fired,' he told his colleagues, but he sent his correspondents to the German-Polish border; they arrived just in time to witness Hitler’s tanks and troops roar into Poland.

Suddenly, Europe was at war. And Americans heard about it because journalists at one of the nation’s most influential news outlets defied convention and did their jobs."

This is what's missing from most modern journalism - journalists who aren't compulsively subservient to authority - journalists who don't regurgitate whatever is handed to them by Gov / Corp.
The existence proof you describe is in terms of a yet more complex abstraction; we can imagine aliens might describe a more useful atomic theory than our own which does not involve nucleons or their discrete counts at all (ok, unlikely as I acknowledge that may be).

I don't want to descend into solopsism and apologise if I veer too far in this direction. Also thanks for taking the time to rebut what is probably a sophomoric argument.

I suppose my fundamental objection is that if integers are "real" then it seems to me that quaternions must be similarly "real" (since I can describe useful things with them) and so on, I can't see a boundary which would let me say "ok integers are the real deal but infinitesimals are just a thing we made up".

I think we have a zone of possible agreement if we decide either that all these abstractions are "real" or none of them are.
Ethnic groups are a distinct concept from racial groups. Ethnicity has more to do with culture and society versus race, which is largely about appearance and, to an extent, geographical provenance.
What are the commercials terms for deals like this?

I'd image United pays some portion upfront in exchange for a discount and being amung the first to have the plane. Boom gets some cash flow without dilution and validation from an airline.

If United is paying a portion upfront, is there risk factored in if Boom can't deliver?
But it's not bland. You instantly remember it, makes you more likely to talk about the company if only to remark on the name, and I'd imagine it leads to more press coverage as well.
I guess so? Not sure where you're going with that.
But even if you get a higher dose per unit of time, you spend less time in the air so your overall dose is lower. Your link mentions that.
I guess the main exception would be for personnel that did a lot of flights. That could be reduced by requiring longer ground breaks than with subsonic aircraft.
Amazon Luxemburg is not a UK company, so it wouldn't feature in the UK costs. They would have to pay tax on UK sales - UK costs.

Import more (including IP) and you pay more tax unless you also increase your UK costs.
Late morning crash causes police to close off Lanarkshire road
“Ass in seat” metrics are worth less than nothing, they’re trivially gameable. Most of us probably have experience phoning it in and faking productivity during a bad job; there’s no reason to believe that that’s not a regular thing when there is pressure to be seen over working.

Also, I doubt this lobby will work; the labor market for tech is unbelievably tight right now. Workers have the leverage to demand what they want, and I think more of them know it.
Why the ransomware crisis suddenly feels so relentless
I get this a lot as well. Just as soon as you are about to say something, or start typing. Just as the idea is coalescing in your mind, as you are walking down the path of understanding.

From over your shoulder: "Then do this thing cos of this this and this" - yes thank you I know. Eventually I feel downcast and just stop thinking for myself, I'm just a typer at that point.
Does anyone know how big an ant or butterfly's brain is? They do things that are pretty mindblowing in my book with those spec of dust sized brains.
Putting their toes in the water, for sure.
> I save money by spending less on food, drinks, and electricity.

That is more on you being a good steward of your money than anything else. Our development team eats out at restaurants nearly every day when we were at the office. Code together, dine together. Bad boys for life.
Max Schrems (with his group noyb) filed a complaint against the "Android Advertising Id" / "Google Advertising Id" at the french data protection authority sometime around april.
May be related.
As I wrote elsewhere, if you make below 50 k in Germany and your wife isn't working, I don't think that's a very comfortable life style.
Ah, yep, as of 1.2.1 it seems: https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/commit/?id=ea6d7847ac128...
If you control your update source, which is standard practice for old school linux admins; this is not true.

I pull new updates on a set schedule and only push the ones that are tested in nonprod. There are any number of tools that do this, Uyani is a good free one.
Shush. I want to hear more about Big Desk and HVAC and other hidden truths about the world economy.
I get almost all my news from HN and my handy RSS-Reader.

My other main source is a state owned new-site witch i believe is pretty good https://www.dw.com/en/

I have subscribed a lot of small websites and blogs witch fill out niche interests for me.

I use a RSS Reader called inoreader.com .
It can also notify me about YouTube videos etc. and websites that do not support RSS.
Delicious Brains Acquires Advanced Custom Fields
Flying above the speed of sound without using afterburners is referred to as supercruise, and it is something the Concorde was capable of doing.

There aren't a lot of supercruise aircraft out there. The F22, for instance, can supercruise effectively, but the F35 cannot.
Yeah, this is what I'm thinking as well. Isn't this a blatant anti-trust violation?
Python 3 versions have had breaking changes though, so it's a bit of a moot point anyway.
> In April, the latest month for which there are figures, the R179 cars had a 12-month average of mechanical failures every 150,214 miles, according to the MTA. Systemwide, the nearly 6,700 cars in the MTA fleet had mechanical failures every 131,627 miles.

According to a previous report [0], the older subway cars — including those running since 1984 — had a failure rate of 1 every 265,324 miles

[0] https://www.thecity.nyc/transportation/2019/11/21/21210682/n...
The World Park Project
That's applied math though. It is categorically on another level in the hierarchy.

Why would one specific application of math, the application of math in beauty be placed by philosophy on the same level as logic fundamentally. Math is derived from logic after all. Why isn't philosophy placing the study of the application of math to origami in the same category? Why does beauty arbitrarily take precedence over origami?
In cases like Venezuala, what's the long-term goal of holding crpyto though? That the country somehow collapses and is rebuilt with a normally inflationary currency with a less restrictive government? Or is the idea that you build up savings to eventually leave the country?

It doesn't really seem like a long-term solution or one that'd help more than a small amount of people.
Hey, thanks for asking! Unfortunately we have no English version for these job ads... :-/

I guess you will have to use your favourite translator tool. Feel free to ask if you need more details.
Wow. I guess there's just two kinds of people in the world.
The majority of those schools are suburban, not urban.

It should also be noted that nearly all of them are "public" in name only. The BASIS schools, for instance, where my kids attend, are Charter schools, where parents are not technically required to, but shamed mercilessly into, "donating" what is effectively slightly discounted private school tuition.
These three (albeit somewhat long) videos answer a lot of the questions you asked:

Flight of the New Concordes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZLykryZLFk

Supersonic Planes are Coming Back (And This Time, They Might Work) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p0fRlCHYyg

Supersonic Flight - What Does The Future Hold? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3K04wgf_ZQ
I learned the concepts from dave thomas's book and then drilled them into my mind using exercism.io
Good, remain skeptical, it's important.
It seems like you don’t understand exactly how different Simone Biles is from every single gymnast before her. She is an anomaly in the field of gymnastics. She can physically do things that no other gymnast, male or female, can do because of how short she is, how strong she is, and how skilled she is. If she were of regular gymnast height, her skill would still make her one of the greatest gymnasts. But add on the fact she is so short and so strong, it means she does things no one else would dare to do.

I love Michael Jordan. He is my favorite basketball player ever. I’ve watched him play basketball live. But he is no Simone Biles.

The question isn’t whether Simone Biles is the greatest gymnast in history. The question is whether any gymnast in the future can ever do what she can do right now. Unless children become genetically engineered to be gymnasts, there may never be another gymnast as great as Biles.
It's a given that this is the entire point of the name: "Boom Supersonic" is just a cool-sounding (depending on your taste) play on "supersonic boom." It's not like the inconvenience of supersonic booms was some secret negative connotation that whoever named Boom Supersonic didn't know about.
Oh yeah, the same Alveda King that is a religious conservative, anti-abortion, anti same-sex marriage. Her opinions don't seem to align with the spirit of MLK during the civil rights movement.

She's aligned with Trump due to her fundamentalist religious views, not sure I can trust her just because she's the niece of MLK, being family says nothing about sharing mindset and worldviews, I'm sorry.
Odd. You never hear about people fired/removed for anti-white statements. Nick Cannon was an interesting example, where his anti-white remarks went completely ignored: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/nick-cannon-apologizes-for...

Edit: To those saying he apologized. Yes, he did - but only to a specific subset of those he insulted: ""First and foremost I extend my deepest and most sincere apologies to my Jewish sisters and brothers for the hurtful and divisive words that came out of my mouth during my interview with Richard Griffin,''"
Part of me thinks that a new CSV standard with technical breaking changes (lines starting with #) is not needed because we have JSON array-of-arrays files.

The other part thinks this is quite cool and wishes your efforts well.
CCTV only deters blue collar crime. White collar crime still has no equivalent deterrent. In a sense, CCTV helps us punish those who are already desperate. While not necessarily a negative in the abstract, in concrete terms one has to wonder why there's no CCTV cameras in executive offices, no screen recordings of everything they do on their computer.
You could add:
- Concorde didn't work flying east because with the time zone thing, you might be flying real fast, you still arrive super late. Meaning you could as well pay less and fly the red eye...
JFK/EWR/LGA - it's the same congested airspace. Does it really make much of a difference?
So what are the other 497+ possible routes (new York Paris also works) ? I read somewhere that after a Concorde test flight to Singapore, India complaint strongly and stopped the airway.
But the lena.jpg used in tech circles is a very innocent portrait. Who cares if it came from a consensual naked person picture from the 70s.

The human body can surprisingly be very beautiful and there is nothing wrong with it.
But if the libraries and extensions are not maintaining compatibility, you need to freeze your dependencies, and sometimes that means freezing the dependencies of your dependencies, or even your OS, and then you hope your machine doesn't break.

It's not a tragedy, backwards-compatibility is a burden, and I understand maintainers, especially volunteers not wanting to do it. But migration is a pain, I found the conversion was not too hard, but testing the migrated scripts for breakage was time consuming.

FYI, the cause of my latest migration was that the latest version for the mysql-connector for python no longer works with 2.7. See the changelog entry for v8.0.24 here:
https://github.com/mysql/mysql-connector-python/blob/master/...

So something to consider if you want to stay on Python 2 forever.
Concorde only used the afterburner in takeoff, and while transitioning to supersonic. It would happily cruise supersonic without the afterburner.

Still, we have had a few years of engine technology improvements since then.