skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's the rub. The salaries look huge but they don't take into account the mental cost of commuting or the negative externality placed on people whose environments are rearranged to accommodate people from outside that region. Of course, the salaries are the reason it's so expensive (fueled by the few who choose to live that close) but that indicates that the housing surrounding the HQs won't accommodate a workforce with a reasonable commute.

This isn't just some unimportant whining. It's the source of a large chunk of your carbon footprint. And electric or autonomous cars won't make that go away.
Historically it was the opposite.

Overtime, all our policies changed to squeeze the regular citizens to protect and enrich the top 1%. It's wealth redistribution to the top.

Instead Americans would rather flight each other instead of banning together to reverse course.

It doesn't have to be this way.

I love how this website shows this in data:

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com
I recommend CSVY (CSV with YAML frontmatter, https://csvy.org/), which solves several problems in CSV.

Currently R data.table supports read and write csvy format. https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/data.table/versions/...
I flip between agreeing and disagreeing with you! I'm not well qualified to comment so I expect an informed rebuttal to this will be instructive for me. So here goes:

I still find myself in the "number systems are a cultural artifact" camp. We choose which details to keep and which to throw away in our abstractions. There are anumeric cultures and it's not clear to me at all that the existence of integers is obvious (beyond what humans can subitize) unless you're immersed in a culture that has impressed them upon you since early childhood.

Do you have "2 cats" or actually just "this cat and that cat"? This cat is a bit bigger but that one looks meaner.

Deep down I think that an insistence on the "reality" of integers versus reals (say) is purely aesthetic. (Ignoring for the moment that our conventional constructions build one from the other in a certain way).
Rich people don't usually get handouts from the government, but they get something more valuable - a social order, enforced by the government, that allows them to be rich. Suppose you were rich, but you lived in a place where rich people tended to get kidnapped and held for ransom - being rich wouldn't be quite as good of a deal. The social order disproportionately benefits the rich, so they should pay more to keep it going.
It is definitely better than default GNU/Linux installations.
To be fair, though, the prime minister's salary is generally a drop from whatever job they would be doing instead (making no comment on whether that's right or wrong). Same with judges, I believe.
or maybe he's talking about non gang criminals?
I'm not sure how that connects at all - "the purpose of a system is what it does" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...) isn't making any claims about correctness.
And lord is "one who guards the loaves."
WHO works with Italy to retest samples of Covid-19 study to find its origin
Countries including the US, Spain and Brazil, which reported the early evidence of COVID-19 before December 2019 should also cooperate with the WHO on coronavirus origins study, the immunologist said.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry has called on the US to cooperate with the WHO based on transparency and openness, and to invite international scientists to visit the Fort Detrick lab for investigation.
While satire clearly can go above a young boy's head, it is important to keep an open mind about literature. Symbolism doesn't necessarily need to have a purpose.

We can also learn a lot about the environment in which a writer operated, just by learning from which symbols was used to convey a message. This is one of the central points, but also perhaps the most misunderstood, of modern (and post modern) literary criticism.

Your teacher may not have been the best, but that does not mean all literary criticism is bad.
On this thread, I did state my opinion in a clear and respectful way. I did not accuse the GP of anything at all, and I responded to their definite assertion (that consciousness can travel non-materially at infinite speed) with a definite assertion of my own (that consciousness is a physical process and subject to special relativity as much as other physical processes).
Places where kids sell crack to their parents because the alternative is the parents going to some unrelated crack dealer that will treat them much worse.

And this is in the US.

PS- feel free to replace "crack" with meth, heroine, etc
I find these days almost any local tv news website to be all but unusable. Between the multiple ad pop ups, multiple auto play videos, and the general clutter. Just trying to read a single news story is an effort that pisses me off to the point where I just close out the tab instead of reading the article.
Pre YouTube you would make money off funny home videos by sending a VHS copy in to America's Funniest Home Videos for a chance to win $10,000 or the $100,000 grand prize.
Each & everyone will get my upvote if you comment or upvote this post. Thanks in advance
Seems to me that nearly every assertion in that Reuters story is wrong. Police agencies may be being given a new, additional way to request video data, but nothing Ring can do can prevent police agencies from using the old, legal methods of requesting video data. So now there are two separate data request systems:

1) "pretty please can people send videos"

2) subpoena, direct request, national security letters, etc. Anything built in to the legal system.

1) will be public and probably not too common - fishing expeditions by the police. 2) will not be public at all and will represent the bulk of data transfer from individuals to the police, and in general the public will never know it happened. 1) will be soft-represented as the totality of data transfer by Ring, if you (as an enterprising young reporter) happen to make the mistake of reporting it as the totality, Ring will definitely not call you up and correct the record.

Specifically, these paragraphs are both complete bullshit:

> "Public safety agencies such as police and fire departments now must request material from their communities through a new, publicly viewable type of post on the Neighbors app, Ring said in a blog."

They certainly mustn't.

> "It said no information would be shared with agencies without users choosing to do so and that requests can be issued only by verified agency profiles and that request history will be logged online, so users can see how their police force is using the posts."

Complete bullshit as well. Ring doesn't make the rules.
I would definitely save a lot of money working from home, my office is wall to wall with a bakery.
> In the end, what gets deployed is the responsibility of the entity doing the deployment.

Yes and no, I don't disagree, but remember classic hosting, semi-managed infrastructure still exists. We often get container images delivered and are responsible for the operational side of things, but we have no control of what is actually inside the containers.

Sure we can make requests, or inform a customer that we believe what they are doing isn't safe. Ideally we could reject a request to run a container, but in reality that's not really an option. That shifts the responsibility of security more in the direction of the developers and they often do not have regular patch management as a priority.
Using it to monkey patch "features" onto external vendors is huge.

Sometimes, it's because the feature cuts against the vendor's business model (e.g. Verint's terrible CCTV server appliances / software client not allowing bulk export).

More often, it's because it's not a priority (e.g. mass-updating on a system that only allows a single update at a time).
oh man I miss those 2 o'clock lunch deals (Menu del Dias) which would fill you up for like... 12 euros haha. I remember in Barcelona or Valencia you could go to a really fancy, highly rated restaurant and "splurge" for 20 euros. Miss that place!
I am a part of the engineering team at Origin Protocol, who built and ran this auction. AMA.

Fun fact: within a few days of the auction we beat an hour long DDOS attack peaking at 4.7 million page per minute.
JSON is probably popular because JS was popular and it’s a subset. And being a programming language that’s is typed by humans, so those special characters would not have naturally featured.

For data, if we are going to use reserved characters, maybe we just use protobuf and let the serialisation code take the strain.
Why would they do that ? The light tax they require from those entity still benefits them immensily, because those entity choose to pay them there instead of elsewhere.
If Ireland introduced more taxes those big corps would move away, so they would actually receive less...
And some PM is probably looking at those misclicks and seeing “engagement”
Please don't repeat terrible 90s pedagogy about RSA. Even in RSA, the padding for signatures and for encryption is different (for very important reasons). The fact that RSA encryption and RSA signatures share code (but are not identical) is just a quirk of RSA that instead of making the thing simpler to explain made it harder to explain well - people think this generalizes and try to understand where is the encryption in Ed25519 or whatever and are very confused.

If you want to point out the difference between "public key operation" (encrypt, verify) and "private key operation"
(decrypt, sign), use those terms. That makes sense and the distinction is important.

People end up with basically misinformation in their heads and other people on stackoverflow (and IRL) spend lots of time trying to sort them out. You just made the problem a little worse. Please don't do that.

Here is an actual cryptographer explaining: https://security.stackexchange.com/a/87373/70830
Not only that but you get significant tax relief on your £40k pension contributions (about £8k I think) so takehome plus pension is about £95k from the £100k initially.
This goes down the rabbit hole of crypto enthusiasm, which HN as a collective despises.

But blockchain allows the asset to be verified quickly, impossible to counterfeit (the asset itself, not the NFT image), and immediately makes it available to the entire ecosystem of dapps running on the blockchain rails. I believe NFTs will become a larger component of DeFi, enabling their use as collateral.

But a large number of games will also integrate with NFTs and enable a larger ecosystem of assets to move freely between them.
You can stop believing the idiocy printed by rags masquerading as newspapers.

Microsoft did not even make £220B (apx $310B) revenue globally in the 2020 fiscal year, much less in one subsidiary. Their total global revenues were $143B and total global net income (aka profit) was $44.

If The Guardian can't fact check the basics, how can you trust anything else they write?
Datable?
I am from Ireland and from talking to friends and family most people are pretty happy with it. We give them a pass on taxes and they employ thousands of high end engineers here. We then collect large income tax revenues from these workers and subsidise the rest of the country.
And what are they doing now? What jobs do they have? How do they pay?
Very few people _anywhere_ are paying a 40% effective tax rate.

I wasn't aware of the Washington state tax rate though.
Provision them with cloud-init in both places
Ah yes. But then if I think of infinitesimal als functions going to 0 at 0, I can have two infinitesimals (first one is constant zero for negative values other one constant zero for positive values), which multiplied give the constant zero function. How does a construction deal with that?
Fair point. I'd be the first to admit I have rose tinted glasses about those early years! And also the first to grumble at those who came later...
Researchers: Culture drives human evolution more than genetics
If he can comfortably move his head, might I suggest something VR related? Most of the first VR games that came out for mobile (i.e. using your phone as a VR screen) couldn't utilise a controller so they used head movement for controlling things. Usually you had e small crosshair in the middle with which you can select things by simply holding a position. I sadly can't remember the names of the games I tried but you might find them (or newer ones for newer headsets) through google. I know it's not a complete substitute but if they miss mountain walks, there are VR experiences (often videos) which simulate that. Might be interesting to try. I'm not aware of it but there might even be multiplayer ones, so that his wife can join him.
I concur. I can also say with confidence that both High School and College were a complete waste of time and money! I learned more on HN via discussions and informative links than going through a cookie-cutter curriculum in college. I also attribute my little success in business to my mentor and not college.
What Does Anal Sex Feel Like, and How Do I Prepare for It?
> Using a hash table for at most 3 entries is astronomical overkill!

I disagree. Simplicity of the code is most vital to avoid bugs, and if a hash table is what the language typically uses to represent key value mappings, that is what should be used, for 3 or 3 million items.

Keep the code idiomatic, and only optimize where necessary.

A good implementation of a hash table has a special fast path for tiny runtime sizes.

A good compiler could bound the size of the hash table, and switch out the implementation if its size can be bounded at compile time.

Sure, in this case, it didn't work so well. But the principle of idiomatic code still stands.
Skimming the JPEG spec I think the commit author was waaaay off base. The actual spec is very clear that 4 components is the max and are expected to be sequential in nature (4.11 Summary of coding processes) unless I'm reading it wrong. Ultimately the original implementation was wrong fro not including a fourth channel per spec... but not wrong in assuming sequential.
Capital gains is far less gameable because there isn’t a mechanism to move your capital gains to a different tax region as an individual. Corporations may be able to game capital gains slightly when they hold shares in other corporations but that is very minor compared to corporate tax games that go on now.
It does have a section on continuous probabilities at the end.
Generally it’s only illegal in countries which have unstable currencies and strict capital controls.
It's a shame. In the West, even the flashiest, most employee-attractive offices won't have a bidet.
Man, I have been soo disappointed by the new Reddit interface. Its terrible.
For me the value in high school was more about making friends than anything else. As far as the actual curriculum there was some value getting a taste of things I would never have really looked at otherwise. Accounting, wood working, and gourmet cooking have come in handy in my normal life. Oddly enough, nothing that I learned in computer classes has helped me.
I'm not defending MS at all, but it's not correct to say "I'm contributing 40% plus corporation tax while Microsoft contributes nothing".
+10 amen to that.

In 13 years it went from something I pushed and installed at every client I helped with business processes, help desk, Dev… to an overbloated frustrating mess to operate and manage.

Just changing a dropdown field’s content now is hidden in sublayers that requires a bookmark if you are not toying with that on a daily basis.

(not everybody is an actual full time Jira admin, and a Jira admin should’nt have the mental load of an Exchange admin for such an application).

Happy to hear about alternatives experiences as well.
Be sure not to miss the other two probability notebooks:

- Probability, Paradox, and the Reasonable Person Principle https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/blob/master/ipynb/Probabil...

- Estimating Probabilities with Simulations https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/blob/master/ipynb/Probabil...

There are dozens of other notebooks on a variety of topics in the 'ipynb' folder: https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/tree/master/ipynb
You can write a perfectly isomorphic escaping printer/parser
EU , you have a problem
> 88% of the cost of the US Fed gov is paid for by taxes by workers (income taxes). Less than 12% comes from all corp/business taxes combined with capital gains (taxing the rich 1%).

"the rich" pay income taxes as well: https://itep.org/who-pays-taxes-in-america-in-2020/

In fact, the top 1% paid 24.3% of all income tax. And the top 5% paid 40.6% of all income tax.

So it is most definitely taxing the rich.

The top 25% paid 66.4% of all income taxes, so to suggest that this is somehow a very regressive tax system seems to not hold water.
The oldest work I'm aware of that uses this approach for producing fractals (clouds in this case) is Gardner's[1], from 1985.

I dunno if Gardner's earlier paper from 1979, "Computer-generated texturing to model real-world features", contains the idea already because I could never find a digital version of that one.

[1] https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~david/Classes/Papers/p297-gardner...
Walled garden seems popular based on behavior, but rarely a position that a user reasons themselves into. People who really care about this stuff would rather use emacs as a browser than an app store. Not trying to make a judgement, but it really seems like a vocal minority / silent majority case.
For us a sandwich isn't a proper evening meal, just something to eat on the go when no time for anything better.

In fact to this day I never gotten into the whole Abendbrot stuff, even though I have lived half of my life in German speaking countries.

Just explaining where I am coming from, not attacking anyone.
Remember to factor in opportunity cost and the cost of inflation. Particularly with rates as low as they are now, debt makes plenty of sense. I refinanced my mortgage for another 30 years at 3.1%. Not only can the market beat that on average, the real purchasing power of the "extra" money in a few decades may be less than those dollars now. To be honest, at those rates I'm almost kicking myself for not pulling more equity out.

As a real example, what will increase in value more in those 30 years: the principal on your loans (which in effect costs you double), an Index fund tied to the S&P 500, or a down payment on a house?
It's actually not a sale of copyright - that remains with the family. It's purely the sale of the NFT. You can see the terms of the sale here: https://www.charliebitme.com/#/auction-terms
I hate the new version. If they ever kill old.Reddit.com I will be very unhappy.
Jurisdictions are incredibly important in law, and the EU has no jurisdiction over US companies. If US companies want to do something that goes against GDPR, it's on the EU to prevent their citizens from accessing those companies' websites/apps. But once they are accessing that company's app, the fact that they're an EU citizen doesn't change the legal obligations of a US company whatsoever.

Now, it makes sense for multinational corporations to have GDPR-related functionality since some of their assets are under EU jurisdiction and for them it's probably safer (if lazy) to do it across the board. But if you're not in the EU and you run a one-person SaaS app or something, you have zero reason to jump through any GDPR hurdles if you don't want to. The EU doesn't suddenly gain jurisdiction over your business processes because an EU citizen types your address into the URL bar.
Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, is in Belmarsh prison in UK for exposing US war crimes!
That's a good question. The short answer is that the only molten salt reactor in the US used Hastalloy-N (a Ni alloy), and it failed.

See also:

https://art.inl.gov/ART%20Document%20Library/High%20Temperat...
On a beefy (iMac Pro) macOS workstation Emacs 27.2 is often slow at scrolling, which is also admitted in various places -- it has to do with the more pixels, apparently. Regardless of the fact that this station can also play various games at 5K resolution fairly decently...

There are zero excuses for a widely used editor program to lag that badly in 2021, on very strong hardware nonetheless.

One "hack" I found is to have your font not contain emojis. That was literally the only thing that actually helped.

And Emacs itself isn't at fault that LSP does its thing in a synchronous manner in the same main UI thread and makes Emacs super slow. I know that. But I also know that NeoVIM does the same thing asynchronously and doesn't stutter.

Sadly I'll be done with Emacs soon. I like it quite a lot but I'm not seeing any will to make it adequately fast or, at the very least, make it so its main UI thread can't be blocked.

This sends a message to me that the maintainers are using Emacs in a specific way and don't care about how others are using it. Which means that it's time to part ways.
It's a representative democracy so no not really. We can vote on representatives but then they do whatever they want same as any other democracy.
The common factor in all your failed job applications: Your CV
Exploration on the Southern Ocean Aboard the Polar Pod
This seems related, it's from 1001 Nights, which is fairly old, and is the same type of joke as the one in the article:

http://www.tomthumb.org/422/the-tale-of-abu-hasan-and-the-fa...
One complaint that I hear about the method you are describing is the the kid/teenager will naturally gravitate towards easier "mindless" activities such as video games/TV/YouTube.

Did you enforce discipline or did they have enough intellectual curiosity to learn stuff like calculus on their own?
You should turn it into the project.

I miss that mojo of old simple games. Never thought latency on modern OSes could be a barrier.
My work doesn’t even pay for coffee.
> Countries would simply not agree to play along, no?

You require them to play along, you sanction them if they don't, and you penalize anybody locally who does any business with the companies who are 'based' there.

The EU maintains a current list of "non-cooperative tax jurisdictions", and applies these kind of rules today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_tax_haven_black....

If the global tax changes being discussed come to fruition, I'd expect that list to extend and the penalities involve to tighten up a whole lot further.
New malloc is already in released version of musl.
Perhaps all countries should adopt 0% corporate tax then, if it's so beneficial.
You can't receive less than zero
It's as real as the Chupacabra or log-less VPN.
Anumeric cultures might not really have existed (not conclusive evidence, but some evidence: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/667452?seq=1
)
United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic
Actually, no. The Apple case [0] is still pending some more layers of appeals, but both sides accept that Ireland doesn't have complete carte blanche to set its own tax laws. The EU gets to participate in setting them too.

Of course, Irish citizens could vote to withdraw from the EU and set their own tax that way, but that's not likely - they generally accept that the benefits of participating in the EU are worth giving up a little sovereignty.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland_v_Commission
Still, if consciousness can pass physical barriers and disconnect from the body, and interact with matter or other consciousnesses, we should be able to scientifically test this with relative ease, at scientific standards of reproducibility.

You could argue that we just lack the mental technology to achieve this, just as some string theorists argue we lack the physical technology to detect supersimmetry, and then we are each left with our beliefs until such a time as these mental/physical technologies are developed.
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