skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was once told many years ago that the reason fighter aircraft have pilots is as backup insurance to bring the multi million dollar aircraft home if the computers stop working. It was meant as a joke at the time (or maybe not?) but it may be truer today (as long as the fly-by-wire is still working). On the other hand todays fighters are not stable without computer control, so maybe it is no longer true at all, and if the computers die the aircraft can't be flown?

Drones are certainly cheaper and more capable without having a pilot to protect and whose presence limits the max acceleration. However telemetry links and autonomous decision making have limitations also. When drones start taking down F-35's is probably when pilots and F-35's become obsolete.
Location: Frankfurt, Germany
Remote: Yes
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Technologies: Python, Docker, DevOps, Backend, Infrastructure, IP Networks
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Removing the prefixes is clearly a breaking change, but how is adding them back a breaking change?

Anecdotally, I was mostly happy with the Python 3 transition and have been using Python 3 for basically all new Python code since. Not much will ever be improved if you never take any risks, so I think any kind of innovation necessarily includes "own goals". Obviously not all of them hit the mark, though.
The Wells Fargo website is just broken most of the time. I'll click on my account, when it does let me log in, and it automatically logs me out.
IP law favours incumbents. Ignoring IP law has been the fastest way to secure Chinese prosperity, and that is what they did. It makes sense and it doesn't tell us how a Chinese company will treat their customers.

Note that despite the argument that IP law promotes invention and creativity Huawei is a world leading tech innovator in 4G. Despite obviously having little respect for IP law. They'll probably discover the importance of IP law now that they have taken the lead but it IP law appears to have been more of a hindrance in getting the innovation started.
I'd say you're a devops engineer

But

Is that it? You just want to know how to answer that question at dinner parties?
it sure feels like taxes because it is based on your pay.
In other countries like Switzerland it costs the same if you earn 5 or 10 k CHF.
I remember in freestyle aerial skiing they banned quad backflips because after a lot of analysis they determined it was too dangerous, that it was likely the skiers would exceed the length of the outrun.

It made sense but this does not at all. Aspiring gymnasts can use foam pits, crash mats and spotters to learn new moves. It's called progression.
> come see me after 5

hi. Been completely remote for 5+ years. My mental is better than ever.

> You'll realize by the end of it just how important water cooler conversation is for your BRAIN

I would much rather use all the saved time NOT going to an office and instead spend it with people I care about more having more interesting conversations in a more comfortable environment.

> The latter is years upon years of feeling disconnected, left out, and sidelined.

I empathize with some of the isolation that WFH can bring, but I also strongly disagree that it is an inevitability. WFH gives you more freedom with your time and doesn't force you into social interaction by default which, depending on the person, can be a good or a bad thing.

I think it just highlights the importance of CONCIOUSLY choosing our social interactions which might take more effort but I think results in higher satisfaction. You could look at it like junk food vs. nutritious food. One is convenient, leaves you wanting more, and is probably not as healthy if that's all you take in. The other fills you up more, sometimes takes a bit more work, and ends up being more sustainable long term.
Cloud automation with Ansible series: Inventory caching
Is Nim particularly similar to Python?

More than Go, which Guido recently described as being the new language that’s most Pythonic?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYbNh3NS7jA&t=1472s
What if the black hole at the center of the Milky Way is a mass of dark matter?
My company had to spend a ton of engineering time to migrate to 3
What is the solution to this? I've wracked my brain and can't come up with anything.

Companies will just continue to flee to whatever country is now offering 0%. Christmas Island has a new 0% corporate tax policy? Let's go buy a mailbox there and move our "headquarters".

The old-school thinking is that low corporate tax policies encourage business, creating jobs in the process and boosting that country's economy. In the real world it's a shell company with zero employees that pays that country zero in taxes.

This push for a global minimum tax is interesting, and obviously scares the hell out of a lot of conservatives and others who want nothing to do with "global" anything. Also, how would that even work? Countries would simply not agree to play along, no?

The only thing I can think is that this entire thing has to be flipped into some sort of "VAT"/usage situation.

So if a US company is using Microsoft Azure and pays them $1 million annually to do this, Microsoft has to pay US taxes on that $1 million. Track where the customer is based and pay tax based on that countries tax policy.

I'm clearly no tax person, so my ideas mean nothing. But I've put a lot of thought into this "race to the bottom" and it's difficult to come up with a solution.
A true Ponzi scheme requires intent and organisation (at least at some point; some things normally categorized as Ponzi schemes start off with the intent of being legitimate hedge funds or similar). Crypto things, particularly bitcoin, tend to behave rather like a self-organizing Ponzi scheme, but pedantically, they're not one, quite.
>I type about 3-5 times faster than handwriting.

... but can you think at what you are typing 3-5 times faster?

Handwriting is slower than typing but the speed at which you can come up with ideas and expand them in a form suitable to be written should be more or less the same, as a matter of fact having a bottleneck at the final output allows more time for the creative part or just for thinking about which words to use, how to construct the sentence, etc.

I guess it all depends, but - only as a parallel, unrelated example - I didn't mind too much the (good ol') times when the computers were so poorly performing that you had to turn calculation off on spreadsheets (and had to hit F9 from time to time), it somehow gave me the time to get an overall look at what I had just written/changed.
Previously Microsoft shifted 39 billion in North and South American profits to Puerto Rico. (It used Singapore for Asian profits and Ireland for EU profits.) The IRS's case against the company is still active. This was the largest IRS audit in history by dollar amount.

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-irs-decided-to-get-to...

The ProPublica reporting apparently inspired the Judge to get things moving again.

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/479417-microsoft-order...

Truly sickening.
So another tribe does not roll over you.
No, just the opposite. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/eye-opener-why-do....
His numbers aren't false for France.
I don't have my last payslip on hand right now but it show cost for employer and it's roughly the double of what you get after taxes. Something like 3k€/month before tax turn into around 2100€ for you but your boss have social charges on top of it so for him it's more like a 4k€ cost.
i was wondering if there would be an option for this in the UI somewhere, but it doesn't look like there is

i wonder if it requires a "key" column to serve as the dictionary key

EDIT: i kind of wouldn't mind a HN discussion on which is better... ruby is my go-to scripting language, so i find this structure very natural, i've found when trying to do the same things with Go, i much prefer things to be structured more like an array of objects

would be interesting to hear the merits of both
Why should “we” (aka mostly other people) do something about your problem (aka HAD ENOUGH)?

If the cost of getting to net Y cash inflow is X gross income where X = Y + (.66Y) then solve for X and move on, or perform the cost benefit analysis for moving to another tax jurisdiction. The solution is yours to execute.
There are too many to list nowadays. I keep one browser setup with JavaScript disabled for when I want to look up a product review, a recipe, or a how-to (even on my mobile devices). I’ve set all my browsers to disable autoplay (why is this not the default?). The web is becoming a miserable, slow, annoying experience. It’s hard to believe that as we have the best tools ever and the fastest computers that we’re choosing to inflict the most burdensome and repellent experiences on our users. God help us.
Yes, there are of course axioms, but if you have a rich enough set of axioms like zfc, then one should stop piling more axioms (if not absolutely necessary). So of course the question is existence in zfc
Many of those are in Washington state, which doesn’t have an income tax. It is almost impossible to get to 40% with federal income taxes and payroll alone. They are probably maxing out their 401k as well as various other pre tax contributions that can be made.
Or even better yet, use a language with a sensible SSA implementation that can identify local only variables and allocate them on the stack (like golang).
Social spending is quite high, but I’d like to believe that atleast it’s enriching the average person and not only corporate execs.

The reason there’s so many Teslas is because up until 2021, you could get significant tax benefits, if you purchased an electric car via your employer for “work”. If you look past Teslas, you’ll see that most people own average family cars.

Amsterdam does have people with “expensive tastes”, but that’s not representative of the rest of the country. It’s similar to what you’d see in New York or London vs. the rest of their respective countries.

Most of the wealthy people I know own businesses (and as such benefit from the lower taxes), or own lots of rentable real estate.
I am sure you realize that Jordan was just an example of someone generally considered one of the greatest in their respective sport.
Anyone scared that one day they won't be able access SO for free for answers? :(
Food and rent are separate markets.
Right. I agree it’s better to take actions than words. So let’s take one.

> Refused to support the Equality Act

Let me find an article which opposes the Equality Act and some reasons why:

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-equality-act-is-a-...

In it it says:

> Under the guise of anti-discrimination protections, the bill redefines sex to include gender identity, undermines religious freedom, gives males who identify as females the right to women’s spaces, and sets a dangerous political precedent for the medicalization of gender-confused youth

Is it plausible that someone might not support the Equality Act for these reasons, or do you sincerely believe anyone who opposes this particular legislation is phobic to homosexuals? Afraid of gay people? Thinks gays are lesser humans?

We can talk about the other items on the list too if you want. I just wanted to do one as I suspect they’re all similar.
so those who are unhappy with paying taxes should probably stop using roads, schools, hospitals, drainage, defence, police, firemen, universities, grants, etc.
There are a few places where such things do not exist: they don't do very well.
> You don't get it

Um maybe re-read the comment you are replying to. It seems you both agree that Simone should be scored according to her talent. I think you're being downvoted because you mis-read the comment you are replying to.
What do you mean by "correct"? That Dianne O'Leary said it? It's up on her pages, here: http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/oleary/faculty/node8.html

If you mean "correct" as in "true", it's an opinion. I don't know what I could post that would sway you on a matter of opinion.
> Also, note that you have just changed to a non-reproducible container

Precisely, and that may be what stops many from just updating their images. I think ideally we'd have centralised updates, perhaps just one a week, and then use tag for that week.

You could do all this in-house, but it's a lot of work for small teams. Redundant work.
With auto racing, sailing too, you can argue that money and tech should be evened out for a fair race. That's acceptable but this isn't.
Heart or Mind? Community or Business? The DevRel Paradox
Every news or recipe site is basically a disaster now. I don't understand how anyone can browse without uBlock Origin installed on their phone.

The dual motivations of SEO and making money from ads have just saturated those sites.
Professional sports is a show.
Norton, unhappy with how fast computers are beginning, has developed ground breaking technology that will grind your machine to a halt.
Might be higher performance, wouldn't necessarily be less complex or less likely to result in a bug, as the original point in this thread suggested. It turns out it's not exactly an "overcomplexity" problem. And looks less like it was caused by “the mere availability and ease of use of abstract data structures naturally leads to their overuse.”

Even if not optimal, it definitely looks less unreasonable as a choice now that the original motivation found.

And if it had been “fixed” in the simple way without finding the original motivation, it very well may have introduced a different edge-case bug.

So one important lesson here, is always try to do some “due dilligence” to track down why code was written how it was before changing it, even if (or especially if) you assume it was just shoddy coding. (What’s the metaphor/aphorism used about this? I remember there is one, but can't recall/find it now).

(And also reminds us of the importance of good granular commits with good commit messages, to leave that history! Much easier to find original motivation than in a pre-version-controlled world).
"We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their actions." https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/147819-we-judge-ourselves-b... ;)
Smaller than that - each author's mind is unique.

Any piece of fiction should be considered on its own for whether its characters are plausible and consistent.
If this is a replicable result, they are probably measuring subjects' interest in being in the lab and doing tasks. Some people care, and pay attention and do well. Others are just there for class credit and blow it all off.
Please explain the obvious sexism here. She's being penalized more than her male competitors (who aren't allowed to compete against her)? (Though, maybe gymnastics rules don't actually prohibit men from competing in women's divisions.)

Also, it looks most like penalizing exceptionalism, similar to how the penalty rules of hockey were changed to limit Wayne Gretzky's dominance when both teams were down a player (and changed back shortly after Gretzky's retirement, IIRC).
Reminds me of the old joke:

-- What, "can't complain"? Really? You're in a Siberian prison camp, starving and freezing your toes and fingers off, and you "can't complain"?

-- Yes, when you're in a Siberian prison camp, you can't complain...
Huh, I had no idea that image was controversial. I think it's an easy mistake to make. Didn't know it was from a nude magazine originally, I just thought it was a traditionally used test image, like the Utah teapot in 3D rendering.
I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that the image was intentionally chosen to alienate women in tech, though.
Thanks for the TIL!
In Germany health insurance for example is also based on income but it's capped. My point is that it is more nuanced than 40%. No one counts the money they get back from these programs when they need to use them in their calculation etc
Happens to me all the time. I'm either not automating enough things, or automating too many things.

Btw, is there a simple way to backup all of ones own answers from across all stackexchange, in case the new owners mess everything up?
We've had similar issues with clients using 1-2-1 as a meeting type name. When data about those records are exported to CSV and loaded by Excel, it gets seen as the date 2001-02-01 (or, presumably, 2001-01-02 for those using a US locale in their setup) even if the value is quoted (which we hoped would be interpreted as "this value is definitely nothing fancier than a basic string", but it was not).

> This standard is from 2005 and it is pretty clear that it is not universally used.

Unfortunately a lot of non-conforming software can't change or they risk compatibility problems with old versions of themselves. 2005 is relatively recent in the history of CSV files.
The Twitter website on mobile devices. I've just timed myself to see how long it took to view my own twitter profile on my phone (I don't use Twitter on my phone, hence I'm not logged in).

It took 15 seconds to load the profile, but I couldn't view any tweets until I'd pressed the "Not Now" button to the pop-up asking me to install the app. Five seconds later, I was able to view my most recent / pinned tweet.

This is all for a service that delivers a timeline of (primarily) text, with some images and video. It should not take 20 seconds to load!
Google diversity head removed over anti-Semitic blog post
You can just make the participants of a bet provide each a random number, and xor their results. If even one of them picked a real random number, the result will be random.

This is the basis of most distributed random number selection algorithm, which existed since a lot before blockchains.

In a smart contract, it could look like something like that:

1- each person which want to participate in the bet pick a random number, then send: their bet (0 or 1), the hash of the random number, and of course money to bet.

2- after some specified time, the first phase finish and no new person can bet. now everyone has to send their actual random number to the smart contract

3- after some specified time again, every random number gathered which had the correct hash are xored. If the popcount of the result is even, 0 win. otherwise 1 win. Everyone who send their random number and guessed correctly get a share of the total amount.

edit: note that I'm not overly familiar with smart contracts, so if this cannot work I would love to be explained why.
You miss the part where small companies have to compete against each other so organizing together would be impossible whereas entities like Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, Google, etc. are basically unregulated monopolies in their respective fields so they get to steer the ship as they please.
You are probably aware that shops like Best Buy, Ikea, BB&B etc are not primarily selling food? I don't think Best Buy sells any food at all, maybe some candy at the register... So no, you have not slain me with facts and logic and smugness here just yet.

>How does a governor or whatever the equivalent is at the county level profit from the money the feds are giving businesses?

Feds give money to the states too and in much greater quantities than to any business.
That remains to be seen, but I am doubtful.
Ah.. so you need a gatekeeper for the quality of the deployed software....
This would have been the equivalent of asking Bolt to wear a 25lbs weight vest just to try to keep the races closer. It’s also why most people assume the Olympics are corrupt. If it’s a scored event you just assume there will be someone not being fair.
400 CHF/month. If it doesn’t cover emergency care, then what good is it? You can’t really call it health insurance.
I've seen it used in my neighborhood for that purpose. Package is stolen, call the police and alert neighbors with suspect description. Quickly noticed a drop in porch pirates afterwards.
I get what you're saying, it's not strictly income tax, but the end result is the same : it's a mandatory tax, based on what you earn. As for getting these expenses back, I hope I will have work and be healthy for as long as possible, and I'm happy to pay these taxes for poorer people to get access to healthcare or unemployment benefits. But I sure feel ~50% of my income is going into taxes without being a millionaire.
It's partly that but partly completely not understanding how hopelessly broken their packaging system is and the burden that's put on popular library authors that encourages them to have extremely wide compatibility.
There are various ways to construct real numbers and complex numbers. One approach is given in Landau's Foundations of Analysis (a.k.a. Grundlagen der Analysis).

You might want to look at the Metamath Proof Explorer materials on constructing numbers, a good starting point is here:
http://us.metamath.org/mpeuni/mmcomplex.html
Metamath is a general tool that lets you specify axioms and proofs, and verifies that the proofs only depend on axioms and previously proved proofs. The Metamath Proof Explorer (MPE) is a particular application of it that uses classical logic and the ZFC set theory axioms. MPE shows how to construct numbers using these axioms, then proves a set of number axioms, and from then on uses only those axioms so that the details of any particular construction are not important. What's usually more important is showing that you can construct them.
brooklynvegan.com - on my relatively well specced (intel) Mac it'll start up the fan and grind to a halt at some point.
The title is a clickbait.
For anyone interested, the article is about StackOverflow being sold.
Tax avoidance, helping the rich avoid paying for the society they benefit from since the year dot
That's fair, and perhaps for you that true. But 99-05ish are the internet years that I remember as the most creative. It was well before everyones IRL persona was mirrored online, which is when I saw a dramatic shift in what people created online (at least where I lived). Broadly speaking it become less about experimenting with the medium and more about broadcasting what already existed.

The communities I came across were for the most part making for the sake of making. And plenty of them were building new things and experimenting.

Everyone's experience is relative. Perhaps my experiences are rose tinted by nostalgia.

All that is to say, I observe aspects of some NFT (or crypto) communities feel the same to me - new mediums, new challenges and a new excitement around them.

* However I do still think that there is a huge NFT/crypto bubble and there is cataclysmic amounts fud.
I mean, big sports have all sorts of ways of evening out the playing field. See Lebron James is underpaid

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/02/lebron-...

and drafts are done in order of underperforming teams.
Testing if can edit Hacker News content after submission
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Then UBI fails and everyone becomes a beggar. No thanks.
Because many people in Western countries do not fully appreciate how well off they are in global terms.

https://www.icalculator.info/netherlands/income-tax-rates/20...

37.35% Income from €0.00 to €68,507.00

49.5% Income from €68,507.01 and above

Therefore if you are (for instance) paying 40+% effective tax on your income in the Netherlands you're clearly earning north of €70k a year. To put that in context – “You Are The 1%: If You Make $35K/Year Income” https://www.diygenius.com/the-global-inequality-problem/

So that other person is being dismissive (though dismissive is the wrong word) of the poster because generally at these sorts of rates you're earning greater than 99% of the people on the planet.

If you're earning greater than 99% of the people on the planet and you simultaneously think there's an injustice being done to you by the tax man then I would humbly submit that you could do with a reality check.

And we're not just talking about in comparison to the so-called global south here, there are many many people in the EU and around greater Europe who would be thrilled to be earning north of €70k a year.
FYI, if you look at OPs comments you will see they said they are in the UK.