skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sort out those countries with sanctions and gunboat diplomacy.

The sanctions can also be used against the shareholders and executives of the companies taking advantage of these situations.

And use some protectionist measures to help grow national industry - see Baidu, Yandex, etc.
I don’t know - a carbon tax and telling everyone they’re required to come to the office just seems like it’s punishing workers even more. For many people transit it’s not available or odd fossil fueled powered. WFH should be preferred over a carbon tax on commuting - eliminating the consumption altogether is far better than sending tax money to the government and hoping that people change behaviors based on pricing.
The 'new' Reddit UI caused my Intel macbook to get really hot just clicking around, it's not so bad on the M1 but I still prefer the old reddit UI, which feels snappy.
> Don't assume that your view of the world is the same for everyone.

Please point out where I did that.
>Another, more radical approach is rethinking the idea of public wealth. The currently ongoing collapse of monetarism is, perhaps, an opportunity. Tax public companies x% of their shares per year.

1. this disproportionately affects companies with higher capital requirements than lower ones. Think spacex compared to a SaaS.

2. this doesn't solve the underlying issue of moving to a jurisdiction with lower taxes. let's say US taxes 1% of shares every year, but the company offshores to bermuda. then what?
Gmail.
> Sounds overly racist to me.

Read “whiteness” as describing culture, and it seems more true than racist. It's your traditional Victorian English capitalist, top hat and monocle, making children work with heavy machinery and turning the sky grey. Your colonialist, beating children for speaking the language of their parents and expecting them to be grateful for it. Your Disney, selling a child-sized “tattooed Polynesian skin” costume. (Why are all my examples about children?)

I agree it could be phrased better, but I assume this is a quote from an interview? The speaker had seconds to think of a wording.
In fact they care about finding the worst candidates, so they will fail. Getting someone great means they need to fire someone already on the team who is "only" very good.
Many corporate tax evasion systems operate by setting up subsidiaries in countries where profit is taxed and licensing their own IP from a "company" in a country where you can cut nice tax deals. Because there's no good way to rate the value of IP, you can basically charge any amount to your other "companies" so that they don't make a dime of profit.

It figures that the "company" licensing all of this IP has very little in the way of operating costs. Maybe they need to pay the rent of the local mailbox that they've registered themselves to, or maybe they even need to rent an office in an office complex somewhere, but the entire operating exists purely to redirect the flow of money.

This approach is evil, nothing less. Companies benefit from government infrastructure all around the world and pay nothing back. The bookies that set up these schemes will tell you that they're perfectly ethical because they're totally legal, but their moral compass has stopped functioning years ago. It's not just Big Tech either, most companies operating worldwide use tactics like these.
Manage and Control Servers on Android
How much of that gas was going to leak anyway? The fields they pipe it from probably don't hold it all in. Any stats on this in Google are buried under reports on the extraction industry, so I can't find anything concrete.
According to Wikipedia, if you pay 25% income tax in Germany you make €50 k, which doesn't sound like a very comfortable family income, unless you live in the country side perhaps.
I hope to continue wfh for the rest of my career.
> Not to mention how [wfh] advantages people who can afford after school child care.

What? Surely if anything it's the opposite - if you can't afford it wfh allows you to be at home to 'multi-task', what're you going to do if you're supposed to be in the office?
> you redirect $100 million away from Microsoft's research into artificial intelligence

This confuses the issue - corporation tax has the opposite effect to this, because it only applies to profits. When profits are heavily taxed, there's a strong incentive to invest more money in R&D and longer-term internal investment (thereby avoiding corporation tax on that spending entirely) rather than reporting it as profit that's immediately distributed it to shareholders today.

There's interesting arguments about how this affects shareholders and whether it discourages external investment, but it's certainly not a drain on R&D.
Mario Kart: Double Dash was actually a lot of fun with two players in a kart. A friend of mine who couldn't steer to save his life took over the weapons while I focused on driving. The best part is that the second player could make their character throw their weight left or right to shove the kart sideways and save you from an obstacle, or a tight turn taken a little too quickly.
Containers aren't reproducible anyway. Skipping apt upgrade will not give you the same result on a rebuild. Builds on debian/ubuntu aren't deterministic.

Additionally, if you don't "apt update", some of the packages you try to install from mirrors will 404.

Unless you're using something with deterministic builds, reproducibility is a myth anyway. Update your OS and test the image and save the artifact somewhere with "docker save | zstd".
My high school experience was fairly valuable in certain areas and a waste of time in others. The improvements to my writing and critical thinking were invaluable. Most of the specific knowledge ended up less so. I had a number of great teachers. My school had an enriched program that allowed teachers to get an elite class that they could teach towards and had the added benefit of vastly reducing behaviour problems and bullying in those classes. I think US schools are unusually dystopian compared to the worldwide experience. At least that’s the impression I get from hearing stories.
Create videos programmatically using React
lol I'm doing a bootstrapped startup. I ate: a can of tuna, peanut butter, greek yogurt, protein powder-based shake, and watermelon yesterday... maybe at a total cost of $3-5??
New Wialon video module: more opportunities, less effort
My fourth grader has had a hard time during the pandemic, with a lot of depression and anger. Once he could go back to school, his mood switched completely to his original self.

But there are kids in his class in pretty marginal home situations. One kid came back completely different, with a lot of rage and anger. She was getting into fights. It was her first time back to any school (virtual or otherwise) in more than a year. Another came back and falls asleep in class. She stays up till midnight watching TV.

I don't feel like public schools were truly weighing the risks to children's mental health when they kept schools closed. Childhood trauma has long term lasting health effects and can shorten lifespan by _decades_ (see the ACES study[1])

1 - https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/aces/index.html
Be Lazy and Go Home – Laissez-Faire Leadership
For me there's 2 things:

Whilst being post-dotcom, where a lot of the internet was worked out technically, culturally platforms were still only just starting out. It was before social network UIs all looked the same and there was a play book for creating a network for X. Small communities were thriving and they all still had control of their ecosystems. Internet "mediums" were still in a state of flux on all fronts.

It was the start of "the masses" coming online and creating profiles - but they came online through things like MSN spaces, MySpace and geocities. Which were a lot less sanitized than today's equivalents. Everyday people experimented with their pages the same way teenages do with their bedroom walls. They looked awful, but the medium was alive.

Both of these made me feel more like making for the sake of making was less linked to ego. And overall every community I was part of was still innovating on the medium as much as their niche (be it art, netsec, photography, local history etc).

The parallels I'm thinking of in particular are both artists rushing to the platforms and trying digital art for the first time (admittedly many driven by $$). Meanwhile community leaders are having to deal with new technical, cultural and governance issues - many of which are novel issues imo.
This is you assuming "democracy" actually works to empower average people to make these types of changes, instead of being co-opted or controlled by these same corporate behemoths.
But this is the Linux desktop, if you're not getting paid to use it, and you're not ignoring it to do everything on the command line, you're probably a hard-core fan of some odd niche app
I wouldn't expect a hash map that uses linear probing to wait until it's full (or even nearly full) before increasing the size of the table. Doing a linear scan on a hash table which is both nearly full and very large would be quite bad.
I'm horrified at what is considered OK at US campuses
Moved to USA as a kid, one of my goals was to discover why my birth country wasn't as functional as western countries. Topics how USA was founded, Greeks/democracy, age of enlightenment i.e. Voltaire, check and balances, civil rights, freedom of speech, govt evolution and supreme court cases.. always interested me.

I learned that western society is built on some principles and if those principles are not upheld system will very quickly morph into something ugly.

However, I've come across substantial student body who whole heartedly believe....

- people should be convicted without proof (i.e. me too)

- censor anyone who you disagree with (so much for ill defend your right to speak)

- discriminate based on gender and race (when goal should be to NOT differentiate between people due to race, gender, age, etc..)

It boggles my mind how can someone take these stances and be oblivious to consequences..

- If you could convict people without proof, what kind of society do you reckon it'd be? Heard of "Salem witch trials"?

- Censorship? This needs to be explained? Censor Whistle blowers? Censor scientists who say earth isn't the center? ... how many times good ideas come from fringe ideas. Opposition actually polishes the good ideas into better ideas. Censoring isn't winning an argument... opposite of it.

- Bizarre! It was drilled down into me that it's wrong to discriminate based on age, race, gender.. meritocracy was the way to go. How these things lead social injustices/abuses. But now I see open discrimination against some groups, esp against white + male students. It's one thing to give extra help, but another to hold some back so others can get a head start. what stands out is complete disregard toward what's fair. Instead it feels like some people are on crusade, to them breaking all laws are fair game as their cause takes precedence over right/wrong.
Similarly, I thought "from fractions import Fraction" required a `pip install fractions`. But nope, turns out fractions is a built-in module I've never heard of. Neat!
An unsentimental and slightly creepy theory if you like that kind of
thing is that both humor and aesthetic sensibilities evolved as a
group defense against psychopathy. Some species including ours gain an
advantage among competing species through co-operation among
themselves. A species using this strategy is vulnerable to freeloaders
within its ranks who optimize their own survival at the expense of the
group. The theory goes that an empathy deficit in individuals
correlates with other deficits (e.g., in a sense of humor) that might be harder for the individual
to hide and therefore easier for the group to detect. By ostracizing
the psychopath on that basis, the group increases its overall fitness.
And for people like me, unfamiliar with it but still knowing what a Fourier transform is, just reading the algorithm I really see no reasons why it particularly "shouldn't work", as the author said.
Paying for university up front can be the difference between paying ~£45k today or £100k+ over 30 years. It can actually save you quite a lot of money. I'm debating paying off my student loan, or at least paying a chunk of it because I did the maths and I could save myself £60k by the time I'm 50.
> NFT is simply provable ownership of a digital asset.

How is this any different from traditional copyright ownership? Assigning the rights for a piece of IP has been commonplace for well over a century.
Modern editions of the Kon-Tiki expedition have a preface that says the assertions in the book have been shown to not be accurate, or something along those lines. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science-dna-shows-how-tho...
Visually, it can be ads taking up large amounts of screen space, making the information that you're looking for a pain to find.

In the background, it can be that your browser is making requests to heaps of tracking services and CDNs when loading the page.
There shouldn’t be „corporate taxes“. They tend to be difficult to collect, troublesome to declare and actually can not contribute much to national budgets.

Think about it:

Employees of multinational companies pay billions of income tax.

Customers buying products and services from multinational pay billions in VAT.

Shareholders of multinationals receiving dividends pay billions of capital gains tax.

So what exactly is left for a corporate tax to collect?
Professor Prusinkiewicz belongs to a generation of Polish Engineers/Computer scientists who greatly expanded on the work of their predecessors who in turn had to essentially restart the education system after WW2.

Much of the syllabus for undergraduate courses was written by these people, who continued contributing well into retirement. I daresay the tech landscape in this country today would be very different without them.
Is this like a dad joke for kernel developers?
>I don't want things modern and clean. Please stop making things modern and clean. I want things that are human and have some kind of soul left in them instead of being antiseptically scoured of anything resembling personality.

It seems to me like you're complaining about a trend you associate with the wording rather than the specific changes to Firefox here.

Or which of the changes to Firefox do you associate with having "less soul" or "less personality"?
Popular Elitism In Programming
DNS can be thought of as an early form of NFT - something that is purely digital and has a unique owner.

I think this is an interesting metaphor that goes even further than that. Much like the global DNS system, NFTs only work if people trust and adhere to which (single) system has been used to trade a work/define a domain name. Because I could easily create my own separate DNS and sell "microsoft.com" on it for $100 to anyone, but no-one uses or trusts my DNS.
The problem is not that Ireland gives a good deal to companies in Ireland, the problem is that Microsoft can falsely pretend that their Irish branch is the one making all the profit and then not having to pay any tax elsewhere.
As a Dutchie as well: I Agree. And also this is, I think, the reason why the USA is so far behind the rest of the world at the moment (in regards to reality): An open, honest and factually based education.
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The test scores prove Homeschool is even better than private school. Homeschool saved my psychological health. I also wasnt taught to hate America or white people. So public schools now are basically how you raise a midwit that the gov can control easily.
Canada is decidedly not a 2 party system. There are 5 parties in parliment in total, although the Greens only have 3 seats. Yes, 2 parties tend to hold power, but we also end up with the ruling party only having a minority (as is currently the case) from time to time which makes for a very different dynamic. The biggest difference between Canada and the US is that Canadian voters can and will act to kick a government out of office when they aren't acting in the interests of the people, sometimes shifting the makeup of the government significantly after a general election. Ridings also aren't gerrymandered insanely, so there are many seats which can shift parties.
In the Netherlands we are witnessing a dramatic reduction in meadow birds. One of the main suspects is the deteroration in soil life.
hits the nail on the head, thanks!
Where do people not have a "proper meal" in the evening?
The heaviest website I use is Figma, but for completely understandable reasons—it's a professional piece of design software, which so happens to take the form of a website. A questionable choice, perhaps, but Figma is still relatively performant for what it is.
I’m not sure this true in most countries which don’t have strict capital controls. In most (all?) European (and I assume other developed countries) you’re free to use any currency you want as long as both parties agree on. iirc in the UK the pound is only legal tender when settling debts and merchants are not even legally required to accept payment in pounds and can demand any other currency they want.
They're now looking to retire the F-22 decades earlier than anticipated (announced a couple weeks ago).

The replacements will lose the tail fins giving much, much greater stealth capabilities. I suspect at that point that the F-35 will become far less desirable and will start retirement soon after.

https://www.defensenews.com/air/2021/05/13/the-f-22-is-going...
not sure of your context, but I often find that concepts from outside (de(post(colonial))) national experience are tricky to translate directly into it. The word racism particularly has a lot of unstated philosophy behind it depending on which country it is used in. To be plain, white people in history did try to 'own' everything in the Pacific, and that history is the base of the present we have today ect..

As for the film thing, maybe Taika is talking about the 'camera on the shore'
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/201...
It seems like it's usually down to musl's malloc being slower than glibc's. They are working on a new malloc. https://github.com/richfelker/mallocng-draft
Cleaning Tips you can follow for your Homes and Offices
Cleaning services in East London somehow prove expensive to the ones who cannot afford to pay extra. So, it will obviously prove good if you learn some basic cleaning tactics that can ensure the luxurious shine of your house.
Taxing wealth is a terrible idea because it requires government to get balance sheets from the masses. If you miscalibrate earnings minus inflation it’s also punitive. Lastly for many families most of their wealth is their home which isn’t exactly liquid even if it grows in value. Wealth taxes would force many to sell their houses.
Reddit by far. I find the old version unappealing but the new is just a dumpster fire. I'm basically dreading any missclick because I'll be stuck for a few seconds. Not to mention the worst video player on the internet.

This website's performance is shameful.I would spend easily twice as much time on Reddit as I do right now if it was snappy
They don't want to. These companies employ thousands and thousands of people in Ireland and pay them pretty well. In the bigger picture it's probably in their collective interest to tax them more but there's a pretty strong individual incentive to maintain the attractive tax environment.
Good. That's why we can get free Hotmail and Github.

Taxation is theft.
Do some reading on the question and make an opinion for yourself. There is some competition throughout nature but it's really far from an organizing principle as it has become with the capitalist system.

> I would not believe anyone if they told me they did not rank possible partners in life on a variety of metrics

That sounds really close to the definition of a psychopath, and is definitely not how most people live their lives/relationships. Adam Curtis in "The trap" touches on this topic and how only psychopaths and economists used to behave like according to "measurable rational self-interest". With the commodification of everything (including oneself through social media) it's fair to bet more people behave like that nowadays than previously, but it's still really far from everyone.

Why would you not believe me if i told you i have feelings and affinities that cannot be measured or ranked and do not reflect a material interest? Why is it so hard to accept that not everybody lives through live the same way that soulless suit-heads do?
Better yet, dump corporate tax altogether and simply enforce a global flat tax on all forms of personal income, both capital gains and salary.

The amount of human time and energy wasted on taxation is mind bogglingly stupid.

Politicians trying to influence the behavior of their minions by designing these convoluted "tax-based incentive" schemes is the whole problem in the first place.

Just tax all money that comes into anyones hands at say 30% and let the market decide what activity is most efficient for the world.

Then maybe the 500 million intelligent people working around the globe as tax authorities, tax attorneys, tax lobbyists, tax preparers, tax accountants, and tax consultants...could spend their time doing more useful things for humanity.
So in this context, is this anything more then a sale of copyright over the video? Does youtube let you transfer videos from one owner to another while preserving the link?
So are we supposed to thank the the Turkish for bringing out Pfizer vaccine?
Seems like an ad paid for by Google, or a very clear example of servilism and bad journalism. If anything "I have no idea what X is" written with such pride as if the job of a "journalist" is not to understand and report stuff
It is meaningful, inasmuch as it shows the stark difference between developing for an extremely free ecosystem (in this case, free software using GNU tools) and an extremely closed one, like Apple's, where (apparently, as I didn't know about this, but it is realistic) you have to mail them your driving license. Free software protects you forever exactly from something like this and the FSF has been speaking about this possibility for decades.
JIRA is awful. I notice they dropped the slogan “because you’ve got issues”. Perhaps because it was too close to home
My pessimistic fear is that when countries can no longer compete in tax rates, they’ll compete on subsidies. You can go much lower than zero!
My company gets around that by making it nearly impossible to fire anyone. I know a handful have been fired, but they have all been big HR offenses (I'm not told any details but reading between the lines I'm guessing some form of sexual harassment) not performance. The result is we are careful about interviewing because we know we are stuck. The other half is we put a lot of effort into training because we know we need to make people work out because the next opportunity to get rid of them will be the early retirement (which only applies to someone old enough to at least think seriously about retiring - and applies to everyone including those you don't want to get rid of)

It turns out in practice you can make good employees out of anyone if you are forced to. Sometimes it means taking a poor engineer and turning them into a great marketing person though.
I didn't know Washington state had no income tax! If you count 401k/marriage allowances, personal allowances etc, then there are very very few people anywhere paying 40% income tax. In Ireland, you're not paying 40% until you make 120k which is a very small amount of people.
That's just an example. Most of the ingredients that I buy without meal kits usually just go bad, there is no saving money justification there, especially in NYC where groceries are more expensive.