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They use your currency because they get paid in it. Government spending doesn't disappear into a black hole never to be seen again. [FALSE]>>> Also it's illegal to use other currencies as tender in (probably?) all countries in the world (Zimbabwe uses/used(?) the US dollar but I'm not aware of any other instances).
The part that was so annoying is that if unicode is great - then letting us use the nonconflicting u"" would have let us bring 2.0 libraries into 3.0 land much more easily while ALSO improving 2.x libraries. And with no pain really. If they needed to they could have a done a --compat flag.

It wasn't until 3.3 and then 3.4 that there was finally some give. We got u"" back. We also go some ability to handle the net (ASCII / Binary Transform stuff) in a quasi sensible way.

But boy - was it a screw you until then.

And I got seriously tired of having folks who don't actually maintain any code lecturing on and on about how this was the better way. Sure - if you are in a monorepo. But not if you are library author supporting endless versions of python!
They are not all build from axioms but from definition (apart from some models of natural numbers, or you go back to ZFC). Like C is build from R^2, R from the powerset of Q, Q from integer^2, integer from natural numbers.

Otherwise you do not easily know if your axioms are actually consistent.
> It is the nature of animals to evaluate and rank each other

Not at all. Competition is not the norm in the natural world. There's the entire field of ethology to study if you'd like to know more.

If you need a quick intro, "Mutual Aid" by Peter Kropotkin is really dated science-wise (it's almost 120 years old) but is still a pretty good read. If you're into TV stuff, i'd recommend Adam Curtis' series "The trap" and "The century of the self" which explore the topics of how competition and self-interest have increasingly been guiding principles of (at the time) western societies and how we've tried to apply such principles (eg. game theory) to other fields where they in fact do not apply.
China’s ‘splinternet’ will create a state-controlled alternative cyberspace
Huawei devices shipped with Android before the US banned them from doing so. Whining that they copied an open-source as product as a result is the height of hypocrisy.
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Turnover was $13.606B and operating profit was $13.604B

From the financial report "Profit after tax increased .. to $314.73Bn reflecting gains made upon liquidation of two subsidiaries".

I'm guessing this is a company that exists to receive licensing fees from around the world and the profit just about equals revenue apart from cost of the accountants.
The Government is not "being paid" tax dollars[^0], it is (in principle, at least) spending and redistributing wealth in ways which benefit all citizens. UKGov releases these reports, for example https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-statistic... - good luck condensing these down to the point where they can fit in any taxpayer's head, and this is just the surface level outgoings.

> If you get hand wavy and tell me its too complicated [...]

Unfortunately, it really is too complicated. A doctorate in economics might get you a decent way towards understanding the good that taxation provides, but given that economists still have differences of opinion, maybe not a complete understanding.

[^0]: Well it is, but only a tiny proportion.
I don't think a 40 minute bike ride is the kind of commute we're talking about. Most commuters are not doing so by biking through a nice woodland trail. I would love to ride to work, but it would take over twice as long as your commute in a climate that is inhospitably cold for biking for about 6 months of the year and often rains for the rest.

> it is my "me time" that I cherish

You have kids don't you? That seems to be a consistent feature of people I meet who espouse the virtues of going to work.
How much would you pay as a single person? And what does it cover? If you have a family, premiums increase significantly.

In NL, €150 doesn’t cover emergency care, dental, eyes, or various specialists. Medicines and treatments are also part of the deductible.
I liken many of these situations in Python to the core team forcing their personal idiosyncracies on people rather than doing what's best. It's like how TCO will never make it into the language, or how the majority of http request libraries (certainly the most popular ones) reinvent the wheel by ditching libcurl, or how package management is a complete dumpster fire. The Python community in general certainly likes doing things their own way, even if that way is obtuse to the extreme.

Instead of dealing with it, I moved on and delibererately extract it from my professional life at every company I go to, to great success. Luckily my job is to deploy things at very large scale and the argument to rewrite all Python as Go (or some other fast, compiled language) is extremely easy to make.
I don't actually use it that often, but when I do use Jira, every action seems to have a noticeable delay.

I don't remember it being like that a decade ago. Maybe there was a big rewrite or two that bloated things up?
It just means the non-protected class of employees has to have a higher than nominal churn rate.
> What did Trump ever say that was homophobic?

Said? He

- Refused to support the Equality Act

- Appointed an unprecedented number of homophobic judges

- Gutted Section 1557, removing protections for queer people under the Afordable Care Act

- Blocked transgender people from openly serving in the military

- Banned the flying of LGBTQ+ flags from embassies.

- Weakend rights to asylum for people fleeing gender-based persecution.

And more: https://www.them.us/story/donald-trump-worst-lgbtq-attacks

It's not just about what he said, my friend.
But they will never do that because that would break existing systems that depend on the old behaviour.
Brand names are not a hash on the source code of the kernel, so they can do whatever they want.
And death tax. And property tax for good measure
> The environment impacts and risks are virtually non-existent.

I really doubt this. The dams will destroy existing habitats in that location. Also you need a lot of infrastructure around them. There will have to be roads and electricity lines. Also you will need pipes or canals to supply water, both for initial filling, and for compensating losses due to evaporation and leaks. Without a good environmental impact analyses, you should not be making such claims.

(Sidenote: I think that it is probably not very wise to call it a modest proposal[0])

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
> Compressing that boilerplate into one sentence: "under pressure, contact-electrification occurs between its conductive and dielectric layers, creating an electric charge."

compressing into one word: piezoelectric :)
I think most universities won't even have a non-standard analysis course available to complement the courses using the standard limit approaches. Your fear seems quite unwarranted to me, since standard analysis courses are usually the only option, and always outnumber nonstandard analysis courses.
Right, and they probably should've only counted each basket Michael Jordan made as one point to even things out?
I think you've mistaken a show or exhibition. Cirque de Soleil for instance.

No, this is a competition. The best should win.
So then the answer is to decriminalize so they can continue to violate a law and receive no punishment? Is that what we’re supposed to do with laws we don’t like?
"Pay your fair share".

I cringe every time I hear this from people.

Rich people pay WAY more than what they get back from the gov.
Daily electricity is highly correlated. Consider, people rarely microwave anything at 3AM. This also means houses get wired to allow multiple loads at the same time as you might only turn on the Microwave for 5 minutes a day so that’s adding 0.083kWh to your daily total, but you don’t turn off the lights just because you want to use 1.2kW heat up some leftovers.

Further, several people in a neighborhood might all microwave something during the same commercial break. Unlike most things the grid is built for peak instantaneous demand. As such distribution needs to account for huge local demand spikes. EV’s increased demand will result in some new distribution infrastructure, but it’s mostly regional not last mile.
> Revenue 100mln+ - you have to tax revenue

So banks and oil companies, which are naturally lots of revenue with a tiny amount of profit, would disappear, or become very small?
The best use case for Amazon is having drivers put packages within view of the ring cameras. Then ring will know when someone steals the package. The home owner on their ring app would do the work of confirming the package was stolen.
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Vote for politicians that want to tax the rich. I mean this can be solved by forcing Bermuda to charge taxes for example. If they REALLY want to escalate things, Bermuda can be strongarmed into compliance - a country can put a boycott on Bermuda, like the US does with e.g. Iran and NK at the moment. Any company doing business with Bermuda then - directly or indirectly - will be in a lot of trouble.

But they don't dare to take a firm stance, because the politicians that make the decisions benefit from the system. Just look at how many politicians had accounts revealed via the Panama Papers.
Yeah, it would be so nice if a lot of small companies got organized and tried to do these tricks together, just to show the ridiculousness of it all.
The earlier versions of 3.x (3.0, 3.1, etc) yes they sucked.

But then again you didn't have to switch immediately. But it was kinda "expected" that these first versions were a bit unstable.

Now people are using that as an excuse to say "Python 3 is bad?" No, sorry.

I'm happy they went from ASCII to Unicode. (hey, people didn't want to use 'setdefaultencoding' for pure BS reasons, so, yeah, you got it coming!)
The $ 000 at the top of the columns means the values are in thousands
> Just accessing the SDK and emulator required me to go through an insane process that involved uploading a photo of my US passport and credit card to Huawei’s servers so that I could be approved to access the SDK after a two-day waiting period.

My sample size is tiny, ymmv etc. but a few big-Chinese-company-designed products I've bought (DJI drone, wireless security camera) have been like that. Not "thanks for buying the product, please enjoy, there's an app if you want and we value your privacy." Instead it's "you WILL install the app and you WILL give it access to contacts, camera, microphone and everything else, then you WILL create an account on our web site where all of your personal information WILL be stored, and only THEN may you use the thing."

I don't know if it's just my bad luck with these products or if the Chinese market is much more accepting of this kind of invasive authoritarian treatment.
I have an idea: Ireland could cut electricity, telecom, drain, rubbish collection, road access, police, firemen and health services just and only around those buildings where the company operates. Maybe they learn the value of paying taxes (or more probably not).
> the en-us/en-uk locales

Though be careful if you communicate with people using both locals. Things interpreted as dates will get corrupted in fun ways.
AFAIK multithreaded Java code requires the user to explicitly acquire a lock before accessing a shared data structure. Multithreaded Python currently does not, and must remain that way to maintain compatibility.
It only took 13 years.
So people want Nim?
Sorry I agree with you. I didn't mean fraud was a big cost, only that social spending (including non-fraudulent) seems to be very high and not tightly controlled (which as a side effect allows for easy fraud). From the outside society seems very stratified. Plenty of Telsa's in Amsterdam and people with expensive tastes. NL is obviously a very wealthy place even compared to neighbouring countries but also has a large less wealthy population. This is another angle to the problem (in addition to the corp tax regime) because it unfairly puts the tax burden on people like yourself.
Imagine not having kids or a wife every year of your career.
I tried to make my assumptions clear. I suppose I'm saying that Amazon's massive success should give us reason to think about its HR processes in a constructive light. I feel that many posts in this thread take the view that Amazon management is stupid and/or short-sighted. That stack ranking is somehow flawed at conception and will doubtless fail. It builds a strawman out of one of the worlds biggest employers which is a bit silly.

I guess this is a political issue for many. If you view this discussion through the prism of fundamental rights, fairness and so on then its bound to cause a down-voting orgy. If ever HN was a place one could discuss alternatives with political implications, it no longer seems to be.
Thanks! I know about axiom of choice (and I am fine with it), so how do you do the field construction?

I am also a bit worried, if you have a field it is also a division algebra. And I thought we know that the only divisions algebras are R, C, H? Like https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2020399/division-al...
(The link does not 100% fit). So how do hyperreals go around that 'no-go' theorem?
There's nothing stopping them from going to version 4, it's just a number, but some people and organizations get really worried about major version changes in some languages.

I like how Go's approaching it, there probably will be a Go 2 but it'll be a smooth transition. I've been keeping my version of Go updated for a while now and never had to change anything.
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Now toss on state income tax. And don’t forget about AMT (alternative minimum tax). Sure, you need a higher income to hit these thresholds, but it is not as functionally high of an income as you may think it is.
Well, the real existence of abstractions is a pretty involved topic in philosophy of knowledge, and so you can’t simply say that, for example, integers do not ‘really’ exist. Because they indeed do, in a very important (and, in fact, obvious) sense: you need two cats to have a fight.
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FYI, Ireland has not been in the UK since 1921.
Usain Bolt drew massive crowds wherever he raced, and no one doubted for a second he would destroy the competition. They came to see an elite athlete the likes the world had never seen. Just like they want to see Simone Biles.

And the idea of 'fixing' competitions to tinker with the odds of winning trying to optimize the event like it's a slot machine to perfectly trigger the crowds fun levels is super creepy. Like if social media were put in charge of the olympics.
Why doesn't the library transform the csv into a an array of json objects?
I think this is the problem with many "judgement sports", literally too much politics into it (see 2008 olympics wrestling scandal, suspending of all Rio Olympics boxing judges or the Pelletier/Sale olympic figure skating scandal).

Honestly most of these sports are losing popularity and money over unfair judging whilst athletics celebrates superstars like Usain Bolt that then draws crowds and new talents to these sports.
Sounds like this would just lead to an arms race between smart managers and smart employees.
Ask HN: How can I know what spyware/bossware my employer is using on my machine?
As a privacy conscious user working from home like most of us in tech, I’ve become aware that some companies are leaning increasingly on “bossware” to track employee productivity.

I believe capabilities could and do range from tracking app/keyboard/mouse usage, uptime, screen viewing/remote controlling, and gaining admin access in many cases.

Is there a good way to know what, if any, bossware is installed and what is being tracked? I imagine it as a virus scanner that reports known bossware processes and their capabilities.

I’d love to hear your ideas and experiences around this.
It's just weird to be so ostentatiously luxurious with consumption, to allocate more to food than the median personal income.
Live close to work? No! Move further away so you can create more emissions travelling there and have a bigger house to heat/cool. Then complain when politicians don't put your needs over the quality of life of the people who actually live and pay tax on your route. Finally, sleep soundly at night knowing the brake dust you make them breathe comes from a Tesla.
>Taxing mega corporations is essential.

It's not in this case because the corporation didn't pay any tax.
From my limited understanding of gymnastics, judges are there simply to tell the audience what they already know - i.e. who gave the best performance. The excitement of watching athletes perform does not come from the judges, it comes from the athletes' performances. This is not the x-factor where the judges are themselves part of the entertainment. I don't think anyone derives excitement from the decision of a judge that did not already exist at the time of the performance.
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Yes, but what I meant is that there are axioms at the base of this structure, so everything is ultimately built on them. Some people put axiom foundations higher up too, like axiomatic real numbers.
Ask them? Otherwise take a look at running processes, method is different between Windows an Linux but a google will help you.
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I strongly disagree. Did Usain Bolt’s performance make his races less exciting to watch? Did Michael Schumacher make Formula 1 less exciting to watch? Michael Phelps? If anything, these superstars, along with the proper recognition, is what brings new people to get excited about their sport, both as spectators and competitors.
I don’t think that’s a fair statement, put broadly. I don’t know anything about gymnastics, but most competitive spectator sports are specifically designed by their sanctioning bodies to level the playing field to make them more interesting to watch. This is often cited as an explicit reason for rule changes in these sports. Viewership is an existential consideration for many of these organizations.
well, the idea is that the richer you are the more you contribute to society.
Tandem used to do this. By descent the technology wound up with HPE.

Their Tech Reports are worth a sample and fortunately they're online: https://www.hpl.hp.com/hplabs/index/Tandem

Probably the best one to start at: https://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/tandem/TR-90.5.pdf
According to outdated race theories, both belong to the semitic race. This is one of the reasons I dislike the term anti-semitism.
Another perspective with less vague "blockchain" hype:

https://www.maritime-executive.com/editorials/how-china-is-w...

Basically China is providing digital connectivity in Africa and will likely have some measure of surveillance capability connected with this, probably in collaboration with regional governments.
They'll go all the way up to 3.(9), which, of course, is different from 4.0
If you throw in state income tax and consider payroll taxes, hitting 40% isn’t that hard, if your income is 1099, hitting 40% is pretty easy.
Primates and other mammals do it. Birds do it. Unless all those David Attenborough narrated shows I’ve watched are wrong or misinterpreted by me, there seems to be extensive use of competition in many species.

Or one can look at data from myriad of dating apps and websites. I would not believe anyone if they told me they did not rank possible partners in life on a variety of metrics such as health, wealth, tribal affiliations (family/other network), intelligence, humor, etc.
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AFAIK: Nope. Microsoft loves that BOM, for reasons I cannot comprehend.
You can’t compare Simone Biles to Michael Jordan. If Michael Jordan could shoot 3 pointers with 90% accuracy from his own half court, then that would be a more accurate comparison.

Simone Biles has a unique combination of size, strength, and skill that truly makes her the greatest gymnast ever and probably going forward in time as well.
I just took a 300 level course on the psychology of humor that hit on a few theories of humor. What you describe with your doggo would fit mostly within the "incongruity theory," if you're interested in looking it up. Pretty fascinating stuff!
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But aren't there any lunch trucks, roach coaches, etc around for normal people to get food?
8hr 9:30-6:30 (including lunch hr, between breakfast and dinner) day in the office isn't so unusual or dystopian.
If I'm not mistaken, you have a right to know if they are tracking. They may not fully reveal what systems they use though. Same applies to video cameras in the office, which you do have a right to know if they are recording you.
That stock market thing is funny.

From the talks I have seen (youtube) I wonder how would it be if Joe had Rich Hickey's presentation/ communication skills.
Just for clarification, British Overseas Territories are not part of the UK. They set their own laws and manage their own internal affairs while their foreign relations and defence are managed by the UK.
The water supply is an interesting question indeed. To me it is of similar importance as the question of navigation.

Even if ancient proto-polynesians had a hunch that there was land somewhere, they must have known about the need of fresh water. And on top of that they either did not want to ever go home or they must have had an idea about how to log their route. Fascinating stuff.
Speaking of Microsoft and encryption, here's a fun little clip from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)

> According to The Guardian, NSA had access to chats and emails on Hotmail.com and Skype because Microsoft had "developed a surveillance capability to deal" with the interception of chats, and "for Prism collection against Microsoft email services will be unaffected because Prism collects this data prior to encryption."

Fool me once, shame on me...
on macOs I had to skip the in_docker_group check.
And the escape sequences did not work
"if we didn't have to drag half the country into modern society."

That seems a little inflammatory. It depends on the issue which subsets of the country are being dragged.