skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An illustrative counterexample of "if you are an actual target for state level actors you likely will know about it" is the case of Intellect Services, a small company (essentially, father and daughter) developing a custom accounting product (M.E.Doc) that assists preparation of Ukrainian tax documents.

It turned out that they were a target for state level actors, as their software update distribution mechanism was used in a "watering hole attack" to infect many companies worldwide (major examples are Maersk and Merck) in the NotPetya data destruction (not ransomware, as it's often wrongly described) attack, causing billions of dollars in damage. Here's an article about them https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/m-e-doc-softw...

In essence, you may be an actual target for state level actors not because they care about you personally, but because you just supply some service to someone whom they're targeting.
Keep in mind that you are not obligated to disclose that you were fired to future employers. However your new employer may ask your previous for information which will likely be shared.
> The primary firefighting work in Denmark are done by municipal fire departments and all municipalities are required by law to have a fire department. [...] The municipalities does not have to do the firefighting themselves, and a large part of the fire department services are done by the private firm Falck A/S.

> The company was founded in 1906 by Sophus Falck after he witnessed and volunteered at a fire at the Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1884. The lack of organization made a big impression on him, and motivated the creation of Falck later on in 1906. His mission was to help others in emergency situations. [...] Falck funds its acquisitions and capital expenditures out of its own operating cash flows. The majority of the company is owned by two Nordic-based nonprofit foundations: Lundbeck, a global pharmaceutical company, and the KIRKBI Group, a 75% holder of The Lego Group.

This is all deeply strange to Anglo-Saxon eyes!

So, a lot of fire services (and ambulance services), are outsourced to a private organisation, but that private organisation is itself sort of a public service organisation, and is owned by two charitable trusts. The Lundbeck Foundation inherited Hans Lundbeck's share of his pharmaceutical company, so very like the Wellcome Trust in the UK, and KIRKBI was founded by the current head of the Lego clan.

To what extent is this just for-profit privatisation, as we know in English-speaking countries, and to what extent is this some strange intermingling of private structures and public service?
If they have credible information that an armed and dangerous person has killed someone and may be about to harm other people, what should they do? Just ignore it? Or send some unarmed officers over first to check, who may then get shot?
I'd like to avoid Perl at all costs.

I've used it professionally on and off most of my career. I hate it.
I'm going to be honest with you but considering last time I've visited SF I'd take a nice Belarusian cave in a heartbeat.
2018 US murders: 15,000

Covid deaths in last 15 months: 625,000 (500k/year)

So 30 times more likely to be killed by covid than by murder.
In short: EVs are better than combustion engine cars but will not solve the climate change problem. Nobody expects that, actually! But surely it will help.
Pretty sure it was 7 years when I was drafted and it's the reason I didn't want to commit, but preferred to "waste" the 9 months in one bloc.
I should have just said it's rude to call people irrational, we are all humans, we are not computers. Also, how could you tell if something was rational or not without knowing the full circumstances.
I hate owning a car. It's expensive, sits on my driveway 90% of the time doing nothing and takes up loads of space. However our society is built around car ownership, and the same problem, plus a few others, occurred when we all used horses.

I always liked the personal transport tubes in Futurama
Do they even C? It's official ideology: a good programmer compensates shortcomings of the language.
Note that if you're paying in the 40% and/or 45% income tax brackets, the charity doesn't know about that, and still only gets the 25% topup (equivalent to the 20% income tax most people pay).

You can either:

* Gift that remaining amount to HMRC by doing nothing (it will not go to the charity)

* Claim it back (I don't know any other way to do this other than filing a self assessment)
I'd argue that a “handful” is a bad measure as it is far too subjective. Even in the physical world rather than the murky depths of analogy. I've seen handful used to mean a wide range of numbers, some using it as an alternative to “a few”, some to mean around the order of 10, and so on. Half a dozen is much more likely to be interpreted by each reader as more-or-less the same scale.

Heck, it might be entirely accurate or even an understatement. I use four languages actively (c#, JS, SQL, Bash), five if you count PowerShell (though I only touch that at most once or twice a month ATM, so I'm not counting that as active). I find it very easy to believe many out there actively create new stuff in 6 or more, especially if they work on multiple sets of projects (day job current, day job legacy, personal experiments, open source projects, ...).
I guess we can route around that with something like BIP47.
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Did they check apart from the deed if somebody litigates? I mean is this info even public?
This is actually a great idea because the lack of KYC in cryptocurrency is holding the technology back a lot as no serious financial service company can adopt it
Yeah, but these guns are registered too, so police will know what they have to expect.
I've never seen people pulling those "wacky" functions out of thin air on a whim. I usually see them rarely arising in places where they make sense. Like event subscriptions.

For example, in
window.addEventListener("click", callback)
callback is a procedure that receives MouseEvent,
while in
window.addEventListener("copy", callback)
callback is a procedure that receives ClipboardEvent.
So we can say that type of second argument depends on the string passed as first.
TypeScripts type system is able to make this statically typed and type checked properly.

Any examples of "wacky" functions where similar dependencies exist but are not necessary?
Consider HNRSS instead.

https://hnrss.github.io/
The same was true for volunteer firefighters (although I vaguely remember that it was less than 10 years).
Here is one: https://vortex.cc.gatech.edu/
> This is probably quite unique compared to other countries.

It works like this in many European countries. When I went to work in Germany and was introduced to the work council as something uniquely German, it was cute too. Good to see my native country isn't the only place that thinks it's a special snowflake though.
You'd think you couldn't even buy a car these days without knowing every accident it was ever in.

Surprisingly, you can...
What do you expect? That I google this for you? Here’s an example: https://www.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2013/investing-n...

It’s all public knowledge and pretty easy to find.
I tend to agree with you as well. I've also come to the conclusion that conceiving of software as some new 'kind' of non-linear writing is more productive than understanding it through the traditional engineering discipline.

But it is both and it is neither. Software is a new thing that we have yet to fully understand.
Removing NSO won't limit access to the talent pool in practice because the key assets of NSO - the vulnerabilities - does not rely on people they employ directly but rather on the global market for exploits.

Currently, some blackhat somewhere finds a vulnerability and sells it to NSO and then NSO sells it to various countries. If Israel forbids such deals, then the same "someone's" (without regard of where they're located - those deals are essentially unregulatable, you might anonymously trade knowledge/PoC for crypto) will sell the vulnerability to NSOv2 headquartered in Panama or Mozambique, and NSOv2 will sell it to the same customers.
What? No of course not, you have to compile templates for only for types that are actually used. In fact it would be impossible to compile them for every (combination of) possible types.
Oh I know. But the carrot works better than the stick in this case.

> nobody is arguing that all motor vehicles should cease to exist. But we should limit the pollution, noise, danger, space used up.

There is some antagonism, especially unhelpful antagonism. Because what works for a city-center dweller might not work for a rural area inhabitant.

Reminds me of the activists that pushed for nuclear power plants to close. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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Men have no idea if you're wearing makeup and regularly think women aren't when they actually are.
Does nine really end up containing a string like that? I would have expected it to be the number 9.
Linked on the page is an opinion poll [0] with responses from some prominent mathematicians (including Shor, Conway and Knuth). I thought it was really interesting to hear their thoughts on the problem.

[0] http://www.cs.umd.edu/~gasarch/papers/poll.pdf
yeah that's true, since those people were headed to the website anyway.
Story time!

I grew up in eastern Europe in the communist era, in a country where entire factories were run using Commodore 64 computers that were smuggled in, bypassing export controls and sanctions.

The programmer at one such factory was a friend of my father, and we'd go over to his place for dinner semi-regularly. He didn't have kids, and I was six, so I was bored to tears. No toys and nobody my age to play with!

He did have a C64, which was the only other one in town apart from the one at the factory. He was using it to practice programming after-hours at home. There were no games on it, but he did have a book of games.

As in: a literal printed book of the source code for several simple games. That you were supposed to type in to be able to play!

So I did. I had nothing else to do, so I whiled away the hours while the adults chatted poking away at the keyboard, typing in the BASIC code of the shortest, simplest game first.

It didn't work at first. There were some errors. With help, I fixed the typos, and hey presto, the game worked! I still remember the elation, the feeling of accomplishment after all that work. I didn't even play the game for more than a minute or so, I immediately got to work on entering the next, longer game's code. I was hooked.

Eventually I tried all three or four of the games in the book, and got bored. However, I was allowed to borrow the BASIC introductory problem set book, which I took back home with me to study. I solved the problems one at a time on grid paper (to match the fixed-width screen layout). I "ran" the programs in my head, debugged them by working out the variable values step by step on paper, and then tested my solutions on the real C64 computer whenever my parents went over for a social dinner. Most of my programs worked, and ran at ludicrous speed compared to the glacial pen & paper solutions I had worked out. I instantly understood that Computers were levers for the mind. Learning to control that raw power was intoxicating.

We fled across the iron curtain as political refugees, and I took that textbook with me. I had no access to computers for nearly a year, but when we finally got settled permanently in the West my dad bought a used C64 at a garage sale for a few dollars. This was a computer that back in my homeland would be the carefully guarded control hub of a factory. Here it was a discarded plaything. Even at that age, that blew my mind.

I learned more programming languages in quick succession. Pascal at the age of 11, C and Assembly at 12, C++ at 13. I had written 3D engines by the time I went to University.

Statistically, if you know programming, you probably learned it in a tertiary education setting, most likely in your late teens or early twenties. Just like learning a foreign language at that age, you'll never be perfectly fluent. You'll always have an accent, no matter what you do.

To me, programming is my mother tongue. I'm perfectly fluent and unaccented. You probably can't even tell, you can't hear the difference.

Programming for you is something you do at work.

I've had dreams in C++
I think it's not so different than Australia.

I suppose the SES (State Emergency Service) is the equivalent of the THW, even to the point of being set up at about the same time to help in case of a war but dealing with natural disasters and other incidents that are less dramatic. THW is federal but SES is state, but I'm sure that's trivial.

Police are of course paid.

Paramedics who ride in ambulances attending emergecies are paid - perhaps not enough. But first aid at festivals and larger events are handled by organisations like St Johns Ambulance, which are mostly volunteer-based organisations. It sounds like perhaps it is structurally different, but has the same effect.

Firefighters are divided. Metropolitan firies are usually paid, but in country towns they are volunteer.

I have noticed many similarities between Australia and Germany that seem surprising. Perhaps this is another one to add to that. Maybe it isn't so surprising though. It would seem like every country town couldn't have its own firefighting force if they have only very rare fires or if they are particularly seasonal.
If you forgo statistical independence isn't that a kind of super-determinism?
Micro works on termux too without the learning curve.
It would be nice if I had other options, but for now ALL other options are more expensive when considering time or money. That is reality for too many people, so we are where we are.
I can see this being really useful on documentation sites, kudos.

If you want to make money from your coding knowledge, CourseMaker [1] has similar functionality with video hosting/payments/custom domains all baked in.

[1] https://coursemaker.org
Even within the same repo, it is very likely that the old version of your code will coexist with the new version during the deploy roll out. Often having different commits and deploys is a requirement.
For instance, imagine that you add a column in the database and also is using it in the backend service. You probably have add the column first and then commit and deploy the usage of the column later, because you can't easily guarantee that the new code won't be used before the column is added.
Same would apply for a new field in the API contract.
>society has clearly chosen transparency over privacy

This is quite a speculative & ambitious comment..

>Stop fantasizing that the government cares about the shit you buy. This is not about you.

...wot. You assume this is why folks want privacy in their transactions?

>And Bitcoin’s anonymity is not a feature of blockchain and never has been.

Bitcoin is psuedonymous, & always will be.
Honestly I don't judge the police MO. How are you supposed to approach this report when firearms and rifles are extremely common?

It's easy to say you have to give the benefit of doubt when you're sitting behind a desk, but when you're in the front line I don't think it's that simple.

At this moment it looks like it's a roll of a dice.
You're assuming that anonymous payments could only be accomplished if there's some private server that knows the plaintext of everyone's balances and just keeps it secret, but that's not the case. There are ways using zero-knowledge proofs or other cryptographic techniques to accomplish anonymous payments in a decentralized way.

In Zcash or Monero, everyone knows the public blockchain and their own private keys. If you make a transaction, it's broadcast to all nodes. There's no special privileged nodes that people give their keys or transaction plaintexts to. Transaction data doesn't contain the sender, receiver, or amount in a way that's clear to the public. The transaction is made so the receiver can decrypt enough to see that they're the receiver and see the amount. The transaction also contains exactly enough information so that the public can verify that the transaction didn't invent any money out of thin air and instead only sent as much as the sender could, whoever they were. (Zero-knowledge proofs can be made to prove pretty arbitrary results over data even to people missing certain inputs!)
> Just call the person at the address

"Yep it's the police here, we'll be at your house in 5 minutes, just giving you a heads up in case you want to ambush us, xoxo"
Just to add one point, one perc you got for joining the THW or beeing a firefighter was that you didn't have to do the military service at the time it was still compulsory.
Now without that many that rely on volunteers struggle to find enough Young people.
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It isnt unique, in Poland there is also bunch of volunteer fire departments, much more than fire departments with regular salary.
https://pl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ochotnicza_stra%C5%BC_po%C5%...
It's funny and sad how defensive Marxists are.

Pro tip: the US will never become a Communist country.
Great theory. If it wasn't for Israel there would be world peace.
There are Swiss services like https://getbittr.com where you just provide an e-mail, your IBAN and an address. You need o sign the address proving that address belong to you but no personal data is sent to the service.

Then can then set a recurring payment for their account and you automatically receive the BTC in your address.

I say this is a good compromise that should make people a bit more satisfied. You didn't needed to send a face mug to the Exchange and on the other end the bank that holds your IBAN already KYCd you into oblivion.
There could be some 'grass-is-greener' effect in play here as well though. Many that grew up having to use public transportation would see being able to use a private car as very appealing. I think everyone hates commutes regardless of whether they have to stand in a packed train car next to sweaty people, or sit in an air conditioned comfortable car listening to music but stuck in a traffic jam.

That's not to say that I like the American design of where you have to drive everywhere. I like living in a town where you can walk to shops and cafes. But I also like the freedom and the comfort and the fun of being able to get into a car and drive out.
Having grown up in communist Romania, I had this experience - the first computer I toyed with was a Spectrum clone, which we had at the school, and had access to it for about 2h/week. I definitely knew what it is and how to use it, but I couldn't spend time actually developing even simple programs on it.

So I had a copied manual at home, and a couple of magazines with listings, and I would write my programs in basic on paper, and emulate them in my head, to verify they work. Then when I had access to the computer at the school I would use that time to type in the program and really run it.

Thankfully my parents were able to buy for my own Spectrum clone after a while (when they become cheaper/more affordable, because the PCs finally were being imported, so a lot of local companies would move from their Spectrums to PCs) and then I could spend innumerable hours building simple move-the-cursors games directly on the hardware.
I think the title misrepresents this a bit. He may not have had a PC, but he definitely had a computer.
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Enforcement isn't a farce, its just focused on workers because employers are powerful and workers aren't.

The reason republicans are so hardline on immigration is because "illegal" workers are really easy to coerce and exploit.

They don't call the health department when you make them shit in a hole in the field. They don't call OSHA when you deny them access to water out in the field. They don't call the attorney general when you pay them by what they pick, or only start counting their hours after they've walked half an hour to the field they're picking, and stop paying them the second they stop picking instead of when they get back to their vehicle...because you're too cheap to provide a truck or bus and they'll walk for free. They don't call the police when one of the supervisors smacks them around for accidentally damaging some equipment. Etc.
Except that the information was not credible. Assessing the credibility of information should be part of the operating procedure.
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I agree. Built-in equals/hashCode is never what I want to use. Every time built-in version was used in my code was because of mistake and had to be fixed by providing proper implementation. This functionality is a source of subtle bugs.
Too bad it doesn't really work. Winter biking is still cold as shit and breathing in -20°C air is not fun.
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Because the treaty exists to prevent the very thing Israel did - covert nuclear arms development and covert sharing of know-how ( like Israel probably did with Apartheid South Africa).

It's like criticizing a country for not being in the Paris climate accord for their environmental record/refusing to lower emissions - yeah, that's kind of the the point.
Brazil has a tax program that has always been multi-platform for well over a decade. This year, when filing my taxes, that there was also a simplified online/mobile version for folks without computers.

To be fair, US's tax code is a wild collection of tax breaks and exemptions so it's very complicated but still...
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Hi, Switzerland here. I wish US americans would stop citing Switzerland as example for assault weapons allowed in Europe. It's one thing being allowed to keep the rifle at home, and an entire other thing being allowed to actually use it. The only reason Swiss are allowed the rifle at home is to be able to intervene quickly in case of war. And it comes with a lot of hooks so definitely no, police will not expect you being armed - not at home and even less on the streets.
I’m fairly certain it was 10 when I was drafted, but draft was at least 11 month back then and civil service at least 13.

The biggest issue wasn’t the 10 years requirement but rather that when you somehow couldn’t fulfill it (moving or such), the time would reset and might be wasted.
> Only large cities (> 100k residents, I think) need to have paid firefighters.

Depends on the state.

Where I'm living now (Northrhine-Westphalia) we're far below 100k, but we have a professional fire brigade.

We also have the volunteer fire brigade.

And one chemical factory has their own fire brigade, which also helps out throughout the town whenever something special (i.e. chemical) is happening or everyone else is busy.
One problem is that there's a long tail of car use cases that are served terribly by things like car-sharing. For example if you rent a car for a few hours of driving, two weeks of parking at some trailhead or remote resort and then driving back it's inevitably priced for the wear and tear that would happen if you spent the entire two weeks doing nothing but sleeping and driving. Rentals that aren't dead-set on the pattern "a few days of driving between arrival and departure" exist, but they have terrible discoverability and that implies that prices fell arbitrary ("is this close to the price I would get in a market with full visibility or are they just taking advantage of nonstandard needs?")

I guess what I'm trying to say is that there's still plenty of room for innovation in the non-owned car market.