skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ex-pat life comes with certain costs, yes. Did that from 1998 to 2006.

My wife was brought over to Belgium by what was then a subsidiary of JP Morgan, and they paid for all the additional expenses, including the tax services of some very talented people at Earnest & Young. They also paid for all the paperwork to get her a Belgian work permit. We weren’t actually married at the time, just engaged. But JPM agreed to treat us like a married couple. The only thing they didn’t pay for was the work permit for me.

It took a lot of effort for me to find work over there, a lot more than I expected, given my career and experience. And those companies did have to deal with the hassle of getting a work permit for me, as well as complications with US taxes. I didn’t end up working at Belgacom Skynet for long, but that cratered more because the parent company wanted to re-absorb the ISP arm back in-house, and so all the technical people with a clue bailed like rats from that sinking ship, and I was just one of the last to leave.

But hoo boy, every year, that poor team of accountants at E&Y had their work cut out for them, when it came time to file our taxes.

In the end, the reason we left was that my wife’s employer (now spun off from JPM) wanted to pay her as a Belgian native, and we had been in the country long enough to get Belgian passports. But that would have been a massive pay cut for her, and did not make financial sense to us. They were very surprised when she told them that she was not going to be accepting that offer, and so they had to negotiate to pay her as an ex-pay for one more year while she worked to help find a replacement and train her office to handle that transition. Part of that negotiation involved getting them to agree to move us to whatever country we wanted — including moving back to the US.

So, yeah — I can understand why some people might choose to go the other direction, and renounce their US citizenship.

OTOH, I don’t have a lot of sympathy for the ultra-wealthy people who have all decided to set up shop in New Zealand. Yes, visiting NZ is on my bucket list. But I’m not interested in giving up my US citizenship and moving there permanently.
This was my understanding as well, but I was confused about the statement that Glenfiddich produced blendeds, and wanted to draw @orf out about what they meant, but it turns out that they might have just been mistaken about a previous purchase.
MusicXML is indeed widely used, and it is basically the standard interchange format for music notation apps. Every major app I can think of supports it—certainly the “big four” of Dorico, Sibelius, Finale, and MuseScore, as well as other apps like Notion, StaffPad, etc.

I was thinking of what would make the interchange format better would be after writing up this post, and my honest conclusion was that MusicXML itself is pretty good. There are standardization choices you could make within the format itself (as alluded to in the post) which would help with interchange, but the definition is reasonable throughout. The thing that is hard is simply that XML is hard: lots of tools out there support subsets of it, but nearly everything XML-oriented ends up being either Java or some kind of libxml wrapper. (To my surprise, there really isn’t a ton even in the Rust space which would seem to be well-suited to this kind of thing. DTD support took ages to show up anywhere, for example.) While switching to some kind of JSON schema would mitigate the XML problem, getting all the vendors to adopt it would be quite a battle, I expect.
I think anthropologists would say, yes. For instance, the peoples who arrived in Tasmania originally possessed the art of making bone tools, but lost it over time.[1] Joe Henrich has other examples in his The Secret of Our Success, I think.

[1] Kremer, M., 1993. Population growth and technological change: One million BC to 1990. The quarterly journal of economics, 108(3), pp.681-716 https://wiki.santafe.edu/images/7/7b/Kremer.pdf
> In spite of explicitly setting my default file associations to my preferred applications

And getting griped at by Windows for doing it, too.

"Oh won't you pleeeeeeease consider using the Strongest, Securest, Bestest, Most Wonderfulest Browser Out There, the amazing Microsoft Edge instead of whatever piece of shit blob of code you downloaded from the very untrustworthy dark Interweb?!?"

No, Windows browser team, I want to use Firefox and just like Google pushing their browser on their platform I resent you pushing yours.
All non-pinned tabs are temporary. I may get to over 20 sometimes, but I always aim to deal with them and get back to 3 or so. Usually I do it within the day, sometimes I have some unfinished long articles or something that stay open a few days.

I used to have hundreds of tabs like some people. At some point I started to get very bothered by having too many tabs. I don't remember what happened, but I always keep a low count now. I make heavy use of bookmarks and qutebrowser's quickmarks, and have pretty good luck pulling stuff from my history as well. Some tabs just get bookmarked and immediately closed, like if I find an interesting project on github but have no plans to do anything related to it.
I've heard FORTH is also good for that kind of embedded higher level programming. The interpreter is probably simpler to implement than lisp.
I bet they have some visualization to show in court in case of a discrimination lawsuit. Also why bother with discrimination if your goal is profit increase?
This is false. Just because the page content isn't sensitive, that doesn't mean that TLS is worthless.

TLS prevents your run of the mill MITM scenarios. Like ISPs inserting ads (something Comcast actually did), or public wifi doing the same. Or worse, more malicious scripts.

You could argue that all I'm really looking for in most cases is message integrity (signing), but if you're going to do that, you might as well just encrypt it too and avoid accidents where sensitive information is sent over encrypted channels.
I empathize with you and I respect your opinion. You presented a new perspective on this topic.
> this is about certain triples being used practically in Babylon (who recorded everything)

The difference isn't that Mesopotamia generated more records than other cultures. It's that Mesopotamian records become practically indestructible when burned.

(This didn't help much in Babylon itself, which didn't burn.)
Not 100% sure but I believe the word confidential implies that the review should only have been read by the editor(s) and not passed on to the authors.
Walmart will price match. If you show them the website of a competitor like Amazon with a cheaper price, they will charge you the lower price. I wonder how that would play into this.

I suspect Microsoft isn't indexing prices of smaller retailers as well, so that would also drive more business to Walmart.
look at the rate of commits previously
The journals always want their 'pound of flesh' as Shakespeare spins in his grave....
Some insights:-
https://www.editage.com/insights/what-are-the-differences-be...
As secure as an OS process.

There are proofs of concept using shaders for security attacks.
Here is a link https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04374 to the paper you are probably talking about. Coming from DeepMind (and with Former world champion Vladimir Kramnik as a coauthor), they studied a bunch of chess variants by training AlphaZero to play on them. In addition to no-castling, they also studied variants where pawns can always move two steps forward, and where it's possible to capture your own pieces.
The worst part about it is: same schema/ontology, but different (legitimate!) choices within it! Cue sobbing emoji.
> Maybe we ought to start promoting PMs who are willing to stand pat for an occasional release or three. Maybe we ought to fire all the consumer-product PMs. Maybe we ought to start including realistic customer-retraining-cost estimates in our product planning process.

I remember back at the Snow Leopard release of what is now macOS, when it was announced that this was not going to be a feature release (https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/archive/20090...), but rather a release of, basically, catching and squashing old bugs. I was so happy about that release.

Imagine if the Apple of today could manage to do that, rather than taking away yet another battle-tested, decades-old desktop convention in favour of continuing to pretend that conventions developed for mobile interaction will always, or even often, be well suited for the desktop.
The anger stems from the exhaustion of having to opt out of yet another decision a megacorporation has unilaterally made to explicitly manipulate, correct, or badger you about your personal behaviors.
BPF has a much more limited execution model (in general, eBPF programs aren't even allowed to loop, though the verifier may allow some loops that it can prove are bounded), but freer access to the underlying machine (by design, your programs are usually handling live kernel memory directly).
I think the map of 1984 is really interesting[0]. It makes it really obvious it was about if Axis countries had won the war, thus predating "Man in the High Castle" by 13 years.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_geography_of_Ninetee...
it could, but the internet in general is like this and everyone still uses it. imagine if user/content discoverability is impossible without a fingerprint or token.
I have downvoted you because you seem to believe that if there were no anti-vaccine sentiment, SARS-2 would not exist, which is patently absurd
Yeah. How can you plagiarize a definition?
> Masters degrees are cash cows, which is why no one in unregulated industries cares about them. People in regulated/unionized industries also don't actually care...

People don't care about masters degrees engineering, law, business, art, etc. etc.? Try applying for many jobs without one, or with one from lower-ranking colleges.

The Chronicle of Higher Education article recently on the HN front page said that masters in some fields, they give the example of 'positive psychology', are indeed cash cows. But in the example, that degree was not part of the actual Department of Psychology, which is taken very seriously.
> tons of personal freedom that average US person can only envy, EU is even worse

Are we talking about the same Switzerland I lived in for two years? Not being able to do laundry on Sunday was actually a big hit to my personal liberty. There are also a lot of little rules that sneak up on you, all perfectly fine if you are willing to conform to basically being Swiss, but if you aren’t it can get uncomfortable.
As long as the internal memory doesn't get corrupted due to lack of bounds checking inside linear memory internal accesses.

Corruption that can then be used to subvert the behaviour of functions being called.
Every commit should build is a reasonable principle.

However, it's in contradiction to TDD. If you have a bug (in master) the first thing you are supposed to do is to create a test that fails because of the bug. This is a self-contained commit, but it will not build (assuming your test are run during the build as they should). The next commit is fixing the bug and now it builds again.

So the commit with the new test should be marked as unsuitable for bisecting. How to do that easily in away that bisecting remains easy I have yet to work out.
Def. (1) is better as a definition of sarcasm. Irony is more general, and can be far more subtle than the employment of simple opposites.
The last sentence reads like a joke about how his equation was improved by Dirac to consider the speed of light
> and didn't spam you with adverts (also known as "recommendations" now), smarmy cutesy messages

And frame every opt-out choice as "YES I LOVE THIS AND WANT IT TURNED ON FOREVER AND EVER AND NEVER SHOW ME THIS PROMPT EVER AGAIN" versus "sigh fine I guess I don't want it FOR NOW but please make certain to ask me about it nine more times a day for the rest of infinity."

Even the "good" apps like Signal do this.

"Sync your contacts?"

Not now.

"OK we'll ask again later."
The funny thing is that this may actually be true

>Strongest, Securest, Bestest,

Strongest because it's Chromium

"Securest" once they disable JIT
This isn’t wrong but it misses other factors like dark patterns. These show up when there is an incentive to maximize time on the app, spending, get people to opt into surveillance, or herd customers into a cloud option so they can be put into a subscription model later.
Being insulted is indeed the right feeling if you still have a sense of personal agency left.
A GitHub action for removing emojis from PR content
There is no question that trump is racist.

However, it makes nobody wants to pursue this theory because everyone associates it with trump, and anyone who pursues it will also be labeled as racist.

A theory by definition will almost always have little evidence. It needs investment to discover more evidence.

Now who would fund a racist theory? No one.
One of the reasons I don't buy any online versions of movies from Amazon anymore is because of their UI (the other reason is that I just don't trust them). Their web UI for videos lets me scroll through cumbersome graphical tiles of my movies in A-Z, Z-A, or oldest-newest -- that's all. On the firestick, I can't search them except via Alexa, which tries to sell me a different copy of the same movie, or to sell me other movies. I can scroll only in order of newest-oldest purchase order. The more titles I have, the worse the experience is.

Fuck 'em and their dark patterns. I'm happier going old-school and buying blue-rays from the criterion collection.
I had two, now one because they moved in with their fiancee, neighbors who made more than rent ($1500/month) on OF. The now one isn't very good looking, spent $15k on plastic surgery, and they still look very lumpy/dumpy. (K of FMK.) I think what this small sample-size shows is it's all about marketing / influencing creating audience-driven-content if they are determined and consistent, even if the talent isn't all that. There are apparently enough lonely/horny men to fund this sort of business model when the talent is savvy enough to monetize. I'm sure the vast majority of accounts are under-monetized talent, inconsistent, hobbyists, or they gave-up and did something else for income.
I appreciate the original comment’s explanation- it’s helpful to understand how the marketing points can potentially obfuscate the real/technical points.

I also think your feedback is here accurate, and beyond that would take the side of ringing relevant.

If when they ‘re-emit’ they’re replacing what would otherwise be gross emission, that’s a net reduction, and a good thing.

Is good the enemy of great? Jim Collins and many corporate managers would agree yes. At a global/societal scale? I think it’s probably more debatable, at least.

I remember learning reduce>reuse>recycle and I think this falls somewhere in the middle which might make it an ethical conundrum; but unless we expect to the whiskey company to reduce whiskey production, it seems to me like we should likely applaud the effort.
Can you define what you mean by entitled?

I'm not sure it is entirely clear what you mean by entitled based on the text above.
Pythagoras isn't named so much in his aspect as a mathematician. He's named because he is the center of a major Greek mystery cult. (The other major cult being centered around Orpheus.)
Does Typesense support searching in non-latin languages?
Indeed it does. Googling the feature, it's said to scan for items that have coupons. I guess I can get behind that (scan only the active page for known items, match with known rebates, and don't drive me to a separate site).

I could even get behind a site warning for purchases known fraud sites (In jurisdictions where such blacklists are easy to come by from relevant authorities).

But driving me from an independent store to WalMart to save $2? Imagine Wal Mart sending out one employee to walk around each independent bookstore, whispering "you can get that 10% cheaper at Wal Mart". I think people might take offense.Here microsoft offers exactly that service to Wal Mart.
Why do you need to be powered, if you're above atmospheric drag?

Just sit up there with a receiver, bank of charged batteries, and just enough awake to monitor for wake transmissions.
I learned how bit-shifting and bitwise operators worked while obtaining my BSCS degree. I even used it in a programming task in my Numerical Methods class, and my programs ran much, much faster than everyone else in that class. Like, orders of magnitude faster.

But I’ve never used that knowledge outside of my degree, or in any of the programs I’ve worked on since 1989.

So, interesting knowledge to have, but I can’t say it was actually useful in any professional setting.
By law they have to visit every residence that did not use the online option.

Here, that was a pretty high percentage of residencies. I'm pretty sure we only got about 40% to provide info in the two counties I worked, Taney and Ozark, in SW Missouri.
Drunk-Driver Detectors for Cars Part of Infrastructure Bill
This is a cool project. Google Lens built into the Android Camera app can also do something similar with analyzing printed text.
I agree with this. You sound expert and provided a definition. I don't think we should expect serious professionals to mess around altering the words to make it look like it didn't come from the source that it did come from. In fact wouldn't that itself be plagiarism? The usual approach here is to use a phrase like "as suggested by one of our reviewers".
In some ways I wonder how much randomness is involved. That the error bars involved in any particular virus is very large.
No meaning in the cornfields, ie second tier state universities.
This is a major failure of Elsevier.

Here's "Microprocessors and Microsystems."[1] This is supposed to be about embedded systems, which is generally a no-bullshit field. I'd never heard of this journal. People read Electronic Design, EE Times, "Embedded.com", maybe Control Systems Journal, etc. Those have either articles about how to do something, or "why what we're selling is great" articles.

Now look at the article titles in Microprocessors and Microsystems.[2] Here are the first three.

- COPS: A complete oblivious processing system

- A perceptron-based replication scheme for managing the shared last level cache

- Efficient underdetermined speech signal separation using encompassed Hammersley-Clifford algorithm and hardware implementation

Now those might be legitimate, although what they're doing in an embedded systems journal isn't clear. They're all behind a paywall, so it's hard to tell if they're any good.

"Oblivious processing" is a security concept. That belongs in a journal on security and encryption, where the crypto people will know what holes to look for. (Microsoft was doing work in this area in 2013, but I don't think a product emerged. If you can make it work, some cloud computing company can use it.)

Cache management belongs in a journal on CPU design, where people who have struggled to make caches work will take a look. There are people using perceptrons for this, which makes sense; a cache has to guess which things will be reused. (If this works well, someone should be trying it in web caches such as NGINX to improve cache hit rates.)

Signal separation is an active field, but this isn't a journal where you'd expect to find articles on it. Wikipedia has a good article on signal separation. The history of that article indicates attempts to sneak in citations to sketchy articles. No idea if the Hammersley-Clifford algorithm is even relevant. (If it's a significant advance, there's commercial value in this in improving audio quality for conferencing systems.)

So these papers were all sent to a journal where the odds of getting published are good, and the odds that the editors have no idea about the subject matter is high.

Why is Elsevier even publishing this journal?

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/microprocessors-and-mi...

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/microprocessors-and-mi...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Signal_separation...
You did though.

"and then make losses which would require another 30 years to recover from."

Make losses starting from that high in the late eighties. Why choose that date to start from. Start a decade earlier and it doesn't look so grim. Look at the average return since 1929 and it's good as well. Pick a better date than 1929 and get a fairer picture.
There's a couple of zeros (6 to be exact) missing there ;)
Here's a reason: sharing, communication, and popularization are even more important than the underlying idea. The Babylonians can fight the Chinese, Egyptians, and 5 other claimants for the historical footnote of who figured it out first. I don't really care. If the Pythagoreans evangelized the concept at a critical juncture in the history of the discourse that eventually became my education, I think that's a fine reason to leave their name on the theorem.

Of course, the Pythagorean theorem is a good springboard for discussing how this works, how attribution is often murky or flat out wrong, how evidence of various bits of math popped up far earlier in history than their official invention, yet remained sterile and ultimately went nowhere because they weren't shared, popularized, and expanded upon. Or it happened but stopped at cultural boundaries and didn't get to us by that path, so we give credit to the person who made that happen. In any case, receiving the idea is what we care about, not originating the idea. See: Euler did it first, Gauss did it first, ancient Indians did it first, ancient Chinese did it first, etc, etc.
I'm sure a man with Charles Petzolds intellect and computing experience can easily find the setting to disable the feature on the Privacy, search and service section of Edge's settings It took me less than 30 seconds to find it.
I think the nail in the coffin will only happen when the DOM is killed. If someone can write a rendering engine in WASM that renders to canvas (maybe even render apps with webgl), then can just create a new api for browser apps.

That’ll be the end of frontend as we know it, and everyone will have to learn this new api. The benefits are obvious, we’ll finally have a rendering engine for apps. I suppose document-based html pages can stick around, but the rest of us can move on.
Firefighters are heroes for fighting fires. The fire marshall who prevents fires is treated as a waste of money or a pest.

Basically same thing here. Companies don’t promote those who preserve good things. They want new things.
Agreed. Most consumers are price sensitive and probably would find this helpful instead of insulting.
The Amazon is much older than humans in South America. I don't buy this theory either.
I don’t know the specific place you’re referring to, but at least all the restaurants I know of with Poke in the name are referring to Hawaiian Poke [1]. Although it’s influenced by Japanese cuisine, it has absolutely nothing to do with Pokémon.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poke_(Hawaiian_dish)
> How would you describe or recommend that process to someone in a technical non-dev role that has never used source control?

That’s the audience though. I know technical non-devs in various roles that would kill for the kind of features that git provides. They’re stuck manually versioning files. There is definitely a market out there for something like this but even simple version control is very tricky for non-devs. It’s just something we’re more intitivively good at probably to do with how we approach breaking down problems. Animators, graphic designers, architects etc tend to think more holistically. If they use these tools at all they’re usually a service provided by some in house experts, such as the engineering team or IT.