skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
would that result in less collection of taxes or more? because current implementation of cascading effect means more and more taxes are incurred, which while increases the price of property, gives taxes to government which is just that
Well, my ice is seemingly thicker than you think, you listed 7 purely anecdotal points of which only one can be maybe considered country specific, and you managed to state how almost the same (re: speeding too much in your opinion) happens in Austria and Germany.

Rest assured that - notwithstanding the single episode you witnessed in Florence - it is not like every day tens or hundreds of cars do evasive maneuvers to avoid red lights and/or senselessly enter construction sites in Florence (or in Italy in general).

Traveling impromptu, particularly if you do not speak functionally the local language is asking for trouble almost anywhere, and as well pickpockets are common in many large cities all over Europe (those with the largest number of tourists).

If we go by anecdata:

1) some relatives of mine have been pickpocketed BOTH in London and in Barcelona

2) I have been refused accomodation (duly booked in advance, BTW) in Munich in the Oktoberfest period (due to some sort of overbooking, or mismanagement of cancellations, not really an issue as I was traveling by car and I managed to find a hotel only a few km outside Munich)

3) in three different occasions someone managed to throw up on me (yikes!), once on a bus in Berlin, once in a train in the UK and once on a Qantas flight to Australia

4) I once eyewitnessed a car entering the highway from the wrong side in France, making a front collision with a truck that was travelling in the right sense, and another time I saw the same happening (luckily with no accidents) in Switzerland

Hence:

1) beware of pickpockets in the UK and Spain

2) double and triple check bookings in Germany

3) be prepared to find in Germany, the UK and Australia (drunk) people that will throw up on you

4) be warned that drivers in France and Switzerland often enter the highway the wrong side

The world is a dangerous place, you'd better stay at home.
I graduated and worked for a few years as an electrical engineer. I had/have a portfolio of sorts and would gladly bring one to a job interview, including previous projects.

> Would you ask a chemical engineer to bring a recipe for a proprietary drug synthesis

Nobody is asking for anyone to bring complete codebases, either. Not to mention that, in chemical engineering, if something is proprietary enough, there are patents. Those come with credits.

I get the feeling that programming is the only industry paranoid enough to treat the most utterly mundane work as if it was bomb codes, averse to recognition enough to not credit people and disorganised/rushed enough so that 99% of companies are unable to let workers share their findings with others in the field.
This is simply incorrect. Index funds still do basic due diligence, they would not trigger this poison pill.
Edward Snowden is a public supporter and user of Signal. He's my canary in the coal mine. The moment the US three letter agencies get access to the data on Signal's servers, Snowden's dead. I feel comfortable in the resilience of their architecture as long as he's alive.
App stores are always about rent seeking, and do not deliver safety or security - merely put you at greater risk by having you assume they do.
You can't expect employees return vested stock when the company doesn't do well. The same applies to hedge funds as well.
Everyone in this thread seems to be hung up on sharing code from an employer or 'good code'.

You could clone an open source repo and use that if you're worried. The value isn't the code; it's the conversation.

"Bring your own code" is just meant to put the interviewee at ease because they are already prepared to talk about their own code.
Tesla has a rule that you can only borrow 25% of the value against the shares. From Money Stuff:

> Or Musk could borrow more against his Tesla stake. Tesla’s own policies prohibit Musk from borrowing more than 25% of the value of his shares, which is barely enough to buy Twitter, even ignoring the fact that he has already used at least some of that capacity. Of course he’s in charge of Tesla and its board is famously deferential to him, so I guess he could change those policies, but that still requires finding a bank to lend him $40 billion against his Tesla stake to finance this lark. Tesla’s stock has quadrupled since mid-2020; if it fell back to mid-2020 levels — say because its charismatic attention-seeking CEO found a new toy — then the loan would be underwater, and selling out of a gigantic Tesla margin loan does not seem like a lot of fun for a bank.
To question one my friend Chelsea. To question number two my sister.
I'm more sad about the deprecation if Hardware Lock Elision on that page...

What was wrong with it? It seemed to offer such massive performance benefits for complex multithreaded code.
I feel like lead distribution/packaging/format is suboptimal. You can only buy leads in very small quantity, compared to the size of their container, and their short length, as you say, means you have lots of losses.
Maybe longer leads would mean more breakage, but I feel like there is room for improvements in terms of general waste.
Only "app installations" from the GitHub marketplace can be limited to specific repositories. For OAuth apps this is not possible sadly (everything that uses GitHub to login or connect accounts, e.g. Travis CI, Terraform Registry, Heroku).
Are you not going to weigh in on the distinction between governments silencing speech and private for profit companies? Because…
Preact maintainer here.

That's amazing! I didn't know that our little project is used in interviews. Happy to hear that you liked working with the code base!
I get your point but its not like recent grads have it super easy getting their first job; you have decades of experience interviewing (part of which is Leetcode which you have probably done many times); for them it's probably the first time doing this. On top of it all many places don't want juniors at all.
Thanks for the clarification...but you qualifying her demands as "ideals" clearly shows you're taking one of them as being perfect and always-right and the other as needing to be re-educated. This is not a solid foundation for a relationship, to take your house metaphor.

A towel should not be left on the floor, anyone can agree, but on less obvious topics none of them can be credited as the unique source of Truth.
Elon doesn't actually have the cash on hand to buy 51% of the company at market rate (he could release the equity from Tesla or something, but that would be expensive), he wants to do a leveraged buy-out which means we wants to get some other investors to go in with him on the deal at the figure he outlined.
A Case Study of the Information Chaos During Covid in India
German nuke plants (just like French ones) are load following and can go from near-zero to full load in 15-30 minutes.

They are usually not used that way because their base load is needed.

Also, if you do not know that, you might reflect about what other facts relevant to forming an educated opinion on the topic you are missing.
In the last two weeks my gdrive has been spammed with shared porn pdfs. It's not even being shared with the email address I use, it's being shared with my email without a full stop in the middle that Gmail ignores. Haven't looked into it much but apparently people have been asking for years for an option to only allow a doc to be shared from a know contact, Google has ignored this for a long time.
Where does the $30 come from? The last time Twitter was that low was May 2020. There’s no evidence that the market values Twitter at $30 without Musk’s bid.
If you're processing a lot of data, you're better off moving it to the GPU. If you're processing only a little data, the speed-up doesn't matter. I wonder how wide is the Goldilocks Zone where AVX512 makes a practical difference?
That is not what passive management means.

For example in the case of SPY, that would go against their stated investment objective.

They also clearly state

> the Trust may fail to own certain Index Securities at any particular time, the Trust generally will be substantially invested in Index Securities
One thing I haven't seen stated here yet is that WebP is apparently a low resilience format: lose a few bytes and your image is dead.

Still, it's extremely light and is much better than JPG for photos and PNG for simpler visuals. You can easily shave off an extra 50% file size off a standard optimized PNG image without any incurring any significant loss of quality, and even more if you're ready to accept higher losses.

For Linux Mint users out there, the OS doesn't ship with an image viewer for the WebP format. qView is a really nice open source option Mint users may want to look into. You can also find Nemo file manager right-click actions on Github (Linux Mint Nemo WebP Converter Actions).
Explanations should end up in comments, documents, and the commit-comment of the squash (creating a good one takes some time when squashing).

The PR and original branch show dead-ends that should not be required reading to understand things.
Yes. It is painfully awful faux intellectual phony stuff. Every one is to blame. Everyone can be put into one side (multiple times when he said what the left does or thinks or said “you have thought this way as a person of X identity”...it was never true. Generalizations.

Meanwhile the praise for various billionaires and the defense of corporations where “they kind of care about money” before saying people in general are the problem. The thread actually contains “they [corporations] only kind of care about money”. Is there anything else to say.
> All my left-wing woke friends
> All my alt/center-right/libertarian friends

The woke mob would destroy him if he said something as taboo as “my alt right friends”. The mental censorship is so strong he can’t say it even for the sake of the example. But trust us, there’s actually no institutional bias!
I guess twitter contains a lot of data to feed to neuralink
As another commenter said, if the email contains anything like a request I use "Thanks" and I mean it. Perhaps some of this depends on the culture in your organization. In mine some people I've worked with for ten years spell my—very simple—name incorrectly and then write "Regards" so I have never taken that seriously.
I do believe Twitter isn't doing well at fighting spam, also that it's a pretty hard problem. But where do you think people will go after leaving Twitter? Is there an option?
Most likely it didn’t have to pay any money because you either payed your full deductible for the year already, or most likely it was payed by the accident insurance and not the regular health insurance
> Not having value is a value in itself. It takes a crazy amount of effort to be completely neutral.

The phone company does a pretty good job of it, and we have regulations that force them to be mostly "neutral".

Those regulations have worked out quite well. Perhaps it time to expand our existing, and working regulations to other platforms, given that they work so well on existing platforms.
I probably could have guessed you were a Node developer even if you didn't say so.
Anyone who can't handle having their code reviewed before it goes into production is not welcome on my team. You can call that antagonistic or not, but I have always found that the best engineers are the ones who are able to separate criticism of their code from criticism of themselves. Get that type of people on your team, and code review is no longer antagonistic: it's just an egoless feedback process that improves the end product, which is what all members of an engineering team should be working toward.
As you can see from this link, most European countries use the "NSL" sign in some form. It's expected that drivers find what those limits are when they cross a border. There are signs at all land borders showing the limit, also on that page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_European_road_si...
> work hard, retire, get forced off your land via tax.

That’s not how it works. The more you get paid, the more you can pay land owners.

When demand is higher than supply prices rise to capture all excess income.
"Differentiable function"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differentiable_function

> In mathematics, a differentiable function of one real variable is a function whose derivative exists at each point in its domain

If there is a ZeroDivisionError because a denominator is zero, is that actually a differentiable function?

-x**-1
-1/x

There's a symbolic result at or approaching that limit. IDK how exactly that applies to quantum-scale fluid effects at room temperature? Shouldn't there be a triality in terms of relativity, post-relativity QM with hair, and fluids converging or diverging to infinity?

Divergence theorem ... Fluid diverconvergences
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divergence_theorem :

> The divergence theorem is an important result for the mathematics of physics and engineering, particularly in electrostatics and fluid dynamics. In these fields, it is usually applied in three dimensions. However, it generalizes to any number of dimensions. In one dimension, it is equivalent to integration by parts. In two dimensions, it is equivalent to Green's theorem. [...] Explanation using liquid flow [...]

"Logarithms yearning to be free" re: symbolic limits and currently non-axiomatic Infinity
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31015139

... Quantum thermodynamics, fluids, and chaotic divergence
Or someone who's a Tesla/Musk fanboy/girl.
I agree with a lot of what you write, and I also think we are way beyond that "comprehensibility boundary" when it comes to modern tech stacks. There is just no single person who understands exactly what happens on all levels of the stack when I send this reply.

But also, this process of "we got it, wait we didn't..." is just how real world security works, there is no way around it. Security is not <clever research team coming up with moon math> and problem is solved. Security is complex, and takes years of attack incentives and hardening to mature. TLS implementations can use the best crypto algorithms we know of, and we still get Heartbleed. Intel already with the very first release of SGX introduced the TCB recovery mechanism, precisely because they knew users are bound to find vulnerabilities.

There is also a strong hysteresis effect because of the long release cycle of chips. For example, SGX was released in 2015/2016 with Skylake, and then two years later we discovered Meltdown/Spectre and with them a whole new dimension of attacks on the CPU. However, Intel couldn't just release a hotfix for their hardware, it took a lot of time and work to re-design the CPU to be more side-channel resistant, and in the meantime security researchers naturally latched onto these attacks, giving the false impression that the whole idea of secure compute is flawed.

Personally I would not bet on CC tech becoming obsolete, on the contrary, a lot of Big Tech are pumping more and more resources into it, and there is increasing demand from various industries. The tech will stay around, it will mature, and perhaps vendors will even start to introduce HSM-like hardware protection mechanisms if there is enough demand.
> And yes, I understand that suffering is relative and that there are worse things than Meniere’s disease, thank you.
The thread was equally against anything left of center. The thread was pretty kind to the right. Since the thread was about the status quo. Which is a core conservative stance. As well as the high praise of mega corps and billionaires. Which the center and right are much cozier with than the left.
Literally just now as I was watching BBC Breakfast this is what was said on TV by two scientists who were interviewed almost daily for the last two years and portrayed as fact checkers and our sources of truth:

The Valneva vaccine was approved in the UK and might be very important because it trains our body against all proteins of the virus as opposed to just the spike protein which is what the AZ and Moderna/Pfizer vaccines were doing so far, so probably giving us better protection against future variants.

Cool... that sounds great and very logical. Body learns about the entirety of the virus and therefore will be better to fend off new variations of it in the future.

But that doesn't sound like some profound new scientific discovery we have made. This sounds like science 101 to me, so WHY did the same two scientists vehemently refuse to acknowledge in any shape or form that people who have had COVID-19 and therefore had been exposed to a huge viral load of the ENTIRE virus with all its proteins might have also acquired a better immune response than a vaccine which only trains your body against a single spike protein? It's the same principle, but because it was not WOKE to say the truth.

It's plain simple, we are all being brain washed with selective reporting and fake news and its enforced by social media so that critically thinking minds cannot undermine our increasingly more authoritarian governments which try to control our thinking in order to control our lives and get what they want - more powers in their favour.
This is definitely a concern. I've previously worked for e.g. eye bee... and despite having written massive amounts of code in c, java etc, I'm probably violating some major NDA if I show any of that code, or discuss details of a first-in-the-world active-active HA cluster solution in the 90s.

By comparison, my github or personal code would be just a bunch of perl, rexx, sh/bash and python scripts written just to automate some work. I doubt anybody would think those should be cleanly written, highly maintainable, modularised, etc...
You will want to read the man pages. 'pee' is straightforward to understand if you already understand 'tee'. 'pee' is used to pipe output from one command to two downstream commands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tee_(command)
Where I work, development is trunk based and without pull requests, and all code is reviewed. When I want to submit code, I push it to a staging area that tracks master. This causes the commits to appear in Gerrit where (conflict-free) rebasing can be performed with a single button and the code can be reviewed. During the staging I can change anything about the commits to my hearts content. Once everyone is satisfied, someone with the authority to approve the change approves it and I submit it, upon which the patches are applied as-is on the branch I staged it for.

Creating a separate branch, pushing this to your public copy of the repository and then asking someone to pull from that branch into their master branch seems absurd to me, especially if it's just 1-2 commits, and the idea of reviewing code (which I think is extremely important at team scale) should not be conflated with the concept of pull requests.
Against this specific bid: the price is arguably low and holders aren’t likely to want to sell at that price. From Money Stuff:

> problem with Musk’s offer is that it is pretty low. Musk points out that $54.20 “represents a 54% premium” over where he started investing in Twitter, and a 38% premium over where the stock was before he announced his position. But Twitter was in the $60s in October, and a lot of its big long-term holders seem unlikely to be sellers at $54.20. “‘No board in America is going to take that number,’ said Jefferies analyst Brent Thill.”

Against the bid coming from him:

- He famously pretended he was going to take Tesla private and got in trouble because he was pretending. Takeover offers usually don’t have that history I guess.

- He doesn’t have financing, not even pretend financing like when he said he was going to take Tesla private
By the way, for anyone interested in reading more, a fascinating read is the chapter on the Hindu Caste System in the book "Tarikh Al Hind" written by Al Biruni, Persian scholar, during his visit to India from 1017 to 1030.

It was written 1,000 years ago, but could have been written 75 years ago. It reads that fresh.

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/collections/cul/text...

The level of oppression of lower castes (described in this book) is unbelievable, and remains partly practiced even today. The biggest problem was that you couldn't escape your caste ("caste" is derived from "cast", something you were locked, or cast, into).
Rails is not Ruby. You can just install Ruby and run any .rb file.

The file can contain something as simple as

puts "Hello World!"

If you want to install a lightweight web framework, you can try Sinatra [0] or Roda [1] .

[0]: http://sinatrarb.com/

[1]: http://roda.jeremyevans.net/
How is this concern not equally-relevant in the current status quo?

At least for our locale: property taxes are still based on assessed value, sales tax is collected on purchases, and income tax & business permits still apply. All of these get more expensive if the community improves...
On average, who's going to be better at writing code, the one who has done a side coding project in the past 10 years whilst developing, or the one who hasn't but only worked a job? (assuming everything else is equal) - The one who has more time for side projects might also have more time for work, too. Unfortunately, it does remove good people, since not everything else is equal.

IMHO It's still better than leet-coding questions because most developers don't need to use the skills gained from practicing leetcode when at work, whereas open source contributions and projects are valuable. Also, someone with no time outside work and family would struggle with both leetcode and having side projects.
>If you want to say (almost) literally anything, you can find a way to do it that won't get you in trouble anywhere.

No. If nothing else, the scold always has the "dog whistle" weapon.
How about a place for “founders” to solicit ideas from people? A marketplace or service to match people with ideas they can’t execute with people who want to execute but have no ideas?

You know tiny teams created Unix, Google, and Facebook, right?
I might be naive but how does a threat actor get access to encrypted bunch of keys.
I agree. The limit encourages creativity and brevity
As a society, we have not developed appropriate, constructive, non-permanent repercussions for minor transgressions like an offensive online post or an off-color comment.

Our culture hasn't caught up with technology which can broadcast minor transgressions to millions of people and save them in perpetuity.

What is the modern equivalent of getting kicked out of a bar? Anti-social or bigoted behavior should have consequences but not permanent or life-ruining.

This is assuming the behavior was actually bad. The other problem with cancel culture is 1. Many of the "transgressions" were not transgressions at all; sometimes just an opposing opinion. 2. It is selectively applied according to identity. 3. No checks and balances. Easy for a mistaken identity or simple misunderstanding go viral. Once the mob is ignited, it's extremely difficult to issue a correction or walk back an accusation.
>I'm curious about which stocks were actually involved. I'm also curious how much they profited on this scheme, and how much capital they had to amass to get it started.

The clue is in the very extract you posted.... "certain publicly traded companies that were traded on the over-the-counter (“OTC”) market in the United States"

OTC shares are the bottom of the barrel shares, too illiquid to be dealt with via the exchanges and so traded via market makers instead.

Which then answers your second question. With illiquid shares you don't need much capital or to make much effort to make a profit in questionable ways.

I haven't read the detail, but I imagine they were basically running a coordinated pump & dump.