skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prices for Mac products are about the same; the difference is taxes (how they are treated and the rates).

1. Taxes in the US are added on top, not inclusive.
2. Taxes in Europe are generally higher than in the US.

Looking at the MacBook Air, in the US it goes for $999.

In the UK, it goes for £999, which is $1030 after 20% VAT is deducted.
In France, it goes for €1199, which is currently almost exactly $999 after 20% VAT is deducted.
> Taking an unauthorized picture of a defense installation (such as a military base) is a federal misdemeanor offense

But what if it isn't? The oft-cited law doesn't actually forbid taking photos, rather their improper publication or distribution. The cops stretch "whoever reproduces" to include the taking and saving of a picture onto a memory card, but that is a huge stretch that hasn't properly been hashed out by the courts. Simply seeing something and photographing or sketching it, if standing in a public space, is very likely not a federal crime.

"...whoever reproduces, publishes, sells, or gives away any photograph, sketch, picture, drawing, map, or graphical representation of the vital military or naval installations or equipment so defined, without first obtaining permission of the commanding officer..."

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/797
I would like to use the time for open source development. I get to learn and make things that would actually help people.

That said, I don't think I'd do it because of the risk of producing software that may be company property since it was done on company time and on company hardware.
For anyone who doesn't know the context: This quote is literal fascist rhetoric to promote machismo and contempt for the weak.

It might resonate the first time you hear it (most good propaganda does), but if you contemplate it for more than 10 seconds and you'll realize it's obviously untrue.
https://www.egattorneys.com/federal-computer-hacking

See in particular the broad definition of “protected computer.”
Anyone need a new website? Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
So, having abandoned your points A and B above, your new point is that being that there are countries with worse child labour problems, India is moving in the right direction?

None of the quoted stats or linked articles support the assertion that things are improving. The only trend that I can see noted is that Indian child labourers are moving to the cities to do manufacturing work and abandoning rural/agriculture work which on the face of it doesn't seem like a fully positive development development all.
Cleaning is indeed quite easy and could indeed be done with a bit of hot water and soap. It can take a while, though.
I've heard that about the sale of these guns in the US. Presumably there's not much demand given the prevalence of better modern designs.
Over here, an original antique revolver of that period could also be posted directly to a purchaser who could hold it without a licence, as long as they weren't a known criminal. If the owner wanted to fire it they would need a licence.
I am reminded that there are a small number of modern revolvers using smokeless powder that have been converted to a loading mechanism resembling that of the mid-19th century. These are also legal here.

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> when I try to initiate or lead something bigger, they crush it with passive aggressive, belittling remarks

If you don’t mind me asking, how do you typically respond to those remarks?

Not trying to excuse their rude behavior or saying you shouldn’t move on to greener pastures, but if you let people “get away with” passive aggressive behavior, then it’s bound to happen again elsewhere. Leadership is always tested in ways like this and it’d be wise to learn how to respond in a constructive way, rather than letting it crush you.

To play devil’s advocate, if you can’t handle some glancing criticism, how can people trust you to carry a large initiative to fruition?
Great post and I really like the focus on sticking to the core mission: make things safe and do so without compromising on critical features like async.

I see the complaints about things like stdlib and I don’t get it - the core team is doing an excellent job of keeping rust doing what it should do best, and the crate system and community fills that gap. If you want a big stdlib then use Python.
i don't understand... what are the consequences of economic failure if everything is adjusted proportionally?
After the way Google treated Stadia, I can't trust any Google product enough to fully rely on it.
don't use your main email to register in random websites

that's as simple as that
Yes, I did mention unions in my first post but that isn't what the person I was responding to was suggesting. They were suggesting individual action, not collective action.
I'm sad that the article doesn't even begin to suggest a period of time where this belief was current. Nonetheless, it gives me a great idea for an inscription on musical instruments I make from elder wood.
> Recovery will take time but at least I know I wont get verbally berated every time something isn't perfect.

You have already recovered in the sense of being a normal human being. Sure, it make take some extra "time off" for you personally to feel better, but make please understand that you are already a better person by doing the right thing.

Thanks for sharing, and keep up the good work!
The spam arms race continues to escalate. Broad availability of tools like ChatGPT has probably helped spammers in the short term.

If any good can come of this long term, it would be the ability for me to charge people to get an email into my inbox. This has been proposed multiple times over the decades, but has never been more needed or feasible than now.
This phrase doesn't make sense at all stand alone. I couldn't find the context either.

Safe to say that no, not idiomatic. And if you use this phrase as quoted people will be very confused and have no idea what you're trying to communicate.
They do. Haven't you ever price compared a poor neighborhood's grocery store to a rich neighborhood? Meijer does this in the Midwest. The price difference is as much as 50%.
They're all horrific
So it’s OK for individual vigilantes to punish them, am I right?
Also because it is trivial to buy an iPhone in a poorer country and bring it to a richer one.
Good luck with your new job. I would say develop mentality of jumping jobs every 2 years.
Always keep an eye in the market.

This happy time of starting a new chapter is a honeymoon that can last between 6 to 12 months before it fades away.

Remember, any business would only care about profit, and wouldn’t blink before deciding to let anyone go. Everyone should act the same, do whatever is good for your personally.
Before you exit, have you actually told your bosses in no uncertain words what the hell is going on? It sounds like this is a breakdown of effective communication and assumptions about what people want in their career and what they need. If you haven't explicitly aired these specific complaints I think you should at least give them a chance, which for you, could also give yourself the fastest path to build something you could show off, instead of having to start over at a new company where there will be a lot of unknowns. If you have already done that, I'll show myself out.
Every time you throw one off a bridge.
Promises by companies are worth nothing. Absolutely nothing. Why?

Because they don't need to fucking keep them.

Great example out of my own personal experience: CCP hf, who run EVE ONLINE.

They've broken promises time and time again. What they do to get away with it? They slowly, over the course of a decade, changed their target audience.

One change here, one change there. Their CEO, CCP Hellmar, said that 50% of the playerbase are from 2018 and beyond. EVE's a game that runs for 20 years now.

CCP griefed away most of the people who made the game what it was in favour of a completely different audience they have an easier time milking out of their money.

Anyone believing any promises by any company is naive at best.
Agreed. I'm not the one coming up with the one/two/three, I took it from the proposition.

Explanatory variables help understand the steps of the process, this |> operator is receipe for unmaintainable, expedited code.
> it's about having >=50% of the board democratically elected by the employees

Is this how workers’ councils work in Germany?
The way to fix that then would be to introduce a way to create named values within an expression. E.g. have something like

let foo = bar in <expression>

be an expression.
> Suspected members of the IRA, the Irish paramilitary organization, were also on the list.

A list that details primarily terrorists having terrorists listed on it. Colour me surprised.
Japan to lower Covid-19 to flu status, further easing rules
The amount of dirty work increases as the price of labor goes down, because companies put less effort into inventing labor-saving techniques.
They are related but different concepts. The value of a company is equal to the discounted value of its future cash flows. If rates go up, that means a higher return can be had for zero risk, which means all cash coming in the future at more than zero risk is now worth less. There is a second term other than risk free rate in the discounting equation which is related to capital structure. So, amount and cost of debt does impact valuation (though there is some debate and theory that makes my statement not quite true), but it is not the only factor.
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I hear ya. I've also been using Docker for years and have encountered this scenario: Now-retired Cowboy Coder "got things working" using vanilla "docker run" commands before he departed but didn't document it or script it, now I need to figure out what he did to firstly understand it, and secondly extend it. I don't have his bash history, I just have the running container. I get it if you can't conceive of a use for this but apparently at least a couple of us think it could occasionally be useful.
Neal Stephenson's "The Diamond Age" has a fake AI "character" -- a book that appears to be AI but is really operated by low-paid humans in 3rd world countries (reminiscent of the Mechanical Turk, a supposed chess playing automaton that actually contained a small person).

There's an old observation from Arthur C. Clarke, that sufficiently advanced technology seems like magic. One thing that learning how magic tricks are performed taught me is that magicians typically do their fake magic by doing an unreasonable amount of work behind the scenes -- "magic" in the real world is often just doing a large amount of work that people don't realize is happening.

Given all that it seems appropriate that the new "real world magic" -- ML systems imitating intelligence -- really rest on a lot of hidden work by human beings. Just like magical devices like iPhones exist due to a lot of surprisingly cheap labor. Imagining otherwise is like imagining that the delicious food from a 3-star kitchen just appears from the chef's mind, without the help of all of the low-paid kitchen workers, farm workers, etc. that in reality do most of the work.
I would agree to "leave that shit at home" insofar as it means "leave that shit at home until it is mature enough to be taken out in public".

If you can discuss your opinions without giving or taking offense, then fine. I certainly haven't reached that level of maturity, so it is an ideal for me.

> ... but if you really believe in something...

Let's be clear whether this means you feel a need to persuade the person you're sharing your opinion with. If so, have you given serious thought about how to persuade? What is more important here to you: sharing your opinion or bringing others to adopt it?
even jesus had his lost years.
I'm not going to discuss any of the tie-ins with capitalism, because frankly I don't care to, but I'm going to point out that as a historical note this is not an accurate representation of legal history. In fact it largely ignores it.

Our current system of real property ownership is a result of adopting feudal legal structures to the growing need of society to build durable capital investments on land during the advent of industrialization. The 'fee' in fee simple is etyomologically derived from 'fief', a system in which land titles were granted to people in exchange for fealty and servility.

Agrarian societies had significantly different needs and organized their affairs differently and they didn't starve during the winters. Except for those that did, like the settlers in iceland, who died from potentially too many property rights as landholdings became concentrated in the hands of a few small families which left their society brittle enough to be wiped out by inuit raids.

Anyways, the naturalistic fallacy isn't good support for current property rights, which are about as artificial as any law gets.
Another great advantage of UUIDs is that it can help prevent you shooting yourself in the foot when you accidentally join the wrong tables. E.g. `DELETE FROM users WHERE id IN (SELECT id FROM user_orders);`
i'm not actually a robot, the bio is just a joke.
>you feel like you are getting ripped off when your neighbor can buy the same good for a fraction of the cost because their country is doing poorly economically. And then it brings up some complex ethical questions like "is it stealing to use a VPN to buy a digital good at a fraction of the cost of your current geographic region"

And also questions like why do some countries do poorly economically and some do well economically? Are people born in those countries responsible for the results of their ancestors actions? Or changes in weather patterns? Are people born in better performing countries entitled to the fruits of the actions of their ancestors?

Does a person in a country with a poor economy feel ripped off that they cannot hop into a country with a better economy and earn far more?

FYI, some countries have different pricing based on which passport you have, such as at national parks. If you have a passport from a richer country, you pay more, and if you have a passport from a poorer country, you pay less.
I don’t understand why you are talking about The Matrix and Uber.
Its terrifying for anybody ecking an existence in tech (without deep pockets). Those who built businesses around facebook and now twitter know all too well the risks of being a digital serf. But you argue it was their choice.

You cannot do anything techy without exteme dependence on google. This is not how things should bem
A remarkable number of jobs are about putting fires out.

Is someone responsible available for that revenue generating, or loss preventing, "thing", that has a high enough uptime to not attract anyone's wrath? OK then.
That link is unhinged. It considers people to be self-sufficient on mere subsistence. A society which creates collective incentives towards collaboration and away from violent domination, creating wealth and value in excess of subsistence, and opening up the massive quality of life increase to all, is a significant departure in a positive direction from mere subsistence for an agrarian peasant that survives at the whim of people who could brutally and violently take from them.

That has to be the most hilariously and sadly unhinged reading and retelling of history I have ever seen. A wonderful example of lying with truths. The author seems to be part of a communist online writer collective, I suppose that should be unsurprising given the subject matter. Commies are wild.
> No motivation

You typed all this, so clearly you show some motivation.
That's the reply I should have given to your complaint about 'breaking the English language'.
Google probably lets some amount of known-spam emails through for data gathering. See this quote from Google's "Rules of Machine Learning" [1] (A great resource by the way)

> Rule #34: In binary classification for filtering (such as spam detection or determining interesting emails), make small short-term sacrifices in performance for very clean data.

> In a filtering task, examples which are marked as negative are not shown to the user. Suppose you have a filter that blocks 75% of the negative examples at serving. You might be tempted to draw additional training data from the instances shown to users. For example, if a user marks an email as spam that your filter let through, you might want to learn from that.

> But this approach introduces sampling bias. You can gather cleaner data if instead during serving you label 1% of all traffic as "held out", and send all held out examples to the user. Now your filter is blocking at least 74% of the negative examples. These held out examples can become your training data.

> Note that if your filter is blocking 95% of the negative examples or more, this approach becomes less viable. Even so, if you wish to measure serving performance, you can make an even tinier sample (say 0.1% or 0.001%). Ten thousand examples is enough to estimate performance quite accurately.

[1] https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/guides/rules-...
Exactly. There is a whole infrastructure of sympathizer-nuts, similar to US politics.
It was meant to provoke some thought as to why there aren’t more worker friendly companies out there given that everyone seems to want them. Obviously not everyone is in a good situation to start their own.
> This isn't rhetoric, the LGB Alliance isn't some group that just happens to not focus on T of LGBT. They're a group that wants the T dropped from LGBT, that believes, advocates for, and fights for legislation that defines trans men as women and vice versa. They were literally established in opposition to LGBT groups supporting trans people and still are.

But there's nothing hateful about that. It's a perfectly reasonable position, held by the vast majority of people worldwide. The reason trans-activists are working to get acceptance for such a view, is in fact because it is not the dominant view (or why else would they need to promote it?).

Would you care to outline why you'd categorize having a specific view on gender and sex which differs from the one driven by these activists as "hateful"? Just what part here is hate?

It's a genuine question. I honestly don't understand this mentality or world-view.
Dynamic re-linking is cool, but it can result in less-than-optimal executables.

Sometimes it can be beneficial to optimize the link so most of the main thread stays in cache. Obviously this only really matters for CPU-intensive programs.
WTF...

So Marijuana with a widely accepted medical benefit is considered a more dangerous drug than coke which is much more addictive and makes (some) people total pumped up jerks?

I really can't imagine that, it should be the other way around. This is what I don't understand about the US federal drug policy. Most countries define marijuana as a "soft drug".

I wonder how this came to be.. It sounds a bit like a 'war on hippies' thing from the 70s still lingering around the law books or something.
No - the linker is there to resolve references among sections and can do so without PLT/GOT indirection when creating things like static archives.

There may be a code size cost in some architectures - that since the call destination can be relocated far from the call site that the assembler will need to make sure it allocates enough space to reach the call target instead of a small PCREL relocation.
Capital isn’t the only thing that prevents workers from starting companies.

Vision, good ideas, the ability to inspire, bringing people together, luck, etc. all factor in. To single out capital is to say if anyone has money they will be able to start a successful business.
Well "whatabout" all that entertainment industry propoganda and classist stereotypes against real pirates? How they're always relentlessly making fun of the way they talk, walk, their amputations, monocular vision, and pet preferences, shamelessly appropriating and disparagingly caricaturizing their culture for Halloween costumes and team mascots, and even cruelly comparing them to software and music thieves? ;)
Excellent post and spot on.
You are the kind who loves being pedantic to win arguments, don’t you?

The first we and second we is different. You are pulling these sentences out of context, again.

First we is a group which criticizes nothing but Apple. Second we is another group which try to be objective.
There are single-cell organisms up to an inch or so in diameter. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valonia_ventricosa

There are even visible bacteria! https://www.science.org/content/article/largest-bacterium-ev...
You can edit your comments.
My buddy got a ticket like this in PA in the 90s. Speed calculated by an airplane with a stopwatch and markings on the road. Came around a curve and a state trooper was in the right lane pointing out which cars needed to pull over. About 8 motorcycle cops were ready with their ticket books.

We lived 400 miles away and were definitely going above 90mph, so he ended up paying the ticket rather than traveling back to fight it.
"Until they're in it" totally is a phrase that makes sense and I would say can be idiomatic.

OP if you read my previous comment, then that does not apply to the phrase that ethanbond corrected.
It’s a horizontal pipe. It arguably actually makes more sense when the values flow horizontally from left to right through the pipe.

In an alternative universe, Unix shell syntax may have used “—“ instead of “|” for piping.
> My new boss has recognised a lot of the mental snot has been virtually beat out of me and is understanding

We should aspire to be like that boss.
Because non-tech people don't think about which search engine they're using. Doesn't mean it's not bad.
I Work for an Elon Musk
I just need to say it to someone.

I am friends with, and employed by, a guy who sold his startup for lots of money and turned angel investor. And he worked really hard for it. He’s obsessive and always had more ideas than he knew how to implement.

Over the years his extreme wealth, social awkwardness, and million-ideas-a-minute brain has slowly turned him into Elon Musk, except on a smaller scale.

I lost my job recently and he hired me to implement some of his ideas. What this amounts to is him calling me up on the phone and talking to me for hours without a break about the minutia of how every single thing should be designed, and then disappearing for weeks. Sometimes he’s calling me from one of his beach houses and I’m taking the call on the bus. I have literally muted him, gotten off the bus, and unmuted him and he’s still talking. Hasn’t noticed I didn’t say a word.

He lives in a universe where every one of his ideas has an easy path to millions in ARR. And so it’s worth taking all this time to get everything right in advance and plotting a path to world domination. In my experience, it’s hard to earn your first $10 and you learn what customers want by shipping. He used to be like that too. But he’s the kind of guy that turns down offers from very large companies to run a research project, and his sense of his own brilliance has gone nonlinear.

I’m grateful for this “job”. It’s sustaining me during a period where I don’t have a lot going on. On the other hand, I am not cut out to pump
up a guy’s ego as my primary career. Doing this every day is undermining my confidence in myself.

He invited me to one of his homes to do some hardware hacking. I stayed up overnight to produce a demo. He looked at it the morning, said nothing, but wanted to talk about his next idea for it.

Experiences like that make me doubt my own ability. The guy really did make zillions and has had a few home runs as an angel investor. Maybe what I made was shit?? Maybe I don’t have what it takes???

My friend/boss knows lots of other entrepreneurs, of course. I’ve inquired about whether he could help me out with my job search. He says he’ll get back to me.
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