jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
(US-specific) You're correct, particularly if the business continues to declare a loss year after year (which it would if it was created as an excuse to itemize business deductions). While making a profit is not required, the activity must be "engaged in for profit," ie, you must be genuinely trying: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-utl/irc183activitiesnotengagedin...

More practically, if a business continues to declare a loss, especially with little or no revenue, it will stand out. In an audit, the IRS considers 9 factors. Quoting:

1. the manner in which the taxpayer carried on the activity,

2. the expertise of the taxpayer or his or her advisers,

3. the time and effort expended by the taxpayer in carrying on the activity,

4. the expectation that the assets used in the activity may appreciate in value,

5. the success of the taxpayer in carrying on other similar or dissimilar activities,

6. the taxpayer’s history of income or loss with respect to the activity,

7. the amount of occasional profits, if any, which are earned,

8. the financial status of the taxpayer, and

9. elements of personal pleasure or recreation.

A profit-seeking motive is presumed if a profit is declared in 3 of 5 consecutive years.

That ninth factor covers something called a "hobby loss":

"(9) Elements of personal pleasure or recreation. The presence of personal motives in carrying on of an activity may indicate that the activity is not engaged in for profit, especially where there are recreational or personal elements involved. On the other hand, a profit motivation may be indicated where an activity lacks any appeal other than profit. It is not, however, necessary that an activity be engaged in with the exclusive intention of deriving a profit or with the intention of maximizing profits. For example, the availability of other investments which would yield a higher return, or which would be more likely to be profitable, is not evidence that an activity is not engaged in for profit. An activity will not be treated as not engaged in for profit merely because the taxpayer has purposes or motivations other than solely to make a profit. Also, the fact that the taxpayer derives personal pleasure from engaging in the activity is not sufficient to cause the activity to be classified as not engaged in for profit if the activity is in fact engaged in for profit as evidenced by other factors whether or not listed in this paragraph."

tl;dr: If you have meaningful revenue relative to expenses, it's probably a business. If you don't have meaningful revenue, then the other factors should be in your favor instead.
This is a nice site for creating your own QR-codes: http://qrcode.kaywa.com/
It's really hard for me to understand why and how something fails or succeeds to grab the public's attention.

I've been complaining and refusing to use WhatsApp for years, mostly because it's centralized at the worst possible company. But a boycott of one is not a powerful move and no one cared.

Now, for whatever reason, nothing has effectively changed and millions suddenly care.

I mean, I'm glad they finally do, don't think it will make much of a difference, as network effect is a very strong pull, but I'm flabbergasted nonetheless.
Quick word of warning: I found it striking that even Cloudflare's Teams product, which supports Tunnels as a feature, does not make Tunnels private (e.g., by enforcing authentication, or restricting who can reach an exposed tunnel to your organization) by default. Anyone on the Internet with the Cloudflare Warp client can reach a Tunnel configured with default settings, a quirk that is not called out in their official documentation.
I can bet, Germany will reach 100k next week. The people don’t care at all. Only minority wears masks and try to keep proper distance. Even today police force was needed to cancel something like party in part in Munich.
DDL is a fringe search engine. They are not doing themselves any good by crippling their search results. It's just going to push the 10 people still using their stuff away.
You are arguing that religious myths[0] cannot be claimed to be true or false while simultaneously claiming to believe your religious myths to be true and all others false. I was hoping to lead you here without saying it explicitly, but that is what I was getting at when I asked what it meant to "have faith". It means to hold a belief that cannot be rationalized.

With the above inconsistency in mind we can explore what it means to "prove something false":

https://www.quora.com/What-does-it-mean-to-prove-something-f...

The top answer here summarize the current state of our understanding. The key terms on which to focus are "inconsistent" and "contradiction". Can you see how believing in something that cannot be rationalized is inconsistent or a contradiction? It is the belief in a religion itself that is the contradiction. It doesn't matter whether any specific event can be proved true or false (again that is not my point). My point is that "having faith" is to recognize this contradiction and choose to believe anyway. By simply "having faith" you are, yourself, proving it false.

That isn't to say having faith is a bad thing! I will again commend organized religion as a valuable tool to both the individual and society. People are not rational. Feelings are not rational. I genuinely believe that the good that comes from religion outweighs the bad. That doesn't mean I can't recognize it for what it is...

And I am not an atheist! I guess it depends what you mean be "God" though... I don't believe in any region as an ideology, but I do believe in religion as an institution (I do go to church on occasion): Was there a person name Jesus? Probably. Did he inspire good things? Mostly likely. Are the lessons we learn from his story valuable? Absolutely! Did he turn water into wine? No. Did he rise from the dead? Of course not.

In this way I believe in religion, but I don't "have faith".

[0] The word "myth" does not always denote something that is false.
The concern is working around state level or ISP level censorship and monitoring of domain names. TLS already allows you to detect tampering without ESNI so that's not a goal here
Proof of burn is more efficient and harder to game. Emails are already being send from botnets, which are already used for mining.

Spam will exist as long as it is profitable.
If inboxes only show email which has paid a very small cost (like .001 cents), it would quickly make spam unaffordable.

> Anecdotal reports place the retail price of spam delivery at a bit under $80 per million [22]. This cost is an order of magnitude less than what legitimate commercial mailers charge, but is still a signiﬁcant overhead; sending 350M e-mails would cost more than $25,000. Indeed, given the net revenues we estimate, retail spam delivery would only make sense if it were 20 times cheaper still.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-email-spammers-really-make...
Ha! These people are in their 70's and 80's, getting any legitimate security is near impossible. Try telling your grandparents not to play flash games on their computer. The best security should have been by the entrances of the building.

Edit: Pelosi is 80 years old.
Being able to run the tool as non-root so it just spits out the key/cert pair is EXACTLY one of the mode of operations that they said will be available - see http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2014/31c3_-_6397_-_en_-_...
I think the idea here is that a user could prioritize their Netflix traffic over their Dropbox traffic. It would be great actually if they offered QoS configuration to end users.
I blame youtube. Today Buddy Holly is just as accessible as Iggy Azalea. Just type it in. In '85 it was easier to get Marcus Aurelius than Buddy Holly.

The "generation gap" was a function of market forces and media. Its gone now. The past is present.
Totally. I'm a very productive programmer as long as I do my hobby projects, random hacks, fun things, hackatons or work that I have no personal stake in. But whenever I have to work, my productivity drops to literally 1/10 - 1/100th of the normal level and I often feel axious and sick. This is completely absurd - sometimes I get more done in one hour on a bus for a side project than through entire week for work.
Couldn't make it more complicated, huh?
Getting in early on BTC, ETH, or crypto of your choice from this bull run was probably a pretty non-reproducible fluke though. Once the leverage in crypto markets gets cracked down on (up to 100:1 leverage is definitely contributing to the wild moves including to the upside), the return profile won't look like that any more.

And with NFTs, there's just this endless sea of them. Even within one collection, most of the supply stays dormant so there's no telling who might wake up at any moment and completely flood the market.
to include some of his current living relatives who work in government and military jobs

That's a form of doxxing and generally considered to be malicious behavior across most of the internet.
Yes, exactly. People shouldn't need money to live.
Good thing we aren’t doing anything to destabilize a climate system that’s not causing us too much trouble as of now.
You divided $1 billion by 3 years to come up with $300 million per year?

This has been a political campaign featuring truck loads of bluff and bullshit from the very start. Google's threat to "ban search in Australia" was the highlight for me. So they were going to disable the "Hay Google, navigate to ..." feature of Android phones, since as we all know that that uses search. Yeah right, pull the other one, it plays jingle bells.

If I was Facebook I want want to take the "Facebook steals news" heat off me using the punchy'ist headline I can justify, using I'd be scrounging every dollar we pay every news organisation over the entire planet, including advertising.
What I don't get is why this isn't easy to do with a smartphone. A little motorized turntable with a stand for your phone and a calibration object covered in tracking symbols to use for adjusting the input from the camera. Why is that so impossible?
There is no incentive for startups to actually profit. The whole goal is to throw enough money at the problem until you can IPO and dump your shares.

I honestly think companies should have to be profitable / trending towards profitablity to IPO. Otherwise you get situations where investors pay people to use the service, and then go public saying "look how many users we have". No proven business model and not a single cent of profit.
0.5% accuracy on those CT's if Alibaba led me correctly - that's revenue grade, nice!
[Edit] Ignore me, I thought we were talking plain text vs encrypted, not binary. :-)
sure, I’ll try that, but when I tried it before, the added latency was as bad as the original connection (though the repeaters didn’t have external antenna).

Quite often the biggest problem is not the transmission speed / latency, but my Samsung Note 10 reconnects to the AP randomly.
That's OK, OVH gives you a single IPv6 address with some VPS configurations.
Makes sense, but can you think of an example about how a software developer would benefit for being a commodity worker?
Competition is only valuable as a means to attain greater cooperation. Once you start sacrificing cooperative results by taking shortcuts, worshipping selfishness, or keeping your failures secret, then your competitive environment is doing more harm than good.

It is good when a team _gets together_ to beat an opponent. It is good when a company _works with it's clients_ to build a better product.

So cooperation is the other system that, in reality, actually fixes the problem. Almost every significant human achievement has been a result our mastery of language, which is clearly a tool of great cooperation, not of competition.
okay fair point. Young tech company with startup culture.
Fry it and call it okonomiyaki.
Tsunamis are not killer waves or rogue waves, they're strong displacements of water. The height happens only at the shore because the sea floor rises up to meet the shore. At sea, one probably doesn't even see anything abnormal as the wave ( more accurately, the pressure crest ) rushes past underwater.
It took about 5 seconds from clicking the link, to read a sentence on the page, to understand how it works...
Reference to: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bill-oreilly-you-cant-explain-...
Exactly. <1 block from The Mill you've got Eddy's, which is a classic greasy spoon joint. The story is ridiculous.
You're so wrong it's laughable.

And that's coming from someone who enjoys interviews, because I'm almost always smarter than the other guy (and it's usually a guy) interviewing me. Every job interview I've had has resulted in an offer.[1]

But their unique and outlandish nature sets them so far out of anything experienced in a job situation, except possibly for sales. Trying to give them the meaning you're going for is rather pitiful given you're so earnest!

[1] For similar reasons, I generally decline to interview prospects, because I'm afraid I judge too narrowly.
And now something has changed which makes the text massive.
You don't really need to know a lot of python to know it well. For example, you might need to know a lot of C++ to know C++ well.

Python is great because it does a lot, while being easy to understand, and it only does what matters the most.

> More broadly, who is that phrase supposed to appeal to?

I guess it tries to appeal to programmers who cares about using a technology they're comfortable with, but also that encourages good enough programming practices, design choices and programming philosophy.

Python is really a great choice for many things, and apart for the particular indenting style, I really don't think there are many users who dislikes python. It's also very unix friendly, has the good parts of C, has native tuples and hashmap, etc. I don't see many bad things about python.

Of course, python has never been designed for speed, but every programmer should know that the language will not be the source of sluggishness, the code and software design will be. I don't think there are many projects out there who will need high performance vectored data processing, and if there is, either use cython or optimize the parts you need, or even use OpenCL. Making a large video game projects is another subject, as most of them often use C++ anyways.
There is nothing difficult about writing an s-expression parser. None of the plethora of Scheme interpreters out there get parsing wrong. Handling dotted pairs is rather trivial compared to, say, getting hygienic macros right. Or implementing call/cc. Quasiquote handling is not even that difficult.
Go to github.com/Tencent/MMKV to see benchmarks for iOS and android
I'm surprised they opted to use a passively cooled power supply.

I imagine it was much heavier than an equivalent active system.

I guess MPG doesn't matter much on a Titan missile.
> They [elders] account for over 95% of the victims.

Half the most severe cases in France are under 60 years of age. It begs the question of why Japan is also not seeing anything like that.

Deaths are certainly one thing to consider in terms of age, however if Japan had a mass spread of the virus I would expect to see a lot of ICU cases regardless. Even when countries aren't testing properly, the intensive care cases (or lack thereof) reveal what's going on eventually. I think it goes beyond the isolation of old people for Japan.

It's similarly puzzling as the German case to death ratio, versus eg Spain (comparable case counts, 15 times the deaths). I've seen that one explained that older people in Germany are far less likely to live with their families vs Spain or Italy (so fewer of the most vulnerable are catching it in Germany). And yet, Germany also has three times the cases of Switzerland, with the same number of deaths. Something is very strange there. The low recovery figures out of Germany might imply they're not deep enough into the outbreak, time wise, to have the death rate spiking yet.
Try lfs(Linux from scratch). Start building your own distros, configure them how you like. You will run into a lot of problems that you will learn how to solve.
https://talksub.com/covid19 is the best I've found for the US, breaking figures down I think to the county level, with sources. For the world, https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ (if you just want the numbers, not a map), fairly detailed. Though following sites like these gets scary fast...
I agree with this recommendation, but Ubuntu is a PITA for a desktop IMO. Manjaro is much more stable, easier to setup and maintain and the default UI (XFCE) is simpler and very similar to Windows.

Ubuntu is good for a server. Using 2 different distros would be good to learn how not all Unixes/Linuxes are the same and how they might differ.

I would also add: Whatever programming language you learn, you're probably going to want to learn some auxiliary languages as well. Don't get stuck thinking you can do everything with one language. Learn JavaScript, SQL, HTML and CSS as well.
yes indeed i am, because they are related. electrolysis utilizes electricity. hence the prefix electro-.

your point highlights my initial point about hydrogen fuel - ie we must look all the way up the chain and account for all polluting steps, instead of simply focusing on a single aspect.
You should post this bit as a separate submission:

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Building a 3d-printer filament dryer and storage box.

I mostly print nylons and PC and with the humidity here in HI it's a big pain to keep it dry enough. Even drying the spools in the oven doesn't really work because it takes days for the inner parts to dry out. So instead I'm building a heated and dehumidified box that will hold 8 spools and can feed the filament directly into the printer. The box itself is foam and fiberglass, the heater I'm reusing an old 3d printer bed heater, and the dehumidifier a thermoelectric element from a broken wine refrigerator.

https://a360.co/2Wy78Zm
Or PCem-X.
I'm not a designer, I'm a product guy, but I really liked the course about user research !
These comments sum it up pretty nicely:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2498841
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2499044

3 or 4 people per store is very low and is probably not that different, if at all, from typical hiring practices. They just synchronized these ones up for an event.

It's also almost summer - college students might be quitting their jobs to leave for the summer, and high school students might be getting hired.
That would work too but an abstract class let's you keep the _save method private so that client code can't possibly call that instance method on null.

Personally I think that now that we have extension methods, all public methods should be extension methods on interfaces or abstract classes. This basically gives you something like the pattern matching in ML and Haskell.
The question that scientists and other empiricists ask when considering ideas is not "is it true?" but "is it useful?"

Do people bring back useful (in the engineering sense) knowledge from their times tripping/rolling? Are they more likely to experience e.g., fruitful insights akin to Kekulé's vision of the benzene ring as an ouroboros, as a result of having consumed these drugs? If so, then the drugs may indeed live up to the claims that they grant access to "truer and deeper" levels of reality. Otherwise, their users are simply fooling themselves. (Although fooling yourself can prove useful; the almost universal belief in deities among humans fulfills some sort of purpose, though it is my belief that that purpose is no longer relevant.)
Reminds me of the Property List evolution:

1. "Under NeXTSTEP, property lists were designed to be human-readable and edited by hand, serialized to ASCII in a syntax somewhat like a programming language."

2. "In Mac OS X 10.0, the NeXTSTEP format was deprecated, and a new XML format was introduced."

3. "Since XML files, however, are not the most space-efficient means of storage, Mac OS X 10.2 introduced a new format where property list files are stored as binary files."
has anyone created the opposite? Compile PHP into Ruby?

(Did I just feel all of the HN rubyists shudder at once?)
It's nothing like PHP, but I still find it to be a bit too much. strict and warnings? Yes. "use feature ':5.12'"? Yes. A metaobject system incompatible with Moose? No thanks. Autoboxing all references? No thanks.

I wrote a pragma called "no nonsense" that is a little saner:

http://search.cpan.org/~jrockway/nonsense-0.01/lib/nonsense....

You say "no nonsense" at the top of the lexical scope, then you get strict and warnings, the true value required at the end of the module is automatically added, and any non-method subroutines you import are made un-callable as methods. That's it.

(I personally don't use this, because it's a little too cute. I don't mind saying "use Moose; use true; use namespace::autoclean;" at the top of my classes.)
Please don't do this here.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14585564 and marked it off-topic.
Yeah, reading is not writing. I can partially read a lot more languages than I can writers
I created an iOS App that allows you to stream audio directly from one device to another. It works great if you have an old iPod touch available. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/music-stream-free/id91402690...
Two men kissing is an act of love not pornography.

Having said that, Apple has a right to (IMHO) censor these derivative works, it's their platform, take it or leave it.

If they wanted to censor the original text I would have a problem with that as it would, in some ways, be an attempt to rewrite history through the prism of corporate sensitivities. It would be better for them to not publish the text.
I would be extremely pleased if the tolerances on this thing were loose enough that you could CNC/3D Print new links for it and install them yourself. Neat idea.
I'm sure we all think about stuff like this, then reject it out of hand as if anybody would want/need something like this.

Press is good, profits are better. I'll be interested to see where this is in six months.
I'm curious, what's wrong with "LOL"? I thought that was the universally accepted way of expressing amusement on the Internet? Would "haha" have been more appropriate on HN or is expressing amusement generally frowned upon? I apologize for being ignorant of this matter. I'm not quite yet acquintated with proper self-censorship protocols necessary to communicate on this site. It seems rather strict but I honestly don't find that to be a problem as long as the cultural rules are well defined.

As for the topic at hand: I beleive nim, nimrod, are key words that might be flagged for inappropriate content. They are similar to "nimph", "nimphomaniac", etc.
Very active, I find it much better than reddit where I usually cannot find anything useful, the UI is awful on reddit.

The real interesting thing is that there are a lot of threads for very specialized topics (e.g. bikes, mattress, pizza oven or torch lights). Before buying something I usually check if a thread exists and read it / ask questions. You however end up having to revise upwards your budget to buy the stuff they recommend.