jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't disagree with your logic, but I think you've simply chosen a non-optimal business arrangement. There is really no reason not to form an S-Corp or an LLC. In most cases, S-Corps are a better idea. Changing the tax code to prevent the taxing of distributions as capital gains simply amounts to raising taxes on small businesses.

One could argue that there is no feasible legitimate reason for an s-corp smaller than 3 employees, but one could equally argue that there is no reason to cap the payroll taxable income or that there is no reason to collect payroll taxes from young people who will surely never benefit from Social Security 50+ years from now (the program will likely be pure welfare by then which removes the justification for the regressive payroll tax to fund it).
I would be happy that he mentioned Hacker News, except that I think this refers (partially) to us:

Really, the only thing worthy of note in this whole discussion is the fact that it's taking place. This reinforces our usual points about the social psychology of peeving, and the odd mismatch between the popular enthusiasm for linguistic analysis and the lack of competent attention to teaching the relevant concepts and skills.

Yeah, well, says you, Liberman.
At least as far as Google is concerned, this hasn't been my experience. I spent ~6.5 years there working an hour a day at the most (cue Office Space, meeting with the Bobs) and AFAIK didn't raise any alarms. In fact, when I left, my colleagues complimented me on my "work ethic".

It wasn't just me doing that either. Most ppl are too busy focusing on whatever life goals and illusions they've crafted for themselves to really scrutinize what others are doing and even if they realize what's happening, why would they care?
> redirect to goatse upon login

That's a rather shitty thing to do. I understand it has a warning now or doesn't exist or whatever, but no one should have to see it without their consent
I have seen this as well maybe ~15 years ago at a hotel. Only it was SNES. It allowed you to select games from a menu (no cartridge). The controllers were hooked up into a box with a line dissipating into a wall. The controllers were different than normal SNES controllers. They were more like the SEGA controllers.

I don't know the mechanics of how it was arranged. They charged only an "access fee" and not per game, so perhaps it was a shared emulator / arcade style machine?
he said "salary" not salary + distribution.
I like Scala but it's pretty complicated. I'm hoping Kotlin might be just approachable enough for the masses that we can drop the boilerplate that Java still requires.
Good documentary on this: https://frontlinetv.com/plastic-wars-full-film
> Extraordinary claims like yours need proof

Scientific scam (or scientific mistake, not necessarily deliberate) is well documented in fact. It seems that >1800 published articles were retracted in 2020 by scientific journals, including 72 related with covid [1] so, maybe is not common, but yes, sometimes it happens. There is nothing extraordinary in that idea. The ideology that requires scientists to be a replacement for the figure of the religious saint is stupid.

[1] An example: 5G Technology and induction of coronavirus in skin cells. Biological Regulators & Homeostatic Agents. July 16, 2020. "showed evidence of substantial manipulation of the peer review"
I never got how this works. All of those encrypted binaries can only be decrypted using keys posted to private invite-only forums/groups. What's the point in making that extra detour through "binary usenet providers" compared to just having a private tracker?
In Cambridge MA there is Bos Lab: (microbiology).

https://www.boslab.org/
I have been running various linux distros on laptop/desktop/servers since I was in diapers and can say they are very stable and ready for the masses ... Ubuntu 20.04 is a solid choice ... whenever a neighbor moans about their slow PC I convince them to allow me to cut over to a fully Ubuntu box to free them from the malaise of those two legacy OS choices ( MS and osx ) ... all it takes is courage to take the leap ... long live linux
Oh, agreed, for sure. My grandparents were Germans who grew up during the war, and for them meat was seen as a great luxury — even bread was seen as a speciality.

But in the US (and I think it is mostly an American phenomenon), veganism has taken on a sort of strange alter ego as a life of expensive vegan donuts and vegan restaurants that charge (no joke) $18 for a small sandwich.

So I think it's important to differentiate between the two kinds of veganism — the expensive fad diet kind, and the one borne out of necessity.
"Back to safety". Gotta love corporate BS
This makes so much sense in hindsight. Like I'm conscious of the decision to bump up the volume, but never even thought about the possible damage. Thanks!
For the basic attack,

1) Webserver - Set threshold and block offending IP [1]

2) TCP/DNS/SYNC/SSL/HTTP - Get DDoS-filtered IP and create GRE tunnel back to your server. You can get one for less than $10 from OVH, BuyVM or Ramnode.

[1] http://deflate.medialayer.com
"Note: If you're going to disagree with one of my assumptions it's this last one. I am perfectly aware that a uniform duty cycle is unheard of when it comes to web applications..."

Well there you go. I know a Startup paying a good $12k a month on the Amazon Cloud and their multiple for daily peak hour to valley hour is greater than 10. So given your assumption backed up by anecdotal evidence (of which I have my own) sure, collocating is cheaper.
I'm not sure whether to be creeped out or intrigued by the motivation behind this question. There's nothing stopping me from being both!
I am nontechnical so the consulting part would basically mean I do lead generation for a company or do sales for them, but super hard to get clients because very saturated, loads of sunk time searching for clients. I was thinking of Option B, quitting my full time, get a part time and work on my job the rest of it. Another commenter said Door Dash and Uber is a nice option, but I am fine with it as long as I can work on my project a lot
We've been witnessing it for at least a year.
Not sure if you still have those marks on your record preventing you from opening a checking account, but basically all of the online banks do not check records to open an account (as of today.) So even with wrecked credit, a bad ChexSystems/EWS report etc, you can still get an account.

Perhaps this might also be useful for anyone reading this who is in a similar situation today.
I would so love to see some of the original concept videos with the humans who were dancing, I hope they release it. Honestly, I think a "how we made this" video would be just as popular as the robots dancing.
I didn't alter that headline, nor did anyone on HN. NPR changed theirs. Take a look and you'll see that they've changed it again since you posted your comment.

While I have you: if you don't stop breaking the site guidelines, which you do with most of what you post, and often egregiously, we're going to have to ban you. This has been going on for years and we've cut you a ton of slack, way more than most people get. We've asked you to fix this god knows how many times.

It seems pretty clear that you don't want to use HN as intended, but I'd prefer to be wrong about that. If I am, it will be easy to correct. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and correct it.
Bread is actually not that difficult to figure out. Grains are easier to digest if you grind them up. Somebody didn't want to use their teeth to do so and invented a form of dough. Yeasts are everywhere, so it's just a matter of bringing the dough sufficiently close to your fire to get something that resembles proto-bread.
This is often a very useful hack indeed! <3
Care to provide some form of reasoning for that?
I'm still not sold on this whole Beats acquisition. It seems like a mid-1990s Microsoft play.
Thats a nice idea for a movie.
Nuclear powered scooter!
Why do you think Firefox isn't an option? Firefox is great.
I really think we're getting there. Wayland is a much saner, more consistent experience than X11 ever was. I use Fedora and with Gnome and Mutter you get a solid experience. Not everyone likes Gnome but I find it to be generally pretty good and productive to work in.

There are some gaps in Wayland - screen sharing being the obvious one. But these gaps are in the process of being closed (pipewire being part of the picture). Give it another year and I believe that Wayland will be a solid solution for all the major use cases (multi-monitor, high-dpi, screen sharing).

My other issue with Linux as a workstation solution is OOM handling, and even that is being worked on!
I want a statically typed functional language with a big ecosystem. I want to use the same language across front-end and back-end.

What are my options?

- PureScript on web and Node.js

Can use NPM packages! Node.js as a run-time lacks features like shared memory across threads. PureScript is still too early IMO.

- Scala on JVM and web using Scala.js

Not a bad option, although the language is very complex. More towards the OOP end than the ML end in the spectrum of language design. JVM can be a good or a bad thing, depending on what you are doing.

- F# on .NET Core and web using Fable

Simple functional language with access to the .NET ecosystem. ASP.NET has great performance. Access to NPM packages on web. Lacks some advanced type-system features in Haskell, OCaml and Scala. However, the community has a pragmatic focus as a result.

- OCaml and ReasonML

ReasonML has limited backing from Facebook. OCaml has support from a few financial institutions (e.g. Jane Street) but it's not on the same level as what a big tech company could provide. Tiny (but high quality) community and ecosystem. OCaml has great single-threaded performance but mult-threading is not quite ready. Already small community split by compiler extensions and standard libraries.

- Haskell and GHCJS

Again, tiny community and ecosystem. Beautiful language, but lazy evaluation has bit me too many times. Steep learning curve since newcomers cannot fall-back to OOP and imperative code.

- Elm

Tiny ecosystem, tied to Node.js (see PureScript). Interop story with NPM modules is worse than PureScript.

For me, F# is the clear winner.

If you aren't particularly interested in functional programming - maybe you just use some delegates here and there - then C# is a fine choice. Otherwise, C# quickly becomes awkward compared to F#. Besides, C# to JS options are not as mature as Fable.
Point is that it's organized, not just opportunistic. It's people breaking in, stealing and then having a network to distribute and sell the bikes without getting caught.
There's a difference in scale and speed between witch burning mobs and fake info being spread on whatsapp. The latter likely has killed more.
As usual, I think it depends on the situation. Certain parts of Java's verbosity are just a net loss. However, some of those pain points have been addressed, and they're working on addressing others.

For example:

public class Point {
private final x;
private final y;

public Point(int x, int y) {
this.x = x;
this.y = y;
}

public int getX() {
return x;
}

public int getY() {
return y;
}
}

I don't think this level of verbosity helps readability (at least not for anyone familiar with the language). Luckily, there's Lombok (and I think a recent or upcoming Java version is adding support for record syntax):

@lombok.Value
public class Point {
int x;
int y;
}
$ killall gnome-panel

will restore all panels
I don't think that it is possible to replace JS with a nice IL in near future due to the momentum it gathered all these years. However, is it possible to suggest a strict subset of JS that is easier for interpreter to optimize on? If that can be done, I am happy to write code with less flexibility but can run thousands faster.
I thought the article discussed tech companies..
Revenue? What's the profit?
I got upvoted because I'm right. Kernels don't need to support horribly designed programs just because they exist, just like they don't need to support horribly designed programs that don't exist yet. Kernels support an interface and that's it. If you write code that abuses the interface, get ready to become a regression, and that'll be your own fault.

(TBH I have no idea why I got upvoted, it wasn't that insightful, but I stick by what I said)

(EDIT: I'm talking about gnome-startup. That's a stupid regression that never should've happened. The mplayer performance bug is totally understandable if you're mucking with the scheduler. What we really need is for someone (distros?) to pick up cgroups and provide a nice UI for it, some sane but nondestructive defaults, etc. Until then, this is a nice patch that keeps badly behaving programs from dragging down the entire system. At the very least, we mostly get user separation in multi-user environments.)
Given the amount of us that do consulting and on-site work, that seems absurd. It is directly professionally relevant.
I remember when XML was still young and I was introduced to XML-RPC. It was truly beautiful protocol -- straight forward, human readable, human writable, and easy to implement. I wrote desktop apps that connected to web services written in different languages on different platforms and it all worked.

Then SOAP happened. The same philosophy as XML-RPC gone horribly wrong: a human readable format no longer readable by humans, insanely complex, and hard to implement properly (even with the libraries). Frustrating all around.

Although JSON is much simpler than XML, there's no reason why someone couldn't invent something as horrible as SOAP (or XSLT) on top of it. I can only hope that JSON implementers see the value of keeping things simple. Perhaps the existence of XML as an "enterprise" technology will help differentiate JSON in that way.
yes, it is a prank by the yes men
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yes_Men
After reading that I feel like putting out a fake news release reading "Yes Men vow to check facts before launching future campaigns".
Well, the above is "business models that could support creating a new project" - in principle one can also eke out a living extending and adapting other people's projects for people willing to pay. Indeed, a huge percentage of programmers currently ekeing out a living programming are already effectively doing that, often in situations where things are proprietary only by default (as in, it's license says you can't share it, but if its license said otherwise it still wouldn't be shared because it's too specific to what one particular company is doing).
I seriously doubt the wisdom of a CEO who is willing to go from 70 to 100 programmers in one morning. What's he going to do after lunch?
Apparently in the article it's mostly fueled by surface life; but there is also life around geothermal vents
I will quote you on this. I don't care if you mind; it's just so good.
> But this is going to remain very difficult until fully decentralized, peer-to-peer communication networks become widespread.

Do you think they ever will? There's not much financial incentive for companies to embrace decentralized p2p and there's a clear financial incentive for SaaS. Until that situation reverses itself, we have a problem.
The interest from other automakers is irrelevant, because that's expected. No car maker is going to cooperate with any other in a way that makes the other look good. BMW electric car owners could desperately want to use the supercharger network, but there is no way in hell BMW would ever let them.
Reminds me of my older efforts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsVmEr9G-NQ
why would I want to bother trying to exhaust the sphere of possible human experiences before the heat death of the universe when there is a much larger space of possible modes of existence?

Oh I guess this article was written by someone who plans on dying :p
I think the key thing here is that Durov has the money from selling stock in his previous company (12% w/valuation of 3-4 billion) which means he can afford to pay to support the app in the meantime without any external financial help. I do think there are different ways to monetize messaging outside of pushing advertisements into people's face or selling information and third-party paid apps are a good option.

In that regard I think the title is misleading: Durov plans to make money through the app eventually, just not through selling people's information or push advertising.
Anyone having problems viewing, click https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
to be fair a 30k job in Warsaw or Prague gets you a living standard you get for 100k in SF so that perception has always been skewed. When I for the first time saw what people in SF and America more broadly pay on rent, education, childcare and transport I had a culture shock

The average rent for one bedroom apartment is 2.5k in SF, even in Berlin you're maybe paying 800 bucks.
Agreed! That's exactly what I'm arguing: privilege is extremely complicated and has tons of different facets. Your ethnic background will have a much stronger influence on most of those facets than your skin color will.

That's not to say that there aren't some important aspects of privilege that are influenced by skin color. It's simply that those are overshadowed by other aspects of your background.
What percentage of minimum wage earners live alone? There are hundreds of thousands of rooms available for rent on Craigslist for under $1000
Is Tumbleweed actually comparable to Arch? Tumbleweed has frequent distribution snapshots, but they're still whole distribution upgrades. They're supposed to be consistent in a way that Pacman to my understanding has no concept for.
alexfromapex says >"...Healthcare, extremely high rent, and things like property tax where failure to pay sends you to prison are used as the means of coercion. If the United States continues on the current political course..."<

AFAIK you cannot be sent to prison for not paying property taxes in the USA.
I just reject WFH out of hand for these reasons.

If the culture of software development remains primarily WFH, and it becomes too onerous for me to find a job that's actually an in-person, in-office role, I'll just leave, wasting all of the experience I've built up and contributing further to the supply issues.

It's just sad. Terribly sad. You want to sit at home and only look at a screen - that's cool, enjoy your dystopia. I'm out, I don't need this shit.
Thanks! I've wondered how the lightning network fared over the years. Judging by the still-experimental state, the answer is "not well."
Humidity also encourages bacterial growth and I doubt inhaling that constantly is healthy
If you're in favor of unrestricted free speech for everyone, it necessarily, logically means:

- you oppose "cancel culture";

- you're okay with white supremacists having access to audiences via platforms, if someone is willing to provide them with that.

Intimidation and suppression cannot be avoided; they go hand in hand with having any sort of rules.

For instance, the law against stealing uses intimidation and suppression: people are intimidated against stealing with the threat of jail sentences, and offenders are suppressed with actual imprisonment.

You can't have guarantees of freedom of speech written in law without the intimidation and suppression being written into the same law: there have to be negative consequences for a law breaker infringing on someone else's constitutionally granted freedom of speech, which are written and enforced, in order for the law to have meaning.
^ Notably, I do think this blog post clarifies why he signed onto that letter (whether you agree or not).
Yes ! I have a similiar memory. When I was a kid, My parents did not like me playing the game for many reasons, one being the in game prostitutes . I simply changed a file to have them removed .
It doesn't look like Brave did but it looks like they were concerned Brave would.

https://github.com/celzero/rethink-app/issues/69#issuecommen...

https://twitter.com/bravedns/status/1320519852788887552
It seems like wearing a mask in some environments (public transit, crowded shops, etc) might be a good practice going forward. I wonder if it will be normalized? Will you stand out if you choose to wear a mask to the mall 5 years from now?
> even just redefining a struct field requires restarting the interpreter

It really doesn't if you use a module.
Note: if your hashing algorithm is too compute intensive, you have to take other measures to prevent your login system from being a DDOS vector... for example, with SCrypt's recommended defaults for passwords, the .Net library takes almost half a second of time on a modern CPU... if you get more than a few dozen requests per second, per system you can be brought to a crawl without other mitigation in place.
Read the article.

"Rognlie points out that almost all of the increase in the value of capital over Piketty’s timeline comes from land"
Maybe because the github repo is for this website: https://zh.greatfire.org/ ?
Out of interest, where where the per-user salts stored I wonder? Where would people normally store this if not next to the hashed password in the same table?
Would it be possible to use this and the CSS link color hack as a way to see which users had visited those Github URLs?

Could that be the real aim here?
This is super awesome. Is the code available too?
Maybe Andy forgot to mention it; it's been a while since I've read the whole series.

The code was C and lisp so it didn't really require any effort to port other than replacing the rendering pipeline. And we used the SGIs to pre-render every frame anyway, to precompute the polygon sort order. (The PS1 had no Z-buffer, so you were stuck sorting polygons at run-time if you didn't do something clever.)

So we already had the rendering pipeline ported. Obviously you couldn't save your game to the memory card, etc. -- some stuff didn't work. But the game was playable (albeit very frustrating with keyboard controls).
> A line from a song is far weaker entropy-wise due to grammar.

Interesting observation, the usual objection is due to the reduced Kolmogorov complexity which is difficult to quantify. Let's look at a modified diceware scheme of the form:

Article adjective noun adverb verb adjective noun

A (non-random) example might be: The young boy really likes video games.

I'm not going to go through the diceware word list and classify each word, but assuming it is (or could be made) 50% nouns, 25% adjectives, 14% verbs, 11% adverbs and four articles you'd get roughly: 2 bits + 11 bits + 12 bits + 10 bits + 10 bits + 11 bits + 12 bits = 68 bits, which is the equivalent to a 5.2 word normal diceware password. Most of that reduction comes from the article.

Here's a random example made with a diceware generator:

an straw scrim ne adorn drab sybil

I'm not sure that's any easier to memorize.
If you're inclined to go down that path: the Japanese treated US POWs terribly, and the US still dropped two nukes as a weapons test (there was credible intelligence Japan was in the process of surrendering because of the "regular" fire-bombing campaigns - but dropping nukes was seen as a great deterrent against Sovjet. And as a great opportunity for a field test).

Note: I'm mentioning this because you're scenario isn't quite as hypothetical as one might hope - for neither those bombed nor for the abused POWs.
Especially since they have the DOB to go by. Urgh.
>Randers argues. “Democratic, liberal society will fail, while stronger governments like China will be the winners.”

Ah yes, the appeal to the mythical, objective "strength."

Using the same general argument, I can presume America and the west are also entitled to broad systemic reforms similar to those enacted in China? or is this a more Wolfgang Streeck argument where the intractable corpse of capital works to merely stymy all actors.