jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I always wonder if bills like this one which radically alter the structure of our government are proposed in seriousness or merely as a distraction to please certain voters.

Obviously, adding a 1% tax on all financial transactions, as this bill proposes, would drastically change how our economy operates. Keeping the markets efficient and accurately priced becomes much more difficult when any trade comes with a 1% cost. Especially when the 1% is imposed whether it results in a profit or a loss. From what I see in this bill, even selling one stock to purchase another would incur a 1% fee on the first sale and a 1% fee on the purchase of the second stock.

1% may not sound like much, but as money continues to change hands the government's take grows significantly. Let $100 change hands 10 times, and you're left with $90.44 of the original money. Let $100 change hands 100 times and you're down to $36.60.

Of course this scheme would transfer money to the government to pay down our debt (in theory, if the money is used as the bill intends), but at what cost? This additional financial friction could seriously slow down the economy and disrupt efficient market pricing. Finding the proper balance of taxes, debt, and economy growth is a very, very difficult problem, and this solution is not well thought out at all. Furthermore, eliminating our national debt is not going to solve all of our problems, as many would like us to believe.

Throwing ridiculous bills like this in the mix only serves to muddy the waters. It distract us from the real problems and the potentially viable solutions. Let's make small, incremental changes within our current tax structure to fix our problems in a reasonable manner.
>If they overtly offend China this would negatively impact YC current portfolio companies

Don't you see that this mentality is exactly the problem? Some of these comments are really surprising.
Yes but isn't the Waku v1 protocol running on ÐΞVp2p, which uses the Ethereum network? The protocol is Waku, but as far as I understand the 'decentralized network' is the Ethereum network?
A lot of people had started investing because they don't know what to do with the money. When you stop spending money on restaurants or vacation or other stuff which is no longer available, you end up surplus. So why not invest it in the stock market?
Interesting, thanks. Yeah I was surprised to hear his skepticism of logical replication, but I've never operated it in production before. Curious for resources on that.
Are you aware that the same exact uncompressed recording sounds different depending on context? This is known as the McGurk effect.

Very worth your two minutes if you're not yet familiar with the effect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k8fHR9jKVM
You might want to check out https://github.com/vitalik/django-ninja. I much prefer it over restframework.
That was the case a few years ago. Matrix' server software has improved a lot since then. It doesn't use much resources anymore. Though there still is a large CPU spike when I join a really large room (500+ users) for the first time.
I've seen now this article too many times, lol. Already mentioned to the author that the points are great, I would only add that slack standup bot, like this one https://standupbuddy.app/ in 2021 might be a good alternative to those standups since it keeps you organized and you can move together towards the sprint goal. The one I mentioned is just simple, but has many alternatives to choose from on the market.
"..trusting the server to deliver your messages to the right client."

This is where I feel a little unsure about Signal. It wants access to my contacts, and so it is possible to poison my contacts to get a rogue recipient into Signal. I would like a Signal in which I have the option to manually add contacts. Ideally a hash or key exchange or something, maybe a la PGP...
That covers all of the amateur HF bands, so you'll have lots of signals of known types that you can try to decode.
"Model railroad" would suggest a [scale] model of some extent railway, otherwise isn't it just railway/railroad without the "model" designation. If it's not modelled on something isn't it properly a toy or miniature railway. /pedantry
Oh yea, it does run pretty hot! I made a case for it from an electronics project case I had laying around, and even with that it is toasty. If I was building something that was going to be running of for a long time a 3d printed case with support for a small fan would be helpful.
> This is the (first) fundamental mistake of the article.

You did not present a reasoned argument as to why this is a mistake. Taxes are one way to incentivize behavior AND ALWAYS HAVE BEEN, historically.

> The only question is how to raise those funds fairly.

This is not the only question, specifically because "fair" has a philosophical answer, not an objective one.

> It's not a penalty

That's a matter of perspective. It's bad because it's regressive (historically), as you allude. It's not like there can't be a better sliding scale based on cost/consumption indexes but that's not practical in a country as large and disparate as say... the USA.
Gradient-Free-Optimizers has a type of genetic algorithm: Evolution Strategy
>Regarding TFA, I am unsure whether I'd rather FB to impose US's views on freespeech to Turkey or to respect whatever the local government is telling it to do.

You have it backwards, facebook et al will slowly kill free speech in the US while claiming to be pro free speech.

We have before us the greatest setup for fascism in history, and these tech companies should allow themselves to be banned from countries before cooperating with governments to silence speech.

Instead expect them to help authoritarians silence dissent.
Content matter is not the primary concern for censors. If you consider, for example, that most content comprehension is subjective anyway, it should be clear that what is the concern is the establishment of authoritative and/or trusted voices. [p.s. i.e. this sort of establishment behavior leaks insider knowledge of what it takes to shape opinions in human society. Answer: the soap box.]

related: Killing the chicken to scare monkey.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_the_chicken_to_scare_the_...

So not a "CEO" just an unfortunte internet chicken that has been used to obliquely instruct unkown monkeys with aspirations to taking up 'The Pen'. (Remember, that mightier than kinetic weaponry instrument of the intelligent?)

Call it a 'hit job rehearsal'.
"When G*d created Eve from Adam's rib, he was doing surgery, and so surgery is the oldest profession" said the surgeon.

"Before that, He created the Heavens and the Earth out of Chaos, so architecture is the oldest profession" said the architect.

"Well, yes, but where do you think the Chaos came from?" asked the software developer.
Well, it's same thing with Nomad - there are native SDKs, protobuf and a classical JSON REST API for everything.
I was looking into systemd-nspawn recently because I wanted some container features (tcp port namespace, so I can have multiple groups of processes run and connect to an instance of mysqld on the default port, on a ci server).

I installed it, ran it, and it immediately complained "not a systemd system" and refused to run. I've not looked into things further, but presumably systemd-nspawn requires that systemd be running, which was a surprise to me since systemd-nspawn calls itself "chroot on steroids", and chroot cares nothing about the init system.
We're talking about whether or not Amazon should ship things like clothes on a 2 day or a 4 week schedule during a global pandemic. I think a 4 week schedule is fine because Amazon need to concentrate on shipping essentials, and clothes that people buy from Amazon aren't essentials. If you're suggesting that Amazon should prioritise clothes in case the buyer has literally no other wearable clothes then you're going to need to justify that argument.

Anyone can make spurious points about extremely unlikely edge cases, but suggesting Amazon should plan their logistics around them is not a helpful contribution.
It's a matter of opinion that the masses "need" a simplified, black-and-white view of every historical event rather than a nuanced one.
Yes, and it says in part:

"You also have the right to access (review, correct or delete) your personal information by contacting Motorola."

Well, I contacted Support to delete my personal information, but apparently there was no option to do that.
> Start saving for retirement.

This should actually be advice given to 20 year olds. Compound interest is magic:

If you put $5,000 aside every year and invest it at 7% p.a. from age 20-30 and then stop putting more money aside for the remainder of your life, you will have more money than if you started investing $5,000 each year starting at age 30 and for the rest of your life.
You are a star and a titan, and I hold incredible respect for what you've given to the world. Understand however that you casting aspersions upon a man leading the fight against this pandemic isn't a constructive thing to do. Back when he was iffy about masks in that 60minutes interview, it was because there was actual concern that frontline medical staff might not have enough for themselves. He revised his stance on what public policy should be in an evolving situation as he well should.

He's one of the people leading this battle now, and for this battle to be won the public has to have trust in him, the public has to listen to him when he says wear masks, get vaccinated, etc. For folks in NIH and sciences, he's long been known to be a man of integrity, no doubt his scientific output has been pristine, no doubt he's the man for this job, yes that whole bout with the masks was an unfortunate happening, and I think I even agree he did not handle that situation in the most ideal way, but you're smart enough to know what a mucky situation that was and he deserves a pass for that.

edit: I misread you. You're still arguing against mask-wearing as public policy. Come on man, what is going on here? This is not up for debate, there is strong consensus from just about all medical scientists and medical organizations that mask-wearing is very important and effective in fighting coronavirus.

Please give this a read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_masks_during_the_COVID-19...

Numerous prestigious peer-reviewed journals have confirmed this studies. There is no conspiracy here. Masks work. It is dangerous for you to say otherwise with the platform you command.
I did watch it when it originally came out - on the day it came out, I think. It has White Supremacy in the title, and that means that the vast majority won't spend 45 minutes watching a video, they'll just take a headline and go with it. I have seen a number of people say that music theory is white supremacist (both before the release of the video and after it), and I think that someone who has as many subscribers as Adam Neely should be a little more careful and a little less clickbaity with video titles. I felt at the time he was trying to ride on the wave of a movement to decry music theory as something that was explicitly White Supremacist, and I don't agree with that sentiment. I appreciate that there are plenty of people who will say that I've been brainwashed by the establishment, or that I'm a White Supremacist for holding that view, but I'd say that's not the case.

Saying that it doesn't encompass some traditions of music is one thing (and broadly correct, as I already said), but that's not the same as saying that it's white supremacist. Saying 'music theory is incomplete', or that 'music theory ignores other cultures', etc. would be fair enough, although again I think it would be one-sided. I'd be interested to see if the teaching in other cultures (such as, for instance Indian) encompasses Western Classical tradition (i.e. based around a 12-note octave instead of a 22 note one) in a similar manner - I would imagine that it doesn't, as it concentrates on the idiom that it describes. And I'm certainly not a music theory specialist, but I believe that attempts have been made to make a standard method of incorporating microtonality into western music notation.

For the record, I spent nearly 20 years teaching in UK schools, and the music curriculum is most definitely not exclusionary - a wide range of traditions are covered in detail, and the roots of popular music in 'The West' are traced back to their origins, often leading pupils to make some interesting wider discoveries about culture and history. Music is not taught in a way that the Western Classical tradition is an exclusionary yardstick (although at A-level some elements of it are covered in some detail) And this has been the case since I was at school in the 80s, so this isn't down to any current changes.
Who are we to complain? Location-based pay is 80% political because immigration law keeps the majority of the world's people from immigrating to countries with better human rights laws than their own. The U.S. fought a civil war over the biggest human rights abuse (slavery) so I'd say it's worth complaining about.

Disparity of human rights is arbitraged by national governments in free trade (ever wonder why free trade and not free movement?) agreements to allow profit at the national levels on both sides. That explains $10 T-shirts.

The reason that SV in particular currently has insane income disparity is because online advertising is a very inefficient market and FB and Google can still afford to set arbitrary de-facto salaries for tech workers. There is a mix of other market disruption and speculative investing that helps to keep the whole thing afloat. The trend in a healthy market should be for tech salaries to normalize with the rest of the world.
She might be a history buff for all we know, but that does not mean it's best to spend 45 minutes a day, five times a week, plus homework on it.
We're also a UK (NHS) equivalent https://howareyou.com/developers (I'm the founder)
This is why we gripe. It works.

Thanks to Google for recognizing and adjusting to the feedback.

I still wish they could be more responsive at the individual level -- although I have some outside understanding of the logistical and resource challenges such demands must place.

Nonetheless, Wave technology got a new home. Google Video content will survive. Good things.
Sounds like he's looking for Tasker. One of the first apps I install after a wipe.

https://market.android.com/details?id=net.dinglisch.android....

I'm pretty sure he's not going to see this reply but I thought any HNer that thought "that would be helpful" should see this app. There is likely a better way using solely Tasker but this is my first run at solving.

New Profile: On Time event: repeat every 30 minutes from start time to end time.

Add action: Net dialog: Wifi to on.

The whitelist would reside in Wireless Settings. Any AP already connected remains as a preferred AP. So, Tasker flips WiFi on and Android spots the AP.

Then, create an Exit event the Tasker profile. If Wifi Status is disabled then turn Wifi off. Tasker recognizes two Wifi states, enabled (connected) and everything else.
I think this is indicative of my only gripe with my Android phone: the woeful experience of attempting to search for relevant apps via Google's app store. I've been shocked at how easy it appears to be able to game the system by keyword stuffing.
I think his solution addresses the fact that people don't cash the financial instruments but keep them for posterity. Money orders are a suitable response to "...I shall do my best to find a suitable way to send money to anyone who really prefers legal tender."
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2476123

I think people on HN wouldn't really feel comfortable putting themselves forward for an AMA.

Maybe it would work if people nominated people they'd like to see do an AMA (or even type of person "someone who's done xyz")
When I was using these answers to work through the book myself, I was very annoyed when the answer would use pointers BEFORE they had been introduced in the text.
Just because you don't get the result you want does not automatically mean the legal system isn't working.
Maybe Flow.io ?

Flow.io: Lean project management based on kanban. Please review. (flow.io)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1374303
http://justin.harmonize.fm/index.php/2009/09/an-introduction... is another great article
Yes. Far more destructive.
Back in the day, this was basically how Thinkpads were, right?
> The paradigm is the least important, when it works, I don't know anyone in real world projects that didn't have to configure something manually through a tcl script because it was either not exposed in GUI or not working in GUI.

Worse is the other way around, a GUI control not exposed through the TCL scripts, which makes it very difficult to maintain a TCL build script which can be version controlled (unlike the project files: this particular IDE likes to completely rewrite its project files in a way which is not at all amenable to diffing).
Opt out and it's an invasion of privacy, opt in and nobody does and it isn't applicable to 99% of authentic footage.

And subject to attack. Don't want to be recorded? Jam wireless so they can't have anyone sign their videos, then claim they're fake.

Also doesn't work for state actors. A country can compromise three separate signing authorities.
As an LA native, I had no idea about this. I know Hollywood has a reputation of being a tourist trap, but things like this make me think, how could you not be romantic about this city?
Yes, an interesting concept. But I guess it won't see a wide adoption: Who wants to learn a new language, if you can't use it for anything but X? And who will use this language for X, if you haven't been able to learn it while doing Y?
Is this an insurrection: https://twitter.com/zerosum24/status/1380216557700284422?s=2... ? Happening now, same idea.

Of course not, just like the Jan 6 incident wasn’t. An insurrection involves intent to overthrow government, not merely protest.
This is spot on, they wont do anything.
Hmm, but the randint(...)/... method should come pretty close to a uniform distribution on the 0..1 interval, shouldn't it?

It wouldn't have maximum entropy, though.
Downloading a giant zipfile with everything feels very 1998 (FILE_ID.DIZ anyone?)...

Would be really helpful to have these split up into multiple files (multiple github repos would be even better).
The USA has been at war longer than it ever has been. Longer than the vietnam war. Their war exhaustion is showing with their immense political division.

My concern is that neither political party seems all that interested in ending the wars. It's looking more like more wars are coming.
But doesn't the value of BTC go up as the reward halves? So "3 more halving cycles" should be counteracted by each coin being 8 times more valuable, no? I could very well be wrong, but that's what seems intuitive to me (I don't follow crypto very closely).
I'm sure the comment was sarcastic.
I interpret Pfhreak's comment to mean un-checked capitalism will naturally result in wealth consolidation. The article describes how we loosened our management of this natural law and witnessed a more rapid wealth shift as a result.
It was the nicest thing I could say to such a disgustingly inhumane comment. Oblib clearly lacks understanding of the Fort Worth incident, but chose to blame the victims anyway. More people died in that collision than live in Bill’s little hamlet, so maybe it’s just a lack of perspective.

They were not poor drivers. Conditions rapidly and invisibly changed in above-freezing temperatures causing a sudden loss of traction. Several professional truck drivers (who likely had prior experience in winter weather) were involved. Anyone would have been helpless in that situation, which is why more than 100 vehicles were.

HAVE SOME FUCKING EMPATHY.
Schemas are SQL standard namespaces within a DB. You can join between them. Mysql allows joining across databases, so it doesn't implement schemas.
Limited Partner. The people who invest in Venture Capital funds
To win at HFT you have to have lower latency than your competitors. The NYSE rents server space in their building for this very purpose and makes alot of money doing so. If you don't have hardware there you will go out of business trying to compete with those who do. From a broad perspective it kind of looks like companies being allowed to skim freely from the market so long as the right people get their cut.
I don't exactly know why I am responding to the comment with the snidest tone... but it's not just a software problem. Everyone has to budget their money, and a 13 month year makes that easier. Businesses spend huge sums of money trying to reconcile their finances because of our current calendar. The amount of human effort wasted on looking up what day of the week something is, is monumental. Aside from inertia, our current calendar doesn't have much going for it. No, I have no delusion that we'd ever switch, but it doesn't mean that staying with the current calendar is actually a good idea.
Most of them are not equivalent. dict() is not the same as {} as someone might have overwritten the dict function to do something completely different. Realizing that dict() and {}, in fact, are equivalent in this particular case requires whole program analysis which maybe PyPy is capable of.
>>how such work finds you :)

I think you need to work towards a system and network which will help you get that kind of work. I know of a person who has worked and works only on what he considers premium projects.

One advice I got from him was to that I should think about work in terms of projects and not companies. All companies have great projects and routine 'keep the wheels running kind of work'. Your chances of ending up working for the routine boring projects even in big successful companies are very high. Plus most companies have closed allocation policies, and tend to execute critical projects from one specific geographical location.

So to look at one's career in terms which project you wish to work on, and not which company you wish to work for helps.

Another factor is to seek out and work with smart people. Once you've been a part of a good team and proven your worth and are actively seeking out good work, you are always going to find some one in your network who will get you a good project and then you use new opportunity and the new connections to get more ones.
You know you could replace "Go" with "Java 1.0" and your comment would still be accurate. Funny that.
> Noone likes a grammar Nazi. Especially an SS Grammar Nazi.

I'd down-vote you as off topic, but you pulled it off at the last moment. -_-
"that’s how I saved my MacBook Pro with a drill and an oven."

Alternate ending sentence: "So that's how I ruined my MBP with duct-tape-level thermal reengineering! Thermal resistance, wazzat?"
Thanks Fredrik for exposing my oversight to the community, and great recovery with happy ending!
"This is essentially the same thing you are saying, just broken down."

Actually, I took his meaning as productivity being only a measure of how fast the work gets done, your efficiency, and not of how well the code is written, your effectiveness.

His comment: "And that doesn't take into account maintenance.", implies to me that code quality is not a factor.

Unfortunately, this is the measure that seems to predominate, especially with non-technical managers. If it takes twice as long to do it right, all the non-technical manager sees is that it took twice as long. The subsequent reduction in maintenance time and cost from doing it right doesn't seem to get noticed.

Of course, the ideal is to get the job done fast and right.
Is there a way for the Hacker News effect like we have Fireballed?
Hackend? hacked seems miscommunication!