skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this community of anywhere we should believe that intelligence, tenacity and passion can go a long way to overcoming financial limitation.

Generally I dont feel money always wins these things. It can certainly help but its only one of many variables to success.
It worked really well for me, but I probably wasn't as mentally ill as a lot of people who would seek psychotherapy. Either that or my therapist was just really good or we had a good working relationship.

Trying to act on how I feel continues to be the hardest thing I have ever had to do.
> If you work a 40 hour week already and make a decent living at 40-50%, and now get told that anything above that will get taxed at 75%, unless you're going to somehow generate more than double, you're going to spend that time doing more productive things (like spending it with your family).

Hold up -

1. Why is this about working more hours, instead of working harder / more effectively? There are 168 hours in a week; even if you don't sleep, you cannot maximize your income beyond about 4x just by working more. I am currently making about 15x the lowest hourly rate I ever worked for, and I'm still fairly early in my career and feel like there's a lot of room for my salary to increase as I become more skilled.

2. I'm reading the discussion was about a tax on wealth, not a tax on income (dwealth/dt). If you're making a decent living and want to make more money so you can spend it on things that are not investments (consumer goods like video games, services like vacation travel/hotels, charity, raising more children, sending them to college), a tax on wealth will not affect you, because your wealth stays right where it is. And doing all that is net-positive for the economy.

'majormajor is clearly talking about wealth in the sense of static assets, not change in assets over time: I'm worried about having a single medical emergency, not having one every year. Make enough for your (static) safety net, then stop making more money.
Date agressively and widely for 6 months-year. Double down on someoone who seems promising and date that person for a year or two. Marry that person with a short-ish engagement. Begin having kids. That can be done in 2-4 years.
GitHub is down
First time seeing a 500 error there.
How does this compare to LBRY? https://lbry.io/

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/library-credit/
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To have this discussion properly, we would need to talk about tax incidence. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_incidence)

It's a relatively well known fact that eg it doesn't really matter too much whether officially the employer or the employee is required to pay the employees income tax---the money comes out of the same pot.

Similar things happen for other taxes. Eg VAT in European countries seems to be paid for by the shops, but it wouldn't make a difference (apart from convenience in collection) if you'd levied it directly on the shoppers.

Any discussions about 'trickle-down economics' is incomplete without tax-incidence.
Yes but what distinguishes a reporting ring from a "valid" group of people acting in concert?
It's amazing how many apps for which this is true. I've spent more time in Rails land upgrading older microservices to latest rails. It's pretty crappy work actually.
I doubt they'll ever throw anything out entirely. 2000ms latency and 75% packet loss is as good as blocked and the PR team can keep saying they don't block anything.
GitHub is down – error 500
Sounds like the old 'break their windows by night, fix em by day' trick
I haven't seen the sad octocat falling off a cliff before. Wonder if it's just a new error page or a different type of outage than they typically have.
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> There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it — that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!

You don't have to be killing anyone, there are many ways to stop the machine, but peaceful protest alone has never changed anything.
Is GitHub down for anyone else?
Not showing up for me and a few friends

edit: Looks like it's back up, thanks fellow internet people.. was kinda alarming to see github mysteriously down for a few minutes
It's not just this page. GitHub is apparently having issues right now.

https://status.github.com/messages
GDP does not go up on destruction. That's the broken window fallacy.

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/08/broken-window-fa...

Reconstruction after destruction becomes part of GDP if it is performed but this reconstruction usually takes production resources that would have gone elsewhere otherwise. The person to pay for the reconstruction will spend less elsewhere.
You have more sympathy for investors than founders and employees?

Put it up to a vote and the vast majority will do away with these restrictions. The people don't want it. Some people want it, and some people benefit from it. As its usual in economics, those groups are not the same.

"Financial protections" => the government collects a tax to impose a restriction on you, to benefit the richest class.
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Those are really good points. Plus if you are not a US citizen the whole equation completely changes

My girlfriend is from an immigrant family and left undergrad + grad school with almost half a million in debt without having worked full time in her life, and is completely overwhelmed and underequipped to deal with this. Given how many great engineers and entrepreneurs are immigrants / from immigrant families, financial education programs for undergrads should focus a lot more on these issues
Yes!

https://status.github.com/messages
Similar speeds here but works differently. Mine just gets throttled to ~2.5MB/s from start until I turn my VPN on, then I get my correct 20MB/s.
> Games are art.
This is really off topic but simply put, not all games are art. And I don't mean that in the way you might guess. Soccer is a game, it is not art. And games in general are not going towards a future where they are considered closer to art. The most popular game in the world is League of Legends, which people would think of as closer to an esport than art.

There's a small section of games which try to be pieces of art. Maybe they are. But most people playing games don't think of them as art, they think of them as games.
I've taken several days to consider your comment. I believe you are largely correct after giving it some thorough thought. Workers should receive additional compensation for increased productivity. Obviously, they would not receive the entire productivity gain, but they should receive some portion of it. If they can use new technology to create an additional $5 an hour in value, maybe they should receive something like $2 in additional compensation.

Where we probably disagree on the reason, though. To me, it comes down to an individual's overall slice of the monetary pie. Since money is just a representation of value, it's basically just a number inside of a larger system that we utilize. All that matters really is your portion of the whole. Let's use GDP as a gauge. The US has ~18.5T in GDP per year. Let's cut off some zeroes (6 of them) to get some more usable numbers. For a person making $10 an hour, that's about 20k a year, or 20,000/18,500,000=0.108%. If GDP increases 4% in 2 years but their wage only goes up 2.5% that would be 20,500/19,240,000=0.1065%. This means that they now have lost some purchasing power relative to everyone else because their share of GDP has decreased.

Now that's a moral argument, to be sure, because there is still supply and demand for labor that is a dominant for in the labor markets. So if someone else is going to work for $9 an hour, that's going to be a problem. There are many factors at at play.

But thanks for getting me to re-think my position on this.
You have third party risk. Right now for most developed countries third party risk has never been lower, but it's still there.

A recent example was the bank of cyprus in 2013.

If a third party controls your assets then those assets are under greater risk.
Ironically, one of the other sites that has that effect on my Mac is theverge.com, host of TFA.
SpaceX doesn't publish their costs. But http://www.spacex.com/about/capabilities says that they will let you launch 50k pounds of stuff into orbit for $62 million.

Their BFR system is aiming to launch more weight at a cost of a few hundred thousand dollars per launch. But they need to find customers to recoup several billion in development costs on it.
I recognized none of the three names in the title, and following the link didn't help much either. I came back once I saw there were more comments, and now it seems to make a little more sense.

Chocolatey is like homebrew for Windows, and Telerik is a company that makes Fiddler, which may be something like Charles for MacOS.

Took a bit to figure all that out, though. The title reads like dadaist poetry.
https://twitter.com/githubstatus/status/935296653401247744

"We are investigating reports of elevated error rates."

Anecdotally, it seems to work if not logged in.
Operationally the use of a distributed ledger for transaction data where people can be both consumers and producers helps make managing the system more efficient operationally. I expect it would also help defend against some internal threats such as embezzling or artificially inflating viewership or payments.
> Overall, the researchers claim, eliminating depression and anxiety would reduce misery by 20%, whereas eliminating poverty would reduce it by just 5%.

Why are these framed as independent factors? For many people the lack of financial stability is a primary source of depression and anxiety. When you truly don't know how your are going to afford next week's food/medication/rent, survival instinct kick in causing anxiety and huge mental burden that can make it difficult to focus on anything else.

One of the easier ways to fix a large amount of depression and anxiety is financial stability.

> If your neighbor becomes richer, you feel poorer.

While, I completely support increased funding to mental health services for everyone, as someone trying to figure out how to pay for a new $100/month insulin prescription with a laughably tiny disability check and a medicare "donut hole", this is pretty offensive. Feeling bad because you can't keep up with the consumerism rat race isn't "misery".
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It's impressive how much low-hanging fruit exists here…

I recall interning at Google in 2012, and asking about the suicide-information Onebox. It matched obvious search queries like "I want to kill myself" and provided data about suicide help lines in a non-invasive way. Unfortunately, it used a fairly strict string matching algo, so while "how to kill yourself" would trigger it, it wouldn't pick up things like "how to kill myself". It was also only localised to the US at the time, and didn't have hotline data for other countries.

… it turned out there was already a larger dataset, internationalised, that was ready to be imported into the search engine. But the onebox team was busy with the 2012 Olympics…

Technically, interns didn't get 20% time, but my mentor understood it was important and told me to go for it.

One of those things where you don't collect metrics to validate your assumptions, but just know it saved lives…
Thanks to fiat money there's no money sitting idle: if you stuff your paper bills under a mattress, the central bank is just gonna print more money (temporarily) to reach its eg inflation targets. (And if you take your money out from under your mattress, they will print less money for a while.)
Out your piss.
> We don't know who is ultimately funding these organizations.

990s give some hint, but yes, individual donors aren't revealed (as they are for campaign contributions). OK, but the fact remains that we can see these orgs have, among other things, a bureaucracy. Let's say Soros (or insert your favorite villain here) is the sole funder behind ACLU. The ACLU provides cover for him, but the tradeoff is that there are more moving parts (i.e. the people in the organization) and less efficiency in action. And so this tactic is probably a lot more trouble than it's worth.

In terms of your hypothetical situation of Thiel creating a dummy non-profit org -- is your question rhetorical? Sure, I guess it would "please" the Thiel detractors because doing such a thing properly takes a considerable amount of time and planning (you can't just make up names to add to your 990, for example). And if you were to rush the scheme -- well, as you've already pointed out, that would put Thiel at risk of being nabbed for something tax-fraud related.

Does this help to answer one of your earlier questions (sorry, too lazy to climb the thread tree to look it up) about why some folks have more of an issue with an agenda-driven individual than with an agenda-driven organization? It's hard for an organization to exist as a public entity without stating some kind of agenda. The agenda of an individual is much more opaque. And while it's true that an organization can be completely subverted and controlled by a powerful private individual, there's a lot of work to set that up, and a lot of disadvantages even if you're successful. Hence, it is considered less of a potential problem.
Wow. That is shocking.

Has Pinterest even reached product/market fit?
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Is it back up? I saw the 500 page but a minute later I refreshed and it was back up.
That is a big claim. Where's the detailed analysis and citations?
If we remove deductions on rental income, wouldn't that just cause property owners to charge higher rent? If so, then yes, that would of course generate more tax revenue, but at the expense of the renters.
Apple is not a covered entity under HIPAA[0], and thus has no liability for the data it collects.

"If an entity does not meet the definition of a covered entity or business associate, it does not have to comply with the HIPAA Rules."

[0] - https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/covered-entities...
What you are describing is essentially In App Payments in Free-to-Play mobile games. I buy bag of gems for $10, I can use gems on rare cards to continue playing and level up.

The common criticism of that business model is that the returns are disproportional to those who have money, and your livelihood is sustained by <1% of your consumers who are considered "whales" and spend very large amounts.
It's great for pornography though.
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Wasn't comparing to US dollars, was comparing to other types of assets that YouNow could have sold (e.g., stocks or bonds) that each require something more than a crypto wallet to exchange making them possibly less liquid than the cryptocurrency
What's your favorite example of their good work?
At it's greatest extent, but also declining in economical production for many years and so heavily in debt that servicing interest required nearly half of the government expenditure. Then WWII ended the British empire, despite victory, and a massive part of that was the financial debt owed the USA.
For porn of course!
Celebrity fad diet bull--.
I would love to see a similar review of US media (print or digital). Where is the good stuff?
So he thinks everyone's potential kids should commit suicide, and recommends preempting that choice. Why do philosophers have to be so damn arrogant and grandiose about everything they propose?
It’s up for me
Showed $1 for first month and $10/mo after that for me as the cheapest option, but I signed up anyway. That's a good value if I consider it supporting a vital institution.
Yep, having some issues accessing repo's.
Thanks so much for that link. As a "progressive leaning" individual I have despaired at the descent of the Guardian, along with much of the formerly progressive media, into pure political-correctness-gone-mad, value-signalling nonsense, especially as I'm white, male and not getting any younger (apparently there are some demographics it's still just fine to build very negative stereotypes about...) It's good to counter that despair with the humour of collecting the maddest headlines together. Perhaps the Guardian really is just a clever, ironic, self-parodying send up thesedays?
Yeah, my parents got in trouble with this cause they had to sell their investments at a loss to live on. This is why I plan on keeping a significant amount of cash on hand (don't want to ever have to sell at a loss).
On Cyber Monday, Twitter, Reddit and Other Orgs Ask FCC to Save Net Neutrality
Up for me.
>"They treated us as a joke. It's really bad, they think 'oh, he's a 19-year-old kid who knows nothing," he said of the market regulator.

I would hope that the market regulator treats everyone as if they know nothing, and forces them to prove things. Not just this guy.
There are several statutes that put the onus on financial institutions, arguably including any "credit card gateway" thanks to the Patriot Act, to detect and prevent money laundering. So by your own language, irrespective of what the purpose or the goal of the company is, anti-money laundering laws still apply.
If there are no corporations in your libertarianism then your libertarianism doesn't apply to net neutrality ... which is pretty much what I said up at the top of this thread, that I don't see a libertarian argument for net neutrality.

As for my BigCo example, yes, you can sue BigCo but you cannot sue BigCo's owners. They are shielded from personal liability for BigCo's debts.

This actually happens in the real world with contractors. Plumbing123 LLC owned by Low Life Larry goes out of business to be followed by Plumbing124 LLC also created by Low Life Larry.
I would agree with this. Typically when UPS drops off an Amazon package I get an alert with away on my Amazon app. The other day I had a USPS one, picked it up at the mailbox, and didn't get the alert till hours later.
> Take this to the absurd extreme and consider how it compares to the Pre-Crime operations depicted in the movie Minority Report. Instead of Oracles we have Machine Learning intelligent software agents. Most of the problems depicted in the movie could arise.

This is the first thing I thought of.
Facebook doesn't have the moral legitimacy to take on this task. No for-profit tech company should be diagnosing or reporting mental illness.

Regardless, aren't there laws against such things? Wouldn't HIPAA be relevant here?

I do understand the desire to address these troubling issues. I would argue these are symptoms of underlying issues that are better addressed at a deeper level. I'm thinking of the fractured and isolated nature of living in many modern cities, increased loneliness, huge overload of low quality, addictive information, inability to unplug from our devices and be mindful of our current experience, false sense of connectedness found in social media, etc.
those things havent changed since its been around. im talking about fundamentals that drive the price of bitcoin
Please permit me to play the pessimistic man on the street: If Facebook can deploy AI to detect the early signs of suicide, why can't they deploy AI to detect "fake news" or those susceptible to "fake news"?

Furthermore, "cui bono" (for whose benefit [0])? What does Facebook gain from being able perform this sort of detection given it is a for-profit corporation and not a non-profit philanthropic organization?

An aside: I wonder if there will be accounts of similar to Dante's Inferno [1], or Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness [2] about today's corporations in the future some day.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cui_bono

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(Dante)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Darkness
Sorry, the idea of SEC regulation being the rule, with only limited exceptions, was what I meant by the 'intentionally decided' bit.

The exact mechanism for how an exemption is decided is certainly up for debate. I was simply saying the mandatory part was decided on by 'us'.
Logically if releasing at time X would benefit party Y, then it would seem that party "not Y" is benefited by releasing the information at time "not X".
If I understand correctly I believe they are pointing out that after a certain point in raising funds they will be forced to go public because they will have too many investors.
I don't want to give facebook a pass, but I hate seeing the issue framed as "facebook sucks at news because young engineers" vs the implied adult in the room of traditional journalism.

Facebook has failed at news, but traditional journalism is still in the dog house and is not the default credible alternative. I'll admit they don't do the whole "fake news" thing which is nice, but even without outright lying the bias in what the choose to cover and what public figures they ally with is disappointing. They can grandstand all they want about "editorial independence" and "separation of church and state" but for the most part their bills get paid the same way facebook's bills do.
Like any insurance, it's a bad investment until it's needed.

Unlike some other kinds of insurance, you're not the one that will get the most benefit from it.
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For Strongbox CloudTrail logs are indirect: you need to look at the logs of the backends used by Strongbox, i.e. KMS and DynamoDB. Consistent naming of the resources (managed by Strongbox) should help you filter out the correct entries.
FWIW, in most of the US gambling is illegal and lotteries are often regulated by the State.
EDIT: i guess its ambiguous in my parent comment- i mean fundamentals that drive the PRICE of bitcoin. i dont want to hear about its intrinsic value, i know there is some.