skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aren't we getting back to the hypothetical question that any image, digitally encoded, would theoretically exist at some index of any infinite number (e.g. Pi), given enough digits? Is the possession of Pi then illegal?
I was hoping it wasn't body language, because that's more of a detriment to the meeting, since it's completely subjective. We have an exec that constantly interrupts meetings to ask people about their body language, but the bad part is that he's almost always interpreted it incorrectly, and he proceeds to make mountains out of molehills and waste everyone's time (often while making people extremely uncomfortable). Unless it's a sales presentation where a professional salesperson needs to "read the room", we're better off without cams.
No, the easiest for the government to destroy blockchain is to just declare it illegal.
The answer is to outlaw lobbyists, it would fix a lot of problems. That, and enact term limits for Congress. That will fix even more.
Spotify buys Gimlet and Anchor; to spend up to $500m on podcast startups in 2019
I didn't know the LLIS was available online.

The first one I managed to click on was related to a fire in an employee's car: https://llis.nasa.gov/lesson/943
In my experience burnout is not necessarily caused by overwork but by an expectation miss following a burst of lots of labor is continuously high labor. This effectively negatively reinforces your association of labor to reward. It's especially bad when something out of your control (e.g. politics) kills your project.

Doing the easy thing and goofing off or taking a break can be exactly the worst thing to do, since you're creating a reward for not-laboring.

My remedy for burnout is to power through it by doing small workful things which are intrinsically their own reward (and not in the pithy sense, there needs to be a primary rewarding stimulus associated with success). When I was a biologist, this was often doing routine molecular biology for a week, seeing those colonies was gratifying (if slow). As a programmer, those green dots carry their own gratification and reward cycle; when I feel burnout coming along it's a great time to work on those refactors or unit tests you've been putting off.

I don't have major burnout episodes anymore, and haven't for the last six years or so (disclaimer: it could also be just maturity)
what area are you mostly in? My friend is based in California but travels cross country a lot, says it's worst in the mid west and south for him
Every service you buy with your savings has to be provided by people working at that time. More savings competing for fewer workers will cause inflation until your savings are reduced to match.

To take the extreme example, if everyone tried to save up and then take a sabbatical year in 2025, they would all find that their money became almost worthless -- they could buy capital goods (made before) but nothing else.

Before Paul Krugman metamorphozed into a political hack, he wrote some quite solid stuff about economics. His famous baby-sitting co-op [1] runs into this problem: Everyone wishes to earn tickets on weekdays / winter and spend them on weekends / summer, but this is impossible:

[1] http://www.pkarchive.org/theory/baby.html
This makes me think. Any data in a certain form could be used to generate an image.

What if someone added data in a form that only later after a viewer appeared will it reveal this type of content. This would make any system with that data immediately illegal.

Looking down the road what it was encoded in dna would it be illegal for someone to read another person's dna?

If someone had a tattoo on there face of one of these images would security cameras need to wipe any data caught?
When I was on a fishing trip, the guide would strike the heads of the fish to kill them before putting them in the cooler. It seems brutal but is much more humane then letting them suffocate while on ice.
I agree with you. This is also why I oppose drone strikes which is the President (current and past two) doing exactly this.
I'm not so sure about the generality of "bullshit jobs". I mean, regardless of the perceived importance of selling some tchotchke, it's still a business.

But meetings. Some people just love to hear themselves talk. And some people need to hear something said N different ways, before they can take it in. So someone who spends most of their time in meetings, that's arguably bullshit.

And yes, I do appreciate that stuff needs coordinating. But damn ...
It’s principally backed by Craig Wright (Australian with dubious claim of being Satoshi, original creator of Bitcoin) and Calvin Ayre (investor born in Canada). I wouldn’t categorize it as Chinese (Bitcoin Cash/BCH is probably better categorized that way, being backed by Bitmain)
Who do you plan on taking care of you when you get older? You’re going to pay nurses, and maybe live in a retirement home?
AI powered intellisense and code generation.
But don’t they flicker a LOT?
Well, the wife left me and my kid is graduating HS this year... that's actually part of the motivation there.

As for the "cheap"... yeah, that is true, but I just don't see the DIY people ever getting things as light as the RV manufacturers... and that is a big deal when driving.
"sounds like"

So you have not gone to the trouble of listening to him before commenting?
What a terrible article. The author didn't even do enough homework to figure out why Netflix paid no tax. As a reader, I'm not even sure the 2018 tax code changes had anything to do with it.
Why Have Other Countries Been Dropping Their Wealth Taxes?
It's been mentioned a few times already but I just wanted to +1 the suggestion of considering therapy. And I don't even mean that in a "you sound like you need therapy" sense; I think therapy can be a great tool for anyone trying to improve the way they handle stresses like this, regardless of whether you think anything is "wrong" with you (e.g. depression, anxiety, etc). I have struggled with fairly severe anxiety at points in my career/life, but therapy has just generally helped me a lot with handling stress, not taking things so personally, fighting procrastination, not coupling so much of my self-worth to my work performance, etc.
I think your last point is precisely backwards. Total annual lobbying spending is just $3.7 billion a year, in a $19 trillion economy. It's a tiny amount of money compared to the stakes. If lobbying was so effective companies would spend way more money on it.

It's also notable that you couldn't point to a specific tax law, like OP asked for. Lower taxes in general--nobody needs to lobby for that, there is a large contingent of people who favor that just on principle.
It’s not an edge case. Zone B begins at the inner S-Bahn-Ring. There’s a lot of destinations that are reachable via U-Bahn and Bus/Tram outside the inner ring. It’s so common to travel outside zone A that you can’t even buy a zone A ticket, it’s always A+B

Keep in mind that “city” is only available for 120 cities in germany in the first place.
I don't have a source on this, but I've commonly heard that tax software companies (intuit, hrblock, etc) lobby for not having simpler taxes because it would take away from a large part of their business. Again, no sources. Just something that is commonly thrown around.

Here is a HN discussion on it though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16841449
Described in this paragraph:

> Locate the Weakest Link: Component Lifetime
> You're ancient browser will crumble just like Netscape, IE, and Mosaic.

The exact same argument could be made about IE around 2000, yet now you list IE as ancient and crumbled, which completely undermines your argument.
WekaIO Beats Big Systems on the IO-500 10 Node Challenge – InsideHPC
aye, I remember that too
First, comparing the legal activity of finding ways to minimize tax liability to murder is ludicrous. You may not agree with the law, but they haven't been found to have done anything illegal.

Second, what's your specific issue with the debt carryover exemption?
Which Developers Earn More: Corporate vs. Freelance
First generation "high power" LED (I have a bunch with E27 socket) had a small cooling fan... If you ever owned a laptop for a while, you know what happens to small fans after a (admittedly long) while.
I put a strict timeline on the activities that were burning me out, which were contracting and legal problems. I scheduled about 4 hours a week to work on them, and I told myself if the outcome wasn't good then it could go to hell because that's all the time it was worth. Then I worked on stuff I liked and thought was important in the rest of my time.

It took about 1.5 years to get through the work, and another year or so for the last traces of burnout to go away. In retrospect, I think letting go of the fear of failure was what helped me the most.

I was influenced by the passage on burnout from Feynman's memoirs, for what it's worth (excerpted here: https://www.asc.ohio-state.edu/kilcup.1/262/feynman.html).
I also run a minimal setup in the back of a tacoma. Having a camper that doesn't look like a camper is really nice. Four wheel drive comes in handy and is, imo, prohibitively expensive in vans right now.
Meh, corporations don't pay income taxes anyways even when they do; their consumers pay the tax (it's just another expense). A national sales tax is a better way to collect.
It's not a solution.
It's a workaround which reflects a problem that is being sold as an improvement. Which also makes it a bigger problem.

This can't get enough drama to become recognized as a problem.
Three things have helped me through a difficult period of burning out and returning to health.

+) Daily positive habits are a strong and resilient buffer against life's onslaught. Quick inventory - today did you get enough sleep, have a period of intense and sustained exercise, and did you eat multiple healthy meals? If you say yes to all three every day, I guarantee your mood will consistently improve.

+) Remove your concerns and obligations from your head to a written digital assistant. Asana has helped me move all my open loops to a single place. Getting Things Done expresses this well.

+) Define the One Thing you want to do today. Becoming overwhelmed often happens when too many things come from too many directions. Pick just one thing and do it.

If you make habits of these, I guarantee your mood and energy will improve all equal.
I am essentially unable to do anything than walk with the normal earbuds without adaptation. This morning I went on a run with them and have to run with a beanie to hold them in, in summer I am unable to do this. When I bike I double wrap the cord around the helmet chin strap to keep them in place when I move my head to look around. I'd say the majority of the falling-out problem is due to the cables pulling due to movement of the head with the other part being the hard plastic shape of the buds themselves which don't lend well to staying in place in my ears.

I'd like AirPods but my primary use for ear buds is sport and I don't want them falling out.
AFAIK, that's not how Android works. Each apk is signed by a standalone certificate (which does not have to be signed by any CA), and the operating system will only allow an upgrade if the same certificate is used. Which means a developer must carefully guard the certificate's private key; if it's lost, the application can no longer be updated, but it must instead be released as a new application with a separate name. And since AFAIK this mechanism is part of the operating system (not the constantly-updated Google Play store), to bypass it would require a full OS update.

(This has other consequences: if a developer releases the same apk to several stores, but it's signed by different certificates on each store, a user who installed the apk from one store will not be able to upgrade it using the other store.)
I'm in the middle of this transition and the biggest challenge is getting the OO way of thinking out of people's heads.

It's very challenging to stop thinking about mutating state in an object graph and adopt a functional programming model using immutable data-structures.
Be prepared to face quite a bit resistant on that (as well as static vs dynamic typing, and the expressiveness of types vs. something like spec or schema)

I'm not too concerned about selling to management (well, I'm the CTO, so 1/3 of management is on board ;) since there are many success stories around Clojure and the list of well-known companies using it in some fashion is pretty large. When pushed, I just mention NuBank (over 4 million customers) which runs their business on Clojure.
Remember that every imaginable image is also somewhere in the digits of pi.
You "just" have to find it.
Does that make the number pi illegal? I guess not. Does it make programs illegal that can calculate those digits of pi?
Doesn't sound reasonable, does it?
> I haven't done local benchmarking using a tool like namebench for a long time, and it looks like that tool has not been updated for several years.

In fairness, the DNS protocol that it's testing hasn't really changed in that time either. namebench is still sufficient for general testing.
Regressive? The top 1% of earners paid the highest tax rate of 27.1%. The bottom 50% had an average tax rate of 3.5%.[1]

[1]https://taxfoundation.org/summary-federal-income-tax-data-20...
This is old news.

https://www.dailydot.com/business/bitcoin-child-porn-transac... (2013)

https://news.bitcoin.com/no-isnt-child-porn-bitcoin-blockcha...

https://www.wired.com/story/why-porn-on-the-blockchain-wont-...
I've had a pair of JLabs for awhile that have worked fine with my iPhone. I don't think they sell my model anymore, and last I looked, the current version apparently is not as good. But, reading Amazon comments they do seem to have good CS if you need to return or exchange what you get.

When these break, I'm getting AirPods though. I see them in use in the office and it's like magic the ease of pairing, etc...
Ask HN: Building a Chrome extension for a sidebar web feed?
I'm building a Chrome extension to display web feeds (RSS/Atom & more) in a convenient always accessible sidebar in Chrome.

I want to know if this is anybody else here will find useful?

The sidebar can be accessed in any tab, so you can quickly get a glimpse of your favourite headlines and feeds on any web page and close it when done. What makes this app different is it's simplicity compared to the other solutions out there. I am building it for people like myself who want to keep up to date with various news and web feeds within a simple interface and without paying a fortune just to get up to date feeds.

Some benefits:

- Easily accessible sidebar available in any tab.
- Get notified of the latest headlines and news items automatically.
- Follow your favorite blogs, news sites, YouTube channels, RSS feeds and more.
- Configurable feed refresh times
- Synced across all browsers the user is signed in to.

Is this something that you would like to have? If so then hit me up! I would like to know how this app can benefit you and what features you would like to see. I'll start working on a landing page soon and post here once it's done.
Was about to post the same thing, multiple submissions by the same person for the same product over the last 2 months.
This might be a little out there...

Read Autobiography of a Yogi first.

Contemplate on "who are you?"

You are just a tiny fraction of the whole consciousness.

So when you do any kind of work, realize you are not the Doer. You're just an instrument serving the moment unfolding in front of you.

This is the teaching Lord Krishna gave to Arjuna when he felt can't fight in the war against his family in the allegorical story in the Bhagavad Gita.

Lens your perspective a bit...
I once worked for an offshoot of Sunfor - a chemical company making LED phosphors.

The first driverless, flicker free LEDs on the market were their invention. Basic idea is that if you fine tune phosphor components, and their ratios, you can make a direct 120hz AC driven LED with close to no visible flicker for as long as your output colour temperature is in between 5500 to 6000 Kelvins
> if automation picks up the slack and causes productivity per capita

This is only true if the income disparity is not out of control. Current trends show us that income disparity is increasing where the super rich gain everything, and the poor are screwed without some kind of income redistribution (high wealth taxes for example).
> Anyone mad at a company for not pay taxes is misdirecting their anger. Companies follow the law. If you don't like the law elect different politicians. Don't get mad at companies that follow the law.

Either way it's a symptom of a rotten system.
Probably because tax avoidance within the constraints of the law is actually legal, and comparing murder to tax avoidance is just silly.
> What is the common person, or collection of persons, supposed to do when they are against that kind of force?

Vote.

All sorts of interests lobby, all the time. These include consumer-focused interest groups, as well as corporations. But, at the end of the day, politicians gain (and keep) office based on the votes of their constituents. These politicians are (generally) not going to vote on bills that they think might get them kicked out of office.
I just tested it with a bunch of periods. I got rejected with just two periods adjacent, and with quite a few more periods adjacent. So only bits. Looks like it can be used for filtering too.
Location: US

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: 8 years of mostly backend development with full stack development as well. I am familiar with all major technologies/languages and am willing to work on any part of the stack where I do not have write html/css (I am otherwise happy doing frontend javascript).

Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fdr7k91gcl7pqd3/resume.pdf?dl=0

Email: on resume
It definitely needed to be said, sadly.
I believe this paper is the first time that anyone thought to analyze electronics using logic at all. Nobody thought that techniques used to analyze philosophical and mathematical arguments could be used to understand electronic signals before Shannon.
That's a separate discussion.

Individuals have all their obligations deducted and we can spend the rest.

Companies spend first and pay obligations on the remaining.
Maybe PI is a better example.

You might know it's 3.14... but not why.
I have a different Jabra headset (Elite 65t) which works fine on my Linux laptop. And the title of the OP's article is actually misleading - Jabra says they don't support the configuration, not that it "won't work." This is actually totally understandable to me, the bluetooth hardware/software ecosystem in PCs is esoteric and frustrating, and it makes sense that Jabra would provide a solution that bypasses it.
True, and furthermore they are easier to drive and park.

I guess I should say that my issue is mroe about the DIY-ness of the van-life thing.

I've know a lot of folks in schoolies over the years, and while they can look all instagram fabulous, mostly they are never as nice, light-weight, or well-insulated as even the cheaper commercially available alternatives. It might be just a bad perception on my part, and I think it is possible to do... I just don't see it happening for most of the folks I know who.
Of course it's completely irrelevant. It's a cryptocurrency.

For a cryptocurrency, it's relatively important. It's not one of the big boys, but it's supposedly worth $1 billion.
The world is a crazy complex place. Like them or not, lobbyists are useful for helping lawmakers understand the implications of laws, and eliminating lobbyists (setting aside the impracticality of such a task) and imposing term limits (thus reducing the level of institutional knowledge in Congress) would mean that lawmakers would often be flying completely blind.
it's so perfect that it doesn't work. great stuff. instantly lost interest.
Credit Union Compliance Naps Cause Financial Nightmares
Yes. "weed" was slang for tobacco in middle and early-modern English (shortly after it was introduced to England). This is where he got the term from.
Do not buy "bulbs," they are hopeless. Just buy a whole fixture with a big aluminium PCB and directly bonded chips.
I am cynical for a reason.

>They are using games to develop algorithms as they are easily defined problems

I believe they use games because it makes good PR. I believed that before they chose StarCraft, but now I am more convinced in it.

Also, because their algorithms are extremely data-hungry and it's easy to generate tons of training data for a game simply by running it. And because it is possible to evaluate performance of an algorithm over and over again.

>they have in turn used those algorithms on real world problems, notably AlphaFold

AlphaFold does not use their board game AI[1]. Naming it similarly is just a marketing tactic.

AlphaFold might be a genuinely useful application of their resources, in which case they deserve praise in credit for it. I have to do more research on it, which is made very hard by all the hyperbole and hype around their work.

>Furthermore, their investment into TPU's is going to bring the price down in the long run

Overall, they do the exact opposite of democratizing AI. They invest heavily into insanely data-hungry and hardware-hungry approaches that a normal company will not be able to use (directly, not through Google's cloud services) for decades if ever.

> And yes we should assume if AGI is possible it will require a lot of compute.

What you're saying here (overall) does not make sense. There is absolutely no reason to assume that breaking records in games without substantial improvements in AI theory makes us any closer to "AGI".

Ignoring the completely unsubstantiated statements about AGI, we are left with the question of practical applications. I am not convinced that the societal benefits of investing in complex and computationally intensive machine learning is higher than investing in improvements of simpler algorithms. Most practical applications of AI outside of a few ubercorps involve simpler, older algorithms. Even someone as big as SAP relies mostly on decision trees and SVMs.

If anything, the hype around deep learning likely means it's harder to get funding for old-school AI research that is far likely to benefit smaller companies.

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[1] http://predictioncenter.org/casp13/doc/CASP13_Abstracts.pdf Page 11, A7D.
https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/the-morality-of-tax-avoidance

Let me ask you a question; have you ever deducted anything from your taxes? If so, you are “guilty” of tax avoidance. Every person claiming the Earned Income Tax Credit is engaged in tax avoidance. Anyone that ever deducted anything is a tax avoider.
I'd love it if we outlawed lobbyists, but that'll never happen. It's a clear-cut 1st Amendment issue.

Imagine, for example, that all the fast-food workers unionized and wanted to get the minimum wage raised.

How would they do that when most live outside DC and have to work 1-2 shifts per day to keep their jobs?

They hire professionals -- lobbyists.

Unfortunately any unregulated system benefits the powerful, and we have the heavily abused lobbying system of today.
Interestingly, up until the early 1950s it was still controversial if Boolean algebra was useful for computer design. The argument was that buildable circuits were simple enough to analyze without Boolean algebra so it was pointless mathematical formalism.
This is false, by omission.

They can hire the candidate after his term in office to 'consult', or give paid speeches, or lobby for then, or play golf all day. Or just cut a check to his charitable foundation, out of the goodness of their hearts. (A recent presidential candidate's family has hit four out of five of those.)

They can fund a PAC that either endorses, or opposes a candidate. The difference between funding their campaign directly, and funding a PAC that campaigns on a candidate's behalf is a fig leaf.

Tell me - in practice - how do these things differently from direct funding of a campaign?