skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, this advice seems ok in current economic setting, where workforce size is replenished by newer generations.

Now think about what would happen if there are a lot of old retired people but the number of people willing to work for them is 50% of what is required, in most branches of the economy.

Money will start chasing the workers, and they pay will sky rocket. It's more like SV skyrocketing housing prices and total compensation, bit wider in scope.
Yes and it also makes the point clear that tax law isn't just in the sense of right or wrong.

Clearly the majority think murder is wrong and if you could avoid the consequences of committing murder by way of spending money that would probably also be considered wrong. Murder loop holes would be closed up pretty quick I hope.
In this case the way Netflix avoided income taxes was entirely reasonable and something I would hope to add to the legal code if it wasn't already there, like the self defense exception for murder charges.
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That has caused some delightful confusion. We used to live in my wife's grandma's old house, and there was a ton of grandma's old stuff scattered around the basement. My sister-in-law were visiting for a few days; her kids loved digging through the old stuff.

Nephew (approx 10 year old): Uncle Tony! Uncle Tony! We found a weed pipe downstairs!!!

Me: O_o

Nephew: Come look!

I went downstairs, ready to be horrified at a conversation I didn't want to have with the kid. Sure enough, he had found some giant ornate tobacco pipe.

Nephew: Gandalf would love this! He could smoke pipe weed all day!
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn would be a good one to get the historical context for politics today. A People's History of the World is similar for a more global view.
My father in law is a general contractor and religiously keeps all his LED bulb receipts. If anything goes out before the listed hours he returns it to HomeDepot. He hasn’t had any issue so far including some of the older bulbs described in the article.
Could be coding (Turbo coding is where it's at, while hamming (no relation) error correcting codes are purely digital and ubiquitous), could be simple double transmissions separated in the time domain as in FEC SITOR/AMTOR. My money's on Turbo coding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_code
Great tool, used it before. Simple and straightforward. I'd like to use it for internal image repos, upcoming feature?
It allows them to speak without legal repercussions from the government. The first amendment doesn't say "Patreon has to allow any hateful dipshit to use their service"
Drastically simplify the tax code. Boom. Done.
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$3B is needed to address California’s doctor shortage
I agree. I have been using and testing the Jabra Elite Sport for the last few months, by pairing them with as many older devices as possible and Thinkpad X1 (1st Gen) being amongst them. Although, the reception can be patchy on the outer range - which is probably due to the antenna and it's positioning, rather than the BT 4.0 chipset on the laptop. However, the earphones pair easily as soon as they are removed from the charging case.
> Plus, they’ll more than pay for themselves in electricity savings compared to the old, inefficient LED bulbs they replaced.

Sure, eventually, but without further context this obsession with light bulbs always sounds a little bit penny wise and pound foolish to me.

The relative cost of lighting on the monthly electricity bill is tiny so those savings are pretty small. Getting a more efficient fridge, washing machine, TV or (in our profession) computer typically has a much bigger effect on electricity expenses. And that is assuming your heating and cooking is done with gas.
You may be interested in Source Serif Pro[1]. Incidentally, Times (New) Roman was also designed with legibility at very small sizes in mind, though unfortunately it's become the very defintion of bland serif font. You may also want to check out Charter[2].

[1] https://adobe-fonts.github.io/source-serif-pro/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitstream_Charter
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I used to feel this way too. When BT came out I got so excited - saved up my pocket-hole-burning money from a retail job to buy the crappiest piece of crap I could find. Pairing failed. Audio quality sucked. Range was... barely wireless. Batteries drained in moments.

That was then. Recently my wife wanted a durable portable speaker, and got a JBL somethingorother. It works surprisingly well. So I got some JBL earbuds. They work pretty well. I got curious and went back over some old headphones. Turns out some of the problems seem to be in the stack and some in the devices - I ended up not using those old headphones, but some of the old problems did get fixed.

In summary: Things used to suck but my recent BT purchases have set me hopeful. I use the auxiliary port on my car still also - and I think I'll keep it that way for sharing. Pairing devices still makes me feel invaded.
Regular web developers can propose new web platform features (notes)
My Apple EarPods do spontaneously fall out.
Flannel, yoga pants, and a cute dog or small child. Don't forget to show off your pearly whites!
The reason for the clojure user base having an experienced majority is that is overwhelming and tedious for an inexperienced programmer to use Clojure to accomplished things, the "you already should know how that works and how to do that, roll your own" mantra dominates, in contrast to JS/Python, where there are good learning resources for almost everything you want to accomplished (for things that have already been done).

There is just way more hand holding in these massive communities (JS/Python).

Another big reason is that if you want to write production level code in Clojure, you have to know Java and its APIs well, the same for Clojurescript and Javascript, making the barrier to entry much bigger.

So yes, IMO, right now Clojure is a language meant for experienced developers and my guess is that will remain so.

The good thing is, Clojure and Rich brought some good concepts to mainstream use. He did a good marketing job.
LED bulbs contain more components than incandescent bulbs and have more failure modes that simply going ‘pop’.
Would you include 401k as a loophole that is legal but wrong?

401K was not the idea of some smart legislator. The 401K name comes from a section of the IRS code. This section was added in 1978 but for 2 years no one paid much attention to it. A creative interpretation of that provision by a smart consultant gave birth to first 401k savings plan. The government tried to repeal the 401K provision twice once it realized the enormous tax loss from the 401K provision.

http://401kbenna.com/401k-history.html
Would you have an invite to send to try the alpha?
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They need to make these fines "per user". It shouldn't be the case that for a company sufficiently large that a few billion in fines is simply another cost of doing business.
I've been there before. I recently came across Jamis Buck's talking about his experience https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71suekjBV9Y and I strongly recommend it. If only to hear someone eloquently talk about going through the process.

Previously, I saw his talk about generating mazes and it has always stuck with me. (Unfortunately that one wasn't recorded). Speaking as a developer, I have been writing code and solving problems professionally for so long that I have forgotten what it's like to just write code for fun. For me, and not for anyone else. Without any expectations or stress. And listening to him talking about rediscovering fun by exploring different ways to create mazes really clicked with me.

I've only recently gotten back into that, and it has been embarrassingly awkward to knock off the rust and put myself in the mindset of "Let's just do this because it could be cool".

I even bought his book on generating mazes. Not because I'm particularly into them, but to help exercise those sore muscles and I'm thinking I can perhaps feed on his passion. A coworker told me he also put one out about building ray tracers. To branch out beyond that, I've also begun putting together a list of fun hacks that interest me personally.

Now I say all of this, but I do think while time away from your day-to-day is very important (take some vacation time! spend time exploring other hobbies!), even after a significant time away, when you come back to your day job you may still be unmotivated/numb/demoralized. I'm hoping rediscovering the fun in what I do helps put things in perspective more than just listening to others preach. Helps rekindle the feelings and reasons why I pursued my career in the first place beyond just making a living.

Good luck. I wish you the best.

Edit: OH! I completely forgot. Make sure to prioritize the easy-to-ignore-things. Spend time with friends/family. Exercise. Make sure you're getting enough sleep.

Those sound so simple, but I strongly believe it's incredibly tough when you ignore those basics.
The "Goon" argument isn't so much that they are necessary in real life, but that their existence as a whole does not provide a net positive for society. Goons exist because other people have Goons; they don't create wealth for the species as a whole.

The arguments in general are written from the perspective that the "perfect" society is one where everyone cooperates to build new technologies, create art, go to space, et cetera, and every job that does not contribute to that utopian ideal is considered a "bullshit job".

Not necessarily agreeing or disagreeing, but that's the argument's perspective as I see it. IMO its not surprising he is an academic, this view has a very ivory tower feel to it.
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I'm looking for more relevant contemporary literature like this: "My relationship with @Deliveroo is mutually exploitative and entirely mercenary." Share your tips with me, please!
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n02/lola-seaton/short-cuts
For the point pasta was trying to make, maybe it was a bad example? How about:

> Because there is a huge difference between knowing that the sky is blue and knowing why the sky is blue.
Just try to make a comment that's even somewhat balanced in /r/politics, which is a cesspool of intolerant lefties who can't stand any disagreement or debate.

Note, this is not /r/liberalpolitics, or /r/progressivepolitics, but /r/politics, and yet it is an extremely one-sided exercise in herd behavior.
Big companies lobby every law for their benefits. They hire full time lobyists. Big companies can pay million $ a year for lobbying.

Then the question is, does it really influence laws? Well I think if it didn't, they wouldn't spend so much money.
The Australian government could just force Google or Apple to make updates to their OS to not enforce signatures for some apps, or put in vulnerabilities that could be used by them to bypass signature checking at all.
Back when I was TEST's training director, my favorite thing to do was lead squads of about a dozen people in either alliance-provided free rifters, or any T2 frigates people wanted to bring. Great learning for the newbies; easy to replace if we lost everything; and every once in a while, we'd find a T2 battleship or carrier doing PVE, all alone, out in space...
This would be a new application unless Apple or Google signs the app using certificate forgery or similar.

What if Apple or Google changes the OS security mechanism itself?
The AC-DC or DC-DC converter will likely die long before LED's junction. Primary failure mode is capacitors "drifting" and closing the mosfet inside the buck converter too early.

This is why I tell people to buy simple "driverless" LED bulbs. A shitty constant current driver is worse than not having it at all.
Well, if we change 'never ends' to 'until the earth is uninhabitable by solar irradiance', then is premis can be completely true.

For example if we have 10 billion people and reduced the total population by 2 every year, that would give us 5 billion years, which is way after the sun has gone red giant.
> I'm sure Netflix paid tons in employer contributions to employee income taxes, social security taxes, etc.

I pay sales taxes, and my landlord pays property taxes, and I gave $500 to charity last year.

Does that excuse me from paying any income taxes on $300,000 of salary, or do I need to structure that compensation through a double Irish sandwitch, first?

Alternatively, if a shoplifter steals $500 of goods, but pays $50 for some cigs, and a bottle of wine, do we shrug our shoulders, and say: 'At least he paid for the wine!'
I think Gary Cole's character should get swole and shave his head Bezos style in order to stay relevant. The old gang's invention could happen at a company hack-a-thon, but still be ignored by the SVs :)
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That's because AirPods aren't plain Bluetooth and include some proprietary Apple magic. I have several Bluetooth audio devices and the only one that's reliable my Jawbone (remember them?) Jambox. Everything else has weird failure modes where it fails to connect or connects partially and allows me to control playback but the sound still comes out my phone.

Headphone jacks were fucking awesome. I want them back.
Do you have anything valuable to say in response to that?
This is pretty annoying as I replaced every bulb in my house with LED under the assumption that they would last at least a decade. I didn't even think to check a powered-on time rating.

Not that using incandescent bulbs is a good option anymore anyway.
If it's due to carryover losses, which is usually what this sort of rage bait boils down to, it's not only "legal" but "not wrong." Carryover losses are the mathematical byproduct of a tax system that taxes gains in wealth (i.e. income) but must be sampled annually. It would be completely brain damaged to treat two companies differently that make the same total profit over a fixed period depending merely on the pattern of profits and losses over that period. There would be no value to it other than mitigating misdirected outrage from people ignorant about how taxes work.
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Depending on where you live, the energy “inefficiency” of a light bulb is no such thing.

In the UK, for example, during winter (and spring and autumn) the heating is appreciated! However, it is 2-3x more costly than using gas central heating. (However however something something whole house vs room-specific heating.)

In the summer, it’s a complete waste though.

Directed infrared heating panels may be the most efficient because they do what you describe - heat you up directly, rather than heat the air in the room.
EarPods have never fit properly in my ears. Ever since the revision back in 2012, they never stay in my ears. I am sure I'm an outlier, but I can't use EarPods, and fear that I would break or lose Airpods because of this.
It depends on ear shape. Normal earbuds and airpods do fall out for some people.
I was expecting a link to the National Inquirer, and not Wired.

Utter nonsense
Could it be possible that sometimes laws are immoral? And that companies, while following the letter of the law are in fact acting immoral too?

Why defend those companies?
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Ah, this old chestnut.

So from the last time this came up: https://thebitcoinnews.com/no-there-isnt-child-porn-on-the-b...

With the important bit here:

80 bytes is all that OP_RETURN can store, and what’s more that information is subject to deletion. That’s because bitcoin nodes are capable of pruning “provably unspendable” UTXOs for efficiency, which include OP_RETURN data.

TL;DR the last time the schadenfreudists were looking for something to point and laugh at on this front, they didn't understand the technicalities of what they were talking about _at all_.

This BBC article makes an interesting claim:

"In January, the amount of data that could be added to the BSV block chain was increased significantly.

Before that, people could generally add only short chunks of text or web links to the block chain.

But now it is possible to add full images in an encoded format."

I've never heard of this BSV coin before, so I don't know the details of this change. Assuming it's a fork of bitcoin and all they did was increase the allowable size of the OP_RETURN, this will once again be sensationalist reporting with no substance. I'd imagine the first thing BSV nodes would do is prune the OP_RETURN garbage because who wants to be paying the storage cost of other peoples embedded images?

But hey, the BBC article is extremely light on details. Maybe this is something that can't be pruned so easily? Does anyone know?
From an outside perspective, this seems really really short-sighted. Deep learning applications aren't compiled to run on AMD GPUs, and Google TPUs are still a pretty niche category AFAIK. NVIDIA is selling pickaxes during a gold rush, I can't help but feel NVIDIA's deep learning initiatives are gonna pay off, even if Chinese markets may be waning this year.
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How about supporting legislation that ensures these business pay their fair share?
Imagine you work in a building of 5000+ people. What happens when dozens of interview candidates walks in? Or just dozens of visitors? Or when someone calls the company's contact phone? The actual tasks may vary depending on the company, and probably so will the job title or pay (for the very same tasks). But the job is very much real and someone will do it no matter what you call it.

Some tasks may be more BS than others. But how many jobs would be considered BS in the author's vision that either they can be done by someone else or not at all because they involve addressing activities that should have been done perfect from the beginning?

He's obviously aiming for controversy because controversy sells.
I was intrigued by the narrative until it turned into basically nothing, I expected some interesting discovery
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But the million ways to go wrong IS the problem. I may be appealing to authority here, but is it disingenuous when an overwhelming majority of encryption and security experts agree?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-cyb...

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/05/ray_ozzies_en...

https://www.justsecurity.org/53316/criminalize-security-crim...
I've seen some recent research proposals: https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/sp/2019/6660/00/66...

The basic idea is you have a way to delete the data associated with an old transaction but not the transaction itself. A majority have to agree to the redaction though and the fact something has been redacted is recorded.
The easiest way is just to let the *coin fad die out and blockchains be relegated to genuine necessary uses and/or the dust pile of history.
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And to remove any mystique, this mostly does so by parallelising things to all CPU cores.
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> Returning to our analogy, the publisher of a best-selling book might announce that the first letter of every line in the book can be interpreted as a sequence of pixels that represents a pornographic image of a child. Can the police then arrest owners of the book? Common sense suggests that the answer is no, and most lawyers would agree.

https://www.wired.com/story/why-porn-on-the-blockchain-wont-...
I've taken every single LED bulb that has failed on me to pieces and it's always the same failure mode. The heatsink compound isn't applied properly to the back of the LED board. The LEDs immediately in the gaps smoke out.

Alas this isn't a problem. If a lightbulb goes, Amazon send me a new one out now free of charge and tell me to throw the old one in the trash.

This is one manufacturer, prevalent on Amazon, the Long Life Lamp Company. Long Life my ass.

They have been replaced by Philips and Ikea LED bulbs now which the oldest are 5 years old now and still going strong.

Edit: one thing to note is the really cheap ones run pretty hot. They have 105 oC rated capacitors in them. If you look at the derating curves at the running temperature they are clearly designed to last just past a year.
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Although the article talks of LED wearout, I think the key data was a survey of outdoor LED systems: 10% of failures are the LED itself, the other 90% is support components that fail causing shorter lifetimes.

I'm curious how it compares to the LED filament lighting which can use much simpler power supplies with fewer components which should mean much lower failure rates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LED_filament
From a purely economic standpoint, treating kids like a retirement investment seems absurdly risky compared to the alternative. According to this link [1] the average cost of raising a middle class child to age 18 is $233,610. Plus the average cost of a 4 year out of state university [2] $36,420 equals $270,030. That’s $12,274 a year for 22 years. Let’s say instead you put that into a pre tax IRA earning 6%. At the end of those 22 years your balance is $532,597. Let that grow for another 10 years and you’re at $852,155. Assume 15% effective tax rate at retirement you have $724,331 after tax.

Is your (now 32 year old) kid going to have the means to provide you that much assistance in your retirement?

1: http://money.com/money/4629700/child-raising-cost-department...

2: https://www.collegeraptor.com/find-colleges/articles/afforda...
What gives you the right to say who can and can't park in public parking? Why do you have more of a right to park there than someone who lives in their vehicle?
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I was hyped to read a cool article about NASA and tech, but this just reads like an advertising for a software that I've never heard of.
Maybe the reduction of the corporate rate during the trump tax cuts? The defense of this change, was that it was going to bring home money stashed in foreign tax havens.

During the bush tax cuts, there was also a tax holiday that allowed money to be brought back into the US at a very low tax rate. Can't imagine that 0 corporate lobbyists were involved in the process of creating these laws.

from wikipedia:
"In 2004, the United States Congress enacted such a tax holiday for U.S. multinational companies in the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 (AJCA)) section 965, allowing them to repatriate foreign profits to the United States at a 5.25% tax rate, rather than the existing 35% corporate tax rate."
One might point out that orthodox-religious and Republican children are a major source of liberals.
“supplant” != “plant"
I think people are always overly focused on things they personally touch and see.

Thus environmental policy centers on shopping bags, straws, and light bulbs, rather than things that objectively have real environmental impact.
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If you are interested in learning more about this, there is also a recent PyData talk: https://rise.cs.berkeley.edu/blog/modin-talk-at-pydata-nyc-2...