skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Australian tech companies need to release a program called UltraDecrypt that simply brute-force decrypts any message on their platforms given billions of years and sell it for $10M per license.

Then when law enforcement claims they are not being cooperative, they can say they have a tool that meets their needs if they're patient.
>What more do we really need in terms of technology, to survive as nations and be happy?

What timeline are we talking about.

> Could this point in our achievement be enough?

To ensure eventual extinction, yes.

Modern technology is wholly dependant on a great number of unstable and unsustainable systems. Fossil fuels are the best example of a great technological boost that is destroying our atmosphere. Renewables, while so much better, are not without their drawbacks at a world civilization size. Still, it could create a nice, clean, and happy doomed world.

Below us vast volcanoes, things not seen for tens of thousands of years, wait to explode below us threatening to blot out the sun for a decade (hope you don't depend on solar panels). Above us rocks the size of mountains race through the blackness of space at insane speeds waiting to find a gravity well and vaporize what is at the bottom of it. There exists threats, ones we've only come to realize exist in the past century, that can wipe mankind off earth in the blink of an eye. The solution to most of these is making sure we just aren't on earth, and become a spacefaring civilization. For that we will need technology far beyond what we have now.
The customers can rally their elected officials to legislate guaranteed 1+ year warranties... this is what European customers did a while back.
There is support for better codecs on Linux, it's just not shipped by default on most distros unfortunately. https://github.com/EHfive/pulseaudio-modules-bt
I'm using a HN client called "Materialistic" and strangely it does load in reader mode there. I can't load it in a browser either.
History may be a great way undergrad for law school, or as I see it, a pack of dogs, cheating at cards.

How about med school? A pack of monkeys, trying to fix a car.

It's very easy to be wealthy today. Fog a mirror, and you are richer than most people ever been, and money strikes like lightening.

I don't know why you would want to. You make yourself a target, and people line up to take you out.

It's wrong to think of the poor as victims. Usually it's many voluntary moral failings, that are actually easy to recover from fast.

Watch out for the smart poor. They are more dangerous. They're just lying in wait, waiting to take someone out, and are much more effective than the rich ever will be.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if History majors are some scheme to launder money, or profit off of foreign interests.
ClusterScope: Discover outdated images in your Kubernetes cluster
I've seen this article headline/link at least half a dozen times in the last 24 hours and avoided reading it until this comment thread _precisely_ because I saw BuzzFeed.
Are you, by chance, allergic to mold? Most people don't think of mold as a food allergy—I certainly didn't used to. But many foods contain mold (especially aged cheese). There seems to be some controversy around whether mold-allergic people need to follow a special diet, but anecdotally, I find that I must. Otherwise, I get chronic migraine headaches and a whole laundry list of related problems that I won't list here. (I tested positive to mold allergy on a skin prick test.) I was also having difficulty swallowing at one point.

https://www.webmd.com/allergies/mold-allergy-basics
(Note: The list of foods here is pretty good, but some of the foods only need to be avoided if they've been dried/aged/preserved, such as meat, in my experience.)
Do other people check before submitting to HN?

Hope this doesn't come across as stroppy (not my intent) but there are seven others who've posted this story after this link. I appreciate they're not the exact same site, so one could argue that they provide different insight, but in an acquisition story like this the core points will be the same (since they'll all have got them from the PR!)
TFA:

Hugely profitable tech company provides first look at how corporations are faring under new tax law

The popular video streaming service Netflix posted its largest-ever U.S. profit in 2018­­—$845 million—on which it didn’t pay a dime in federal or state income taxes. In fact, the company reported a $22 million federal income tax rebate.

After a year of speculation and spin, the public is getting its first hard look at how corporate tax law changes under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act affected the tax-paying habits of corporations. The law sharply reduced the federal corporate rate, expanded some tax breaks and curtailed others. The new tax law took effect at the beginning of 2018, which means that companies are just now closing the books on their first full year under the new rules.

If Netflix’s earnings report is any indication, not much has changed. Many corporations are still able to exploit loopholes and avoid paying the statutory tax rate—only now, that rate is substantially lower.

Netflix’s tax avoidance should come as no surprise to those who followed the debate leading up to the passage of the new tax law: A 2017 ITEP report identified Netflix as one of 100 profitable Fortune 500 corporations that paid a 0 percent federal income tax rate in at least one profitable year between 2008 and 2015. In fact, Netflix did it twice, and paid an average tax rate of 13.6 percent over the eight-year period, meaning that the company sheltered more than half of its profits from the 35 percent federal income tax rate in effect at the time.

Leading up to the 2017 tax battle, the hope of reformers was that Congress would take a fiscally responsible approach and weed out loopholes that made Netflix’s tax avoidance possible. Instead, GOP leaders who championed the law and President Trump chose to focus on cutting the corporate tax rate as far as possible—from 35 to 21 percent—while leaving in place special breaks and loopholes.

As more 2018 earnings reports begin to come in, we will see the results of this profligacy in real time. Netflix appears to be every bit as unaffected by corporate tax laws now as it was before President Trump’s “reform.” This is especially troubling because Netflix is precisely the sort of company that should be paying its fair share of income taxes. With a record number of subscribers, the company’s profit last year equaled its haul in the previous four years put together. When hugely profitable corporations avoid tax, that means smaller businesses and working families must make up the difference.
Sales tax is regressive.
My recommendation is simple and it's what works for me. For a few weeks change your routine. Don't work on projects - you can think about them but don't actually work on them.

Rest - like really rest. I'm usually very guilty of never sleeping enough so when I do this I try to sleep a full 7.5-8 hours a night, sometimes more. I also take a week or two off from exercise to supplement the rest so my body can physically recover. But keep waking up at your normal time, just go to bed earlier (unless you're already getting enough sleep).

Perhaps use one of the weeks to take a vacation if the budget, timing, etc. allows for it.

Allow yourself unplanned time where you can do whatever you want. Whether that be driving around aimlessly listening to music (which I love to do), reading a few books you wanted to but never got around to, or deciding on a whim to go somewhere or do something specific.

Allow time for yourself to just let your mind wander. This isn't really possible when your phone constantly distracts you so keep that in mind. I do some of my best thinking when I can just allow my mind to wander and ignore my phone for hours on end. Also consider meditation if that's your thing (not really my thing). Related to this is allowing yourself time to just sit in silence. I don't know why but I find it very soothing and restorative - maybe because I have young children who are loud.

Do something for someone else. Maybe your mother needs something done in the house. Maybe your friend needs help moving. Maybe you just want to volunteer a day or two for Habitat for Humanity. Doesn't have to be huge but seems to be good for the soul. But make sure it's something you actually have to do - don't just cut a check to some 401c entity.
It's complicated
Yes, the tricky bit is not losing any advantage the float might bring via underwriting losses.

It requires understanding risks very well and being willing to stop selling insurance (and losing market share) if the market for insurance gets too competitive.
Right, but that positive slope is only for within-country variation.
The repeated message from the authors is that clojure.core docstrings are not gonna improve.

If you think it's an easy problem to solve, please point out a single resource (library, website) which is 100% high-quality, comprehensive, up-to-date, IDE-integrated, and noncontroversial. Where is it? Why haven't we all adopted it?

The facts are: we have good-enough docs, nREPL, a massive corpus of beginner material (books, videos) and real-time support from enthusiasts on Slack.

If you ain't clojuring, it's because you don't want to!
I think ~1 million pageviews (according to SimilarWeb: https://www.similarweb.com/website/notabug.io) is notabug.io+snew.notabug.io (see subdomains section: snew.notabug.io 97.85% notabug.io 2.15%).

So notabug itself is 2% of 1 million ~ 20k pageviews.
Argument by contrived analogy is so awful.
Just came to say that and it was already taken.

Ok, Citations Needed.
Reddit's new dark pattern to push the app is "log you out at random intervals on mobile."
>The Bible is an often overlooked trove of wisdom

For a book used by millions of people as the only source of wisdom for over a dozen centuries, I can hardly disagree more about the 'overlooked' part.

I am not commenting about its actual merits, as it has some merits and some beautiful verses. But it is just a book among many. It should stop being the only book many people read.
From the linked article:

"2. Red meat causes heart disease, diabetes, cancer... and spontaneous combustion

The section of the report dedicated to protein blames red meat for heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, obesity, cancer, and early death. It contains 16 references, and every single one is an epidemiological study. The World Health Organization report tying red meat to colon cancer was also mentioned, and that report is almost entirely based on epidemiology as well. [Read my full analysis of the WHO report here.] The truth is that there is no human clinical trial evidence tying red meat to any health problem. I certainly haven’t found any — and if there were, I think this Commission surely would have mentioned it."

Are we supposed to take this seriously?
The inevitability of "defacing" the blockchain was discussed back in May 2017 as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14434786

Global public blockchains are too tempting a target for that type of thing. It will interesting to see how this plays out and whether government agencies respond (or ignore it).
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Personally I love the heat that an incondecent bulb emits, I can actually keep my hands warm on my keyboard while lowering my room heat. 75 watt bulb with heat versus a 3000 watt space heater.
tldr; LED lasts 100000 hours, other parts of bulb do not.
Populist clickbait headline is clickbait.

I'm sure Netflix paid tons in employer contributions to employee income taxes, social security taxes, etc. They probably paid a bunch in sales taxes where they made purchases. Property taxes for data centers, office buildings, etc. So there are many more taxes that everyone pays beyond the income tax.

As others have pointed out, the tax code is immensely complex, but you probably don't need a deep explanation for a $0 income tax bill: previous years' financial performance can carry over into the current year.

As someone once told me: with complexity comes opportunity. Simplifying the tax code, regulations, and laws removes the opportunity for well-funded operations to exploit the existing complexity.
True, I've been using mind mapping tools but it's not the same.

Nuclino (https://www.nuclino.com/) looks promising, trying it out now.
tl;dr we are upset GAAP net income does not equal taxable income.
Actually the biggest lobbyists for tax laws aren't companies but accounting firms.
Why is it desirable to transfer money from job-producing companies and investors to the government?

In any case, Netflix is still cash flow negative and probably carrying forward previous losses. If that's undesirable, change the tax code, but still would rather Netflix have the money than Uncle Sam.
I don't think anyone is calling for forcing Patreon to do anything. They are just looking for an alternative that doesn't behave like Patreon.

It's like Free Speech. You can't just allow free speech for things you want to hear or it's not free.

Patreon has chosen to not allow free speech, and it's their right as a private entity to do that. The market should decide whether or not to support this principle.

Another company could come along and say that they won't discriminate against people based on political ideology or anything like that, and a lot of people would support that, even if it means the company would be helping projects they find offensive.
And you expect your investments to continue to increase in value with a shrinking population?
Netflix hasn't, to my knowledge, even filed their 2018 annual yet (or their Q4 2018), so I'm not sure what they're even basing their numbers on. But they admit elsewhere that Netflix paid taxes most of the preceding years, averaging out around 13.5%. In the end their tax lawyers do exactly what tax lawyers do, and unless they're breaking the law so be it.

As an aside, it's rich that it's always Americans complaining about companies paying low American taxes on billions that they make overseas. Netflix is more international than American now (2/3rds of their subscribers are not Americans), yet they are especially adept at avoiding taxes everywhere else. In the UK they have repeatedly paid $0 because they claim to be a Netherlands operation there, etc. In Canada every single competitor has to charge a sales tax of 13% (and consumers weigh the total cost, so if applied it would put downward pressure on Netflix's prices), but Netflix charges none.

In any case, corporate tax rates are often much ado about nothing because in the end that money ends up in various other tax brackets. It becomes a capital gain, or a dividend, or some other form that often gets taxed at the personal level.
I Don’t Believe in Climate Change
If our experience is anything to go by - visitors hanging around in the lobby, desperate for someone to show them the way as the automagic visitor kiosk issuing passes and notifying whoever you were about to visit that you have arrived is broken. Again.

Thieves helping themselves to computers, video projectors and the like as entrance security is a joke and noone monitors the lobby anymore.

Calls doing the rounds from department to department as the corporate mega-switchboard does not know anything but employees' formal title and not what they actually do - unlike the receptionist, which also manned the local switchboard.

&c. You can solve most of this by throwing more money at it - but a good receptionist is IMHO money very well spent...
Hmm this is a good point, I imagine just by sheer volume it must be well supported.

I would've assumed the Intel BT chipsets and the Macbook Pro ones would've been as well, though perhaps I had duds.
One book that has changed my way of seeing every aspect of my life is: The Enchiridion By Epictetus [1]

1: http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html
You'd probably be charged with something and punished.

Courts don't take to kindly to people trying to be cute with their demands. It's not like they are going to say "well they are technically right" and give up, they are going to just up the consequences or clarify the request until you comply in the way that everyone knows they want you to.
So, the easiest for the government to destroy blockchain is to supplant their own illegal images onto the blockchain themselves...
> He said there was "ongoing research" to find ways to remove such content from block chains but these were "not yet mature".

Either you have centralization, which nobody wants, or you have a bot that everyone agrees on to censor things, and people will will always find ways around bots. Are there really any other alternatives?
I don't hear as much about Clojure these days, and I don't know if it's because my reading habits have changed or if the community has become quieter. My impression was that other languages have captured the zeitgeist and that the enthusiasm for Clojure has abated. I could be wrong though.
Companies here won’t lower prices, they’ll just hide the fact that there’s a tax until checkout. At least with income tax it directly comes from their books and forces them to either take the hit or be the ‘bad guys’ and raise prices.
Check the heavy handed moderation on subreddits like the /r/conservative and /r/the_donald.

The former has many threads that are marked "conservatives only" which auto delete any comments from anyone not tagged as conservative by mods. t_d will just delete your comments and ban you if you dare to speak out against Trump.

And all this is not even counting the downvotes you get for speaking your mind in rightwing or alt right places.
This is not really true. Sales tax is almost always a tack-on. Netflix can very easily advertise the same prices, and then when sales tax gets added on in your credit card statement they can just throw up their hands and say "the government makes us do this!". At least, that's how I'd see it - I'm paying Netflix X, and I'm paying the government Y. In no way does Netflix "eat" this cost.

Could try and pass legislation to force all companies to only ever advertise after-tax prices, but that's a doozy to enforce.

Sales tax is always regressive. The only ones who are paying it is the consumer.
I think that he is talking about average person and you have rich classes in mind. Most people dont have money to invest in bonds.
This is in contradiction to eschaton, and I agree with GP in this regard: pass-thru of CPU instructions to host hardware is just an optimization, not a defining feature of virtualization. There were VM hosts before processors supported this, and back then I think that virtualization == emulation.
OK, but our First Amendment allows Nazis to speak freely in this country. No one likes that, except the Nazis, but does that make us all collaborators?
People were worried about this in 2011. I haven't heard of any doors getting kicked for having a copy of the blockchain.
Contrary to the reflex; this is more reason to eliminate corporate income tax; and at the same time, eliminate the extreme dividend and capital gains tax discounts.
Mr. President, is that you?
Lucky you if you only had one shitty diaper per day, it’s absolutely normal to have many more than that in the first few months. Check with your local pediatrician about what normal is before you extrapolate from your own experience and start assuming there is something wrong with other babies that shit more often.
we use to have an amt alternative minimum tax in the United States...sounds like we need to bring it back asap
This is "Bitcoin Satoshi Vision", which is completely different and appears from a quick Google search to be completely irrelevant.
It does when large resellers suddenly drop their entire range as unprofitable.
Interesting, didn't know. Will look again at its Wikipedia page. Had looked recently, may not have noticed that.

Apropos of insertion sort, I think I read (it was years ago) in the Jon Bentley book (which I think I mentioned upthread), called Writing Efficient Programs, that he said insertion sort is used by some people in quicksort, as the alternative algorithm, when the sizes of the subarrays remaining to be sorted (recursively) are down a small size, in which case insertion sort has less overhead than quicksort, so is faster for those small chunks. (Or it could have been selection sort (instead of insertion sort.) In other words, a hybrid sort algorithm.
I live in a bus I converted. I have an Airhead composting toilet with the urine diverted to my 42 gal waste water tank. I also have a 42 gal fresh water tank. Most RVs have small tanks making it hard to dry camp or boondock.

I go 3-4 weeks before I need to refill my water and dump my waste. My composting toilet goes for months between emptying. It's not hard, time consuming, or a big deal.
Can you explain why you think that analogy is contrived?
Funcl supports AptX but requires an app on Android to use it, so not sure if they'd work on linux even if it was supported
I've tinkered with Clojure and find it a really refreshing paradigm to work in for building web services. However, I'm not sure I'd ever use it for something serious - it's a hard sell to management, and it's difficult to get developers on board to try something radically different compared to the imperative/OO programming models. Regardless, having played with it has changed my perception of how code ought to be structured and written. Thanks to Cognitect and the Clojure team!
> I wouldn't even agree with the point that religious people tend to have bigger families.

That would be pretty silly then. Most successful religions have two things, both of them based on growth. One is a means to capture people not in their religion by conversion. The other is by codifying good parenting and breeding habits. The biblical old testament is rife with teachings like this for example.

Population fade with success is not a modern problem, it is an ancient one. In the past if you didn't have a large enough population you were at risk of attack by stronger nations.
Pictionary-Playing AI Sketches the Future of Human-Machine Collaborations
SoftBank's investment fund dumps entire $3.6B stake in Nvidia
"I'll check him out."

Fantastic. Would be great to hear how you find him.

"most evangelical christians [...] don't doubt the accuracy"

By "mainstream scholars" I don't necessarily mean evangelical Christians, just non-fringe ancient historians or textual critics.

In this respect, Ehrman himself is interesting, because he's not actually the most extreme liberal, and you can find Ehrman himself correcting the fringe scholars when he wants to. When Ehrman is writing for the masses, however, you almost want to say to him "you should know better". After all, he had the privilege of sitting under Metzger.
Because in a democracy, it is always easier for one bad actor to spend $xyz,000 on lobbying the government to let them steal $10,000,000 from the public, then for 300 million people to organize, and lobby against you stealing 3 cents from each of them. It's an obvious defect of the system.

Of course, in 2019, half of those people have been convinced that they'll become rich, if they just let large firms fleece them.
The birth, existence and death of companies.
BSV is, apparently, yet another bitcoin fork — it’s a 4 month old Chinese bitcoin fork with 1 released version and a very vague website[1]. BBC does not explain at all how this differs from Bitcoin or the relevance of this coin.

[1]: https://bitcoinsv.io
I really enjoy Hello Internet as well, but in what way has it expanded your hobbies?
As someone who has never heard of pandas, the logo is hilarious.
Honest question - can you give an example of a tax law that was lobbied for that benefited corporations?

And I mean beyond just a decrease in tax rate which businesses would be expected to lobby for.
Setting Up New Managers to Succeed
Which doesn't help if your DNS isn't working