skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know, a lot of users would be more ok with change if it was demoed to them first, or given a heads-up, or they were given an opportunity to give feedback that co's actually use, and improve the product. A lot of people I know would say something to the effect of, "[Google/Microsoft/Apple/other co] can fly me out and have me test every product. I'll do it for free." Just because the practice of forced system updates and breaking changes is so god damn frustrating and it happens so often.

Back when I worked in medical software, it fucked up doctors' and nurses' workflow very, very badly for a whole workday (could be anywhere from 8-24+ hours), and it might stay the same way for years. Because even if they tell us to revert it, it's so low on our priority list that it just stays there forever. Users can complain forever and nothing will change because we refuse to prioritize the very thing they're asking for.

Tech co's don't really have a satisfying answer to this issue IMO. The most we do is bring in a few people off the street every few months to test the whole system, but usually we seem to just say "LG2M" when another engineer on the team says it should be fine. That's an engineer, not a user. You won't get quality feedback.

I guess when you keep telling new engineers some dark shit like, "Users don't know what they want", your industry will get pretty callous to its customer base.
That isn't true... you aren't taxed on every transaction. You are taxed on your gains and losses... if you make $1000, it doesn't matter if you made 1 big trade or 100 small ones, you get taxed on the total (either long or short term capital gains)
Was recently driving in the midwest US, hadn't been there in years, and at first the farmland seemed nice, but then as it went on for hours of driving, as far as you could see, just plowed fields forever, for monoculture crops, with minimal to zero habitat for wildlife... it became very ominous feeling, realizing that this is millions of square miles, nearly as industrial as a Houston refinery zone...

Something's got to give.
Having talked to many people I do believe there is low tax compliance, but having read how the IRS rationalized the Coinbase subpoena to the judge I realize they have no idea to tell if they have compliance or not.

They merely did a search string for 2015 for "bitcoin" in tax filings and found 800 people filed that way. So I checked my 2015 tax filings and saw I had manually entered "LTC" for closing a litecoin trade to US dollars. Hm okay, so one of the most compliant US citizens isn't counted as one of the 800 people, got it.

So then Coinbase's compliance with the subpoena now has them automatically sending Schedule D information to the IRS and to users based on a net value of any holdings in their account. But Coinbase doesn't know what any of the holdings or transactions represent, just like your bank doesn't know what your deposits and transfers represent. A third party is now assuming that its users are on the hook for capital gains, causing a filed accounting discrepancy for everyone.

Fascinatingly incompetent.
An obvious & explicit url link for Pioneer in your blog article might also help:

https://pioneer.app

Based on your previous title of "Does Silicon Valley VC tournament manipulate the scores to pick winners?", I searched google for "pioneer vc"[0]. The top links were for https://www.pioneerfund.vc -- which is the wrong url. It was confusing because that landing page also mentions YC.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=pioneer+vc
Is there a good place to learn about this that doesn't assume a deep bio background?
> I liked the iOS redesign immediately. Now we're all so used to it, and now looking back iOS 6 looks like a janky toy, but most people hated iOS 7+.

These two sentiments are not necessarily incompatible. iOS 7 absolutely made iOS 6 look old and clunky, and I could never go back. But I also still actively hate the pure-white world of iOS 7 seven years later, and don't get me started on the Safari icon. It'll be curious to see how things evolve in the post-Ive world.

I wonder if the opposite effect also exists: a solid redesign that also lifts up the previous version in hindsight.
Then maybe make vaping, nicotine or not, illegal for children. Now you don’t have to specify and they can’t be advertised to, at all, even for the purely flavored vapor.
Bureaucracy isn't necessarily bad.

The natural ebb and flow of political appointees in government is a great example of it. Good civil servants can make things go great.

Where government performs very poorly is typically where both the formal and informal leadership networks are not up to the task. Brilliant appointed leaders exist and can do amazing things. The informal leadership and machinery requires care and feeding, and tends to fail spectacularly when it's ignored or actively undermined.
It applies if there are gains.

What's not clear if you have to report the value of the gain when you did your transaction, or the current value. Crypto prices change a lot
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Regular foreign currency also gets taxed if you make a profit trading it.
It strikes me that either you legitimately can't relate but might think you can, or you aren't empathizing with the author (nothing wrong with that, sometimes we legitimately can't put ourself in their "shoes"), or you may possibly be unintentionally gatekeeping nonconformity. None of that is meant as an offense to you but just the 3 impressions I get from your comment after reading the article.

James provides many meaningful thoughts, and even gave a disclaimer that this is something he's still thinking through more.

One of those meaningful thoughts I felt was particularly provocative was this:

> I also learned that being a successful non-conformist is easier when you have security.

It's easy for the rich kid from a well-connected family to be a nonconformist and still succeed at what they hope to do in life. Take a poor kid, who is also well-connected but not necessarily to those comparable to the rich kid. Poor kid might have a lot of social capital among their community such that they can get things done, but compare that to rich kid who can always fall back on a family friend hiring them for a junior management position where they'll get paid orders of magnitude more than the poor kid... Now imagine that poor kid with low to no security being a nonconformist.

For them, that could go one of two ways:

1. Ostracized from community for going against the grain/not getting in line

2. They get lucky and some aspect of nonconformity brings them great success and even wealth

Which of those two do you think happens more frequently?

So, I politely disagree. While it does seem that he's sharing some raw thoughts, there are some good clear items in there to think about.
Right now it's pretty hard to live on cryptocurrency alone. Which means at some point you will need dollars (or Euros or whatever), and that transaction is almost always traceable to a person.
From my experience, it's not really a matter of getting tracked. It's a matter of whether you can explain your income conclusively, which isn't easy if you don't report all transactions.
I believe this is where a lot of the confusion comes from. If you use Coinbase to directly trade crypto (e.g. BTC for ETH) this is a taxable event on your BTC even though you never touch fiat in the process.
He's not saying the idea is accurate, he's simply stating the idea. No need to argue unless you don't think he's representing the viewpoint accurately.
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here's one more relevant today https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_X-ray
My eternally in-progress game has a new hybrid dungeon generator now. It supports a variety of dungeon generation algorithms (so I can satisfy my never-ending desired to keep creating them) and will even mix them together in a single dungeon.

The latter is something I've wanted to do for ages but only very recently figured out how (thanks to an offhand comment from Brogue's Brian Walker at last year's Roguelike Celebration). The tricky part is ensuring you still end up with a fully connected dungeon.

If you want to see the current state, you can play with the generator here:

http://munificent.github.io/hauberk/debug/dungeon.html

At shallow depths, it tends to use a single rooms-and-passages generator. But if you pick a lower depth and click a few times to roll new dungeons, you'll start to see hybrids that mix a few different algorithms together. It still needs a lot of work, but I'm really proud of it.
> but I can't buy a hamburger with shares of stock.

Sure you can, you just have to convince someone it's worth the hassle. That it is atypical doesn't mean you can't.
You just contradicted yourself. The only point of a cryptocurrency is to pay for goods and services with it, same as any currency. If it's only some kind of long term investment, but it's a currency, isn't that an oxymoron? It serves no purpose whatsoever. It's a Ponzi scheme and it has always been a Ponzi scheme.

The promise of crypto was that it would be untraceable like cash money as well as immune to reserve bank inflation fuckery. The whole thing is unraveling.
You're taxed only on the gain from the transaction, but you have to report every transaction (at least in theory - I'd bet that drug dealers being paid in crypto aren't reporting them, but if you're going to break the law, you're breaking the law). The issue isn't the tax bill, it's the amount of work you have to do to track the dollar value of the cryptocurrencies involved (which may not even be well-defined, since many cryptos aren't available for U.S. dollars) when you make a transaction.
Just because you're not tracked doesn't mean it's not tax fraud.
The only thing on the decline, are thankfully crap game clones with monetization for each click.
Frequent player of chamber music here.

By dissing chamber music in that way, GP was falling prey to an unfortunate Hollywood stereotype that usually involves rich people and this piece of music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSV8NnA3B74

But what about this one, also by Mozart, also performed by the Hagen Quartet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBMpD5ldrWU

So Mozart had a lot of emotional range, even in a period where sharp dissonances and tangled counterpoint were out of fashion.

A group of us chamber musicians has had a lot of success playing for people that don't usually listen to classical music simply by doing it in intimate bars and cafes. (Primarily, the Revolution Cafe in the Mission District of San Francisco.)

The fact that the music is long doesn't matter at all if you find people where they are and play with emotional conviction.
From a legal standpoint, it's a commodity not a currency. And US citizens who trade foreign currencies are subject to tax on their gains.
Previous discussion from last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20466542
Making money from currency exchange rates is absolutely taxable.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/forex/09/forex-taxatio...
You do owe taxes on gains from currency exchange rates: https://smallbusiness.chron.com/foreign-currency-exchange-ta...
It probably isn't the root cause but it probably isn't the final symptom either. Solving aging seems to resemble working up a complicated tree of causality with multiple roots. Fixing nucleotide synthesis won't make us immortal but it may prevent significant downstream impacts.
When one component of the system has infinite power over the other (moderation over quantitative metrics here), you can't call that a mixture IMO.

I would suggest these three things:
(1) separate the concept of "experts" and "organizers/developers". When I hear "experts" I assume "independent experts".
(2) change deceiving language on the landing page. Quoting: "All you need to do is convince other participants that your project is worth doing." and "Every week other participants will give you feedback and points. The more progress you make, the higher your score will be." No mention of experts, yet alone organizers at all.
(3) Make the points transparent. That includes breaking down voting vs experts vs whatever and disclosing the details of the scoring and matchmaking systems. Doesn't have to be exact spec/formula obviously, but general details.
https://www.hl.co.uk/shares/share-research/201907/amazon-pro...

> For a company with sales of $233bn last year, Amazon makes surprisingly little profit. That's because the bulk of sales come from the retail business, which generates a comparatively modest profit margin. In fact outside the US, Amazon's retail business loses money.
The problem with this is that America has a lot of money and brainpower behind it, so it sitting on the sideline inevitably slows down progress.
> BUT ALSO the reviewer gets familiar with the code being pushed and learn stuff.

The reviewer is supposed to determine what goes in or not, so how can this be an opportunity to learn from what goes in? They're the one who's supposed to determine that! Is your idea of a reviewer someone who just spectates all code going through? It's like saying people who don't know a subject should grade work from students taking a class in that subject, as it's a great opportunity to learn from what gets turned in.
> More broadly, the tech dura-bubble has coincided with a continued boom in corporate profits that has lifted valuations and increased the sums spent on mergers and acquisitions throughout the whole economy.

How much of this is because of tax changes? In other words, how much of this essentially represents a wholesale migration of wealth to corporations and the rich at the expense of reduced services for the poor?
> assuming the company [...] stops charging you

This is what disputing charges is for. Once you have told them, even once, that you are canceling your subscription, any further charges are fraud and you should respond accordingly.
Hats off to you for putting up with such brilliancy and simplicity in explanation
This is the IRS's way of saying that it isn't a currency. It's the government's way of saying that only the US government makes valid currency in the US, and everything else is an investment.

They even treat foreign currency that way now. If you buy a bunch of Euros and then convert back to dollars later, you're supposed to pay tax on the gain.
To me this makes a lot more sense than the T-Mobile At&t merger that failed to go through.

Sprint is a pretty dead brand and provider. They were actually giving away a year of free service without any obligation (you only had to pay $2 tax/fee) and people still would not switch to it.

T-Mobile has pushed the other carriers to bring back unlimited plans and they've separated the phone cost from the plan itself (allowing people to more easily switch carriers and bring their own phone).

Allowing T-Mobile to get more customers and a stronger position might be a good thing in order to compete with Verizon and At&t.
It's not mute or even moot. Assembly intrinsics are not enough.

I've dealt with this, getting software to run in Visual Studio. The intrinsics are simply not available. You end up running code through gcc to produce assembly, then hacking up the assembly (way too much to write by hand) into a separate *.asm file for Visual Studio.

Vector stuff, if it isn't very new, is covered by intrinsics. Well, it is badly covered, with terrible failures to keep things in registers.

Once you get into exotic OS-level stuff, the intrinsics simply don't exist. The most important one is the ability to put an arbitrary byte sequence into the instruction stream. For example, suppose you wanted to add a Spectre fix to your JIT on day 1. You needed to fix a security problem, so waiting for a new release of Visual Studio isn't an acceptable option. You really truly need the ability to put weird byte sequences into the code. Visual Studio doesn't provide an intrinsic for that.
Key quote, showing that it's not official yet. "The DOJ's approval is not the last one T-Mobile and Sprint need, because 13 states and the District of Columbia sued the companies to block the merger."
Of course a lack of steel causes the car factory to stop, but it would still be quite the discovery that car factories are regularly stopping because of a lack of steel.

In fact I wouldn't believe you if you told me that was in fact the case.
I think that, sadly, that decision was taken out the farmer's hands once the hordes of instagrammers started showing up. The choice he's faced now is "run a tourism business that keeps it skmehwta quarantined from your main business" or "run an unmanaged tourism giveaway that harms your main business".
The SIS database is 100% blacklist - people who should be stopped at the border, arrested, reported or followed, objects that should be seized (like stolen cars), objects that prompt for more inquiries (like stolen/lost passports).

Source: worked on SIS
I used to be a proponent of NSS, when people who were much more closely involved with TLS implementations were quite down on it. NSS was the first TLS library I really read "cryptographically" (it hosted the Bleichenbacher e=3 signature verification bug, which made Firefox vulnerable to signature forgery) and I found the code really easy to follow, unlike OpenSSL's. Ultimately, they were right, and I was wrong: in this space, you want a lot of attention and effort on your TLS library, and OpenSSL is the most seriously maintained TLS library. For the same reason: OpenSSL over LibreSSL.
Failing to report income is federal crime. It's not more complicated than that.
I received written death threats (letters cut and pasted from various papers) once and the police ignored it. I got attacked a week later
> There's no way they can justify giving a person who's been with the company for 10 years 4x salary growth in 2 years. How could they even reasonably measure the market value of his skills changing so much so quickly?

If he was doing the same job I could see why he would get the same pay. If he had taken on greater responsibilities or become more productive though, why not?
Cynical take: Because the people in power defining the inflation calculations don't want people to realize they're being fleeced.
And that's quite logical if you think about it. How else can you explain the amount of your gains/losses when trading crypto for crypto and then back to fiat again.
Audiences have trouble with 'big ideas'. They're hard to put on screen, and besides, if people really wanted that, they'd be reading a book, not watching an action movie. Art these days has to have something fun to hook people and get them to try to accept something new. Sometimes, the fun part is so good that it overwhelms the interesting part.

That's why I'm frustrated by The Matrix. Stripped of the action, the first movie is basically mid-age wish fulfillment. You have a respected, well-paid, safe yet boring job you hate, and then somebody comes and offers you a way out. For the low cost of nothing, you can abandon your zero-attachment life, become a martial arts master in a day, and then superman, simply by deciding to be. You no longer need money. You can solve all your problems by punching, shooting, and running away.

The sequels start to delve into the idea that maybe being superman isn't all it's cracked up to be. As with the later "Dune" novels, the hero discovers his powers make him the object of worship, even though this is bad for everyone. He can pull strings, but ultimately has to sacrifice himself for humanity to be saved. (In Neo's case, of course, there's lots more punching first.) We see an inner circle who understand where their superman's power comes from, know that he's not a god, and get that this doesn't excuse you from needing to fight.
Does every news report of a specific heat wave require a connection to global climate change?
No need for multicore literacy, just concurrent
I don't know a lot of people who only have cryptocurrency income. Most people have a regular job, but then decide to put a % of their savings into crypto. You can use your job income to pay for transactions. If there are any cryptocurrency income, it's then up to you how to manage that. Put that into traditional finance (then declare it), hold (not selling, so there are no capital gains, so no tax), or use crypto to buy products that are outside traditional finance
Yes, just announced.
Thanks! Made the first mention of Pioneer a link.
From my non-scientist perspective who reads things like HN and a few other sources of announce, there's quite a bit of awareness on scientists' part with respect to p hacking. That may not necessarily translate to studies that rely on p hacking to be published and then conferred by the media, though.
My confusion is that I think there has to be a command that is encryptThisDataToBeSent(data). Can't you just look at data? Before it is encrypted? Or is data encrypted at all times? But if that's true, then the difference of sending encrypted data is kinda moot.
Yes Mastercard was in response to the success of the BankAmericard. Banks were much more regional in the 1950s-1960s because of a federal law that prevented them from operating outside of their home state.

Bank of America was the largest bank in the largest state (California), and had the most successful credit card program (the BankAmericard). When they began franchising the program to other banks, it made sense to concentrate their efforts in states near California.

Mastercard (at the time known as Mastercharge) was formed in response by a bunch of East Coast banks.

Re: Amex... they were big in the traveler's cheques business around the time that Diner's Club launched. Diner's Club proved the model, and Amex leveraged their extensive traveler's cheque network and wealthy user base to enter the market.