skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes I get all tin-foil and think the machinery of society is just out to make as many people feel bad about themselves as possible.

All throughout my teens and even twenties, I would regularly have people poking fun at how thick my hair was / the amount of correlated body hair I had. People weren't being super mean, but it was a low key constant; just enough to get under my skin. I did my best to play it cool, but it really affected me and shaped my body image in ways I'm still working through.

Now that I'm in my mid thirties and things have thinned to more "normal" levels, the rolls are flipped. People almost _expect_ me to make fun of balding men. When I balk at those sorts of comments as being unacceptable, I get some really bewildered responses.

I just can't get over the flashbacks and wondering if said people have never experienced some version that treatment.
Thanks for sharing your experience. Did you raise prices, then use the extra money to consult with a lawyer?
> Finally, we investigated whether inhibition of nucleotide synthesis in proliferating HMECs is sufficient to induce senescence. In proliferating HMECs, both pharmacological and genetic inhibition of ribonucleotide reductase regulatory subunit M2 (RRM2), a rate-limiting enzyme in dNTP synthesis, induced premature senescence with concomitantly decreased metabolic flux from glucose into nucleotide synthesis.

This is the part where they took young cells and stopped them from producing nucleotides, and it's also what's described in the paper title.
> Debugging requires an extremely thorough understanding of the project

That's precisely why it's great for a starting point. It's work that mostly consists of research of the current code, to look for inconsistencies that cause a well-defined misbehavior. It involves writing little code and therefore involves little decision-making if any, so you avoid the newcomer making changes or adding stuff that, in ways, may be inconsistent with how things are done in the project.
So under the current laws does a person only pay taxes when converting to and from fiat to crypto, or does it apply to crypto transactions of any kind?
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The fact of modern vector fonts being software is what makes most fonts fall under copyright law in the first place in the US. Generally, absent actual software in the font file, typefaces aren't copyrightable at all. Pure bitmaps of typefaces are pretty much free for everyone to use. But if you use a protected vector font to generate those bitmaps, then they become infringing. Color of bits and all that.

This is also a US-centric comment. Other jurisdictions have differing rules to cover fonts and typefaces. In the US, however, it is fully legal to lawfully acquire a physical font specimen, scan that font, and do what you wish with it.

Caveat: IANAL
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The tweet is the primary source. See who signed the letter.

The story referenced in the first point is:

https://euobserver.com/justice/145530

The second point raises a non-answer by the EC that led to the EP letter and the tweet.
I am not arguing for it, I am just saying that is how the law works.
Mind linking to the study?
My favorite tutorial of all time: https://tutorial.djangogirls.org/en/
I would warn that the studies on that are still preliminary. Even really promising research, like the Vitamin D supplement craze from a couple of years ago, can fizzle out when more data comes in.
OpenBSD presentation slides are done in Comic Sans… but it's hard to say if it's far from appropriate there, or actually 100% appropriate.
goda90 is correct, this months Scientific American shows you can differentiate between organic posting and corporate posting for vaping.

See also: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6379814/
Inflation isn't extremely low. The last 2 years was 2.4% and 2.1% (https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/historical-i...). Also, I question the 2% target the Fed is supposedly using.

with so much money in equities and real estate, there is a huge inflation risk ahead of us. Just think what would happen if people actually started to sell off that equity and start spending it (such as those retiring baby boomers).

Furthermore, the fed is supposed to be smoothing out the economic cycles. If it keeps feeding the bull market with lower interest rates, it won't be able to do anything once we hit a recession. The result is much larger booms and much larger recessions: the exact opposite of what the fed is supposed to do.
> I believe Canada has something like 20% tax on the profits you get out of cryptocurrencies for the year, which I think is a much simpler system that makes much more sense.

This is wrong. Canada is taxed very similarly to USA meaning if it's an investment it may be capital gains and if it's a business then it's income.
The U.S. works the same way. You are taxed on the net short or long term capital gains not on every transaction. So if you made $1000 on one trade and lost $500 on another you would only be taxes on the net $500 profit.
Please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20536240 is egregious and will cause an account to lose submission privileges here.
Why should it be different than any other ForEx trading?
It is not an approach, it is just the law. An American company has to follow American laws, even when their customers/business partners are non-American
The author mentions finding the GCP Python PubSub API unreliable. That's definitely not been my experience.

Could someone from Mixpanel elaborate maybe?
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My team and I made a developer tool for Vue that allows you create and visualize Vue components and their hierarchy, then export the resulting boilerplate code. You can upload a mockup image, create components and select their children, view live generated code snippets for each component, view the components in mockup format and a hierarchy tree view, and open and save your projects. This is open sourced, if you're interested, please fork and clone and check out our code!
I'd also like to take a moment to chime in here. I competed in Pioneer for the first three monthly tournaments, ranking high (and being selected as a finalist) but never was selected as a winner.

From the beginning, it has been apparent that expert voting plays a significant role. I'm not sure if they're still describing the Tournament like this, but I remember an early descriptor of Pioneer as being a system to find great talent, as a way for people to get the visibility. If that's the case, it serves its goal.

I definitely have seen problems with just letting the winners be determined solely off of score. If Pioneers were simply selected by the algorithm, it wouldn't result in a good experience, since what other applicants find important about other applicants can differ than what the actual tournament organizers and experts find important.

When I participated though, I certainly had some of the same concerns the OP presents about transparency. When we stopped participating in the tournament, I reached out to the Pioneer team via email to share some of those concerns, and they were very receptive. They took the time to reply to everything I wrote, point by point, and acknowledged their shortcomings. What Daniel (the founder) posted in this thread is true- they are working hard to try and improve the system continuously.

I've gone back and forth on my feelings about Pioneer, but I have come to truly believe that they have a really excellent team that cares a lot about their mission and their participants.
"This means that the production of nucleotides is essential to keep cells young," Delfarah said. "It also means that if we could prevent cells from losing nucleotide synthesis, the cells might age more slowly."

Am I the only one wondering if this person is confusing cause and effect?
They've added new features I like, but that was the sweet spot of discoverability and aesthetic. It's been downhill since. I'm also not loving making it a more general-purpose OS—the iPad/iPhone as a slab of metal & glass that could become any of several tools, with a no-BS operating system keeping it all coordinated, was what really made it special.
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They are treating cryptocurrency as they do any other investment: you are taxed on each transaction for stock as well. If you were day trading you would have just as much pain come tax season.

That some people insist on trying to use crypto currencies as an expensive environmentally horrific currency is kind of irrelevant when the majority of users recognize that at best it’s a long term hodl investment
It's all part of the plan to keep the masses drugged and quiet. Along with marijuana legalization and weak regulation of prescription opiates. The drugs being encouraged are all ones that cause passivity. That's what we need to keep the useless part of the population passive.
> Are you interested in my response personally?

I'm actually not interested in your response, I'm interested in how you justify your previous comment while still not being able to apply it yourself.

Your appearance is important, even if you don't want it to be true. You answering these questions may make you realize how appearance is important. Anyone else answering for you won't change how you think.
At least, if I understood correctly the article, it's considered like stocks. What's the law on that?
They wouldn't be taxed on every transaction, it would work like any investment where you claim capital gains and/or capital losses.
Pronoun ambiguity strikes again. Yes, that’s what I was referring to, human-animal embryonic experimentation.
> There isn't any evidence that there is anything happening that's not biological despite 1000's of years of searching for that evidence.

If we're looking for something supernatural like a soul, then we shouldn't expect to see natural evidence. Thus the lack of that evidence does not imply its nonexistence. Relevant xkcd: https://www.xkcd.com/638/
Don't under-appreciate the benefits of having a portable, globally-ubiquitous, safe, instant method of consumer credit that is accepted by millions of merchants.

Imagine it's 1920 and you want to buy a sewing machine, which is 3 months salary. You could save up for years, during which time you're not able to sew any clothes. After you've finally saved enough, you walk over to the merchant with a wad of cash. On the way, you get robbed or lose the cash. Tough luck; no sewing machine, no money. And as for the merchant, they lose out on the sale until the time the customer has enough cash.

But maybe the merchant is willing to let you spread the cost over time. Great, now you can afford the sewing machine earlier and the merchant can book the sale sooner. But now the merchant has to hire staff to process bills and collect payment, they have to asses how likely each customer is to repay, they have to physically mail invoices and then drop payment off at the bank, etc. And every time the customer wants to make a purchase, they have to go through the long approval process with each individual merchant they shop at. No one likes waiting in lines.

Fast forward to Visa/Mastercard...customer walks into practically any store in the world, hands over a piece of plastic (or taps their phone), and walks out with any item. They get an instant, no-questions-asked personal loan.

1. Great for merchants because they reap all the benefits of extending credit (e.g., higher sales) without any of the credit risk/back-office headaches;
2. Great for customers because they can buy anything, anywhere, instantly, regardless of whether they have enough money in their account at that particular moment.

And neither party has to worry much about fraud, losing money/getting mugged, getting ripped off, etc.

This enables literally trillions of dollars of spend and economic growth. I think that's worth the ~$10b profit Visa makes.
Applies to crypto transactions of any kind. This is a major impediment to use of crypto for its intended purpose, and there are bills currently proposed in Congress to reverse this.
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> it has the entertaining property of having no dead-ends in a corridor.

That's correct. I mostly consider that a feature because I don't find dead ends very fun. Also, if you don't do the dead end pruning, you end up with a lot of them, which is definitely anti-fun.

There's an easy refinement you could do if you want some dead ends. Right before the "make sparse" step that removes them, mark a randomly set of dead-end tiles as "unprunable". Then when pruning, those are left alone, which will implicitly also persist the paths leading to them. By controlling how many of these tiles you mark, you can tune the number of dead end paths.

> It also produces extremely few pillars, which could be an issue.

Also a feature if you think pillar dancing is an exploit. :)

The generator can produce pillars, but it's relatively unlikely to.

> Looking at it, I don't think it ever generates crossroads, though.

By this, do you mean a four-way intersection? Yeah, now that you mention it, is looks like the maze generator doesn't often generate those. I think it could, but is unlikely to.

That's also easy to tweak. I believe the main reason is that it was adds to the maze by branching off from the most recently-placed open tile. This encourages long windy passages, but means it's very likely to backtrack to a tile that is already a three-way intersection.

Having it randomly choose a tile instead of, essentially, doing a depth-first traversal, will increase the chances of it picking a tile that's already a T-intersection and turning it into a four-way.
Everyone seems negative about this article but it struck a chord with me. Particularly:

>> It seems obvious to me that if a person feels he has to tattoo himself in order to “express” his difference from others, he must have some difficulty in individuating himself, perhaps indicative (when this difficulty is on a mass scale, as it clearly is) of an individualistic society without individuals.

Young people are almost always the ones who get tattoos. I think because they want to define themselves. One problem is that it is a pretty superficial way to do it. I never thought someone was thoughtful, artistic, caring.. etc. because of their tattoo. The other problem is that you often outgrow how you see yourself as a teen. There is something to be said for being comfortable in your own skin.

But hey-- if you have a tattoo I have no problem with that.
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Hell yeah. But also get rid of Prop 13.
I'm sure there's a lot to know about this topic, but it's odd to me that they'd treat a "currency" as an appreciating asset. If I'm given a dollar (or peso) as change, and if between the time I receive the dollar and the time I spend it the currency purchasing power increases, I do not pay taxes on that gain. I can just buy more stuff with that dollar (including other currencies). In this instance, where it's increasingly true that bitcoin can be used as currency to purchase goods and services, it's odd to me that those are realizing events that require you calculate gain. I get it that shares of stock work that way, but I can't buy a hamburger with shares of stock.
I think a much better approach would be to look away from using pesticides and start looking in other directions for doing agriculture
A truly decentralized GitHub replacement would not have this problem.
One such is called mango.
I'm always impressed by how people make up statements online without any kind of research that would take less than 30 seconds. No Canada has no special tax rate for cryptocurrency, what kind of non-sense is that.
Exactly. I am happy to say I’ve 0 crypto currency. Waiting until that is more tested. Meanwhile other investments are under-valued.
TurrisOS is based on OpenWRT with some additional stuff like auto-updates.
We do this with custom autoscaling with aws cloudwatch, lambda, alarms though we usually have something online all the time for uptime monitoring.
In Portugal, the IRS stated it was tax-free because nothing in the law fitted it.

Source: http://info.portaldasfinancas.gov.pt/pt/informacao_fiscal/in...
Also, Visa was originally run as a non-profit until 2007, and was co-owned by all its member banks.
An opinion that deprecates something else is just a subset of all opinions. It doesn't deserve special care.
>What ever happened to making a product, selling it once to the customer, who then gets to use it as they wish for as long as it works?

That was the old business model. It worked well for a while. Then most small software companies that sold general purpose software went out of business doing just that. And with App Stores basically stealing 30% of all your sales, its become even more harder to do that. A lot of major software companies have since moved to the subscription model and have seen a bump in revenue and profit. For me, its not a bad value proposition for things like Office or Photoshop where I appreciate the updates.

>I don’t want to pay your software team over and over so they can keep changing it on me over and over. Just make it once, sell it, then go make something else!

Interestingly, after Photoshop moved to the subscription model, Serif released their Affinity Photo software that was a one-time-payment-no-subscription software to compete with Photoshop and to cash in on the discontent. I bought it to support their efforts, but I kept using Photoshop because its just a better software and I'm more familiar with it. It will be interesting to see if Serif is still around in 5-10 years..
Mostly agree with your thesis that inflation isn't extremely low, but wouldn't boomers selling off assets (housing, stocks) actually be deflationary not inflationary? They'd be selling the house to pay for longterm care which means they're going into cash.
I'd really love to see an awareness campaign about this issue.
Qwil is fantastic, take a look here: https://www.qwil.co/freelancers
I was very fortunately that my skill level followed the complexity of problems, only several years into my career I had to deal with systems level complexity and scaling issues, working as a high level web developer. Some things are just magic for a beginner. As a manager you should make people feel confortable, and some people do not have the mindset for constant self improvement. And some people you need to protect or they would over-work themselves. The trick is to have a load/capacity balance. Take games for example you usually progress the difficulty, you do not start with the end boss, or most players would quit, and those that pass would find the rest of the game boring.
Thank you for the correction. I was referring to Jensen and Meckling https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=94043 but the basis was Friedman.
It depends where you do your transactions. If you do it on CoinBase, yes, you are going to be tracked. There are many other options though where you don't have to provide ID.
When interest rates go down, it means safer investments become less attractive. For example, lets say you have 1 million dollars in the bank account. if the bank pays you 0% then you're not very likely to keep your money there. You're much more likely to put it in the stock market, a hedge fund, a high yield muni bond or anywhere else. What all those "anywhere else" have in common, is that they're all higher risk. So, collectively by reducing interest rates you are incentivizing risky behavior.

And it's not just individual players. Think about all those pension funds and insurance company funds that need to make returns to fund people's retirements. Collectively they have trillions of dollars on the line, and no choice but to invest in increasingly risky funds. Once you understand the connection between low interest rates and risk, as a follow up, watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9_bWbrYPKg Brian Reynolds has a ton of experience working in the pension industry and this is an extremely fascinating interview (though a bit advanced, but you can still understand some of it)
Obviously no, the math doesn't prevent them from shooting your dog and carting you away to a jail cell but your assumptions about enforcement are naive.

The typical MO for tax evasion is to just not report your side gig (crypto or otherwise), hope you don't get caught and play dumb and pay up if you do get caught. This doesn't change whether it's crypto or doing under the table work which is the point I'm trying to make here. You either pay up front the right way or have a chance of not paying at all (tax evasion) but if you get caught doing that you pay slightly more for not paying up front. Anyone who is being charged with tax evasion is doing something very stupid.

It should be obvious but the people who've revived these letter should play dumb (if applicable) and pay up at this point since clearly the IRS knows that they owe more than they've paid.
Reasonable privacy should be a given. That's all Apple provides. The Chinese brands actually provide negative privacy - that is there's an expectation that they're spying on you. No one gives a damn about real user privacy in the smartphone market. We really need another mobile platform option, since neither iOS nor Android are acceptable from a privacy point of view.
it looks like it has both
I hoped technology would reduce animal exploitation. It does in some areas, like cell farming to create food without animals. And synthetic models for pharmaceutical research. Maybe this branch of research can evolve to eliminate animals as well.
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I think it may always have been a signalling of social norms and expectations. I also think many people view it as 'this is what people like me (or that I want to be like) want me to think is important', which makes it harder to dismiss.
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> Getting away from the pre-processor is considered a pro, not a con.

Yep, even ISO C++ is putting energy into making each standard revision one reason less to use it.
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