skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about 32 floppy drives (now that used to cost a small fortune!) playing Daft Punk- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FCIZp2HXHr0
How are the towers going to be handled post merger? T-Mobile's GSM based service vs. Sprint's CDMA service means someone is going to have to win if they're serious about consolidating spectrum and towers.
It's completely useless basically, unless you are paying online for something. For day-to-day purchases, it seems most people are just buying gift cards with their BTC. That seems to get the job done very effectively.

Also keep in mind, there are other cryptos that exist where the transaction fee is basically free and the transaction confirms in under 2 seconds. Nano is one that comes to mind.

Bitcoin is definitely falling into the "e-gold" category if you ask me.
No that's a pretty standard well-standard, if you go to lenovo/dell/etc. they generally will say 1-3 dead pixels is within normal conditions.

These guys are selling this at a loss (or near loss), they're trying to be upfront to lower the number of returns - and more importantly chargebacks and disputes.
I think you’re underestimating how hard of a problem it is to provide continuous billing information. I’ve seen SAAS companies with an engineering team dedicated just to the monthly reports, handling things like pipeline delays and data cleanliness and conversion to both a clean UI and fiddly excel spreadsheets.
But it is only a matter of time. Once webassembly achieves near feature parity with the native versions, you bet Adobe will switch users to the webassembly version.

From Adobe's perspective, it offers a lot of benefits:

- they don't have maintain build farms or pay a CDN to host GBs of binaries of native installers (for different OSes);

- users will always be on the latest (read: most secure) version since there is nothing to install or nag the user to check for updates/apply security patches;

- browser-dependence implies near-persistent Internet access, making license management/enforcement a whole lot easier;

- they can upsell you on cloud storage so that all your assets are available from any web browser.
Yes, that's the interest rate that impacts the money supply (along with other factors) by greasing bank's balance sheets. Treasury interest rates are set by the market, they are whatever they have to be to get people to buy government debt.
I'm not at all a techie - but I have a question. I'm switching from a Windows + Apple world to just Apple. So I got scared when I read that using Dropbox can mess up your photos when using Apple's "Photos" program which I have always avoided. https://www.fatcatsoftware.com/comments/dont_store_your_phot...
Anyway, I love Selective Sync - esp for photos. So there is not a solution to the iCloud problem?
Didn't this recently change? Prior to 2018 was it not considered a "like for like" transaction?
Ask HN: Cloud is too expensive, how practical is U.S. based colocation?
I want to run a very fast server and the cloud is simply too expensive for both bandwidth and machine costs.

So to minimise cost it looks like I need to buy my own machine and colocate it.

And colocation in Australia where I live is ridiculously expensive.

So I wonder how practical would it be to colocate machines that I own in the U.S. with the big question being, how can I get someone to install the hardware?
I'm not sure what you mean, but as far as I know the organizations have no relationship.
> Tax evasion by legitimate means

Tax avoidance is legal. Tax evasion is illegally not paying taxes. (The distinction is purely legal.)

If you don't like someone's tax avoidance, you change the law. If you don't like someone's tax evasion, you prosecute them.
They both have debt roughly equal to their yearly revenue, but AT&T has dramatically better margins. Sprint has repeatedly gone years without a single profitable quarter.
Because they want to control what people see in their feeds to prolong eyeball seconds, which you get by hiding what you find interesting in piles of poo.
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This is the first time I've ever head the term "wanderlust" and it sincerely hope its the last.
Apple Recalls MacBook Pro Batteries, Adding to Its Laptop Problems
You can carryover the loss in future years.
Yes you are missing basic parts. There are certain genes that produce proteins that then bind to other control areas of the DNA that affect how much other genes are expressed. These last genes translate to proteins that make e.g. a pancreatic cell what it is. But this is a tree of increased specialization on which embryonic stem cells become e.g. blood stem cells which then specialize to rbc, white platelet producers.
> An encrypted NVMe could in theory be mailed...

Wouldn't this apply to any sneakernet medium? You can mail microsd cards, harddrives if you wanted, etc.
"Node’s smallest unit, at 400 square feet, is $150,000"

Around here that would get you the median house. It's 1000 to 2000 square feet and it includes a 0.25 acre lot. It's also pretty solid, with concrete block walls.

The biggest they offer is 800 square feet for $250,000. Normal houses are 2 to 4 times as large. The pricing looks like $50,000 plus $250 per square foot. My house would thus be $827,250 without the land, which is just silly for anything less than ultra-luxury.

The pricing would be acceptable for a certain quality level. Can they deliver?

One way to help justify the price would be a believable long-term guarantee (like 50-years) that parts will be available with prices that only change with inflation. If I can say "ship me a new ceiling for a model NZKL4332" in the year 2075 and get that to show up a week later, I'd be very happy. Of course, with the actions of bankruptcy court, it may be impossible to make a believable long-term guarantee.

Another way to help justify the price would be an unusually solid design. Go far beyond the Miami-Dade standards for wind and water. Be able to withstand a car tossed by a tornado. Be able to withstand being in a forest fire.
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I’m so glad someone mentioned Vultr. They are way underrated.

They have a phenomenal service. Hard to beat their pure raw performance (NVMe, high clock CPU), they offer a host of solution from dedicated to VPS, you truly can’t beat their price (I migrated from AWS to Vultr, Vultr was 8x cheaper for the comparable AWS offering), they have global presence.
For the record, I very much disagree with Chomsky, but he was writing when the events you are writing about were contemporary, and he knew about them. I do think you may have an overly rosy view of Cold War USA. Lots of people didn't have a choice of where to work, there was and still is some hunger and malnutrition, there was a lot of jingoistic ideological propaganda, involuntary commitment and even lobotomy was used against dissidents (especially feminists and gay men), and for example the Comics Code explicitly required the jingoistic propaganda, as did the DoD for films made with their cooperation (which included almost anything touching on military topics).

There was a lot more freedom than in the USSR, but the same shitty phenomena occurred, just less so.
More than 1 person in 20 is doing something that is not value adding. We have entire industries built around zero-sum, or negative-value creation.
Another word of advice: The standards of the FDA and the IRS are very different, and the FDA is used to corporations acting maliciously while limiting liability for those involved.

The IRS on the other hand with these kinds of notices is not out to get you, and I don't believe I've ever heard of someone being charged with perjury for signing an IRS document that wasn't true (and they genuinely thought it was true), especially from the perspective of a small time residential investor who is making an effort to be compliant with tax law.

I think a more sane proposition is this, if you only have a few thousand USD in crypto, you probably don't need to hire a tax lawyer or tax accountant (or both) to review your documents and compliance.

But if you're at 5 figures or above (10k USD+) then spending hundreds of dollars, up to a thousand or more, just to retain a lawyer and/or accountant could be a smart move for you to ensure that everything has been handled appropriately.

And it's not "hire a lawyer to review this one document", it's hire a lawyer and/or accountant to review your compliance with all tax laws and investment laws federal and local, and it's something you should do regardless of receiving a letter like this. If you have a lot of money in crypto and have never spoken with a lawyer or accountant about it, you should probably consider doing that sooner rather than later.

Even if you do "lie" to the IRS, and they think you have, they aren't going to have you charged for lying and put you in jail, they're just going audit you or determine you owe them money without you admitting it, then send you a bill and enforce that bill over time through wage garnishment, account levy, tax lien, etc. They would much rather tell you that you have debt and garnish your wages than lock you up.

Generally they save the courts for extremely egregious and offensive cases of intentional tax evasion (like people who use the 861 argument)
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Also with the crypto->crypto trades there are many exchanges that don't track anything. There are some that are completely decentralized and work based on using smart contracts. Who knows how the IRS is going to tackle that issue. It is very small segment of the overall market though.
Recent related submissions include https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20531039 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20526039.
It isn't? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_and_American_keyboards

It even has the Alt Gr. I wish they'd just show the actual keyboard top-down instead of these weird angles. Even the one picture where they compare the ANSI and ISO layouts is a picture of two notebooks from a side angle ... like why? https://www.pine64.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/PInebookPr...
I mean, that's what insteon buttons with an isy994 are all about right? The button push just tells the controller "I was pushed" and whatever you tell the controller to do with that information is what gets done. The cool thing is you can have a bank of six buttons in a standard 1-gang box format. Seems easier and less complex than NFC and a phone, unless you're using the phone as a form of authentication (something possessed), whereas a physical button is like anonymous/no authentication.
Why? The hardware has been "stable" for about 2 decades now. I reckon you'd have more trouble with the IDE/USB interface drivers these days. God knows connecting an old LPT CNC machine to a modern computer proved ridiculously hard - ended up just using a very old laptop with an integrated LPT port/controller :D
It's been wrecking software companies for decades. Name one consumer software company from the 1980's that still exists, besides Microsoft. In software, monopolies, consolidation, and integration are the name of the game.

In contrast, I can easily name dozens of companies in other fields that have been around for 50 years or more, including some small ones that have stayed small yet successful.
While I don't remember a single punchline on management, their media was rather expensive at a time when affordable CD-RW drives and media basically pulled the floor from under them. The response was kind of expected--after flailing around on existing storage products, they released a branded 'ZipCD 650' drive to salvage what they could of the market, while trying to hide that it was in fact an overpriced CD-RW drive that used plain CR-R/RW discs.

In retrospect, it seems really hard to keep iterating on the next proprietary Zip/Jaz drive technology as a single company when your competition is basically everyone else who are collectively working on portable storage with wider adoption rates.
> When the internet bubble collapsed in 2000, it literally bankrupted people who had been compensated with stock options

Best practice is to sell stock sufficient to pay for taxes when exercising options. (Same for workers subject to U.S. taxation being paid in a foreign currency.)
I might be a little old fashion, but I'd rather have the motherboard in an ATX form factor, with a few PCIe slots.
Longest expansion in history, low inflation, low unemployment... the sky is clearly falling, wake up sheeple!
Perhaps listening to the authors might provide more clarity: https://www.marketplace.org/2019/07/25/scandals-apologies-an...
I've attended several lectures & discussions, and read a few standard recommended books (by no means am I claiming thoroughness). Though my comment was a touch flippant and used a broad brush, I was basically paraphrasing what I've heard from Clay Christensen and Rebecca Henderson (both HBS faculty) on why large organizations make certain typical mistakes, derived from contemporary wisdom (also taught in B-schools).
GitHub restricting Iranian civilians access to its free services
As of July 25th, GitHub abruptly restricted Iranian (and some other countries) users access to its free services depriving them of even accessing their own private repositories.
Not only this is against the nature of open communication/collaboration, but also people can't even download a copy of their code as a last resort (e.g. moving to some other service provider)

You can find a sample article written by one of the fellow Iranian software developers here:

https://medium.com/@hamed/github-blocked-my-account-and-they-think-im-developing-nuclear-weapons-e7e1fe62cb74
It depends on how much of the “Python” implementation was actually C.
the cheapest option I found was this for 400/month. I want to see if there is anything cheaper.

http://he.net/Colocation-in-Fremont-CA/?l=Colocation_in_Frem...

linode seems to use this colo too.

at this point colo is more expensive for me, so I'm using google cloud.
compress the link display

To save people from checking, this seems to turn off the preview images and the link scores. Not sure what 2- vs 3-line is referring to.
and each trade will have a separate line item in your tax return, and strictly speaking you are mean to withhold in the period you make the sale
If you have slavery, obviously you're not going to care much whether the slaves oppose it.
You start proving you can do things that have already been done and then you move on to new things.
That definitely happens, but I think a lot of the blunders are due to good intentions with poor execution or not enough thought into the need and demand.

Things like adding features to solve a problem, when those problems only affect a small percentage of users, is something I see a lot. Especially in the beginning of a product when you’re not 100% sure what you’re making or who you’re making it for and you want to appease all of your customers so you don’t lose them.

Or the feature added is too complex to be useful for a user without training / tutorials, of which few users will undertake that time investment.

I have yet to be on a team where features were not trying to directly address a customer issue / complaint, but maybe I’ve been lucky.
Anyone here used WPEngine for Wordpress hosting? https://wpengine.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments

Is often a place to spot where the interesting discussions are. Especially those with active discussion, but have dropped down or off the front page. I doubt I'm the only one who checks that page reasonably regularly, and the "new" submissions page - which is where I saw this question, not via "ask".

Equally it would allow someone to notice a comment they took issue with immediately it was posted, and send some down vote love within a single second.
Basecamp.com has this model, every new redesign/upgrade become a new product, co-existing with older one.
This is a shame. I still use floppy disk with Linux as I can write force the drive to write in 720k mode which is necessary for older computers such as Amigas and Atari STs. USB floppy drivers can't write to 720k for reasons that I will admit I don't fully understand.

This is going to cause me a major headache as Linux was my last choice really when it came to floppy drives. I am already keeping an old desktop Core 2 Quad around just because it as a proper floppy controller.

Why couldn't the driver be left in the kernel I have no idea.
> Prior to 2018 was it not considered a "like for like" transaction?

It's "far from certain" [1]. Tax diligence is part of investing; these questions should be approached before one trades an asset, not after.

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/owe-irs-crypto-crypto-trades
"Hero images". Done well it's an informative "here's what we do in a nutshell". Done wrong, it's an annoying UI.
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Not related to the article itself, but the "SmoothScroll for websites" script that the page loads is incredibly frustrating to interact with. Why do people feel the need to override browser scrolling behavior? They've even overridden the mousewheel, arrow keys, space bar, and End key, and even disabled the Home key completely.
Don't use any exchange to begin with.
IRS News release: http://src.bna.com/KeG

Letter 6174-A: http://src.bna.com/KeH

Letter 6173: http://src.bna.com/KeI

Letter 6174: http://src.bna.com/KeJ
Yes, if you measure inflation as a basket of consumer goods, you can pat yourself on the back doubly for having an asset bubble at the same time as "low" inflation. Nice that the population can still afford bread and eggs, not so nice that the prices of property, artwork and the like disappear into the stratosphere far beyond their reach.
> Tax evasion by legitimate means

A nitpick on your language: "tax evasion" specifically refers to _illegal_ actions (eg misreporting capital gains); "tax avoidance" is the term to describe _legal_ actions that reduce a tax burden.
I can tell you right now that you will have a very difficult time beating a normalized gauss filter with a diameter of around 2.2 pixels in a general case.

Color and luminance is a separate and orthogonal issue from filtering. I also know that people get away with compositing without converting to linear space, but I'm skeptical that any benefits they see aren't just a matter of getting the color curve they want for free, as opposed to doing a similar correction after something has been composited correctly.
Three classic disaster stories: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15658437 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15439346 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12521045

From the last:

>And while I am not dumb enough to have imagined I’d make much money as a passive, partial investor in a New York City restaurant, I was dumb enough to think that I could probably earn my money back-ish, while at the same time helping some decent young men fulfill their dream. (Also, it seemed more fun than investing in a municipal-bond mutual fund, which cannot, thanks to the killjoys at the S.E.C., give investors free beers.) But of the many failures of logic and foresight of that investment, which I made in 2010, the one that stings the most is not realizing that so few restaurants in New York make money precisely because too many restaurants in New York have investors like me.

>That business, more or less, stinks. New York restaurants are at the intersection of the low-margin world of food businesses like grocery stores (low margin because so many compete in the all-out war to sell food) and taste-predicting nobody-knows-anything businesses like Hollywood. I spoke to one of the two owners of the restaurant, who wished to remain anonymous in case he decided to keep his hand in the restaurant business. He provided me with the Manhattan math, from the seven-year profit-and-loss statement. If you as a customer generated a hundred-dollar tab, about thirty-seven dollars went to the staff (plus the twenty or so dollars you tipped); twenty-nine dollars went to buying the food and beverages that became your meal; fifteen dollars went to the landlord; six dollars went for supplies (such as new forks) and maintenance (hello, plumber); five dollars went to bank fees, insurance, and workers’ comp; five dollars went to other costs (utilities, permits); and just under three dollars (two dollars and eighty cents, to be exact) was left over for operating income. For the record, that is less than was paid in credit-card fees.

[...]

>Yet I’ve come to conclude that the restaurants New York needs are doomed, financially, to fail. That’s because amateur capital backed by magical thinking and a desire for fun distorts the economics for everyone. New restaurants, with too-easy access to financing from people like me, invest too much in design, tableware, food, and service, driving up every customer’s expectations of every restaurant in a cyclone of unprofitability. Landlords, with enough dreamers to fill their spaces, can command nightmare rents. If restaurants had to be good business ideas, and attract sophisticated investors who mercilessly demanded a profit, there would be fewer restaurants. They would be less cool. The food would be less good.
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I don't want to use Windows. I won't work for anybody that forces me to use Windows. I can choose where to work. Children are forced to go to school, it is obligatory. That's why it is not okay to force children in schools to use Windows.

Computers for children are used for convenience or to solve problems. Neither of which requires Windows, or any other vendor-specific platform.

It's neither justified nor necessary to force children to use Windows or any other specific operating system in school.
One insight in the article is the financial sources that keep the startup scene in sillicon valley going. These are investors from China, sovereign funds and massive entities like SoftBank In addition big tech with their growing war chest have ever more reasons to buy startups. All these financial sources have prevented bubble burst like in 2000 when revenues were expected post IPOs. Now you can just keep going with ever higher valuations for years.

It occurs to me that these financial sources are also why it’s so hard to duplicate SV elsewhere: this massive niagras of funding don’t exist in Paris or Austin or even London at the scale they do in SV.
Recreate Keras from scratch in base Python
It's pretty clear from the first few minutes of the talk that math notation is in fact what they're talking about, not math in general.

I'm not saying it's a great talk, but this particular critique of it isn't persuasive.
Weren't they treated more like property then?