skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The GOP direction has been to break the IRS since the 90s. None of the administrations were willing or able to take a stand against it, and this administration is actively trying to break the executive branch overall.

A good friend was a specialist in a few tax evasion schemes used by real estate developers and a few other more obscure areas with similar methods. Basically, there were about 50 people nationally doing this in the early 90s, but the program was defunded over time and when he retired, there were 4. He spent about 60% of his time flying all over the country to testifying in court. Today there is nobody, the last guy retired last year.

By my friend's reckoning, his direct work accounted for $100M in recovered revenue per year. Some big cases were multiples of that. They have models that show the deterrent effect that enforcement has -- that $100M in recovery may deter $1B in undetected fraud. That is money being stolen from the treasury.
At the same time, variants of this are useful.

e.g. http://xyproblem.info/

When I'm asked for advice or how to do something, very often the literal answer is "wrong." It's always useful to try and consider why someone would ask a question and try to keep that context in mind in answering, but one should not overreact and completely disregard the original question.
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Not to be a thorn in your excitement but as an expert in orbital mechanics (I have a certificate from University of Kerbin) there is absolutely no assist anywhere in this manouver. The pattern is just raising apogee of the orbit around Earth by performing prograde burn close to perigee.

The only reason this could have any mechanical advantage is due to Oberth effect if the engine was low thrust type. With low thrust it takes long time to perform the burn and so part of the burn would be performed away from perigee which makes it less efficient. Splitting it would allow them to overall perform it closer to perigee.

Other than that it has no advantage over straight burn (ie.
directly from LEO to Moon using Hohmann transfer), mechanically, but it could have other advantages. Making last burn shorter makes it likely more precise than single long burn. It also probably allowed them to perform some burns to test the craft before the most important one. There might be other reasons like testing communications equipment which might be difficult in LEO but they might not want to perform it before committing to insertion.
IMO it's the difference between a really strong piece of ceramic that happens to not break when you whack it with a hammer, and something like safety glass that shatters yet stays intact. The ceramic is robust, but with a big enough whack it'll shatter into a million pieces - but the fragility of the safety glass is known and prepared for to the point where it breaking doesn't lead to a complete failure.
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> The loses from AC/DC conversion must be pretty low.

For most applications on the order of 2-4%.
This article claims that Netflix is malware. I don’t have an opinion about Netflix, but would like to hear why someone considers it malware.
> Why Everyone Loves Remote Work ... 91% of remote workers said working remotely is a good fit for them.

There's a large gap between "the small fraction of workers who are remote love working remotely" and "everyone loves working remotely". My wife works remotely, and likes it a lot. I've worked remotely, don't like it at all, and am back in an office.

(For me, I'm just happiest if I'm in the same place as my coworkers. The place I worked at remotely seemed to do everything right, but I still felt disconnected and lonely.)
I'm not saying he doesn't do his research or argue well. I am saying all he does is write contrarian articles on every topic.
> Or “Airbnb growth hacked Craigslist to link to their own website. And did you know that the founders lived with their users. You should do that, too!””

I was told by a founder that I was a first time founder (I am not) because I didn’t believe this strategy works anymore. He was basically mocking me for being so stupid to not know now growth hacking like this works.

And all the time I was thinking at the back of my head about how dogmatic his thinking was. What works 10 years ago doesn’t mean it still works today.

Copying other people’s strategy is the worst way to run a startup. By the time you have heard it, another 100 people probably heard it too and doing the same thing.

I agree with the post. Think for yourself. And definitely don’t talk down to other founders thinking you know better. Especially if you haven’t succeeded.
No Google spyware is the key feature from my perspective, but I also feel like the interface is cleaner as well.
Lots of people maintain or even gain weight on under 2000 kcal/day. BMR varies greatly with the size of the individual.
Not taking sides, but your example is a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
fallacy.
When the critical path of your process is a government agency that is doing 10x more work than it used to (with only 50% more staff), there's only so many ways you can optimize your process without making compromises in other areas like schedule.
So true. Everyone and her grandmother is an armchair startup expert these days. WTF is a startup anyway. I’m building a new for-profit business enterprise, not a social i-have-one-too startup. Call it what it is.
There were already other suppliers that would allowed companies to do this.
I'd agree that it's rarely a good idea to directly copy any other startup. It's probably good to hear many of their stories of success - maybe a few pieces of one or two will give you a great idea, or at least tend to make you think in the best ways.
It's out of date; I no longer work at either company.
Ah, didn't know that, just checked out the Wikipedia page. Thanks.
Full bullet text:

"""

* February 1, 2020: users will no longer be able to create new Mercurial repositories

* June 1, 2020: users will not be able to use Mercurial features in Bitbucket or via its API and all Mercurial repositories will be removed.

"""

The February 2020 deadline to prevent creating new Mercurial repos seems too late. Why delay? Ok, not next week by why not 1st November 2019. You will just upset randoms that by accident creates a Hg repo with bitbucket only to be told it will be deleted soon.

The June 1st 2020 deadline, is two parts. 1st part of disabling Hg features seems fine.

But as you say the second part should be punted way into the future if not never.

Sure, cripple it to read-only browsable only. But don't delete. There are plenty of tumbleweed open source projects that won't react before next year and be lost.
This sort of sabotage wouldn't get past the management where I work. They'd see right through it and fire me.
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I read her plan to tax businesses with $100m in profit is easily sidestepped by spinning off child-subsidiaries of your businesses right around that $100m mark and report back "womp womp, no over $100m profits here".
I'd be more interested in learning of what other startups used the same strategy and failed anyway.

Ultimately luck is a large portion of success.
Polarizing opinions drive views.

It might help to tamper the anxiety from watching your own posts, but let's be real—social media is a polarizing place because there's money to be made from drama, even (especially?) if it's fictional.

Looking to reduce polarization? Blame our ad model.
(a) he does not do it

(b) it is not really possible for those whom he wants to "empower" to live like it is 1980s while maintaining life as it is needed in 2019.

This is why he rubs people the wrong way when he peddles his philosophy as something that is possible in practice. Do I, a person who is pretty happy playing with computers, writing code, sometimes helping others with their technological issues or helping them to leverage technology to do something that they do more efficiently, care if my phone can't trigger Netflix playback on a Chromecast? Not at all, I will just look at one of the fifty something projects that I have in a state of a mess and work on something for fun. Will my wife have the same opinion if she can't watch "Mindhunter" because we are FSF only household and Chromecast is made by a tracking company? Yeah, now we know why his companion is a parrot.
Ask HN: Paul Graham article on company T-shirt
I remember reading an article where Paul Graham talks about the importance of making a T-shirt for startups. Anyone know where I can find it?
Don't forget "British Tone of Voice".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-M2hs3sXGo

The only reason this skit is funny is because it juxtaposes the understated inflection with increasingly absurd situations.
That's exactly the point of my post!
So around 1%

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/29/tech/alphabet-q1-earnings/ind...

>Google's parent company now has more than 100,000 employees.
Alphabet (GOOGL) said Monday that it had 103,549 employees in the first quarter, up from 85,050 employees in the same period a year ago.
It's hard to test theories when the underlying system constantly changes like it does in economics. Something that works today might not work tomorrow. A theory that looks sound when applied to yesteryears data might stop working before the sun rises. When many others try to apply the same tricks that made you successful the cake on that table might suddenly be divided into so many pieces that everybody will go home hungry. You must find a new table with a new cake but old data and old theory doesn't help much with that because someone else is already there. You need to think fresh and unconventional or you need to squeeze blood out of stones harder than anybody else.

Physicists have it easy in comparison. One of the basic truths of natural science is that the laws of nature are independent of the observer and time and experiments can be repeated as many times as you like with the same results.
Making twitter a little less like Jerry Springer could definitely help. Don't promote tweets from opposing groups to opposing groups. How hard can this really be?
Their children will start to spend them.
If it's a cost savings, who cares if it's recyclable? Throwing it in the trash is carbon sequestration.
There are actual taxidermies of Wolpertinger at the Jagd und Fischereimuseum (hunting and fishing museum) in Munich.
Yes, Microsoft seems to be better at UI for sure but spyware its just replaced with Microsoft's i guess.
Since no one else has asked yet: You seem like a nice guy who could probably get a job elsewhere easily. Why are you still at FB?
> Maybe I'm around different people.

Unless you literally are jedberg but using an alternate HN account, I can assure you that you are around different people.
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Agree. Recently listened to a podcast with Jason Fried where he made this point exactly. It's this IndieHacker episode here: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/105-jason-fried-of-base...

Edit: Corrected link
Or literal freeways.

It's a common conceit of Industrialists (or at the very least, American Industrialists) to claim that they hoisted themselves up by their bootstraps and that their success is entirely their own. And then they begrudge paying for the sorts of public works and infrastructure projects that kept them from a lot more adversity. Hell, some won't even mentor or help people the way that people looked after them when they were young and naive.
Nice bait
Ah yes I missed that part, sorry. I guess that if WeWork is month-to-month, it might be better to size up or down as opposed to a three year lease?
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The article mentions how a very small fraction of adults have jobs, and who are diagnosed with being on the autism spectrum. I wonder how accurate that number is, or how far on the spectrum the individuals in that study are. It seems like a lot of great tech minds have some form of autism.
That's not the only way to "derive personal value and meaning" out of your life. I take year-long breaks after each major job switch. You do experience loss after leaving a job you enjoyed, but it passes after a few months (about 6 months for me). Then you kind of wonder why you didn't leave sooner.

This is all predicated on not needing money too much. I can see how someone who doesn't have a financial cushion would feel depressed about not only having to spend savings, but also not making money to cover the living expenses. That was the hardest part to come to terms with (at least for me), even though I'm not in any way struggling financially.

I'm kind of close to a point where I'd be fine to not ever even search for another job. I got plenty of other things (perhaps too many) to derive meaning from, and I don't need to get paid to properly derive it.
Say you want to send data to an untrusted destination and want the data to be read-only and non-copyable. DRM is the solution. That's not malware, it's part of the threat/loss prevention model for certain kinds of data.

There are plenty of issues with DRM from a practical and philosophical level. But I think calling it malware is disingenuous. Alice doesn't cede her rights over her data by transmitting it to Bob, and DRM is how Alice protects the data when Bob is a malicious actor. If Bob wants to gain more privileges over all his data, he doesn't need to accept communication from Alice.

That said, buggy DRM can be atrocious and cost more money than it saves. I know plenty of folks who pirate software they own because it's easier than an legal install. But that's a UX problem, not a DRM problem.
And not all Apple customers use it because of the privacy features.
I've read somewhere that there's a increasing trend of bitter, lonely old men in France who try to rob banks (yes!) because they're so bored and antisocial from lack of human connections. This would be a hacker version of that.
> Privacy oriented Chrome

Brave already does this. Most people don't really care.
Voice assistant + screen reader = best of both worlds for visually impaired
Yeah, I got the feeling it was a brain fart, so I hope starting with "BTW" made it come off as a friendly note.

I know, I know, this is the internet so I should have coughed up a bolus of lava, skewering your entire claim based on a trivial misstatement, and claiming that your motivation was to support that political party I detest.. I apologise for letting society down.
Who is the target market for this? Is this going to be the default browser in the next feature update version of Windows 10?
There are a lot of companies which completely avoid paying any taxes through multiple sources of side stepping taxes. Immoral but not illegal.
That’s a great idea. Actively create a hostile environment with this person for no clear benefit. I mean, yeah, you’ll like like an asshole and in no way will this likely help you, but they’ll look wrong, so totally worth it.
In 'most' people. That's the issue
I'm using Pelican [0] and found it really easy to setup and use.
The did on The Big Bang Theory show so it's got to be possible :-)

https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/24686/is-this-las...

YouTube link (for those that like the show): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v52LFgUq-8
The costs? Are you joking? Of to the 2 Billion people using Chrome, point out just one for whom the privacy implications around autocomplete have imposed a non-theoretical cost. There's the cost you impose on yourself for paranoia, but lay THAT at the feet of the FSF.

And if you say bandwidth you're fired. It's privacy the FSF is grumbling about. And for that it's been rhetoric and theoretical suffering, but no actual real-world damage. And not for lack of adoption.

Put that cost in your pipe and smoke it.
One correction. The root of rational and irrational is the word "ratio". Rational numbers are ratios of integers. Irrational numbers are not ratios of integers.

It is a linguistic coincidence that we wound up with words that has another reasonable meaning.
Good thing I did not ever "Give Up On Julia"™! So happy to see numerical programming breaking new grounds like this
>experiments can be repeated as many times as you like with the same results

That is not actually true, there is a lot of randomness, and in quantum mechanics the randomness is fundamental. The real secret of the natural sciences is that good physicists never publish if they know they don't know the answer. It took hundreds of years of that policy before the narrowly applicable theories blossomed into the general laws of the universe. If the focus was determining the general laws of the universe from the start no progress could have been made: Newton could have guessed at the laws of motion, but without the specific and painstaking celestial observations preceding him nobody would have known he was right. Economists could enjoy a similar success, but it would be at the expense of 400 years of saying only things that policymakers thought were obvious, while refusing to answer useful questions.

There are plenty of "very true" theories in economics, but they often aren't broad enough to answer the questions about economics that the fate of nations ride on. However 400 years from now those narrow but well-tested theories will be the foundation of the true general economics and all the rest will be forgotten.
There are keyloggers targeted to specific fields too. It depends on what vulnerability is being exploited to install a keylogger.

I think the description of autocomplete as a keylogger is a good fit from the security perspective.
> Well, the local machines are coming, it's totally feasible to have a Blackbird at home and host at IntegriCloud…

Yeah but there's a HUGE but: the motherboard and CPU (1S/4C/16T) and heatsink alone are $1.4k, no RAM no case no HD no nothing (I found a guy who spec'ed one for $2.1k with everything you'd need for a reasonable workstation). So unless you have a massive good reason or interest (political, because POWER, your company runs on POWER, "f*ck" x86, ...) to run your code on POWER, I don't see why you'd spend that much while you could get better for a lot less.

And the only way it'll get cheaper is to mass produce it: let's be realistic, as much as I'd want to have a POWER workstation or laptop (hey, there were SPARC and Thinkpad PowerPC laptops so why not), I won't be holding my breath while I wait...
How can a planet scale coordinated governmental effort by committee work?

The same way countless other endangered subsets of humanity (particularly those facing essentially total annihilation by, or permanent subservience to a foreign occupier) have: by recognizing the simple the simple fact that they'll either have to put their heads together, put aside their differences, and "figure out a way" to prevail against overwhelming odds --

or face the inevitable consequences of failing to do so.
> founded by wealthy landowners interested in protecting their interests

This meme needs to die.

Nobody was sitting around saying "You know what will make me richer, a decade of war with England and if we win followed up with several decades of poor trade relations". The wealthy landowners who founded this country were very much going all in on a bet where the possible outcomes were lose everything or break even. They didn't do it for the money, not that there was any money in it to do it for.

Edit: Is my statement factually incorrect or ideologically inconvenient?
"most people do not fully max out their their pentium-133Mhz cpus. therefore we should not speed up computers"

said no one ever.

this is the same line of argument
Let's suppose that's true. You didn't think it was relevant, in response to a question about whether you might not be impartial because you worked for Google or Apple, to mention that you worked at Apple a few months ago? Instead, to simply reply with a misleading flat denial? Is that really your standard of integrity?
At some point, you'd start spending a lot more money to recover less money. You'd probably be wise to back off at that point... "diminishing returns".

We're not there, though.
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Hardware is different than software though: producing actual physical chips is extremely expensive.

POWER is hot, IBM is probably just confident that someone else producing competing compatible chips and taking all their customers is not a real threat / completely outweighed by the benefits of an open ecosystem (including more compatible but different segment (low-power) chips)
That animation is cool !
Would you mind expanding on their respective theses? I can see a lot of value in looking at these in a anti-pattern kind of way.
FTTH != dedicated fiber. Most residential fiber is a shared service based around passive optical networks which will turn one fiber line into many endpoints for residential customers. Poorly managed PONs can give poor performance.

That said, AT&T has been selling their U-Verse FTTN (fiber to the node) service as "fiber home internet" for many years now. This is still based around DSL technologies but have fiber terminated much closer to the house than at a central office. If they're not on a Gigapower plan with a true optical network terminal inside their house, they probably don't actually have fiber.
Same as Safari. If any part of it is closed source, you're basically just taking their word for it that they're respecting your privacy.

Firefox is fully open source.
In short: yes. A $1k monthly expense is a lot easier to book than a $12k purchase that depreciates over time.

And from an investor point of view, if the business fails you don’t have to worry about the sell off / write down of any hardware that was purchased to get the company started.

The simplification of OpEx vs CapEx is worth a decent premium, especially in the early days when no one knows if the company really has a chance and everyone is scrambling to figure out what you’ll be when you grow up (aka product / market fit).
Can you update this link? Looks like you just linked back to this thread's URL.
The market cap of a company has nothing to do with how much tax they pay. Can we please quit spreading misinformation about Amazon?
FSF have an incredibly annoying track record of being precisely right, about a decade ahead of everyone else.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
Take a working idea, find out why it's working, find out how to make it better, try it out.

It doesn't make sense to only copy a working idea without understanding why it's working because your copy will be slightly worse. While you might have some success you won't take the big share. You must find a weakness in the original idea or the execution or the location or anything else. If you have a solid point where you can improve you have a chance. Don't be afraid of stealing ideas and making them better.
> The city and state's complete failure to engineer robust infrastructure did

Specifically, the system of levée districts, wherein the rich area finances proper maintenance of its section of the levee, and the poor vote not to, on their section. As if water and gravity care (though poorer areas tend to be lower and thus floor more)

> in hurricane country

For non native English speakers, the lack of an article between 'in' and 'hurricane' here refers to a part of a country prone to hurricanes
Wait how can I set my preferences for the activity they're tracking on me if I don't have an account?

I'm not under any illusions they're not trying to track me despite me not having an account with them.