skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not quite that simple. If you're not cheating, you have to pay yourself a market rate salary that you are fully taxed on (you are setting your market rate at a reasonable level, right...?) and you're still going to be taxed on the business distribution in excess of your cost basis, just not federal payroll or self-employment tax. Be careful of state laws and fees as well - California specifically really loves to get their pound of flesh any way they can. Depending how much you make in business income and what your expense situation looks like it may or may not make sense to go through the extra hassle. Talk to a tax professional.
I very much like your style - creating a good team spirit and analyzing problems are underappreciated skills in our field of business. These roles should by no means be exclusive to team leaders and analysts because they can make all the difference in difficult projects.

Because you switched stacks, you can truly not yet be compared with the veterans who already have vast experience with your new stack. You have to rely on your other skills to provide value to your team. It is more important for senior developers to understand the domain they are working in, but eventually you will also be expected to catch up in terms of technical knowledge.

By all means, don't quit - you are likely doing better than you think. As long as you continue to do your best and work on improving yourself, it is your employer's job to judge you.
> He hates homework (as do most kids)

I just didn't do my homework and got bad grades. Luckily in my country you can always get in via standardized tests instead of grades so I did well in life anyway. I'm not sure why homework is weighed so heavily in grades, it mostly just shows how much free time the students are willing to sacrifice. The biggest cost this had for me was the guilt that I hadn't done what I was supposed to do, which made me feel like a bad person, but in hindsight I did much better than most of my more studious peers so it really wasn't all that important.
I feel like you probably haven't tried VR? The thing about VR is put someone who doesn't understand video games or any of the metaphors people who grow up with them understand, and in something like the HTC Vive they'll still just "get it". People almost immediately start walking around and trying to touch things, pick things up etc.

The biggest problem with VR is headset bulk, and space. Lighter headsets will make a huge difference. Finding a way to give people more raw space to play in will make a huge difference.
Home assistant's add-on store has a lot of these ready to go.

https://community.home-assistant.io/tags/hassio-repository
One can argue that to fight authoritarian infiltration and culture clash, certain amount of de-democracy may be needed. After all, the free nature of democracy by which malignant powers exploited is what allowed the situation worsening to alarming levels.
I wonder why pg didn’t launch this article on a Tuesday.
> The real problem is grades

Bingo! The real problem is the using incorrect metrics. If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its entire life thinking it is stupid!
Yes and mainframe consulting is also very well paid.

But these are outliers
As opposed to wannabe tax lawyers? I'll take the comedians thank you very much.
Having laws that protect disadvantaged groups from hate speech is the opposite of being an oppressive country. The fact that these laws are actually enforced is further to be lauded.
> All kinds of crime will become impossible.

All kinds of minor things will become a crime.

The automated systems will be too rigid, as they are stuffed to the brim with rules and regulations to enforce without fair human judgment.

You accidentally drop your handkerchief, or the wind blows your cigarette butt from your hand? Bam.. littering, $50 fine and your credit score goes down a notch.

Freedoms will be diminished. You are in a hurry, there is no traffic at all and your destination is 50 yards away. Do you cross the street? You can't. That's jaywalking, $100 bucks fine. You'll have to walk a mile and use the nearest traffic light. Oh, and your credit score is lowered for being late at an appointment.
> Btw, Gates, Page, Brin - all were not in a conventional school.

This is Anecdata^3, you probably shouldn't make rash decisions about your children based on 3 successful technical entrepreneurs.
You're forgetting the tank. There are a few hydrogen powered cars on the road, their tank weights about 125kg and stores a whopping 5kg of hydrogen.
Murdoch is a leaf on the river compared to technological change. Traditional journalism became endangered because the internet exposed a lot of what they do as vapid misinformation and opened up better options to do research. If I want to know about a politician's platform I can re-watch their debates and read their policies on demand. If I want to know about a subject, I can go straight to relevant technical reports. If I want to know about Cardinals being arrested for pedophilia then the newspapers are the only places that don't carry the news. Reading a newspaper article generally has negative value add, journalists usually don't capture the nuances.

But the bigger picture of authoritarianism is more to do with the technology needed to enable it. It is very cheap and efficient to run an authoritarian state with improved surveillance/computer vision and the ability to control people's purchasing with the electronic banking system.

We're already seeing early attempts at exercising this control in Australia with the cash ban bill this year. It'll ratchet up as time passes.
I understand that the other account holder's sentiment might have been "it's the bank's money" at first, but I don't understand how someone could accept money that effectively belonged to someone else and was only given to that other account-holder by mistake. It's effectively stealing in my eyes. Barclay's is also at fault here because at the very least they should have reimbursed Teich the full amount. He did make a mistake, but it was a mistake that should have been caught by the bank if they just made sure the recipient's account aligned with all the information specified by Teich.
> The more memories you can create for yourself in everyday life, the longer your life will feel when you look back.

The article is about our perception of time passing, not really about time itself.
I noticed her book also has the term perception in the title which clarifies the topic.
How did you do that? It seems to be a big stumbling block to many.
The approach here is to use FPGAs as compute accelerators, much like GPGPUs, and in somewhat similar use-cases. I.e. if you have an embarrassingly parallel compute-bound algorithm then it might make sense to offload it to FPGAs to gain performance and power efficiency.

Keep in mind that the target audience is not hardware engineers but .NET software developers. If you know what Altera libraries are then you're not the target audience :).
PHP is not bad. No language is, even visual basic for applications isn't.
There's something deeply ironic (and more than a little broken) about Drax pushing into CCS. The biomass mentioned in the article, that they burn in huge quantity travels a fair way to be burnt in the UK's largest emitter. Drax currently, with two of the six 660MW turbines still reserved for coal, burns more wood pellets in a year - 13m tonnes in 2016, when only 3 turbines were biomass - than the UK produces wood. Though they now want to convert the last two to gas, not biomass.

So where does this "renewable" source of biomess (sic) come from? Why two thirds of it comes from Enviva, who clearcut mature US wetland natural forests - not from managed forestry.

Drax's renewable claims are 99% empty greenwashing, and they remain part of the climate problem. Drax the Destroyer would be very fitting as their logo.

https://theecologist.org/2017/apr/10/no-drax-theres-nothing-...
Haha, this really nailed several painpoints of TF. Laughed and nodded at the "there are no experts users, instead there's experts of 2017 TF and experts of 2019 TF".
Agreed. Life is a series of tests. The big difference between life and school, is that it is usually much harder in life to anticipate what is going to be tested. That is where the real skill lies.

When a startup prioritizes feature A over feature B, they are making a decision on what is going to be tested by customers. The startup then optimizes for passing the anticipated test.
> The problem is exactly how deeply it is ingrained in everything

You can you use "test" as a proxy for the impression you want to make on your boss and peers. Maybe even friends and family.

It's up to you to redefine that test (or create a complementary one) based on your own goals and your own timeline.
No we need more democracy, to combat this attack on democracy.

A bad democracy is still in principle better than a benevolent dictatorship.
Does CapRover's Web UI offer any kind of 2FA? It feels a bit scary to have the keys to the kingdom just hanging out in on a public IP address, for anyone to brute force the admin password.
Pointing fingers in real life or in a video they are recording?
there’s a difference between a dev console, which is required for web developers and something that draws a line in the scroll bar. You can easily live without the later and there are absolutely no workflows requiring it. grandparent is giving up privacy for a line in the scroll bar.
Sorry for slow response, I don't check back here often enough.

You're right about virtualenv. I don't realy use that anymore, the venv module added in 3.3 gets the job done. And that does default to symlinks for posix. https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.8/Lib/venv/__init__...
You’re getting unfairly downvoted, HN seems to have weird groupthink on Russia. I have heard this exact thing from other people who have lived in Russia, and it is a legitimate point of view.
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Yeah, I got that tunneling was assumed. In fact, VNC is madness without SSH tunneling. However when you look at macOS, the only VNC client that automatically sets up SSH tunneling is Screens.

But now comes the trick; one of your machines is behind a NAT. And it's macOS, or Windows, or what have you.

No VNC client is going to help you here. With TeamViewer, this just works. There is no open source offering that comes close, to my knowledge, because of the need for a proxy service.
Yeah, also be careful before you say yes; I had a similar opportunity, insanely good money , but when I interviewed a few devs who’d work for them they had a terrible rep for getting out of scope, moving the goalposts and communicating badly.
Sure, that's exactly what Mint is.

Debian but with things changed a bit to be Ubuntu but with things changed a bit to be Mint.

You just draw the line differently.

Personally I'm happy with Debian Stable and Arch, and I barely use the former lately. I don't see the point in creating an entirely new distribution that is effectively just a package change.

I use Ubuntu servers for work a decent amount because it's common, that's about it.
No those rights need to be enforced and of the government won’t do it, the people have to put pressure on them.
> but as long as he is in school, we have to take care that his interest doesn’t go south. [...] During school holidays, he actually starts to do school exercises for fun; those are the very same exercises he would fight against doing for hours on a regular school day. Go figure.

That does not sound like exercises themselves would be bad or that he would cease to be interested in learning overall.

It more sounds like after many hours at school, he wants to do different things that day. But when school is not present, he seeks similar activities and his willingness to learn is not deteriorated. That kind of sounds healthy and not wrong at all. In school, kids spend a lot of time learning or doing focused activities, a kid wanted to just play after that should not be sign of something grave.

The only thing that is wrong or unusual is the hours long fight against homework. I dont think that is normal for majority of kids. Only some parents I know report that much daily fights, most have fight here and there once in a while only.
Where is the trial of Assange secret exactly? You can consider his treatment to be unfair but there's been nothing secret about it.
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You have to also understand the context. Russia was ruined by Yeltsin and the free for all under him, it was a major catastrophe. So of course Putin, who brought Russia out of the abyss and back into a position of power, will be popular there.
> At this point I've told the founders something you'd think would be completely obvious: that they should make a good company by making a good product.

Sure, ok. How do you make a good product? That definitely is not "completely obvious"
Doesn't seem to work between Russia and Georgia, Moldova or Ukraine.
As usual, I like Matt Levine's take. [1]

Page and Brin ran Alphabet as a highly funded system of moonshot programs with near-infinite runway to make profits, which is unusual or unique. Basically it only worked that way because Page and Brin were idealistic visionary gazillionaires who were bored of thinking about the somewhat dirty business of selling targetted ads. With a more standard corporate governance under a common CEO with the google ad business, the expectation is a more standard corporate focus on making profits from its ventures in some defined timeline.

But read Levine's version; it has detail and humor and insight I can't convey in a summary!

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-12-04/alphab...
> Depending on the evaluation and further investigation, it is possible the man will be criminally charged with inducing a panic, Martin said.

That’s bullshit. The panic was caused by the 911 operator being cautious, taking no chance in case it was something harmful.

The guy burned himself and needed medical assistance.
I took a class from John White at UCONN. He gave us a couple dozen CS papers at the start of the year. Every class had 3 paper presentations, 20 minutes each. A random student was picked for each presentation.

So you had to read and understand each of the upcoming 3 papers because there was a random chance you would have to present one of the three.

The result is that you eventually read all of the papers well enough that you could give a 20 minute presentation.

There were no grades. It was pass/fail.

It was one of the best classes I ever took.
The modders who spent 15 years fixing Knights of the Old Republic 2
Google’s attempt to be a modern day Bell Labs was the one thing that set them apart.

Make a lot of money in advertising and spend some of it to invent the future.

Without the second part, the entire company changes.

We need another company to take the mantle:

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/opinion/sunday/innovation...
> Traditional journalism became endangered because the internet exposed a lot of what they do as vapid misinformation and opened up better options to do research.

Traditional journalism became endangered because the internet eroded the revenue stream that supported much if the good high quality journalism out there and opened up a world where chemtrails and anti-vax are the result as 'better options to do research'.

If I want to know about Cardinals being arrested for pedophilia then - you should thank papers like the Boston Globe for thei heavyweight investigative resources and guts.
> Finish uni with high grades then spend the rest of your life learning.

I'd rather not waste 30% of my life on that nonsense. Better to use uni for what it is meant for: Learn whatever seems interesting and don't mind the grades.
That is... interesting. Is it maintained and packaged by the distros? It doesn't look like it. Duckduckgo gives me a bunch of old 2012-2013 results.
Jury sides with Elon Musk in “pedo guy” defamation case
it can boil down to "doing" vs "being". It's a topic often discussed in spiritual circles. You can consider it a thought experiment if that works for you. Or if you are Steve Jobs fan read some Yogananda.
Why a complete mess? Sure Google is a popular target, much like apple, where a huge number of people chime in to complain. I've had every nexus and every pixel, all the way back to the HTC G1 on the first day it was for sale.

Sure choice of OS would be nice, but there's a huge number of man hours that go into making a nice touch UI. Something that experts don't tend to obsess over, unless paid.

The pixel's don't have a locked bootloader, and you could try one of the community builds, which I've done. But there's much less incentive lately. I used to root to tether, don't need to anymore.
of course then some will say there is no $this vs $that, but start somewhere.
Studying the effects of interruption on motivation
Understanding “Deep Double Descent”
Queensland is attempting to pass laws as a knee jerk reaction to some of the climate protests that disrupted traffic recently.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/oct/09/queen...

https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-09/extinction-rebelli...
> a 70-year-old woman was prosecuted for expressing

Should you follow the Wikipedia links using a translator it seems she was investigated by the police, prosecuted, and then cleared in court. That's probably how a democratic society should work.

Do also note that the only linked English source is a thin reprint of a right wing news site headquartered in Estonia that conveniently avoids that fact. Keep in mind which sphere of influence that likely falls under.
Inflammation is like scorched earth. You hurt yourself to hurt your enemy more. Best not to be in a position where you have to do it.
Book? Basically a few presentations from previous years of Java conferences is all you need.

But even faster is just looking through the release notes for the major versions.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history
May be, how about effectiveness of software like Rosetta Stone in learning new language?
> magic totems that are always simplistically either good or bad.

I read a book on nutrition (forgot which) that started out with these helpful definitions:

unhealthy - food we statistically eat too much of

healthy - food we statistically should eat more

Food that is unhealthy is almost never plain "bad". In small quantities it is probably even "good". It's just that most people have too much of it in their everyday diet.
Don't give up already ;-)
Ada would do better if they adopted a cleaner and more c-like syntax. It's just ugly, and people don't want to write it. But it is awesome!
I understand your point. My is that you understand the abstract/concrete distinction.

If you are to succeed at changing your aunt's mind the strategy you've chosen (evidence, reason, arguments, intellectual assault on her wrongness) probably won't work.

In that regards Philosophers are completely irrational - they do the same thing over and over expecting a different result.

Persuasion is a multi-faceted skill.
Go with all its intrinsic conventions is very opinionated, so its natural way of arguing about Golang.
I've suggested for years, on this site no less, that people share their failure stories and we could compile them somewhere into a book.

However nobody wants to share them because they are worried that they will be seen...as failures - a reasonable position to take honestly.

The only people that seem to be happy to share failures are currently successful people, and they generally don't have either the time or inclination to wax poetic about their failures.
What about socializing?
It's not public opinion, is economics:

-Reactors are extremely capital-intense to produce and manpower-intense to operate. Security costs would also be high.

-Merchant ships have a build-scrap cycle of ca. 30 years. That's a lot of reactors to regularly decommission, a very expensive task.

-A reactor running on low-enriched uranium would not be useful for making a nuclear weapons, but a malicious actor could make a dirty bomb.

The US Navy used to have nuclear-powered cruisers, and phased then out because it wasn't really worth it. Nuclear propulsion only makes sense for a few tactical cases, like submarines (which can't use air-breathing motors underwater) and carriers (huge ships that routinely steam into the wind at very high speed for flight operations).
Sure. And what about the idea that you have ideas?

This is what I mean by self-reference being inescapable...

You are welcome to perform deduction in practice, but you have no absolute truths to start deducing with. Everything that you consider to be an "absolute truth" has been arrived at by induction.
I applaud the effort put in for performance, but why not just enqueue the change notification and do the sends on the back end? This sort of fiddly process is exactly why deferred action is appropriate.
Any investor in Alphabet for the long term would hope this isn't the case. It also doesn't make sense at a time when some of their moonshots are looking as though they could pay off. (Eg. Waymo)

That said, it makes sense from the Page/Brin perspective, perhaps. It's a lot more difficult to 10x a company that's already worth $Y billion. Perhaps better to start the ventures separately in a way that is more exciting to investors.
> Dropbox only onboarded new employees every other Tuesday. This left me without health insurance coverage for a week between jobs. Fortunately, none of the kids got hurt that week.

This is just insane. I suppose people in the US are so used to this being "the way it is" they're desensitized, but from the outside perspective of the civilized, developed world, this is insane.
Yeah, this came across to me as overly simplistic not really thought out argument too. I dont think that college medieval history not being the "students can pick any part of it and anything you learn about medieval history is good to go" is some kind of massive issue with medieval history course.

It does not mean that you did not learned or that grade does not measure learning. It just means the topic is not whole medieval history (which would be ridiculously broad) but only selected parts of it.

It is kind of like complaining that algorithms 101 are allowing students to pick any algorithms to learn and require everyone to learn the same set of algorithms.
> For example, it would be nice to have tests at university where I can google things, just like in the real world.

One of the best professors I had at university for a Linux course always said: “If you don’t know something, google it!”

He backed up his words by allowing googling on the actual coding part of his exams. You had to understand the underlying concepts but you never had to memorize syntax. One time, he had us write a small program in C that involved threading during a proctored timed exam. Everyone ran out of time for that part.

His course and exams were _rigorous_. You could never cram for his class and expect to pass and indeed I know of one student repeatedly failing his course.

This was one of the courses in university where I gained the bulk of my useful knowledge and practical skills I use to this day. I can count the courses that were of similar quality I took at university on one(1) hand. The rest of my degree involved hackable tests, apathetic professors and were massive time-wasters. I learned nothing from them, obviously.

The good professors made me realize how bad the rest of my degree was and how much of a racket higher education could be.

I look back at my undergrad days and wonder how much more I would have learned if I had not focused so much on grades. I’m still actively trying to unschool myself.
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