skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, the $200 limit is the limit on the exchanges for the year.

EUR/USD exchange rate changed 3-4% from a year ago, so spending $5-6k in Euros would surpass the threshold (though in this particular case, as a loss).

The BTC/USD exchange rate more than doubled over the past year, so you'd have to spend less than a few hundred dollars to remain under <$200 gains.

The $200 tax exemption would make little practical difference. Even for traditional stable currencies, it's relatively easy to exceed that in any significant use. And with BTC's historical volatility, it's virtually guaranteed.
Cars kill ~40000 Americans annually. Is that cheap? Criticizing cars is the only way to wake people up to the damage they have caused in our society. Sure, cars are wonderful for people with mobility issues. For the vast majority of us to design our cities around two ton death machines is a tragedy.

Our cities would be dramatically cheaper to live in with fewer cars. Less parking and road space allows higher density. Transit is cheaper. Walking and biking is healthier and will increase life expectancy.

Not everyone is driving-age, can afford a car or can afford to have parking. Car drivers are not a representative sample of the world population.
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Even better, if you don't take the scalper version of Xeon and go AMD... A faster Threadripper 3 goes for $2k not $15k. Workstation versions of Navi are likely to arrive soon, making these Pro versions of Radeon VII look somewh t silly. (W5700XT to be exact.)

You can have a similar rack machine for $10k, (blade itself $6k) easier to expand too.

The only reason to get this is if you're locked into OS X for process and really benefit from so many cores and GPUs. Which you likely won't.

This is not useful for compute nor a server, and for actual video encoding you want the accelerator card (offered) not the GPUs nor probably beefy CPU, while 3D rendering is better done on non-Mac anyway.

The big seller of Macs is still Photoshop and that does not make great use of this CPU, nor that much RAM.
There's Ironsides, written in Ada and SPARK for formal verification: https://ironsides.martincarlisle.com/
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Its pretty clear reading the article that the public now has a much higher safety standard than the FAA did internally.

Flying has become so safe that the public no longer considers it risky, but the FAA never updated its targets. So when Boeing wanted to trade safety for market share there was no basis to stop them.

To illustrate the change in attitude it used to be common for airports to sell life insurance for the flight directly at the gate. This continued as late as the 1980s.

https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/breaking-news/a...
> The ISPs charge lots of money for the CDNs and private networks that want to connect to their customer networks at the edge.

CDNs can get closer to end-users by peering at Internet Exchange Points (IXPs).

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_exchange_point

Maybe not as close/fast as right on an ISP's network, but probably closer than a trans-continent or trans-ocean hop.
What's the difference between decentralised and federated?
Facebook Jobs seems to have found more success in the blue collar niche, where users aren't on LinkedIn.
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It's incredible how defensive people are being. Maybe they're reacting to the ridiculous title (no more cars anywhere!), but it's self-evident to anyone who lives in a major city that cars don't belong in crowded city centers.

Let's be rational: city X (SF, NY, Berlin, etc) has a downtown which is 2x2 miles where thousands/millions of people commute to each day. Car traffic in these areas is awful because cars are disproportionately large compared to bikes/scooters etc and congestion is a queuing problem.

The sooner people realize this, and the sooner they get rid of their combative, tribalist, cars vs. bikes/e-scooters mentality, then the sooner we can enact political change to alleviate congestion and make cities cleaner, safer, and less crowded.
I don't get this "resumes are so yesterday" thinking at all. They are a crucial tool for me in the hiring process. I can sift a pile of 20-30 resumes in maybe 10 minutes and determine with near certainty the 20% or so that are even worth contacting. Plus the resume is an excellent jumping-off point for further conversation.

Being able to write a reasonable essay may not differentiate you, but not being able to sure does.
Other bus companies have come up that are both cheap and reasonable nice. I used to take BoltBus all the time.
From a certain perspective, this is the case for all translations, ever.
Interesting idea but here are a few points you might want to think about:

1. I don't imagine that most people us an app for the daily running of a household. I can see this working better for students in private accommodation, room mates, etc. Less so for couples and families.

2. The website doesn't really tell me why this will make my household successful. What's the value proposition? All I'm seeing just now is actually another layer of life admin as I need to input lots of data in the app.

3. The design could really use some work. That's not to be mean, but right now it's not hugely appealing and I nearly closed the tab immediately. It looks like the sort of system you might tolerate at work, but wouldn't want to use as part of your personal life. I'd recommend checking out some tips by Steve Schoger for design, consider using a theme, or paying someone to do this if you don't have time. It just doesn't really resonate with a potential user and erodes trust.

4. Who are you marketing this to? Think about it and tailor your copy / design accordingly.

Hope that helps!
I've contributed to unbound, and I wrote a lot of the DNS server that we use at Amazon. The main security risk in DNS is DDOS; it's by far the biggest concern and day to day pain, and a big part of a strategy for dealing with it having really high performance. 100s of thousands of QPS per core kind of performance.

A lot of this boils down to using direct networking plumbing tricks and optimizing query handling into very fast flat memory lookups. A garbage collected language would be a terrible choice.

C is still the most common solution, but if I were writing a DNS server today, I'd go with rust.
...and this is where Puerto Rico's status comes into picture. PR's tax rate at the highest level is 33%. If you want to go higher, wealthy Puerto Ricans just decamp to Florida (no state income taxes!) and fly in as needed. The corporate tax base has also dwindled. Still, PR has raised taxes - across the board, but due to the wealthy's ability to decamp, these tax increases are disproportionately felt by the middle and lower classes.

Additionally, the costs of goods and services is much higher than in the states. GDP per capita doesn't measure purchase power parity, and your dollars in PR don't go nearly as far as they do in the USA. Energy costs, water costs, shipping costs, are all much higher in other countries, and legislation (such as the Jones Act) that helps mainland USA hurts PR.

PR is trapped, and has a perpetual brain drain of people escaping. It has a negative population growth of -2% a year (in a heavily Catholic country), and GDP growth has been negative for 13 years in a row. More austerity measures are not going to help the situation.
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Dito this. We're currently using a Wiki built with Google Sites. Everyone hates it.
Twitter is the worst choice for publishing. This involved so much more text-scrolling and photo-expanding than is necessary.

Edit: If anyone would care to explain why they feel that chopping an article up into pieces of arbitrary size makes for a good user experience, please do so. I know Twitter gets a pass from HN in general but it is simply not suited to this type of content by design. This was a conscious choice by its creators.
The basis step up on death is a byproduct of going through the estate tax. Yes, for the vast majority, the estate tax is $0, but it's not untaxed.
By blocking the ads. Extensions such as uBlock Origin are highly effective and can be used on mobile Firefox.
To add to this, the ultra-wealthy, university funds, funds-of-funds, etc. are interested in capital preservation, according to the article. This means they likely will not reinvest their profits into companies that will grow; they're more likely to reinvest into other companies that will do buybacks.
> Read an idea in American Affairs in support of taxing buybacks.

Honestly, at their most supportable, share buybacks seem to be just dividends in all but name with different tax consequences (i.e. they're a tax dodge). I'd support a law that declared the only legal way to intentionally return cash to shareholders is via dividends, to close the loophole and increase tax revenues.

In other cases, they just seem like financial engineering employed by CEOs and other interested parties to game their personal job performance metrics.
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A protocol like that would be terrific because then each hop along the path would know exactly what is going on without needing to have explicit rules built in or be making it up based on heuristics and DPI.
Simply being able to see the source code does not make it "Open". You have to be able to use it for what it is intended.
Are you claiming that a mutual funds' performance evenly benefits anyone with a 401k?

In the last 40 years 0.00025% of Americans have tripled their share of the wealth. Of course everyone with a 401k has benefited but they are nowhere close to the main beneficiaries of capital gains.
At my employer:

--

"Get your brokers license"

ok provide me with a course

"well, we've got a limited number of people that can do it at a time"

ok so make the material available to me for learning at home and I'll do it on my own time

"We appreciate your feedback. You could purchase a course on your own, with your own money, and study on your own at home"

--
This is an actual event, with the person parroting the 'we value degrees' line being the head of HR for our opco at the time, on the phone with me cutting me off every time I started to say anything, with me at one point saying a vulgarity and "would you give me some respect and allow me to finish a sentence":

applies to position above me that finally opened up and interviews

"We just wanted to let you know we went with another candidate, we suggest you get a bachelors degree and then an MBA if you'd like to move up"

at entry level position for 13 and a half years I don't want a degree, what sort of a degree

"Oh business is good"

How would a business degree benefit me in any role in this office, at all?

"We prioritize education"

I don't want to take on tens of thousands of dollars of
debt to make an extra 10% so that would mean I could pay the loans off in a decade from the raise

"With tuition reimbursement you could get a degree in as little as 6 years"

In 6 years I'll be 40 and you'll give the job to a 22 year old that's been here 6 months, why don't you create some sort of system for advancement internally that is equal to degree work

"We prioritize education, if you want to move up you should really work on a 4 year degree and then an MBA"

Why

"We prioritize education, if you want to move up you should really..."

That's classism

"We prioritize..."

I don't want your defacto dues card, I guess I'll just keep working for people above me that have been at the company a fraction of the time that I have because they have a 4-year degree in Artisan Baking Social Media Marketing with their minor in Mayan Whittling from 2000BC to 1990BC.

--

Sigh. There isn't even a degree in what I do, and the university my employer has partnered with only has one degree you can do, some random super-specific business degree that has literally nothing to do with what I do.

Even if I wanted to get a degree, by the time I do 8 hours of this work my brain is shot. Processing large amounts of data, with all sorts of legal and fiscal ramifications, while being under pressure to not only meet but exceed production... yeah do that all day and the last thing you want to do is go home and study/research/write papers that have to be in some asinine format scheme or you fail outright.

Then even if they did come up with some way to teach us on the job, it wouldn't even work because due to the nature of the job if someone leaves it can take 6-12 months to replace their processing capacity and business volume grows so we're always chugging along with no downtime and we hot bunk desks so when your shift is up, someone else will be along in a couple of hours to sit down and keep going.
The problem with the examples the author shared is that they only work in professions where your work and skills are easily demonstrable, aka "portfolio jobs".

How would you demonstrate a skilled manager's capabilities without a resume that shows rapid advancement and dealing with increasingly higher responsibilities?
Public transit, if you're not acclimated to it, is absurd. Coming from outside the area, I'd have to pay to park (including time spent trying to find a decent spot), walk a non-trivial distance to the station, coordinate movement of multiple people (including young children) amid crowds, wait for transit arrival, board, find seat (!), wait, stop at every station before exit, switch transit multiple times (repeat wait/board/sit/wait), be in close proximity with strange/unpleasant/criminal people, finally walk considerable distance to destination ... never mind cargo issues. If you're acclimated to this, you don't grasp how repulsive it sounds to many.

That vs what is (to us driving-acclimated): get in car, drive there, get out ... with plenty of cargo space. Take the dog if you like.

There's a reason I live suburban and yearn for rural: I don't want to be shoulder-to-shoulder with strangers much of the time, transit included. A few rare cases aside (Munich was nice), I don't want to "experience the city" - most are dirty overcrowded bastions of hyper-dependency. A car is a refuge; transit is exposure.
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> closed shop nature of being able to contribute

This seems like a really bizarre characterization of Wikipedia. Wikipedia has had millions of contributors over its lifetime and something like 130K active editors. Anybody can hit the "Edit" button. I cannot think of any collaborative project that has more participants. If that's "closed shop" to you, what would be an example of an open project?

BTW, if you're of the deletionist inclination, you could certainly try to nuke this article on the basis of lack of references or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Listcruft ("In general, a "List of X" stand-alone list article should only be created if X itself is a legitimate encyclopedic topic that already has its own article") and have a good chance of succeeding.
And when there are two payments with different transaction ids from the gateway?
I have several examples of both, and ride them to work and shopping. And I completely agree with you. Scooters are a hoot to ride, and if I don’t have to carry more than my backpack will hold, I’d rather commute on the scooter.

But you need both hands, making even signaling a chore, and you can only carry what fits on your back. Scooters are no more difficult to ride than a bicycle, but they are much more difficult to ride safely than a bicycle. Compare to my electric bike with front and rear racks, a rack trunk, and a comfy seat and coffee cup holder.

Scooters pack small, that’s about the only utilitarian plus they have going IMO.
Right, and Second Life was supposed to be a social gathering place and not at all a place for penises of every type and description to be put on display. Attempting to predict how a social network will behave is utterly futile.
These are obviously not "facts" and companies obviously do not operate in that way.

Really obviously. Just observe any company.

I appreciate you might have a real hard-on for capitalism, but making up stuff like you just did doesn't help.

Companies are cess-pools of politics, incomplete information, petty rivalries, and disparate power. Most shareholders are clueless, poorly informed or spreadbetting.

Given this is all true, your "facts" are all objectively false.
Shareholders and companies are equally inefficient at allocating capital.
If not for buybacks, the company would probably have wasted the money on creating more useless jobs which would add no value to the company.

Instead, the company prefers to give the money back to shareholders in the form of capital appreciation so that they will either hold it or sell some of it and use the proceeds to buy shares of another equally wasteful corporation.

Eventually these corporate stock buybacks will lead to grotesque wealth inequality and if we're lucky, complete collapse of the international fiat monetary system which facilitates such atrocities.
I mentioned this in another comment but i'll repeat it.

Due to the complexities of Puerto Rico's status as a commonwealth (i.e. not a State) the island is unable to declare bankruptcy. If they could then this issue could easily be solved and would give the government some leverage as is the case in most cases involving financial institutions taking advantage of these loans like was the case in Detroit and NYC.

To quote the wikipedia article on the topic [1]:

"Puerto Rico or any of its political subdivisions and agencies cannot file for debt relief under Chapter 9, Title 11, United States Code because it applies only to municipalities on the mainland.[55"]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rican_government-debt_c...

Having lived in PR my most of life and most of my family being lawyers in both the Federal and the local Supreme Court the insight I get from the situation is that unless the White House gets involved or Congress simply amends that single line in the bankruptcy law then the government has really no leverage and these financial institutions (not lenders, but banks who bought the debt from lenders) will get mostly what they want and cripple the island.
Google has a full fork of the kext. It's at least different enough that you can have both running simultaneously.
Perhaps, but many of these labs are extensions of universities. I do research at SLAC, a national lab which shares grad students with Stanford.
Would love to see this skill set put to work automating away a lot of accounting functions. I know too many accountants (Controllers, specifically) doing mind numbing work.
I've found Python to inhibit me a lot from moving quickly past the very initial stages.

I'm fond of Clojure for that, but it tends to de-emphasize macros as a good way of doing things. Most things are just regular fns.
I tend to disagree. You are hired AND compensated for your skillset. How you acquire it is up to you. This is why experience and seasoning result in senior roles and higher comp.
I had no idea. Admittedly, I don't use Facebook much.
Does there have to be an explicit agreement? Why can't both parties simply advertise via BGP and let the algorithm sort it out?

If an online service can determine where the majority of its users are network-wise, then they'd set up a mirror at the closest IXP.
Here the risk is that the note becomes physically damaged in some trivial way and the value is lost forever. Maybe it's bent too far over in one direction, maybe something heavy falls on it, etc, etc.
This is basically just saying that LLVM has an IR. While going straight from AST to machine code may sound like a great thing for compilation speed, it makes compiler maintenance really tough. Many AOT-based compilers nowadays are converging on four levels of IR, which seems to be a sweet spot. (Swift has AST, SIL, LLVM IR, MachineInstr; Rust has AST, MIR, LLVM IR, MachineInstr; GCC has AST, GENERIC, GIMPLE, RTL.)
I'm wondering the same thing. $117K out of what total?
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Yep. That is called "the market". And I think the government shouldn't get in the way and "favor" anything. Let people decide their own careers and interests and let them balance the pros and cons.
For 33% of your sales, not for free.
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I've shot down two companies in the past three days because they made it known during the recruitment that they expected more than 40 hours a week, sometimes well in excess of it.

It's always couched in some doublespeak about "ownership". Trust me, if I were owner or part-owner in the enterprise, I wouldn't mind. But I'm not.

People complain about entitlement attitudes among the young. They need to look at employers if they really want to see entitlement.

It sounds like your boss feels entitled to your time without taking an ownership stake in your professional development.
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For a lung cancer patient could you:

Put them in a coma

Lower their T to significantly decrease the matabolism

Fill their lungs with a liquid air solution (it’s a perfluorinate liquid that absorbs lots of O2. It works, but sucks)

Since CO2 isn’t soluble in fluorinated liquids. Intravenously remove the CO2 (hard, but you’ve lowered the metabolism rate)

Slowly circulate the fluid

Starts blasting away at the tumors.
> Based on an NPR/Frontline report [0], it sounds like the debt Puerto Rico took on was a total financial market scam. The financial institutions schemed up some pretty crazy debt packages specifically for Puerto Rico that depended on PR's non-state status and specific rules/laws that it has applied to it.

a) I don't see anything in the article that implies the debt packages were particularly complex or manipulative.

b) Even if they were, are you saying that the state of Puerto Rico was not competent to evaluate it's own financial decisions?
Voice of experience: Companies are incapable of thinking this way. Instead, take the 40 and simply siphon off 8-10 for your personal education.

As long as you're not actually working for a different company during this time, it's all good. If company doesn't like it, move on.
Considering the US’s keystone position in global economics, providing safe passage for trade (and relatively stable oil/NG prices, but never mind that) at the cost of a large standing navy, I think a single tick over other OECD countries is a joke. The multinationals owe the US better infrastructure.
https://drumbot.glitch.me/ seems to be offline. =(
>I might buy the debt at $50,000 in return for the hassle of collecting it. Is there something wrong with that?

Many would argue there is something inherently wrong (evil) with any interest bearing debt. Moving past that...yes, there is something wrong with reselling bad debt (maybe even reselling good debt).

The only reason people buy bad debt is they have bad intentions, either they are trying to resell it themselves to a less savvy buyer (usually employing various means of fraud and misrepresentation) - even the biggest banks in the world engaged in this with their toxic loans - or they plan to employ unlawful collection methods.

If you are an original creditor and you are going to resell a debt for pennies on the dollar, the at a minimum the debtor should have an option to buy out their own debt for the same price as a 3rd party.

I know the original creditors would object, but as someone who seems to support the current system of buying/selling bad debt to 3rd party collection agencies would you object to the creditor having to give the original debtor an option to buyout their own debt at the same price offered by a 3rd party collection agency?
No, I learned it's the best choice for publishing [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21684008
What's the legalities of donating ownership for smear campaigns?

What prevents me from making Microsoft a 1% shareholder of my company Cockwombles Inc?

Or giving them a specific exemption in my license for the cockwomble software library?