skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My tax concerns are essentially being unable to leverage the tax efficiency vehicles while working in the UK. i.e. having to pay tax in the US on income that attracts zero tax in the UK.

My actual concern is about going through the immigration system in future if I choose to rescind my green card. I understand that it isn't a pleasant experience I just wondered if it becomes any more challenging from having held an immigrant visa in the past.

> If you abandon your green card you'll have to pay capital gains on all your assets as if you sold them, I believe.

This is only true for certain holders with wealth over a certain amount, I wouldn't attract the exit tax.

It's more about being able to make good financial decisions if I am to stay in the UK as I'm uncertain at the moment. My plan was to study in the UK but given the situation (no access to the campus makes zero sense to me) I have a job in the UK now.

Engineers are paid what seems to be a significant amount less but there are many vehicles that optimize the taxes on that income. For example, tax free pension contributions are up to 40k/year (about $50k). You can also invest 20k per year of post-tax money in an ISA and pay zero tax on the earnings through interest and dividend. There are also tax allowances for interest on saving, captial gains allowance, entrepreneur's relief in addition to the personal income tax allowance. Stock options for employees are often very tax efficient too (10% tax). I think I worked out my total personal tax liability as about 19%.

So to be efficient with your money in the UK you need to leverage these vehicles. A 100k GBP London salary can be as efficient as a $170k Salary in SF, and that's before considering cost of living, co-pay on healthcare etc. If you have to pay tax on worldwide income in the US, it completely erases the savings these vehicles offer, so you end up with a tax bill equal to the difference between what you have paid in the UK and what you would have paid on the same income in the US.

Not to mention, companies that offer investment platforms for ISAs and SIPPs (do it yourself pension investment) will offer accounts to US residents due to the FACTA reporting overhead.
Of course, other approaches are available. For example where I live in the UK, what we've done is defund youth services by about 80% over the last ten years due to austerity, leading to increases in gang membership and knife crime. We've then blamed this almost entirely on immigrants, which has in turn led to us voting to demolish whatever's left of our economy once the pandemic has had its way with us.
IF @AOC were a man, she'd be covered like young Obama. She is a visionary politician, an inspiring orator and a sharp tactician. Instead we get "building her own brand".
Women are invariably described with the lower-status version of their skills. https://twitter.com/AnnOlivarius/status/1286696696639041539?...
While I appreciate that the context of technical problems is vitally important... the examples given are product and team management problems, not technical. I have had technical problems where I discovered bugs in a 3rd party core product, even notably show-stopper bugs on their major releases, and had to work in tandem with their devs while leadership from both companies lurked on the conference calls. That is the kind of context I think of when I am thinking of difficult technical problems.

The danger of thinking of your own product management as the context that caused the problem is that instead of telling a story of high-pressure but successful collaboration, it is easy to fall into the trap of bitching about how your former bosses handled things. That is never a good move in an interview.
Every year for at least last 5 years I have been trying Digikam. Every year like 99.9% of the reasonably complicated GUI-based single process multi-functional software written on Linux it would blow up while working with marginally large sets of files (~ 50k photos, roughly evenly split between 24 megapixel NEF files and random resolution jpegs )

It is just sad to see that the imaging/image processing/image organizing world is still stuck in 1990s paradigm rather than embrace that the computers have gobs of memory, a single application can be composed of dozen of individual components talking to each other over 127.0.0.1 and background jobs is a thing.
Indeed, if you start with the contact tracing platform, add a mass surveillance system to it, you end up with a mass surveillance system. Note that a surveillance system like the one you propose doesn’t need the contact tracing platform to work.
The vision of smartphone tracing apps in April was that they were going to be a cheap and low-manpower silver bullet for contact tracing. If all they represent is a slow, limited, and mildly effective supplement to normal contact tracing, I don't think they're worth the privacy concerns in the first place.
If you live in baltimore or philadelphia you call 911 (if necessary) so that these “law enforcers” can spend some time in jail until after November when this ridiculous problem goes away.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mr-president-stay-ou...
i’m curious, what does HN think of AOC/democratic socialism?
If a browser fails to render HTML it's fair to say that's its makers' responsibility.
A bit more info on the legal basis for arrests (and how this does not meet that standard): https://www.lawfareblog.com/unpacking-dhss-troubling-explana...
attempts to launch fireworks/mortars into the windows of the courthouse is not a binary or a fallacy.

> You don't know what's happening to the taken people, but it seems pretty tame to you?

I don't think they're being killed/maimed/"dissapeared" (south american style) as another commenter put it, but i agree that detainment without identification is a problem and it should stop.
Assuming one is doing a kubernetes homelab to train for work or future job interviews, they should probably get a full cluster going.

Kubernetes depends on etcd which requires an odd numbers of instances. There might be ways to run a one or two nodes cluster for testing (see minikube) but that's not how it's going to run in a company.
During the lockdown people were paying close attention to news and gov. got all the attention it wanted.

In particular for France, regulations were passed to allow or deny activities, set curfew etc. with hefty fines associated, all of that at a few days notice at most. So, not closely following the news was not an option, and the tracing app got plenty of air time.

Now, it came after a month or two of bullshit from the health dept (“you don’t need masks, also go vote in person, it’s fine”), which itself came after half a year of protests against the gov, so most people weren’t sold on gov’s good intents on not abusing the app, especially as Apple/Google’s privacy focused solution was not adopted.
I'd start with reading the libfuzzer docs[0] and then read the syzkaller papers[1]

[0] https://llvm.org/docs/LibFuzzer.html
[1] https://github.com/google/syzkaller

https://github.com/google/syzkaller
Not sure I’d agree with “harms noone.” I have taken LSD and easily walk in the middle of the road with no cause for concern. Imagine a child accidentally eating some of it, etc. Could be worse than a loaded gun.

I’m all for legalizing natural stuff (mushrooms, cannabis, even coca plants) but once chemists start concentrating things or turning them into droplets it becomes extremely dangerous.

For instance, mushrooms grow on poop (and taste like sh*t), coca leaves are probably bitter to the taste (and not agreeable). So not much incentive to accidentally eat them.

One tab—the whole sheet even—of LSD tasteless and odourless, even hard to detect.
Jesus in Asia
w3c webdroste RFC
Love this, and the bots. I had one running myself for a while, but I missed the part that grabbed the satellite imagery, do I did that in bulk ahead and had a folder of them.

https://twitter.com/FiveEarthColors
Thank you for posting the link to Nature. From the paper, the FMD decreases the ferritin available to tumor cells which makes them more vulnerable to the hydrogen peroxide produced by the metabolism of vitamin C. Do I have that right?
How to Start a Startup (CS183B Stanford, Y Combinator)
Unfortunately a lot of 2A enthusiasts seem to be perfectly fine with the militarization of police and harassment of minorities and protestors, because to them it's the "right people" getting the short end of the stick.
Also using Miro and enjoy it.

In addition to the software, make sure your team has good hardware. A screen large enough with high enough resolution is critical to see the whiteboard. What’s also important is that video from meetings takes up screen real estate and with multiple participants, having enough size and resolution to see them all helps you stay connected. External webcams that can be adjusted are helpful also.
Once people started using any such service, they would realise that their customers are locked in / can't switch easily, so they'd raise their prices to $xx+1 each year... and then you're back to where you started from.
It's painful enough that I don't use it for social stuff, but most programming documentation (and Stack Overflow etc) renders well enough that it's functional when you need it.
In the US, pulling out a phone during a police interaction has been known to get people shot dead, so it's not a great solution, even ignoring how non-police impersonating police might respond.
The biggest trick the USA has managed to pull is to convince so many impressionable people around the world that it's somehow "cool", "admirable" and a "freedom loving" place. In spite of:

* Having had a system of apartheid in place up until the 1950s

* Having been in conflict with <somebody> endlessly, since the end of WW2

* Having invaded or bombed more countries than any other nation on Earth

* having the highest murder rate of any country outside of South Africa

* Having the death penalty and the most brutal prison system of any western nation

* Having the largest debt of any nation

* Having the most violent paramilitary police force of any western nation

* Flouting international laws and treaties, whenever it suits.

etc.. etc..

If any other country in the world had a record a fraction as bad as the USA, it would be a pariah nation. But having the biggest nuclear arsenal in the world and keeping everyone else dependent on the mighty dollar seems to get you a non-expiring 'Get Out of Jail Free Card'

You Americans really need to wake up and realise that you are just as much the "bad guy" as so many of the other countries you point the finger at --if not more so!
That might indeed be the case, though to be clear, I'm referring to Priscilla and Mark's charities, which are operationally independent of Facebook.
Well, you can get into trouble if you start playing around with radioactive material, too. I think "The Radioactive Boy Scout" has been mentioned on HN a few times.

I think a reason why dangerous things are regulated is because even though they don't always lead to harm, the harm can be grave and impossible to undo. Even if an unexpected trip doesn't technically lead to permanent brain damage, if the behavior were misinterpreted (for instance as a psychotic episode) it could permanently wreck a person's life.
This was wrong; but the US has largely moved past this, China has not.

The line is blurry here though. These internment camps house people based off of their religious beliefs. China and its citizens view these people the same way a US citizen would view a cult or scientology. By definition there is little difference, it's just the eastern "mysticism" associated with these religions lends more of a positive light to these religions from the western view point.

I would side more with western viewpoint on this issue but I just said the above to help you empathize with China's viewpoint. It is basically scientology from their point of view and they are using their centralized powers to stamp out a cult that believes in things and acts in ways that have nothing to do with science. Think of it as an extreme form of eliminating creationism from the US educational curriculum.
... and loaded guns are legal!
Imagine a child eating Tide Pods too. Or eating blood thinners. Or ...
My hopeful guess is that their APIs and policies make the data impossible to access in anything but an aggregated format.
I would encourage you to research your implication that fasting and vitamin C makes "health decline overall"
Bill Gates debunks 'coronavirus vaccine is my 5G mind control' conspiracy theory
OP mentioned terrorism clearly as an after thought. The bulk of their message was focused on crime. This gives your position a sort of "knee jerk" air about it. To then be given a low effort downvote option to facilitate your low effort analysis simply enables your perpetuation of a reactive culture.

And you're not one person against the world. You don't need to correct every single misinformed opinion on the entire internet 24/7. Take the time to help one person who you feel is misinformed and bring them to truth.
I've been using [trillium](https://github.com/zadam/trilium) for a few weeks and have been very impressed with the combination of features and simplicity. It looks like it would check the boxes you list and since it is easily extensible anything it didn't do out of the box you could probably implement pretty easily.
You left out the part where pensioners continue to vote for and support these cannibalistic policies.
Depends on how you look at it, with pure horsepower they have passed Intel in performance already, seeing how they can just put 64 cores on a CPU. The single thread gap has also been closing rapidly, and with Zen 3 on the horizon they could pass Intel in this segment, too, especially since Intel has been delaying 10nm forever.
That has nothing to do with pandemic. Article clearly lists walmart labs specifically under "Before the pandemic.."
Ask HN: Resources for Understanding Windows Better?
MacOSX is intuitive because of its Unix origins, but the OS designs behind Windows confuses me, and I'd like to know it better. Also, I'm confused about design decisions behind having two different versions of settings in Windows, and it seems like there are two different file paths for commonly used folders like Downloads. Whenever I have to tweak something on Windows, I have to check tech blogs, but I'd rather just get a consistent, reliable resource to learn more about Windows.
These aren't even uniforms, they are fatigues. Camouflage is meant to hide you. Police don't wear clothes to hide themselves, that is something soldiers do.
Comparing tuition at Cabrillo College (community college for Santa Cruz, CA) and SJSU (California State University in San Jose), it looks like a "normal" course costs $574 at the bottom-tier 4-year university vs $230 at the community college. If you take 2 or fewer classes in a semester at SJSU (as a full-time student, you're supposed to take 5), tuition falls nearly in half to $333 per class.

$6000 tuition per year is high enough to be prohibitive for some people. But those people are the focus of intensive recruitment and financial aid efforts by universities all up and down the hierarchy of status. That isn't the first place I'd look if I were seeking to answer "why aren't more poor people going to college?"
Same here, running a pair of 1440p monitors off my Hades Canyon NUC, running Kubuntu 20.04.

Largely now without tweaks, but it needed some when I originally got it to use Kisak-mesa.

neofetch output:
OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS x86_64
Host: NUC8i7HVK (REMOVED)
Kernel: 5.4.0-42-generic
Uptime: 5 hours, 7 mins
Packages: 3266 (dpkg), 7 (snap)
Shell: bash 5.0.17
Resolution: 2560x1440, 2560x1440
DE: Plasma
WM: KWin
Theme: Breeze [Plasma], Breeze [GTK2/3]
Icons: breeze [Plasma], breeze [GTK2/3]
Terminal: konsole
CPU: Intel i7-8809G (8) @ 4.200GHz
GPU: AMD ATI Radeon RX Vega M GH
GPU: Intel HD Graphics 630
Memory: 8898MiB / 32031MiB
Good point, mea culpa.

Yes, I guess the low false positive rate doesn't actually justify believing that the the URL has a high likelihood of actually being malicious.

The correct wording should probably be that the low false positive rate means that non-malicious urls are unlikely to be sent out. I'll fix this.
I don't understand what it means for points to move apart faster than the speed of light. I understand speed of a thing to be change with respect to space, so what does speed of space mean? Naively, I'd define it to be zero. If I stretch a ruler out, the 1ft mark hasn't moved with respect to the 1ft mark. I can say otherwise by comparing the ruler to what's around it. If the ruler is literally everything, we can only measure the ruler with respect to itself. I'd define measurement as with respect to the ruler (the ruler is spacetime). I know I'm wrong, but can't figure out why. Any help?
> Not a nice experience for Google users, but screw Google, iCloud never complains on 'new device'.

So you're saying Apple is worse at protecting you from suspicious logins?
It’s not actually the complicated, I assume you understand fuzzing in general? So the problem it can run into is covering the whole program; the classic example is you have some sort of key check or similar condition that is not easy to “guess” so the fuzzer gets stuck there and can’t hit anything useful. What you can do to solve this is to use guided fuzzing, where you give directions as to what the fuzzer should weight more heavily, for example it might want to be more interested in execution flows where it notices that it’s getting further along with execution or modifying some state. This project is using the idea of “if it changes it kernel state it is probably interesting” and the way it measures state is by looking at writes to all the structures in the kernel. It finds these using LLVM, which somewhat infamously uses the getelementpointer instruction in its IR for base pointer+offset operations (and as such is a good way to recognize structure accesses). Note that this doesn’t actually do any fuzzing itself, its job is it just generate a weights file that an actual fuzzer (Google’s syzkaller) can use to guide its efforts.
Who exactly is calling for the the courthouse to burn? That is my point, while there may be some troublemakers the vast majority are not. While some find calls to defund the police offensive, others find the call to stop people from exercising their rights offensive.
Wrong. They still sell “methylated spirits” today, where the only adulterant is methanol.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denatured_alcohol

And no, they didn’t used methanol to encourage people to drink it - that’s just silly.

Not everything is a conspiracy.
Right. Another way to think about bloom filters is a data structure that remembers a list of hashes. It will tell you "oh I saw this hash before". What it will NOT tell you is "oh I saw this element before".

If "Foo" and "Bar" hash to "XX" and you've shown "Foo" to the filter, it will think it saw "Bar" because what you are really asking is if it saw something that hashes to "XX".

That's the false positive.

On the flip side if "Baz" hashes to "XY" then the filter would tell you with certainty that it never saw "Baz" because it never saw anything hashing to "XY" and so "Baz" could not have been seen either.
Bullshit. Prove it. Show me a page from their books (accountants not librarians) that proves it. Then I will believe you.

And you’re wrong on multiple levels because you say that money goes into “personal fitness facilities.” Oh, you mean the lavish resort-spas that have popped up on campuses suddenly? The ones that popped up around the same time that college became retardedly expensive? Yes, I believe those are the ones you are talking about. It makes you wrong because luxury time share condominiums aren’t necessary for educating people. It’s the same as if you threw those hundreds of millions in the toilet. Not “a fixed and necessary expense.” And that’s not even to mention the huge, gigantic bloat that is present everywhere and touches everything and very definitely reduces the quality of the actual academics of the school. Hey, let’s see you come up for a reason why text books cost hundreds of dollars a piece and are re-written every year with almost no changes except to the numbering of the problem set. This is going to be fantastic, better than the circus even. I should sell tickets to this comment. I am looking forward to your response.
I would disagree and make the important distinction that many chemo treatment recipients get very thin.

Like saying "I don't have time to take a shower, because my bath takes an hour"
Organic Towns from Square Tiles – A Talk by Oskar Stålberg
There are also the apps, Self Control available for MacOS[1] and Cold Turkey[2], which is an universal app.

[1]: https://selfcontrolapp.com/
[2]: http://getcoldturkey.com/
Would have been happier with a transcript from the BBC.
Trump Appointee’s Removal of Open Technology Fund Leadership Is Unlawful
My rebuttal is “alcohol”. That settles any safety related debate, let’s move on.

I’m dismissing “think of the children” and “equivalent to a tool designed to kill” (and that tool is completely legal in the US) lines as obvious trolls, I encourage anyone else rebutting to ignore that as well.

Edit: To dismiss your argument that you edited in about dosage size and accidental ingestion. If LSD was legal, manufacturers would want to prevent accidental ingestion and design an RoA that isn’t a tiny tab of LSD. Keeping it legal means it will remain as is now. You’re arguing for legalization and don’t even realize it.

Furthermore, a quick google search shows some academic papers from the 70s about children accidentally ingesting LSD, and a news report from 2016 where a child may have ingested LSD accidentally, but there’s very little evidence that it’s a problem.
I don’t disagree. But spinning a story where the govt was intentionally trying to poison people is a bit much.
And the discussion of too many unsubstantiated rumors gets us to the place where a very significant portion of the population are basically full blown conspiracy theorists. Then we find ourselves in a place where facts and science are transformed into beliefs.

I don't think discussing rumors is inherently bad in moderation, but I guess moderation is a tough problem for us in many parts of society today.
Large orgs generally hire contracting companies who manage their own workforce.
Agreed. And I hate headlines like this that mislead their audience. Headlines must be stand-alone true as >90% of the people who happen to see the headline aren’t going to read the article. A headline like this will leave many with the impression that contact tracing apps don’t work, not that they just haven’t gotten much buy-in.

(Which of course becomes self-reinforcing... If the vast majority of people who see the headline are led to think the apps don’t work, then they won’t want to adopt them... and low adoption is, of course, the very “failure” discussed in the first place...)

This may seem like a small thing, but the apparent license-to-lie-or-at-least-use-half-truths-in-headlines that many media editors (because editors, NOT journalists, control the headlines) believe they have is maybe the biggest problem in media accuracy we have. We are bombarded with 10-100 times as many headlines as we can possibly hope to read, which is a constant background noise of half-truths.

And yeah, of course a headline won’t be able to tell the full story. But it should be accurate enough and not misleading. The excuse of “but you have to read the full article or you’re just lazy” is a ridiculous cop-out for a license to lie.
Most such services are contracted anyway and not on payroll.
SelfControl is a free hosts file based blocker with some added features that prevent you from undoing your own blocks until the specified time period has elapsed.

https://selfcontrolapp.com/
and yet millions of people have expressed themselves, published information, shared it, and benefitted. so... it works.

the corruption of the net is proportional to the corruption of the tools. a shame really.