skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it will remain pocket-bound for a while until battery technology improves enough to make smaller or more flexible form factors viable. I think a neural connection is the next big jump, but we're not near that jump just yet. So I agree something wearable or otherwise more attached is the next step.

Having said that, I don't know what a wearable would look like. I don't think smart watches are the future - just a stepping stone in the wearable direction. It's too small to replace a smartphone, and doesn't have a flexible user experience. For example, I lose one hand's worth of interactivity with a smart watch, and I have to keep my arm bent to do so.

Where can you wear something that you can still easily interact with? I dunno. Maybe a James Bond shoe phone.
I started taking off my shoes at the office because it's helpful to let your feet breathe.
Panasonic’s New “Home Cubicle”
> you would refuse to give me access to your business

You will always be free to build 3rd-party products that work with and wrap around my products. I will never use the law as a cudgel to stop you from fairly competing with me. Users have an inherent right to control the devices that they own.

> You are free to compete, not on their platform at their cost though

Not asking to compete on their platform. I want to be able to compete on my platform, and I don't want Apple to tell me whether or not I'm allowed to build a platform that's compatible with iOS apps.

> If you don't want to get sued, either buy the license or build your own solution that doesn't require interop.

Why? Why can the government decide what I'm allowed to build? If I can build a solution by myself without a contract that interops with Apple's platforms, why should the government tell me I'm not allowed to do that? If I can build a device that runs iOS, why should the government say that I'm not allowed to do that?

What right does the government have to stop me from building and distributing products that solve my problems?

> [...]

This is ridiculous.

If you support regulation, then fine. Go argue about what the regulations are.

If you don't support regulation, then fine. Let's get rid of artificial government monopolies that allow companies to decide what is and isn't legal. Copyright is not a natural right.

You're taking a great many words to say that you selectively oppose regulation only when it's directed towards the protection of the consumer. If that's your position, then fine, but I'm not going to debate it, I don't think that position is logically coherent enough to debate.
Ask HN: Remote/Global Work
I am an exFANG senior sw engineer living out of US due to things out of my control(family, health and finally covid). I got offers with in US but nothing pure Remote or should I say Global. What is the best way to get a Global/Remote job?
Do YC startups accept developers out of US?
Can having a LLC in US or with in the country you are in helps to find a pure remote/global job?
Why a developer can make more than quarter million dollars in US but nothing when out of US with the same skill set and contribution chance?
Did they return their assets before or after the tax was rescinded?
The app is using prisma.io which does support SQLite. I just haven't had the time to implement it yet.
> Filecoin is a great example of raising a lot of money slowing a project down.

I wouldn't assume the money was the cause of the slowdown.

More likely, raising huge amounts of money was the goal in the first place.

From the article:

> But multiple sources say that a large percentage of those tokens had been unilaterally distributed by CEO Juan Batiz-Benet to himself and early employees for less than a penny each, and that he has continued to make such distributions in the years since.

> Sources also say that no tokens were distributed to shareholders and that it often was difficult to get questions answered.
Why is it do FUCKING hard for you commies to STOP TAKING MY SHIT!
> Of the populations analyzed, 82 per cent were found to be below levels that can produce maximum sustainable yields, due to being caught at rates exceeding what can be regrown. Of these, 87 populations were found to be in the “very bad” category, with biomass levels at less than 20 per cent of what is needed to maximize sustainable fishery catches.

It seems to me that we don't have a clear concept of sustainable commercial fishing looks like (with regards to wild capture). Thankfully, it seems Aquaculture is on the rise to offset increasing demand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishing_industry
I think you might be overestimating. What is state of art biological engineering based upon? Current life processes, at best such technologies are "hacks" built on top of life on earth -- standing on the shoulder of giants. As far as I have heard we haven't yet managed to build or even know the entirety of the biological stack.
Can you cite a single type of fish that is currently farmed properly (i.e. sustainably)?
“X is rasterop on wheels” — Bill Joy in Unix Today 6/25 page 5.

https://donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/news-info.txt

"..., Richie reminded the audience that Steve Jobs stood at the same podium a few years back and announced that X was brain-dead and would soon die.

"He was half-right," Ritchie said. "Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks."

http://www.anvari.org/fortune/Miscellaneous_Collections/1332...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22502125
MP3 to text? Why does it ask me to upload a video?
The above is your reasoning (or part of) why you would not like the US postal service to be partially subsidized not why it must not be partially subsidized or why we must all consider it A or B. A+B is still a valid legal option and can also be a logical conclusion by others with different arguments.

It's a perfectly valid stance to hold though and certainly brings well thought points to the examples mentioned earlier.
I like the way it looks, and the fact it more or less works even without javascript enabled is nice bonus, many other similar documentation solutions can't do that. I'm torn about whole documentation being in one page, it certainly makes it easier to Ctrl+F, but it's also easier to get lost.

But it has still some bugs to work on. I tried opening Travis CI documentation to see it in action. When reaching [0], I wanted to scroll back up. Using Firefox 79, I wasn't able to go up no matter what. When using Chromium 84, I managed to go up when scrolling fast, but when holding up key, I still stayed in place.

[0]: https://docs.travis-ci.com/api/#linting
This article is about work/money balance and specifically money/money balance.
That's a bit of an over generalization. It gets more tedious for people with multiple jobs, investments, a business, etc. Not to mention, many places also require state and local tax paperwork. The companies that charge money, including TurboTax, lobby to keep the tax codes complex so they can keep charging people money.
If you're going to pitch an AWS service as "offline", then pitch Glacier.
Is anyone proposing a wealth tax on corporate entities? Not that I've seen.

Firms/Corporations already engage in massive profit shifting to avoid taxation. That's without any corporate wealth taxes.

So why do you think a wealth tax on an individual's wealth would cause corporations to "uproot and go elsewhere"?
Curious do you just stick with web apps or just don't do any sort of business that requires it? I was thinking about a career shift into apps or web apps, leaning towards web actually because I do have a little bit of "full stack" experience on simple web applications/databases in the embedded sphere.
> I know you can request access from the OpenAI site and join a waiting list, but so far I've never heard of anyone who had access.

It seems OpenAI is giving access to the API to friends and the who's-who of the machine learning world. I wouldn't count on the waiting list. If you're someone who works in the field and could benefit from GPT-3 and you know the right people, you already have access.
Building a better bacterial trap for sepsis
https://www.nytimes.com/1973/08/10/archives/from-a-china-tra...

Source of the quote in 1973. The west knew far less about China in 1973 when it was opening up after decades of isolation than it does today.
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Some farmed fish (like tilapia) can live on a variety of things, including soy and corn pellets.

Algae, which can be used for many things - human consumption, farmed animal/fish feed and even fuel - can also be farmed sustainably.

I think we urgently need global legislation and enforcement of rules, as well as satellite monitoring to stop overfishing. World leaders need to work together on this.

Marine ecosystems may not come back once collapsed and that would be a huge disaster. I hope there is some kind of self-limiting dynamic here where industrial fishing becomes unprofitable, but we avoid extinctions and total collapse of ecosystems - but I'm not sure that's the case.
One argument I would make is that it's a LOT easier to just move to another european country and you are still very close to your home country.

Capital flight in the US is logistically much more difficult than in europe I would imagine.

>"are billionaires bad for the rest of us?" That is the premise of a wealth tax, at least the currently popular one.

I don't think that's very accurate.. the wealth tax is saying "billionaires have so much excess money that they should be contributing on another layer than the rest of the population". While you can ALSO say "there should be no billionaires / they are bad", that is not what the wealth tax does.
You admit you don't know what you're talking about. Please stop spreading false information in that case.
So...that's a "no" on sources?
CLI or command-line interface. I've never heard anyone call it "clee."
Interesting question there - do Larry Ellison's yachts "benefit others"? (And i mean beyond the immediate effect of "spending money". We should always keep in mind that opportunity cost is a thing, and that investment involves plenty of "spending" and economic activity of its own.)
Belarus has torn up the protest rulebook [role of Telegram app]
Taxing unrealized capital gains (provided you also allow deduction of unrealized losses) is equivalent to taxing net realized gains except in effect on the power people holding large unrealized gains can exercise over society. It doesn't have any effect on net, after taxes returns.
I've had fewer problems with this than I expected. I think it's because I took pains to make a mental work/life divide a few years ago. The switch for me, whether working in the office or from home, is my work computer. In the office, the ritual start of the day for me was turning on my monitors and logging in for the first time. At home, it's connecting to the vpn, starting my remote desktop client, and connecting. End of the day is locking the screen and turning off the monitors in the office, or closing down the remote desktop client and vpn at home.

Just clicking the close button on the remote window and then disconnecting the VPN is enough for me to feel that it's the actual end of the day. Also, I've made it clear over the years that I don't monitor my work email or Teams chats when off the clock. That helps. Coworkers know that if there is an emergency I will respond to a text or a phone call but an email or a Teams message will go unseen until I login again.
Billionaires are good for society. elon musk and jeff bezos are leading the way into space and that is huge for humanity. If you tax them you will literally stop humanity from becoming multi-planetary.

The comparison to aristocracy is absurd. The US was founded abolishing the class system because the wanted equal opportunity, not equal outcome.
No offense, but I personally hate it when someone online mentions the existence of scientific research supporting their position, and then doesn't post a link to said research.

I'm personally interested in reading the papers you mentioned, could I get the link(s)?
Oh, I completely agree with that. Bad wording on my part. Usually when I talk about such things I add something to denote it as my opinion/fear.

Sadly it is legitimate to some extent IMO.
Ouch, that hurt. I hope he can see himself in a mirror soon.
You could stand to actually watch the video I linked. To quote its opening line:

> Human rights today have the kind of status that the divine right of kings had in the Middle Ages. They are so deeply ingrained in our political thinking that imagining a society without them seems almost impossible.

And then:

> That human rights "simply follow from the definition of justice" [quoting John Rawls] is at the very least a strange claim, because the notion of "justice" has been theorized at least since the ancient Greeks, whereas the doctrine of human rights was not fully formulated until the 17th Century.

The Greeks?

> Ancient Greek philosophers commonly saw what is right, what is lawful, as being determined by the moral order of the world itself. What is right was not to be found in individuals but in the harmonious order of things.

Continuing on the Greeks and Romans (Hellenistic tradition):

> What was due to a person was determined not by the individual rights they possessed, but by their position in the larger community, and their relationship to the other members of the community. The point of such distributive justice was to aim at social harmony, something that can only be understood in light of the community as a whole; rather than in terms of isolated individual rights.

What changed? Christianity. Ensoulment and God crowded out the harmony of the community.

> Because of [the arguments of Christians], gradually, the moral law came to be seen not as something inherent in the order of things, but something stemming from the Will of God. The importance of order is replaced by the importance of will. [...] The result is a morality built on universal abstract rights which emanate from the will of each individual by virtue of a shared human essence.

And that's just the first quarter of the video. Go watch; it's very informative and lays out its sources and citations in a way that are easy to examine for yourself.
Options being dangled in front of employees to trick them (only later to find out they can't afford to exercise it) is infuriating - it's almost fraud imo.
This is actually good news. Rust was in the Mozilla incubator for the longest time. Moving out signals it’s mature enough to stand on it own. Mozilla has done a great job in incubating Rust. Now is the time for Rust to fly on its own wings.
Yes, event tracking is already in the current build. I just haven't finished the UI components or documentation yet. But basically all you have to do is add a CSS class to an element and it will automatically start tracking. Like this:

<div class="button umami--onclick--signup-button">Signup</div>
"MP3 to Text" seems very inaccurate since you can only upload video files. In fact uploading an .mp3 file shows "File type not supported".

edit: I get it, OP just keeps submitting his service with different descriptions until one gets some upvotes. Only took 25 tries to get 30 points. Shameful.
It is unsurprising given that the raison d'etre for Filecoin was never the demand for decentralized storage, or backup, or anything else. It was started with the sole purpose of raising money, because of the overwhelming demand for hype-driven investment opportunities that tick the typical checkboxes. And that was delivered perfectly.

Releasing an actual product is more of a side product. If you don't develop or release anything, and just buy yourself Porsches, it's textbook embezzlement. But if you spend the money in a plausible way, you're mostly safe, even if the product turns out a major flop.

Unless you get greedy and start doing too shady stuff, like issuing yourself tokens under the table, that the founders apparently did.
reminds me of descript
In Buddhism nihilism is one dualistic extreme, the other being eternalism. In the nihilistic view after death we are extinguished forever, and in the eternalist view we have a soul that goes on forever. Neither of these are considered correct in Buddhism. The teaching is a middle path between dualistic extremes.

There is a sutra that actually addresses nihilism, as it was a view that some schools of thought taught at the time of the Buddha. [1]

He considered it to be wrong view, a denial of the results of good or bad actions (karma) and rebirth. With the teachings on emptiness in the heart sutra it states all phenomena are marked by emptiness, “no birth no death, no being no nonbeing, no defilement no purity, no increasing no decreasing”. So nihilists would be led to cling to the view of nonbeing and not see everything else. For me at least that brought about a lot of aimless suffering.

[1] https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.060.than.html
Then maybe Apple wouldn't need to send out a backdoor patch to underclock old devices. People that still want the long battery life the device had on purchase could go out and purchase a new battery (or attempt to force Apple to give them a new one) - those folks that are fine being tethered to a power outlet can choose to ignore the shortening battery lifespan. Either way, it'd move the decision into the hands of the consumer instead of Apple making that choice for you. And don't forget that Apple did get into trouble over their stupid underclocking "We hope no one notices that we don't allow people to repair things" patch.
"I like Elon so he should keep his money."
Just reading the instructions, noting all the exceptions, and assembling the forms takes hours.
That's a great point

Right now you can save tremendous amounts of tax money by spending 50% of the year in Puerto Rico, but most rich people still don't bother
Here is the NixOS patch for xdg-utils: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/95758
How FreeCodeCamp Is Helping Me Become a Better Programmer
Thanks for mentioning https://www.userTrack.net, I'm the author and still working full-time on improving it. Let me know if you have any questions/remarks about userTrack.
Capitalism has done more to lift people out of poverty than any other system in human history, so it's got that going for it.
No, it does not use cookies so no cookie prompt is needed.
Will also sent upstream once I got an account and nobody is faster than me.
I buy canned sardines regularly. I've noticed for the last year that the size of the sardines are increasing, and many that are canned now have eggs. It makes me wonder if pressure is making them age and try to reproduce sooner than before, or if the fishing season is being expanded to meet demand.

I've cut back on buying them as much. I may quit after this.
I need an alto ego...

Frederick König.

I am a man who can sit for hours working productively at his computer. I am a man who is not affected by boredom. I desire nothing more than to sit, and code. My productivity is off the charts and I am being considered for a promotion. I have excellent coding ability and can apply it with ease by sitting, and coding, for hours, and hours.
> Every single citizen is supported by countless public infrastructure initiatives, from transportation to safety to education to etc etc, without which no significant achievement would be possible.

And who do you think is paying for all those initiatives? The government doesn't create, it only redistributes. Transportation, education, etc. would exist perfectly well without the government getting involved. Their "contribution" consists solely in taking the money that would have gone to those things—or other things that people considered even more valuable—and channeling it through their own programs. There is no value-add, just concentration of power, curtailment of viable alternatives, and a much increased scope for corruption and general inefficiency.

> And government supports and enriches society. It's symbiotic, not parasitic.

It's not a pure parasite, true, but even if a symbiote happens to perform some necessary function for the host as a side-effect that doesn't imply that the host wouldn't be better off fulfilling that need some other way. This is not a healthy relationship. The point is to maximize the value to the host. The needs of the "symbiote" are irrelevant, yet it actively discourages competition and violently resists being removed or replaced.
I believe it's because the people most affected in these situations are also the people who are unable to simply move to a country that benefits them more.
>"That's not exactly correct, you just have to forgo locality, which some interpretations of quantum mechanics do, like the Bohmian one. Like the sibling comment points out, this still doesn't permit faster-than-light communication."

Er, yes, but, forgoing locality -- changes the definition of speed -- because it changes the definition of distance:

Speed = Distance / Time

If you forgo locality, then you are now able to modify distance in this equation, that is, your equation now looks like this:

Speed = ((Distance * NON_LOCALITY_SCALING_FACTOR) / Time)

That's because, let's say you have a black hole/quantum entangled particle/stargate/thing A at one point in the universe that immediately influences thing B at some distance to it in the universe (call this "connected" concept by whatever name or metaphor you will), etc.

Well, if so, then the NON_LOCALITY_SCALING_FACTOR is there to adjust the shorter distance to the longer one.

Like let's say you had a stargate linking two points in the universe, and you walked 10 feet into it, but this 10 feet, after you had walked it, resulted in you appearing halfway across the universe.

OK, so that's 10 feet in local movement, in local distance, but billions of miles of actual (but non-local) distance.

That's why you now need NON_LOCALITY_SCALING_FACTOR in your equation, because you've redefined Speed in terms of it.

But, by redefining Speed (which must occur, by forgoing locality!), you now have agreed (because it is implied) that anything faster than light (communication, travel etc.) can now occur, that is -- all you need is a high enough NON_LOCALITY_SCALING_FACTOR in the equation for speed -- which you get by forgoing locality...
This isn't the correct way to model wealth tax's effect on founder equity. Paul's model doesn't account for the changing value of equity over time.

When a startup was at the seed stage and worth say $5mm, a founder with a 50% stake would be paying $25,000 / year with a 1% tax. If the company grew and received a b-round of investment valuing it at $150mm, with the founder diluted to 20% ownership, the wealth tax on the $30mm in equity would be $300,000. As you can see the tax rate changes over time significantly.

There would likely be some unexpected consequences. Founders would re-consider sky-high valuations during funding rounds because of the effect on their tax rate. Startups may consider generating real cash-flow earlier on in order to issue dividends to their shareholders to cover the wealth tax instead of selling shares. If equity holders did sell shares to cover the tax, there would be a more liquid secondary market, which could make "house-of-cards" startup more apparent early on.
Of course that's true for accepting donations, but what about contributions that aren't treated as donations? Or could another foundation receive donations and hold them in trust until the new foundation is able to receive them? Is the new foundation actually expected to be in immediate need of funds such that this would be worth considering?
Savings != savings account.
I love to see the web-page archiving. Curious about how you see your tool versus Obsidian. Have you checked out Obsidian? Similarly uses markdown and front matter on the local filesystem.