skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, even for an individual, optimizing their tax burden is ridiculously complex if you just take the IRS forms and code in hand. For a price (e.g. TurboTax) you can probably get to 80%+, especially if you live a simple life of a rental and a w-2. The process certainly favors those with the time and resources to understand the nuances of the tax code and most people don’t/can’t prioritize that. So it makes money off the “lazy” and non-confrontational in the same way that a car salesman does. That such a comparison makes even a bit of sense doesn’t speak highly of our system.

We all rely on the herd defense to protect us from minor math mistakes and code violations. Lord knows you don’t want to end up on the wrong side of the IRS. All my interactions with them have thus far been easy but if you listen to some stories during testimony in the nineties about IRS reform they weren’t always that way.

I like to think a simple flat rate would be better across the board. Many smart people disagree though.
> Speaking from a management perspective...

Why would labor protections be needed if the rational move would be to work with the employee to improve their performance?
FWIW it's pretty straightforward to copy an app from a phone to an .apk file on a Linux machine using adb, so if you have an Android device, you can always install from the Play Store on your phone
If you buy a good one, they last a while and work reliably. If you buy a cheap one, the continuously have problems. Kinda like most things for that matter.
Wonder if this runs on Sailfish OS? That'll be ideal for me, as I'm looking to switch to SFOS on my phone fulltime.
Smarter Every Day has a video about the "Dawn of Precision" and "How to measure a millionth of an inch", including mentions of the Whitworth method.

https://youtu.be/T-xMCFOwllE
Wait - can you use org mode without knowing emacs as much as a vim user knows vim? Like, maybe, knowing the default shell line editing keystrokes?
Wow, I'm familiar with his work but had no idea that he invented the term. Kinda of makes me like Knolling more, though. And him, as an artist.
A conspiracy of ravens.
> "There should be universal, excellent public education"

First there would have to be universal, excellent students
I was doing a low carb diet. It was tedious to track and search recipes, especially those in my own diet; most of them were for Western diets and had things like flaxseed and olive oil, which were not readily available here.

At the same time I was working on an app to compare grocery prices in stores in the area. So I set up a system to input recipes, generate a shopping list, and compare prices or generate an algorithm which supermarkets to buy at.

The grocery price comparison app was a flop - gov didn't like it and the result was that most stores were about the same prices, because some would sell different prices expensive and cheap, and some things like fruit might seem really cheap but were also low quality. I released the recipe app to Facebook, and it really took off.

It turned into a startup, where we'd monetize by selling ingredients for the recipes. It got lots of users, at about 3 cents per paying user, and after a year, we sold it off as a marketing channel for someone whose main focus was selling weight loss ingredients.
anecdata seconded here.
Win10 does this on open networks and maybe even protected but Public networks as well unless you override it or your hardware doesn’t support it (e.g. old).
Source: https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/93/slides/slides-93-intarea...
Yeah, seems fitting, "Poaching has been defined as the illegal hunting or capturing of wild animals, usually associated with land use rights." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poaching

The "land use rights" part. The analogy works because on some level the company is "your land."
> Is it possible to install the Google Play Store?

There are many apps from great free software repositories such as https://f-droid.org that many people may want to use. Further, many apps from Google Play can be installed without the Google Play store.
Jefferson-Chalmers is the last Detroit neighborhood with any real potential to see redevelopment. Jefferson-Chalmers butts up against Grosse Pointe which is Southeast Michigan's answer to Beverly Hills.

The area also contains Detroit's answer to Venice, a neighborhood with canals that lead to the Detroit river.
You can park your boat outside the back door and with a short trip head to either Lake Huron or Lake Erie. I always thought expanding those canals was the key to reviving Jefferson-Chalmers.

Lots of famous rock stars played at the Vanity Ballroom. MC-5, The Stooges, Velvet Underground and Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes to name a few.

Property values are still quite low partially because almost no one is reinvesting in the area. Friend of a friend bought a 5 unit apartment building for $13,000 off Craig's List.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bapcgs1v62Q&t=4s

He's also trying to put together a pool to invest in buildings in this neighborhood.

http://hopinthepool.com
This is a 100% political post, so flag it as it should by HN rules or get dirty and talk left and right politics.

I understand the tactic of denying the left or antifa don't exist.

But the fact HN falls for these stoner teenager properganda ideas is a problem. Sure, nothing is actually real. It's all inspecific cultural artifacts created by out meat computers. But then nothing actually matters including believing it's real.

To the article, there is nothing factual in this article. No statistics or graphs or data just left bent politics.
> The idea with dual licensing with GPL is that the user has to either open-source their code, which most corporations will not want to do, or use the paid licensing scheme.

That's part of it (and it's probably dominant when the software is infrastructural and typically has other software built on top of it), but not quite the whole story.

The other part is for software that is more of an application than a component: when your commercial version has additional features aimed at deep-pocketed customers (typically "enterprise" features like SSO, or various forms of compliance). Since these features aren't released as open source, you are the sole source of those capabilities. Someone else could duplicate those features and release them as GPL, competing against you with a completely open source offering, and nuke your profit margin, but what they can't do is duplicate the features and keep them proprietary as you are doing. So anything they release like that is now effectively free, and they don't really get any of the attractive profit margins you had, making it harder for them to recoup the sunk cost of duplicating those features.

IOW, they can fill in your moat, but then can't really dig their own.

This gets back to why big companies release software as open source: Sometimes they aren't just trying to commoditize their own complements, they are trying to commoditize someone else's core to blow their business model up (or more accurately, cause their competitor's market to evolve faster than they are prepared for). Open Source isn't the only possible play here though. A free or freemium offering as well as other tactics can have a similar effect.
Until ARM Macs become prevalent.
> Hacking private companies and spying on Americans seems outside their charter IMO.

Aside from phone metadata collection, they weren't spying on Americans. They could tap communications of non-Americans outside the US, and they could find those communications in Google WAN traffic crossing the US border. It's Google's fault for not encrypting it because any number of other countries with fewer laws against spying on their citizens could have done the same thing. It is good that Google and other Internet companies now use https everywhere and encrypt their WAN traffic, but the threat vector should have been well known at that point given what China had already been doing publicly for years.
Really the aero and suspension is more impressive than the engine.

You could stick a commodity pushrod V8 in there and make 1000hp easy with a bolt on turbo and run the same laptimes.

Nothing else on earth is close to the aero.
Are you looking at, or doing any other forms of passive income that don’t share the same flaws as above?
Basically you believe that properties are Investments that should always increase and if people that can’t afford to pay what some literal rent seeker demands then they should go pound sand.
Please please please don't tease.me with this if it's not real.
> Anti-poaching agreements are non-competes, just between firms rather than a firm and their employees.

I don't see anything about non-poaching agreements in a cursory look at Wikipedia's article non Non-competes[1].

> No, that's not all they mean. The most trivial anti-poaching agreement might restrain itself that way, but anti-poaching agreements can and regularly have included agreements not to employ workers from the other firm, not merely to avoid certain active recruitment/solicitation steps.

Yes, you're right. Thanks for the clarification. I guess what I should have said is the specific anti-poaching agreement that bonestamp2 mentioned was only about active recruitment. But still even with this broader definition of anti-poaching, they're not as bad as non-competes. A non-compete would prevent the founding of Intel (by former Fairchild Semiconductor employees), but a broad anti-poaching agreement would not prevent the founding of Intel.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-compete_clause
Jax is pretty popular in the research community. Also supports automatic gradient calculations, and vectorized map. Targets the GPU via the XLA backend.
The projects may be on time and under budget, but from a citizen's perspective the transportation situation in DFW is excruciating. Endless construction, confusing junctions, deceptively labeled toll roads, and an NTTA site that won't let you use secure passwords (or security questions) to register. Give me fewer freeways and more public transit options any day, thanks.
I like the idea, but I also can't think of anything I'd personally use it for.

Does anyone else have any Mac apps on their "run-on-linux" wishlist?
Those are medians for all households, which includes say a recent college grad living alone. The median income of a family with kids in Fairfax County is close to $140,000: https://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/tables/9184-median-inc.... Probably well over $150,000 for people with high-schools aged kids, who tend to be at peak career earnings.
But the food industry has a way to extract basically fructose from fruit and still calling it a 100% Juice instead of 61% fructose on the ingredient list. They even spike baby food with it kicking an early sugar addiction in children.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089990071...

https://analyteguru.com/what-does-it-really-mean-when-the-la...
I stopped reading The Phoenix Project about halfway through... just read The Goal - it's better written and was the original source for the core ideas. Or, said another way, if you've already read any of Goldratt's books, you know the core ideas of the Phoenix Project. Are there other books that could more directly speak to implementation details, sure, probably.
GenZ, the first generation to make money upcycling themselves?
>If you lose your shirt, that's on you -- nothing prevented you from putting the money in savings or less risky account.

...except you are preventing the landlord from making money. Presumably there is another potential tenant that would pay rent. It is pretty interesting for you to argue that landlords shouldn't be able to evict people and also if landlords "lose their shirt" it is their own fault.

>the needs of the tenants trump the needs of the landlords

Which tenant? The one that is currently in the building, or the one that could move in and pay rent?

>But why is it the people at the bottom have to hurt the most?

The US gave everyone a $1,200 check and an additional $600 PER WEEK in unemployment benefits. People were making $60,000+ annualized during the peak of covid. There is also an eviction moratorium. How much more do you think people need?
Helped me stop ruminating over and be saddened by my/our insignificance
Thanks, do you receive notifications at all when in background in PureOS? Say for email?
Works only with snap, unless you want take the trouble of building it on your own...
I think Adobe apps would qualify, no?
How they can invent new concepts before trying to invent the wheel?
Another angle is that devices that randomize will “reuse” the random address for the same SSID, afaik. So even the random Mac may be of value over time.
It's not really that. This happens even when you're the one who worked on that paper. A paper requires intense focus on details. Mere months after that paper, you forget some of the details. It's just natural, considering that you may be working on something altogether different at that time.
> As ACMD chairman Nutt repeatedly clashed with government ministers over issues of drug harm and classification. In January 2009 he published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology an editorial ("Equasy – An overlooked addiction with implications for the current debate on drug harms") in which the risks associated with horse riding (1 serious adverse event every ~350 exposures) were compared to those of taking ecstasy (1 serious adverse event every ~10,000 exposures).

> In 2012, he explained to the UK Home Affairs Committee that he chose riding as the "pseudo-drug" in his comparison after being consulted by a patient with irreversible brain damage caused by a fall from a horse. He discovered that riding was "considerably more dangerous than [he] had thought ... popular but dangerous" and "something ... that young people do".

Brain injuries in American football over the past decade probably show that to be an even more dangerous sport, but I haven’t run the numbers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Nutt#%22Equasy%22
I don't think there is any downside in having a bulky source tree -- it is the binary size which matters. And linux is pretty good at configurability -- any driver, and even many "core" kernel features, can be disabled and then they is no longer even compiled.

Interestingly enough, this was common even in 1987 -- the original post also talks about configuring kernel to reduce binary size:

> Sun kernel code was about 390 kbytes, even properly configured (as distributed it was 490k).

I suppose someone could take kernel source tree and strip out unselected drivers, but I cannot imagine a good reason to do so.
Plan2Explore: Active Model-Building for Self-Supervised Visual RL
"then pivot from hiring engineers to hiring lawyers."

MS keeps it's monopoly via market power, generally not IP protections (though partly).

MS is large enough vis-a-vis fragmented hardware vendors and distribution networks that it can do play all sorts of hardball. It has deeply entrenched sales channels in to the corporate world. Most significantly, it's a platform which means huge switching costs - and - it can use that platform as leverage into other spaces i.e. desktop software.

Take a moment to contemplate out how Coke and Pepsi (ostensibly commodities) can dominate their channels in a supposedly free market - it's a little bit similar.

Google's monopoly in search can be leveraged into all sorts of other areas.

IP laws are beneficial for 'either side' and of course they are abused willy nilly, but by and large, they are beneficial to a lot of small companies.

Weirdly, even Open Source is helped by IP laws - by 'turning them upside down' using 'copyleft', they wrestle the IP laws into their favour, as the means to 'protect' Open Source, if you will.

We are so wrapped up in software - consider physical things. Often, they have very long development cycles, very expensive. Also - huge operating capital requirements and capex as well. (Why do you think there are so few YC hardware companies?). Also - distribution networks are locked up and very different from software where it's almost direct.

It would be almost impossible to make a hardware company without IP protections, because those with market power would instantly commoditize the competition.

Many other businesses are a little bit similar: as soon as it's not 'pure software' then you realize how fragile new companies are.

For 'very new domains' (i.e. 'blue oceans') it's one thing, but most markets are not that.

Once you put your 'anything but software' hat on for a bit, and see how those companies sit in the value chain, IP looks a little different. That understanding can map to software.

If anything, we need better, more nuanced IP laws, not to get rid of them.
its pretty unlikely since these aren't public torrents, but either way please don't do that.
I'm trying to find these details and I cant watch videos: would you be able to summarize ?
Off the top of my head: OmniGraffle, Rogue Amoeba's Fission, Affinity Designer.
Most lawyers are actually paid like shit though, if they can even get a job in law. They routinely have like 200k in student debt, as well. It's not the ivory tower people seem to believe it is (and hasn't been since well before 2008)
Or New York or Illinois or whatever. The point is that you can’t have it both ways. If dense urban states have the money to pay for their own transit, they should vote Republican at the federal level so they can stop subsidizing Wyoming, and use those tax dollars to build whatever they want. But if they actually need federal funds to build transit, then Wyoming should be able to veto building transit in New York.

Blue states have all of the money. There is no reason for them to complain so much about the Senate. If they want a vast socialist welfare state with state of the art transit, they should be able to pay for it themselves.
No you idiot, that's not how any of this works.
I sincerely doubt that you even understand what "rent seeking" actually means.
If you could not use WebTorrent, how would you have built this?
Imagine a glass of water and all the water molecules in it. They are all touching (kind of) and constantly moving around. There is a bit of space between the molecules, the inter-molecular space, which is a vacuum. Keep in mind that the molecules aren't really touching since they aren't built from rigid spheres but have electron clouds. The water molecules repel each other if they get too close, but also attract each other via hydrogen bonds, so they are about 0.3 nm apart. (Compare to 3 nm semiconductor process node.)

A cell is similar (since it is 60% water), but with many other types of molecules as well.
...or "fuck you" money.
Facebook leak hints at its defense against a government-ordered breakup
Isn't this what devicetree is for?
Quite unlikely, as it actually uses WebTorrent. WebTorrent runs over WebRTC, which means it's significantly harder for your ISP to detect it as a torrent.
$10M Series A investment was led by Social Capital 2 years ago. Here's an archived, Google cache of a Medium post (since deleted) from the VC who led the investment and took on a Board seat -- "Why We Invested in HubHaus"

https://web.archive.org/web/20201005040542/http://webcache.g...
Hey, I'm not disagreeing. I'm just saying that at least journalists don't have mysterious "accidents" and opposition don't get frigging nerve agents in their drinks. It's not Russia.
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> > Speaking from a management perspective...

> Why would labor protections be needed if the rational move would be to work with the employee to improve their performance?

Because management isn't necessarily rational?
Yeah, or you could also use a trusted APK repository like APKMirror, no phone required.
Isn't Bluestack an emulator? This is more similar to Wine/Darling as the Android system runs on a container.
>UK is trying hard not to be a part of Europe it seems

In what sense?
> weapons were sold by a police informant...handlers...did nothing.

Yowza! Hadn’t heard that in my neck of the woods. Very tragic. Recurring problem in defensive systems though. Logging but nobody is reviewing/acting on logs.
The Foundations of Liberia
Google delays mandating Play Store’s 30% cut in India to April 2022
Then why the new proposed budget caps? Seems like all these restricted technology rules would have taken care of this.
The virus of myside bias is spreading among cognitive elites
Have you heard of "warchalking"?
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Do you have a lot of experience working with WebRTC/WebTorrents? I would appreciate if you'd reach out via my company email (listed in my profile). I can't find any contact information for you on your page.
The closest would probably be glass on a bed of mercury.

Differences in rate of cooling leads to uneven stresses and minute bends. Similarly while handling and working the surface plates you need to let them reach thermal equilibrium.

Large forgings which need to be machined to close tolerances are left to sit even for months in room temperature to reach thermal equilibrium.
> One celebrated study found that drug-naïve volunteers who were given psilocybin experienced lasting increases in openness to experience that were evident more than a year later.

> Openness to experience refers to the breadth, depth and complexity of a person’s mental life. People high in openness to experience tend to be intellectually curious, artistically sensitive, interested in new experiences, and have an active imagination.

None of these are direct counters to aggression, but I’d argue that they all contribute to keeping one’s bulldozers at bay.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/unique-everybody-els...
I am a casual motorsports fan. F1 and Nascar have become boring with cookie-cutter cars. Would love to see a new racing series that allowed real innovation again. Just impose a team budget cap and some basic rules for track safety (no active aerodynamics, fuel load limits, etc). Otherwise do whatever you like whether it's a 16 cylinder engine or all-wheel drive or a giant wing or something totally nuts.
USTR Initiates Vietnam Section 301 Investigation
What does the security/reliability look like when using some of these methods though?
I find the recent (last four years especially) disdain and disapproval for pure capitalism, free-market, and smaller government here on HN somewhat baffling. I have been active on HN since early 2011 and there was much more active discussion and approval of capitalism, business, and libertarian ideology before. I suspect Trump has pushed people who were central or fiscally conservative to the far left, but frankly the consensus on HN seems to support the more radical socialist and anti-capitalist ideas now a days. Not even to mention the utter evaporation of free speech (in its pure form) and complete over politically correctness in technology (see master branch and master / slave changes).
And to pair with this, Caddy has a fastcgi transport for the proxy module https://caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile/directives/reverse_pr...

Or if you're running PHP, this shortcut usually does the right thing: https://caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile/directives/php_fastcg...
Float glass gets you a fairly flat (+/- 0.001"-0.0001") surface, but it's kinda fragile and bendy. You need something sturdy and flat underneath it, which sort of begs the question.

A good surface plate will get you 0.000001"-0.000005"
How The New York Times reinvented their product