skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because advertisers are bad faith actors and what I do on the internet is none of their business.

I have depression. Last night I did 60m of scientific research on ways to improve it, including new advancements in psychedelic treatments.

I closed my laptop, went to bed, and opened my phone for some late night reading (yes, bad habit). Practically any site I visited spammed me with ads for SAFE AND CHEAP 100% GUARANTEED MEDICALLY SUPERVISED KETAMINE INJECTIONS IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ads are bad because:
(1) It felt disgusting to know advertisers were spying on me when I was trying to get better.
(2) Advertisers have no incentive to show me an ad for a safe or appropriate product — just one that I will click on. They are in the business of exploiting my psyche for profit.
(3) Advertisers build profiles and resell them in the long term. Somewhere, there is a DB linking my IP with my identity, and now they’ve added the fact that I have mental health issues to that profile. Because of the lack of regulations in the US, I have no way of making sure that data doesn’t fall into the wrong hands (such as insurance companies, recruitment agencies, hackers, or just asshole ad agency employees who don’t care about PII).
What a great compliment. I love how he thanks the maintainer in extremely specific terms, showing exactly how their work helped.
Thanks for the tip. I have iPhones and iPads that have fingerprint readers and they all invariably fail to read my prints after a while (And I have 3-4 prints stored per finger). It’s frustrating. Sometimes it’s due to dryness but other times I have no explanation for.

Face ID on the other hand has been robust.
> The terrible truth is that a whole lot of us begged for a Skinner Box we could crawl into, because the real world's system of rewards is so much more slow and cruel than we expected it to be. In that, gaming is no different from other forms of mental escape, from sports fandom to moonshine.

This is my favorite bit from the linked Cracked article. As they point out, addictions (and distractions) serve a rational purpose: they fill a void when you feel disconnected, and help you escape from the cruelty of the real world. Unfortunately they can also harm your physical, mental, and financial health, damage relationships, and consume all of your time and attention.

But, you can actually afford a house in World of Warcraft or Animal Crossing (though I haven't paid off my loan yet.)
> Also as far as owing onerous back taxes go, aren't taxes you paid in your country of residence deductible ?

No, the USA has treaties with only some other countries that result in net-zero taxation of self-employed people. If you live in a country with which a tax treaty has not been concluded, and you are self-employed, you are liable to both your local country for income taxes etc., and to the USA for Social Security and Medicare.
I think there's whistleblower statute that protects such employees and even offers huge financial rewards to people who report financial frauds. I imagine she's eligible.

[1] https://www.helmerfriedman.com/whistleblower-programs-reward...
He often uses false dichotomies to advocate his views, for example, the left is against freedom and liberty, you have to decide if you are for the Gulag Archipelago society or a capitalistic society etc; as if they were the only two possible options.

I can possibly sift through YouTube to get to the videos where he claims these things, but it will not be the most palatable of chores.
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I like how much coordination went into framing the director vs how much didn't go into auditing.
It's a lot more than $2k for many, as with the exit tax it means paying capital gains tax as if you sold every single investment you hold.
Same here. I often find myself writing similar things under similar topics, but the very act of writing a comment makes me refine my beliefs just a bit.

(And then I can always count on other people to call me on my bullshit, which is another learning opportunity.)
> The answer isn't perfectly reliable, but it isn't completely unreliable either.

How would we be able to tell how reliable it is in general?

"""The left brain of people whose hemispheres have been disconnected has been observed to invent explanations for body movement initiated by the opposing (right) hemisphere, perhaps based on the assumption that their actions are consciously willed.""" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_free_will#Rela...
> She received automatic citizenship by being born on U.S. soil, but has no other connection to the country, having left as a baby.

Sorry, but there is no way in hell a European wouldn't know they have dual citizenship by being born in the U.S. And there's no way they wouldn't have renounced it in all this time unless they saw that citizenship as a benefit that outweighs the costs, or at least as a potential benefit down the road.

This article imbues Accidental Americans with the stereotypical dumbassery of I-Am-A-Real-American's in an attempt to get me to sympathize with people who don't want to pay taxes.

Edit: added Hulk Hogan entry song reference for clarity
I tried to get rid of my US citizenship while residing in Canada. I found out about the $2.5k and cannot pay that while I’m not in a great financial situation to afford giving away that much. Also I suffered conversion therapy in Michigan against my will. So I greatly despise the idea of the US ever getting a dime from me. Luckily my name is different between citizenships and I’ve not disclosed being a US citizen to banks. Anyway I’ll be dead by cancer in the near future so I’m not that concerned but I wanted to share my experience. I contacted the US embassy by email about not being able to pay but greatly wanting to drop US citizenship because of past trauma that effects my health. The agent just sent an email that looks like a template explaining all must pay 2.5k and he didn’t respond to any following responses I sent. It feels like extortion and really should be considered unconstitutional. I’m writing from a hospital bed on my phone so I apologize for the bad grammar mistakes
If you make some fairly plausible assumptions about Moores law (and equivalents), the simulations are cheaper than the meat bodies before mid-century.

• https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/51746/when...

• https://kitsunesoftware.wordpress.com/2018/10/01/pocket-brai...
Can you share more about this? Where have Oxford/AZ shared their testing protocol? Indeed, I was surprised to learn that the Pfizer and Moderna trials did not test participants unless they showed symptoms. Meaning: we don’t know if their vaccines prevent transmission of the virus. It specifically was not the measuring stick for their definition of efficacy.

I believe Moderna is currently conducting a new trial to ascertain the transmission question. Until we know for sure, all the talk about herd immunity may be moot.
How is this easier than sharing a requirements.txt and a requirements-dev.txt on git and having a venv per python project?
It’s actually been proved to be the opposite... which is probably why a lot of legalese you aren’t meant to read but they’re required to provide is written in small print upper case.

This has to do with the outline of letters in uppercase being indistinct (if you trace an outline - especially with serif fonts - you’ll largely just get a block) so you need to spend more time per-letter to distinguish the characters whereas with lowercase, the “fitted box” shape is shared between fewer letters: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004269890...
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That was actually the original inspiration for Snebu (not rsnapshot specifically, but a custom script implementing similar functionality based on the original rsync snapshot paper). Snapshots are so much better than level-based backups (full/differential/incremental) when using disk-backed storage.

I ended up running into this problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8305283 when I got to 20 hosts and a year's worth of backups (14 daily, 6 weekly, and 12 monthly snapshots, so 32 snapshots per hosts). It was made worse in my case because I was using ZFS with compression. So the original implementation of Snebu used shell scripts, flat files for the catalog, and a small utility to burst apart tar files.
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The monks of Ely paid in eels for the stone to build Ely cathedral.
The solution is to use your accidental US citizenship to your advantage. The US is actually a remarkable tax haven and has some amazing trust structures if you know what you're doing.

For example the Roth IRA, will in most cases due to reciprocal tax treaties, allow for a tax free pension even when your tax residency is in another county.

On top of the trust structures I've alluded to, there are few reciprocal data sharing arrangements with countries forced to comply with FATCA. In other words, the data sharing usually only goes one way.

Yes, this is a remarkable pain to learn and administer, but it's all possible to do without paying thousands in ongoing accountant and lawyer fees.

This means that it's possible to shelter your assets in a remarkably secretive way the US. So in one sense, you could consider US taxes as insurance against spurious lawsuits in say the EU, or bad faith spouses wherever you get married.
The guys who stuck with mainframes have more hair, money and toys.
Thank you! It’s discoveries like these that make my day - my mom has one of these machines, I taught myself cad on it when I was a kid.

I’m sure this will come in handy!
Not the OP, but I think in FotR the Bombadil interlude is an unnecessary distraction that saps a lot of the momentum from the story, and it’s tonally inconsistent with the rest of Middle-Earth (as seen up to that point). And the character simply has little relevance for the entirely of the book - only briefly mentioned at Elrond’s council and then in Return of the King, and never actually revisited. His only tangible impact on the plot involves giving the blades of Westernesse, which could have been accomplished in a much more straightforward way. In general the Bombadil scenes are confusing, even to dedicated Tolkien fans, and only detract from the book.

For the film, it is really the pacing issue that is most crucial: FotR is already a long and complicated movie, and it really doesn’t have a second to spare on unnecessary scenes. And, unlike a book, movies can’t really be digested slowly (especially not in a theater). The Bombadil scene is a small oddity in the book but it could have been a fatal flaw in the film, disengaging audiences before we even get to Bree.

I think Bombadil could have been effective later in the trilogy - where the fact that the Ring has no affect on him would carry more dramatic weight, and where the “tonal inconsistency” would be surprising and refreshing rather than confusing. Perhaps shortly after meeting the Ents - it would strengthen the idea that Bombadil is vastly powerful (even compared to Sauron) but aloof from human/elf/dwarf concerns.
I’d also be interested in recommendations that meet the above requirements.

My current work around for my main linux laptop is setting rclone to run with crontab at a time that I know i’ll be online for an extended period (evenings during long homework sessions). I’ve been doing this for several years and have yet to run into major show stopping bugs, and I frequently do checksum verification on my backups.
Not for everybody probably but I find it more readable, especially when the queries get big. Some people rely on code highlighting but this usually gets messed up when writing SQL code inside Python strings
I think one of the key takeaways was that people are biased or wishful to think that Dunning Kruger effect is stronger than it really is because people want methods to shut down anyone who brags or thinks very highly of themselves
I wish they made antibody testing easier and more widespread. No reason taking a vaccine slot if we already have immunity.
The problem (I think) is that as soon as a detailed error message is given (or some error code), sites will pop up all over the place telling you to download their software to fix “error code 0x80000008” or whatever. It’s so annoying searching a Windows error code only to have 9/10 of the results be generic SEO spam for some garbage software that (1) doesn’t fix the problem and (2) costs $40+.
It is interesting to me to see so many studies concerning the effects of recreational drugs on people with depression. Is there possibly a correlation between existing drug users and depression?
This is (roughly) the same course but the lectures are from 2018. The audio/video quality is quite a
a bit better:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqYmG7hTraZBKeNJ-JE_eyJHZ...
I was writing about this recently. Language is a system and all systems reduce complexity, functioning as a kind of insulation from a domain.
As expected. They withdrew while it was cool and gave good PR.
Election was the "most secure in American history", its a fact. Here is the official document proving it.

https://www.cisa.gov/news/2020/11/12/joint-statement-electio...

So according to you, any lawyer that questions this irrefutable, official documented fact, should be sanctioned for misrepresenting facts. Lawyers should be punished, fined or disbarred or even imprisoned for making arguments. Perfectly reasonable position.
I'm not even sure why people have phone numbers at all these days, the entire telephony system has been hijacked to hell (so much data collection from just owning a phone number).

What you should be doing is replacing no less than yearly any numbers you have, also email addresses and anything within your control (changing physical address is much more difficult).

You may even consider changing your legal name if that's a consideration depending on what Google has on you.
While I agree that uppercase is hard to read, turns out there is a good reason for caps in legal docs:

"Under US law, disclaimers must be 'conspicuous'"
https://law.stackexchange.com/a/18210
I thought there were tax treaties, basically you don't pay taxes on the first $100k if you paid into the national tax system of the country you are in. I can imagine FICA taxes though might be difficult. Maybe US social security would deny benefits if you claimed them without any contributions and residence abroad.
This happened to Boris Johnson: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/boris-s-dilemma-relinqui...
Original report: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

Key info: "Of articles with food industry involvement, 55.6% reported findings favourable to relevant food industry interests, compared to 9.7% of articles without food industry involvement."
I hope you carry on with this line of thinking, and if you make progress please post, or if you want to discuss feel free to ping me. Just don’t set the atmosphere on fire, Dr. Oppenheimer ;)
Past discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8282923

This is a great paper, I bookmarked this webpage.
A Starship/SuperHeavy combo weighs 11M pounds, that’s going to have to be one super large balloon you are living on.
I used their compression VPN before Facebook gobbled them up. It worked pretty well.
This is true! Sorry, I’m a bit of a nerd about this stuff. I was just making the point that, in accounting terms, the banks don’t invest money... they create and destroy it! Loan creation goes hand in hand with deposit creation and is a “grossing up” of the bank’s balance sheet. When the bank grants a loan, it also creates a deposit. So whilst I know it’s nice to think of “my money at the bank”, the reality is that your “money at the bank” is actually an IOU/deposit/debt that the bank previously created (when they granted a loan) and will, at some point, be destroyed when you or someone else pays back loan capital.

Reason being is that I somewhat take issue with economists of the Austrian school or “full reserve bankers” (eg author of OPs article) who fundamentally don’t understand what banks are and how they work. It’s incredible really, because if they took the time to write out the accounting journals for loan creation and destruction then they would, in a single moment, realise that much of what they advocate is in fact complete nonsense. Because, ultimately, banks don’t lend out base money... so they can’t possibly counterfeit it (as Mises claims). Banks also don’t have a special privilege to create “money”/IOUs - we can all do it and we do it all the time, It’s just that the bank’s money is widely accepted and ours is not.
The real singer from whom they borrowed the “Mavis” is named Mavis Staples. Which, to my ear, if I didn’t know she was a real person sounds just uncanny enough to have been made up by a company as marketing.
I have dual citizenship with another country and haven’t given it any consideration since I have not lived there since I was 18 months old. I wouldn’t know or consider tax implications of the country since I have lived my entire life here and identify as American.
I mean I would think $500 would get the point across.

You would think two letters from the FAA would get the point across. But you think it’s totalitarian not to give them just one more chance.
> The sad part is that CA remains a one party state

A duopoly is a fraternal monopoly, marked by common self-serving behavior.

Both parties trade law and power for campaign funds on a massive scale - every day of the year. It's unclear why one flavor of that might be preferable.
Unilever, stolen by the Brits from the Dutch and now slowly being turned into something as morally questionable as Nestle.

Im not buying their products anymore. Protip in the Netherlands: go to another supermarket than AH or stick to homebrands.
Hmm... One way that I look at it is evolutionary computation is an optimization strategy. It's characterized by tracking a population of candidates, discarding the lowest scoring, mutating the survivors, and cross-combining elements from multiple candidates.

RL is an optimization domain. It's the name of the problem, not the solution. You can straightforwardly use evolutionary algorithms on RL problems. However, a lot of the recent success in RL has come from using deep learning to try to solve various RL problems, not from trying evolutionary computation.
Up until not too long ago I used to work at a company where more than half of all 5000 employees had the title "manager", "head" or "lead" in their title. To put it extremely mildly it was a bureaucratic hell. I'm really tempted to call them and suggest yet another "head" title.
Very insightful.

This statement sort of reminded of the anecdote that life is a journey rather than a destination. Sometimes we get so narrowly focused on a single goal or ambition we lose sight of the fact that the process is as important as the end result. The process is growth, maturity, experience...life.
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while i agree this is overly complex given the simplicity of virtualenvs, there is something “pythonic” about encapsulating the environment in a container.

I would suggest using alpine containers with python for a ~40mB container, versus the ~900MB container created here to run a server.

For me, python containers are only used when I want to bundle things into services on swarm, and I use venvs for local development.
I don’t think it is unreasonable for them to not know they had US citizenship despite being born in the US. Completely unconditional citizenship based on location of birth isn’t really a thing in Europe.

It is also possible they knew and they didn’t think it was a problem. The US is one of only two countries in the world that do taxes based on citizenship.
Why would they definitively know that? It's not exactly a common thing and widely talked about.
Ah, yes. I restarted my career in Dallas as opposed to Austin, so I can definitely believe that. Maybe once I'm done touring the US that's where I'll go. Thanks for your perspective!
But then people would think I give Apple money.
I've long thought it would be amusing to arrange to have both the phone number xxx-yyy-zzzz and the IP addresses xxx.yyy.zzzz and xxx.yyyzzzz.
food for thought. what is the intention of showing relevant ads? to help user find solution or abuse it? As much as I feel that I am smart or strong not to be manipulated, I think I cannot resist if the ads relates to me. feels like google try to hack my brain and emotion, find loophole in weak human soul.
How is Nestle morally questionable?
Not sure I get the point of this? Perhaps I’m being dense? The hard part about SQL isn’t picking out the keywords in the select/insert statement, it’s understanding the DB relations, its structure and constraints.

If you want to make SQL easier to understand then take a look at a 15 year old stored procedure that’s been hacked at by a dozen devs is over 1,000 lines long, has sketchy rollback error protection, uses two CTEs, a pivot, no temp tables and does some xml shenanigans in the middle (I’m being hyperbolic obviously)

This feels like trying to loose weight by trimming your toe nails, you’re technically lighter but not so as it matters.
I am a green card applicant basically waiting to become a US citizen in the next 5 - 10 years. Comments are mostly blaming the person for not renouncing it but is renouncing really necessary?

If I end up going back to the country I was born in and leave the US what benefit do I have as a US citizen? This has been a scary scenario for a long time for me and I don't think I would be able to pay tax to the US with my income in that country.

If I basically stop being a citizen of the US by moving to another country why do I need to continue paying for it?

Is there any other country that does this?

Edit: This post made me finally read about this scenario. FEIE [1] exclusion for about $105,000 as of 2020. Is a relief because I can never earn that amount with the exchange rate in my country of birth.

1. https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/fore...
It's still cool and good pr to not give money to Facebook.
What about a split or shadow repository? That is, have a host-specific local cache of the metadata from the main backup server, so that a snapshot backup can be made locally (say to an attached thumb drive or SD card), then have a process that sync's that up periodically when a stable network connection is available?

If this is a strong enough use case then I have a couple ideas on how to implement it (I'll throw it in the wishlist). Otherwise, currently if you have an interrupted backup the next one will still re-use the files already on the server, even if it is part of a partial backup.
Looks like living abroad is not the issue here, being an owner of a foreign corporation is. There are millions of Americans living abroad, maintaining their US bank and retirement accounts.
> Because if and when the socialists take over, I can guarantee they won’t afford the capitalists the same freedom.

You should know your enemy better than lazily repeating Cold War rhetoric. 99% of all socialists today are firmly democratic.
The Leadership Guide for the Reluctant Leader: https://dev.tube/video/3PcL8UkorEg
The easy option always wins in the end. You could do all that, or you could write one Dockerfile and not care. Obviously this is not the goal of Docker, but it fulfills a need that many big companies have and will fund its continued development, while also kind of fitting in as a general reproducible environment service. It's not ideal, but the ideal version isn't as easy.
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