skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My family's experience is the exact opposite of what you describe. I've never been healthier because most of last year I had time to go for daily exercise instead of sitting in a car commuting. I took my young daughter out with me a lot of the time. My wife also took advantage of the daily outings. Our mental health is probably better than it has ever been because we get to spend more time with each other rather than with a bunch of guys in the office.

Education wise, my wife has used the opportunity to dip her toes into teaching - which is something she always wanted to try. I realise not everyone wants to be a teacher, but you never know.

The situation is what you make of it.
For the first question, it depends if you bought the fifty cars for $100 each, or if your basis is less than that. Cost basis is key here. And no to the second question.

The IRS has designed crypto as a property, so you are subject to paying capital gains (or claiming capital losses) whenever you sell, convert, pay or earn. Converting one crypto to another (or to USD) is a taxable event, while transferring BTC in one wallet to another wallet is not (since you keep the same property). Further details at https://www.coinbase.com/bitcoin-taxes#paytaxes.

If you sell a car for more than you bought it for, you do owe taxes on that. https://www.carvana.com/research/2020/03/what-to-know-about-....
No, the automation/robotics train has already left and China is leading there too.
Right, the one guy trying to knock it all down, you decide to vote out of office, because the Elites said he was racist. Bravo! Typical stupid Americans doing exactlt what the Elites want.
To be clear, "off topic" here's just an example. My main point was the semantic implication of a downvote - I've seen the argument of "downvotes are not meant for disagreement" expressed here previously.
Are you saying that we require an insight similar to thinking beyond Earth-centrism?
I realize that HN is very employee-centric, but "exploring new opportunities but don’t quit until something better is lined up" is rather harmful to the team you're working with. If someone's just started, they're generally a net-negative, so the individual is both drawing pay and sucking resources. This is almost 'quitting in-place'.

If we expect startups and companies to act ethically (in terms of pay, benefits, options, etc.), we should expect the same of employees.
There are infinite ways to retort this, but let’s go with the easiest and point to the company literally dealing with plastics recyling and separation that raised $55 million today

https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/04/amp-robotics-raises-55-mi...
It's not about who created the coins, obviously. It's about the fact that more than 65% of the hashpower securing the network is in the hands of a small group of mining pools in the PRC. Adopting BTC is de facto handing over sovereignty of your currency to the PRC [1].

They get to censor transactions, they get to decide what makes it and what doesn't, they get to double-spend if they want to. That's how authoritarian government works.

This is a natural consequence of the proof-of-waste system employed. The hashpower goes to the place where waste would be the cheapest, and that's China.

[1] https://news.bitcoin.com/65-of-global-bitcoin-hashrate-conce...
> As I noted in a previous post, switching teams is a lot easier than switching jobs. I didn’t do this before I left Stripe because there weren’t any other teams that I was super enthusiastic about at the time. But, in retrospect, I probably should have given this a try before quitting.

A few years ago, I was looking for a new job after being laid off. I had two competing companies to choose from, and chose the one that sounded like it would be more exciting. After about five months, though, I was miserable and called the other company to see if they'd still take me; they did, and I've been happily working here since.

But after I announced my departure, a few engineers from other teams came up and told me they wished I'd let them know before quitting, since they would have been glad to have me on their team instead. They knew the reasons I was feeling frustrated, and felt confident that those issues were either not a problem on their team, or were at least being worked on. I still kind of wonder how true that was, and what would have happened if I'd made the switch internally, instead.

Anyway, that was kind of a long and boring story - two whole paragraphs! - but I think this was probably the one of the more valuable parts of OP's post. An internal team change is often a lot less stressful and less risky than going to a different company.
I am not the right sort of doctor, and you should ask a medical professional. My knowledge comes from very out-of-date experience working in a computational drug discovery lab, which gives one a very narrow view of a very small number of things.

Seriously, ask a doctor, but these might give you starting points for the discussion:

This is a very high-value part of pharma research, because inflammation is at the root of a lot of lifelong chronic disease and is basically only manageable rather than curable. But because inflammation is a systemic response, all drugs which modulate the immune system are serious business.

For short-term use: corticosteroids (eg prednisone), and I think best-current acute Covid pneumonia protocols involve quite a lot of these, particularly dexamethasone (https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/immune-based-...). Corticosteroids are extremely powerful drugs. Some of them are used topically for acute local inflammation (hydrocortisone is the best known of those and is available OTC from pharmacists for rashes), but that's basically the only context you're likely to encounter them taken as lightly as, eg, aspirin or acetaminophen.

Long-term use; there are some small molecules, eg methotrexate, which modulate the immune system – hydroxychloroquine is one of these used in lupus treatment, but there is plenty of evidence that it harms rather than helps in the Covid case.

That leaves you some of the second-line treatments used for chronic immune system diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn's disease, and ulcerative colitis, and there the Lancet paper I linked up-thread suggests these may have some utility/protective value against Covid, found by studying correlations in patients undergoing these therapies for pre-existing conditions.

But: these are not easy options. They're "biologics" (big proteins). You've had or know people who've had some of these. The ones you've probably encountered are vaccines and insulin, but the big growth area has been monoclonal antibodies. Some of these can directly modulate specific signalling pathways, particularly inflammation pathways, which is why they are effective against the diseases of systemic inflammation above. But: these drugs are extremely expensive to develop (so the US prices are ungodly high), difficult to transport, store and deliver - often requiring IV infusion (I think Humira has a self-injectable formulation, but none of them are oral medications) - and have systemic side effects basically by design.

Two new monoclonal antibody therapies of this class have US EUAs (emergency use authorizations) for Covid; https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/regeneron-following-lill.... One of them (the Regeneron one) is the one Donald Trump had.
There's also HR Open Standards Candidate as well.
> working on important stuff like how to deal with plastics recycling and separation

Do you happen to have any helpful analysis, articles, companies, etc. along these lines? I have thought it would be a fun thing to work on, but I have struggled to know where to look and haven’t found anything particular in my searching.
At least in the UK it's a lot more uneven than that. House prices have increased far far above inflation over the 20th century (not entirely evenly). So those who invested in property at low prices are now sitting on large nest eggs, while young people are unable to make similar investments as they are already priced out of the market.
My comments weren't about Australian financials; however the lockdown isn't the only contributor

- The political fallout between China and Australia is worsening, the long term ramifications don't look good. This isn't attributibal to the lockdown.

- Australia's short term economy is currently recovering well after lockdown [1]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/australia-economy-budget/aus...
> "exploring new opportunities but don’t quit until something better is lined up" is rather harmful to the team you're working with.

How so?

> If we expect startups and companies to act ethically (in terms of pay, benefits, options, etc.), we should expect the same of employees.

I'm not sure what an ethical action from an employee would look like under this framework; quit and live without an income during any job search?
Definitely heard the private account feedback - and recruiter spam is a big reason why I didn't want to include any kind of comments of DMs for a first version. Will be looking into how to better support this.

In terms of monetization I plan on keeping the profile aspect free to use. If the user base gets big enough to warrant it I could see charging businesses to create job listings on a jobs section or something.
National Security Agency (NSA) Military Cryptanalytics (1977) [pdf]
All noise cancellation is much better at canceling low frequency noise (like the engine on a plane) than voices, for example, which it mostly just muffles. For example, I have music playing in my house right now. If I put in my AirPod Pros and turn them on, the music gets quieter but I can still clearly hear it.
I learned something new today! Nice work, and well-explained.
AMD is selling processors faster than they can make them.
Star Citizen was, at least, round 2 with spending far higher than this. This is just round-and-round.
My experience is the exact opposite of what you describe. I've experienced depression and anxiety for the first time in my life, due to most fun things in my life disappearing overnight (due to mainly involving socialization). The future is bleak. I've gotten pretty decent at guitar though. That doesn't replace seeing friends though unfortunately.
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> So there's also a generational divide. This isn't a good thing.

This almost reads like satire. You're saying it's a problem that people who have worked their entire life have more wealth than people who have more recently begun their career?
You're mistaken, China will most definitely sell that to us. It is in their interest. To problem is if the US will be able to afford it.
>If you disagree look up the event and the paper then have a discussion about it.

So the paper in question seems to be the NIMH's investigation of the subject that draws heavily on the Kinsey Report. The Kinsey Report had some flawed sampling methods, but would still have been the best available research for that decision.

The vote was 5800 for removal, 3800 against. You'd hope to see a stronger consensus based on the data, but not really a close vote.

You seem to have heard the religious version of events, which does not attack the actual science of the decision but turns the event into a political one.
Your reasoning is really absurd. You're saying homosexuality should have remained criminalized... and if that had been so people would not have been having gay sex.. and a rising epidemic would have been entirely avoided. Furthermore, you believe the gay population who died from it regretted being gay on their deathbeds? You don't see any logical leaps in any of that?

Do you also think we should make a policy banning sex because it will be "good policy"? Just use in vitro fertilization to procreate. It will certainly eliminate STDs.
Biggest issue I find with using a 1u case for a client is fan noise - short of some clever modification to the side panels to fit larger fans transverse, it's near impossible to get acceptably quiet 1u fans.
Let me ask a question first, what would it take, or is there anything that could change your mind and consider 5G microwaves harmful to humans?
Is this only for US/CA residents?
It has little or nothing to do with risk. Professional athletes make extraordinary sums of money, and some percentage of that is given to the government via taxes. Amateur sports generates little to no money; therefore, the government doesn't allow it.

See also: here in California, churches/synagogues/temples are closed, while liquor stores and marijuana shops are considered "essential businesses". Film crews are allowed to operate in mass numbers outdoors, but not distanced patio dining.

It seems pretty clear it's all about the $$$.
"Idiot" is the wrong word to use here, and not for woke reasons!

It's wrong because many of the people the FBI has arrested for these plots have diagnosed mental deficiencies to the point where they aren't capable of living on their own, and rely on caregivers for their day to day needs.

"Idiot" implies it's a functional person making bad decisions, not someone with a diagnosed condition.
> not because of some technicality but because Wikileaks have a very flexible relationship with basic principles of good journalism and are clearly prepared to play politics when it suits them.

By that definition there's hardly anyone who could be called a journalist.

It's also a textbook example of a "no true scotsman" fallacy.

A journalist is someone who does journalistic work, so he's a journalist, even if he's a bad one.
If possible, maybe be take a holiday together, away from the internet?
I would argue that they still have an employer, themselves, who is responsible for providing that health insurance.
I know how taxes work.

That's why I don't buy the "gross revenue" argument, or the "actually the rich pay more of their income in taxes" arguments.

The rich and big corporations have billions (pun intended) of ways of padding their expenses, hiding their net, moving their wealth around so it can't be taxes, making shell companies etc.
Well if cheap labour is not an input then there's no reason that the manufacturing has to be done somewhere with cheap labour costs.
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I mean, if I make war on a foreign country, I don't think "I'm don't live there" is a valid defense against retaliation.
Many of these cases may be due to sleep-disordered breathing, which is massively under-diagnosed because of a little known controversy within the sleep medicine field involving the scoring of sleep polysomnographies.

The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) admitted to a horrible mistake in their original scoring guidelines [1], but sleep physicians and labs are still way behind on catching up to this. The usual scoring methodology will only detect people with traditional obstructive sleep apnea, because it looks exclusively for long pauses in breathing and significant drops in oxygen saturation. By contrast, there are many people experiencing heavily fragmented sleep because of micro-arousals that will not meet those criteria. Here are some quotes from the AASM on this:

> Respiratory events associated with arousals, even without oxygen desaturation, cause significant, and potentially dangerous, sleep apnea symptoms. During PSG, arousal-based respiratory scoring should be performed in the clinical evaluation of patients with suspected OSA, especially in those patients with symptoms of excessive daytime sleepiness, fatigue, insomnia, or other neurocognitive symptoms.

> Studies have shown that not utilizing arousal-based scoring may lead to a missed diagnosis in up to 30% to 40% of patients with OSA, especially in patients who are younger and non-obese.

> Not including arousal-based respiratory events of any form when scoring a PSG may lead to either lack of proper diagnosis of OSA, misclassification of OSA severity, or misidentification of another sleep disorder or medical disorder (eg, idiopathic hypersomnia, chronic fatigue syndrome). These patients may remain improperly treated, leading to persistent sleep symptoms, worsened work performance, decreased neurocognitive function, and poor clinical outcomes.

This is a massive, stupefying failure in medical ethics that has persisted for unclear reasons (though likely having to do with insurance). Undiagnosed sleep-disordered breathing is probably at fault for a substantial share of seemingly treatment-resistent mood disorders.

Here's a quite informative talk that goes into some of the relevant details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV4NBugGSnQ.

If you think you may have a sleep disorder, the best thing you can do is get a proper sleep study that uses arousal-based scoring. If you can't find a physician or a sleep lab that does this, then the WatchPAT is a cutting edge and affordable OTC option that will also work well: https://www.amazon.com/Home-Sleep-Study-Apnea-Test/dp/B07XKW....

[1] https://jcsm.aasm.org/doi/10.5664/jcsm.7234
Most every .gov workshop is a windows shop, and will mandate windows software, been here many times. Solarwinds is a good microsoft slave, and not horrible for network management software, but not so much up on security as selling software. I know several Solarwinds shops including 2 current customers struggling with whether to crap can it, or rebuild and move forward until the next atrocity. Dealing with Solarwinds for some 15 years, it's typical Windows software - not so much security, but sell more of all our things, get paid.
No, that's the definition that does track perfectly in American English: where it can be substituted by "pleased."
To the extent that "penis envy" was ever a true assessment to beging with, it can be read much more easily as a desire for the same level of power in society that males had, not a desire for anything related to biology.
I've heard lots of good about Zulip - haven't tried it myself yet though
Paid off houses? Mortgage rates are under 3% meaning people doing well can deploy that savings and cash into the stock market, other investments, furthering the wealth gap. No reason to pay off property when money is this cheap.
Yes I'm old enough to remember when organizations had email but it was internal-only. Probably less for security reasons at the time than that they simply didn't have an internet provider. There were also mainframe-based email systems that were internal to that network.
It should not be surprising to anyone that long-established protocol standards are capable and versatile. DNS and LDAP are robust tree-structured replicated attribute stores; mix in Kerberos for a complete foundation of general purpose directory services. NNTP supplies a straightforward Gossip protocol for eventually-consistent distributed pub/sub. MQTT is still good for lightweight telemetry. I have services I authenticate with via Lamport's mostly forgotten scheme (S/KEY). And so on.

There is a current fad of HTTP+JSON as a generic protocol substrate, but it's almost always a mediocre fit for the problem at hand. Go read the RFC archives, there's diamonds to be found.

On the other hand, and perhaps even by the same token: using EC2 metadata isn't a completely terrible idea if it's the infrastructure you already have and the semantics line up with specific needs.
I realize I was mistaken.

Still, it feels Europe has, in general, huge tariffs, VAT and sales tax for any items, often doubling the price for seemingly no good reasons.
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Does this solve the other problem, that job hopping is the best way to get a raise?
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I'd reverse the question.

Keyboard design aside (which was fixed a year ago, and wasn't a poor production standards/cheap materials, etc. issue, it was a BS make-it-thinner-design issue), you mean the best built laptops in the industry, or the CPUs, battery, etc. with universal praise (M1)?
Yeah agreed; also, how often do people do benchmarks?

Me personally, I only bench around when the build is finished and not much after that; maybe bench again only if there's some significant hardware/software change (software change example being video driver that improves performance etc)

So, if passmark says "This graph counts the baselines submitted to us during these time period", then it probably mostly reflect new builds only. Which is still a significant data point, showing lots of AMD uptake (by enthusiasts), but not what the Techspot headline says/implies.
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"Leftist culture" is the only way to make any kind of money right now in the US, so of course Google want a "leftist culture" there. Is the rest of the world, it might be different, of course (eg. China).
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