skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you can wrap SQLite as close-source and sell it for a price, great, go ahead and do that. Because it is public domain, there is no restrictions, and it could be a good thing even it doesn't contribute back to the original author.

The other controversy around Fat Fritz 2 and Stockfish is a clear cut though. You wrap around Stockfish and sell it, which in itself is fine. The argument on why that practice is not OK is not about the harm to the original author (Stockfish) but to the users.

Fat Fritz 2's practice (of hiding itself as a Stockfish variant) stripped the user's right to know there are free-alternative.s By depriving that knowledge, their users will not make the best choice they can make, and that is a net loss (you can make the argument that the price user pay is what the market exploits the information asymmetry, therefore, it helps to create "efficient" market, but ...).

OTOH, if you can display both the free alternative and the paid version, successfully at selling the paid version. Even without any of that come back to the original author, it is a net gain in exposure. The society at large can also benefit (potentially encourage more derived work, and more knowledge sharing besides the original authors etc.).
Probably, but you'll probably have to KYC as well...
This page https://berkshirehathaway.com/message.html is even more surprising. It's like a bad sales pitch.
Bitcoin fundamentally wastes energy and BTC proponents don't see it as a problem to be solved. There is a big push to alter other technologies with environmental problems to make sure they don't use more energy than necessary.
The article seems odd to me. Tax filing at the push of a button still implies a middleman. You don't need to push the button.
Almost every working person is buying stock - for decades - until they retire.

This means that for the majority of their life, they benefit from lower stock prices. You also get a much better annual return on your investment, through dividends, when you buy under-priced stock.

Shorting deflates bubbles, before they pop. It puts the brakes on irrational markets. Working people suffer quite a bit when bubbles pop, because there are knock-on effects to employment.

Also, for most Americans, their biggest 'investment' is their home [1], with stock ownership being a distant second. That doesn't mean that we should pursue a public policy intended to drive housing costs into the stratosphere [2].

Investing into the stock market through your working life is a bet on capitalism continuing to work. Short sellers aren't going to destroy capitalism.

[1] Actually, their biggest investment is their job, but again, for some reason, policies that advocate for raising the price of labor to the moon aren't very popular.

[2] Yet, here we are, in a world where a toolshed with no running water in a coastal metro area goes for a million dollars...
I’d say a better measure is whether the person can currently handle most of what will be asked and how quickly they can get up to speed on new things. It’s easier to figure out and more useful for the company. It also de-prioritizes those that create a buzzword salad (sometimes out of necessity) on their resume.
I wonder what happened to turbotaxsucksass.com, it was listing a bunch of free alternatives and it mysteriously expired right before tax season began.
I tend to bind more often than matching the value of an existing variable, so personally I would have opted for something like this:

case Point(== x, y):
And the schism is that some people believe that procedural memorization is useful because after 20+ years of education they've gotten through the good part, and other people believe that the procedural memorization does kids a disservice by divorcing mathematical thinking from the concrete world entirely.

In my very limited teaching experience, I think the answer differs based on the student. At the individual level I don't think there's much controversy. Just align with the student's learning style. At scale, I have no idea and do not have the data/experience to have a well-formed opinion.

I was perfectly happy to focus on mechanical mastery of the multiplication rituals well before I had any concrete reasons to use them. I know plenty of others didn't work that way.
Thank God for Trump, my taxes are a lot easier now! Just a 1040ez!
Would you please either cite the source for your recollection or retract it? Hal had always denied being bitcoin's author:

"he confirmed that he had corresponded with Bitcoin's creator, but denied any connection to the invention of Bitcoin"[1]

Hal's family has had to endure threats of violence because people surmise they have control over millions of bitcoins. To fuel that speculation puts a very large, very violent target on their back. They deserve more respect -- especially because of the selfless contributions Hal made to cryptography and the cypherpunk movement.

[1]
>In the mean time, I emailed Finney a few times. When I didn't hear back--he's been mostly absent from the Internet as his paralysis deepens--I called his wife, Fran, who now works as Finney's full-time caregiver. She explained her husband's medical situation, and patiently relayed my questions to him. Using his eyebrows and eye movements, as she described to me over the phone, he confirmed that he had corresponded with Bitcoin's creator, but denied any connection to the invention of Bitcoin or the Dorian Nakamoto Newsweek had named, just as he would when I visited a week later. "For all Hal knew, Satoshi Nakamoto could have been next door, or he could have been in Japan," Fran said.

source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2014/03/25/satosh...
> he'd have an incentive to stay in the tent and piss outside rather than the other way around.

Thanks for this one. I could always use more comically vulgar metaphors.
Probably a lot of that is simply branding and first mover advantage. Everyone knows what bitcoin is and the name is nice and simple. The second largest coin, to my understanding, is ethereum, which has to be the worst name I’ve ever heard.
Use another service on that page, any of them. Turbo tax is full of dark patterns. They're corrupt and dishonest swindlers.
I thought this was how it already worked..
Have you used react at all? Check out react + rxjs for a similar experience, add some typescript on top and it becomes even better!
Meanwhile any news about fuchsia?
Niko has an impressive record of both proposals and concrete contributions, FWIW: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/graphs/contributors https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/graphs/contributors
Important to note that it's a "Chapter 11" bankruptcy, which loosely translates to "Our creditors and shareholders will take a big loss, but we'll keep operating and hopefully our customers won't notice a thing." As opposed to "Chapter 7", which means "we're shutting down and doing a fire sale of all our stuff so creditors can get a few cents on the dollar."

For instance, Hertz is going through Chapter 11, but you'd never know as a customer.
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It depends, the PE firms that bought Toys R Us did what is considered a hostile move in an leveraged buyout (LBO) which is to saddle Toys R Us with lots of debt (aka they raised debt financing to buy the company) so it had to do everything it could to pay the debt and also generate profits for the PE firms and probably not enough to focus on anything else innovation or operation-wise. Its been noted that LBOs have lead to the demise of several famous companies as noted by Investopedia and LBOs has since gained notoriety.

See:
https://www.barrons.com/articles/private-equity-firms-provid...

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-toys-r-us-leveraged-b...

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/toys-r-...

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/leveragedbuyout.asp#:~:....
An abstraction/simplification/shorthand is not a lie. People don't say "multiplication is repeated addition" because they are trying to hide the truth for some selfish reason. It's a pedagogical strategy to help people learn a new abstraction by analogy to an old one. These kind of crutches are a necessity, you can't introduce all the complexity of the world to someone all at once. This applies to every subject - science, history, writing. Simple notions and shorthands are introduced first, and complexity and nuance added on later.

Is it a "lie" to teach kids just learning chess that queens are worth more than any other piece and you should always protect your queen, even though there are advanced situations when it makes sense to sacrifice your queen for no immediate material gain?

In this specific case, introducing the ideas of "operations" and "counting numbers" into the picture muddies the waters, most kids who are just learning multiplication won't have any idea what you mean by those concepts.
But the sociopolitical benefits of many current cryptocurrencies are not worth it, because they process pitifully few transactions, both in an absolute sense and relative to the energy they consume.
Or more contributors to GIMP.

Let take an art student PoV, one doing MANA in France right now (16-17 yo not eligible for free version) or at any study level before Adobe did this "free for student" stuff. If he can't pirate it, he will use GIMP, probably. Considering my CS school had 5% ex-art student (with or without a complete art degree), if those had used GIMP instead, i'd dare say GIMP would have been close to PS in GUI and ahead in functionalities.

So piracy take contributor away from GNU projects!
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I just tested it on my RPi 3 model B+, and it booted plain, vanilla Aarch64 UEFI images of both the Debian and Ubuntu installers just fine.

I’m now running vanilla Debian instead of Raspbian and have proper Aarch64-support. I think that’s a pretty good improvement and future-proofing of the unit as a whole.

Not sure how well it works for desktops and specialised setups where you might want hats, GPIO, etc, but for plain headless compute-units/network-appliances it seems absolutely fine to me.
Google owns the operating system running on half of all Americans' phones (and an even larger share overseas). On top of that, Chrome OS is continuing to gain market share.

I think this is your answer right there.
OSS was the last time I had Linux audio in a state that I would call "basically working".
Math PhD here. You're a fantastic dedicated parent and you did no harm.

First, as to the merits of your approach --- I think of multiplication as scaling myself. That's totally valid.

Second, whether it's even possible to do harm here --- worst case scenario, the metaphor doesn't make sense to your kid and she doesn't use it in her own thinking about mathematics. Everyone has to develop their own intuitions --- like you had your epiphany --- and she'll develop hers even if you set her on a track that doesn't work, just as part of her learning and doing mathematics.
This would hopefully kill the endless cookie questioning
I don't suppose those lawmakers are voting to reduce their pay to $0, eliminating their government-provided pensions, or reducing the need for taxes by giving up any of their other benefits, are they?

Otherwise, legitimate or not, that money is going to have to come from taxes somewhere.....

Also, what does onerous have to do with legitimacy? It's like there's two orthogonal axes and they're trying to make taxes painful to convince the populace to dislike taxes, whether the taxation process is legitimate or not.
Same thing that ALSA, esd, Pulseaudio and Phonon solved: the previous incarnation itched.
No wonder I've been seeing so much ads about WealthSimple tax. It's literally every other ad on TikTok for the past 2 months. That and every other WealthSimple app (trade, invest, etc).
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The realization that animals in factory farms have a capacity to suffer, and are undoubtedly subjected to this suffering for the majority of their lives, has made me cut my meat consumption from every meal to occasionally on the weekends. Would love to cut it out completely but have not mustered the willpower to do so.

I think personally owning a pet dog and realizing they aren't biological machines simply responding to stimuli has helped me with that realization.
>if you buy a stock, you believe, and are indicating, that the stock is undervalued.

That's not true. You could believe that the company is stable and gives a good dividend each year. It could be valued perfectly well and you'd want to buy it because it would be precisely worth it to you. less than or equal, essentially, not simply less than.

>Short selling is a valuable way to indicate that you believe a stock is overvalued whenever you don't own the stock.

I don't think this is true, because the reporting on shorts isn't constant and because traditionally it's a far smaller community.

It's a valuable way to indicate that SOME people believe a stock is overvalued and seems to have been used as a replacement for independent research and valuation of a company.
Unfortunately TurboTax falls flat if you have a complex return. They "support" forms 1116 and 2555, but it's clear that they didn't put any real time into making sure they do the calculations correctly. Long story short, I got a check from the IRS for almost $1000 because TurboTax computed what I owed incorrectly.
I think /bin/sh is required to be a POSIX shell, at least when invoked with that name, and fish wouldn’t qualify.
You will be left behind just like all the unborn billions of people. Bitcoin version of the future is catastrophic at worst, with all the unnecessary energy consumption, or inconsequential at best, cause it won't matter much for the future people how their wealthy elite got into that position.
It's a huge difference. IMO Chapter 11 bankruptcy is one of the greatest strengths of the American legal system.
>the continual barrage of hostile comments in every single HN article looks mostly like groupthink to me.

I think its more a sensational narrative that angry geeks don't realize they're being used to advance.
It’s pretty simple to do your own taxes unless you have your own business and partnerships and whatnot.

Spend a couple hours reading the instructions, use the IRS free fillable forms website, and you do it once and every year after it’s quick and easy. Things don’t change much year to year. If you don’t understand, post a question a personal finance forum and someone will pipe in with an answer.
Any reason they don't just use Google as the search provider? Then suddenly they've got a business
Nothing better than sipping beer and munching truffle popcorn at the Alamo Drafthouse at the SF location in the Mission. It really makes other theaters look like highway robbery; for the same money you get a dramatically better experience.
Why do we "waste" so much energy building killing machines? How long do you think the USA would last as a nation if all the armies suddenly went to zero and we became complete pacifists? How long before an invasion?
You assume that the proxy and the search provider follow these rules and do not cooperate in a different way (e.g. the proxy can send a query with an IP).

But can you actually prove it? The search provider isn't disclosed, we don't even know if it exists at all (as a separate entity).
That seems like a reasonable way to do that computation, from a purely practical perspective. Simple "tricks" to arrive at the correct answer quickly don't at all seem like a bad idea. When we were doing addition of two digit integers and working with place value there was a lot of adding the ones separately from the tens, then adding those together. Later, when addition with carry / regrouping came up we used both strategies to solve the problems and demonstrated how they really were the same thing, just following a different "recipe" to get the result.
> payment in BAT

payment in Basic Attention Token... isn't that exactly how the Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc advertising business models work.
BAT is basically a reward for watching adds right?

I like the idea of paying my content producers directly better, see for example https://coil.com. Cut out the middleman
That would be preferable to the current norm, but I agree it wouldn't be ideal. With further terms attached to government research funding, that could be addressed too. The resulting work shall not be published in an outlet where fees exceed $X. That would also close the door on researchers being tempted to spend their own money on publishing in a more impressive publication.

A similar approach could be taken to prohibit publication in journals with embargo periods, i.e. paywalling for a couple of years before permitting open access. [0] For publicly funded research, that isn't acceptable either.

If such rules are applied consistently from all funding sources, the game would change quickly, by necessity. Collective bargaining where the government holds all the cards, essentially.

That's how I see it, at least. I'm not a researcher, and I'm not an expert on open access.

The current norm strikes me as plainly outrageous. Huge sums of tax money being handed over to publishers who make it their business to withhold tax-funded research from the people who funded it. It also strikes me as fixable. It's a tragedy of the commons, and the government has the power to force the matter and resolve the problem.

On the plus side, it looks like there's a real push to do this kind of thing. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access#Embargo_periods

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_S
I've been using TaxAct for years, but I'm not sure they are better. They have every incentive to lobby with TurboTax to make sure it is hard to file taxes without help.

I'm tempted to go back to paper forms. It wasn't hard, just annoying the one time I forgot to copy line 13 of form 1234 to line 43d of form 5678 and then had to amend my state filings.
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Most importantly, most countries do it by simply having much higher thresholds for complicated tax rules applying to you.

In the UK quite a few people don't pay any tax at all, and the vast majority don't pay enough tax to have to file any return.

What impact does a dependent have on your tax that needs to make it so complicated? I have relatively complicated taxes due to two jobs and some unusual deductions, but having a child doesn't really have any impact on my tax return in the UK.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26328428, except for the ones specifically about this post.
Individuals really aren't Altium's target market, though, are they? "I can't afford this" isn't a license (no pun intended) for copyright violation -- especially when there are cheaper or free alternatives. There's free PCB design software out there, including Altium's own CircuitMaker.

As an aside, I've always found software at this price level to be a bit of a paradox when it comes to piracy -- Altium, Autodesk Maya ($1620/year, currently), and similarly priced vertical market solutions are big fish in tiny ponds. If you're in a business that needs Altium or Maya, you're almost certainly going to pay for it, and conversely, folks who pirate software like that almost certainly don't need it. If I ran such a software company I don't think I'd bother with DRM; your true copy protection dongle is (or at least better be!) the level of support you're giving licensed customers.
I’ll admit, my knowledge of how Bitcoin’s blockchain works is limited. My question was based on a claim I heard a few years ago about how tumblers are ineffective. So I wasn’t aware that coins could exchange hands outside the public ledger. My understanding was that every transaction (even tumblers) was on the chain. Is there anywhere I could learn more about this?
Before the internet, you'd see ads in the paper or back of magazines on how to make $200/week stuffing envelopes. The jist was take out an ad in the paper charging people 5$ for info on how to make money stuffing envelopes.
Didn't say that. It's not clear to me what happened, could be a number of things. Probably coincidence.

Just felt like I had the same experience as the person on Reddit. Went to buy an unregistered domain, and it got registered by someone else immediately after I searched for it.
Now that there is money at scale to be made from vegetarianism, this will all be over quickly
> People use tenets for everything at AWS

What is with all the cult/religious/military terminology turning up in software development these days? Squad, ritual, tenet; one day management will be asking us to remember to bring in our robes for the Thursday morning sacrifice...
For context, one of the co-authors is Niko Matsakis, a recent hire at AWS and one of the longest-running leaders in the Rust community (among many things, inventor of the borrow checker and Rust's ownership system). So even if Amazon's involvement in the Rust community is only recently ramping up, I think this post suggests that they intend to invest in the Rust project itself.

I'm happy to see so many companies stepping up and investing not only in using Rust but in investing in its ongoing sustainability. And the fact that many companies are doing it, not just one, makes me optimistic that decision-making can keep happening in the community, not behind closed doors.
I work on a medium-to-large sized project that has a Go backend and a React/TypeScript frontend. Having our full development environment running (a handful of Go processes, Webpack, PostgreSQL, Redis, an indexing server, and probably other stuff I'm forgetting) and trying to edit code in both simultaneously (so having LSP servers running for both Go and TypeScript) is usually enough to cause my 16 GB laptop to swap heavily. It's not a pleasant experience: think multi-second UI lockups, music skipping, that kind of thing.

So, realistically, at this point I need a 32 GB machine to effectively do my job. Minority? Sure. But I think there are enough people in my boat that it's a legitimate market to have an option for.
"And so on"? I thought octonions are where it stops? At least, anything past the octonions is not able to be a normed division algebra, if I understand correctly.
Gigablast is the search engine and that's something I coded. The bad results you are seeing here are because of index size. I don't have the hardware to keep the index as fresh and in-depth as it needs to be. At some point I hope to get the resources I need. But, keep in mind that ddg is just re-serving Bing results.
It's true that the Democratic caucuses, both federal and state level, are much harder to hold together. Every year there's a bill in my state to reign in pay day lenders. Basically banning usury level interest rates on loans. Overwhelming popular support (~80%) and editorial support.

And every year there's a "blue dog" Democrat living in a purple district which bends to the pro pay day loan lobbyists.

Vetocracy is a tough problem. Our civic legacy is to fear the mob, tyranny of the majority. (Thanks Plato.) So it's rare that mere popular support ( >60%) is sufficient to attain progress.

So, to your point, mere 50% + 1 vote ain't ever enough.
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- It alters the content that is served to you. It violates the expectation that your browser is a neutral agent.

- It monetises the content created by other people. As someone who lives off the content I create, I'd take offence to that, particularly if it changes already monetised links.