skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I appreciate your comment and agree with you. They weighed the options and clearly though covid was easier to deal with than shut borders. For a time, I remember being reported or downvoted for even suggesting the economic impacts of a true, complete shutdown. I still don't know what the better strategy was.
That's not how amount of money is calculated. If you did, you would end up with a funny result that there is no money at all. As all modern money is debt from someone to someone else.
I can't wake up and see the world without loads of buildings and roads and cars in sight either.
Not all borders are enforced by violent colonisers that force a violent response, either. What’s your point?
So you gambled and got lucky.

You really shouldn't assume that your story is the norm.
State retirement the government simply increases it (as in the UK)

For private retirement you buy an inflation linked annuity
Secret History of Silicon Valley (2008)
There's evidence that the availability of the means of going through with suicide affects how many people do it.

> Suicide in the United Kingdom declined after coal stoves were phased out, removing a means of suicide by carbon monoxide that had been available in many homes. Tylenol (or acetaminophen) overdoses in England and Wales fell by 43 percent after legislation passed requiring that the medication be sold in “blister packs” where you have to pop out each individual pill; that simple switch from big bottles was enough to save lives. When the Israeli Defense Forces stopped letting soldiers bring their guns home over the weekend, suicides fell 40 percent, primarily due to a drop in firearm suicides committed on weekends.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/11/15/18095174/pesti...

And if someone does decide to try to kill themselves, guns are more likely to be fatal:

> About 85 percent of suicide attempts with a firearm end in death. (Drug overdose, the most widely used method in suicide attempts, is fatal in less than 3 percent of cases.) Moreover, guns are an irreversible solution to what is often a passing crisis. Suicidal individuals who take pills or inhale car exhaust or use razors have time to reconsider their actions or summon help. With a firearm, once the trigger is pulled, there’s no turning back.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/magazine/magazine_article/guns-...
The fact that most of society thinks it's much worse to say mean things about black people than to say mean things about white people is not Twitter's fault.
To the IRS, from a taxation standpoint, Bitcoin isn't treated any differently than any other tangible asset. Whether real estate, art work, gold bullion, FOREX, or practically anything else the IRS position is more or less "bought, sold, gains and anything else whatever it's worth in USD, we'll tax it with current law". Sure there are very specific loopholes (for real estate development, famously) but those are an entirely different topic.

I'm not the most sophisticated in tax avoision strategies but other than straight up illegal evasion I don't see how Bitcoin changes the picture at all. Oh yeah and as far as Bitcoin having it all on a public ledger that just makes their job easier. Don't even start with tumblers or whatever else... Taxing authorities have been tracking down income since the days of Rome. They know what they're doing. I believe the current stats for IRS enforcement measures are they return $4 for every $1 spent on investigation, recovery, and prosecution. When it comes to a government agency they likely provide the best ROI (and I'm betting by a large margin).

Simply put, if you're evading taxes with bitcoin (or virtually any other method) and they decide to even take a peek at you you'll likely get caught and upgrade your charges to criminal tax evasion. While there is some cherry picking of cases to game this statistic last I checked the Government has a 97% conviction rate in Federal cases. Once again, unless you're "too big to fail" if they investigate evasion you're going to prison.

As for loans, you've ALWAYS been able to take out loans against other assets - it's a common leverage tactic and some would argue it's stupid not to. Loans against secured (real) assets typically come with comically low interest rates because there's less risk to the lender (the asset can always be seized). Think mortgage vs credit card.

I haven't looked at this crypto lending yet but I would imagine that as part of the loan either the private keys of the wallet or the wallet itself would need to be placed in escrow (or similar). If you default on your loan the escrow company just moves it to your lender (much like a bank, storage facility, etc receiving a lein or judgement against you would). It's just that in the real world for physical assets the bank has to pay for the police to show up at your house and kick you out or seize the asset at gunpoint. Once again, Bitcoin just makes their job easier.

When comparing interest rates to potential asset appreciation it's borderline stupid to have liquid capital sunk in to an asset you can loan against. Sure you're kind of rolling the dice in some regard but if over the term of the loan the asset appreciates more than what you paid in interest you made money from the loan. Trump famously got into trouble with this in the 80s/90s with some EXTREMELY risky leverage strategies.

But at level, as was said then and now: "When you owe $100,000 to the bank you have a problem. When you owe $100,000,000 to the bank they have a problem."

EDIT: When talking about escrow I completely forgot about smart contracts and the like. Either way it's quite possibly the easiest collateral to recover.
Creating game mods and levels is fun. Even something as basic as Roblox can teach a kid the basics of developing while they have lots of fun. Fortnite enables lots of level building too. Beyond that, you have Unreal Engine if you really want to go all in.
I closed my bank account recently, what happens to my check?
These considerations are valid also in another fields such as in computational quantum physics/chemistry. Major software are written in Fortan and in C++. I work in the ML community now, after many years of quantum chemistry and when I say that I know Fortran people usually laugh :).
Twitter auto-banning people who tweet word “Memphis”
I hear this argument a lot, but cmon. It's really not that hard
It depends a bit on the cover you have. ‘Full’ cover means diagnostics + treatment so you won’t need to make an appointment with your NHS GP at all, you see a private doctor and then a specialist and if needed get treatment.

Other cheaper insurance just covers treatment once you’ve been diagnosed by the NHS.

Private insurance isn’t required by any means, but it generally means skipping waiting lists, which can be long for some things - usually the annoying / potentially painful but ultimately not life-threatening things.

If you have cancer or something like that, generally the NHS is amazing. If you have something less serious it could take them a while to get around to you - and having spent the last year dealing with Covid I would expect that to be exacerbated.
Which side of Korea was bombed to the ground by the US in a war that has still not ended?
I understand the concept, but that doesn't justify the level of government interference we have in the banking industry.

I'm in IT security for a financial institution, and we have regulators checking the permissions of our NTP configs and that IPV6 is disabled on our cloud instances.

Those are two trivial examples out of 10,000 I could give on how there is a cottage industry of regulators and consultants and auditors making things over complex, milking money from banks, and generally making it harder to do your job because one time, this one place had this one issue.

Frankly, I'd like to get out of the banking industry because of how stupid all this shit is - most auditors don't even know what they're talking about. It'd be like hiring some HN commenters to review the schematics of the 737 for safety.
If you know the position of the satellites it's very easy to mitigate their effect.
Can we use the same math to disprove the existence of structural racism?

Obviously, racism exists, I just don't like the hand washy application of "structural racism." i.e. we're all guilty, or it's not me it's society's fault.
Looking at any photo of Gaza reveals at least some of the concrete and rebar is used for homes.
> devaluing rich people's money

Do the very rich, the top 1% * n, keep much of their wealth in liquid currency?
Disclaimer: I probably share a lot of those political leanings. With that said...

My understanding was that there were a lot of “mask-skeptic” folks at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally openly flaunting safety protocols and doing stuff like hanging out in packed bars with no mask on. Sure, you can get away with some amount of line-stepping and even straight up rule-breaking and still not catch Covid, but when you have a gathering of people for whom flaunting Covid restrictions is actually a form of virtue-signalling... well it’s probably not going to end great.

Having attended the BLM protests myself (in Baltimore), I don’t think I saw a single person not wearing a mask. I’m sure they existed somewhere in America, but I’m pretty sure if you showed up without a mask someone would give you a disposable one. Why do I think that? Because there were also folks with hand sanitizer pumps giving away hand sanitizer for free. The walking marches were not perfectly socially distanced, but with everyone wearing masks and walking about 3ft apart in the open air, it makes sense that there would’ve been less spread. There were also marches that were done as parades of cars so that folks who were more at-risk for Covid had a safer way to participate.

Again, good intent alone won’t stop the spread of a disease (it doesn’t care if you’re “trying real hard” to be safe). But when the culture of a group is focused around taking the virus seriously and trying to balance the goals of the movement with keeping people safe, it makes sense that you’ll have better outcomes.
I imagine China will apply pressure to the company/officers. If that fails, they will track RF emissions and disappear users. If that fails, they will start RF jamming. If that fails, accidents in space.

More interesting than China though are regional communications shutdowns. Will India be able to turn off communications in Kashmir? Will various countries be able to turn off the internet on national school entrance exam days? Will democracies for show be able to turn off the internet when the votes aren't as expected?
> What’s interesting is that Beeple, the creator of the artwork, is actually a business partner of MetaKovan’s. He owns 2% of all the B20 tokens. I’m sure there is no conflict of interest here.

And they're basically selling it off to 'investors.' So it was really just an elaborate marketing ploy for some shady crypto currency? I'm surprised an institution like Christie's was willing to lend their reputation to such an endeavor. Or were they conned too? Or did they actually net that $9m 'fee' which is enough to buy Christie's reputation?
the irony kinda depends on the value judgment though, at least under my reading. if the israelis invented a delicious new candy, would it be ironic that nazis would have enjoyed it? or slightly less ridiculous: the nazis would certainly have loved to have a rifle like the galil. is that ironic?
Employers’ problems and employees’ problems are probably closer than you might think when it comes to sustainable business and employment practices.
Because if you apply this equally you can’t use the word “pussy cat”.

We have to get real. These problems are real. So tackle them in a real way.

Renaming branches in version control is virtue signalling horseshit.

Wake up.
Probabilities. If you are a contractor you'll be let go much easier than if you are an employee. I used to work at a big corp (pretty nice one, BTW) and we've always had a few contractors to smooth out the fluctuations in the work demand/projects.

Hiring, getting a headcount was hard. Exactly because employees were harder to let go and a bigger investment. We were 5-6 on our team over 6 years and had 4 contractors on and off on the side during that time. And it was as simple as: sorry guys, we won't need your service for the next 6 months, because this and that. (Our work was always planned ahead for 6 months, decision made 2x a year.)
I feel like some of it is to do with the way R's generics work - being lisp-based and making use of promises. It allows for nice syntax / code while interfacing the C backend.
That's perhaps a bit too harsh an assessment of the field. Betrand Russell, in his "A history of western philosophy" defines Philosophy as a no man's land or speculative region between religion/theology and science. It is a bucket of thought which is sceptical, probing, speculative of itself and the world. It can sometimes turn into science, and sometimes otherwise. Essentially it can be seen as an expression of human curiosity, which is the seed of definite knowledge.
You don't think there might have been a difference in the behaviors and beliefs of the attendees of those two events?
My remote job has been a 25% job for a decade, 75% being available on chat. Back when I worked in an office it was 25% work, 75% being available in person.
Intel’s high-end gaming GPU possibly spotted in testing, hinting at a 2021 debut
You're assuming your line manager has the power and/or budget to hire more staff. This is likely not the case for the vast majority of salaried employees.
why memphis?
I've written three of those sorts of native libraries before, and it's just awfully inconvenient compared to just using Rust to be honest.
It depends on where you work. In most of europe, overtime is paid more than normal salary, even 1.5x. If your employer is forcing you to have unpayed overtime, he will have big problems.
UN chief warns of risk of famine for millions around the world
War games suggest the US will lose fast if it confronts China
Of course it is, just like all programming languages. If it weren't formal, a computer couldn't interpret it precisely. Formal means mechanical; a language whose calculus can be carried out by a machine.
>Israel does rank very favorably on this list - I wonder why the perception of corruption, among businesses, is so much higher the measure posited by risk-indexes.com?

A few factors:

- In Israel corruption is very aggressively prosecuted and will be featured on national news (the only kind of news. no local news there) repeatedly. It creates impression that corruption is everywhere

- Orthodox sector due to it's influence gets non-proportional amounts of money from budgets

- Everybody afraid to be a freier (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-jul-25-mn-16208...), so in case somebody else succeeds, some may assume that it's because of corruption, etc

- Having personal relations with somebody or been friend of a friend helps (to speed up a bit small things. no monetary exchange, just a favor)

PS. Couldn't find raw data from Israel for index
That’s interesting. Thanks. In that case hourly work really does seem better, if you can get it reliably anyway.
Thanks for detailed PoV.

Let me share an example with you. I have been in software dev for nearly 18 years by now.
I am pretty good at creating detailed, structured and well thought through docs for developers.

Now, last year we have experienced a need to outsource two moderate size projects. With great attention to documentation and general dev flow.

Bottom line, despite we did get more or less working results at the end of the day I was not satisfied with the quality of the work done.

The best guys we could interview and get to work with us still showed less confidence, less of engineering thinkin, less of everything than guys who worked in my teams. Ever.

Like litterally less professionalism! And I believe that is ok but it is what it is.

Professionalism and true caring about the product is not core compentenct that is needed if you are part of the outsourcing company. Why? Just because that is not what earns money at the end of the day.

Speaking about US, Germnay, Sweden etc. - guess I would agree that while living in those countries it makes more sense to find good outsourcing Partner which wont happen from the first try anyway.
They can bloody well try. It's illegal in many places and I would refuse to work anywhere with that level of micro management. I know it's a privileged position to be in, but I'll excercise that position as long as I have the option to do so.
> a lot of the work that needs doing isn’t anywhere near anyone’s cognitive limit

Is this sort of work potentially automate-able?
> Those who are salaried and work 60 hour weeks + commute need to wake up and smell the coffee

Despite the horror stories, particular those in the game industry, most are not working 60 hours/week. The most surefire way to make good money and become wealthy is by working at one of the FAANGs and investing. I know the startup founder is romanticized here and in the media, and in the rare cases when it works, it can be great. But, if you look at the risk adjusted value, startups are not very good.

With that said, I prefer small companies/startups because I like the freedom and control that comes along. I know I'm leaving money on the table, but I'm getting things I value over money.
There are more than three kinds, everyone's motivation is different, and claiming to know what someone else is thinking based on what you perceive, is not accurate.

I can think of at least another kind: someone who likes to be prepared, who doesn't think they'll ever need it, and hopes to never use it. - me

Do you pay for insurance that you aren't legally-required to have? A gun is not the same, but there are parallels.
I'm also not seeing any of these problems on macOS.
plock succinctly summarized[1] the "intrinsic value" of the dollar (at least to those responsible for paying U.S. taxes):

"If we take 'intrinsic value' to mean 'having some use other than to simply trade away again to someone else, or being backed by something with intrinsic value', then the dollar has intrinsic value in that it is backed by freedom from being prosecuted by the US government for non-payment of taxes."

Of course, not even gold can be said to possess "intrinsic value".[2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7098034

[2] https://medium.com/@mormo_music/bitcoin-has-no-intrinsic-val...
SpaceX has put in a lot of effort to reduce the visual pollution aspect of starlink.

See https://twitter.com/ralfvandebergh/status/136999054076322611... for how the visibility of Starlink sats has changed over time.

For professional earth based astronomy, it is possible to remove the streaks digitally. But of course there is a slight impact. But what is the alternative? Just stop development of low earth orbit forever?

The future of professional astronomy is space based. Imagine what a telescope you can launch with a single starship launch...
The murder-for-hire schemes were predicates to his conspiracy charge, not just innuendo.
You will generally not find the same environment in terms of job creation and growth though. Part of what the US's low job security enables are the forces of creative destruction that have made new businesses and ideas possible here.

You might have more job security in other countries, but your job might be theoretical.

You can't have it all.
I'd be worried about counterparty risk.

With crypto, one cannot simply short by temporarily minting a new coin. If you borrow a coin from me and sell it on to someone else, there is no way, if you default, for me to claw it back. Someone more-clever may have found a way to mitigate that risk somehow, but I don't immediately see one.
> No, I'm paid to work 40 hours per week regardless of the workload, as per my employment contract.

That’s not salaried exempt. What you’re describing is closer to hourly pay. However, it’s not a perfect fit because hourly pay is 1.5x after 40.
Tesla is specifically claiming their FSD Beta is not autonomous. They have never claimed it was autonomous and they specifically state that it requires human supervision.
It appears sites regularly add or remove items from their trending lists, both by manual review as well algorithms which are essentially automated manual review by the person who wrote the algorithm. That kind of control is the same as a Newspaper determining what headlines you read and what stories get the most attention, basically controlling the conversation and making editorial decisions.
Murray Walker has died
Really feels like we are moving quickly towards ghost in the shell as a future. I guess cyberpunk was much more of future vision than anyone ever would have imagined.
They don't need to read messages to identify spam: https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/02/how-whatsapp-is-fighting-s...
That being said. It is important to emphasis that Israel is not automatically responding to rocket fire from Gaza or Lebanon. There are quite a few humans in the loop.
You are of course right.

Have my upvote.

I think my point still stands.
Surely they will only be visible a short time before sunrise or after sunset, when the satellite can see both you and the sun?
There are already 1200 of them in orbit, can you go outside and point at a single one?

When this controversy was started they addressed concerns by reducing the satellites reflectance and it seems to have worked.
Acquiring the land makes you the legal owner of it, backed by the law of the country and its military. Owning the nft has no legal consequence at the moment. Who will enforce any right on your behalf?
I don't think it has much to do with managerial ability - both employees and outside contractors are in it for the money and their loyalty start and ends there. No amount of managerial prowess is going to change that.

In fact, I'd go so far as to say that individual characteristics are far more important than whether somebody is salaried or contract.
No clue, I found some more links:

https://www.ladbible.com/news/viral-twitter-automatically-su...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitter/comments/m4wesn/whats_wrong...
If you have the deed to a piece of land that’s (usually, in stable-ish jurisdictions) backed by the police and ultimately, military, of the government. You can stand on it, build on it, possible mine it, and the cops will stop anyone from interfering.
Indicted CEO of Encrypted Phone Firm 'Sky' Says He Will Clear His Name
I think a hash of the file itself is stored on chain. So you could prove that your title matches the "artwork", but still need to store the artwork yourself or rely on the seller/platform to keep hosting it
When I tested out eBPF a couple weeks ago I immediately had LittleSnitch in mind! Great to see that someone had the same idea and also the time to make it happen.

There's much more that can be done as well, I really highly recommend taking a look at eBPF!
> This sends an encrypted blob of all your messages to Apple/Google, and WhatsApp holds the key

It is a plain text backup to Google Drive. There is no key Whatsapp holds. Google can read it all, and has revealed the chats to help the Govt in multiple high profile cases here in India.

You can extract it yourself, with the credentials of your Google account- https://github.com/YuriCosta/WhatsApp-GD-Extractor-Multithre...

> You’re referring to the optional backup that requires users to opt-in.

With telegram, if you enable secret chats, it is never backed up to the cloud. It is a guarantee, unlike Whatsapp where you do not know whether your contact has enabled cloud backups

Full disclosure: I begrudgingly use WhatsApp. I really don’t like it. You’re spreading misinformation, though.
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Minting and selling can actually cost the price of a meal at a restaurant depending on ethereum fuel prices. The nft marketplaces are making a killing even if your art doesn’t sell. In that sense, there is potential harm to artists who get caught up in this.
Who said anything about not allowing curation?

> make them responsible for promoting or curating the content, if they choose to do so