skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It can deduct the interest. It can also get an R&D credit+ for how it spent the proceeds of the loan.

+Depending on a lot of details
Fugue, an Object System for Janet
> 5. Samsung are great at making Smartphone. Their whole Business Model.

The same Samsung that earned way more with everything but phones? (Probably changed meanwhile, but it wasnt the case for a long time)
Reusable first stages are not an achievement. Reusable rockets were invented 30 years before SpaceX. Using such rockets as first stages is a questionable decision by SpaceX, which may be a means to an end if it can save costs.
> the stupid bottom button placement

Are you talking about the home button? I actually love that and it's the reason I got the S4 and then S7. I've been putting off buying a new phone because all the new phones are digital buttons and I really like having the physical ones.
That's a bit of an academic argument. He was the first major investor and became chairman after making that investment (about 6 months after founding).
If that’s how LG decided to spend their phone marketing budget then someone deserves to be fired.
Exactly. I was recently considering a purchase of an ink jet printer for a specific purpose that requires very high black ink resolution. (I already have a laser printer, but its real resolution is 1200dpi). It was next to impossible to find the real black ink specs of few cheap printers available. Numbers like 5000dpi are being thrown around, but it is impossible to find out what they actually mean before you buy and test the product by yourself.
Channelling Feynman simplified cyber breach explanations (2019)
Janet Yellen to call for global minimum corporate tax rate of 21%
Oppenheimer's opinion of Feynman seems to have vastly diminished after the Shelter Island and Pocono conferences. According to Dyson [1]:

“When after some weeks I had a chance to talk to Oppenheimer, I was astonished to discover that his reasons for being uninterested in my work were quite the opposite of what I had imagined. I had expected that he would disparage my program as merely unoriginal, a minor adumbration of Schwinger and Feynman. On the contrary, he considered it to be fundamentally on the wrong track. He thought adumbrating Schwinger and Feynman to be a wasted effort, because he did not believe that the ideas of Schwinger and Feynman had much to do with reality.

I HAD KNOWN THAT HE HAD NEVER APPRECIATED FEYNMAN, but it came as a shock to hear him now violently opposing Schwinger, his own student, whose work he had acclaimed so enthusiastically six months earlier. He had somehow become convinced during his stay in Europe that physics was in need of radically new ideas, that this quantum electrodynamics of Schwinger and Feynman was just another misguided attempt to patch up old ideas with fancy mathematics.”

[1] Dyson F. Disturbing the Universe. Henry Holt and Co, 1979 ISBN 9780465016778.

This quote and an earlier one I made are from Oliver Consa's 2020 paper: "Something is rotten in the state of QED".
You need the support though to know why the crappy tools are breaking your design and be able to hack around it.
This. Samsung always was only one of many options here in central europe. Never appeared to be the “main choice“ either, except from people who look for the cheapest phone replacemt with their carrier and end up with a galaxy light product
Another great option is https://www.pdfmonkey.io. They're also wired up in zapier.
That's his point. The income tax is not as effectively redistributive as a wealth tax would be.
Im even lower-level in the stack, and some of the comments make me want to just learn php. I remember one comment where Joel Spolsky wrote on twitter where he wrote stack overflow in asp .net and scaled it running on one box. Its all about getting stuff done.
i suppose thats a matter of taste .. i moved from stock android to s20+, and i agree its not as bad as previous samsung touchwiz era :)

but then i declined most of the samsung apps - google already has all my data and i dont want to share it with samsung on top of that, and then samsung also included third party services such as a dialer app which i didn't use because of the (lack of) privacy policy

overall i'm looking forward to getting back to stock android!
Counterpoint: I have a rather good experience with Samsung. I bought flagships devices some time after their releases (I had S2, S4, S8 and now a S10e from work) and they lasted me a long time (S2 and S4 both lasted for four years).

The big advantage is that they were powerful devices with a removable battery and a SD-card slot.

Downside was a tendency to overheat a bit (this was particularly bad on the S2 at some point, though I recall subsequent software updates helped a lot).

In all cases, the devices kept being updated to the latest android while I was using them.

The Samsung Android additions are pretty much useless except maybe one or two good ideas, but they also don't get in the way. I just spend 30 minutes to disable things when I get my phone.

Also I don't know if you've looked at real stock android (e.g. fire an emulator from Android studio for instance) but that stuff is real ugly (shouldn't be a big consideration - it can be themed quite easily, but I felt I needed to make this point).
Oh my god that's bad. What a dumpster fire.

- nauseating animaton

- nervous animated chevron that looks clickable but isn't

- scroll down to be greeted by a "youtube face"

- feature descriptions written in light grey text on bright blue backround with white specks moving through the text

This website really doesn't want you to stay.
Im not sure thats true. Last year when the unemployment systems got overwhelmed, I read a state was desperate for cobol developers and was offering some laughable salary. Searching for 'cobol developer average salary' seems to confirm it's not worth much.

These systems are now so old that the only people running them are those that have consistently under-allocated resources to IT. Penny pinchers arent known for paying out huge salaries to people.

Much more likely they'll continue paying as little as possible, and then award a huge contract to Oracle et al to rewrite it when they cant find anyone.
NOL (net operating loss) carryforwards, which is what is being described above, would not make a difference in the situation you have laid out here - it sounds like your issue is the fact that we have a progressive tax for personal income (versus a flat tax for corporations)
I was just thinking that... "Captain, sensors are detecting an enormous field of memes ahead!"
There’s a low cap ($2500) on the amount of interest that can be deducted and if the tax payers income gets too high ($85k for a single filer) you can’t deduct anything.
It depends on a lot of factors. Most young people without a preexisting issue shouldn't get a DNR. Are there cases where they bring you back as a vegetable? Sure. But there are also cases where they bring you back and make a full recovery. A living will or medical power of attorney would better address the scenarios with bad outcomes for young people without preexisting issues.
A linear tax would mean a person trying to move up the income ladder is more encumbered by tax for the same amount of tax revenue on a given population.

Your suggestion above that low income workers are exempt from taxes, is a description of a progressive tax.

I’m not really sure I understand what you’re suggesting should be done.
The asia ive seen was at least 50% oppo shops and 30% fake apple shops and only like 20% for everything else. Thailand, cambodia and malaysia about 5 years ago that is.
He was in charge of cloud when he "found" a way to forge Ubiquiti SSO logins for any user using his root access to the SSO signing secrets.

In the Krebs article the whistleblower calls out forging SSO logins as one of the things that was compromised. If the attacker is really an ex-employee like Ubiquiti says, then it's scary that the SSO signing keys aren't even being rotated after the account forgery stunt.

> Adam says the attacker(s) had access to privileged credentials that were previously stored in the LastPass account of a Ubiquiti IT employee, and gained root administrator access to all Ubiquiti AWS accounts, including all S3 data buckets, all application logs, all databases, all user database credentials, and secrets required to forge single sign-on (SSO) cookies.
You may be on to something here. The comparison isn’t in 2020, but in 2010-ish. I’d say the distinction then was much more pronounced, and Samsung gained a lot of good will in that era.
Of course not. The $155k tuition is the loss. The $150k loan is just a sudden influx of money used to compensate for the investment losses, the same as a company receiving investment funding.
Do you seriously belive a xiaomi phone isn't siphoning off your data to other servers than the usual google servers?

So it's probably more accurately described as stock-appearing Android ..
I agree that there could be empirical evidence over this issue, but we do not currently have the evidence you mention in your first paragraph, and so we remain in a state of ignorance over the actual possibilities.

That's a fair point about Bostrom's use of current knowledge, and his use of it in this case, to establish feasibility, is completely justified. I also have no doubts over justification in the case of arguments which say that current evidence raises or lowers the likelihood of something being so, and nor do I have doubts over justification in those cases where we say that if some proposition turned out to be true, then it would strengthen or weaken the case for a particular outcome. The only situation where I doubt the justification is where a specific numerical probability is assigned in a situation where we have no knowledge that argues for that particular value being most likely the correct one, and we are not in the process of (or about to start) an experiment or other investigation that will yield information to update that number, so that it is taken to be the final answer.

The principle of indifference seems to me to be a methodological assumption, rather than some sort of law: it gets the process of quantitative investigation started, but, like Occam's razor, it can be overruled by new information. One thing that would persuade me that the numbers yielded by applying the principle of indifference are objective is if there is a case where, if some different initial value were picked instead, Bayesean updating on the basis of relevant new, correct information would be incapable of converging on the actual value. I am fairly confident that there is no such case, and that Bayesean inference is robust against initial errors, when done with adequate correct information.

Perhaps one way to look at these two different responses to the simulation hypothesis is that we have started on an investigation, but are now waiting on empirical evidence, of the sort you mentioned in your first paragraph, that is not yet available. To me, it seems as if the specific numbers being used are "for illustrative purposes only" until we have some of that evidence. It may be that I am making an issue over something that everyone already understands.
I bet there's maybe a kilobyte of that that has any value.
It's just someone's opinion fcol, and not without merit at that. If you can't stand to read opinions that contrast with your own then I would support your efforts to find some other service that provides a fully hermetic bubble for you.

Alternatively, try and articulate how your own opinion differs, and why your opinion is preferable. That seems as close as we can get to a balanced discussion.
it took ~billions of years for life to evolve on Earth

~80% of time waiting for Oxygen Catastrophe, which was random (but was result of evolution, nonetheless). It wasn’t like start, billions of years, end. Organisms that we call non-bacteria non-algae are less than a billion years old, roughly.
Index funds, 80/20 split (VTI/VXUS/BND). Never ever sell.

Currently I have $3M invested as above, plus $2M of illiquid startup equity that I cannot sell, for obvious reasons.
This comment may be unpopular because it's not tremendously useful.
My pleasure. Making people happy makes me smile.
I vouched for this. While I don’t find change petitions to be very useful I still think this might spur some interesting discussions.
I haven't run into many issues where I wished there was a package, but I haven't programmed a web app in a language that had a lot of packages available.

The main close call I had on this project was that there was only one package that supports generating excel spreadsheets, and it's a labor of love by one person. This wasn't a huge issue for me, I had a plan to write csv and then convert if it didn't work, as I didn't need formatting/fancy output. It turned out to work great, so that wasn't necessary.

There was an excellent transactional email library that hooked into the standard templating system, and a few so-so approaches to authentication. I ended up rolling my own on top of a decent crypto library.

For the non-web-speicfic bits I haven't found this to be an issue, Erlang has a whole kitchen sink with OTP (even if like a real kitchen sink it's a bit grungy if you look inside), and I've found plenty of algorithm/data structure-y packages.
I very much doubt that the person who wants a progressive tax policy supports a consumption-only tax that disproportionately impacts lower-income earners (well, earners between $40k & $200k) supported primarily by right-wing and libertarian thinkers. I also doubt that poster will be excited by the drastically-reduced revenues likely to result.
I meant that the old tree and the new tree both originate from the same source (i.e., your code), and if both were annotated with some kind of hashes of their contents, you wouldn't need any diffing to find the changes. You could simply compare the annotations on corresponding pairs of nodes and if they're the same, you don't need to descend any further and compare their contents - you already know than anything below that node is going to be identical.

Also, have you compared the performance of whatever you're doing with a simple PJAX-like approach? Considering that browsers are very good at parsing HTML, I wonder how fast that would be compared to doing quite a lot of DOM calls, which you seem to be doing (?). I'd definitely be interested in that comparison.
When I go to bed, I think about how I’m going to wake up next morning and have a hot cup of coffee, a marvelous breakfast and brush my teeth before sitting in the comfy armchair that I have next to the couch in my medium-sized living room. Then, when I wake up, I do all those things that I have in mind that I went to bed with, that I dreamed about while sleeping in my large wooden bed that I inherited from my grandmother who is not with us anymore.

I loved my grandmother, we’ve spent such a great time together as we used to do our daily walks in the green park in front of our house and we watched all those dogs running around and birds chirping, while enjoying our ice-cream that we had acquired from the shop around the corner.

Then I wake up, and I go on Hacker News to read about all those interesting and innovative things that happen around me all the time, while my little dog wags his tail and watches me as I click every link on the front page.

Thank you for reading this.
I do wonder how much of the phones firmware is actually from vendors. That code obviously couldn’t be open sourced.
When the chains are very small, you can start to hope you are lucky and get the correct one. The ocean has 1.3 * 10^18 m^3 (3.5 * 10^20 gallons). If we assume 1 random DNA chain per cubic meter, that is like 4^30, so it's enough to have all the chains with 30 bases.

(With 1 molecule per cm^3, you get like 10 more bases in locations for random chains.)

It's actually more complicated, because shallow part of the sea or fumes near ocean rigs may have more concentration, and 1 molecule per cubic meter is a very low concentration. Anyway, extrapolating to 1 base is too extreme.

Also, they had a nice fit for DNA based life, and they discuss the RNA World hypothesis, but it's not clear that the fit for DNA can be extrapolated to the RNA or whatever was used before.

(There is a recent paper that propose a mix of RNA and DNA instead of a pure RNA word. We still don't know.)
What does Samsung audio do better than other phones? I still own a mp3 player because not even those shitty beats phones did a close to clear sound experience.

Ps: i never used a theme. All i want is stock android o.O
Thanks for sharing. Just read through it and like one of the comments mentioned, if malicious JS is able to run on any site, that’s a larger issue and would affect not just local storage right?
No, because that's a loan rather than an R&D expenditure from income. I guess that probably sounds flippant, but the mechanics are different. If a business received a loan, the tax prospects wouldn't be as favorable as expenditure either.
Nobody I know who isn't seriously into tech even realizes that phones need security updates.

The problem is compounded by the fact that every manufacturer has their own schedule for security updates. Just because Android got a widely publicized security patch doesn't mean that their phones will get it any time soon. By the time they do, nobody remembers what it's for.
How to convince your product owner to invest more time in technical tasks
Oh, you know the author's goal? Likewise, if it was published on the site - arguably the curators read the article and approved it - but because it doesn't fit your own expectations of the only kind of content you want there, then it's inappropriate? That sounds like gatekeeping and perhaps perfectionism.
Government doesn't care so much about cost, but they care a great deal about being lied to. There is a far more unlimited stream of money to attack those who defraud government contracts.
It appears that 56% of American workers participate in some sort of pension or retirement savings plan.
This all sounds an awful lot like a standard telenovela drama.
> for some shows the dubbing and subtitling does not always match well

It is very common for languages other than English. I'd say most Netflix content has the French audio and subtitles not matching each other. They have the same meaning but not the same wording.
Wow https://demyo.com/
There you go: https://projecteuclid.org/journals/annals-of-statistics/volu...

Rather like the 1957 development of cross-validation (which I remember reading, but definitely don't have a cite for), the double descent thing is part of the paper that is used on the way to something else.
Just to address your first point - You can't visit a major American city with out finding an IKEA or even two. The world globalized, it didn't americanize.
How much traffic per month does it cover in this amount?

I want to launch some toy projects and confuses whether go for AWS or vps.
Very sad. I found the perfect smartphone for me - the V20. It almost feels like a smartphone that happened by accident and will never return in its glorious form again. Dont know what else to use if it dies. Already have a spare Screen and its 4th Battery ready to be used.

The second screen is just the perfect solution for having an allways on display without a real (and stupid) notch. I love this feature. Also knock to power on is super convenient. Battery is replacable. The Screen is super sharp. Its thin despite its very accessible inner parts. The amp and music quality is absolutely awesome. The camera is awesome as is the sound recording quality. The IR Blaster ist just super convenient. Also the FM-Radio is a very nice addition. The camera-app is just awesome and i have yet not managed to find something simmilar. Also i like the gallery app. And the sound recording app. Its also fast, has enough power still to this day. And the SD-Card Slot combined with the internal memory gives me 640GB Storage. Also Dual SIM is nice.

Really it is such an awesome phone that im not sure how this phone happened in the first place. As each Smartphone does at least 2 things stupid or hase some dumb features no one asked for.

Its allways the same with me - as soon as i find the absolute perfect hardware - its already legacy and nothing like it is buyable in the future ...

The V20 is like the perfect tool. No stupid features only used for sales, no shortcuts, just a very nice package. Two things i would change: Cameras should never stick out and the volume buttons should be on the back like on the G4.
Also "rediscovered" by The Guardian maybe. It's been well-traded on Russian torrent sites for years. The article makes it seem like it was lost to time or something.
Wouldn’t it be awesome if someone could license brand names like Boeing, Airbus, Embraer, Cirrus, Garmin, or Cessna and sell reasonably priced panels mimicking instrument panels of those makers with their help?

An LCD touchscreen and a plastic overlay would do wonders and still be a reasonable compromise.
I stumbled across this after finding out that OpenWrt has a new nftables-based firewall and didn't recognize the language it was written in: https://git.openwrt.org/?p=project/firewall4.git;a=summary
> $2500 a seat is a bit more than I would like to pay for my use case.

This is big part of why the application market place consolidated and dried up. I peeked at the PC mag word processor roundup that was posted in this thread, and one thing that struck my eye was that Word and WP cost like $450-$495 in 80s dollars, which is about $1000 in todays dollars. Its pretty hard to imagine anyone paying $1k for a word processor alone these days. And in that scale $2.5k for a spreadsheet doesn't seem all that preposterous. Also if the high-end software cost that much, it would leave more room in the lower end for smaller software to compete.
Different people like different things. Rather than assuming the author, the editor, and various other reviewers are all idiots, perhaps consider that you are not representative of their typical audience.
For my personal website/blog, I use the beautifully simple static site generator makesite.py.[1] For the other sites I've made, I've used WordPress or plain old no fuss static html/js/css.

[1] https://github.com/sunainapai/makesite
> Must not have experience with Oracle.

Dear god why? They're a fin-tech company for God's sake. It's just a database, and a damn good one at that. Sure it's not trendy like Postgres, but the founders will be in for a shock when they scare off big bank they're trying to sell themselves to, because the bank's CTO won't have any clue what the hell DynamoDB is.

I get that they want to avoid code monkeys who've been stagnating in a big bank writing P/SQL reporting software for the last 5 years. But that's why you read CVs. Obviously you need to holistically look at each candidate.
Thanks for writing it, whether in no, half or full jest - I appreciated it.
Marx was right about almost everything except one critical detail. His theory doesn't scale. It works great at the family level. It does not work great at the town level and is a disaster at any larger level where most people do not know the rest of the people.
Your example is bad one because of time value of money and because the rates aren't equal. Better example is someone who invented an amazing technology after 25 years of failure, or someone who works for the same hourly rate but does 3000 hrs one year and 1000 hrs the next.