skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I couldn't find the code online. I downloaded it via `npm pack rgt` and it's literally just a 15-line trivial wrapper around CSS gradients.

I imagine the landing page for the project is orders of magnitude more code.
Of course not. Canada's healthcare system is not, at the point-of-care, a business. Whatever business arrangement that exists is between the government and providers, not me and my doctor, so the latter relationship is not directly constrained by economic concerns, as is the case here in the US. If that appointment had taken place in Canada - and let's be clear first that it would not have, as I would have been insured unconditionally since birth and able to deal with each issue as it arose - the doctor would have either helped set up a treatment plan then and there, or she would have let me know that it would require another visit or two to go over everything, as here.

The difference is that I would not personally be out 1-3 weeks worth of food money for each visit, just establishing my baseline. In neither case would what happened be a "matter of billing" because I would never receive a bill.
I think my issue is that there are some very deep topics (e.g. cryptography) that require a lot of work to understand, including knowledge in tangential fields (e.g. number theory). It's a big decision to decide whether to go all-in and potentially lose years working towards something
Or Librem 5. Google Services are proprietary. It's indeed better to stay away from them.

Many Android apps should work in Anbox nevertheless.
> As I mentioned in an earlier piece, these tokens are not simply "certificates of ownership"; they can be pre-programmed to behave in a certain way (for example, pay a dividend each time a predefined event happens).

I don't get how you can pre-program a contact to pay a percentage of your earnings. Ethereum is very restricted as to what you can program. I don't think you can just write "check stock price of X on CNBC, if X then Y..." Even if you could you would need to prefund it with Ethereum which would make the fund raising aspect kind of pointless.

> In English, this meant Masmej was selling digital tokens under his own name ($ALEX). The token sale would sponsor his entrepreneurial journey. Owners of these tokens will receive certain rights over Masmej's future income and career decisions.

It's just a promise to backers. I can't see how its enforced by a contract. It's no different than just having people send you money via PayPal and you promising to hit them back when you make some money. I guess easier to administer and track woh you promised?

And I don't see how an income sharing agreement is a Ponzi scheme. A ponzi scheme is current investors paying out to previous investors. This is just a funding mechanism, selling equity instead of debt
It’s just more top signals. There’s too much money floating around if people want to invest in nonsense like this. When equities correct from the current Shiller PE ratio higher than 1929 I think you will find less people want to invest in a career token for someone.

https://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe

The Bowie Bond part of the post was fascinating by the way. Had never heard that story. He issued them in 1997 which is a high Shiller PE value also before the 2000 stock bust. Lots of money floating around looking for a home then too.
Lollapalooza Effect in Crypto
Hey all,

This is a part of a presentation I did for a private group. I've explained briefly what Lollapalooza Effect is and how these projects are using different human biases like Greed, Survivorship Bias, Authority Bias, Anchoring Effect, Dunning-Kruger Effect, Confirmation Bias..

If you guys find this video useful, I will create more content explaining the psychological effects this environment creates on the user and what the user can do to not be trapped.

Enjoy
Let me know how much it costed you, all in all, not just the price on their site. Also when you'll get it on your hands, physically, not what they say initially on the delivery note.
The Trajectory of an Anti-LGBT Conspiracy Theory
Bitclout mentioned here steals your keys.
https://twitter.com/_prestwich/status/1379963871792799744 If you used a non unique seed with them, consider it compromised.
Tracking should be opt-in, not opt-out.
Care to share the math? Prevailing opinion in Western Europe is that smokers cost a lot of money to the state and taxpayers due to them usually not dying directly but struggling with illnesses for years, which cost money to treat.
Apple Cider Vinegar for Weight Loss – Health Lines
Effectiveness of Chinese vaccines ‘not high’ and needs improvement: Chinese CDC
To be fair, you have to wonder what the point of corporations even paying taxes is. I always thought that they should wait until the shareholders or employees actually received money/goods/services from the Borg. In a highly simplified world, 100% of profits are passed through, but then you currently get the issue of dividends being non-deductible (that's true, isn't it?). Odd.

On the other hand, with the Senator from Mastercard running matters, I don't expect to see any consequential changes.
Still inconvenient.
SF isn’t the only city seeing a major exodus according to Zillow’s Mover Report
Tangent: Over time I migrated to favoring Iterator over Visitor. Similarly, using event model with Command objects instead of Observable. YMMV, of course. Both require seeing problems thru a different prism.
would you expand on this? i'm curious what i've been missing, and what possibilities there are!

for me, a TS using node nerd, vs code does these things well:

1. ts language server
2. decent plugins (that i can commit to scm)
3. yarn 2 support
4. nice debugger interaction

is there more for me to have? is the core difference i use so much m$ stuff?
The amount of time fastlane tooling has saved me over the years is insane
Because the name "Bernanke" sounds like one is thumbing their nose at the central bank. Merely not a good look!
AFAIK not anything below 8 hours qualifies as “under-sleeping”; instead, the need of sleep typically varies between 6 to 9 hours for healthy adults.
6 years of TPM'ing in BigTech. I'm looking to come "back" to Software Engineering where I could do more of the "real TPM" work than in my current Senior TPM position.

I'm finding that this role is being diluted by Program Managers with very little if any technical background. (Sometimes they learn enough of basic scripting, and suddenly get the T). But this is not the same as an engineer that had built stuff for years.

These people are indispensable in handling the organizatioal chaos, but are less efficient in preventing it, and driving the overall vision, especially if a problem being solved is deeply technical and strategy and tech issues are intertwined (they always are in e.g. scalable infrastructure).

I'm finding that deep technical and strategic organizational vision increasingly belongs to just very senior Software Engineers, who may stop coding, start working more with people, but actually never convert to TPM.
> Wayland can do fractional scaling but then VsCode, Firefox, Discord and whatever apps I tried became blurry shit.

X11 apps do that. Firefox can run in Wayland mode, so run it in Wayland mode. vscode and other electron apps do not support wayland yet, so until they do (yes, they are taking their sweet time), you either need to run with integer scaling, or tolerate them being blurry.

In Windows, the shittyness is much worse. Basically any Qt app is unusable with hidpi in Windows.
Well...I got 100%, but that's mostly just because I know too much about Pokémon, so I don't know if I'm supposed to be proud of it.
No one wants to do it, because our entire society is dependent on oil industry. It’s not about job losses: society at large won’t care about job loss of some relatively small part of population. It hasn’t cared for loss of coal miner jobs, and it won’t care about oil either. What they do care about is their ability to get places, to heat their homes, to buy inexpensive food and consumer products etc. When they are able to do that in a way that doesn’t depend on oil, they won’t shed a single tear after the death of oil industry. However, as of now, killing oil industry would be exceedingly stupid, because the alternatives to it are not yet available to fully replace oil use cases. We are slowly getting there, though.
Thanks for taking the time to post the files. I actually learned a few things and like the setup. Might give it a shot. I haven’t been happy lately with the business behind pfsense, this might push me to configure my own.
That's my guess. If not under water.
No, that’s a lie.

The local junta used Facebook like they would have used any convenient mode of communication. Facebook wasn’t able to detect it because of a complex issue involving automated translation of non-Ascii languages. They were concerning reports and the relevant team reached out to their contact in the country, the wife of a senior executive and _a Nobel prize recipient_ who both personally denied that anything wrong was happening.

The company scrambled to get more context but didn’t have translators willing to tell them the truth because… well there’s an uncomfortable correlation between people speaking Burmese and people who thing Rohingya deserve respect.

As soon as the reality was clear, the company acknowledged that they made a mistake in trusting local authorities, not investing more in non-standard software tools and piled on their investment on detecting such project.

You can compare that to how much Toyota cares about their logo being at the back on the technical on every photo featuring genocidal warlords and terrorist groups.
> In Delaware, there are 2 huge registered agent firms:

> CT Corporation (1209 Orange Street) is home to 285k+ businesses, including Walmart, Apple, and Coca-Cola

Apple may be using that firm for something, but Apple is not incorporated in Delaware. Their state of incorporation is California according to their SEC filings, and has been since at least as far back as 1994.
How to Add Jasmine into Your Project and Why Unit Tests Are Important
> how shall I put this ... straw chewing hick-town councillors (sorry, State Senators) who think cows made America great.

Considering America wouldn’t exist without food and the hick towns that supply it, and speaking as a straw-chewing hick from one of those towns who I guess manages to smash enough keys together to occasionally write software in your eyes, please do not so condescendingly dismiss the half of the country you clearly don’t understand. We can just as easily dismiss you and your arrogantly narrow view of your fellow citizens. It’s those exact globalist policies you’re trumpeting, and their ideological underpinnings, that forced the very people who feed you into a position where you can comfortably shit on them as you are here.

You didn’t need this classist, obnoxious swipe to make your point, and you absolutely knew that given how you hedged it linguistically (twice alone in my quoted portion). It says far more about you and your beliefs than you think it does that you said it and apologized for it in the same breath.
It's light on the facts, so there's little to fact check.

There is however this gem highlighted in the article:
"It is to humanity’s benefit to consume more energy, not less".
https://www.pine64.org/pinetime/
This kind of attitude in OSS is exactly why GIMP is a piece of garbage that no one uses.
Any relation to https://dbeaver.io/?
I have still been using Adminer[0] via a docker image to quickly run an admin interface in a browser.

This looks a lot nicer. I remember the DBeaver name but I've not used it in a long time. I'll be using this instead of Adminer on my next project to give it a whirl.

[0] https://www.adminer.org
I expect a lot of it is Apple purposely crippling Safari's offline capabilities so developers will have no alternative to making an app.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53439379/ios-12-does-not...
If you're interested in this concept, you may enjoy the novel "The Unincorporated Man" which is set in a future where everyone (except the protagonist) has personal shares traded on an open market.

It's a bit thick on ideological propaganda of the extreme capitalist/libertarian type, but I found the exploration of the concept fascinating enough to get through most of it.
Why would a company ever default if it’s stock price can’t go down. Couldn’t it just sell more stock to cover it’s debts?
For a second, I thought, "Man is it really that slow to compile a hello-world Python GTK app?" I completely forgot he was doing this all on a phone.

I'm super impressed with the state of "convergence" here. Dragging a window over from a full desktop monitor to the phone was exciting to watch.

I doubt I would want to do development directly on the phone, but only because the phone is going to be underpowered compared to a desktop. But since it's just a standard linux distro on the phone, it probably wouldn't be too hard to set up the Librem to automatically pull the latest build from the desktop/laptop for testing purposes.
The high GINI scores in the USSR always cracked me up.

The tendency for money and resources (and pretty women I suppose) to pool has never been well dealt with. All large-scale systems for business and government seem to devolve into dogfights over scarcity.
The AI of “Creatures” [video]
Yes, this is from the same group https://github.com/dbeaver/cloudbeaver
It already works for many apps: https://puri.sm/posts/anbox-on-the-librem-5/.
Delaware is generally no different than any other state. The state where you do your business activity is where you pay taxes, not necessarily the state where you formed your business entity.
I enjoyed the piece.

Personally, I want no part of it, but I think it might work well for people who are not me.

I've always been "on my own." My life really is a series of watersheds, where I've been the only person to believe in me, before the event, and a whole bunch of folks seemed to believe in me, after the fact. Not a particularly good setup for selling "Chris-Tokens™."

Not a bad thing, in the long run. It hurt like hell, the first few times, but I realized that I don't have the personal skills to "sell" myself (like being able to spew jargon, sound like I'm TED-talking all the time, or beat LeetCode tests), so I can't blame folks for not wanting to "invest" in me. It is what it is. I come across as a socially-awkward dork, so people don't take me seriously. I'm actually fairly good at what I do, but If I mention that, it comes across as "arrogant," despite the enormous ocean of hubris that pretty much defines today's tech scene. I don't really have the skill to "humble-brag."

It taught me to live a conservative lifestyle, be Honest and Honorable, do top-shelf work, bust my ass, and not expect much from others.

I couldn't rely on anyone else to clean up my messes, or get me out of jackpots. It has taught me to learn what I have needed to learn, despite active roadblocks being tossed out by "gatekeepers," and it also prevented me from getting mixed up with some truly awful disasters; both personal, and business.
There are plenty of ways to mount a filesystem via SSH.

Then the author could access the files via Finder.
Hi endymi0n, thank you. The first one is a very interesting approach, unfortunately I can't work on side projects right now because a baby is coming in next months so the 'spiral learning' approach could be suitable for me
It's not fraud. The companies did nothing illegal. I'd argue they did nothing wrong, either. The real fault lies with the state governments competing for corporate tax dollars.

> By incorporating there, a company based in another state could save big on taxes and enjoy perks like unlimited market expansion. A flood of conglomerates took up this offer and New Jersey earned so much from taxes that it was able to pay off its entire state debt. Pressured to incentivize businesses to stay, other states offered their own lenient corporate tax policies. In this so-called “race to the bottom,” Delaware emerged victorious.

The state that wins (Delaware) gets to collect a huge, recurring tax check from big businesses. But it costs the other states far more in exchange. It's a positive for the state, but a net negative for the nation as a whole.

> For the state of Delaware, these small fees add up to as much as 41% of the state’s entire revenue. In 2019, they collectively amounted to $1.4B. For other states, the deal isn’t so sweet: It has been estimated that the Delaware loophole costs other states as much as $9.5B per year in collective lost tax revenue.

Then there's something the article doesn't touch on: the other states still need revenue. The other states are incentivized to bleed their local businesses dry, which makes it difficult for them to compete with the businesses big enough to exploit the loophole. If you're a business who can exploit the loophole, you're just handicapping yourself by not doing so - no matter how altruistic your intentions.

The takeaway here should not be "businesses are bad". The takeaway should be "our tax code sucks and we need to come together as a nation to fix it". Of course, even if we fix it in the US, we still have to worry about the same thing happening at a global scale...
> Ultimately it was speculative only

Not really. In e.g. the Netherlands you've to pay a 0.5% interest rate over the balance above €100k, €250k or €500k at most banks.

Of course most people that hit the cap just spread out their money over multiple banks, use a savings deposit that still gives zero or positive interest, or invest it.
There’s literally nothing in this article that you couldn’t replace “token” or “coin” with “contract” or “membership” and have it work exactly the same. The idea of selling contracts against future income is interesting but putting the blockchain here is yet another solution in search of a problem.
my apologies, i was thinking of one of their other sites (which often links to this one): https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/home.html
> there is nothing wrong with advertising per se, it's a natural part of a free market economy.

There is plenty wrong. Even Adam Smith's purely theoretical concept of "free market" requires buyers and sellers to be purely rational actors and be fully and correctly informed.

Advertising has one goal: making customers less rational and more biased towards a given product.
No signing also means that the workflow for developing malware for the platform is exactly the same, too. :)

My issue with the Apple ecosystem is not the cryptographic protections - it's with the fact that the keys aren't mine.
You make some good points, but I would point out

> that said, if you can make a good case why we should hire someone, i am not going to dismiss that, but i'll listen. i'll consider recommendations, but i am not giving the team a vote. this is not a democracy.

Asking the people who work for you to talk to the person and give your their thoughts on them doesn't need it make it a democracy. But it can help you make better decisions.

As a parallel example, I commonly discuss issues of my project with others in my company; people outside the project (the reverse is also true). When it comes time to make a decision, it's _my_ decision, but having their insights allows me to make a better decision.
Just because zuck says it isnt real doesn't make it so.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/11/17225482/facebook-shadow-...

https://theconversation.com/shadow-profiles-facebook-knows-a...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_profile
(not op). It's an essentially direct quote from the current head of the IRS.

https://www.propublica.org/article/irs-sorry-but-its-just-ea...
Tax avoidance, and inequality generally, is not a distinguishing feature of US-style capitalism.

It appears to be baked into the cake of humanity.
No refs to lexicon, sysadmin from hell, LISP, or manual garbage collect. F-
> The body should be able to figure out how to not eat in excess.

Why? Evolutionarily, we've had very little time where constant surplus was the norm, and mostly are adapted to situations where surpluses are rare and temporary abd shortages common.

Fighting that is hard.

Sure, our bodies might become good at that if we survive for another million years with first world standards of living as the norm. But they aren’t now, for good—evolutionary—reasons.
I honestly don’t know what to make of this article. Interesting story of something completely unimportant. There is a recipe for said sandwiches at the end which I will try out.
And new wireless standards AFAIK require very precise antenna focusing which provides even more accurate locations.
A lot of people getting hooked on the tax part, some on the anonymity part, but don’t underestimate the friendliness of Delaware courts to boards of directors. Things like staggered boards, share classes with extraordinary rights, poison pills and so on have all easily passed muster in Delaware and might well not have in a different state.
Why do people always want to run all their Android apps?! Why not iOS and Windows apps too??

Hkw about we figure out which apps are missing and build them natively. Linux phones still need work to be opimized for the hardware, lets not add more abstractions and slow it down by emulating proprietary runtimes
‘The Fellowship of the Springs’ Florida is selling out an environmental treasure
Searching on English google from the US also just brings up a bunch of German articles about the Gameboy.
> So, you draw the text box in the size and position you need?

I'm not sure what you mean.

If you have a 1000 x 1000 image I'd like to put the text "Hello" exactly in the middle of the image, both vertically and horizontally and let the tool determine the exact bounding box of the text input based on how much text I have.

> All of these "features" sound like training wheels for graphic designers.

In GIMP I described the workflow how to do that using the alignment tool. I also described for comparison how to do it in Photopea because it only involves dragging the layer near where it should be and it auto-snaps to perfect center with guidelines that appear when you're close.

This isn't a training wheels feature because both casual and professional graphic designers aren't eyeballing a pixel perfection alignment every time without thinking, but Photopea gives you this outcome with the least amount of effort you can ask for and its accuracy is 100%.

> It's not hard whatsoever to accomplish, and assuredly not worth paying monthly for.

There's a difference between hard and convenient. Executing a checklist of steps isn't hard but it sure is inconvenient if I need to do that every time I want to align something. It's the difference between something having a good / intuitive UI vs not.
Related discussion a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26723355
It’s protocol-ized finance. Sure you can do it all old school, but that takes a ton of effort and makes your situation a unique snowflake. If you do it the way everyone has agreed on with tokens, all of your tokens plug into the existing infrastructure, is standardized, and makes the cost of capital go down.

Why people continually can’t understand this, and keep saying “buh buh buh mysql and lawyer fees! No need for blockchain!” is a failure of imagination.
Developers have been conditioned to know they cannot develop games for consoles without the manufacturer's permission, but we expect to be able to develop applications for general-purpose computers freely. And the iPhone is clearly in the latter category regardless of what Apple calls it, because of the range of things it can do.
1) How does this get enforced? What stops Ireland, Camans, Monaco, or Luxembourg (note: I am not familiar with the most popular tax havens) from continuing to have low corporate tax rates?

2) How to prevent corporations from paying individuals/employees to manage property? Or giving them a cut?