skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The key takeaway to me is that developing mobile apps for the Librem 5 on the Librem 5 is a first class development workflow.

This is great. Not having to worry about setting up toolchains on a separate platform, cross-compiling, and then signing/transferring apps and running remote debugging sessions makes it easy to just build and test apps.
I have no doubt that active trading is seeing a resurgence in interest driven by apps like Robinhood that make it easy to do. But I’d be willing to bet that the returns active traders as a whole are just getting are worse.

Public is an interesting place where you can see behind the curtain of who the folks using these services actually are and what their logic is. (Trades on Public are visible to everyone by default, and it’s basically a giant message board.)

Five minutes in and you’ll see that 98% of the activity looks a lot more like gambling than anything that might be driven by a plan or strategy. That’s fine and I don’t say that to disparage Public’s users, but it’s important to be realistic about what’s going on here.

I believe Public also encourages/seeds the community with celebrities and “experts” / quasi-influencers who are clearly trying to make a name for themselves on the platform. Some of them share basic advice, while others drive short spurts of mania based on their investment decisions. Watching it all play out has solidified in my mind that active investing is a losing game all around.
Yup.

FWIW: I binged on David Graeber last year. You might also enjoy his works. Especially the book Debt: The First 5000 Years.

I'm keen to find other authors, thinkers like Graeber. People thinking outside of the classical Liberal paradigm, outside of the Hayek vs Keynes food fight. Especially anyone thinking about participatory democracy.
He aggressively inserts himself in any Egyptian archaeology of any significance apparently out of a combination of intense interest and untamed ego and he framed all finds in terms that have broad political appeal in Egypt.
Explains how people are selling ECR20 tokens with special rights to income from just one person. Also the right to message them. i.e. a fan can buy a token of a "celebrity" and get special inbox rights. But also upside if that person goes on to become very successful.
Do you by any chance work at Amazon ?
This can’t really happen otherwise there will be no children to ask the question.
If I recall, VMWare Fusion and Parallels can run macOS VMs with little or no speed hit, under Big Sur. Big Sur added GPU virtualization support so VMs aren’t slow, previous macOS versions lacked this.
No the point is that PEOPLE will try to take advantage of tax codes regardless of the ideology presumably followed by the country. It has nothing to do with capitalism. You could undoubtedly find examples of elites avoiding taxes under feudalism, or in the theocracies of the world, in Communist nations, and capitalist ones.

The thing you ascribe to capitalism is a failure not of some ideology but a problem with human nature. If you blame capitalism and throw up your hands the problem can't be addressed.
There's no no need to use a formation service. Incorporating a company in the US is very easy and can be done online, even by foreigners. All you need is a Registered Agent and they start at $25/year (in Wyoming).

I'd also like to point out that forming a LLC as a foreigner is a bad idea, as that might make you personally liable for US taxes. Either form a C Corp outright or have your LLC taxed as a C Corp. Then just zero out the profits. Some extra forms to fill out, but still better than paying taxes.
Edit: I provided actual data - facts - straight from the IRS. If you're going to downvote, I dare you to bring something to the table to counter reality (good luck).

> where he openly states that his agency focuses audits on poorer people

As incomes rise, audit % rates rise. The IRS does not focus a large share of its energy on poorer people. The people earning under $50,000 per year have a very low audit rate, and that's straight from the IRS data. Once your income climbs over $200,000 your audit rate begins to skyrocket.

In terms of volume, 60% of all filers are at $50,000 or lower, so obviously even at a low % of audits they're still going to have a lot of audits. The IRS does audit people filing as having no income at a relatively high rate, because that category frequently attempts to use incorrect deductions to try to hide income. The rate of fraud is very high in that category.

Here:

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-utl/2017ntf-irsauditstriggers.pd...

"The majority of audited returns are for taxpayers who earn $500,000 a year or more, and most of them had incomes of over $1 million. These are the only income ranges that were subject to more than a 1% chance of an audit in 2018. " -- [note: the $500k+ group is the majority of audited returns despite the fact that they're a tiny share of all returns, which tells you how low the audit rate is for the poorer categories.]

"According to IRS statistics, you’re safest if you report income in the neighborhood of $25,000 to $200,000. These taxpayers were audited the least in 2016."

https://www.thebalance.com/top-audit-triggers-that-catch-irs...
https://www.vice.com/en/article/884kq4/your-fancy-honey-migh...

> Grab any random bottle of honey from your kitchen, coffee shop, or restaurant: According to a number of honey experts who spoke with VICE, the odds are high that your honey isn't what it claims to be. Honey imported from overseas is often adulterated—either by having sugars added to it or by being cleaned, heated, or filtered—and then is blended with small amounts of true honey until the sticky substance is uniform.

> In a small experiment of my own, I bought honey from different stores to test them at two different honey labs. In half of the samples I sent to a lab in Germany, and more than half of those I sent to a lab in Missouri, the results indicated adulteration may have taken place.
Members nor Managers are not listed with the state

My main issue with out-of-state LLCs though is you typically have to file in whatever state you're operating/living in as a foreign LLC, so you end up with double the paperwork and filing requirements.

IMHO its better, especially for sole-proprietor / pass-through LLCs to just register in whatever state you're living in.
Just in case, what I meant by "compromised" was "by a 3 or so letter agency" -- not sure if you meant I thought morally compromised. Signal's morals don't really concern me, because their client is open source, I don't have to care what they believe -- their decision to go with phone numbers irked me for example but having it be F/OSS and well encrypted (as far as I know) was worth sacrificing the privacy (and of course if they ever get the short code system off the ground I'd make a new account immediately).

To the spirit of your question though, the reason I take somewhat opposite stances is because I expect the first thing is just a tin foil hat theory, and the crypto thing is neither here nor there (I know I don't plan to buy any, but even so maybe it's good for some people). Signal being banned by a lot of oppressive regimes is some pretty good supporting evidence towards it not being compromised.
I’m sorry, but is this a joke? It’s well known the “dismal science” came from Malthus’s incorrect prediction of society’s collapse.
I was directly quoting the article...
The explainer might be a better starting point: https://github.com/w3c/webdriver-bidi/blob/master/explainer....
Why do many laptops run on 19 volts?
Step 1. Give up volition to a third party certificate authority and hope your internet service is never controversial enough to get it revoked like sci-hub.
My understanding is that if you create your LLC out-of-state, you still need to register your llc as a foreign entity, which often, puts forth the same requirements as an in-state LLC.

Take specifically California. If you live and operate in CA, but register your LLC in Delaware (or Wyoming), you still need to pay the $800/yr franchise tax and complete all of the same tax paperworks that you would if the LLC was registered in CA.

Isn't it just simpler (and cheaper in time and money) to register in the state you operate in?
Hooray for progress! Instead of destruction of the world we merely have a mental addictive prison for everyone!

Oh wait, we still have those nuclear weapons too!
It's only a matter of time until we can develop smartwatch apps - on our smartwatch.
most students don't work on classified fbi projects, see in the thread on some of the projects I've seen undergrads involved in that are more demonstrative than grades. a project portfolio is just a cv section that focuses on the projects and your involvement, and hopefully ways for the interviewer to see it and the code, but even descriptions and screenshots go far for the interview conversation.

most good cs programs have significant project components, and students not putting in their project time there are often doing so elsewhere.

if not, they may have the potential to be good at projects, but tbd. without other strong signals, probably fewer startups are in a good position to take that bet.

also, going beyond students, the top programmers I've worked with have a history of great public and private projects - papers, $100B companies, top frameworks, launched top products, record breaking results, news articles around their impact, etc. The main exceptions are 'lifer at apple' types and 'works at secret bank', but most hop jobs enough that it's not an issue. A top group I see that really struggle a lot are 'lifer at secret gov agency x', which gets many of them stuck in the defense contractor round door.

we may have different experiences for what top means and what they help achieve. Who is this silent majority of top 1% programmers that don't have any referenceable projects? And more to the point, top intern candidates?
Haven't noticed anything particularly egregious about this site, seems fine on my browser.
Maybe states should learn from Delaware. The minimum tax required for an LLC in California is $800. So even if you have an LLC that makes no money, you still have to pay California $800 per year.
Sweden isn't cherry picked because there are only a handful of regions that chose not to lock down and the relevant argument is about the impact of locking down or not. Therefore looking at it specifically follows naturally from the question being investigated.

The converse, attempting to argue that Sweden suffered harshly by looking only at physical neighbours, doesn't follow naturally from any scientific question anyone is actually raising. For that comparison to be useful you'd need a theory of the form, "Nordic peoples are genetically superior to other peoples in ways that makes them naturally resistant to COVID, and thus whilst original models neglected that factor, Nordic Exceptionalism means Sweden should have been identical to Norway and they weren't therefore their decision was a bad one". But obviously such an argument would be nonsense and nobody is claiming that - just implying it.

It's irrelevant for another reason: Sweden only looks like it did "badly" compared to Norway when using percentages. If you look at it in terms of absolute change in excess death, it's small, and depending on how you calculate, you can actually argue COVID had no effect on excess death in Sweden ([1] has an example of such calculations). The impact on Sweden of not locking down, even if you ascribe all differences between these arbitrarily chosen countries to that, is so tiny that it cannot justify the costs of the policy.

At any rate, if you like there are other examples and they all support the same argument. For example, in the USA Florida is a reasonable choice. They released their restrictions relatively early without disaster. Or South Dakota (=identical curves to North Dakota despite very different levels of restrictions), or the recent example of Texas unlocking, or Belarus.

Sweden is a popular choice because it's a very clear counter-example that's been widely discussed in Europe, and because - as I already noted - no model predictions or epidemiological theories make any exceptions for Sweden or Nordic countries. In fact modellers predicted specifically that Sweden would have had 90,000 deaths from COVID by May, but in fact they had about 98,000 deaths in total from all causes by the end of the year. It's therefore sufficient by itself to disprove the models.

[1] https://softwaredevelopmentperestroika.wordpress.com/2021/01...
Ice Cavern 2021, Jon Sneyers (A beautiful 32 byte JPEG)
Buy some ETH and learn about the blockchain and defi. Some smart people expect ETH to go to 10k or more this year, based on this the code change in July, along with an inflationary collapse of fiat. You could do some videos, or websites based on 11ty and jamstack. It sounds like you are capable. There are some very promising alt-coins that run on ETH that could see 20,000 percent gains this year after the July code change in ETH. A first project - generate your own seed phrase with dice or atmospheric TRNG streams and validate it offline on a secure OS (openBSD?). You could write a python program to do this. You could also help us all get away from centralized banking and services. Good luck.
It isn’t fraud if it’s legal.
> Having some overseas products and imports is one thing, but when you have to import 90%+ of it, we're losing.

I think it's more complicated than this. If China sells steel at a sufficient quality at a far cheaper price, why make it in the US?

If the concern is national security, make a stockpile sufficiently large to suffice while a steel industry is restarted locally.

It doesn't make sense to employ protectionism - it's bad economics and rent seekers come out of the woodwork.

The goal of any nation should be to move its workers up the skills pyramid to work on more complicated products.

We don't want to be making shirts in the US, we want those people to be doing higher skilled jobs.
Same. I mean there are probably multiple factors in play but I can't imagine the interrupted sleep, plus the baseload stress and anxiety, are good for long term mental health. Hopefully counteracted by long term benefits of rewarding family relationships.
Personal info for 1.3M Clubhouse users reportedly leaked online
You still need some sort of verification, even for something as simple as ensuring that images have alt-text. Maybe you missed some images that are dynamically generated in a way you forgot about, or have a typo in the tag.

If screen readers aren't compliant to the standard, then you need to test against as many screen readers as possible to ensure that your site is accessible. Users want a site that works, not a site that complies to an unimplemented standard.
Of course. All cell phones are inherently trackers. That is how the cell phone system works at all. The base stations use increasingly accurate clocks to multi-laterate the handset position and decide which base station will handle it. This is accurate to about 50m these days. And since a handset pings out it's existence every 30s or so while it's on and telcos store the data for 2-5 years (in the USA) they have a very accurate record of your movements to sell for commercial profit. And then those companies can re-sell the data to the government.

The idea that anything you do in the userspace of a phone can make you 'safe' from tracking is just ignorant. The greatest danger will always be the baseband modem which you will never have acess or control of due to FCC regulations.
> If you don't really care about the security aspect it would be just as easy to tell the user to grant you access to the dbus socket for their session bus,

Do you have any more details about this? Doesn't dbus complain about that? Is this something more than changing the socket file permissions. Last time I tried to access the user session bus from something outside the session I ran into this kludge https://serverfault.com/questions/892465/starting-systemd-se...

I'm happy with the socket solution because it's got the security level I want (anyone on the local machine with local access to the socket file is fine) and I can really, really easily build whatever I want on top of it or plug it into whatever library because it's a simple socket. I want to use dbus, it seems the Right Way but it always seems to throw up road blocks.
As a user it’s not even in the top 5 on my list of priorities for a personal mobile device.

I’m also a dev and have been doing mobile development for years btw. I’m no stranger to the needs of developers.
>For instance the ISMIS 2017 Data Mining Competition: Trading Based on Recommendations https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-60438-1_...

uhh..

>The winning one did not manage to achieve results better than the baseline that was constructed as the maximum from ‘always buy’ and ‘always sell’ strategies over the testing period

Like I said, the benchmark isn't against a monkey randomly picking a stock, it's against a passive portfolio.

>Not insurmountable, no? [...] RenTech was doing speech recognition on foreign TV broadcasts in the 90s. Can't you think of similar features you could whip up in a 100 lines of Python and the YouTube API?

>So join in. You are aware of the action. [...]

That goes back to my remark about how alpha is limited. If you whipped up a script but was 10 minutes late to the party, then you'd get zero gains because someone has already beat you to the punch. The hard part isn't good data, it's getting good data that everyone else doesn't have.

>But you can also again harnass this with counter trading strategies. [...]

that almost sounds like "timing the market", which is generally known to not work for unsophisticated investors.

>The problem can be overcome in a couple of ways. An interesting one is: "skin-in-the-game". If your wrong hype predictions damages your reputation or causes money loss, you are more serious about it

The fact that they're publishing the trading strategies for anyone to use for free should tell you all you need to know about their "skin in the game". If they actually thought they had real alpha, they'd be harnessing it all for themselves, not publishing it on the internet and getting freeriders to dilute it.

>Another is to ask: What percentage of other people do you think got this question wrong? People who answer Sydney as the capitol of Australia, think that few got it wrong. People who give the correct answer think that many will get it wrong.

[insert joke about how economists have predicted 15 of the last 3 recessions]

>But many day traders also underestimate how they'd stack up against an office of suits, if they worked together, and ramen-noodle hacked it.

I don't doubt a bunch of random internet traders can outsmart an office of suits, I just doubt they can produce better returns (% wise) because their open planning (ie. posting their trades online for anyone to see) allows their alpha to be diluted and get front-runned.
"practical for everyday life" involves cooking, and I encounter 0°C and 100°C regulary, with ice and boiling water.

To be honest, humans are likely able to adapt to scale when talking about the weather, or how hot the room is.

The reasons the US should move to metric are:
- The rest of the world is on metric
- It's better for science and engineering

I'm not suggested moving is easy, just that I for one would like it to be attempted.
Egypt unveils 3k-year-old “lost golden city” at Luxor
Is it? Just from the hip:

Start with an audit log.

Add tamper detection with a rolling hash: blockchain.

Add multi party consensus: distributed blockchain.

Add some kind of digital signature: web of trust.

Add some kind of proof of work: cryptocurrency.
It's not (just / only) taxes - Delaware has for a century or more not imposed changing rules and regulations on businesses registered in its state. It has basically left things well alone.

If this was outside the USA then Delaware would just be some tiny island tax haven. But it's a full fledged State in the most powerful country in the world. Businesses in Delaware still have to abide by every Federal law and regulation, and every Federal tax. It's not (quite) a no laws, no rules hideaway.

What they don't have to do is guess which State's local problems are going to hamstring them in five years.

Delaware incorporation gets you in the USA market at the national level. National America laws affect you but local State politics you can safely ignore. And be confident that the changes coming nationally will be clearly signalled in California or Texas first.

Yes there is tax arbitrage opportunities - but we are seeing similar things in Netherlands or Ireland in the EU. And when things got too out of hand then the other states would all "have a quiet word" with Delaware. Similar to how the Dutch Irish sandwich is it seems coming to an end.

So yeah, businesses like stability and only having to look in one direction, much more than low taxes but more complex environments.

Edit: It's worth reading up on the Dutch / Irish sandwich. In some ways yes it is egregious (and yeah a lot of the time it is - franchises that claim all the profit resides in a logo or a policy book - we all know that's crap). But that's a question of degrees - if I sell McDonalds burgers I will make more than selling some unbranded stuff. So IP does have value. Now let's say I am licensing wind turbine generators for a wind farm - designed in UK, built in Germany, installed in France by a Dutch company with Spanish investors. Whose laws apply to the licensing agreement ?

This gets really hard really quickly - which takes us back to Janet Yellen and minimum OECD tax rates. By stopping the race to the bottom, it does not matter so much - tax is paid, and gets shuffled in somewhere.

I know I am banging on but, getting outraged by tax dodges like this will prevent us taking the big wins - if there is a global minimum tax rate a huge amount of wasted effort on tax avoidance goes away, and it opens up real possibilities for clamping down on tax evasion.

Companies in Delaware mostly pay tax in the right range - and those that don't, trust me, the way to deal with it is to hire more IRS agents - probably the only branch of Government that has a 4-10x ROI year on year :-)

tl;dr tl;dr

There is an order to fixing taxes either globally or between states. First set a global minimum corporate tax rate (see OECD/Yellan). Then clamp down on tax evasion by forcing beneficial ownership to be made public globally. Only after all that is it worth fighting over who get what cut of the pie. There is no global tax pie right now - we need to bake it before we discuss cutting it.
I thought you were saying you thought signal had been three-letter compromised and you were continuing to use it, which seemed inconsistent.

Now understand you meant some tin-foil hatters think it was compromised, but you don't. That makes sense. (I also find the "it's a signal they're compromised" theory absurd).
This is a good overview.

I honestly don't understand how these IP transfers are legal and continue to be legal. In the example from this article if the Delaware subsidiary bought the tennis balls from Vietnam for $10m and sold them to the California subsidiary for $80m, this is actually illegal. It's called transfer (mis)pricing. The general principle is that such pricing should be at arm's length. But for some reason it's totally fine for IP.

Not only does this avoid state taxes but it is the basis for big tech companies dodging federal taxes by transferring their IP to Irish subsidiaries and then paying "royalties".

So I'm a big fan of two reforms:

1. Profit apportionment. If 20% of your revenue comes from a particular state or country, that jurisdiction gets to tax 20% of your profit. This whole transfer pricing nonsense has to end and it's the real cause of the race to the bottom; and

2. Much higher property taxes for real estate owned by corporations rather than individuals. Corporate anonymity with real estate is a real scourge and drives speculative bubbles, money laundering and simply parking money in real estate, none of which does anyone any good.