skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of this is reflective of bad tax advice. Not blaming you just observing.

>Total proceeds - total cost basis = taxable income

Not taxable income but capital gains (unless you're talking about coins you mined, which is indeed ordinary income).

>I didn’t trust a mom and pop shop to properly account this this, especially since there were trades between different cryptocurrencies which makes the situation even more complicated.

It really doesn't make it much more complicated for taxes owed purposes. As far as the IRS is concerned, you can't "buy" anything with cryptocurrency. Its akin to a bartering of capital assets. So if you buy $10 worth of BTC and it appreciates and you use it to buy $100 worth of ETH and then you sell the ETH at $200 you have $190 of short or long term capital gains, depending on how long that all took. Cryptocurrency is property, not currency, for IRS purposes. Each of those transfers is a taxable event, but the tabulations is relatively straightforward and should be well within the grasp of a moderately with-the-times CPA.

As I mention above, get a tax attorney now if these values are anything you can't afford just straight up having to pay, plus fines, at the end of all this.
The 1.6 series was the last to use the old-style version of up to three version levels. 2.0 was the start of the version.release scheme.

I've been using NetBSD for over 20 years now and I keep coming back to it when I want a coherent and minimal base operating system.

I've used for daily driver workstations, file servers, and network services over the years.

I loved it when an instructor at Stevens Tech built a class around using NetBSD for a UNIX programming class. I pulled down the youtube videos and website for my own copy.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24332431
I was able to learn how to use containers quite quickly and some container addons make it very easy to use them. Not so much for profiles, setting up multiple profiles seems very tiresome and honestly whenever I look up how to create multiple profiles I lose interest. Would really love a solution that is as easy to manage and use as containers and allows to control which addons are allowed to load/run.

Edit: Also IIRC multiple profiles cannot be synced across devices through the same firefox account while it is possible with containers
The etherium developers and community have made relatively clear that if someone were to attempt such a thing, the non-malicious members of the community would just fork at the direction of the developers to a chain that is identical except that all of the etherium staked by the attacker is redistributed among the non-malicious verifying nodes, as it would be once the consensus process concluded that an attack was being carried out in a <51% attack scenario.
Facebook Transfer Learning Method Boosts Code Autocompletion Accuracy by 50%
The source article where these info (and much more) are derived:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-18/apple-rea...
Ohh exciting! I will be installing the beta right away!
Youtube provides entertainment for literally billions of people

Bitcoin provides... idk a way for some people to make a lot of money and some others to lose it?...

Even if we say that BTC provides some value by transferring money etc. the amount of value per Watt is so slanted its ridiculous to even make that argument.
Proof-of-work cryptocurrencies are in the process of banning themselves.

All that wasted energy is paid for by the holders, and proof-of-stake is just more financially attractive.

No government intervention is required IMO.
I use polyunsaturated oils to attempt to preserve the wood used for my raised garden beds. While vegetable-oil preserved wood might not be as long-lasting as a modern chemical stain, modern stains have various amounts of heavy metal, which I don't care to put in close proximity to plants I intend to eat. The catalogue has a paint sold for raised beds, but discarded vegetable oil is free.

Paints and stains were traditionally made with linseed oil/soybean oil (and other similar thin oils) because these combine spontaneously with oxygen in the air to form a hard film. Modern stains are made with petroleum distillates.

Dietary polyunsaturated oils facilitate the creation of lipofuscin [0], the age pigment. Dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids also drive lipid peroxidation [1] chain reaction, whereby unstable unsaturated oils combine spontaneously with oxygen in the body to break down in an uncontrolled manner. The end products of lipid peroxidation wreck havoc by combining with proteins to make "fluorescent polymerized compounds" [3], etc. Eating polyunsaturated fat won't make you fluoresce, it'll just make you old prematurely.

The Omega-6 polyunsaturates are especially good for facilitating inflammation, due to their use to create Prostaglandins [2].

I do not consider polyunsatured oils edible, and read labels to avoid them.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipofuscin#Formation_and_turno...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipid_peroxidation

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostaglandin

[3] https://europepmc.org/article/med/7001991
Ideally, what is stored in version control is just the AST, and how you or I display it is up to our own preference. Then I won't have to care about your weird indentation preferences and other style choices and you won't have to care about mine!
Why don't you argue the point and offer an alternative opinion or rebuttal instead of profiling the messenger?
So burning electricity on running a cryptocurrency is not right, but burning electricity on running servers for Facebook or user tracking is all right? If that's the case, who's the arbiter of what's "too much" power for a use case?

If that's not the case, how do you propose to enforce that all use cases use less electricity, and how do you punish those who use too much?
Any fierce person can be overconfident, productive, and a giant douchebag. With fierceness, you can "win" even if you're stupid. (Recent worldwide national political appointees make this a fact.) The "Nerd" part just means this fierce person lacks social awareness.

It's good to be fierce and intelligent, but it's really important to be compassionate and empathetic too. IQ without EQ is wealth without health. If you truly want to enjoy life, if you don't want to make other people miserable, and you would like other people to raise you up in good company, you need to work on how you treat and think about other people. For nerds I think this is as difficult a problem to solve as any other they could attempt.
Here's my most common use case:

1) Need to do a hotfix on some bug. Fastest fix is to just turn off something.

2) I turn it off (maybe commenting out the line) then add a TODO above it with the ticket number that corresponds to the ticket for turning it back on once the issue has been investigated.

3) Once I start working on the ticket to turn the thing back on, having the todos makes it easy to know exactly what to do (context isn't lost) and I don't end up missing some things because I can just search all of the TODOs.

4) If a TODO is missed, we have a script that will re-open any ticket for which a TODO ticket number is still in the codebase. i.e, let's say we have "TODO: xy-123 ..." If i close xy-123 without deleting that line, the script will re-open the ticket and comment saying that there is a remaining todo
>I do not consider a browser with site-modifying extensions to be a standard web browser

What do you consider a standard web browser?

If someone ships a browser with Tracking Protection (like Firefox), or with NoScript preinstalled (like Tor Browser), or with another adblocker preinstalled, is that a standard browser because the user didn't modify it?

Or is it based on the number of user. Is your standard browser really just Google Chrome, because Google has a lot of marketshare?

I ask, because I looked up the statistics, and they say between 25-45% of users have an ad blocker, depending on the country.

It seems pretty unfair to ignore your users completely, even if they wrote a long, detailed report. No?
..to deliver quality video services to a billion people, instead of handling a handful of transactions for some greedy financial speculators.
I totally get where you are coming from. I should clarify that historically, all of my new hires were pretty much fresh out of school, or transitioning to software dev from other roles.

If I hired a dev with significant experience, I don't think I would use the same process, aside from knowledge gaps.

I definitely have received negative feedback on processes that are in place, and I welcome that, because if something can be done better, or more efficiently - then we should change it. Flexibility is key.
As a bootstrapped founder who went through such an exit, but not planning on going back to a big tech company, I had temptations of going back for at least a couple years. My primary motivation was the fear of suffering personal consequences for completely running of our money. Now that I've exited and have plenty of time to start the next thing, I can't ever see myself going back to a big company. There's something addicting about entrepreneurship.

To me, it just feels so much more real than working at a big company. At a big company, I felt like I just tried to make my boss happy and I had a very limited toolset to do such. As an entrepreneur, it's very connected to delivering value to other people who won't give you the time of day if you don't. It's difficult to explain but it feels way more real than a job.
I'm not entirely sure this answers your question, but one of our founders, Dave, wrote a post that may give some context: https://dteare.medium.com/behind-the-scenes-of-1password-for...
If that doesn't address your concerns please feel free to reach out to us at support+linux@1password.com — we'd love to chat. - Ben, 1Password
Proof of elapsed time? The intel thing?
Only works with trusted nodes and/or permissioned blockchains; not suitable for trustless/permissionless public chains.
The only trustless consensus system we have today is proof of work. And it works well, at scale, for 14 years.
I deal with a lot of the standard issues you might hear of -- easily distracted by the novel, inability to concentrate for more than maybe 4 minutes at a time. That's annoying but I have found a couple ways to manage it and still function with a stable job and some hobbies that I can hyperfocus on (bouldering, painting, and drawing hold my interest the most)

What I believe doesn't get talked about as much is the emotional dysregulation component. I alternate between hypersensitive and feeling nothing, even about the same situation. I struggle keeping long term relationships because I'm addicted to the initial excitement, but when it slows down I get bored. I'm single where most of my friends are now in long term committed relationships. I don't blame this entirely on the ADHD, but I don't think it helps.
The current you refer to there is not the power that is being generated though, it seems to be an input in to the STO devices.

> The STOs are connected in parallel (Fig. 1a) or in series (Fig. 1b) configuration, stimulated by a single dc source. For the parallel connection, at the dc bias (Idc) value of 1.5 mA

Fig 2c and d shows the total output power which maxes out at 0.85 uW. Maybe this is enough to run a pacemaker or something small, I don't actually know. Fig 6 shows the rectification of the signal in to a voltage that can turn on an LED. The dc-dc converter puts it in the ~3V range. Assuming the dc-dc converter is near 100% efficiency (some are pretty damn good) this is a current of only 0.28 uA.

Its a novel way, but they talk about in their own paper that it is not a new more efficient way to convert RF energy to DC energy

> in the range of 1.65–2.8 GHz at Prf = 0 dBm and zero dc bias ac to dc conversion efficiency of ∼6% at Prf = −20 dBm. This is higher than the reported values for STOs53,55 but less than the recent reports of power conversion efficiency of 40% and 40–70% at an input rf power ~0 dBm for MoS2-based flexible rectenna and state-of-the-art Si and GaAs rectifiers56
I'm all in favour of eliminating taxes on corporate revenue. Income taxes should be paid by those earning income (the dividend recipients, the capitalists making gains). Progressive taxes on executive compensation is a good idea for keeping those ridiculously excessive C-level benefits lower.

Property taxes, on the other hand, should be paid by the landowner and recipient of municipal services. If Amazon wants to build a warehouse on its land and expects services like water and sewer, police and fire coverage, roads, snow and rain clearance, and many other things that property taxes pay for, they need to pay property taxes.

Any property tax abatement or exemption is just taxing the local residents to help pay the exorbitant salaries of the people who go from junket to junket scooping up these delicious subsidies. I do not think it is really in the best interest of regular local citizens and for that reason it should be regulated.
As a side note:

If you as a reader are interested in math & crypto the stuff being done in the zero knowledge space w.r.t. cryptocurrencies is really cool regardless of your opinion on cryptocurrencies in general.
Ask HN: Should I consistently follow up HR about my interview decision?
Hi,
I gave a couple of interviews for a frontend post at a company which is fully remote. After giving my final interview I followed up 2 days letter and asked the hiring specialist about their decision. She told me the management is still in the decision making process.

It's been a week now and I haven't heard anything from her again. Is it fine to follow her up again and ask where they are in the hiring process or have they selected someone else over me?
Why do you say that? What makes PoW so much more meritorious than PoS in your eyes?
FWIW: the material challenges for hydrogen are such that I do not think that it will ever be a mainstream storage medium for vehicular use (it's not a fuel, it is a battery).

- hydrogen embrittlement

- leakage from whatever container you plan to use

- very low activation energy -> always danger of explosion

So it's a great thing in the lab and to get subsidy for but it sucks for large scale deployment, and deploying it in devices that have a long projected lifespan has its own special class of problems.

Plenty of manufacturers have already had hydrogen test fleets and as far as I'm aware all but a few have been abandoned.
I'm not so sure I'd write off this startup as a failure.

I feel like many people who can afford $80/mo climbing gym memberships might look at $5 chalk and $12 environmentally friendly chalk with nice packaging/branding and buy the latter.

If OP manages to get listed in half the ~500 climbing gyms in the USA, and makes on average 2-3 sales per day in each, they could pull in single-digit millions per year in top line. Not sure what OP's goals are, but that's plenty successful for most.

If you need a VC-caliber story, you can always expand to other products (plenty of other climbing gear to sell now that you have the gym relationships), other sellers (eg. REI, MEC), or go international.
An Asian Version of Elon Musk
GitHub repository and the paper are a follow-up on a recently introduced OpenAI CLIP neural network. It allows manipulating images with text. One of (probably useless) possible applications can be creating an Asian version of Elon Musk. Although promising, it suffers from the same problems as the base version of CLIP (namely, lack of sufficient coverage of particular objects in a dataset, i.e., it can easily transform a lion to a wolf but struggling with a tiger to a wolf conversion).
> Unless you work for a great company as a software engineer, you can make/keep significantly more money as your own company.

This comes at the expense of time and energy. Running a "company" will involve a lot of other things beyond software engineering. Like stocks, there's also no guarantee you will beat the market (the market being the best salary you can get).

The most time and energy efficient way to make money with little risk is still to take a standard software engineering job, don't take on unnecessary responsibilities, and just work remote to eliminate commute (you don't get paid for commute time but because you still have to do it you have to account for it as part of your work hours, which can vastly reduce your true hourly rate).
More feasible take: ban the trade of PoW coins that cannot be shown to have been mined via green energy.
Cool, just swapped the sandboxed one for this version, it feels snappy!
I am also happy the AMP reddit links are gone - because it was a way to bypass my reddit block on my phone.

To get a quick readable version you always add a i. to the URL, so i.reddit.com. I am afraid of the day they will remove that.
The Weirdest Borders in the World
That's a common take, but a well-designed carbon tax could be made revenue-neutral and non-regressive.

In other words, the amount it takes in can be given back to the average person -- in forms of tax rebates, investment in public transit, education, whatever. In an ideal world a carbon tax would have no adverse impact on lower and middle class people.

I should also add that in that world higher electricity cost due to carbon tax is a good thing -- it'll help carbon-neutral sources of energy to compete and replace the more dirty forms. Which is exactly what we want.
Apple typically has the last newer hardware support of any phone or pc manufacturer. My daughter still uses a 2011 iMac without problems and with relatively recent security updates.
Because entertainment is so useful? What's your utility function to decide which one is more worthy of using electricity? Why should we use your utility function in particular?
You're getting downvoted, but this is all true and shouldn't be discounted. I'm in the process of migrating off 1Password after their shitty behavior of all but forcing people to migrate to the cloud.
Really? It takes me about 5 seconds to charge my car every day, and I don't even need to leave my house to do it.
From what little I know, they were mostly influenced by who showed up. A lot of Rusties participated.
PSA: Note that AgileBits intentionally hides the standalone license option and pushes subscription as the only visible scheme to get the application. This is a long standing dark pattern, and though the support staff will admit on their forums or here that the standalone license does exist, you wouldn't be able to find it without some special incantations on the forums. They will keep reiterating that it's for your own good so that you don't get confused.

The application UX may be great. The sync may be great. The security of the closed source application may be great (because of audits). But this single dark pattern and the condescending attitude of their team members whenever the topic of standalone license comes up are enough to avoid this company. If you can get to the standalone license purchase option within three or four clicks from the main site, do let me know.

I switched out of 1Password to Bitwarden long ago. I will admit that Bitwarden is not fantastic (I find it somewhat slow and also lacking some features). But it doesn't use dark patterns like AgileBits does.
It feels like the movie Brazil for today.
We're talking about a checkout. We're at the end of the sales funnel, where the monetary exchange is finalized, the deal is sealed, the value delivered.

Breaking this based on an ad blocker just loses you money.
You people obsessed with reducing humanity’s energy usage are so tiresome. Anyone who actually cares about the well-being of humanity should be focused on increasing the amount of energy available. I want to climb the kardashev scale, not live in an eco-pod and eat bug burgers so I can scrounge every last joule.
Consumers can make a net profit if the tax revenue is paid as a dividend to citizens. There are number of papers about this if you are interested [1].

[1] - https://citizensclimatelobby.org/carbon-pricing-studies/
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Its difficult to calculate exactly the % of GPU miners that are mining Ethereum, amongst all possible choices. My estimate is 50% - 90%. (Maybe someone can reply with better data?)

When Ethereum can no longer be mined, the returns on mining the remaining 'altcoins' will fall equal to the level of new mining power that enters.

Which might very well make GPU mining uneconomical across the board.
Exactly. This is a major problem with anything hydrogen related, especially if it has an expected lifespan of a decade+.
Just a warning for people who don't know the grandparent is referring to the extension formerly called 1Password X (now just 1Password in the browser because AgileBits wants you to use that one) which puts ALL OF YOUR PASSWORDS into your browser's memory.

The "classic" 1Password browser extension already unlocked with the desktop app and does not dump your entire vault into browser memory just to fill one password.
Eventually switching to PoS has been the established plan for Etherium for years. Any drama about it is manufactured.
Again with this same tired nonsense on Hacker News. Famous for censoring worthwhile comments to death while leaving up misinformed "curious" posts that mislead everyone. Bitcoin is using half of the power as banking systems. Bitcoin is using half of the power, of the gold industry. Might I suggest, if you think you can suggest banning things for using too much carbon, that you first quit working, quit driving your vehicles, and disconnect the power in your house. I don't think it's good for the environment in you doing so. In fact, your carbon consumption should be banned. Turn your computers off. Unplug your wasteful device chargers, you've had enough.
So the racket in US, as far as I can tell, is basically this: Bezos and friends (e.g Bill Gates) push for higher taxes and other policies that are supposed to balance the power between business and "the people", this results in more taxes for businesses who would be their competitors, but Bezos and friends get waivers and don't have to pay the taxes or comply with policies.

I think US should pass a specific bill to tax Bezos and friends, take at least 90% of their net worth, and then start taxing "the rich". Anything else is just bullshit.

I mean, taxing the rich has nothing to do with deficit anyway, there are not enough rich people in the world to even make a dent in the massive hole US dug for themselves with their "money printer goes brrrr" clown act.
I think the term "forced" implies to me that the other options were worse at least. High earners can become low earners very quickly like real estate agents in 2008. These people have a larger bank roll and wider network then suddenly find themselves without a way to sustain their existing lifestyle. Similarly, the dot com bust gave many previously high paid programmers a lot of free time and few options to maintain their income.
Whoops yeah pretty much. I forgot to paste the link. I was distracted. Now it's too late to edit
This is one of those "Freakonomics" type ideas.

On the surface this sounds like bitcoin's PoW use will simply stop. It's actually the entire opposite.

When governments ban it, they go after sizeable, identifiable organizations running these operations, that is their only choice. These operations are optimized in their energy usage, because it's only in their interest to reduce their consumption relative to the value of the coin they mine.

The moment these operations are shutdown, there is a massive sink in the hash rate, smaller operations and hobbyists will rush in to fill it. Hash rate gradually climbs back up and instead you have 10x the energy usage because you can no longer run the PoW in a scalable way.
We have such a system for appliances already, energy star. And we do restrict the manuf and sale of appliances that can't meet those goals. Same for cars.
I don't think you can feasibly ship all your electric batteries to be charged up in Iceland.
Read the book: The mom test