skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's funny is that IHRA's working definition of antisemitism first lines out exactly what you've just said, that Jews != Israel, and then goes to say that criticizing Israel for its actions is antisemitic.

- Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.

- Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.

https://www.holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-defin...
If instead of "selling" or "exchanging" those Euros, the purchasing power of those Euros may have changed as the result of inflation, PPP, used lamborghini prices, etc. The change in value depends on the change in value of what you have marked it to. Direct USD exchange, there's huge profits/loses because of the volatility of cryptocurrencies vs. USD.

But NFTs...these become a kind of volatility cold storage.

I'm not trying to mentally hack tax law, I'm suggesting that the law as described in an example by a journalist would show cryptocurrencies are not currencies, and now that the US is making enforcement a priority, they are collapsing the uncertainty bubble in which the whole market has operated.

The invention of cryptocurrencies was a tax revolt to begin with, and it probably makes more sense to look at policy through this lens than any other.
You didn't even finish reading my first sentence.
https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/nc27fv/rescue_...
If you try to apply the Peano Axioms on pithy aphorisms, you're gonna have a bad time.
Sales taxes are regressive. A 10% sales tax is more of a poor person's income than a wealthy person's income.

Flat tax is also funny. Because it doesn't mean getting rid of loopholes and deductions, it means taxing every dollar the same. Effectively raising the taxes on those making less. Right now we have a progressive tax rate. Where the first X dollars are taxed at A%, the next Y dollars at A+5%, and so on.

Deductions would still exist because at some point someone is going to make a good point that that money was just taxed. Or that the money went to the same goal as the tax would have. Deductions are there to find out what your taxable income is. It affects how much you owe because 10% of 900 is not the same as 10% of 1000.
Good god. Wicked, bad, naughty Rust. Oh, it is a naughty language, and it must pay the penalty -- and here in Castle Congruence, we have but one punishment for setting alight the grail-shaped semantics.
I'm not sure where in the US I'll end up living in these next couple years, but it will have to be a place with H Mart nearby.
In the traditional ad business, each ad would have been reviewed at least once. No reason Google shouldn't be held responsible and to the same standard.
Writers with frustrated literary ambitions...
This may explain why that fish walked out of the water so long ago.

Earth may have been a cooling tank for spent fuel rods used by an alien civilization. Ocean water levels depleted as a result of the cooling process which exposed the land masses. Radiation from the spent rods did radiating things to the surrounding organisms.

IPSO FACTO, we're a result of the super powers bestowed to our watery ancestors.

*edit /fiction ... because some people took this as super serious
As impressive as an aircraft carrier with solar escape velocity would be, I'm betting that's a typo.

A 50km/s vessel carrying hypersonic missiles would be like bringing turtles on a transatlantic flight!
Do these sites run background checks? Because people could use these apps to brainwash others to get them do what they want. Am I missing something?
Agreed on this point, and most companies who would want to do these sorts of things would restrict it even if Cloudflare didn't exist.

I really can't think of a good solution. But that's the tricky position Cloudflare is in - how does it balance everything.
>It eliminates your exposure at the cost of ~25-35%

No it doesn't. Eliminating the exposure would mean your net worth would stay the same regardless of whether it goes up or down. That's the case if you sold your bitcoins, but not if you took out a loan.
Sennet AI launches platform to help investors with AI
High sales taxes tend to spur low-tax zones nearby. The wealthy can use these to get around taxes. For example, border runs for those who live near borders (because custom enforcement is often lax). Or doing purchases of highly expensive items in those low-tax zones and keeping them there -- such is already done now with high-value artworks and vehicles.
>"Externalities" isn't the right word to use here; Bitcoin miners pay for the resources they use to mine Bitcoin.

Yes it is, Bitcoin miners are overwhelmingly located in China and powered by highly carbon-intensive coal plants. The costs of those emissions are not borne by the transacting parties, because they are global and intergenerational. Regardless of whether Bitcoin miners pay for their coal-powered electricity, their revenue is effectively subsidised by externalities. The higher the demand for Bitcoin, the greater those externalities.
The only point to mining Bitcoin yourself is tax avoidance. You can make back the cost of power and equipment over time, basically hiding your income. I suspect this is the main reason that people mine crypto. You won’t make a profit. It’s the tax you save through tax evasion.
I dream of a golden age where scientific knowledge is freely available to everyone. Unfortunately, the "people in charge" seem hellbent on a different path...
Scrapping protection is not a problem: defaults that CloudFlare promote are. Saying that website owners can disable it is akin saying website owners should go and whitelist Tor nodes. Most of website owners don't understand either of issues and they never gonna opt-out.

Also I'm talking from experience because I been on both sides of the fence: doing scrapping and implementing protection. So yeah your CloudFlare protection will deter 10% of bad actors, but will also cut off 99% of enthusiast / research efforts or users of niche software or browsers. Still anyone with $1000+ budget will scrap whatever they want.
Build a nuclear power plant in your backyard. Of course if you can master that, who needs bitcoin. The cheaper the electricity the more profitable the mining, but at the current cost it's almost pointless without access to a massive power station.
I would like to add a couple of ideas to the list.

* Also ensure your Production and DR do not use the same automation, or that there is full segmentation in your automation so that if automation goes sideways, or is compromised, your Production and DR are not simultaneously blown away or encrypted.

* If you can't keep backups offline, at least write them to a write-only destination and/or have an enforced vaulting policy that keeps {n} copies in multiple locations and can't even be deleted by super-users. Deletion must require multiple VP's using MFA to log into a thing and "turn a key" so to speak.
In Italian "gioco d'azzardo" has the exact same meaning as "juego de azar". But an "azzardo" is a dangerous or risky behavior or action (the implication being that doing it would be a gamble).
If I remember well, it’s just a regular M2 Wi-Fi card included inside.
Things like these: https://nypost.com/2021/04/26/iran-foreign-minister-says-joh...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iran-pompeo/pompeo-sl...

Maybe it's all politicking, but then if it's good for the goose it's good for the gander.
Sales tax is highly regressive because poor people spend most of their money staying alive, while rich people can save and reinvest their pre-tax money. You're just reinventing the current de facto regime, where rich people don't pay taxes on investments through "creative" acounting and poor people have their employer deduct their taxes from their income.

Realistically you need to have an enforcement agency with some teeth because the wealthiest people can afford to move their own money around and skirt the rules, while poor people will be transacting with third parties that have an interest in collecting and remitting taxes. The grocery store would rather be in compliance with tax law, whether it's sales tax or income tax, but your private investment office doesn't have the same incentives.
they could also visit Eric Swalwell's infested office
That's a good one :D
Maybe there is an analogy btw: I don't like sentences that are written using picky adjectives and very long sequences when nothing happens. However the story is, unlike Redis, quite articulated.
Did you read his comment? He didnt lose $250, he filed a chargeback dispute with the credit card. What he will lose is few points of his credit score due to the fact the charge was recognized (so not a fraud but intentional purchase).
If I leave my desktop logged into my account in LA—or it even has some form of autologin enabled and it reboots and auto-logs-in—but I log in from my phone in DC three seconds later, that doesn't mean I traveled from LA to DC in three seconds.
Point 1 is actually true
> Each key is associated with a batch of devices, though. If you ban a key, you risk banning a bunch of legitimate users.

You're right. I meant Cloudflare could ban the generated public-key and not the device's public-key itself. Besides, they could also mark the batch as being taken over by bots and increase the level on challenges issued to the batch. Note though, a single secure module can only generate / store so many public-keys. For instance, Yubi Key 5 supports up to 25 keys, though those could be reset to generate a newer set of 25, but repeat registration of a number of keys from a single batch is bound to trigger some statistical anomalies.

From Cloudflare's blog about Cryptographic attestation of personhood https://archive.is/4EbER

> For our challenge, we leverage the WebAuthn registration process. It has been designed to perform multiple authentications, which we do not have a use for. Therefore, we do assign the same constant value to the required username field. It protects users from deanonymization.

Currently, the user-name field is constant for all users. I wanted to point out that that they could amend the registration ceremony to register any user in particular.
Rich people love sales taxes, since their spending is a very small percentage of their net worth.

For example, Bezos's $500M yacht might look expensive in absolute terms, but his net worth went up $74B last year. I'm sure that given the choice, he'd rather pay sales taxes than capital gains taxes.
Wikipedia for Old Spanish says there were two distinct variants of z:

The affricates /t͡s̻/ and /d͡z̻/ were simplified to laminodental fricatives /s̻/ and /z̻/, which remained distinct from the apicoalveolar sounds /s̺/ and /z̺/ (a distinction also present in Basque).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Spanish#Sibilants

That's pretty interesting. I don't have any experience distinguishing between sounds like that but reading around I start to wonder if I might produce such differences without being aware of it.
Trying Kioxia CM6 and PM6 Enterprise SSDs on a Raspberry Pi
You make good points and I agree with all of them!
Another thank you note to Dr Silver:

Thanks for helping my dad remember his passwords. I remember the forest of yellow sticky notes in his study, while his memory was slowly slipping away.
Be worried about how much info WhatsApp shares with Facebook
Probably not. Lots of funding going into buying ecom brands and amazon brands and rolling them up.
Aluminum already burns up on re-entry though. The only things that typically make it through are high melting point materials (like titanium and carbon), or low ballistic coefficient objects (like spent rocket stages).
No desire to invest in Coinbase or work there.
On the flip side the absolute mess of a headache my day job had during their recent what 3+ hour downtime, stopping our paying customers from accessing our perfectly working application that they pay for, because early days devs decided to use Auth0 instead of a battle tested rails auth lib has made us prioritize refactoring auth0 out of our system.
Water towers aren't even close to the scale needed for reasonable energy storage.

A typical water tower holds about 4 million liters of water and is about 50m tall.

The Racoon Mountain Pumped Storage reservoir holds 410 BILLION liters of water (so 410 thousand times what a water tower holds) and has a head of 320m.

So you'd need about 1.6 million water towers with energy extraction capability to be equivalent to just that one pumped storage plant, ignoring the fact that you'd have to do /something/ with that water to extract the energy at the right time, when typically it's just drained out as people need it for faucets/showers/whatever.

On top of this, you'd be dropping a lot of the pressure from the water tower, which is like 99% of the reason that water towers exist, to provide adequate water pressure.
Assuming you mean Children Of The Sky (second as in sequel to the first one published), that one actually deals with this topic (bootstrapping technological advancement) maybe more than the other two.

I assume you didn't mean A Deepness In The Sky (second published, but almost stand-alone, super interesting dealing with practicalities of interstellar civilization in a universe with real speed limits) or A Fire Upon The Deep (second in-universe timeline)
I'm waiting for AI email with phone bots in concert to commit automated identity theft and Medicare fraud.
The issue with a sales tax is that it taxes on consumption instead of income. Consumption needs (as opposed to wants) stop increasing somewhere at around ~100k/yr (adjust for location). A high earner is incentivized to save most of their money and become wealthy to avoid tax.

Assuming 15% sales tax, no income tax collection.

Someone who makes 100k per year and spends nearly all pays ~15k via this sales tax or 15%.

Someone who makes 500k per year and spends 100k pays ~15k via this sales tax or 3%.

Someone who makes 10mm per year and spends 1mm pays $150k via this sales tax or 1.5%.

The lower income person pays a much higher rate, because they have to.
I'll take it a step further:

To treat any organization larger than about a few hundred people that way is naive to the point of being stupid.
If I wanted to create a crawler that only crawled a single site and use this as my site's search engine, what would be the best way to do that?
If I was at a coffee shop and saw they were using this I would leave the coffee shop, go to a bar, and reflect on the dark world that we have come to inhabit
> Could a stack of greenbacks ever be "blacklisted"?

Copying from an older comment of mine (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26812598):

I saw something like this happen when I was younger (this was pre-web, in the 80s or 90s, so I unfortunately haven't been able to find any online references to it): there was a big bank heist, and the stolen banknotes were new notes which hadn't been put into circulation yet. The ranges of their serial numbers were widely distributed by the press, and for instance cashiers at supermarkets were supposed to verify whether the serial numbers of the banknotes they received matched any of these ranges (since the banknotes hadn't been put into circulation, they were treated similar to counterfeit money: they officially didn't have any value). The country's currency has changed since then (it was the hyperinflation times), so that whole banknote series is no longer valid nowadays.
I agree, I saw the author mention for $25k you could have 1000 keys. I immediately though that is not nearly enough. Given the sheer volume they have, they would start putting a picture together very quickly of ip/key/sites. There is no where near enough uniqueness.

I also thought the idea of the key exchange being fast was a red herring. That's a bad thing. If I'm them I'm paying attention to how long from prompt to exchange it takes a human to touch the button. On my own setup my key is on my laptop, which is in a dock. I must stand up and tap it over my monitor. It's just a few seconds but it's a) consistent in timing b) not < 1s. Imagine the aggregate timing data they have.

Overall they make some good points if you are teeny tiny player and ignore completely the scale cloudflare is operating at.
My biggest question right now is with my kids who are 7 and under. But also just kids in general. Mainly I’m wondering what kind of evolutionary pressure will be put onto the virus in a population where young children represent a larger and larger target for the virus as adults become vaccinated.

Not fear-mongering. It just seems like we still don’t have a good explanation of why kids have (mostly) been spared, and so we don’t seem to have a good explanation of why that would continue to be the case. Also, low risk != low risk, and in places like Brazil, there has been heartbreak with babies dying of Covid, etc.
With stocks, your broker just sends you a 1099 at the end of the year. It includes the cost basis of all the stock you sold that year and the date of purchase. If you sell a lot of stocks, you just get it as a CSV file and stick it into your tax software. This means paying for tax software, and probably a "higher-tier" version of it, but it's not much work.

The 401k works differently, as you noted. The money goes in pre-tax and then you pay income tax when you take it out. It's basically a way to defer your income, let it grow in the stock market, and pay taxes later. Roth IRA is a little similar--you pay income taxes before you put the money in, you let it grow, but you can take the money out tax-free (subject to conditions).
Nice. This reminds me of Tiny - https://www.tinycapital.com
While I think there's some truth to this, the author has it backwards in some kind of way. Or rather: The author misses an important epistemologic nuance.

> One year ago I paused my programming life and started writing a novel, with the illusion that my new activity was deeply different than the previous one.

What's implied here is the hope for a new experience.

But this can never be achieved: A programmer can never experience the writing of a novel as a non-programmer would.

Furthermore: Even the similarities can only be thought about from a programmers mind.

Imagine two writers discussing writing. One is a non-programmer, the other one is a programmer. Even if, after some exlpaining, the non-programmer and the programmer agree on the similarities, this can only happen because the non-programmer changed. They needed to learn some programming just to understand the similarities experienced by the programmer.

The non-programmer writer will never be a non-programmer-writer again.

The author experiences writing as very similar to programming precisely because they are a programmer.
Russia is also in Asia, but you rarely hear them called Asians. Indians are rarely lumped in either. Lumping dissimilar peoples together never made much sense to me - even Continents are arbitrary divisions.
[edit, not quite what GP was referring to, but] At the minute, via [depending on context] a combination of generics/conditional types, unions/literals, type constructors, and [more recently] string templating you can get close in certain circumstances. It tends to be very fiddly though, and [IME] it's quite easy to cause TS to stop narrowing types properly. Someone else with more experience may be able to weight in -- despite using it for a few years I'd not really bothered to exercise some of the more expressive parts of the system until string templating experiments started popping up last year.

This issue thread on the TS repo may be of interest:

https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/33014
Love HMart for the selection.

Hate HMart for the customer service. Forget about getting help with anything while in there.

I routinely experience unhelpful, uncaring employees that make shopping at HMart completely frustrating.
Mind elaborating on what went wrong with .so? I can imagine that relying on the network infra of another country is risky.
Elbakyan is a woman, and sex crimes are mostly a man's thing.

Of course, women can do it too but since it is less common, people are going to take a closer look.

There is less gender bias with espionage.
Speculating -- but when the vehicle turned the corner, after initially being stopped, and the screen indicated that he was one minute from his destination, it seems like somebody updated a new destination in the vehicle in order to dislodge the car. That new destination allowed the proceed, but also purged the passenger's intended destination, and also seemed to remove the vehicle from the roadside assistance support queue since it was no longer technically "stuck". Then it got stuck again.
Don't worry, we'll have Y2038 soon enough, as by then everyone will think that 128bits is the norm and forget that 32bit wasn't that big.

When old ZIP and FAT will break, embedded systems^H^H IoT will also.
> I don't like it either, but I totally get it when when Synapse+Element are still a slow inconsistent error-throwing mess if you don't disable federation

It isn't really. I can't confirm this despite being part of the biggest rooms in the network on matrix.org.

It was slow (very slow) once (when Matrix grow and Synapse wasn't scalable), but that has been in the past for a while now
Two things:

1.) The US Constitution only applies to American citizens.

2.) It’s hilarious when someone starts a reply with egotistical language (like “you assume a lot”) and then miss the most important fact in a scenario.
What's the actual business model here? Y Combinator shouldn't be backing a tiny PE fund, so this can't be that. What's the angle? There must be some financial engineering in the buyout or some unique plan for post-sale.
It's not clear to me that Google still gives a fuck about solving search/organizing the world's information and make it useful. The mess they've incentivized the web to become is very profitable for them.
When I originally found his channel I thought he might be too young to take any sort of seriously, but he handles being that young pretty well. There isn’t a lot of YouTube nonsense, or begging for subscribers, or jokes that for extremely flat. A model for others I think. Really well done.

Although... Explosions and Fire is peak YouTube Chemistry to me!
> If they cannot solve search with basically unlimited resources, how is a tiny company going to?

Reminder: Google Is An Ad Company. Are you sure they actually want to solve search? Their primary interest is to be that corporation selling you something.
The fan noise is far too loud. You need a garage that is detached from your house and very far from your neighbors or you will get noise complaints.

1 BTC/day is 200,000 TH. ~15k ASIC miners.
The most immediate reason is that hydrogen is a group 1 element, meaning its outer (in this case, only) shell contains just a single electron, in its s (spherically symmetric) orbital.

The electronic structure of an element greatly influences its chemical behavior, so elements in the same group tend to be chemically similar. However, hydrogen is a bit of an odd-ball as group 1 elements go.
I’ve been to multiple H Marts, mostly in or near urban areas (NYC). I absolutely HATE going to H Mart because it’s always crowded, and the aisles are too narrow to have someone navigate through if there is another person in that same aisle. Is this the norm for H Marts elsewhere?
Can you reference the formal accounting and financial mechanisms under which this activity supposedly generates a tax write-off?

Specifically: a tax write-off that is not also an actual economic loss.
If it were true, wouldn't it stand to reason that someone would have snatched them up a long time ago. Tesla, GM, FORD,VW, etc? They would have been all over this company ages ago.

Over 90% of all the published breakthroughs are fantasy.
Lab-Made Chicken Reaches Select Diners in Singapore
Now is definitely the time to jump into crypto. Tesla just stop excepting it. It cost $8000 dollars in electricity to mine each coin. Using cheap coal fired generated electricity seems to be the way to go. Who cares if the world chokes on the CO2 as long as you're rich right?