skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, for anyone reading who needs to read this: don’t do this. Unless you’re running a legitimate business, this is blatant tax fraud.

Also $800/yr in California? You people are being ripped off. LLCs aren’t laid any fees to maintain annually in Arizona, and they’re perpetual entities.
That is a good, clear exposition. Thanks!
Thanks. Couldn't load it but it looks like it is on vimeo too: https://vimeo.com/557811163
Starling do offer an API anyone can use to interact with their own account. Doesn't allow full functionality yet though.
Won’t be long. Discord is in talks to be sold. I can see it becoming as scummy and invasive as LinkedIn or Facebook depending who buys it

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-talks-buy-discord-m...
I think for me it would probably be a Commodore 'Super Pet'..

What was it? like 5 languages in ROM? And a real monitor - not a wimpy lil 3" one like the kaypro's and osbornes had either! Back in my vic-20/c64 days, that sounded like pure luxury :-D
It basically makes it impossible to propose any new medical treatment on Youtube when their definition of "misinformation" is really just "not proven to work."

This would be more acceptable if they only banned discussion of treatments that are proven not to work, but that doesn't seem to be the case here.
You can still easily lose uncommitted local state, which is unrecoverable, and also put the checkout into a state from which a newbie finds it hard to escape.
As opposed to the well-secured IRC?

Though, one can also migrate to Matrix.
YouTube allows pro-anorexia content and influencers to influence young girls - but having a couple PhD's discuss possible off label uses for ivermectin is going too far?

The issue is that YouTube has no ability to determine what is or isn't dangerous medical information. Running a video distribution service doesn't make you a medical expert.
Not for me but I probably would have liked it when I was younger.
For a time a really was into reading business books like “From Good To Great”. “The Halo Effect” cured me of my addiction :)
Merck can't benefit from both ivermectin & their new emergency-use-authorized drug. Emergency use authorization requires "no adequate, approved, and available alternatives." [1]

It's against their financial incentive to have ivermectin, an out-of-patent drug, be authorized for treatment of covid. See https://twitter.com/BretWeinstein/status/1402647948371005441...

[1] https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/vaccines/emerge...
What exactly is wrong in that statement?
there is no such thing as loopholes and tax hacking, simply 'THE LAW'

noone is beholden to pay more taxes than the tax code requires.

anyone who uses emotional appeal to say otherwise wont help me when i need their help anyway so they can pound sand.
I loved the idea of a high fidelity dropout free recording medium, hated the transfer process (analog). As a result, made a bunch of recordings and never did anything with them.

Got a little tascam pocket recorder when it came out. Loved the transfer process (usb). Still did nothing with the recordings. Turns out you have to be a really good musician to make a tolerable recording.
> in a manner which corresponds pretty well to what people mean when they colloquially say "more" or "fewer"

I would argue that it does not correspond very well to what people mean when they say "more" or "fewer", and hence the apparent paradox of Hilbert's Hotel. That is, my original point was that thinking of infinite sets as having comparable sizes is the precise confusion that leads to the supposed paradox.

If you're specifically comparing cardinalities, "more" or "fewer" lose their "colloquial" meaning.
You don’t need an LLC to do this, a single member LLC is a pass-through entity so you’re just buying legal protection for $800/yr, not tax benefits.
>because he can't touch it until he is 59.5 (w/o penalty).

That's not quite true. With 5 years of preplanning, you can get money out of a 401k without any penalty at any age (although, you will of course pay taxes on it) by doing a backdoor Roth IRA ladder.
I don't use my Github as something public facing, so if you saw my account, it would look like a random mish-mash of forks, partially started projects, etc. Because it's a tool I use everyday, I don't want to spend the time making it a presentation layer. That's what Linkedin is for.
The same could be said in praise of every crank. Presumably if he's a crank about physics, he could also be one about Covid.
Thoughts from someone who liked using bl.ocks to learn D3
of course not, the side you like is obviously a little less evil, and thus worth supporting.
> It requires a human to actually look at the contents of the unsafe block.

Yes, that's an incredible capability - that a human can actually look to find bugs, that's insane, that's huge.

> Most of the time those humans are even rarer than those that validate unit tests are properly written.

Maybe, maybe. Is it rarer than fuzzing with sanitizers though? Or rarer than serious sandboxing efforts? When unsafe has been used gratuitously in Rust libraries the community has pushed back, to a fault.

I don't know what it is you want to try to argue here though. My questions were really targeted to someone at Google who can speak more directly to what I've been seeing for years.
yeah, the lack of common sense is getting worse by the day, absolutely stunning.
I used to follow their blog and they are at the forefront of the FIRE movement. No thanks. It's crazy the length they go to in order to minimize their expense. They def have a lot of help from their family. It def is click bait and what they're doing isn't "healthy" in my opinion. We let our kids be kids and that means spoiling them on many things. I'm not referring to iPhones or cars, but more like I'm not going to worry about whether I should buy two icees or one icee to split between both kids.
What parts are the Internet Archive missing?

That is, https://web.archive.org/web/20120112185956/http://www.effbot... is an archive copy of "http://www.effbot.org/tkinterbook/tkinter-index.htm".

It says "You can find an earlier but more complete version in the PythonWare library."

An archive link for that version is at https://web.archive.org/web/20120120145247/http://www.python... with "An Introduction to Tkinter (online)" and "An Introduction to Tkinter (PDF)".

The latter links to https://web.archive.org/web/20120119150034/http://www.python... .
Not necessarily. There's a difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion.
Who did they demonetize? Alex Jones?
I agree it will be spoofed if employees know what is being measured. It’s the main reason we don’t disclose it. I can already see the people who will spoof it because many of the employees make sure to connect each day, but then often just leave it and never type anything almost the whole day. I’ve also thought about adding additional telemetry data like, unique commands run, num files accessed, web access stats, etc. The last 15 months of data is pretty interesting data set with only basic activity measure and I’d imagine would be even more interesting with better context.
I'm assuming he's planning on getting the money out of the 401k via a backdoor Roth IRA ladder. It's fairly common for people doing FIRE.
I wonder if odds of that go up if you brag on the internet about your sort of shady approach to taxes and cavalier attitude that it's just some kind of game to be played.
$69,000 in salary, with $44,700 (65%) going (pre-tax) into a traditional IRA, Pension, 401K, and 457.
> Also they have no real argument against IM:

> > No scientific basis for a potential therapeutic effect against COVID-19 from pre-clinical studies; No meaningful evidence for clinical activity or clinical efficacy in patients with COVID-19 disease, and; A concerning lack of safety data in the majority of studies.

If "no basis for a potential therapeutic effect" is not an argument against using it, then why suggest Ivermectin and not some other drug with no known connection to Covid-19? Why Ivermectin and not, I don't know, Escitalopram?
“They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.”

― Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
A Walk through the English Language – a dispute led to a major math breakthrough
Raspberry Pi IRC Server: Setup Your Own Chat Network
Soliciting via emails scraped from git commits. There seem to be tools that help recruiters identify email addresses based on GitHub profiles. I never asked for that. Please don't do it, it is even illegal in Europe. Furthermore it is super unprofessional to send emails to my current place of employment as well.

On LinkedIn, etc. reaching out may still be fine (even though I have set my profile to: "I am not interested in opportunities right now"), because you have no other chance me because of the pandemic (no places to mingle with engineers).
And schools...
open standards. there must be one of those game-theory economic analyses.

but frankly i don't see how its _ever_ a good idea to structure yourself around closed worlds unless the seller really has something that novel and indispensable.
Weinstein ist describing himself like that. Dude's just a (supposedly) entertaining grifter.
It sounds more to me like you're twisting these things to make them seem contradictory.

> the extensions are configurability

And this is an inadequate mechanism.

(For me! If it works for you, that's great! Me, I like to be able to configure bars and widgets and menus and stuff wherever I want with a few clicks, which is why I run Xfce. Far be it from me to say there should only be one true desktop)
Capital losses? In this market?
For anyone who doesn't know, IRC users have a _lot_ of inertia. It's common to stay logged in and idle for weeks/months/years at a time. The bandwidth used is negligible, and IRC natively doesn't have backlogs unless you're logged in the whole time.

So I'd assume these numbers include tons of people who just have no idea anything happened yet.

It also includes people like me who are just signed in to both until my last couple of groups switch out.
https://youtu.be/mBgIBF9Y6PE?t=485

"We have graphics in the source-code"
Eventually all these things converge on an identical feature set, I guess.
When you subtract all the retirement savings, they're doing it on half that ($73,000).
I’m always amazed that people think 401(k)s are a great idea. Yeah, that’s exactly what I want, the government telling me how I can spend my money, until I’m almost ready to die, with no guarantee the laws governing 401(k)s won’t change along the way, or that some moron politician won’t siphon from my retirement.
That's about 2.5 times the median family income. It's a huge family income relative to that.
Well yes the developed world has a tendency to go after terrorists and criminals who use crypto.
The kinds of jobs that can be outsourced (cost centers, ex. maintaining some legacy system) already are.

The jobs that haven't been outsourced are profit centers, that require innovation and collaboration. This means highly skilled talent, being in the same time zone for collaboration, cultural context (language etc.).

Once most of the tech work moves into cost centers and big tech growth and margins starts converging to like 2-5%, you will start seeing widespread outsourcing to still keep those stocks valued high. Right now ROI per employee is still very high in tech due to scale and margins, so no reason to think about cost.

So I think this is still a long ways off. If big tech is successful leveraging other tech hubs for a profit center (they are trying), I would expect other places competing for high level talent to converge to SF salaries. I would probably bet on less YoY growth in salaries and not a reduction in pay.
Good luck trying to qualify for a mortgage.
FWIW I didn't scour pubmed, I had already read those studies quite some time ago. I didn't just google "metformin pubmed" or whatever.
> As opposed to the well-secured IRC?

It's less about the protocol itself and more about the community/culture, I trust tech savvy people more to care about privacy than profit-driven platforms like Discord.
This makes the argument that a drug working on animals is weak evidence that it works on humans, but skips over the issue of toxicity. If drugs never had side effects, I'm sure everyone would be perfectly happy to immediately start with human trials. Why waste all that time?
The subject of meditation is what cropped up first in my mind too.

That dimension of exploration addresses this quite directly.
If they took turns. Seems likely its largely the same folks attending again and again. To the degree that happens, it approaches "nobody in New York ever sees a game".
I find some dark humor in the fact that someone, somewhere, decided to pay a big chunk of cash for Freenode... and now that same person must be aware there is a website called isfreenodedeadyet.com tracking its inevitable demise, as a direct result of their purchase (and subsequent bad acting).
"All traffic" only goes through them in aggregate, because they are separate. You're saying they're not "self-hosted" because... why? They are independently hosted, that's the same thing. So, I realize there are several big, but separate networks that are part of the makeup of the ircd space. IRCCloud is bigger and spreads across lots of them, including many of the small ones.
Timeline of the 22nd Century
Definitely not tax fraud. You’re allowed yo be bad at business if you can afford it.

Afaik you are “running a legitimate business” as soon as you’re selling stuff. Even if it’s github sponsorships for your opensource projects or whatever.

Fraud is what most people (probably) do — not report that income on your taxes.
I have some first-hand experience with this problem. I'll give a specific example:

In 2005 I published one of the Internet's earliest articles on the "Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon"[1], also known as Frequency Illusion. In the intervening 15 years, thousands of sites have linked to my article, so you would think it would rank really well.

Instead, my article is barely on the first page of Google's search results. Above mine are more recent copycat articles, few of them containing any meaningful details beyond what I included in mine. Some of them are so similar that they are clearly just lazy rewrites of my article (similar jokes, etc). They appear to be ranked higher than mine solely due to being more recent, and presumably some SEO shenanigans.

This is not the only example--far from it--but it's one of the clearest.

[1]: https://www.damninteresting.com/the-baader-meinhof-phenomeno...
Great site, I was waiting for one of these.
Most tax-loss harvesting strategies incorporate a re-buy of a similarly-performing but substantially different asset. Of course, selling an asset just to maximize tax losses is unwise, but in the context of diversifying your portfolio, tax loss harvesting has its place.
The Libera users count is probably decently representative of recently-active people, just because they'd have had to take deliberate action to sign in there within the last month.

The Freenode numbers, though...
Sony hamstrung Minidisc by enforcing separation between audio and data. While the audio MDs became widely available and pretty cheap, the data MDs were rare and expensive. It's largely the same reason standalone CD recorders failed in the market, while PC CD-R drives were wildly successful.

It was a fast and durable format. If they had come out the parallel-port or IDE based drives which wrote on the same audio MD blanks in the mid-90s, it could have displaced floppy disks and remained the standard until multi-gigabyte thumb drives came along.
HSA has nothing to do with the quality of the insurance plan btw. HSAs are only available in conjunction with HDHP (High Deductible Health Plan). Typically, HDHPs are Bronze level plans that don’t provide a good coverage (which is why HSAs are allowed to supplement such plans).
What made the early internet great was a combination of a somewhat high bar of entry, with the right type of people climbing it. I'm not entirely sure how to recreate that.
Being religious is already enough though. Catholics attending mass are least likely to commit suicide amongst other outcomes
About 46% of US families apparently, https://www.statista.com/statistics/183807/number-of-househo...
...but they are being silenced. Are you really not aware of the level of wrongthink censorship going on?

Things are literally being proven true that were censored as "misinformation"(wrongthink) a month ago. Next up: election was actually a huge fraud.
People with deep agendas like to imagine everyone else has an agenda as well. In reality, YouTube just wants to make as much money as possible. If people die taking alternative medical treatments for covid, an angry mob will come and demand Disney pull ads from YouTube again. If you have a problem with the censorship, blame the cancellers, not YouTube.
Libera's Matrix bridge seems to already work better than Freenode's.
If you live in Cali and your Llc is incorporated elsewhere. You still need to report to Cali gov. Cali is not small business friendly
It's more than $8000/mo take home. Anyone who can't afford to feed and house 5 people on that budget is probably a degenerate gambler or drug addict.
Oh, perfect. So it's anticompetitive behavior at its finest.
Your comment brilliantly illustrates the downsides of the hype.
For what it's worth, I made a Firefox extension that will light up whenever the current page has been posted to Hacker News. I find that it helps me in situations like this, and also adds a lot of depth to regular Internet browsing.

It uses a giant Bloom filter with every article ever submitted to preserve user privacy.

If you normally enjoy being linked back to HN discussion, maybe you will like it!

https://github.com/jstrieb/hackernews-button
Off topic, but I really love DataDog, I just wish their pricing was more transparent.
Why? Tax brackets are progressive, so even if you had moved up a bracket it wouldn't change the fact you're still making more money (i.e., you don't suddenly go from paying 24% to 32%; you just pay 32% of the money made above the 24% bracket). And given the 2021 brackets, if you're single, you haven't even moved up a bracket ($86,376-$164,925 is the 24% bracket), but even if it had, your effective tax rate barely changes.

About the only thing you lose moving up in income is the ability to contribute to an IRA, and, of course, being able to claim various benefits that you aren't eligible for if you've been in 6 figures anyway.
Thanks now I have anxiety.
Observable is conceptually quite simple. Each cell is a bit of JavaScript, and cells are run reactively, i.e. when their free variables change. That is basically it. It's not actually necessary to know much JS to become productive in Observable and it's fairly close to being orthogonal to D3, believe it or not.

Having said that, Observable is not a mature system and there are some traps for the unwary: https://observablehq.com/@tmcw/observable-anti-patterns-and-...
This kind of thing would certainly make me think twice about depending on Observable as a platform for a major project. There's a certain confidence in the act of name "anti-patterns" and "code smells" which belies the slightly ad hoc, provisional status of the platform.

And not everything is taken care of elegantly in Observable: making an animation tends to involve more JS control-flow tricks than would be ideal: https://observablehq.com/@mbostock/animation-loops

The idea that Observable makes life more difficult for people (in the service of building a profitable platform) doesn't ring true to me, though. To return to what I said in the first paragraph: Observable is conceptually simple (and most parts of it already have third party open source implementations). D3 is as intimidating as it's ever been, but I think the complaint "now I seem to have to learn Observable as well as D3" is not based on a good faith assessment of the complexity of learning Observable, and shouldn't be seriously entertained. It's in the "petulant" category of complaints about software.
See Shannon's original paper, "Communication in the presence of noise".[1] In that view, where the goal is to reproduce the original signal, noise and information are not distinguished, because they look the same on the channel. Both "increase the fractal dimension". Adding noise will make a lossless compression of something much larger. Go add some noise to a simple picture in Photoshop, then export in some lossless compressed format, like .png.

Now, lossy compression algorithms, such as JPEG, MP3, and almost all video compressors, are different. They have some model of what the content is "supposed to be like", and fit to that model. This works badly for content that does not fit the model, such as the mess JPEG makes of hard edges.

The original author referenced Shannon. The tests he's running use signals from which he cannot extract meaning, so he can only extract the statistics you can compute from a signal you do not understand. There are other tests for "is it signal or is it noise" - looking at the spectrum, autocorrelation to look for repetition (they did some of that), correlation with other signals, and such - but "fractal dimension" isn't one of them.

[1] https://course.ccs.neu.edu/csg250/ShannonNoise.pdf
If you have a habit and you cease that constant, habitual action. It looks a bit like doing and and it also looks a bit like not-doing.

And habits are often completely invisible.

So that's something to consider.
Can the US “Out China” China?
If you break up countless libraries in very small and specific categories, you can start to count them, yes.
Nope, it’s really neither. It’s just straight up breaking the law. You’re not evading taxes because LLCs still pay them, and you’re not avoiding them because LLCs have limited taxation benefits.
The problem is the bulk of the demand is at the places with all the money, and those places mostly make the ads, show the ads, or serve companies that make or serve the ads.
The same should be said for everyone who makes a good faith effort to contribute to human knowledge. Trying to contribute in a productive way is laudable.

As I understand it Eric has his theory, he wrote it up, and published it on his YouTube channel or a similar platform and a few interested people critiqued it. Great. It would be one thing if he was emailing the editors at Nature every week with a new crazy idea, that would be "crank" territory. That doesn't seem like what happened.

Regardless, this tweet is about Eric's brother who had a conversation with a doctor about possible use of ivermectin to treat Covid. Entirely separate from Eric Weinstein's physics credibility.
> October 16, 2013

In 2013 150k seemed a lot IIRC as the economy was in shambles and all those paid with these sweet RSUs and ISOs weren't having it.
The suggestion in the link was to sell investments that are underwater and replace them with similar assets, in order to remain invested. Not similar enough to be considered a wash sale, though.

It's not strictly speaking incompatible with buy-and-hold, from my perspective. I'm not an expert though, I don't even live in the U.S.
Truly magnificent isn't it?

It's also a testament to the beauty of IRC. "we don't like the change. So here's a viable alternative".

We could say something similar happened with WhatsApp, but the difficulty of moving everyone to another platform is so much harder.
I would buy a Huawei phone running a Huawei operating system that operates as wifi/data only, purely for the meme factor.
This guy doesn’t fit the mold? He’s got all the crank characteristics: you have to subscribe to his newsletter to download the draft of this so called GU model, it apparently says he’s an entertainer not a physicist, etc.

I’m happy to oppose placing YouTube in the position where they have to censor stuff.

But that doesn’t change that this guy’s behavior is pure bozo bit setting. And sure he’s the brother or whatever but that’s who we’re discussing.