skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope so too. The more they annoy the users the better.
What Do Exotic Programming Languages and Single-Origin Coffee Have in Common?
Voters decide, not money. And the rich usually want a free world...
I think it's more about the whimsy and fun-ness of the hack while still keeping proper time.

I love these kinds of playful projects - feels like the core of 'hacker spirit'.
> Yet, from the start, a small number of entrepreneurs, like Thiel, made an end run around the rules: Open a Roth with $2,000 or less. Get a sweetheart deal to buy a stake in a startup that has a good chance of one day exploding in value. Pay just fractions of a penny per share, a price low enough to buy huge numbers of shares. Watch as all the gains on that stock — no matter how giant — are shielded from taxes forever, as long as the IRA remains untouched until age 59 and a half. Then use the proceeds, still inside the Roth, to make other investments.

What? Am I missing something or is that a horrible explanation of how this works? I still don’t understand how he used a Roth to shield 5 billion from taxes. I’m much more alarmed that he gets deals on startups that nobody else does. That hardly seems fair.
> part time jobs open to software engineers

Not sure -- but unfortunately I'd guess that arrangements like this would be uncommon at best. That said, different research areas can be very different; maybe in fields swimming with NSF/NIH money this is more common.
"You want family and friends to know exactly how much you make? That's extremely problematic for a lot of people."

Can you explain why it's problematic?
Earlier discussion of Windows 11, currently on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27618805

Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27619354
How much do you make?
> seems to forget Fitts' Law. Is this a push to make people use hotkeys

I feel this is a general problem with Fitts' law: Anything that's used often enough to deserve to be in a corner should really only be accessed by hotkey.
The example in the article sounds like a pretty blatant case of libel/slander. Though not as downright dangerous as some of your examples.
Sorry, I misread.
> Government spending is almost entirely leveraged by debt and these documents prove that these "ultra-rich" pay a large absolute dollar amount of taxes (albeit lower than 30%). That is factually non-zero

These are such non points. Who cares about the absolute amount? We measure it in points for a reason, and the effective number of points the ultra rich pay is <1, while I pay ~25. You can't denormalize that away.
I can see some reasons to not wanting your wealth public if you are reasonably worried that it would attract unwanted attention.
Yeah, one interesting thing in the article was an offhand comment about how too much openness actually was counterproductive because people put on headphones, so didn't actually interact. Here probably, there is a 'right' amount of mixing with disparate groups. In the (admittedly only two) large groups I've worked in, you really needed to interact outside your local group to get anything useful done anyways.

Actually, this reminds of the network effects section of 'Where good things come from' (Steven Johnson), which actually points out there is a right amount of 'edge' density - too little and you don't see outside your local group enough for ideas to flow; too much and ideas flow but don't tend to die before they can reach critical mass.
No, you were always able to install Netscape. It was indeed bundling that they were fined for.
F-Secure: AI-based recommendation engines are easy to manipulate
There is no bloody touch on a desktop except on their braindead surface tablets. You can point your finger at the monitor but after some time, it hurts.
> takes everything it reads on the internet at face value.

it's terrible but a lot of people [0] think digital information, and thus internet, is truth

[0] and if google itself falls for this.. no wonder if people do too
Utterly astounded and dismayed to see this much of HN's audience completely fail to comprehend what they've read here and paint this as some sort of sinister theft.

This is the law functioning as intended. Thiel's case is a one-in-100-million+ event. He may have the only Roth IRA in existence that's valued at over $5 billion. But he didn't do it by exploiting some sort of "loophole" or paying high-priced accountants to shield his assets in foreign entities offshore. He put his investments in a Roth IRA just like any of you can do. The only difference is his investments were in the top 0.0001% in terms of performance. That's generally how people get to be billionaires.

And that's not even to mention that the assets in a Roth IRA are essentially worthless to him - he's not old enough to make withdrawals or take distributions tax-free and you can't borrow against a Roth IRA. The funds are essentially unavailable to him for years to come unless he wants to pay taxes and penalties.

Again - this isn't a tax dodge. This is someone who used the law exactly as intended without any illegal or shady dealings and happened to be incredibly fortunate.

The whole article is a hit piece designed to get whip people into a furor. And lately I've been noticing propublica publishing a lot of those.
One example: Freefire is one of the largest mobile first person shooters with more than 100M monthly active users. "Pro" players and streamers tend use to BlueStacks.
I sign into my phone with an account, but not my primary personal one. I use a secondary one I use for this and some other throwaway uses. I'm sure this isn't the norm, but I bet it's not that unusual, at least among tech people.
Agreed, since the Supercharger network is pretty much the reason that Tesla is #1 in the EV market.
Have you tried the .to domain? The .sx domain is recently registered (probably because SME also obtained an injunction against 1&1 and Telekom to block it), and I can confirm that the .to domain is blocked inside Germany.
Wow that seems like a first, for once, finally, additional collected information was used to absolve someone. You are a lucky guy :D
It isn't. TPM 2.0 was standardized in 2015; the most recent update to the standard was published in 2019.
Github is becoming "social media" instead of a code repository. I guess that it is Ok. But I do not know how smart is that level of brand dilution.

Slowly I am becoming less and less inclined to click on Microsoft Github links, but maybe I am the only one, and Microsoft is happy to increase that engagement.
macOS does that, but I find Windows 10 to be way, way worse. There's an option in one of the setup screens, but good luck finding it. They really make it hard to use a local account (or at least used to - I haven't reinstalled Windows in 2 years).
You probably only have the header on your motherboard, without a tpm module actually plugged in. Mine was like this, and the specs for your motherboard suggest this is also the case for you. You can buy them on online pretty cheap (I got one for $20)
I'm still baffled it's still about moving windows and apps around (now with a global mute button).
Do you use a high DPI screen ?
This is the best approach. I too enjoy the occasional witty/funny but well-placed comment, and being open about it being lighthearted helps a lot to avoid downvotes.
> in most situations you can just change the DNS to 1.1.1.1

Or maybe 9.9.9.9 (quad9)! :)
Have you studied: https://www.absint.com/astree/index.htm
Not quite the same, but they do have something like the Pods, but a bit more modular:

It's their PowerEdge MX platform, which allows you to slot in different "sleds" for storage/compute etc. as needed. It can take 7 storage sleds for a total of 112 drivers per chasis.
Debian is able to use secure boot. I suppose this is the case of some other distros.
There's a growing group of psychologists who say laziness is a myth. It doesn't exist. When someone is being what we would call lazy, there is almost always something else going on.

https://humanparts.medium.com/laziness-does-not-exist-3af27e...
You do. You totally do.
I know. This epistemological self-referentiality, i.e. "whether or not objective reality exists is itself a matter of opinion, therefore there is no objective reality", is why I consider postmodernism an intellectual dead-end.
Same. A part from some audio issues has been a great phone. I'm struggling while looking for a good replacement. Phones these days are going in awful directions. Way too big, way too bulky with useless (for me) cameras, awkward screen cutouts, missing basic functionalities like led notifications, audio jack and dedicated buttons. And the os is often bloated beyond usability
Welcome to Sourceforge.
I don't think that's true right. Peter Thiel purchased shares in Paypal at $0.001 per share, which is far below fair market value.

The "theft" here is the undervaluation of the shares with which he purchased at
I think there's also a legitimate question of whether we should lift cultures from their natural state of deep poverty - I don't think that even that point can be decisively settled. Removing that traditional lifestyle and encouraging office work is better for the individual but will erode and destroy those cultural traditions over time without a lot of careful stewardship.
It's so strange, that infobox has never given me an accurate answer or an accurate question! What I mean by that is, it will find some snippet that sort of looks like it answers the question, but it's nearly always misleading. It's either lacking context, creating a question that doesn't make sense or just plain wrong. I avoid the thing like the plague and look for real answers in the actual search results (which are often the same pages, but at least provide context as to what question they are answering and how)
Screw anyone that uses this in favor of GLFW/GLEW, SDL2, or even just a game engine. There's so many cross-platform options available nowadays, why would you use this?
Since ADHD is a neurobiological disorder that people are born with, and because undiagnosed ADHD can cause depression, it should be ruled out before diagnosing depression. Same with anxiety.
“ buy a stake in a startup that has a good chance of one day exploding in value.”

the propublica people must be rich, if they can reliably identify these kind of startups - everything is easy in hindsight. They also missed the bit where thiel paid tax on the $2000, that he invested. The whole idea of retirement accounts is that you either pay the tax at the beginning, or you pay at the end.
Someone brave enough should write a handbook for average people to learn how they can do it too. Once average people start doing it, the government will finally try to close the loopholes.
Why do they have info about his Roth IRA anyway? That wouldn't be part of a tax record. Maybe it's from the audit?

(Similar issues came up when people wanted to see Trump's tax returns to find out "if he was really wealthy". They wouldn't show that. Of course they might show a lot of other things.)
Should edge be replacing that?
Fuchsia is a kernel, not operating system. Google intends to swap Linux under Android to Fuchsia. One reason is the bad track record of Linux supporting device drivers.
But the fight is for the uncritical consumer who isn't going to look beyond the substance. The web overall also provides a vast amount of information that's useful to those who critically sift it even it is arguably harmful to those who uncritically swallow it.

Moreover, the vetting process is an extra added because of mass media's monopoly position - part of "journalist quality" generally. And this has been declining for a while. Partly 'cause of competition from the web but also because of a generally more competitive environment.

Which is to say, we're not going back to the old situation regardless so we may as well appreciate the benefits and drawbacks of each era.
I've never taken meds. Your assumption that I have taken them before is wrong.

Seeing patterns is just that, a pattern matching process of the brain. It's annoying and creepy, like your response. I don't draw conclusions.

It's insulting and counterproductive to make an anonymous diagnosis (or even a suggestion of the possibility of one) to a stranger online. Please don't do that. I am under enough pressure as it is. Your response makes it harder for me, despite your intention. So, kindly discontinue.
Why do you believe that? More than a few people at CNN signed off on this before airing to the world.
I'm actually dev-ing a game for Windows, Mac, and Linux entirely in C++ and libsdl and it has been a GREAT experience so far!
Who sold him those shares?
> Always look at why someone wants to censor

Just as if logic was working. Last time I checked from the Smithsonian woke bullshit, logic itself is racist... Oh well.

> we do need to have sex-ed in schools, you need to talk about homosexuality

Over my dead body. My children will not hear about any trans
/ Kinsey reports bullshit, or even CRT clusterfuck for that matter.
The true theft is the thousands of private documents on private citizens stolen from the IRS and provided to ProPublica
It's more reliable to send an email to hn@ycombinato.com Sometimes dang does not find these suggestions.
You are comparing breaking treaties, attacking allies, sympathizing with our long time enemies, rolling back regulation, mishandling pandemic to youtube removal of votes?

If this is the biggest thing the right media can sensationalize, I say the current administration is doing pretty damn good.
HK movies clearly inspired the action movies of the 90s.
Arguably SHA1 is still reasonable as a password hash, but of course not recommended.
I hope you don't think only a multi billion dollar companies count as success. The point is: a lot of poor people start businesses all the time and a lot of them end up successful.
People waste time and energy discussing plastic bags. There are laws limiting the use of plastic bags. There "durable" alternatives which are more expensive (and which are inevitably even harder to decompose). Food gets turned into "green" plastic bags. Cotton bags require orders of magnitude more water and energy to produce. Politicians waste their energy debating this stuff, when they could be working on useful legislation to reduce emissions in a meaningful way. This is virtue signalling and is mostly useless.

Much of the plastic in the great garbage patches are fishing related. And the countries where there are laws regarding plastic bags are not the ones dumping them in the ocean. That's mostly the "developing world" (pardon that phrase, can't think of a less awful one). They're clearly not going to adopt "vegan spider silk" bags or any other "greener" alternative; they don't have the money.

> the plastic you use in a year does much, much deeper damage than emissions from a flight

Nah. ~100% of the single-use plastics I use are incinerated and most of the embodied energy is recovered. I would say 100%, but I can't rule out a garbage truck crashing and losing a bit of cargo or sometihng.
Nothing. I'm out of work.

Your turn.
You should give the linux version for free without support and encourage linux users to support you through donations
The post didn't seem to indicate otherwise

That appeared to depend on whether the vendor imposed massive markups on the drives. However they also mentioned service etc.: If they struck a deal with Dell, then Dell might be perfectly happy to sell the servers at a very modest profit while making their money on the service agreement.
Where/When
The personal and private tracking app.
There is no backward compatibility from Win 7 onwards. A lot of games stopped functioning in Win 7( you need to rename system dlls or change registry entries for them to work). And in win 10 they just don't work.
Turbotax will yell at you when you report it and make you unwind (recharacterize) the transaction.

There is a proper way to do it though. Contribute to a traditional IRA and immediately convert it.
Cars have standards for user interfaces to prevent exactly this problem.
you're right. I'll edit it. Thanks!
It only takes one time arriving in a new city by air at 11pm and your phone becoming non-functional prior to reaching the rental car to make one bring a redundant set of paper directions to get to the hotel.
Consider a AAA membership. Their maps are high-quality, frquently-updated, and entirely free. You can walk into any AAA on any day and get as many free maps as you can carry.

Not to mention the roadside assistance and towing coverage. I take long roadtrips too. The couple times that AAA has saved me make all the yearly dues worthwhile. E.g., once they arranged a 300-mile tow from a small coastal town back home; it took less than an hour to setup and didn’t cost me a dime. The alternative would have been paying next-day air freight on a Mercedes alternator and battery, and staying another 2 days to get the work done.
It depends on what you do. I like that, if someone searches on my name, I'm the only person they come up with.
You could pair devices to each other instead of to an account. There is no reason an account needs to sit at the core of the find my experience.
I'm not sure you understand what "memory safety" means.
Yes. I want to run Pleco on my desktop.

I might also want to run wechat there, though that could run into a variety of issues.
how come more and more of society is about selling blips of events as data ?

is the price of everything far lower than what is required to sustain the system ?
For libel, you generally have to show harm, but there are some claims that are assumed on their face to be damaging an no proof of harm is needed (libel per-se). Falsely accusing someone of being a serial killer would generally fall into this category.

Edit: I think the harder part would be showing that people would believe the claim (which legally is separate from showing harm). Google could argue that since the box showed the serial killer died in the 80's that a reasonable person would realize it must be a mistake.
I can see why people tend to err on the side of privacy, but it doesn't seem to have destroyed Norwegian society to have public records.

I think it's a reasonable thing to discuss, then at least we can get some pros and cons out there.
> heroic acts

I don't understand - can you elaborate on why exactly this is heroic?
This might have been the case maybe 30 years ago, today's mentality is really all about submission to power, their power. If they say "put a hand on your stomach, one on your head, and turn from right to left singing the International on a single hand", you better do it, or fear being cancelled.
seems like corporate tax transparency would be a good first step.

> Congress already has access to tax returns for the purpose of writing tax legislation.

while that is the law that Congress can request/subpoena returns under §6103(f) of Title 26 [1], if it can just be ignored then Congress doesnt really have access.

[1] https://irc.bloombergtax.com/public/uscode/doc/irc/section_6...
> but thousands of private citizen's intimate financial disclosures (edit: seemingly for the purpose of weaponizing the data against them).

Can you point to one instance of some of this data being divulged about random citizen's finances, or used for blackmailing someone? It seems silly to complain about legitimate journalism because the data might, but has not, been used for nefarious purposes.

Google "whistleblowing".
In my oasis delightful gardens shall grow
It is in the article "Mr. Thiel purchased his founders’ shares in PayPal through his Roth IRA during PayPal’s formation"

I am willing the venture a guess that the initial valuation was far greater than 0.001 per share. And this was all an accounting trick to exploit IRA
Falsely claiming that someone committed a serious crime is per se defamation in many jurisdictions. There is no need to prove actual damage. It is damaging by definition.
you "withdraw" by getting a bank line of credit with the IRA as collateral
Medium does get tiring to read...

Archive link: https://archive.is/6JuaJ

Using: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/minimum-wage/history/chart

I looked over the article and never saw a single justification for $15/hr. outside of "people need it". The Jacobin study included productivity which I don't know if you can even properly quantify into dollars. Certainly, minimum wage is not addressing the needs of the lowest earners in the country. But there must be a metric to go by:

If we use base minimum wage adjusted for inflation the numbers look even worse than they are today. $0.25 in 1938 is $4.74 in today's money. So that's not good. It would appear using these numbers minimum wage has beat average inflation using the BLS' own CPI calculator.

If we loosen the requirements to the last "stopping point", 2009, $7.25 becomes $7.49 according to the same calculator. Not keeping up with inflation, but I don't think even the poorest people are going to write home about coming up 24 cents short.

But this ignoring local minimum wages. Using the following data:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/238997/minimum-wage-by-u...

We arrive at an average minimum wage of $9.78 and a median of $9.45. So, neither of these really indicate a lacking in inflationary tracking even at the state level. So what's the cause?

Well, I'm not an economist but I think the issue is local and not federal. The federal government can set the minimum wage to $15, but that doesn't change the fact the wage curve is heavily skewed by ultra low CoL states and ultra high CoL states. Not being an economist I am willing to ascribe to this something I'm going to call "state-local inflation" where places like California and New York probably demand a minimum wage closer to $25/hr. whereas somewhere like Georgia might do just fine sitting at $10.

As a result I think this medium article is more of a tirade than anything and does not elucidate anything related to the problem other than the tautology that it is a problem (which I do agree with). The solution however, seems far more complicated than the "just raise the wage" protests would make it out to be.
> I can think of exactly 0 Android apps I would like to run on my Windows desktop

Maybe you present a minority of the user base and this is not targeted to you. So, yes.
Easy to provide when will be detained at random airport for 10 hours until the authorities will triple-check all the info until everybody and the janitor will be satisfied. People has been stopped to take their fly for much less.
Edit: I got the title wrong. This is not peer-reviewed*. As pointed out by WalterGR, he opened up the article to the audience and requested a peer-review.
I shared the article because it had some interesting insights on Depression.
Imagine hooking up the public tax returns to an image recognition system and database built from social media. It should be possible to create a dating app for women that lets you see the wealth of people on tinder, in the street, at a party. Men might also use that, but they already have their ideal "rating by physical appearance" app in tinder. Some gender differences are persistent throughout all human history.

There are some downsides to be sure.
Believe it or not the weather is beautiful in Florida November through May. And June still gets quite a few nice days.

You really just have four super hot months to struggle through but you’ve got pools and beaches everywhere so not a huge deal.
I clicked the link expecting some sort of open source library. Instead, the "repo" contained just proprietary binaries. Not even docs.

"Publishing to GitHub" used to be synonymous with donating open source code, with all the goodwill and recognition that entails. Publishing proprietary binaries on GH effectively steals attention in a space that used to be reserved for FOSS projects.
Worth considering that comment scores were hidden for a reason. Exposing that information to everyone, as opposed to just the comment author, does not necessarily improve the discussion.
I read in another article that there's a Settings option that lets you move the Start button back to the left (which I agree is where it should be).