skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note there's significant limits on stock held in a Roth. Last I looked at it, you can't own more than 10% of the company, and you can't be an operating officer:

26 U.S. Code § 4975(2):

(H)an officer, director (or an individual having powers or responsibilities similar to those of officers or directors), a 10 percent or more shareholder, or a highly compensated employee (earning 10 percent or more of the yearly wages of an employer) of a person described in subparagraph (C), (D), (E), or (G)

The propublica article says Thiel put shares of his own company in his IRA. If true, that's not something you can do anyone.
I'm not familiar with the implementation of webgpu/webasm, but I suspect there's a lot of overhead to these abstractions. Maybe less than the overhead of other emulators and cross-platform solutions, but I don't expect it to replace native apps any time soon for high-resource games.
I'm inclined to write off (anyone using a WD "My Book" device) as beyond help but a simple SFTP client like WinSCP or Cyberduck or Filezilla is comprehensible to just about everyone.

You drag and drop to the SFTP destination[1] which covers "History"[2] with immutable ZFS snapshots and "Integrity"[3] with ZFS itself and "Security"[4] by running nothing but OpenSSH.

If you're going to set your parents up with something, you could do worse than that ...

[1] https://www.rsync.net/products/sftp.html

[2] http://taobackup.com/history.html

[3] http://taobackup.com/integrity.html

[4] http://taobackup.com/security.html
A good many died from tuberculosis and not being 'tortured to death'. Even now, TB has high mortality rates in less developed areas:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberculosis#Epidemiology

And pre-1945 the entire planet would be considered 'undeveloped' by modern medical standards.
You missed the point. In a world of rampant “fake news” and “cancel culture”, Google screwing up their knowledge graph is dangerous ammunition that could be used to attack somebody’s reputation (which might lead to real/permanent damages before or regardless of whether the error can be corrected).
>> You shouldn’t be allowed to pay your employees so little that they are eligible for government benefits.

Although a common talking point, it is not inherently a bad thing that low-wage workers can qualify for welfare [1] and it's probably less distortionary to the free market than mandating a higher wage. As an analogy, pretend that the government has decided it would be a good idea that everyone be able to eat apples. It is absolutely better to target an appropriate amount of money at the poorer population so that everyone can afford them, than to dictate that the apple seller must lower their apple prices. The latter would result in less people overall having apples (due to the seller restricting their supply or just shutting down).

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/does-the-government-subsi...
https://archive.is/UfciX
You responded to me and told me that removing the indian act is a simplistic perspective. You don't think educated people capable of having conversations at this level might comprehend that? I've read the paper, I said nothing about it, I simply said it needs to be removed. We agree, you're being a pedant for the sake of pedantics.
but if we dont waste resources, how will we know its valuable?
That's the technical excuse they come with afterwards. The fact is while Mac Os was stuck in version X (ten), Microsoft decided to make a perpetual Windows 10 version. Now that Apple moved up to 11 and now 12, Windows is moving to 11 too. That's a big "coincidence"...
>and as such would expect a society to respond to these kinds of crimes with swift and severe punishments including jail time and fines.

Can you point to any country with a law on the books like this?
> The Residential School Program continued well into the 20th century, when Canada was very much a modern nation state with resources.

Yes. I apologize if I implied otherwise. I was talking more about what conditions were like when they were created.

> It's not just that these children died. These were indigenous children that died without the knowledge of their families because the Residential Schools intentionally uprooted them from their cultures.

Agreed. I did also make that point.
And Thiel is not alone. Max Levchin also dodged taxes by putting his early investments in an IRA.

If the act is not an official tax dodge, then it’s a breach of fiduciary for a large investor like Max or Theil AND the company to fail to disclose the IRA lock-up. For Max or the company to show the cap table or advertise the investment on a roadshow yet fail to communicate the illiquidity of the holding— that’s materially misleading.
I remember when I worked in a company that was a netapp shop, and in 2007, they sent one of the ZFS developers and andy bechtolsheim to sell us thumper and ZFS. The developer and I had a spirited discussion of the relative merits of having volume management built into the filesystem.

At the time I advised my company to skip the storage servers (which were overdesigned IMHO, but were unquestionably stout hardware) but that ZFS was an interesting filesystem to explore.
No. If anything he exaggerated the value of those PayPal shares at the time of contribution. Assuming he made the contribution for tax year 1998, then PayPal hadn't yet raised any money and had no external valuation. The company was worthless at the time and the price-per-a-share was a formality of the initial incorporation. This is similar to most other early stage startups that are similarly worthless at founding.
Like Theseus recreated the universe around his ship?
> Then you are limiting what people can do with their money 2 inflating stock prices of giant companies.

So? It's what 99.999% of them do anyway.

> What if I want to invest in a friend's business or buy a rental property. Are you saying it should be illegal for me to do that with my IRA?

Yes.
I think this is a strange zero-sum way of interpreting things. It assumes tax income is fixed in some way, and that some not being taxed means others always get taxed more. That's false.
> Cloud backup is a stupid idea. At any moment it could go dark, for any reason, and you have no recourse. Might as well bare your throat and hand some random stranger a razor.

It's not stupid but redundancy is important, don't rely on cloud only.

My own anecdata: I lost a couple TBs with Streamload[0] ~2007 when they switched over to MediaMax. They wouldn't admit it was their fault and I never got any kind of compensation - even though I had just renewed my yearly subscription a couple months prior. Thankfully I had offline backups on CD/DVD but that was definitely no fun. More recently CrashPlan decided to no longer offer unlimited backup for non-enterprise users i.e. I would have to pay a LOT more money to back up multiple TBs. At least they offered me a partial refund for the remaining months in my yearly subscription. I really really hope Backblaze keeps their unlimited plan.

As for physical backups, my 8-drive RAID-5 GPT partition got somehow nuked when I was trying out a new Windows 8 installation (one of the first official builds). I never found out what actually caused it, but I immediately went back to Windows 7 and waited for 10 to be out for a couple years before finally switching over. I'm still paranoid and keep my backup server separate and off the network except to make diff backups.

Bit-rot is also becoming a serious issue. I hope to finally build a home ZFS server (with ECC RAM of course) to deal with this, as I've noticed non-streaming encoded videos sometimes just stop working after 15+ years. I'm not sure if it's actually bit-rot but I can't think of anything else that would cause this to happen.

In any case, keep multiple backups: offline and online!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvanix
My personal website is hosted by:

Microsoft who lets people use the github cdn for free if they're not obnoxious about it.

and my mail server on linode which I'm paying for anyway.

Web hosting is just not that expensive unless your doing stuff like video streaming.
Anecdotally, The US Military also gives these same classes to Junior Enlisted as they too often qualify for Food Stamps and they are in a Government funded job.
The Supreme Court have swords?
The other two large recursive resolvers, Google and Cloudflare, are protected by the District Court of Northern California, and more generally, by US law. Although we didn't find out about it until last Friday, the court documents show that Sony got this attack underway just thirty-five days after we moved out from behind the shield of the US courts.
Perhaps disqualify accredited investors from ROTHs? Or make it convert if the holder makes so much $$ they become an accredited investor.

Or if the individual has paid AMT or less than 20% average tax through age 59.5 then tax all withdraws as ordinary income.
Discontinued in 2015, so no security patches. That's the problem with all of these purpose built IoT devices, a general lack of security updates even when they're still supported, and of course no chance at all if 6 months or a year after you buy it they decide to drop the product line.
The very concept of a "private network" leads you down the path of making a security boundary that has far too large a surface area, IME. Either it becomes a big bag with all your hosts in it, and you write systems that trust all the requests they get (even if you know you "shouldn't") because you know only your systems are on the network, and then an attacker figures out how to make one of your systems make an arbitrary request and you get owned. Or you put each component on its own private network but then you have to open up every port you're actually listening on so that your components can talk to each other (and you probably automate that in your kubernetes/puppet/whatever setup, like what happened here with docker) and the private network does nothing.
On Windows systems with BitLocker, booting off an external drive (or shoot, even opening the bios to look and see how much RAM was installed, as happened to me once) will often trip the BitLocker recovery prompt which means you have to call IT and ask for the magic 48 character password to get back into your laptop, to which they inevitably ask "why did that come up".
Show HN: A deep-dive analysis of media sentiment surrounding Bitcoin
It's near-impossible to completely avoid at least some mixing, though it is best to minimize it.
I backup to cloud (b2, scripts that wrap their CLI tools), but there are lots of reasons to prefer backing up to devices they physically own.
Why not just raise prices 15% and pay the workers a decent wage? Though, I suppose if they did that, their humane treatment of their employees would be effectively invisible. So they wouldn't get to posture with such an in-your-face statement about it on every customer's bill.
>Cloud backup is a stupid idea

WHAT!? How the heck did you get that conclusion from this story? These are literally your people, who backed up to a local device and essentially chose their own local NAS rather then the cloud. Which unfortunately for them came from a company with bad support that dropped it 6 years ago and likely did a shitty job even before that. But not everyone can be a tech person! Even tech people can't be that knowledgeable about more than a fraction of information technology, the field is crazy vast [0].

The failure modes here are exactly why "cloud" makes so much sense for so many. Keeping stuff up to date, or migrating if the company drops it (even noticing that support has stopped). Securing access. Verifying integrity. Amortizing the cost of different media cold storage fallbacks with things like tape robot facilities. And on and on. You wanna opine a bit on the relative probability that Amazon, Apple, Backblaze, Dropbox, Google, Microsoft, rsync.net, or a host of others just "at any moment going dark, for any reason" vs Western fucking Digital My Dropped-in-2015-Book dying? Think carefully.

I mean shit, I actually have a custom Epyc-based TrueNAS Core (not FreeNAS anymore! gotta keep up!) system with tens of terabytes as my main backing store, and replication to a remote site, with more usage of network segmentation, wireguard, ZFS user privileges so compromise of the replication credentials can't delete old stuff, then I'd expect nearly anyone to have any idea about. I still have it going to Backblaze B2 as well, and I pay to have them hang onto it for a year rather then 30 days. And the only reason I can swing it all is that I can amortize a lot of it professionally, get other usage from it, and draw upon a bunch of both knowledge and metaknowledge that my particular life path happens to have granted me.

For 99% of the people in my life "turn on iCloud/Backblaze/whatever" is the right advice. Backups are very risky without heavy automation and regular attention on top.

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0: One thing working at various levels has given me a deep appreciation for is what broad shoulders I stand upon, many layers deep, and how valuable and deep the knowledge of so many other tradespeople I interact with in life is. The mechanics, electricians, plumbers, general contractors, structural engineers, medical folks, researchers and so on I work with or have worked with all possess skills and knowledge that I never will. That's why we're social animals. I've traded on my skills helping someone improve their network for a hand with skilled carpentry or electrical work or the like. I don't see any shame in that.
> PayPal later disclosed details about the early history of the company in an SEC filing before its initial public offering. The filing reveals that Thiel’s founders’ shares were among those the company sold to employees at “below fair value.”

The article implies 0.001$ was below fair value based on PayPal's own declaration at the IPO. That's why.

In any case, I think this is unimportant, the important question is can a founder always transfer their owning shares into a tax advantaged Roth IRA? Does this make sense to permit?

If I start a company today and just buy my shares into my Roth IRA before I even write a single line of code or hire anyone, so that if my startup grows all my owning shares of it are tax exempt.

And if it does, to what extent? Should there be no cap?

In reality it's all just a political question, who should pay taxes, how much, and in what circumstances.

Articles like this I think help people understand and think through some of the edge cases around that, to better allow them to form an opinion on it.
tl;dr: here are three commercial embedded NixOS uses and a couple of other embedded NixOS projects

1. LumiGuide uses NixOS for their embedded systems, which track automatic bicycle rentals at little solar-powered stations IIRC: https://av.tib.eu/media/39625 (also some coverage here: https://www.worksonarm.com/blog/nixos/ )

2. Yakkertech uses NixOS for their embedded systems, which do baseball pitch tracking: https://av.tib.eu/media/50713

3. Swift Navigation uses NixOS for CI/CD for the embedded systems they use for GPS and navigation: https://blog.swiftnav.com/using-nixos-to-manage-hardware-tes...

I'd only heard of the first two, and discover the third just now.

There are also two downstream distros/related projects that target embedded systems, but idk how much commercial use they've yet seen, if any:

a. https://github.com/telent/nixwrt

b. https://github.com/cleverca22/not-os
> It’s not hard.

It's surprisingly hard, which is why there is a cottage industry built up around it for clinical trials.

Regardless, getting informed consent for data acquisition is great if you are doing a clinical trial or really looking forward, but for a lot of things you want a ton of retrospective data that can be difficult or impossible to consent.

It's a hard problem. I hope in the future it will be an easy problem, but we aren't there.
If i have to zoom in on mobile I just move along.
*rare
I agree with what you say, I'm just nitpicking on differentiating redundancy from backups.

Yes, a building with tapes can burn down. But whether it does so or not is not correlated with the state of the system that the original data lives on.

Redundancy is a great step to prevent data loss. But redundancy won't do what a backup would: keep your data safe even if your system is fucked.

Cloud sync is a double-edged sword, because you make Dropbox a part of your system; their failures are not decoupled from yours anymore. Say, someone hacks into your Dropbox account, encrypts/deletes all data, and then downgrades/cancels your plan so that their backups go poof.

Then you'll find yourself with no data - and no backup.

Compare that to the tape burning down. You just make another tape. The chances of both your system going down, and the tape building having a fire at the same time are astronomically low, because these events are independent.

TL;DR: backups are decoupled, which is why you need them.
1) discarding individual data points because they disagree with a desired result is fraudulent science

2) Road rage and resentment against bikers is real. There many drivers that act as psychopaths and will yell and haze bikers.

3) had people read the study before downvoting they would realize the study itself state it was a hotly contested topic and was in fact a response to another paper claiming they were wrong.

I don’t think someone asking if there is flaws to that study is someone that should be downvoted.
I was going to ask the same thing, as someone who's run FreeNAS on the AMD-based HP Microserver for nearly 8 years now.

The only fiddly bit to setup for me was LetsEncrypt auto-renewals, but once I had it automated I never needed to touch it again.
If your numbers are correct, and the OP report is correct and statistically significant, then we are looking at a death rate of (12.5% x 5% =) 0.6%, compared to 2% otherwise. So, while a huge 3x improvement, it's not as article worthy or vaccine-supporting like comparing 150 to 18k people.

I do actually believe that people who were on the edge, seeing such disingenious reporting, decide to have even less trust.

5% is 100%-95%, and 12.5% is the death rate of vaccinated people who got COVID (150/1200).
I'm confused as to what sort of service that would make sense to do.
Yes, both of the above are correct. In addition, I'd have two years of prison if I entered Germany again, which I normally do relatively frequently, to look after our servers in Frankfurt and Munich and Berlin and Düsseldorf and Dortmund and Wuppertal and, ironically, two locations in Hamburg.

But more to the point, although the Swiss courts will happily tell Hamburg to get stuffed, that would leave the precedent standing, for application against literally anyone in the EU.
I disagree. I felt like Wallace used many more $10 words and the annotations were often long enough I would lose track.

Gravity’s Rainbow had easier text to read but I’d agree the narrative is probably more difficult to follow. I also think Gravity’s Rainbow is the better book in many ways especially as it rebates to “them” co-opting everything useful.

The chapter detailing Pokler’s history is probably the finest literature I’ve read.
; is also a great prompt, without directory machine name or anything.

I just copy paste my session, and rerun most commands.
What's the best way to check a printer for dots myself?
I'm the guy behind the project, and I'd like to thank cbsks for posting it. If anyone has questions, please feel free to hit me up on Twitter (@nwsayer) or post on the hackaday.io project page (https://hackaday.io/project/5880-crazy-clock)
Removing feature to move taskbar is horrible. It must be reverted.
I think it’s because Infinite Jest is clearly influenced by Gravity’s Rainbow.

<edit> misread your comment.

I think it’s because yes it’s long but it uses a complex narrative structure and has a lot of uncommon words. The annotations add a bit to it.

I agree it’s very enjoyable literature.
Just to echo this, I recently had a lovely conversation with a guy building a business he knew would be irrelevant in 10 years with the goal of selling in 3 years to someone who didn't realize that.

I will never buy a business, real estate is a much safer bet.
Ah yes, the Harry Potter-esque spell to conjure jingoism: "Withhus Orragenstus!"
In that case the windows key is faster anyway.
> My New York bar oath says: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the State of New York."

Note the order.
youre able to route orders to specific market trading venues. If you open up IBKR and look at the subwindow (forgot the name sorry) that shows realtime orders, you'll see stuff like ARCA and BATS and these are different venues basically. Similarly if you do a simple 10,000 share order for TWLO at 7.50 limit, the advanced order entry system will let you click (probably with a dropdown or something) which venue to route your order to.

Personally I'm not really sold on the idea of LTSE. I mean it sounds good I guess, but governance of a public company doesn't start with the venues it is able to be traded on. It starts with the company, or at least with our regulatory bodies (lol imagine that)
All the anti-linux comments from people who tried it 15 years ago talking about how windows "just works" not looking so justified now. Thankful I use linux today. While linux has issues this in particular is one thing I don't have to worry about.
How do you even contact Google about an issue like this in the first place? My only communication with Google in the capacity of a user has been automated messages.
>Dropbox allows you to roll back changes and undelete files

What you are saying, is that Dropbox allows you to purchase a backup service from them (without any guarantees, at that).

Cloud sync isn't backup. If someone performs backups on the either side of the cloud, that's great, but that's an extra, which is what I'm saying to begin with :)
That's the problem, isn't it. Most people want to be good, so most information on the internet is the-truth-as-they-know-it. It lulls you into a false sense of security.
> Has any government been held accountable for the "Residential School" system?

I'm just saying there is a mechanism by which it is possible, and I don't think it'd take an abundance of polling to recognise that something like the Xinjiang internment camps or "Residential Schools" (internment camps in their own right) would be politically viable.

In fact, it can be argued that a huge reason why there is public knowledge of their existence and why the practice was ended (albeit far too late) was because of our free elections.

> We don't need to look very far, temporally or spatially, to find examples of genocide being politically popular.

There is much truth to this, but it's worth thinking about how democratic sliding/autocratic institutions amplify this to a huge degree. Genocide certainly can be popular in strong democracies, but things like a strong free press and equitable treatment under the law make this sort of thing much harder to defend in the court of public opinion.

> ...but we shouldn't pretend that our form of government is capable of doing all, or even very much, of the hard work of respecting human rights for us.

Absolutely agree, and I'd argue that there are many ways that our government and its institutions don't represent the will of the people. It's not sufficient to solely look towards our systems of government or to look inwards as a society; it's an all or nothing deal which sounds hard at first but there's a strong reinforcement loop in there.

When our institutions and our communities do right by their members, it begets more awareness and will to do well by each other.

I've said it before on HN: this domestic and foreign politics stuff all feels super overwhelming, but one can personally do tremendously to help rectify these ills by focusing on your local community, and being an active participant.

So certainly, I wholeheartedly agree that when democracies are healthy, change happens with political will and that starts on the ground.