skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was just reading about McAfee freebasing bath salts from old posts on an old Joe Rogan forum and not paying taxes seems like the absolute least he was up to:

>I've processed 23 kilos of this stuff in the past year or so, and bump it myself every day - in fair quantities the hypersexuality... is beyond belief. I have had a number of acquaintances (both male and female) who have rubbed their genitals way past the point of bleeding and still couldn't stop.

>In all honesty, a first time user, or a user on a large dose, when presented with food, will simply figure out a way to include it in the ongoing sex play with their partner. If alone, they will figure out a way to fuck it, or shove it up their rectum. This is not a joke. Everything on the Tan becomes a sex partner or a sex aid. If only visually. I will not, anymore, let anyone on Tan be alone with my dogs for example.

>A local brothel owner (prostitution is legal in my country) talked me out of a large amount of Tan and provides it to his working girls and their customers. The idea was to simply increase business by having hornier customers and more authentic product. It worked for a while, and then girls started taking larger doses and giving customers larger doses. They began leaving and running off with customers - some after a single contact with the customer.

>If a person takes a large dose of the Tan and has the misfortune to have no partner at the time, then truly terrible things happen. A number of men, and women, have molested strangers after massive doses of the pure product (which is why I no longer provide it to anyone other than trusted friends - everything else is cut 50 to one). Twice, users on large doses have tried to molest my dogs.

>I have distributed over 3,000 doses exclusively in this country. They call it SPT (I named it) and it is a seriously hot underground topic here. I know of at least a dozen people who spend virtually full time playing with this, and hundreds trying to get samples, which I dole out with meticulous care. Anyone caught sharing this with another without my consent doesn't get any more.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/john-mcafee-this-might-be-t...
I don't even know why would anyone "dream" or "think" they have a chance to do business with CCP after what happened in what they did to Alibaba, etc.
Not just that but as a US citizen even if you aren't living in the US anymore you still have to pay US taxes. The 2014-2018 income taxes he owed were while staying abroad. The US forces you to renounce your citizenship to get out of paying taxes to a country you don't live in. IANAL but that's my understanding.
Selective enforcement is bad. The fact that the law says that you could go to prison for one year for not filing taxes on time, but that it's rarely enforced means that they should fix the law.

Using it only on "bad guys" is a recipe for the government punishing people that disagrees with them.
Same. My personal pet peeve is "workflows", aka, you moved something from To Do to In Progress, and now it's impossible to move back because its not part of one of the allowable paths for a ticket. It's just like... why. PMs spend all this time designing the workflows only to make more work for themselves when everyone needs them to manually move things.
Compiler is, and will always be, the general term for source-to-source translation.

I believe a transpiler is especially for source-to-source translations where the source and target have the same abstraction level. For example, Python's tool 2to3 could be called a transpiler.

Therefore, you would not use the term "transpiler" for something like Typescript to LLVM IR (if it exists).
Also it should be noted that IRV actually increases election spoilage, which is ironically one of its main selling points.
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

I've always used this as an excuse for what might be considered being weird (at least that's what my family tells me).
I think it's mostly a good thing but it's Google so there must be an angle. Am I too jaded?
Depends what you value. You have to really look at what the freedom indices are using to rank countries.
> John McAfee died on Wednesday by suicide in a Barcelona prison after the Spanish high court authorised his extradition to the United States on tax evasion charges.

> McAfee said in 2019 that he had not paid U.S. income taxes for eight years for ideological reasons. That year, he left the United States to avoid trial, largely living on a megayacht with his wife, four large dogs, two security guards and seven staff.
Sure, no problem. Though I would point out that "intact" is also a word used to describe uncircumcised males, without strictly implying that circumcised males are damaged.

I don't think there are enough transwomen in prisons to make any reasonable statistical statement about transwomen in particular being more or less likely to be rapists. And I don't really think the argument is tangential. People with penises are more likely to be rapists than people without them, this is a clear statistical reality. If a large population of people are being held together, historically because they did not possess penises, and are worried about the introduction of someone with a penis (who statistically is much more likely to be a rapist by nature of having a penis), I think the burden is on you to demonstrate that gender identity is a confounding factor in those statistics. And if there isn't a difference between having a penis and not having one in this circumstance, why do we even need to have gendered prisons?

With regards to MyHypatia, I was referring to the fact that, in the second half of your comment to which I initially replied, it seemed like you felt MyHypatia did not recognize the direness of the trans situation in prisons. But they clearly do, as evidenced by this from their first comment:

> The fear that transgender women have of rape in a men's jail is real
Big discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27609027
I looks like what I was thinking of is Baldwin's method, actually. Failing monotonicity is still a problem, but it's actually pretty cool that it satisfies the Condorcet criterion. That seems like a pretty big step up from plain IRV.
HST did a lot more than do drugs and be weird, but I wouldn't imagine a computer nerd who clacks on a keyboard to know much about Gonzojournalism or the effects it's had on American culture.
A 77-fold tweet storm, that has got to be some kind of world record. It's surprising how much of it is just plain old common sense that would never be seen as sensitive or "political" in a halfway sane environment, stated in what comes off as a painfully diplomatic way, going to extreme lengths to not ruffle any feathers.
Livestreaming your cryptocurrency-fueled presidential bid while living on a houseboat in international waters to evade arrest may qualify as "being egregious".
Last example of a bank failure where ordinary people lost a lot of money I’d say was the failure of Lehman Brothers. Lots of risk averse retail investors were sold Lehman certificates with somewhat better yields (“mini-bonds”) because Lehman paid high commissions to the retail banks, eg in Germany and Hong Kong.
I have used text files, Emacs Org Mode and Evernote. Also, tried notion at one point. The closest that I have come to notes nirvana is Emacs but my left pinky started hurting and I stopped using it.

These days I use a versioned directory of markdown files which I edit using visual studio.
I just organize them in standard file folders. It has been working well for the past 4 years or so.

I should mention that I also have Trello for any todos come out of those notes.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/elitism-in-britain-2019
5 Injured after pedestrian bridge collapses in NE DC, closes DC-295
Dr. Bloom accidentally hacked the NIH.

In case this is why this comment was downvoted, it's worth remembering that others have been charged with CFAA violation for basically the same thing.
This is the goal and the ideal and what I myself choose to manifest, but it does bring me sadness to see a place I go to lurk on the tech and science grapevines and stay away from the 'discourse' start featuring threads articles debating how many rights I should have and in which ways should I be segregated from the people that need to be protected from me, particularly when honest attempts to reach out and foster understanding and sort out confusions get talked past.

I'm a trans individual. I celebrate this and all the healing and personal growth that's come from coming to terms with this fact and so does mostly everyone I've ever been close with, and I live far outside the 'liberal bubble' of SV/etc. I am comfortable with having discussions and educating, but merely existing and advocating for one's own safety and happiness seems to be enough to start debates, even here. I don't want to have a 'culture war' or participate in a 'gender agenda', but as an adult human who wishes (i'd argue that it's somewhat of an obligation) to have an active role in civil society I must also advocate for myself and people like me.

I urge people to listen more if they haven't been through it themselves. I know there's a lot of information out there about trans individuals that has inspired a lot of confusion and concern. It can be a confusing topic! Trans people tend to know a lot about it by necessity but seem to be listened to the least when the topic comes up. I personally think there's more intellectual curiosity to be had in the meta-conversation around why this discourse is the way it is given the fact that we have plenty of testimony, data and research to indicate the talking points being wheeled into the discussion are mostly facile and misconstrued to stoke fears, much like we did already over homosexuality?
I have no particular expertise here, but I wonder if you've learned to accept a mostly-broken process? We have the Internet, so why settle for slow diffusion over years instead of rapid communication?

Why should graduate students have to spend years trying to reproduce stuff that turns out to be no good? Nobody should have to put up with getting their time wasted like that.
“Invested” in Elon’s tweets.
You don't have to read the comments. The article itself was very good I thought.
Yeap. When it's more profitable to let you die (based on QALY calculations), health insurance companies will deny coverage. They only respond to their money and bad press.
> this is a straw-man

You seem to be succumbing to a psychological phenomenon called projection.

In fact, you have set up a straw man argument, contrary to HN site guidelines of using the most charitable reading of my original comment, and then inverted your mental model such that you believe I am the one setting up the straw man.
The best way to make a small fortune is to start with a large one.

And then buy a boat.
I think you may have missed the point in GP’s post. “Trans-women are women” is a common opinion in a casual context (like when greeting a colleague in an office), but in contexts where the stakes are higher (like when choosing a sexual partner), very few will treat trans-women as women.
Computationally identify T cells the body removes to prevent autoimmune disease
This is an argument for cardinal systems though... (more score/star rather than approval or 321). When ranking you encode in such a way that your preference from one candidate over another is uniform. But in scoring you don't have this limitation. You can express that you REALLY are passionate about 2 candidates but have a slight preference of one over the other, are lukewarm about a few, and really dislike others. Ordinal systems do not allow you to express this.

You're right, passion matters.
I thought California was running out of water because so much of the water rights are being utilized for agriculture.

Would it be possible for them to utilize hydro significantly without destroying their agricultural industry?
Also this tweet is interesting.

https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/131680121508322509...

May he rest in peace.
There is certainly a longstanding cultural thread of defending traditional manhood through explicit castigation of male deviants, but notably the source of the explicit castigation is largely from other males. The pushback against trans-women's acceptance as women isn't largely driven by men. It is pretty evenly distributed, or perhaps even more driven by women. The point is that these seem to be distinct phenomena driven by distinct concerns.
With the major caveat below, on the face of it, it doesn't seem much less arbitrary to tax by citizenship than by residence in certain cases. For instance, as someone that grew up in the US and went to public schools, I certainly used far more public resources there than in my current country of residence, and would also (as a citizen) have access to an indefinite further amount of resources such as consular representation, retirement benefits if retiring there, etc. It seems about as arbitrary to me to pay taxes in a country that I cannot unilaterally choose to continue living in, due to immigration obstacles.

However, given that the global consensus is to tax by residence, the US should absolutely change its policy to avoid the hassles due to this inconsistency.
Thanks. I think that gets lost easily in these discussions. This is my family. My partner, my mother and father-in-law, my sister-in-law, my nephew, my home, my plans for the future. It's connected to everything I might tell you about my life over the past 14 years. Having someone label all that as "awkward" or "political" is pretty extreme, especially when the person suggesting it doesn't even have a hint at the enormity of what they just said. It's the very definition of "casual erasure", something that sounds political and till someone comes up to you and tries to erase you.

Edit: to the people down voting my mother-in-law, she is a kind and caring woman!
Quiver: https://happenapps.com
The US is one of two countries that does it. California wants to levy a similar thing for people moving away from there
There's an underlying element of basic cooperation there -- you will actually surrender the assets, eg, instead of putting it all into cryptocurrency then sailing into international waters.
I think for those two examples you listed, the modifier is orthogonal. While "black" or "cancer survivor" tell me more about them as a person, they don't help understand gender/sex. Gender and sex, or the residency words I listed, provide different information about the same attribute.

Saying someone is a cancer surviving resident doesn't add anything to my knowledge of their medical history or which laws apply to them, but resident vs ex-pat tells me a lot.
Thank you for taking the time to reply, I appreciate it. I also agree with you. What I’m emphasizing is that our government prefers to go after weak targets.

Not sure why you are being downvoted, you make a good point.
caching efficiency probably.
At least Mcafee said Spanish prisons are like Hilton in comparison to USA ones[1], do you have the documentary name, it’s the one about Norway prisons? Just curious.

[1] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9718567/amp/Antivir...
Still a better interface than youtube music, the app for which still doesn't have a horizontal screen axis mode six months after google music shut down. the web interface can't disable videos and play music only, while the app can.

I don't understand google's approach to youtube music. Maybe they secretly want it to fail.
(Helped by Google …)

In NYC, earning about $100k a year, the effective rate is ~28% tax (ie, you pay $28k tax a year), including federal (~15%) and state (~5%), social security etc.

In the UK, for £100k, it looks like it’s 27.4%.

So very similar levels.
> Am I too jaded?

Yes.

Edit: they give the reason explicitly https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/114633828/changes-...

> Why? In 2017, we rolled out a security update to the system that generates new Unlisted video links. This update included security enhancements that make the links for your Unlisted videos even harder for someone to discover if you haven’t shared the link with them. We’re now making changes to older Unlisted videos that were uploaded before this update took place.
Can you elaborate on the "or coming" part of your post? What makes you think batteries won't be substantially better 20 years from now?
The spec is silent on length. 2000 bytes came from some web servers (old IIS comes to mind) that capped the URL at 2K or something close to that. So extra long URLS were problematic (and a lot of early web apps went nuts with parameters). So, max length is up to the implementer. All I know is that I've had to fix lots of code where someone assumed that 255 characters is all you'll ever need for a URL.
Germany.

And yes, racism is a problem in Germany too. As is the bureaucratic barrier of state welfare for people with mental health issues, especially schizophrenia.
> Or I guess maybe I'd want to attest that the signing service is what I expect?

Exactly. If you have a threat-model where you want to limit access to your secrets from a limited code path, you need to attest that only specific, signed code is running within the enclave that can access the secrets. You might only need this to satisfy your own curiosity, but in practice it probably is something you need to prove to your internal security team, third-party auditor, or even direct to a customer.
> There are similar phenomena of people doing that with all sorts of maladies or abstract identities, from chronic fatigue syndrome to being an introvert

I don't discount this completely, but I think the argument could be equally strong that we have gained a lot of additional understanding over the last 20 years. There are plenty of conditions that used to be rarely diagnosed (or didn't even exist in medical science) but now are. Just because something didn't used to have a label or definition, but now does, doesn't make it any less valid.

For example we can see differences in ADHD brains with fMRI - something only _relatively_ recently possible. And as medical science gets better at defining and describing these things, more information gets shared, more people talk about their experiences, and the net effect is that unsurprisingly more people identify with that new information. Some self-diagnose rightly or wrongly and leave it at that, others (plenty others I think) use this recognition as a cue to go and speak to a medical expert, which often precedes a formal, valid diagnosis.
> I don't mean to downplay what is happening because it is happening but do you not think the amount of outrage this topic generates surpasses the level of impact we can have assuming we fix it? It just feels like we're being distracted.

There is something about tech, though, that seems to concentrate the male to female transitioners far above background levels.

I can count more than a half-dozen male to female transition folks in my tech circles. I can't even think of one that I bumped into doing any non-tech social activity.
> possibly running drugs

Didn’t he have a pretty detailed site on “how to smuggle drugs through Central America and get away with it”? I’m pretty sure that was him. Can’t seem to find the site rn though.
Yep, this is where you can end up with tons of mapping boilerplate and potential bugs. I tend to reach for code-generation tools, schema based protocols like Protocol Buffers, and prefer code simplicity over performance concerns. The hope is that the price you pay for building around strict consistent data models across all your systems will pay off in maintainability and fewer bugs.
An Historical Heat Wave with Record-Breaking Temperatures over the Northwest
The Protestant Work Ethic is based around the noble sacrifice of people who work vs people who don't. It almost doesn't matter if you enjoy your work. If you don't work, you shouldn't eat, and work is defined as something that someone pays you for.

You can see it here: the number of comments saying basically "why should I work and pay taxes to support people who sit around all day doing nothing?"

This totally ignores the carers who don't get paid, but look after their relatives (and if they didn't, the state would have to either pay for that care, or let them die and confront some nasty truths). The volunteers who do god's work and never get paid (I'm an atheist, and I think it's horrible that we as a secular society depend on this, but I recognise the work of people of faith supporting our needy). This whole unpaid system of "work" that isn't "work" because we don't pay people to do it.

There is, as you say, a huge difference between "hating your job" and "doing a job to get paid". And it's a massive flaw in our society. No-one should hate their job. Why do we do this to people?
So what changed? I'm not concerned with any current bank making off with my money (although I'm more concerned with risky practices leading to them to go under, which is legal and as 2008 proved, the tax payer will absorb).
Researcher counterfeit packages on the official Python repo downloaded ~5K times
Link to the form: https://support.google.com/youtube/contact/older_unlisted_up...
Lithium scarcity is one issue. Much of the cheap lithium has already been mined.

We'll likely need to utilize different chemistries that are less suited for cars for grid scale solutions.
Essays in computing science – a selection of papers by C.A.R. Hoare (1989)
Or making private videos a paid feature?
> If he had been German it would have 60 years for those same multiple crimes.

Nope. That's nonsense. Contrary to other countries, prison time isn't added on a per-conviction basis in Germany. There's maximum prison time per crime (in this case: 15 years) and that's that.
Can they monetize the content that is being hidden? If not, perhaps that’s the answer.
the author has a previous post praising TDD https://alabeduarte.com/tdd/, so I see no reason to believe it is satire: which is VERY confusing.
I appreciate the thoughtful response. I’m in the go so I will try to make a quick reply.

> The parties to the debate are different ideologies, not different trans/non-trans identities.

I think the concept of intersectionality is useful here. Ideology is one component but identity is another. If we treat this like a simple ideological debate the potential trauma of the marginalized group could be ignored, potentially causing the mere act of the debate to re traumatize people in that group.

> No doubt you mean well, but black people and white people are equal, and race doesn't confer anyone with either authority or fragility with respect to having their positions criticized.

Respectfully I think this is a misunderstanding of my view. I learned to keep my mouth shut not because people in marginalized groups are fragile. I learned to keep my mouth shut because I learned that my outsider status means a lot of things marginalized people say night not make immediate sense to me. Trying to interrogate (neutral sense) their reasoning can be a traumatic experience for them. I learned this when I asked women at Google to explain their sexual harassment to me. A female friend took the time to explain to me that even asking the question could cause distress in women. Now when someone says something I disagree with I stay silent and I go and google the thing and learn more about it on my own.

Certainly in some cases the person wants to discuss the thing with me, but I don’t assume that to be the case.

I also learned this from a person of color who did not appreciate similar questions from me. While there is a LOT of worthwhile criticism of Robin DiAngelo, her talks helped me understand that concept better.