skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't read the book, does it answer these points:

There are only 76 type A stars within 100ly of us (100 light years because we've had powerful radio about that long). So even assuming every star had a civilisation capable of destroying us, that's only 76 of them.

Similarly, we've had primative life on earth for millions of years. If a civ exists that can detect primative life and wishes to destroy it, it would have done so by now on earth since the milky way is only about 100k ly across.

That's without getting into whether technological development is actually exponential, whether it caps out or how fast it is...
It walks like a bribe, it talks like a bribe, it quacks like a bribe, it flaps like a bribe, it lies like a bribe, it hides like a bribe, it looks like a bribe, it feels like a bribe, it smells like a bribe, what is it?

Lobbying, duh. Definitely not a bribe.

It's pretty wild that legal lobbying + the realities of campaign finance effectively mean that our government has instituted a policy of mandatory bribery. I mean, democracy is always going to have warts, but this one is really special.
My conclusion after a good amount of reading and thinking on this:

Free will, defined as autonomous decision-making partially influenced/affected by the external environment, does exist.

Now 'autonomous' = determined by the agent, i.e. the decision to have pizza today is determined by something in you, not fully determined externally, but that something is likely not your conscious experience.

In that sense, free will does not exist.

But that does *not* mean that everything you do is predictable because P!=NP. Even God, if s/he exists, does not yet know what you will do tomorrow, s/he's waiting to find out.

So: you are not free, but you are not bound to something either.
> Google isn't spying on your private files

actually, it does... at least on the ones hosted by Google.
Haha I knew you were talking about Econ when I read the post. It seemed pretty clear it was PhD or gtfo when I did Econ undergrad. Masters seems like an actual scam.
I'd argue it's more a commentary on how the lawyer making the video is pretending to be less moral than the median human being and is probably not as lacking in human decency as he is pretending to be for performative career reasons.

Though your framing in terms of pure selfishness (risk and upside to the person talking to the police without consideration for anyone else) is probably irrational unless you are also opposed to altruism.

If you generally despise altruism and are not wired for emotions like "guilt" I believe you may in fact not talk to the police in that scenario.
Why don't you post some of the harshest shit you've ever written right here, right now so we can see just how charitable he can be.
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Mathematicians do consider "just pick an arbitrary element" sufficient. This is baked into the system of "first order logic" - the standard use of existential quantifiers in logic allows for proofs that make any finite number of arbitrary choices, but the proof gets longer as the number of arbitrary choices increases (so a straightforward attempt to prove that you could make an infinite sequence of arbitrary choices, in first order logic, would lead to an infinitely long proof). The first order logical system behind modern mathematics is both powerful, and limited, in this very particular strange way.

You could definitely come up with alternative logical systems to first order logic where "just pick an arbitrary element" is not considered a valid proof strategy, but this would be more an exercise in philosophy and logic than in mathematics. There are good practical reasons for mathematicians to like classical first order logic (such as the fact that Godel's completeness theorem applies to it), so it would be hard to convince most mathematicians to switch to any other logical system. Making classical first order logic weaker makes it unpleasant for the purposes of getting things done for not enough benefit (although intuitionists will fight you over this claim), while trying to make it stronger leads to problems where your logical system needs to magically give you access to truths which are uncomputable in order to be complete ("abstract model theory" tries to make this claim precise).

The trouble is that first order logic doesn't have a built-in concept of "infinity", let alone a rule that says it is valid to "just pick an arbitrary infinite sequence", let alone the full strength of the axiom of choice (which applies even to sets so large that their elements can't be listed via a "sequence"). Such a logical rule can only be added in a logical system which can talk about arbitrary sets or infinite sequences in the first place, which goes beyond first-order logic. So rather than having this rule be a rule of pure logic, the workaround is to add it as a mathematical axiom that applies to the (first order) mathematical theory of sets, which is meant to be a practical approximation to the (ungraspable) "true" collection of rules for "higher order logic".
> Only thing we have is their observable external behavior. If that is consistent with the 'consciousness' hypothesis, then that's all we can say. In that case we have about as much evidence of presence of consciousness that a fellow human ...

It's been mind boggling to me for years that this isn't the default accepted position. That most intelligent life (ie animals) are conscious just like us. Look at what dogs, cats, monkeys do. In what possible way can you say they aren't conscious but another person you can't speak with is? Based on what evidence?

The fact we try and reserve consciousness for humans is the most "epi-cycles in support of geocentrism" thing I've ever seen in science. It's silly. It's wholly unscientific, in fact it's anti-science as it actively avoids the most scientific explanation to reach a conclusion that "we're special".

Its flawed and a stain on science.
No.

Rust is a good language in many ways - generally well-designed, innovative, aimed at some under-served but important use-cases, very educational to learn, and surrounded by a lively community.

But only a tiny fraction of the world's work and innovation is being done in Rust. There is a huge amount of interesting stuff happening in other languages. There is also much more work available in other languages - even interesting, well-paid work.

Reasons to learn Rust right now:

1. You need to learn a low-level systems language, for use on a platform that Rust supports; i think Rust is a better bet for many uses than C++ already.

2. You have copious time to invest in learning, and ownership type systems are the most interesting or powerful thing you don't currently know.

3. There is some specific piece of software you want to get involved with, and it's written in Rust.
‘And their people…’ Schlözer was a member of the Göttingen School of History which is credited with “two fundamental groups of terminologies of scientific racism” one of which is the biblical terminology for race (eg. Semitic, Hamitic, etc).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Göttingen_school_of_history
That was it! Thank you! I also remembered where I heard it since you gave me the name, it was from a Key and Peele episode and I believe they were actually talking about Keanu!

It was during one of the live audience scenes, still looking for it.

Found it! Key and Peele Season 2 Episode 7, but it was Ryan Gosling they were talking about.

Thanks again!
Sweden has the mortgage interest deduction too? I wonder how wide spread that is. I thought that was a US financing lobby invention sold under the guise of the "American Dream of Home Ownership."
I believe this is the case with law firms, and probably some other professional firms, in the US as well. AFAIK a law firm is a partnership of lawyers.

That said, this isn't what most people are talking about when they are talking about starting a business.
Me too! However why stop at Indian philosophy?
I went out of my way to get a dual joystick (and marble ball) game controller when I built my mame box, specifically to play robotron (it also works for two player games).

I can't get past about level 5 or 6 in robotron.
Plasma has supported Wayland earlier than GNOME did (although GNOME's Wayland session has reached production quality earlier than Plasma did).
No, if taxes are actually going to be non citizen-hostile, the IRS needs to get it right the first time. If everyone knows you need to find an appeal to get the real tax rate, you haven't made any progress, just moved the annoyance to the appeal stage.
> Anyone who has ever dealt with IRS will know that they seem to arbitrarily inflate the amounts they ask for. When this happens, you need a tax attorney to point out to them that they got it wrong.

The people I know who weren’t cheating or in very complicated scenarios did not have this problem. It’s certainly possible but remember that our impressions are skewed by a large, well-funded media operation promoting the idea that the IRS is horrific for political and business reasons. Intuit alone makes billions from that idea.

A retired IRS auditor mentioned that around half of the cases they processed ended up finding deductions which benefited the taxpayer more than the discrepancies.
Start with the end. That is, the exit. As in, exit strategy. That should be your motivator. Pretty much anything else is a means to that ends.
'Emergent phenomena' is the 'draw the rest of the damn owl' of this conversation. It's doing way too much work to be useful. It's like saying that life is an emergent phenomena from condensed energy.
unless you run into a forest, a beach, a building, between buildings, jump down from a bridge onto an embankment...
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Hickey is extremely remote from the Clojure community. Most of Cognitect is. Really, only Alex Miller engages on a regular basis. To a lesser extent, Fogus and Ghadi do, too.

The Clojurescript community is friendlier, IMO.
I think this should not be downvoted. It's an honest expression of a plausible feeling.

My dad always said his favorite video game was TurboTax because when he got a high score, it was real money. He loved spending hours every year optimizing his return. He was also the sort of person who really got into rewards cards and airline miles. It was satisfying to him to work the system in his favor. And he's not alone. I once accidentally ended up at a meetup of people who were airline miles fiends. They were very... dedicated.

Personally, I think all of that stuff is tedious nonsense. I'm not interested in letting companies manipulate my behavior. If I'm going to work hard at something, it will be something that creates value. But I recognize I'm an outlier here. Some people would really miss doing their taxes because they've gotten good at it. Which is why it's good that the proposed laws will let them keep going if they want to.
Telecom Italia helped built Cuba's communications network before the Cuban government bought their shares and privatized the company.

SES S.A. from Luxembourg connected Cuba to the world via satellite.

Telefónica of Spain owns a significant run of Caribbean undersea fiber. They're actively trying to increase their business with Cuba but Cuba refuses to open more of its communications network.

The following quote from José Ramón Machado Ventura, a high ranking Cuban official, offers an alternative explanation to why Cuba doesn't have better Internet.

http://www.juventudrebelde.cu/cuba/2015-07-11/a-los-jovenes-...

>Todo el mundo sabe por qué en Cuba no hay más Internet, porque ello tiene un alto costo. Existen algunos que nos la quieren dar gratis, pero no lo hacen con el fin de que el pueblo cubano se comunique, sino con el propósito de penetrarnos y hacer trabajo ideológico para lograr una nueva conquista. Tenemos que poseer Internet, pero a nuestra forma, sabiendo que es una intención del imperialismo manejarla como una vía más de destruir a la Revolución.

Rough translation

>Everybody knows why cuba doesn't have more Internet, because it comes at a high cost. There are those who want to give it to us for free, but not with the intent of helping the Cuban people to communicate, but with the purpose of penetrating us and doing ideological work to create a new conquest. We need to have Internet, but our way, knowing that it is the intent of the imperialists to use it as a way to destroy the Revolution.
Depends on the trade, you can't make electrical work without some form of recognition I believe. And beyond that I mostly asked regarding customers, you want something to back your claims and prices.
thank you sir. you have my keyboard. i was expecting the top comment to be the exact opposite of what you said.
Central bank independence is a myth. What about green central banking?
I've come to believe that making the world better and making a lot of money are in most cases mutually exclusive. Of course, many people go into business with the intention of making the world better, but there are numerous turning points in a business where you have to choose between making a positive change and a profitable change--and if you don't choose the profitable change, one of your competitors will.

Personally, I decided not to do it--I've made peace with the idea that I'll probably work to retirement age and never be very rich.

But I'm not making a moral judgment if you make a different choice--I can only make the choice I have because I'm in a position of privilege that allows me to make that choice. On the contrary, I have more respect for you if you go into this without illusions about what you're doing. The most poisonous thing about Hacker News is that it gives people who are doing reprehensible things an echo chamber of justifications for their behaviors. I'm sure some people will even respond to this comment with such.
> Most pieces of technology create as many problems as they're meant to solve. The cost-benefit is always around whether or not the solved problems are worth the cost of the new problems.

Well said.
Sounds like heaven compared to the expensive, overly-complex hell of the US system.
You need to ask why it wasn’t right. It’s not that their computers can’t do basic math - usually it comes down to incorrect data in (e.g. your payroll processor or broker listed something incorrectly) or missing data. In most cases, supplying the complete records will solve that problem.
I’d agree that reality is likely somewhere between “petty trespassing” and “violent insurrection.”
You need to evaluate verifiable facts and come to conclusions. In discussion regarding two sides, A against B, you don't just say well each has it's good points, each has it's bad, we have to be fair and balanced. No, this is especially where newspapers have it wrong. You are fair and balanced when you appropriate praise and scorn to sides based on the externally verifiable facts, and the honestness of their actions. You don't blindly give both sides equal footing for fairness.

When a man beats up a wife, _you don't say_, well, look, she probably wasn't the easiest to live with, and he had it tough dealing with her. He is a good business man, and a pillar in the community. so look both sides have positives and negatives. (Well to be fair as a society we usually do, do this, but clearly we are wrong).

No the facts say otherwise.
I think interrogating those differences can help you either find out if they are borne of "nastiness" and ignorance, or if there is actually fundamental difference in values that should be explored.

E.g., Someone could assume a person is against voter ID simply because they want to disenfranchise specific groups or they can legitimately be concerned about fraud. If we just assume the former, it misses any opportunity to make rational arguments about the claims of the latter.
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> For the right to speak involves the duty to listen. The right to criticize involves the responsibility of giving
"the other side" a fair chance to make its point.

I wish this could be chiseled in rock somewhere prominent
Not true at all. The California State Water Project is one of the most successful public works and general feats of engineering accomplishment ever built. Terminal Island is a wild success. California's state and interstate highway infrastructure is the best of any state I've ever lived in. One high-profile failure doesn't mean everything the state ever does is doomed to also fail. That would be like saying the disaster that is the Salton Sea means large-scale infrastructure created by private companies is doomed to always fail.
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Assuming a very simple financial situations, or if you want to do it by hand. I haven't found anything free that's in between.
Uh, the US military has declated China it's main adversary and the US just had a presidency that used "clash of civilizations" to describe the relationship with China, why do you think "enmity" is not an appropriate word?
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I'd encourage you to noodle on your question through a more fundamental lens, might help you answer it:

A real* business is simply a system used to exchange value between parties.

*not a pyramid scheme-esq/etc/etc
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can we get a "tl;dr" or a "I'm not going to watch 11 minutes of video to find out if it's a yes, no or a maybe" ?
This wouldn't be possible unless we had government surveillance of everyone. If I sell junk in my house for a profit there is no IRS record nor is there a government record for selling Bitcoin for cash or a million other possible transactions.

The IRS could make things easier to fill out but they can't just send you a bill.
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The administration plans to hire 87,000 more agents, effectively doubling its size to… be citizen friendly? They’re going to use audits like the Death Star. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/20/irs-funding-boost-4...
I'm not sure if this is no-topic, but in case someone is interested, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiG_Pilot:_The_Final_Escape_of...

> MiG Pilot: The Final Escape of Lieutenant Belenko is a 1980 biography by John Barron about the life and 1976 defection of Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 fighter pilot Viktor Belenko to the United States.
>Higher education is structured for students going from high school to their institutions. They also assume students don't have full time employment or a family. So basically if you have either of

In the US, Depending on your state this might not be true. Many of the 'Elite' schools are absolutely as you describe, but many of the state schools do cater to adult learners. This is particularly true in states which separate their Research Universities from their more teaching oriented Universities. Most of the latter do have night classes and other offerings aimed at adult learners. But the private universities with dreams of grandeur are looking mostly for the "traditional college student"
The CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) curriculum https://www.cfainstitute.org/en/programs/cfa/curriculum could also be of interest, although it covers accounting in more detail than most traders need.
Wouldn't that just mean rich people got masters they didn't need and poor people didn't get ones they did need?

Maybe markets have a difference concept of efficiency than society...
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I think the lack of a stable is part of the appeal, most people don't have anywhere to put a horse.
True, maybe it’s radically different for Challenger crew members and they get detailed metallurgical info because the UK likes self-sufficient crews. Or maybe it is similar.
> We badly need legislation to force the IRS to send every taxpayer a bill which they can pay.

The truth is the IRS bill would be wrong and the IRS would have countless challenges and no practical ability to review any in-house type of challenge and all cases would needlessly result in court.

I had a horror story that took 2-3 years to resolve went all the way to tax court for a fraudulent 1099 in the amount of $75k presumably so the company could take a deduction and the IRS was seeking about 30k in taxes/fees/interest. Tax court require an agreement on the facts and issues before trial which the IRS dragged its feet until about 1 week before the agreed order was due when the conceded I was right and owed $0 taxes.

To even get to that point there were about 1/2 dozen phone calls with the IRS which took hours and always resulted in the employee confirming the believe me and I won’t owe anything. There were about 3 formal written responses I provided but IRS kept giving me standard boilerplate letters that I hadn’t proved I wasn’t paid the 1099 income reported and escalating the matter until finally they adjusted my return and forced my hand into filing a petition for tax court. Once in tax court their is supposed to be a stay on the matter until resolved by the court, but the IRS put me in collections, so I filed a motion which the Judge granted in chamber without a hearing to remove me from collections, this was after multiple conversations with the IRS attorney who never did anything but laugh when I called it a IRS automated track of hell and otherwise did nothing to looking into what I felt should have been pretty obvious case of fraud by the company that falsely reported the 1099 income.

This took hundreds of hours and the only way possible I got through it is that I happen to be an attorney.
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tl;dw: Things left adrift in lunar orbit tend to crash into the moon before long both because the moon is gravitationally not spherical, and because the moon is in a complicated dance with the sun and the earth.

But there is a substantial chance that it hasn't crashed yet, and it's interesting why.
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I file my taxes as if all of this is true.

For me, cost/time savings of paying a few hundred in fees is cheaper than a CPA (or spending an entire weekend doing it myself).

I never protest what they send back - either some check or a bill. I just take care of it and don't ask any questions.

If the IRS doesnt think I am paying them enough money, they can feel free to send me a bigger bill or assess greater fines.

I may get audited but I just don't give a shit about this broken mess anymore. I don't have anything to hide, and I would happily pay whatever shortfall is calculated just to get them out of my life again.

I am fairly confident that as long as you are paying your taxes and not giving the IRS a hard time (i.e. WRT overseas tax haven shenanigans and insane corporate structures), they will not fuck with your life.
Yeah. Also a 10,000 word rant accusing Israel of fascism, telling diaspora Jews to “butt out” because they don’t know enough when he clearly doesn’t either, and listing all the ‘good Jews’ (particularly highlighting their atheism), is not the enlightened look-at-how-great-I-am-now post he thinks it is.

I wouldn’t fire him for it, preferring to have his views challenged but it also sounds like there were other factors to do with his management style that played a part too.

It’s a shame because I feel like he meant well but it also belies poor decision-making for someone at such a high management level in a major corporation.
Economics is one of the undergrad degrees that is often sort of generic--i.e. you don't really work in the field with just a BA/BS. And you need a PhD to actually be an economist so a Masters probably doesn't buy you much. (Not 100% true of course, but close enough.)
I think you both need to read the book this submission is based on and try to apply some of its lessons in this thread.