skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's not a high rate; 15% is low - is there a lower income tax rate for any entity?

Yes, there are plenty of entities that pay no tax. There'd be a great number of clubs for example. Churches, charity and trusts often get some sort of exemption too depending on country and circumstance. The only reason it might seem like all entities pay taxes is because once something is taxable it has to be given sharp, forceful boundaries otherwise it disappears and gets renamed.

I don't actually mind a 15% global minimum, to me that seems like it can only hurt poor countries in theory so if they want to sign up for it that is their problem. But companies are part of the things societies need to operate. A society with no Apple had to wait another decade - maybe more - to see real smartphones. A country without an Amazon has measurably worse logistics & distribution than one that does. It is not at all obvious that companies should be taxed. All they do is work to benefit consumers (within a moral-less, economic understanding of the word benefit).
You're thinking of Basecamp, not Coinbase.
the only sites I've had to whitelist are the shopping links in Google.

I maintain my pihole outside the house with an always on wireguard tunnel. Granted, this is more work than installing an extension but my phone uses it too.

The biggest thing I miss is ad blocking on youtube.
You might want to take a look at some other posts on the author's blog. A couple of suggestions:

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5592542&postID=7169...

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5592542&postID=5209...
If there's infinite money willing to be spent and no real accountability that the advertising is actual "targeted", then this is the end result.
I'm sorry to hear about you & GP. My experience was long, long ago, but I vividly remember everyone being super-supportive.
This comment is the sort of toxicity that's become commonplace on other social platforms (including Facebook) and that I come to HN to avoid.
> So it takes more than brains.

yep, it takes society. Newton's law is not Newton's law, its a mental state of a bunch of communicating homo sapiens. Had he died of a pandemic somebody else would have "discovered" it in a decade or two.
At least a lot of ships actually go to Panama. Many are also registered in Liberia.
It seems like Brian Armstrong is the only person using social media to push for fabricated outrage. Anyone complaining about “wokeness” is talking about an issue that only exists in the minds of true bigots. It’s a boogeyman that they use to punch down. No one is forcing Armstrong to say stupid shit constantly.
This is essentially asking how are any laws enforced.
>It's baffling to me that people believe I should turn off my brain when I'm at work.

You should choose a place of employment that lets you behave as you feel you need to behave, not expect that you as the employee are the one who decides on the standards of behavior.
Interestingly different, yes. But still related to the barrage of vomit spewing from Mozilla lately, for example:

"Firefox Now Sends Your Address Bar Keystrokes to Mozilla"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28804588
In Boston, there is an area called Mass and Cass which is full of drugs users. Crime is endemic as well as rape and overdoses.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/10/06/opinion/everyone-want...

This exists without anyone ordering their drugs in the darknet. Not sure why crypto is called out for drug problems.
Right, there's a big difference between an engineer with well-founded opinions, and a fanboy with strong emotions. If you can't explain the weaknesses of your favourite tools, that's not a good sign. If you can't explain your preference for one tool over another, that's a bad sign. It's disappointing to encounter developers who, for example, love C# but hate Java, and are entirely unable to articulate why. They're very similar languages!

Somewhat related: Rich Hickey (of Clojure fame) makes the point that one of the disappointing aspects of the software development community is that there's so much talk about 'better', and so little about trade-offs.
Come on, you know what he meant. Newton was the first to discover the laws of gravity, even though we still do not understand how gravity works and even though primitive animals can "discover" gravity.
The only thing that's certain is that articles like this are going to bring people out of the woodwork who are going to say why it's relevant and how it'll never die. Or the opposite.

Until somebody tries to outlaw amateur radio or legislate it to the point it's no fun, there's nothing to worry about. It's like being concerned about the future of concealed carry permits.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DnWeMfyV4AEWIuk?format=jpg&name=...

I jest, somewhat...
Here we have the CEO of Coinbase doing right-wing activism. Maybe he should be fired? (He should)
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Not a source.

I have friends in engineering at Coinbase. They've doubled their engineering team and development has skyrocketed.
>if someone forks it, they will be left behind

Is gecko any different in this regard? That is how forking works.

>The corporations have too much control over it

Blink seems better in this regard, it has received major contributions from just about every major tech company out there diversifying its control. Gecko has been primarily just mozilla (especially these days since it only represents about 3% of the market).
The best is to be a contractor and get no benefits -- but do ask for stock, and for as much as you can.
She actually directly refutes the idea of superior and inferior races, just a page or so later.

“The Africans have not left their continent for several hundred thousands of years. If to-morrow the continent of Europe were to disappear and other lands to reëmerge instead, and if the African tribes were to separate and scatter on the face of the Earth, it is they who, in about a hundred thousand years hence, would form the bulk of the civilized nations. And it is the descendants of those of our highly cultured nations, who might have survived on some one island, without any means of crossing the new seas, that would fall back into a state of relative savagery. Thus the reason given for dividing humanity into superior and inferior races falls to the ground and becomes a fallacy.”

Emphasis mine. Her work may not have modern sensitivities, but it isn’t a racist screed. This is a massive work that involves dialectic. It seems to me that she raised a racist point only to bring it down herself, logically.

Hopefully you agree that is pretty beautiful!
Maybe it’s just where I’m at in my career and priorities, but I’m way more inclined to put work/life balance first and leave comp discussion for negotiation.

I make plenty. I could make more, sure. Could I be more aggressive at making more? Absolutely. But I care far more about being happy where I work. And anyone trying to hire me knows or should know the market well enough they’re not going to make an absurdly lowball offer.
I don't have any experience trading index options on the S&P 500, but they seem to be (at least sometimes) displayed as "$SPX.X".

I would've thought that SPX would be a natural shorthand, even though it is also the index itself.

Also, I thought Joe/Jane Schmoe could just trade (some) index options with a regular broker, providing they have enough money.
I don’t even remember seeing this image. It was enabled on three separate machines.
You have it backwards. This is a _response_ to toxicity and people willingly associating and enabling this toxicity.
I did the same. Spent a month blocking, unfollowing any political page that might appear. Blocked all people who post political content and now the feed is so clean for last 2 years.

Another key thing is to simply not install FB on phone. Only use it once a day when on desktop. Such a nice tool to connect with old friends otherwise.
It really depends on the workload here. It is possible that there's a large CPU-bound workload (e.g. a join-heavy sql query) that would throw these numbers off.

But yeah, these numbers are pretty bad for a simple templating job in Django, even taking into account network round-trip time.
Dunno what barbers you go to, I've been to a lot across many states and talking partisan politics has never been a common theme among them. I can't remember the last haircut that did involve political talking, it seems mostly avoided. Maybe it's more common outside the US?
I'm reading between the lines here, but I'm speculating this is the situation:

-Iceland has high vaccination rates, including many people who already got both doses of Moderna vaccines several months ago

-It is too early for standard booster shots with Moderna based on medical guidelines

-Many people were originally vaccinated with other brands (J&J/Jannsen, Pfizer) which have been shown to be less effective than Moderna long-term

-Therefore, many people are "cross-vaccinating" by trying to supplement their existing vaccination with Moderna, which they view as superior

-Because of this, most/all Moderna vaccination shots performed in the last 2 months are from people with other vaccines originally -- in other words, they are only being given in ways that are not within current medical guidelines, and in a manner that has not been sufficiently studied for safety and efficacy.

If this is close enough to represent the situation, then I can see why they might decide the best move overall for public health is to halt use of Moderna, at least for now. Maybe with tighter controls, or over the coming months when there will be higher demand for prescribed Moderna boosters, then it will make sense to bring it back.
[citation needed]

The claims seem incorrect.

Please stop.
but that's thing...what is "social activism" here? I don't think having a single tweet or post from your company's account saying "happy Pride month, we love our LGBTQ+ Coinbasers" is activism really....it's just like, a nice thing to do. No one is saying Coinbase or any company should pay their employees to go make phone calls for Bernie Sanders' campaign on the clock. It seems like people are inventing some kind of strawman of "paid activism" that no one is asking for.
I see your point, but I think we’re held back not by UI, but by input methods, including physical ones. And I partially attribute that to vim’s [niche] success. It’s so annoying to hold ctrl-shift to select anything in windows-likes and personally I make much more mistakes while properly fingering the keyboard in these than while using vim modes. The path I see is to make better keyboards with separate keys for fundamental edit ops like selecting, language switching, word/structure navigation, etc, and then some more. We’re too stuck in these typewriter interfaces.
It seems like the biggest difference in modern outrage is that you haven't seen the effects yet. Unless you have some data that you'd like to share?
So many people waiting around patiently for an hour before starting to complain is crazy. People would definitely still fall for the prank today but that feels so tame for what a huge reaction there was.
I wanted the same thing. When I discovered I could send text messages via APRS to a callsign on my kenwood tm-d710 I felt excitement that was then followed by disappointment in that I had to type my message using a knob selector. I had initially thought you could use the number pad on the microphone to input the message T9 style.

I think someone made a keyboard for the older model but it didn't work with mine
I’m not aware of any company that awards shares to contractors.
Why? Why not make life hell for assholes like Brian Armstrong?
> I'm unaware of a single study on the safety or efficacy of mixing vaccine types like this.

The Com-Cov study:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3874014
DNC doesn't do candidate recruitment, either. This is mostly done by state (and local) parties. Sometimes leaders of DSCC and DCCC, or the Majority Leader, get involved, too. The DNC doesn't get involved in Congressional primaries, either. These committees and their leaders are territorial!

It's just not something the DNC would have anything to do with. Leverage on these votes sits firmly with Congressional leadership, which is why I mentioned her leadership role in Congress as being the only thing relevant. They're generally speaking not going to run a primary. What's more likely is messing with committee assignments. And carrots are more common than sticks.
> You'll know Bitcoin has failed if cryptocurrency exchanges become the banks of the future. The entire idea behind Bitcoin is money without banks or the baggage they bring.

the 'entire idea' is a monetary system that isn't controlled by a central party, doesn't have an inflationary supply and thus can't be rigged for cantillon insiders; banks existed before both of these things and the basic function of lending money and returning interest on savings is not objected to by this worldview
You are free to work at companies where you can impose your political views on those arounds you. However people who don't want to work with you are free to go work for companies that doesn't let people like you do that, like Coinbase.
Part of the problem is, as you mention, the schools. But the other, much harder part of the problem, is the homes. If your parents aren’t engaged in parenting and you come from poverty, you are at a disadvantage that in no way can be fixed by the time you spend at your school each day. You’re treading water at best.

If you want poor kids to do better, you have to improve their home life.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2528798/
> I don't think "we've always mandated vaccines" is a good argument. Applying the label of "vaccine" to something does not guarantee anything.

That's a fair point, I agree.

> Especially when the definition was changed in the past year.

Could you elaborate on this part? I went ahead and checked the dictionary definition:

> A substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease.

Which tracks with what I remember from my molecular bio degree ten years ago.
Yes, either that or allow access to parts of it(1) without login.

(1): At least to it's core functionality but I think even to more or less all parts not tightly bound to a social login.
Hopefully 15% is for ( Total - 750 )
This article doesn’t quite outline the specific measures Apple implemented, but am I the only one who’s not necessarily against the measures themselves?

I’m against Apple not allowing repair shops access to the tools, but with that being said I like the fact that I don’t have to worry about whether or not the newly installed display has a Face ID module that’s been tampered with.

I can imagine someone creating a display with a modified Face ID module that has a back door or some such thing. Without calibration/certification of the module, how would I know if that’s the case after a 3rd party repair?

I’m not sure about the whole thing, tbh, just thinking aloud.
> it's so ironic to me that he prides himself over the "no politics" policy, yet calls his company "mission-focused". the mission is cryptocurrency, which is very political.

"Political" is a meaningless buzzword at that point.

What you really mean is "partisan". Should Coinbase just be an extension of the democratic party? No according to its CEO, but that's what a lot of people here wants it to be.
> In a situation with limited resources, increasing representation for all means decreasing representation for some. This is the natural conclusion to pushing for equality/representation.

Then reject diversity.
In Europe all the vaccines that are authorized have a "conditional marketing authorization" with a 1 year time limit, and many countries have vaccine mandates. Under EMA, for a vaccine to be "fully approved" it needs to have a standard marketing authorization; none of the COVID vaccines do.
You can also see some small rips and tears in their wings.
Under A HEX: deep dive into Richard Heart's hex token
Eastern Rome (wrongly called Byzantine, something most people then wouldn't even have known what Byzantium is) went on and was fully the Rome Empire. It never actually fell. All the learning and information was continued for the most part.

Sadly even they had a lot of problems in the 'dark age' (not a good name either). First their was the Justinian Plague and then they had a lot of civil war and conflict over Iconoclasm.

In general because of how Europe developed, and how the Renaissance happened in terms of intellectual history a lot of this history is only remember by very few people.

By 1000AD the Roman Empire was still going strong, being the most powerful state in along the Mediterranean.

Edit:

Check 'The History of Byzantium' Podcast, a follow on from the 'History of Rome' Podcast but by a different person.

Thersites the Historian has lot of good content on yt, for example https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEQru6POYgetKOdzDYaLy...
That's really the job of the injured party, not Cloudflare.

If someone calls my office and tells me that one of our customers is doing something illegal, I will not, under any circumstance, forward that information to law enforcement. Why would I? All I have is an unproven accusation by someone I know absolutely nothing about! What, exactly, is stopping the person making the accusation from calling the police himself, instead of me? Why is he contacting me - is that because contacting the police would get him into legal hot water? If so, would it be wise for me to act as his unpaid proxy in this? No, of course not!

Again, we still don't even know if the person making the accusation is in fact the injured party, or guilty of the very fraud he is accusing the other website of! Why are you trusting him at all? You don't know either party, you don't know the websites, so what are you basing your preference on?
Silver oxidizes readily however. Also more brittle.
I wouldn't paint with such a broad brush. I've recently gotten way into retrocomputing, DOS included, I absolutely lived through that era. I spent my formative computing years in the early to mid 90s deep in DOS, mostly playing games, watching demos, listening to and writing tracker music, and doing pretty rudimentary C/C++ programming.

At the beginning of this year, I built an AMD K6 machine, got my Gravis Ultrasound card working again (which involved ordering a replacement mixer chip from China), and have had an absolutely wonderful time reliving my early computing experiences. And yes, that also includes fiddling with IRQ settings, maximizing low DOS memory, etc. Would I do day-to-day work in this kind of environment? Hell no! But it's a really fun distraction.
Ireland is about to discover how unattractive it is as a locale for multinational HQs when the playing field is somewhat more level. And I'm in favor of the move as a middle class US taxpayer and a small business owner who pays through the nose, but this is a quite obvious self-own in the long run for them, much for the same reason why introducing a wealth tax was a self-own for France. Big Money is mobile, sophisticated, and quick on its feet.
Employees should hold all the cards. Employers and capital are lucky anyone is willing to work for them.
I'm not quite sure how this is relevant here. The vaccination is not going to be repeating with a larger than annual frequency. And the vaccinations themselves happen throughout the year anyway, so how does it matter how much the side effect is delayed? The side effect is also going to be happening throughout the year; it's not like 177M people are going to be vaccinated on the same day, which is what you seem to be assuming for some reason.

> Assuming young people have lower incidence rate and it is not already accounted for, there would be more vaccines carditis than natural occurrences.

No, absolutely not. Definitely not according to your flawed reasoning.
It's far more likely they started with ban and lawyer.
That’s because prevention is better than treatment. Prevention means less spread and can be administered at any time. Monoclonal antibody treatment is only usable within a specific window when a person is already ill. That means the person has had the opportunity to spread the infection, further increasing demand for treatment, and there’s no guarantee the monoclonal antibodies will save them (no treatments are perfect).

Prevention always makes more sense than trying to patch a problem later on.
The moon didn’t die as early as we thought
Unless you are an executive on a nonprofit, then it is of paramount importance that you are paid handsomely because otherwise your irreplaceable leadership skills won't be retained.
PayPal's crypto service is a total scam
How can they not put in big bold letters "You can not transfer them to external wallets."

Now im short a dollar for no discernible reason other than tos bullshit. It's called PayPal not holdpal...
I've been doing this, but with BTRFS as a trial. Is there anyone who can suggest a benefit of using ZFS over BTRFS or the other way around?
The linked instructions involve loading the unpacked extension in developer mode. There isn't really a way of preventing that without crippling the ability of extension developers to develop their own extensions.
Frankly: Good. Tech needs some undermining.
> Putting aside legitimate qualms about Brave’s ad blocking business model

The other alternatives to Chrome (Edge, Opera, Vivaldi, and Firefox[0]) also come with a built in ad blocker.

Is it only a problem because on top of the blocking - which others also do - they also have the ads/crypto business?

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[0] On Firefox it's more of a "tracking blocker", but things like Adsense are blocked by it.
Yup, there's also a big problem with gatekeeping and what's "true" ham radio.

I wish it was different since you can do things with ham radio that are not possible without a license but then I look at the state of something like APRS that is still stuck in the '80s and it's depressing. The M17 project may change that and FT8 is starting to make inroads but I feel like the attitude you mention above keeps out people who would be taking it to new places and domains.
To be fair I'd say this holds true for most interactions I've had working in Europe in English as well.
I definitely agree with your point that Facebook is not a singular problematic entity and not even in a singular problematic industry, it's just the one this thread is about.

> Or we could just let people (and by extension advertisers) decide for themselves.

That's the idea of shunning though. People can make their own decisions to work wherever they please, and in response to these choices other people can likewise decide to disassociate with them.
Cool! I didn’t know that. Thanks!