skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A specialized forum where some subjects can simply be ruled off-topic will be easier to moderate than a forum where you can talk about anything. That’s not to say there are no controversies left, but it’s easier.

Agreeing on a mission is a form of specialization. In the case of Coinbase there are likely plenty of debates about cryptocurrencies, and that’s controversy enough.
You're right, I'm just thinking there is some long hedge that keeps the game going, like the transaction fees, where you get demand for transactions that are bets on blocks. The whole thing is a kind of self reinforcing stochastic uncertainty cloud (infinite improbability machine?), where the endogenous demand is never zero. Until it is because of something exogenous. Same as fiat.
Surely SS and healthcare are largely funded by SS payments. Taxes go toward Medicare but premiums are a big part too. https://www.pgpf.org/budget-basics/medicare
Firefox could, I think. I don't think the Mozilla Foundation could. And that's the rub, at least to those in charge at the Mozilla Foundation.
I'm suggesting that just 'see programming language' be the name, but references to it as the holy see could cause confusion. Something like the great schism of programming languages :)
Thanks, I've gone through and added these HPC tools to the spreadsheet.

FYI I'd consider py-spy for profiling Python+C extensions: https://github.com/benfred/py-spy#can-py-spy-profile-native-...
>I'd say that HAM can evolve or it can die -- but eventually the people holding it back will literally die and then it will evolve all the same. That's how actual evolution works. You can't stop the future. Still, you can hold it back, and it's unfortunate to see that happening, from a community of techies no less.

Pretty much sums it up. Locally the people who are in charge of the clubs which ultimately advised the government were in their 50s to 90s (yes that's a 9). The people doing anything more interesting than talking on on those channels are all under 40.

Ham radio is meant for experimentation, not (just) talking to your friends. These people remind me of Bell in the 70s forbidding you from connecting anything that's not a phone to the telephone network.
You don't believe, that perhaps people are not missing the point at all, but instead your political bias' are showing?

That you agree with political bent of one type of signalling...
In its current form, the main use-case is to load data into memory first then serve them through query apis. Thomas has made some effort to support querying data directly from remote source without loading them into memory: https://github.com/roapi/roapi/pull/71. The underlying query engine, Apache Arrow Datafusion, supports running query on data stream on the granularity of partitions. This is not heavily used in roapi at the moment because I want to nail the in memory serving use-case first.
That's weird, I've never seen a corporation sent to jail for egregious crimes.
Primarily because recognizing natural immunity will reduce the likelihood constituents will opt for booster shots every six months.
> Why a year? Why not daily? The vaccinations happen throughout the day.

Because vaccinations take months, perhaps up to a year. In my country it's been at least half a year by now and we're at something like 55-60% of the population.

> Why not per lifetime? You can only get the second dose once.

Lifetime makes it an even worse comparison for natural myocarditis since you can get that in any year of your life. (But if need arises in the future for annual boosters against new strains or something like that, chances are that annual risks will again be the number to look for.)

> I could pick any interval, either customary (hourly, daily, monthly) or completely arbitrary (per 47 seconds) and get any number as a result.

You can pick garbage methodology and get garbage results, agreed. You can do pretty much what you want.

> Most of reported vaccine carditis happens a few days after second dose, so I compared those with the average incidence for a few (5) days.

Which is a complete red herring since how do you know that other kinds of myocarditis don't happen a few days after the initial viral infection as well? Either delay is completely irrelevant since shifting infections of individuals in time does nothing to overall statistics of incidence.
I wonder how customs would react if you go to them and ask to conference with your national embassy.
As a fellow Polish coder, I find the name extremely amusing. I don't know why the accent should be a problem.
Business manipulate people and dodge taxes without crypto too, and most of it happens in the open and is perfectly legal.

God forbid individuals get in on the tax dodging action!

Also, businesses dodge taxes with crypto? Not impossible, but never heard of that.
I was interested in ham radio in the early 70's. But in 1975 I discovered computers and that was the end of ham radio for me!
I'm curious what the limits of this are.

Say I create a business that receives $2000/m in contracting revenue instead of personal 1099 income. What if this business then acquires a property with a $2000/m mortgage and in turn rents that property to me for $1/mo. As all revenue is consumed by expenses would the business not be taxed? It seems like there has to be a reason why this strategy can not be used to avoid tax on all personal expenses?
“You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas.”

— Davy Crockett…and also me
It's tough to say anything "political" on HN. Damned if you, damned if you don't.

If you are clearly seriously concerned, you are likely to get downvoted and dismissed as histrionic.

I don't know what the solution is. But maybe best to give it a charitable reading and assume that it constitutes sticking their neck out to mention concern at all.
> ...I'm curious about the differences in work culture.

This is indeed a valid question to ask as a part of interview. How would a company describe its culture, what would they choose to emphasize to you.

Likewise, in you own professional experience, what does stand out as important for you workplace culture wise.

As for the US companies, they are quite diverse in general and industry wide. Some companies may be quite "international" in that sense. Not sure which industries may have a larger Western European presence on work force, but anything related to academia or research may have a geater chance to encounter post-docs from Europe.
Facebook sponsored posts and Twitch ads are the only ones that get away with it that I've came across - and noticed at least. When you inspect FB sponsored posts' HTML they're very obscured indeed, there's sure no instance of "Sponsored" anywhere in the page's HTML. I haven't really tried but there doesn't seem to be any well rated "FB ad blocker" extension either, whereas you can block Twitch ads easily with a number of extensions. OTOH I've never understood how it can be so rare, even Google's cash cows are [killed by UBO](https://imgur.com/a/fKJDKk2) from their own own store. To get away with it on mobile they had to gut all mobile extensions, somehow without losing their kingly market share. Funnily enough, even if FB are pretty much the only ones getting away from basic browser adblockers AFAIK, that segment is barely material for $FB as they get like 94% of their revenue from mobile anyhow (presumably quasi-all from the native apps).

If someone knows why obscuring HTML to force ads isn't more common practice, I'd be curious to know. I get it maybe for small websites that need the organic traffic (I assume Google would hit your SEO if your page structure looks like FB's), but how can it be so hard when it is indeed possible? I could understand if Google more specifically doesn't even try as they may lose adblocking nerds and they could use the data anyway, but I would expect to come across more sites that found solutions or clever ways of serving ads around UBO/ABP, at least make me use the picker. Is it really a colossal job to obscure ads and if it is reachable wouldn't medium-sized websites that find implementations remain unpatched for quite a while (big world out there)? Do you really need to own >$100B/Y business on godly margins or AWS to afford a fighting chance at that arm's race?
Another solution would to outlaw or super-regulate the US postal service... Blaming infrastructure only gets you so far.
But maybe far less/slower progress.

If you take capital away from people who are excellent capital allocators and give it to consumers we will just end up with more candy crush in app purchases.
Continuing work on a Blazor Server app + building out some related CI stuff.

And possibly messing around with hacking together some custom software for a Stream Deck.
I agree, because the effort required to filter out a 0.1x programmer is vastly smaller than trying to find a 10x outlier. Way more bang for the buck.
I gave you an example of my house, have not I? If I were interested in renting it I would not be "underwater" and any non-negative rent would be better for me than selling/renovating/keeping it off market. Note that I am not making a statement about every house, to rebut your assertion that all renters pay no less than the landlord's taxes + mortgage + insurance it's enough to show some (even one) counter example and not to prove that all or, even, typical renter does not do so. There are certainly rental properties that make profit on rent but I have few friends who rent their houses at less than their own expenses because they just cannot find tenants willing to pay more.

Seeing how in general rents had been lower than mortgage for quite a while it's sane to assume that I am not an owner of a unique house with a selected group of friends who are in this completely extreme situation.
I'm an American who has worked in both the US and Europe and noticed differences. Here's a few quick thoughts on working in the US:

- Do not talk about your salary. There are large disparities in income within the US and even within the same company for the same role, which is less common in Europe.

- Many American work environments have more of a hierarchy within the company, particularly in more corporate environments. US companies are often more stratified. Some to the degree of oil and water.

- As you already know, Americans value small talk more. They also tend to immerse more of their identity into their workplace. Avoid talking about politics. Opinions that are not left of center are essentially taboo to mention.

- A fraction of your co-workers will be on the prescription drug Adderall, or an equivalent, and you probably won't know. Adderall is common amongst those from upper middle class backgrounds. They often don't need it yet take it as a performance enhancer. Money matters more in the US, and there's more competition to get it.

- You will likely get less vacation. Not only that, you will be discouraged, though rarely explicitly, from taking it.

- Working in tech in the US can be much better than in Europe. You'll make more money. US tech companies, unlike say law or finance, do offer many benefits, and if you choose the right company you can work less than 40 hours a week. For example, I plan to quit my US tech job because the hours are from 9am to 6pm. If you have to show up before 10am and you're not paid a multiple of six figures it might be a bad deal. For tech, I'd prefer to work in the US.
You should let people make profiles, these profiles can accumulate points. Make a leader board. People submit their own jokes, most upvoted go on the leaderboard. And find a way to monetize without selling their data pls
Haluski. Cabbage, onions, egg noodles, butter, salt and pepper (to taste).

Eastern European comfort food. :)
Pointing to a few exceptions does not change the fact there is a clear political bias to reddit Admin action.

This is to be expected given the geographic location of their Admin staff, however to deny this to to pretend that CNN, MSNBC and Fox News are all "unbiased news sources" which everyone knows this to be false as well

While yes, Reddit Admins do take action on behavior, the Admins ideology allows certain groups more "benefit of the doubt" more warnings, more kid gloves than other ideologies do.

Any honest observer can see that in the pattern of Admin action
1) Because the comment said "billionaire"

2) "Wealthy person goes to jail" isn't actually all that newsworthy. Politicians are always going to get more news headlines because, ironically, or politics.
Haluski. :)
Now those northerners from Donegal... Sound like they're speaking with a golf ball in their mouth.
Most progressive tax systems only have you pay the higher rated on the amount in that bracket to avoid the disincentive.

More accurately, this is a form of alternative minimum tax- a higher floor than the normal brackets specifically for those who cross a specific threshold.

That does carry a hefty incentive to play games with your accounting, and is ultimately rather foolish since the people it was really aimed at when introduced in the US shifted their income to capital gains instead.

Now, it is mostly a way to punish people for becoming upper middle class.
I guess to someone in the US, 8 weeks sounds like a lot. But, especially if you consider holidays and sick time, 6-8 weeks total over the course of a year doesn't seem unreasonable. I've been in that range for total nonweekend days off for much of my recent career.
Malleus Maleficarum (The Hammer of Witches) History and Analysis
I think you assumed I was imagining high-bandwidth, but I was just thinking that even 80s dialup with BBS's or plaintext (encrypted) email would be useful, if it was long range and decentralized. That's absolutely possible with the HAM bands, especially shortwave.
Nope. Prohibition "War on Drugs" is stupid and wasteful of human lives. It was ordered by Nixon to attack minorities and hippies. Portland and Portugal prove decriminalizing all drugs works. All drugs should be legalized immediately.
Airflow: Much has been written about good and bad. My bads included poor support for event driven workflows; goods included ease of extensibility. A lot has happened since I stopped using it.

AWS stepfunctions: Goods include okay event driven workflows, integration with AWS products, offloading lower level infrastructure to AWS-only people. Bads are everything else - It gives you a set of remarkably and weirdly limited primitives from which you may assemble something like Airflow. If you have any important use case, avoid it like the plague because it is half-baked and limited to a degree that only amazon can accomplish, yet it is capable enough for an initial POC to seem impressive.
> Everyone is being punished, not just Asians.

No, everyone is being helped, not just Blacks and Hispanics. Even most White and Asian students who would benefit from accelerated study in one or more areas are excluded by NYC’s current program.

> Ditching G/T programs is going about this completely backwards

No, its not.

Ditching accelerated student-specific programs would be, but this plan vastly expands such programs, putting them in every kindergarten classroom, available to every student, rather than less than 10% of schools, available based on all-or-nothing test to four year olds.

> and hurts all students regardless of ethnicity or melanin content

How does making student-specific accelerated content with teachers trained in delivering it in every kindergarten classroom, and added experienced teachers in disadvantaged communities, rather than accelerated material made available to a small minority hurt everyone?

> The problem is that schools in poor and minority neighborhoods suck.

> Let's fix that problem

That’s...exactly the idea.
On the other hand, I, a fairly good Engineer, would favor Coinbase over many other tech companies precisely because their CEO had the courage to say what every other CEO is thinking, that is that a company is a place where money is exchanged for labour not a venue for promoting one's political agenda, no matter how righteous that agenda might feel.
And if you had an example that was attested in the region by that time period, you would have the start of a convincing theory.
Even if they didn't call it that, anything that allows drivers to redirect their attention seems dangerous to me. Because it is always going to be hard for a disengaged driver to regain control and evade an accident in the last second.
First time I read about Prefect, can you briefly share why you would use prefect over airflow if using only python? (that's what I am about to be doing soon...)
It calls into question if the original version had to be replaced at all. It probably didn't.
Working on my Investment Scorecard:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tBrZEMFK9XNWxiqOxE8o...
What Is the CQRS Pattern?
We should: just make them all legal
So then what is the defense for a similar subreddit that made fun of people that died after getting the vaccination. They followed the same "rules" you seem to claim here, they did not doxx anyone, they did not harass anyone, they did not brigade other subreddits, most of it was just side by side tweets of a person positing the vaccination announcement followed by a notification they died a few day later...
I love the idea of hydrogen, batteries seem toxic to me, to be able to crack water and then burn it later (or use in a fuel cell) seems much more natural.

One thing though if released Hydrogen will escape the earth's atmosphere right? Seems kinda risky to slowly lose all our water...
You seem to have missed the part where I stated bluntly I'm not pretending to have a better theory. I'm only pointing out that "It was gold" is supposition, not fact.

I'm hardly the only person here making that point. I don't know why it's getting so much push back. The article itself makes it clear they don't actually know, but then wants to talk as if the conclusion is certain. It's absolutely not.
I didn't understand the Sony comparison.
They are billionaires. They can probably just buy what they want, even for some of the more out-there base desires. Why risk jail time?

You seem to be going to tax minimisation - sure, the billionaires have a massive advantage when they engage with the law relative to you or I - but there is no reason they should go to jail for that. The basic assumption is if you have multiple accountants doing your tax return then the tax return should be legally proper. It got a lot of attention.
I'd say that with a sufficient number of users, software development becomes pretty much politics; No matter how you change the status quo, some people will complain. You can't make everyone happy.
When did you graduate from your district?
>But then it's no longer Amateur Radio,

Take your binary message, encrypt it, use a lookup table to encode the bits into common English words, send them in the clear.

>No sir, this is just a random word service which provides random words free on the air.
Generally Government is dramatically more efficient than a comparable private business—the difference is that Government failings tend to be publicly available information, while a corporation can blow thirty million dollars on ineffective marketing and unnecessary consultants and you'll never know.
The whole idea of long range is that my geographical area isn't a limiting factor. I'd be on a 20kbps VPN LAN with the 200 other people in the world who have similar technical backgrounds - especially if we were running this over shortwave.

And that's just the beginning, before people put in the effort to make it more accessible.

TCP/IP isn't the point, it's the encryption that lets me send encrypted, secure emails to my friends over a network that only wideband jamming or a natural disaster can take down.
That's already built in, I think.

My reading of this news[0] is that they're using much larger phased arrays that sit flat on the deck/roof. 100% electronic steering.

Granted, that's speculation on my part based on a decade of military satellite operations. Starlink stated that they are larger, higher gain, lower power usage, and won't shoot below 25 degrees azimuth. That says to me a 2-4x surface area, lays flat, phased array panel.

I wouldn't expect much drop in speed, even in the worst waters, except for rain fade and if the roll of the boat causes a satellite to go out of sight to the dish. In those scenarios, I think most people can live with Netflix being barely functional.

0: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/08/starl...
Are all these new defi products just eGold HYIP 2.0 with more steps? How does one not just jump straight to thinking ponzi as soon as they see the claimed rate of returns with no risk?
This kind of post only works if you get to judge their mission statement as insincere. Could you, without looking it up right now, identify what Coinbase's mission statement is? What specific actions do you think they've taken that you read as being misaligned with their stated mission and caused you to only believe they care about profit?
> That's the key thing nobody is telling people about the so-called "attention economy": it's whole point is to make things as inefficient as possible

Thank you for putting that thought into words.
To avoid significant layoffs they'd something like 10% of their user base to donate $20/year. I'm far from an expert on nonprofit finances, but that strikes me as a tough but potentially doable goal
It’s a bit broad, but spending money because it made me feel like I was doing something.

What a waste. I’d go to the bookstore, buy a stack of books — because I wanted to read and relax — only to fall asleep because I was so exhausted for running around. I’m kind of ashamed to even admit I lived a life like that.

But one positive about stockpiling those books over the years: the pandemic have me ample time to read some of them!
License to kill bugs: Coming soon in CJEU decision C-13/20
What are your thoughts on Australia's current lockdowns?
10.9 is my daily driver and I'm typing on it right now! I built a Hackintosh with a 4790K and a GTX 780, which more than fast enough for anything I need to do. Interface is great, apps are great, stability is great, and I can browse the web in modern Chromium.
No. It's RPC (remote procedure call), it's not FFI or has anything to do with FFI, unless you have a different definition than mine.
Well, you're in luck! The IRS has prepared a 56-page document on just this topic [1]. The summary on page 3 is:

> To be deductible, a business expense must be both ordinary and necessary. An ordinary expense is one that is common and accepted in your trade or business. A necessary expense is one that is helpful and appropriate for your trade or business. An expense does not have to be indispensable to be considered necessary.

Your particular example with free or below-market rent would almost certainly be considered tax evasion -- in fact, I believe this is one of the things that Allen Weisselberg is charged with [2].

[1] https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p535.pdf

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-02/trump-per...
Try playing chess rapid/blitz while listening to music or having any background noises whatsoever - the rating drop is instant for me.
> Or perhaps the 'hobby' really is dead and there just are not the tinkerers there once were.

The tinkerers are there, but encryption is a must-have. If HAM can't make that work, it's likely to die.
I mentioned this on another post:

The Tor Browser without Tor. It’s Firefox with all the “extras” stripped away.

The instructions on how to do so are easy to find on the web. It also supports all the same add-ons/plugins.
Everything you say makes sense within the context of Bitcoin's proof-of-work paradigm, that there aren't any reasonable solutions to these problems within it (there's no good way to add negative feedback to lower the hashrate, there's no good way to calculate a better lower hashrate), but it misses that there are alternative paradigms like proof-of-stake that avoid the problem of too much energy use entirely. Once proof-of-stake cryptocurrencies become more popular and fully prove the technique works at large scale, I hope other cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin follow along.