skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Limited companies in most jurisdictions I believe.

In the UK:

Your company pays corporation tax based on profits during the tax year. Whatever money is left can be disbursed to employees, shareholders, etc.

You as an individual pay tax based on your yearly income. There are several tax brackets depending on how much you make, as well as "free" brackets (you don't pay anything on the first ~12k of employment income, and there's an equivalent for dividends but much smaller).

Anything you pay yourself from your company then incurs this individual-level taxation, but since you can choose how much you pay yourself you can only pay the minimum (to stay within "acceptable" tax brackets) and keep the rest in the company for next year or for company-level investments (new hardware, expanding the business, etc). For limited-company contractors, the usual strategy is to pay yourself ~12k/year of salary and the rest is in the form of dividends which you can vary depending on your situation & needs.

Is it complex to manage? Depends on the jurisdiction; some are more evolved than others. In the UK I find it super easy and while I can bitch all day about the amount of tax I'm paying, at least the documentation is quite clear and they make it super easy to manage everything. I do have an accountant but at this point it's mostly for advice and "just in case" than anything else - day to day is handled by FreeAgent and I just have to make sure the data is entered properly and the software takes care of the rest.
How exactly would automation assist in making an economic system more democratic and beneficial to the general population? Greater automation would simply push people further away from any wealth generated, creating more powerful cronies, and continuing the trend of low paid, low quality, serf like jobs in the service industry.
Paper with a signature doesn't do anything either.

However, NFTs are notarized, instantly transferrable, and trackable pieces of paper.

s/instantly/fast -> NFT
> Any non fungible asset or piece of data can be represented as an NFT (not exclusively for trading / speculation).

No it can't. In particular any physical non-fungible asset can't be represented by an NFT in a way that is useful. This is because there is no mechanism within NFTs or the blockchain to enforce that the owner of the NFT must also be the owner of the physical asset.
There's a bunch of little scripts I've had to write for my workflow. Time is short so I've taken parts and pieces from experiments, treated them as black boxes, and wrote interfaces to make them handle way more than I ever anticipated. It usually looks bad and has little useful documentation for the heavy math inside but it works and will work for years. I try to spend time on making the interface clear and friendly for anyone else that uses it after me but the internals are a nest of wires and obtuse mechanisms that I can barely remember how they work.

We had an excel spreadsheet that was used for at least a decade to process some measurements. There were a lot of magic numbers shoved in the equations to handle some issues with the equipment along with math that I'm surprised Excel can handle. The results would be correct but it was a total black box but the steps to get to them were nearly incomprehensible. A coworker decided to spend some time upgrading it to Matlab to allow for some better interfacing with new test equipment we were buying. She thought it would take a week, it took months. Talking to the original author was useless as he couldn't remember how he built any of it. Finally she got it working with both the old and new test equipment and now has properly documented everything so it explains the use of any magic numbers. I did not envy that job at all.
Mozilla partners with The Markup to study Facebook tracking and data collection
Yes, Gold is definitely the closest asset class that aligns with Bitcoin. Not a pyramid scheme
Visited the one at Gettysburg a few years ago and it was pretty neat. It's like the 1800s version of virtual reality/3d video.
Maybe because the average user sees something special about them and wants to learn more. Maybe taking a mindset of curiosity and learning will lead to more understanding than criticism
What hate ? Most people who hate on the medical profession are antivax. There has been violent actions taken against the medical workers in vaccination and testing centers in Belgium and France.
It’s not just propaganda though. Anyone who has family or friends in China has heard gripes about how much testing they are being subject to. You can’t really dismiss them as being brainwashed with the party line or something. China has a zero COVID policy, and they are extremely aggressive about that. I guess you are arguing that these policies are just applied to the cities and not the villages?
My opinion flipped 3 times when watching it.

It like magnetic truth pole, the needle just spins.
This won't help you, to other freelancers in the same situation, there is this amazing video by Mike Monteiro, titled F*ck You, Pay Me [1]

He has an example where the same thing happened, an entire department got laid off.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U
Capitalism is the ultimate democracy, everyone votes with their labour and their purchases. The more regulation, the less power the individual has. Of course, some regulation is necessary to avoid abuses.

Discussions should be on the level of what rules allow society to reach a better result, not just try to artificially fix problems because it leads to even bigger problems.
Would you get a building permit for electric heaters the size of factories heating the environment anywhere in the world (apart from outlaw places and places where religion > public interests)? I cant think of such a place somehow...
HR Departments distrustful of sky-rocketing Engineering salaries
I get this. It's true, a lot of code is written and we don't know the circumstances that led to it. Those circumstances could have led to monstrosities -- I have created a good many myself. I try to empathize with those people and commits of the past.

HOWEVER, sometimes we see things that no mess of external pressure and crazy circumstance could have produced. No, these gems are born out of individual madness (maybe I've even been lucky enough to produce some myself, one can hope).

Example, no. But here's a clue: they are usually accompanied by an equally insane commit message. "Magic." "Kill me." "Why not?" or the ultimate "".

One technique that helps me keep myself sane: every commit message should describe "why", everything else is in code. I like to think it prevents a lot of future problems.
It is not a different debate, though. If, as you say, there is literally no point in making an NFT without utility now, yet being an NFT does not distinguish NFTs' utility from the alternatives, then what is the point? It is just that which follows in the quote: ...unless the minter is someone popular and in that case the NFT is a bet on their fame rising in the future and becomes a speculative asset (just like regular celebrity art).
that. Plus you can add a secret to the paper that allows unlocking the content at the URL, which normal users would not have. That secret can only be decrypted by the owner of the paper.
1. You may not want to dedicate resources to creating and maintaining a market place. It's much less work to just add a digital item to your game / product. There might be a better use of your time / resources.

2. There already exist NFTs that take a x% cut and give it to the creator.
Hi George, Oscar and Dan.
Congrats on the launch! Nyckel sounds super interesting. It looks like you mostly focus on classification tasks. Any plans to also support other tasks such as object detection or image segmentation?
This is really going to be university/department/situation dependent. Unless you are a professor at a top school/department you likely are not going to have highly qualified PhD candidates lining up to to research with you, most professors have to just take what they can get. Unless a PhD candidate is truly disastrous I believe the professor still gets way more benefit than the stipend is costing them.
Why is it bad information? What is wrong about "water is ideal"?

No one feels like shit just because they drink soda from time to time, and obviously soda is better than not drinking anything.

Yeah 100% water is best, it's what I do as well, but come on have some empathy.
Pro Tip: get Dells business models like the latitude series

The business Dell laptops blow anything lenovo has ever made out of the water in terms of specs, build quality, and serviceability. Also Dell’s bios is way better and easier to do stuff in. I’ve had a t420 and I thought it was crap compared to the Dell business laptops. The cooling, plastic casing material, and serviceability just isn’t there. On the T420 my palm rest cracked and to replace it you pretty much had to fully take apart the laptop to get it off. ifixit rated that particular repair at a pretty high difficulty, so instead I took the reusable components out, binned it, and used a Dell latitude.

Currently I don't own a Dell business laptop however. Right now I'm using an Intel NUC Laptop and it does pretty good.
Using here an X220. I replaced the HDD by an SDD and extended the RAM - it is still working. Currently I'm looking for a new small "44" battery (which fits completely into the body) but the replacement I received has a malfunction. I've still a 44+ which provides a longer runtime but also weights more. Plus the excellent hardware-maintenance manual! Of course always running with Linux.
The new models are more sturdy (good) and provide a lot more CPU and GPU-Power (AMD) but the RAM is soldered and the battery not swap-able.

We need laws which enforce sustainable devices wich swap-able disks, main-memory, batteries and long time spare part supply including maintenance manuals. It shall be EXPENSIVE and UNATTRACTIVE for both vendors and buyers to purchase devices which doesn't offer this. How? Put well understandable "traffic lights" on every device by category {software replaceable, spare parts, maintenance manual, batteries}. Every single red light needs to increase the price by 30%[1]. I don't call for prohibition! Sometimes somebody need something extra flat and soldered and whatever reason - but even how uninformed you are - you must be aware of it how you harm yourself and anyone else.

Apple MacBook:
Software not replaceable + 30%
Batteries glued and not purchasable from third parties + 30%
Maintenance manual not published + 30%
This adds 90% extra tax upon price.

Lenovo ThinkPad:
Batteries screwed or glued, even require buying a "guarantee" for replacement service + 30%
Main-Memory soldered + 30
This adds 60% extra tax upon price

Smartwatch which is glued? Guess what! And I'm not saying adding another 30% extra for the not replaceable software because it allow it to be an embedded appliance. In case of Smartphones this will be another 30%.

I hope both customers and vendors will change their behavior quickly. If not we have a lot money to spend for health, schools and social support. What I don't want and not require is that you use your laptop for ten years. That unfair and not necessary but something possible and even normal. And if you're a developer or gamer, sell the old one and buy a new one. As long the devices can be used a long time it is good.

[1] I've chosen a high value to ensure an effect, especially - but not limited - to the high end market.
> routine activity

But as you observe yourself, that's not the majority of healthcare, which is emergencies and unforseeable needs. Hence there has to be an insurer of some kind.

> There's no reason someone shouldn't be able to get a physical or a colonoscopy the same way cosmetic surgery and dental care are done. These are cookie cutter outpatient services. The deviation from instance to instance is small and predictable so insurance should not be needed on the consumer side.

Sure, whatever, the small part of the healthcare market that actually functions like a market - consumer choice, legible prices - can be left to get on with it. Let's not let that get in the way of a functioning provision of necessary care to the majority of people.
>why the fuck would you want scarcity on longswords?

You would want scarcity on longswords if your business model included selling loot crates that may contain longswords.
I see this perspective a lot and it baffles me. If you say something and in return are called "anti-science" you are not being "silenced". You are hearing the reaction to the words that you spoke. We're well on the path towards "censorship" being a word that means absolutely nothing.
Corruption can’t be decoupled from any human organizational system, though. The system needs to be designed in a way to take corruption into account and minimize it.

In unregulated capitalism, corruption provides a huge competitive advantage, so controls must be put in place to counteract that. Typically that’s done with government intervention.

The idea that we can “blame cronyism, not capitalism”, is a red herring. Cronyism and corruption is something capitalism, as a system, must be able to deal with, or else capitalism is a poor system.

It’s like saying “don’t blame the engine, blame friction forces” for why an engine has poor qualities. Friction is a given and will always exist, it’s the poor engineering design of the engine that’s the problem. The design didn’t mitigate the friction appropriately.
The rope data structure is an interesting concept worth checking out!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_(data_structure)
That is a problem that needs cracking but you are starting to see the solution emerging on the crypto and DeFi work.
The problem I see is that it is applied to everyone. Children have an extremely low risk profile and the potential side effects might surpass a covid infection by some magnitudes.
FWIW, every data structure / algo interview I've done allowed me to use built in functions for sorting (I work at FAANG).

In general, I dislike the interview process too, but there just isn't a better way to do these, as is clear from this large thread. If you look at it from the company's perspective, you have to conduct interviews at scale, and it can't hand off the same system problem to everyone.

You're being tested on your problem solving ability. It doesn't correlate directly to your job, but the general assumption is, if you can solve puzzles after studying for them, the chance that you can solve any random problem thrown at you is high.
My T430s: would be nice if I can pull out better battery life (have two new ones) and has some occasional issues with the wiring for the network hardware kill switch. It's perceptibly slower on some pages, but only slightly (never bothered to figure out if it was the old WiFi or the CPU, an i7 for the time). It has some superficial cracks on it. It would also be nice to have USB-C and all that new stuff. But: with a screen upgrade (1080p with the ASIC card) and the best laptop keyboard I ever used and spare parts online galore and the potential at least to easily swap the BIOS and upgrade further, and perfectly fine and performant for the software development I do, it's close to perfect. Maybe a T430/quad-core would be nicer, but I'd rather just own my work computer (T470p, which is also close to perfect as well, but in other ways.)

So, it is rather funny to confirm again what some others might be thinking. The hardware is old and will have longer-term support issues, but for now and for a long time, I am glad not to think about having to get a new laptop for any use.
Same story from the Associated Press: https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-zynga-inc-aab...
What you're describing here is not capitalism but rather a single unwanted scenario that can come from it, specifically when there are too few producers in a category or, in your example, when there is only one.
Hi Cyril_HN! Thanks for your question. What you are asking for is sometimes called "part of speech" tagging. We currently don't support that but will add it down the road along with more advanced image outputs like detection.
Regulations is what largely enables cronyism.
I honestly find that kindof frustrating. I look at code I wrote a year ago and think - why didn't I do it this (better) way. And I also think - haven't I learned to write decent code by now? Why do I keep writing code like that when I should know how to write it better.
In the common case, as they exist today, with current popular NFT projects, possession is generally sufficient to prove ownership. There are instances of theft, other forms of illegitimate ownership, weird IP conflicts, etc. but these are not the common case as NFTs exist today. Getting hung up on edge cases is missing the forrest for the trees.
Galvanized steel and clear-coat paint finish are a huge part of why cars don’t rust as much as they used to. (But salt will eventually take a toll if you are coastal or live where roads are regularly salted.) Alternative materials like stainless-steel coated aluminum, or plastic coatings also contribute.

Here’s an article contemporaneous to the rise of clearcoats and galvanization: https://www.csmonitor.com/1985/1025/hrust.html
E-bikes help with this. No need to be sweaty if an electric motor is doing most of the work.
dmarcian.com is great! The CEO is the primary author of the spec itself. Lots of great insight into the data that’s kept up to date.
Have you considered the possibility that those “so many smart people” understand these things better than you? Have you considered the possibility that the craft beer industry can’t work or isn’t feasible to occur in other sectors?
Cars and trucks? That's nothing. Go along Vernon Blvd in Queens and you might be interrupted by large commercial dumpster-trailers being staged in your lane.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FHZG-kPX0AQs4wf?format=jpg&name=...
The answer to this question has always been ideology. Establishing a deep an sincere belief in the purpose of an undertaking on the part of its functionaries is the most durable way to run a community of any sort.
Successful anarchist programs require some degree of ideological commitment to a greater cause. Switzerland is probably the most decentralized society on earth and you will notice the incredibly tight sense of right/wrong throughout Swiss society.
Some European carriers are already blocking Apple’s Private Relay
If all the waste heat was using for heating, then you might have a point. If you have to start burning extra electricity (fans, cooling systems) to keep your GPU or ASIC cool, your argument falls apart. I also don't think people are using mining farms with 1000s of units as a heat source for human habitation.

This is the same old straw man, you can make the same argument for Twitter or Hatebook. For all their ills, there is some human benefit from us using them collectively. Crypto is unusable and always will be. Everyone in it is on the pump & dump train. It is all speculation and chasing dumb money.
I would argue this is neither a lot nor too much. That's my personal opinion. But I would use this statistic as an argument to relax a little and allow for controlled spread of Omicron and have the pandemic become endemic finally.
Cronyism is essential part of Big Government, something that is not necessary for Capitalism but completely necessary for Socialism.
I'm Oscar, btw. :)
It’s to prevent allocating the array for varargs.
Wikipedia says "The law prohibits accessing a computer without authorization, or in excess of authorization."

The law itself: "knowingly and with intent to defraud, accesses a protected computer without authorization, or exceeds authorized access, and by means of such conduct furthers the intended fraud and obtains anything of value, unless the object of the fraud and the thing obtained consists only of the use of the computer and the value of such use is not more than $5,000 in any 1-year period"

Since it explicitly mentions the value of the use of a computer as something that can be illegal to take, the main open question would be whether the $5000 of such use is per computer, or per crime.

Another option would be "(C) intentionally accesses a protected computer without authorization, and as a result of such conduct, causes damage and loss." if the electricity cost can count as "damage and loss".
> Laughter is yet another trait some might see as typically human

In humans, humour is a debugging process, which is fundamentally rational. The very fact that a statement can be correct or erroneous is the basis of language and therefore education and social evolution.

> there are hardly any fundamental differences between humans and other animals

Evolution is true. But... the ESA and NASA have sent a space telescope to a stable position at Lagrange point 2, and the PRC has a rover exploring the dark side of the Moon.

Humans do have greatness.
I’m currently rewriting the first application I wrote on my own.

So much code to do pretty simple stuff… but it worked…
> Capitalism is the ultimate democracy, everyone votes with their labour and their purchases.

So only those who can perform jobs and buy things are able to vote? That sounds dystopian to me.
nice to have ts+linter+formatter together, it took me one or two hours to set up with my own vim(using vite/volar), so it saves me some time.

what I really like a new Node.js(e.g. deno) is actually its module system, I don't like the `npm i` in node.js pulls hundreds of modules, a standard library that contains most commonly needed modules is the key. If deno does not do that, I probably will never try that(as I can have the bundle of tooling done myself in one-or-two hours, vite/volar now makes this even simpler).

In short, I will prefer gold-quality set of modules or APIs(e.g. glibc) to the 100% flexibility "you pull whatever you want freely now even over http URL", for security and stability reasons.
BitTorrent slaps so hard as a protocol, and DHTs are absolutely brilliant. With all of the recent hype about decentralization with the rise of crypto, I'm surprised BitTorrent hasn't seen much hype or revitalization as well.
Boo hoo, he "stole" what, $2 worth of computing resources/electricity by doing this?

No human has been harmed here. No property has been substantially harmed either. Anything he "stole" should've been made public for free in the first place.
And what is your solution?

You can say something is flawed, but compared to what, and how would you improve it?
My parents moved a house after 15years, the amount of useless shit they end-up accumulating was staggering, but worse they didn't want to throw it away!

There is a balance of minimalism and buying/keeping everything.
Sounds like a great company to work for.
My bugbear with make (and even the better remake) is finding out why things are not happening. "No rule to make target" is such an uninformative error message. Could it not identify rules which would make the target were they not failing?
I would have thought that the inner circle would be the Via Santa Sofia-Via Senato circle road.

I’ve never been to the city-proper, only the train station, but it seems strange that any of the missing 20% would be in the city center.
For the not so OCaml savvy, can you recommend a blog post that explain, what programming constructs this adds

Maybe a before and after, but one that focus on expressiveness, what you were not able to say/express in OCaml before, that is now* possible

not just speed or performance

*s/not/now
Casey Neistats video about painted bike path obstructions in New York comes to mind: https://youtu.be/bzE-IMaegzQ (2011)
It's from a DHT/BitTorrent crawler that runs around downloading all the torrent metadata it can find I've been running for ages.
On the other end, it's fun when you encounter a bug and go search for an answer and end up reading an answer on Stack Overflow that _you wrote_ 5 years ago and totally forgot about it.
> A Ponzi Scheme is where the sum of all investor's reported account values exceed the total value of assets held by the institution.

Also how fractional reserve banking works