skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know it's popular to decry every single dollar lost as a critical dollar (the difference between eating and starving), but if you're selling $600+ arts and crafts on Etsy, you should a) probably pay the US government for creating the infrastructure enabling you to do that in the first place, and b) the taxes are not going to mean very much to you in any event, especially considering how we structure our tax system to enable folks making less to pay less overall in income taxes at the end of the year.

Edit: There's a clear anti-government push in this comment section, which I don't think is representative of HN at large. I'm curious where it's coming from, if not organically, though I admit my lizard brain is more likely just pattern matching despite there not being any actual pattern at all.
Sony spent 20+ years building up and planning their 1st party studios. Microsoft could do that too, but it would take 20 more years. They don't have the time for that and acquisition is really their only option. I don't like it either, but that's the reality of it.
Wow, RK3399 is the performance option. I recall the GPU in that device being extremely slow to the point where it was quite difficult to get the inking performance in Google Keep to be acceptable instead of terrible. That was in 2016.

And now in the Year of Our Lord 2022 it's being marketed as a "pro" phone?
I have removed that part as it was accidental leftover from the early drafts that I forgot to remove.
Awesome thank you. I am an old man trying to get into software engineering and think in graphs. This is perfect.
2x4TB WD reds[1] in RAID1 on an old (ca. 2008) desktop I turned into a low-spec Linux box. These days I just keep it powered off most of the time, so I don't even really pay for electricity. Unfortunately even though I'm using reds, which are designed for NAS use cases, I've had two drives fail since I set up this rig in 2015, which I suppose puts me at ~$30/year, though I use the 4TB for lots else as well. It's durable enough for me since it's easy enough to notice when a drive fails and very unlikely that the other will fail before you can replace it.

[1]: https://www.microcenter.com/product/634744/wd-4tb-red-plus-5...
i'm not an expert, but it seems like other countries use lower power levels compared to what the FAA wants to use. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60042178

also, and this is just my opinion, but the absence of plane crashes does not mean it's safe! some faulty things exist for years before anything happens and/or the issue is noticed.
Currently I have an old NAS with 2 1TB drives in RAID1. At some point my drives will be full and I will migrate to a new system that will be slightly cheaper but requires a partner.

At some point I will buy a simple Raspberry PI (or cheaper system) with one multi TB drive using USB. A friend of mine will do the same. A cron job will run a sync on the drives at night. 50% of the drive will me mine, 50% of the drive will be his. So the system has redundant storage and it is off-site.
To be fair, most of the taxes we American citizens have to pay were enacted long before the IRS ever had a system to actually monitor and record our transactions.

Another poster mentioned selling a used couch for $600 and having that be reported to the IRS. It would then be incumbent on the seller to prove it was a loss and not a capital gain. Now I assume the auditor would let the seller off the hook for something like this, but the key point is that a transaction that no one was reasonably expected to report is now reportable and must be documented.
>This sounds a bit like "ms should just make better games". Games are hard. Extremely hard.

The answer to this conundrum for them should be, "Tough titties, learn to compete or die, but we will not allow you to bully your way into a market with money."
I think that is a legitimate question. The issue becomes there is no standard or method to ensure acceptable ads. A static ad without javascript is acceptable to me. Maybe not to someone else.

But ... the ad industry would never accept a static ad more akin to a billboard than a tracking device. Many times in the past malware has found its way into networks run by the more highly regarded ad systems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvertising

If a content publisher refuses to let people read articles without a subscription or with an ad blocker, I am ok with that. It is their choice.
We should be much more worried about population collapse – Elon Musk
So anyone who pays their rent through these services can expect that to go up
The funding did occur during the dot-com boom, however the quality of the team was quite high. Mike Boich, Andy Herzfeld, Susan Kare and Bud Tribble were all members of the early Macintosh team. Mike had several successful previous startups return large amounts to the funders and Andy was also well regarded for Radius and General Magic as well.

Working at Eazel was great! I was there when the team was quite small; less than fifteen people. Eventually our tiny workspace was bursting at the seams and all the cubes were dismantled and rows and rows of picnic tables from Costco were brought. OK, that part sucked big-time. It reminds me of high density floor plans at Amazon.

Most of us were on IRC all the time and it was always funny to see a majority of the office silently stand up to go on a lunch trip that had just been arranged on an IRC channel.

Andy was a huge proponent of the Free Software Foundation and Richard Stallman gave us our employee orientation. Yes, he did put on a robe and wear a hard disk platter on his head during the final convocation.

Because of the reputation of the founders and the quality of the staff, there was always someone interesting stopping by; Jeff Raskin, Steve Jobs, Alan Kay, Bill Atkinson, Mitch Kapor, Heidi Roizen, etc. I remember most of these people because I would always have to ask myself "How did a kid who grew up on a farm and didn't have a college degree end up at a place where I could talk to people like this?" I had a similar feeling when I was at Be and Apple as well.

The early GNOME developers who were worked closely with were also an amazing group of people. Nat Friedman and Miguel de Icaza, Raph Levien, Havoc Pennington and many more.

I mentioned the Eazel team having a huge impact on Apple as well. I was able to learn from these people, go to Apple with them and watch them do great work. Darin Adler and John Sullivan, who already were legends to me because of System 7 went on to found the Safari team along with Don Melton, Maciej Stachowiak and Ken Kocienda. John Harper, who was respected for the the sawmill/sawfish window manager, went on to create CoreAnimation and I believe large parts of SwiftUI. Bud Tribble became a senior executive behind many of Apple's technology. The Apple Watch is just one of his projects. Pavel Cisler brought his input from Tracker at Be and Nautilus at Eazel to Finder, where he is still managing the team. There are many more that didn't make the trip to Apple, but ended up at Android and other places doing great things.

As for the day to day work, it was a lot like any other programming job. We used gcc, edited code, compiled, checked things into CVS, managed bugs in Bonsai, automated builds in Tinderbox, etc. When I think about it, you could probably take 2001 me and drop me into 2022 and I wouldn't be all that shocked. Same processes, different tools. I would be super disappointed things hadn't progressed the way that I had envisioned though.
That section was removed as it was leftover from the early drafts.
Why was this included in a Covid-19 stimulus bill?
Reminds me this Parks and Recs quote:

> Whatever happened to “Hey, I have some apples, would you like to buy them?” “Yes, thank you!” That’s as complicated as it should be to open a business in this country.

With sympathies to Ron Swanson though, I don't think it can really be that simple.
Yes. As a kid I mowed the yard of a rent house down the street a few times. Unbeknownst to me they reported to the IRS and my dad didn't. Time passes, IRS sent my dad a bill for more than what I earned mowing that yard.
You could run them on Linux for how long? MS will not allow any competition for its dominance over PC gaming. And trust me, they will use gamepass against Linux gaming and Valve and others.
The CPU/RAM/storage seem roughly reasonable for that price? And in general, I'd say it's only a rip-off if its price is out of line with what it costs to make or maybe if it's out of line with anything compatible, in which case it's beating everything else by virtue of 99% of phones not having its features (kill switches, nearly-mainline kernel, non-Android distro support) and what phones do compete on features lose on price (Librem 5) or specs (non-pro Pinephone).
yes, as long as you're the type that doesn't try to blame all your suffering on externalities, whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
Do not use as a daily driver. It is a useful toy, but requires massive amounts of more development
We create physical photo books, sometimes two copies. These are a (small, curated) subset of all the digital photos we have.

We keep the digital photos backed up on an external SSD and on iCloud (auto-synced from several devices), too.

Bottom line: we stopped trying to obsessively 'preserve' digital hoards. It's such a waste of our time, and is a questionable goal anyway.
Wow; nostalgia!

This was a paid product, though?
If their goal was to acquire and learn from the scummiest dark pattern designers, then I agree.
BalenaOS – Run Docker containers on embedded devices
I think it's madness that we don't work like this. We would greatly increase productivity. Unfortunately, like most new ideas, few people see the potential.
Oh, it was viewed with extreme suspicion and opposed by many, especially those working in IT. Just don't forget that Russia is a dictatorship with a dysfunctional parliament (Единая Россия, Putin's party, has more than 50% of seats) and so doesn't care much about people's opinion. I don't know much about Australian government, but it's probably more democratic than that.
It's classic, fighting the last war, for the "security" agencies. They think that by surveilling their own people they can protect the politicians. What they have in fact done is collected huge dossiers on their public (and gov employees), which can be compromised and used by foreign powers for targeted misinformation, agitprop, and blackmail. They are the weakest link.

Since the rise of PGP and fall of key-escrow it has become more and more clear that spreading free (ussurveilled) communication between individuals and businesses was necessary to the operation of capitalist democracies. However, they can't give up their dreams of controlling their own populations so they will cede them to competing totalitarian states, which already know how to control their populations and can well afford to breach such "security".
From your link:"Nach deutschem und österreichischem Recht ist umstritten, ob ein Totalverzicht auf das Urheberrecht zugunsten der Allgemeinheit möglich ist. Die wohl herrschende Meinung schließt dies unter Berufung auf § 29 UrhG-D bzw. § 19 UrhG-Ö aus. Daher gibt es dort keine Gemeinfreiheit durch Rechteverzicht wie in den USA,"

So the current legal opinion is that you cannot 'give' your work to public domain. Minority opinion believes you can.

So for your work to enter public domain, you just have to pass away and wait 70 years (or whatever the specific requirement was).
It would be very funny if El Salvador gets dutch disease via Bitcoin mining.
I’m a fan of blockchain technology and am convinced it could solve some of the problems of El Salvador’s regular folks. Unfortunately their president seems to be an incompetent reckless moron, who seems to pick only the bad parts of the tech.
So is the OLPC program still going on? Is it dead?
There's a (humorously) fine line between the apparent antipodes of pretending not to know something and thinking that it's such universal common knowledge that there's no need to discuss it. :-)
KYC all the things! Meanwhile, https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/fincen-fil...

> A huge trove of secret government documents reveals for the first time how the giants of Western banking move trillions of dollars in suspicious transactions, enriching themselves and their shareholders while facilitating the work of terrorists, kleptocrats, and drug kingpins. And the US government, despite its vast powers, fails to stop it.

Even criminal convictions have had little effect beyond fines, https://wallstreetonparade.com/2020/09/3-count-felon-jpmorga...

> Every American should be horrified by this latest report from the ICIJ; every American should be outraged that the U.S. is now second only to the Cayman Islands for hiding dirty money for criminals.
The opposing party is very much in favor of Amazon not paying taxes.
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I don't believe he mentioned selling any properties he owns. I'm sure his things are safe in high end residences.

I appreciate you sharing your story, but I can't imagine Brian Chesky's experience is at all relatable.
But how will venmo know what is commercial vs. paying rent? If you can mark it as rent and they won’t report, then merchants will just mark everything in such ways. In practice Venmo will just report everything for safety.
That would constitute tax fraud right? And intentionally bypassing the reporting built into the platform surely increases your culpability.

If you're doing a relatively low volume you might get away with it, but you are committing a crime.
Thanks for sharing this. I remember checking it out a few years ago when Open Source Ecology first started doing their workshops. They've come a long way. I love how their system is designed to build modules to build machines to build more modules.
Unlike web1 and web2, web3 is an ethos more than a set of technologies. web1 and web2 are descriptions of the past, whereas web3 is a vision for the future.
> I'm not sure the original poster intended that way or not -- good to know though!

Interesting, what do you think the original poster meant by it? Do you think perhaps their finger slipped or something?

> not sure I've ever covered my ears and said "I wont listen" to anybody

When you come across a street preacher complaining that American is going to burn for allowing whatever their pet list of sins is, do you sit there and listen to their entire spiel? Or do you dismiss them as a crank and walk on, because you've got better things to do with your time?
> Considering how much of a surveillance state AUS has, they likely do have the data to draw these conclusions

> It really does show how effective they are in also reducing the severity of the condition, which is a very important point to make

This is exactly what I was referring to in my previous comment. These are hypotheses, and professionals are needed to establish causality. This _is_ a nuanced issue, it's not simple (despite what almost everyone seems to think), and we should start ignoring simplistic sound bites on this topic.
Binance spoofy bots cause mass liquidations
Those taxes already existed.
> Microsoft has not been making money on xbox. They're not investing money made with xbox. They're using Office/Windows/Azure funds to boost Xbox, and it's not a fair fight. Sony and Nintendo don't have that kind of money.

Torn on this. On the one hand I completely agree. I doubt there'll be any anti-trust action, first because that doesn't seem to be a thing anymore and second because I can't imagine the American authorities getting in the way of Microsoft's competition with what are, at the end of the day, Japanese companies.

As a gamer who's loved Activision's franchises since childhood, they've run them all into the ground and if Microsoft can do better with them then let them try.

Side thought - maybe Nintendo and Sony will finally join forces to compete, as they almost did in the 90s.
This comment was amazing.
Then it's for good reason Business laws are not drafted and implemented by people like you. Arbitrary and narrow rule of thumb does not make a legislative bill in any functioning modern society.
Yes. Everyone should pay the taxes they owe. If you want exclusions for these people codify it into law.
If we got really really good at imaging the antineutrino flux, is it possible that we could detect the presence of not only nuclear reactors but nuclear weapons? Could we implement almost physically impossible to evade nuclear weapon detection at ports and in major cities to make nuclear terrorism almost impossible?
Everything is for sale for the right price. And what is good for Unity does not mean it's good for the consumers.
TIL, I was going to say "eastern not western" but apparently after eastern got kneecapped by Heartland western rose to prominence because one of its judges is a turd, great.
Pffft, as if anyone actually could just use Git commands without learning the internals.
This is the amount accumulated. So e.g. 30x $20 transactions, not $600+ arts and crafts.
> Because it's a heavily entrenched industry that's not easily disrupted, where each brand has carved it's on territory by geography and there's this silent gentlemen's agreement of "you stay out of my market, I stay out of yours and we all win

Do you know that this is the case or are you speculating? It seems like there's an intense amount of competition, especially with imported farming equipment. (I have no idea if John Deere sells overseas or if it's mostly a domestic brand.)

Some other manufacturers that seem to have big branding in the U.S. are New Holland (just found out they're owned by Fiat.. small world), Mahindra, and Kubota. Are those all part of this cartel that you're alleging exists?
The major non-Nintendo consoles have de-emphasized splitscreen and party games for a long time -- once we hit the PS4 and Xbox One era, it felt like most games didn't even support splitscreen at all, aside from a few indies. I think those games tend to rely on in-person interaction to boost the fun, and MS/Sony have decided to prioritize selling additional consoles instead of making one usable for multiple people.
> Great, let's nickle and dime the single mother selling arts and crafts on Etsy while the mega corps get away with billions.

Laws apply to everyone.
why not just give the FAA all the time it wants

For the same reason we allow multiple private companies in multiple countries to pollute the skies with (eventually) millions of satellites:

Sacred, holy, internet. Without which all human civilization could crumble to dust and blow away.
The future of life on earth depends on there being no limitations on repairing, modifying, or extending the things we buy.
Thank you for sharing.

I think a lot of the difficulty & turmoil feels fairly unspoken of. Programmer seem to suffer alone, rarely fitting well into their environments & situations. The difficulties are varied & deep. Rarely are good opportunities to stake in available; often it feels like the business's top priority is anti-tech, is safe, predictable objectives: it's only challenge to us is to try to be less ambitious, to go faster. We watch some peers get raised up but often it feels unjustified or arbitrary, while what few hard labors & deeper efforts there are go unrecognized, not glossy for notice. We eclipse our positions quickly, & there feels like no where to go, & precious little reality about.

And we don't write down or share hard parts, hurtful parts. The disassociation feels uniquely our own (but it's not); we're feel trapped in our own jungles, jungles of code & corporations. My guess is the whole experience would be a lot less alienating if more folks did similar to this post, could discuss out loud their difficulties & the tensions of the environment.
As another commenter stated, there's a good argument against all of these words too.

More on the regulatory and medical usage 'moron' once had: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moron_(psychology)

Pejoration is common; it's just something we have to continue to stay ahead of as people negatively adapt language to suit their own short term ends.
As a fractal mental miasma of equations. Doesn't everyone?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIKfEAF2Yhw&t=30s
Every time our phones reach capacity, I download all pics/video to my laptop. Then I plug in a portable SSD and copy them there in folder name "media until <current date>". When I get to work next, I copy them to an identical portable SSD stored there, at which point I free the space on my laptop. This whole process happens about 3-4 times per year.

I'm currently using returned/refurbished Samsung T5's at about $100/TB.
On a related side note. I find that this is yet another topic that highlights the need for efforts to bring legislation back in line with Constitutional principles of being outcome, not method oriented; descriptive, not prescriptive.

What that may mean is that legislation would require, e.g., that anyone doing any business with the government or using any government/public services (e.g., GPS) must utilize technologies that are common and compatible with each other both physically (parts) and data (communications, controls, etc.).

We are facing a situation that was last encountered or at least recognized in the late 80s and 90s, where silos and cartels were starting to emerge that led to massive waste and pillage of at least the public coffers. That led to a wave of standardization efforts in the late 90s and early 00s. That wave seems to have started dying out and really needs to be revitalized.
> IMHO the real reasons for the absence of such APIs are regulations and incentives

Sure, but smart contracts have totally different incentives and costs for creating interoperable services than e.g. mobile apps. I would say that Ethereum does help here.
"So... what would you say... ya do here?"
Doom cost $30 in 1993 ($60 today) and only had a handful of developers. By all rights, games should be costing $150-200 given the complexity and amount of human effort required. Instead, they've cut costs everywhere.

When you pay your devs 50k per year while requiring 60-80hr work weeks, experienced devs aren't going to apply. Young, inexperienced devs fill the roles instead and make junior dev mistakes all over the place.

Once you move to subscription models, you can update games rather than constantly hype the next version. You have more consistent revenue streams and can give incentives to your devs to stick around. Valve doesn't quite have a subscription model (they make their money from their store), but does show how long-term devs working on the same game for many years gives excellent results.

As much as I dislike the idea of not owning games, I suspect it is the future, but the overall quality will go up as a result.
Keep in mind, this story is also about the hypocrisy and deeply compromised status of some activist groups that claim to be on the anti-imperialist left. It's not the same as corporations' cynically doing what they think is necessary to maintain access to the Chinese market.
It can really only get better. I almost want to hope it will, but I'm tired of getting burned.
I never let money accumulate in Paypal. As soon as someone sends money / buys something, I send it straight to my bank. I've heard too many horror stories of Paypal putting money 'on hold' and people having no recourse from that (since Paypal have largely shunted support to algorithms and very extensive FAQ sections that cover every issue so you don't need to reach, you know, an actual human).
Former Dropbox intern sells $165M startup to Dropbox
Just so everyone aware there are two Springer media companies. One does scientific publishing and one does not. They are unrelated.
I find this intriguing. Care to elaborate on it?
Intuitively, I'm sympathetic, then I backdate your argument by, say, 50 years, and wonder what words I'd find myself defending...