skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just across the water in Zhuhai here. Used to have some friends doing electronics in HK Island apartments. If you are ruthless about space you can fit a lot in to no space at all. Vertical helps. For an example just look at any phone repair stall. Buy them a beer and chat to them about it. The basics are an oscilloscope, multimeter and soldering iron; a good bench PSU helps. Avoid the yesteryear learning method of storing and manually mounting components, instead order circuit boards with SMT components: far more relevant today and far more efficient in space, time and money terms.
Yes this is something I would like to work on as soon as possible. I need to diet it down first in terms of internal components. Currently it runs on a Raspberry Pi Zero W which is very overpowered and expensive. I have a version 2 in the works already but right now I’m too stuffed.

Current version is like you say targeted towards small businesses and homes.
Feels like a quirk comes from the fact that a lot of prominent pseudonymous Twitterers, that they make accounts per communities and go extra miles to dis-link each ones, especially from real life identities.
This is typical posturing that only idiots believe. It's easy for us people to stand there and point the finger at obvious censorship and places but somehow we are oblivious to the censorship that we endure here.

The internet is open unless you're Backpage or unless you're mega or unless you say something that we declare against the narrative or unless you search for pressure cookers and backpacks from the same house. Never shop for home goods and back to school supplies on the same day I guess. In those cases we just slap the same kind of evil tag on it and use the government to shut it down.

It's the typical free speech garbage that was pushed when the FCC was enacted to regulate radio broadcasts. The airwaves are open to you as long as you get permission for what you're going to say.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/FB/key-statistics?p=FB

FB has 2.3b shares outstanding. How much has that number grown past 12 months, 24 months, 36 months so I can put what you are discussing into perspective?
Because land has fixed supply, as you've said, the tax is perfectly efficient: it causes zero deadweight loss. But LVT actually has positive externalities as well- namely, it makes it nearly impossible to speculate, which with land consists of buying land and holding it off the market unused or underused in order to sell it later. Speculation is very inefficient and also quite common, so removing it actually makes the economy better than it was before an LVT.

As for the tax being too high, if people started to vacate land that would mean the tax rate is over 100% of the land value (if it's at 100% people won't vacate, they won't be able to extract rents from it but it won't be an economic loss). Governments have every incentive not to tax land over 100% value because they actually lose money from doing so, so that's a pretty good security that it won't happen.
>you're buying an asset class that has a history of appreciating in value over 100+ years that you can get incredible leverage on

This is precisely the problem. It's not just companies buying up homes, it's also private individuals buying up housing to relist on AirBnB or other sites in order to further extract value out of their purchase.

If you look at a country like say, Japan they don't have this issue because housing depreciates and is not treated as an investment.
I keep a guitar at work office as well as at home. I find it pretty useful when I’m stuck on some problem to pick up the guitar and do something that doesn’t take a lot of thought (like play some scales or chord progressions).
Maybe currency is not the best use case for blockchains.

But what about the services provided by Notaries?

land registries and other necessarily robust and trustworthy transactions that aren't ever going to happen at a high-volume?
How is Bhutan a good counterpoint?
I started following a bunch of right-wingish accounts just because it was aired that they had been banned so I wanted to see what they were all about for a while. OTOH the Musk hysteria became annoying so I unfollowed a lot of blue checks and leftish people.
RIP Lerna
"think he’s saying that in ten years he can stop renting and shove everything into a storage unit and go travel."

He can rent out the house and travel. And probably make money.

Aibnb or estate agents, managed properties, whatever.
> I think you were getting down voted for assuming that sexual and racial bias don’t exist

I agree that they do exists and am aware of the research showing it. I work in healthcare.

I didn’t make the grandparent comment that got downvoted but was interested to know why it was happening.
http://www.tartansauthority.com/global-scots/us-scots-histor...

The term redneck has quite a funny (if you are from northern Ireland or scotland) origin. Maybe mildly interesting to everyone else :)

Though obviously it's lost that original meaning.
I think this law is meant to prevent cases where some company hires sizable amounts of employees in California (25% of payroll as the blogpost states) and then shafts the state with some "loopholes". Think of a company with hundreds of employees in California, but which is technically a Delaware corporation.

I get that a state would want to prevent scenarios like that, and I think it's somewhat reasonable. I'd argue that a company with a sizable amount of employees in a state indeed can be said to have a business presence there. What's unreasonable is the lack of "minimums". California apparently tried to be reasonable by having the 25% rule, but failed miserably (maybe by design) by not considering very small companies, like the company from the article.

The franchise tax - in that amount and considering the lack of revenue - seems unreasonable too.

I don't know what paperwork is involved, but the 42 pages mentioned for a zero-revenue company with 1 employee sounds not just unreasonable but outright Kafkaesque.

A part of the blame goes to the author for not knowing the laws involved before hiring, but the major chunk of the blame, at least in my opinion, indeed goes to the state for creating absurd laws in the first place.
Oh wow! Hangouts! Big surprise tbh :)
But if investors are shoveling money at blockchain-based startups (I don't know if this is still the case), how do you convince young starry-eyed entrepreneurs that they don't need a blockchain?
This is a very broad question. I would start with understanding the concept of actors. You'll end up reading about Erlang, Akka, etc.

Then what's a virtual actor and how does it differ? You'll eventually end up at the Orleans paper from MSFT research:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/orleans...

It really has nothing to do with promises (as used colloquially) and is a way to design large distributed systems using message passing and localized state that's persisted.
This is missing the point so badly it seems almost intentional. Public outcry at the actions of the government is entirely different from incited bullying of individuals with no public presence.
One big hurdle to get going is to find which instance to subscribe to. When joining twitter, you just join twitter. Now there are multiple, and I don't know the ramifications of which one to choose. Will I suddenly be blocked by half the instances if I choose a lesser known one?

A second hurdle is that I think most people don't want to start from scratch. I want to keep my followers and those I'm following.
Oblique reference in Tom "No Relation" Shugart's blog: https://insiteview.blogspot.com/2006/12/frank-and-al-and-den...

My next headline element is "Al," as in Al Shugart, who passed on the other day. His passing was definitely an event that gave me the urge to post. While the world remembers Al as a tech industry pioneer, his significance for me was that he transformed my name from the obscure to the instantly recognizable, a fact which has required me with predictable regularity to respond to many of those to whom I am introduced, "no, no relation." Sometimes, especially at industry functions, I felt like wearing a sign.

I posted a humorous incident about this state of affairs back in my early blogging days. It was right after Paynter was just getting started with his well-known series of blogger interviews. I had the honor of being his first male subject. The immediate aftermath was a rash of "are you related?" emails. So I put up a post to set the record straight.

Anyway, Al Shugart was my kind of guy--brilliant, creative, irreverent, fun-loving, and dismissive of the establishment. This guy was wearing Hawaiian shirts to work decades before it became a hip way to show that you or your organization were leading-edge.

Al, who started out as an IBMer, was able to get away with thumbing his nose at the rigid IBM dress code of the fifties and sixties. That may not mean much to Gen-X or Yers, but if you were around in those days, as I was, and remember how quasi-militaristic things tended to be in the big business sector, including high-tech, you have to be impressed with Shugart's chutzpah. I'm proud to bear his name. Rest well, Al.
Just because it gets funding doesn't mean it's any good.
Composability and open APIs are rarely talked about.

Composability lets you create a token to represent anything* of value and exchange it for other tokens. ETH and BTC are tokenizations of proof of work.

Open APIs exist for any verified contract on Ethereum. You can permissionlessly plug a new application into many existing ones if your application is even partially on-chain
Maybe. The interface was there but in general it had created a security and usability dilemma.

For convenience over security, it gave the choice of storing your private key on their servers. If Zoom was to one day shut Keybase down, your private key is now gone. Otherwise for security over convenience, if you store it on your own computer you're more likely to lose it.

Those trade-offs in Keybase's key management is probably why it did not take off including that they were on a VC payroll and not making any money at all from the service. It was only a matter of time that without Zoom, they would end up shutting down.
It’s also easy to stick with #1 and leave pinned to specific versions and only update for security reasons.

This used to be a pain so automatically updating was an easy way to stay up to date and reduce risk. But now with dependabot, I can pin to specific versions and leave it there forever, until dependabot detects the vulnerability and submits a PR.
This is fantastic. Would love to be able to have logarithmic y-axis!
Came here to say the same thing. Set up a Makefile to build my project using pip&virtualenv, and make .deb packages using FPM. It's totally old-skool but it Just Works(TM).
I still have coworkers who think node.js is "hipster" and won't use it. Obviously, trendy is subjective.
I'm sad I missed OpenID. Would've been fun to be able to set up my own identity provider for a while until websites would eventually stop supporting it.
Can someone explain the conspiracy theory? I don't get what it implies...that twitter was overstating liberal followers but understating conservative followers in a way to juice liberal tweets? That thumb on the scale was then removed before Musk took over? Seems pointless and much easier to achieve through other means.

Ultimately this nonsense just confirms to me that Musk is right and twitter's algorithm needs to be open source and the rules surrounding banning people need to be clear to ensure trust.
cue my dystopian paranoia self: in a few short years technology like this will enable the effortless creation of a perfect, stylish, witty video of each and every day of your life, shot and edited in complete autonomy.

Which shows you at your best.

And expresses none of your fears, anxieties, inelegancies, loneliness, family trauma, time wasting or thoughtless cruelty.

Fast forward another nanosecond in the singularity. Devices like this camera will connect to the internet & ingest your personal timeline. They will respond by themselves to your friends' posts, mimicking their trends, one-upping their flexes, out-cooling them in a constantly accelerating arms race.

Our role in this algorithmic glammering will shrink to nothing as deepfakes expand in scope and become so much interesting than reality.

in the end our bodies will become irrelevant, as we watch our "selves" and our "friends" enact reality in a second, much better, universe.
Why are you using the worst case scenario? Plenty of banks settle a check in a single business day.
Indeed. There are also SBCs in similar price- and spec range from other vendors but with SATA or even m2 PCIe interfaces, which is generally a lot more reliable than gambling on dodgy USB3 adapters.

Alternatively, CM4 (or equivalent) on an appropriate board.

(I used one of those as a workstation for a month or so; worked fine enough, the only major friction was that I had to be mindful of closing browser tabs)
It does seem that some of the more interesting features require kotlin, which makes calling it an actor system for the jvm a bit meh, in my opinion.
They pay county property taxes, state sales taxes, etc., just like everyone else. In fact, Florida law requires that Disney pay the same rate as everyone else.

They consume no county services that property taxes generally cover (by agreement with the counties). The RCID then levies additional taxes, 2-3x more than the county property tax, on RCID residents which pay for infrastructure and services within the RCID. In some cases, the RCID contracts back to the counties (e.g., the sheriff's office for ~$13 million) to provide services within the RCID.

The result: Disney subsides property taxes in both Orange and Osceola counties, and RCID residents pay 3x more in property taxes than Orange or Osceola counties do, and 2-3 times more than Florida law would allow outside of a special district.

The real benefit that the RCID confers to Disney is control of the consistency and quality of infrastructure and services that they have on their property. And it avoids contention between the counties and Disney in cases of zoning or other civil issues like alcohol licensing, where the two counties may differ, forcing Disney to either have to cater to the most restrictive policies of the two counties, if the policies are compatible, or have different levels of service depending on which county a particular piece of Disney's property sits. Imagine being able to buy alcohol on one side of the park, but not the other, or having great roads on one side of the park, but not the other?
Just because it currently is that way doesn't mean it should be that way. This tax situation explicitly penalizes and actively discourages two guys starting up a single business in their respective garages across state lines.

Imagine if Jobs and Woz were starting today and lived in CA and OR. That version of Apple would have never gotten off the ground due to idiotic laws like this.
You know what would be cool? Crypto without the blockchain baggage. Just a straight up virtual currency that’s not tied to central banks.
My children are going to have the same requirement. One of them is the same age. I was raised with he same requirements and I hated it at times. But I am so thankful my parents kept me at it because it’s a huge source of fun, creativity, relaxation and joy to now be able to play like I do. Had I been allowed my own way, I would have quit, but it wasn’t until I was 15 and joined a covers band that I truly started to “get it”. I’m glad others see the benefit and are following a similar path!
State taxes make it clear that the state has a fully legal claim on some percentage of anyone's income. If you want to interpret that as slavery, go ahead, but that's not very fashionable in legal circles.
> An individual who commented on a post on the topic on the anonymous professional network, Blind, speculated that the reason behind the move could be San Francisco’s Prop C, which levied a tax upon any San Francisco business that earns more than $50 million in gross receipts.

That's lazy journalism. Given that this was the office space of a company they acquired, it could just as easily be that they're consolidating operations, or that the workers there preferred working remotely during the pandemic.

Reporting on anonymous speculation doesn't make it any less speculative.

This makes it look like TechCrunch has more of a political desire to attack taxes than to report on verifiable facts.
What do you mean by "couldn't be play"?

I feel like the best way to learn/improve at something is by making it fun. Often times different people find different things fun so if I'm able to have fun doing something that others find to be a chore then I have a natural competitive advantage.
> Settlement is much quicker. Did you know it could take upto 7 years to settle a cheque/check

That has nothing to do with blockchain and does not mean at all it is the best way to solve the problem
The only question is raises is how incompetent is this journalist. the source code is locked. It's not everyone is committing stuff...

What I'm learning from this how little anyone posting shit on the internet actually knows. Misinformation from incompetence or just trying to be a know it all everywhere.
The first developer preview of Privacy Sandbox on Android
It'd be very hard for me to disagree with the spirit of your reply more than I do.

Creating opportunities for people to gamble - new casinos, scratch-off tickets, those sad machines you see in bars - all of these are cash generation vehicles that historically have highly negative outcomes for members of the communities they are dropped into. Especially for groups that are already disadvantaged. This isn't academic speculation.

As for gambling on every day outcomes - otherwise known as living your life - it's reasonable to say that one of the fundamental measures of progress as a species and a society is our distance from accidentally eating poisoned food, dangerous driving, a lack of opportunity and self-determination, and being forced to accept bad partners.

In other words, the more we remove gambling, the better our lives become.
Go's main selling point is that it is extremely easy to deploy and it has good standard libraries for most routine programming problems. It works really well for providing web services running on Linux, but I can see why you wouldn't like it if you were running on Windows.
Agreed.

The author himself doesn’t do much in addressing the root cause. He admits

>” What makes shadowbanning so tricky is that in some cases, in my view, it is a necessary evil. Internet users are creative, and bad actors learn from informed content moderation”

Yet follows through with a proposal for more transparency, without addressing the contradictions inherent in his position.
Including Bitcoin and Ethereum? Maybe I'm not sure exactly what you mean.
I’d buy that for a dollar.
Code freeze and 'legal documents freeze' are 2 different. There is no way to prove that any traces of biased decisions taken over the past few years were gotten rid of immediately after those decisions were taken.
Inform 7 v10.1.0 is now open-source
Pixy weighs just 101 grams. They could have easily gone for a more practical battery life (it seems it's around 5 minutes currently?!), but for some reason chose not to.
How do you connect the drives? USB?

I've long been considering switching my NAS to something like a Pi + SATA disks.
If you do anything with this drone that is commercial or non-private in nature, you still need a Part 107 certificate from the FAA to fly it. I expect that would include many influencers who wouldn't otherwise be flying drones at all.
Twitter needs to get smaller to get better, specifically they need only real people (no bots). While this usage misstatement is minor it points to a longstanding directional problem whereby they focused too much on vanity metrics. I'd argue this a reason why they didn't do a better job challenged all the fake/bot accounts because those are great at pumping up vanity metrics.
“Useless” is a strong statement which probably goes too far.

One of the strongest usecases for blockchain is a distributed ledger among mostly trusted entities who frequently exchange resources.

One or more of the big banks is developing blockchain to facilitate payments between banks who end up settling enormous amounts of money between them on a daily basis. It is just nicer and much lower overhead to have a distributed and cryptographically proven way to interact with this ledger than having one bank administer it. The mostly trusted nature of the relationships between them also means if there is an error, transactions can easily be reversed or fixed and there’s no concept of anything being stolen because the ledger doesn’t actually store any value.
I don't believe Go was the first language to include "excellent tooling." Ruby on Rails, for instance, has had excellent tooling since the dawn of time, and I'd argue that Ruby on Rails' and Elixir's tooling are superior to Go's.
> Did you know it could take upto 7 years to settle a cheque/check.

The solution to cheques isn't blockchain, but simply to advance out of 19th century banking. Even a 20 year old mainframe would be an upgrade over cheques.
Is anybody else using blockchains as compute nodes? Like lambda that your users pay for to update the state of your application instead of you, while reading is completely free? I haven't seen an equivalent system thats so economical for developers.

I don't care that my application doesn't need to be on all 7000 nodes, not even a factor.

And as far as funnels go, in Web 2.0 logic the point of the "funnel" was to convert a user into a paying user, in Web 3 they are already paying users at the beginning of the funnel, and pay to update the state of your application before you ask them to do anything, this is heavily optimized for driving revenue when applying the funnel concept. So if you design your application for this, you can strip out most of the complicated frontend and backend stack and don't have to pay subscriptions to any SaaS service, and get revenue because your funnel is 1 step too.
Entrepreneurs don't need convincing, the investors do.

Entrepreneurs will go where the money is, and if foolish investors are throwing money at blockchain-based startups, savvy entrepreneurs will take their money, and they should.
How this downsizing looks from a client's point of view:

I have almost finished a 4 months long process of buying a summer house (including one failed deal), and my first financial agent - a very bright and fast girl - was fired right in the middle of my first transaction... and nobody told me a word about it - neither the manager, not the new agent, so I was sitting in the dark for a week or so. The agent that I got instead of a fired girl was very slow and unresponsive, so I've changed the financial company. Guess they will need to continue to "downsize"...

Why would anyone want to fire a nice worker and keep a worse one is beyond my understanding.
It seems pretty premature to say that mortgage interest rates that happened barely over a year ago won't happen for a few decades.

You could have looked at interest rates below 3.5% in 2013 and said the exact same thing; that was the lowest interest rate in over 40 years!
You do have presence and business there. You're employing residents of that state. According to the law, that employment arrangement takes place within that state's borders.
From what I’ve seen from LockPickingLawyer, I now think locks are only useful to help honest people know what not to take: https://youtu.be/ULUz4u5FLYg
Without a valid work visa, they might not even let you (Canadian going to us) into the country. We’ve had salesman turned back when doing training cuz the border guards thought a fee was involved. Sales support was ok.