skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our team was building a telco operator in the U.S. We already did that in several European markets and in Australia - so we assumed that we were mildly proficient in taxation issues. And then came the U.S. - a complete nightmare of overlapping rules that sometimes are not properly published. In essence you cannot do this on your own - you definitely need a tax service provider (like Avalara). Funny thing is though that you still are pretty safe to be noncompliant sometimes somewhere and the provider will not take on the liability if their data / computation was wrong. In short: a mind-blowing disaster. And you had to PRINT your tax forms and SNAIL-MAIL them to every jurisdiction that you were doing business in. I mean: hundreds or even more. Every. Single. Month. And don't get me started on the banking system stuck in Stone Age. I definitely would think twice to set up a business in the U.S.
From the article, I’m not sure if the author is using all of Phoenix + HTMX + alpine.js or just exploring the combos to see what works.

I recently started playing with Phoenix and the intro to channels and LiveView has been a bit confusing. E.g. a few days ago I wondered if it was worth using something like Svelte for the frontend and then realised I could just use LiveView. As a newbie to the ecosystem, it’s taking a while to get the lay of the land and start understanding the options.
There’s a great recent Bloomberg Podcast episode (Odd Lots?) where the CEO of FTX interactive is describing yield farming, and it dawns on everybody (Matt Levine states it explicitly) that what he is describing is a Ponzi scheme.

And then the CEO guy basically says that their old school finance may consider it a Ponzi but it’s the future of finance and they’re just gonna end up suffering from FOMO.
Then, if Googlers don't have experience in solving the problems that other engineers may face, then what useful insights would even be available there?

Dealing with political problems, technical debt, and changing product requirements are all core parts of navigating the software industry.
3 days and still no reply... guess I got'em!
It should also be mentioned that the most addictive and dopaminergic drugs most people in the Anglosphere consume daily are the wide variety of pre-made pre-cooked fast food meals which are engineered for maximum palatability. These days this goes for just about everything that isn't bought in the grocery store in its purest form. Just about every product on the shelves these days is contaminated with engineered ingredients to get you a stronger feeling of reward so you come back for more.

“Talk to me about taste, and if this stuff tastes better, don’t run around trying to sell stuff that doesn’t taste good.” - Stephen Sanger, head of General Mills

You can search the web using that quote to begin your descent into the rabbit hole.

The food you eat does not just affect your body weight. It also affects your mental state.
Looking good! Would be great to have an official debian flavour package for this! apt-get install objectiv-docker.
Then you have to swallow a bird to catch the spider and I’ve heard it doesn’t end well.
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You don't have to work at places which scale.

Once you have enough general experience, it is easy to move sideways - not every job-hop has to be upwards.
Isn’t this also a call for censorship?

I make the point not to be sarcastic but to note that there really are paradoxes and nuances within the concept of free speech. Trying to establish hard bound rules is more likely to lead to abuse then an honest discussion that acknowledges ambiguity.
We’d have to have a huge array of enzymes to deal with the dizzying array of chemicals we group in under “plastic”.

For example, the linked article specifically targets polyethylene terephthalate which they say is a huge target because it accounts for 12% of all plastic waste.
Just like C++ and Objective-C were cheating when they came into the world, as C macro processors?

Are we using two weights here?
So how is the 20% interest created?

Excuse my ignorance on crypto. I don’t understand how UST can drop 90% when I assume it required some sort payment of some other currency/coins to get mint them. I heard it was tens billions of UST was minted. So what happened to these coins? Were they used to pay out the interest?
Horses are equine, cattle are bovine.
Coinbase & Sequoia funded Indian version of the same thing has similar problems. They claim not to be using anchor while their landing page mentioned anchor before UST de pegged https://mobile.twitter.com/daglihet/status/15240042208687800...

I’m guessing they don’t have enough users and can make people whole using their seed fund.
Thanks :) appreciate the feedback.
Similar here. So simple:

user@remote ~ > git init --bare myproject.git
user@local myproject > git remote add vps user@remote:myproject.git
There's no way to know, Google and the other big inbox providers don't reveal exactly how they do spam scoring, to avoid spammers from gaming it. You would hope they are using heuristics like domain reputation and email content over IP address reputation.

That being said if you send from a new or rarely used IP, every inbox provider will greylist you at a minimum, which causes delays.
And delivered to anyone with bucks to spare on a commercial JDK, Excelsior JET being one of the earlier ones.
No need to mirror as each checkout is a mirror. I just maintain checkouts of all the things with https://myrepos.branchable.com/
I guess they meant that you can have a persistent and eternal database of the game state stored in a blockchain which everybody could host a game server with.
Yes, for 17 years.
I'm not against religion, but you just want to add you don't need religion to get what I think is the good core of religions: healing stories and narratives, texts, mantras, rituals that help you in the moment, a community which shares your perspective and in the end, an explanation for existential dread, horrible things happenings and a way to get meaning.

You can find it in humanism, you can find it in secular philosophy, you can get therapy, you can find it in social political communities, it's in many places. You can even get some old bearded dude tell you what to do if that's what you need.

Religion is just one way to have faith.
Two thumbs up for Maine blueberries! I made my summer money from 5 years old through college raking them. Piece work, around $2.50 per 5 gallon bucket.
It's possible to dislike both while also pointing out a shortcoming in one compared to the other. Google could do much much better in terms of customers service; they could start by actually having literally any customer service.
Except for when you use cgo (well at least it just gets harder then).
Yes, contrary to what happened with .NET Native, in Native AOT they take care of all MSIL opcodes.
The approach championed by DeepMind is "deep reinforcement learning" because "reinforcement learning" does not automatically imply "deep" (learning).
Mask-wearing is like foot-binding and leeching.

Pathological and perverse, perhaps. But also totally cool and in agreement with the experts.

It's a window into our psychology. Anthropologists of the future will reap much research papers.
And this is a reference to Monty Python and the Holy Grail:)
"If you don't know where the yield comes from, you are the yield."
My issue with AA is that people can seek attention by relapsing. Going cold turkey and never drinking again is the simple solution and it doesn't require all the drama.
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I came to Rust from Scala and I think it actually really helped. My first non-trivial Rust project was a straight port of a Scala library and it was actually pretty uncanny how straightforward the translation was. I'm sure the Rust code could have been optimized to avoid a few clones here and there but in general I've found that you can avoid a lot of the really tricky edges of Rust by just using clone/Arc/Box/etc. In non performance-critical code sections it's probably not even worth avoiding those things.
When I was in high school I was in different Linux related channels on IRC as I was getting into Linux. I ended up on Quakenet, not sure why, because I'm not a big gamer. Looking back it was mostly the community and meeting like-minded people. Instead of watching TV I'd fire up irrsi and hang out in the chats, talk a bit, answer some basic Linux questions and learn a bit myself. It was also a great place to get help as the expertise was bundled there and there weren't many online sources like these days. I was also in some C/C++ channels and the same goes for that. Some of them were basically a live version of Stackoverflow these days (I'm trying to do X, here's my pastebin of code...any suggestions).
I slowly faded away once I got more busy and forums/search engines provided quick answers for most questions.
We Can Cut Traffic Deaths in Half, but Nobody Wants To
I believe a good chunk of western companies with subsidiaries in Russia will end up pulling out of Russia. The ability to move money in/out of the country makes it infeasible to do business (how do you pay employees if the funding is coming from the parent company? etc).

The Google situation seems a little different though as it looks like the Russian government forced their hand.
Do you honestly think that using Gmail protects me from the NSA? If the NSA wants into my computer, it's in.

Secret services swap their data, so they can all read my santa letters.

There is the viewpoint that one should prefer one's own jurisdiction regarding storing data (I know you don't like Schneier but he e.g. holds that viewpoint).

I use an email provider from my country. If a judge from my country wants to persecute me, they have to complete a legal request which is tested by my provider.

If I used an email provider from Switzerland or the US, is that also the case?

Also, it's important to think of the economical aspect. If i financially support providers in my home country that lobby for better privacy laws and don't engage in surveillance capitalism like Google does, isn't that creating a good alternative that can also be properly regulated?

Plus, it's one dependency less from a (more than) half MAGA country.

So your recommendation makes sense if you are a citizen of the USA, but not everyone here is.

Addendum: what do you actually mean by "security"? For me, that is also "being able to access my email account whenever I want" and that this account doesn't get closed, even if I do shit on the internet, whoever that decides. Google shouldn't have the right to say "these actions are uncool so let's kick this guy" (never happened to me, but I don't even have a contract with Google!, they have the right to cancel my account whenever they want.).
im pretty sure at this point everybody knows there is nothing behind it, at least 80% people that invest in something like this, so like Ponzi they hope that enough people will come in that they can cash out before everything falls out.
This is an example of a common type of discourse that present itself as subversive and opposing what "society" wants. In practice, I really don't see how it is subversive. Most people do not pursue a career where they actively try to climb up the corporate ladder. In fact, most people who are overworked do not pursue any goal of their own, they are simply being exploited (psychological / economic pressure)
They (like most big tech) don't care because they know nothing will ever be done about it
Not only quality and quantity, but time.

Gans, deepfakes, X-does-not-exist, DALL-E, GPT-3, etc., are approaching if not at realtime in generation.

Fakes hit the newsfeed with, or before reality.

The latter most especially if part of a counterintelligence / disinformation blitz by attackers to maximise confusion.
Some back of the envelope calculations on diffraction limits suggests that we'd be very lucky to get 10^-18 of our transmitted energy back, even if we used the entire planet as a transceiver dish and Voyager was a perfect reflector. I would put this into the "very, very impossible" category.
As a workaround, can you maintain double the set of points, the real point and a shadow point, using the shadow points for distance?
Check out this essay https://renovare.org/articles/self-denial-without-self-hatre...
I even have cron job which over writes /etc/hosts with an /etc/hosts.bak with that content and i have disabled any dns caching in firefox (don't ask me how). Yet ....
Sigh ....
Plants are reasonably good at filtering the water they ingest through their roots, if they weren't your tomatoes would be full of sand and mud (clay).
See discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31431530
>Crypto cannot create wealth, only move it around

What's the difference? My employer doesn't create money, they just move it from clients to me. We're both still getting money out of it.
Islam also has significant things to say on the issue. Hinduism and Buddhism likely have insights as well.

Zoroastrianism may also have something to offer here. Maybe it's time to revive it.
A friend had a similar experience, turns out someone somehow slipped her a "date rape" drug. She was unharmed, thankfully, by a stroke of luck, but that's what it was. She was conscious and reasonably sentient under its influence, but remembered none of it.

Doesn't hurt to see a doctor.
N95 masks filter 95% of 0.3 micron particles.
There is this 'caps lock' key on your keyboard, please press it, once.
I suspect it's to put the emphasis on the spatial layout / dynamic features.

Though ultimately it would seem that this is in fact starting point to failure itself.
Stuff I've been thinking about before launching my first SaaS project
I’ve been working on a full-stack web app project on a monorepo for the last six months. What started as a side project ended up becoming the scale of full SaaS, and I wanted to ask some questions I’ve been thinking of before releasing it to public

1. Github repo ownership; Organization or Personal repo

I’m starting to think of dividing this monorepo into three separate repos like the following:

- appname-site (for appname.com)
- appname (for app.appname.com
- appname-backend (for backend.appname.com)

And naturally, I figured using github organization would be easier to manage this. However, is this a common practice for a large project made by a single developer? One of my goals for this project was to have an impactful, impressive portfolio for my github. And I was worried transferring this to a github repo would make people think this wasn’t done entirely by myself. It’s hard to word this properly, but I’m worried if the perspective changes for the project’s ownership.

1. Public vs Private Repo

Maybe it’s because I’m not as experienced to open-source projects, but I am a bit hesitant opening my entire repo public as soon as I launch it. I think my main concern is that I will reduce my chances of possibly monetizing this in the future. I’m not looking to actively make profit out of this, but I do want to gather minimum amount of support allowing me to pay for hosting and scaling stuff. And of course, if the project shows promise that could be a somewhat profitable idea, I would want to fully monetize it.

On the other side, of course making the repo public would gather github stars, which I’ve been told are somewhat meaningful in terms of my portfolio purpose. (correct me if I’m wrong)

I’ve been thinking about these for a few weeks and still couldn’t make my mind up yet. Maybe I am overthinking this, but I would appreciate if anyone could share their thoughts!
I think his point is that the guy was already on the cop's radar as potentially being up to no good yet nothing was done. Law enforcement dropping the ball seems like a common fact pattern in these kinds of things. I get that you can't just imprison or otherwise institutionalize people without some offense being committed but there's got to be a better way than just ignoring it until they go postal.
> People like to scapegoat 4chan when these things happen, presumably because it's at the top of the pipeline for a lot of these people, but in this specific case the shooter barely used image boards

From the shooter's diary:

> "I only really turned racist when 4chan started giving me facts that they were intellectually and emotionally inferior," he wrote on May 5, referring to Black people.

Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/buffalo-shooting-supermarket-67.... See https://archive.ph/0Nnj7 for a non-paywalled version.
> Google makes boatloads of money

Because they have businesses that scale: dominated by fixed costs with very small unit costs, where twice as many units have very much less than twice as much total cost to deliver.

> "But that doesn't scale", I hear you say. They could simply hire more people, that scales fine.

No, it doesn't. Hiring more people with any given skill set has superlinear costs very quickly (because of supervision heirarchies and increased quantity even before that increasing the clearing price).

Cost scaling worse than linearly is pretty much what people mean when they say, “Doesn’t scale".
This. Even with all the addictive technologies around, this essay makes problems sound too extreme to not be at least worth evaluating for ADD. Especially the consistently poor working memory is a dead giveaway.

People forget AD(H)D is fairly common, regardless of if you think it's overdiagnosed or not. And with how technology has been turning everything into dopamine slot machines it will exaggerate the symptoms even more.
It's probably more obvious how it affects the bottom line to those who make and do things in the physical realm. For example, I recently had a new septic system put in. The contractor decided to be clever, and ended up having to redo everything, taking up several people and machines for three more days. That probably cost them more than their profit margin on that whole job, and they're not going to forget about it any time soon.

Compare to product owners and engineering managers who either have no clue how bad it is, or have been conditioned to believe that it is completely normal or even desirable.

>Somehow we have an industry of people who believe that work needs to be a source of personal entertainment instead of, you know, work.

More importantly it should be a source of money for living without either burning yourself out or causing the poor sods who have to clean up after you to burn out. The current state of affairs is hurting both employees and employers. Just telling the employees off doesn't change anything or help anyone.
Unless you have CGO_ENABLED=0 as well, `go build` will silently not build static binaries as soon as you depend on a package that uses cgo.
I can't take anyone seriously who publishes a pie-chart like this: https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S03043894203199...
IMO, the large majority of jobs that pay very well do not actually contribute to a healthier and happier society. That software engineer running AB tests to get you to click on ads more? That insurance adjuster meeting a quota for denied claims? That food scientist making hot dogs last a bit longer in the fridge before spoiling? That director reorganizing some group of people so they can make their mark and use it as a justification to get promoted? They make more money for their bosses but I'm not sure that they are the things keeping life enjoyable for the rest of us.

Yes, if literally everybody became a rock climbing dirtbag we'd have a hard time feeding everybody our filling up the gas tanks for our vans. But I do not see this as an actual risk. We are almost certainly on the side of the curve where more of this activity makes society better, not worse.
I would go for the same idea, but with cats in a shelter. Every time an email arrives, a treat is delivered to the cat horde and the resulting commotion is filmed and a linked delivered to the sender, with a caption like: "We want MOAR!!" etc.

With a few hundred dollars on hardware you can generate thousand of hours of quality video content, much more entertaining than a random keyboard press.

No offense, but horses are clearly less, shall we say, intellectually gifted to handle the subtleties of digital social interaction in the cat age. Horses are plain boring, yesteryear's thing, wouldn't want one in the apartment of my owner.
> Religious scholars have actually been the best psychologists

Any sources that will back this claim? Oh wait, you don't need facts. Do you give this sort of unsolicited religious advice to everyone or do you specifically choose people who are troubled?
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Just because people do something doesn’t mean they should.

In that, I focus on what you might call ethics. But as for the legality aspect:

Through most of the civilised world (at a minimum, those that I know of definitely: AU, NZ, all EU, UK, CA), sending unsolicited commercial messages at all is illegal, with very little in the way of exception or subtlety. The USA’s CAN-SPAM Act is the outlier, unusually permissive, by being largely opt-out rather than opt-in like everyone else. (And frankly it’s not at all uncommon for the USA to be an outlier in a bad way among first-world countries.)

And taking the legality aspects further, it’s common for people to ignore restrictive laws that aren’t being particularly seriously enforced, and spam legislation is often like that around the globe. Just because lots of people are doing it doesn’t even mean it’s legal.
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Religious beliefes provide a strong moral compass as a semi-coherent set that lets you define stances about a lot of things in your life without having to gs through the hassle and difficulties of building them. As long as it's a serious belief and adherence to the provided guidelines and not just posturing used to justify decadent conducts.

I am not religious and personally i think is best to develop this on your own than taking a prepackaged system, but the utility and practicality of having ssmething already done and battle-tested is undeniable.

Just like you don't need to reinvent the wheel and write a complex library on your own when there's one available, sometimes is best to just use a prepackaged beliefs set and moral system to follow.

Many people are even unable to produce that on their own and epd up disparaged, aimless, living their lives without any understanding of right, wrong, good, bad, moral, immoral.

For what religions are and what they do provide, i personally think some branches of buddhism are better, like the Sokka Gakkai International's approach provides.

I don't agree with the sentence that religious scholars are the best psychologists because they only can provide guidance inside what fits this prepackaged framework-for-living they adopted, and in many many cases (i.e. mentall illnesses, deep issues, moral hardship in grey areas, etc) they are unable to effectively help in any significant way.

Good news is that psychology isn't incompatible with religion and both can coexist peacefully, and one can get the best of both worlds wathout thinking one is best; they work in different ways and provide different things, and IMO they aren't directly comparable, as a psychologist cannot help you very well in terms of religion, and a religious scholar cannot help you very well in terms of psychology (except for the thinfs that fit witin the religious framework chosen).

So all in all, i agree that religion as a valid choice and should be part of discourse, as sometimes it can very well be the best course of action.

Just don't agree with throwing blanket statements of what's best or not in a world as plastic and complex as the one we live in.
You can just set -r on yourself as you join, that should do the trick (from memory, I'm on mobile)
Or, they knew all that but thought they would probably personally benefit anyway?

You can get rich in a gold rush selling shovels. And it doesnt really matter if there's no gold, or not enough for all the miners to make a living. And why would a shovel salesman focus on the negative like that?