skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- Stop giving discounted tax rates for capital gains, make people pay the full income tax rate for any kind of income

- Abolish step-up basis, which allows dynasties to build tax-free wealth via "invest, borrow, die"-type strategies. Also other tax avoidance strategies used by the rich e.g. 503cs.

- Stop giving corporations special treatment under anti-trust law compared to other ways of organising. Give unions, workers' co-operatives, and other such organisations, the same rights to act in an organised way that corporations have. (And, conversely, start paying attention to corporate monopolies rather than using the narrow "consumer harm" standard that's been followed in recent years)
In private, vulnerable Senate Dems back off tech bill ban favoring own products
Quit social media and news for a week and then see how you feel
You don't; this isn't a DOS.
I don't think that works here. When getting a lawyer you are more interested in outcomes than price and we are probably not talking 100x but more like low to mid double digit percent. Important enough for the lawfirm in control of their price, but nothing the clients can really select for, especially since he is at a information disadvantage.
Checkout Annovis Bio, starting phase 3 soon I believe. They've had some success in Parkinson's disease.
Seems logical then that people who develop alzheimers may have a dysfunction in this part of their sleep cycle no? Or could just be simple insomnia and years of lack of sleep
Low key hope in my life time I can see lawyers and other secretary tier professions disappear in favor of open source systems. The only time you’d need a lawyer will be in criminal court otherwise you don’t need to pay someone in six figure debt 800/hr to proof read something.

Maybe I’m wrong but I would rather eat dirt than spend time/money on lawyers and other secretary tier professionals who ultimately still make mistakes.
Which sensor are you referring to specifically?
They made a GitHub app, which is different from OAuth.
This is an interesting anecdote, which I can relate in a tangential way. I'm a huge fan of MMOs, and part of that fun is grinding for more wealth. Some of the games I played over the years at some point became infested with Real Money Trade (tl;dr people would buy and sell in-game currency with real life money), and over time such activities would make me quit the game because it framed everything in real money. Sure, I could play the game for 5 hours like I did before and make $5 USD in in-game currency, or I could do some freelance work and make 200x that.
What exactly are they doing to take down the videos?
Maybe read it and you might find out.
I've thought about this before. Some people will be likely to try to "milk the contract" by taking more time to deliver than is needed. Besides being necessary to deal honestly with one's clients, I strongly think it's in my self-interest to avoid such milking. Instead, I try to provide as much value as possible per hour, and if I can increase efficiency I'll be better able to negotiate higher rates at some point down the road.

(Besides the fact that there's no shortage of software work, so it would be really hard to run out of things to do no matter how efficient you are.)
Nice try, Stasis CEO...
I'm curious where you've worked to be so confident in this opinion.
I didn't ask as I was pretty new at that point. I assume he thought I'd put it there to show political allegiance or something like that.
If all of that is true, it's still human nature. Cowardice, bad decisions, and cruelty are not uncommon police behaviors, especially. We can't reform it away because you can't train people to reliably put themselves in danger and make selfless decisions. Even the military can't reliably do that.

This was an absolutely insane, extreme situation that should never happen so that we never find out whether police are heroes or not. And it doesn't need to keep happening because we know how to prevent it.
That is not correct. It's more like the volunteer layer should have incentives to run well and the reason it can't scale is because it doesn't.
A Pokémon game made by Rockstar Games sounds pretty sweet.
Shimano Orders Hammerhead to Remove Di2 Features
I know a attorney/lobbyist who make pretty close to that. They spend a lot of time on the phone, doing emails, etc. The key thing is they know their shit and and pick up the phone and get people when needed.

Almost nobody is producing work output on an hourly basis worth more than $200/hr. You’re paying for what and who they know, together. The good ones are worth it.
It's a matter of locality sure. But also access. SF and NYC have easy access to startup incubators and venture capital. Do you have a great idea and looking for an angel to give it a chance? You'll probably find it in New York or San Francisco. Pretty unlikely in Munich or Paris.
It's, frankly, pretty easy for a law firm to pump up their billable hours.

"Document review" is something law firms can dump thousands of manhours into with no real appreciable change in outcome. It ends up being more a question of what a company/individual is willing to pay.

The reason big lawfirms stay in business isn't because they generally get much better results, but rather it's because they have the time and manpower to chase down every single rabbit hole to fully understand the law around the cases they are working. So, instead of a firm giving you a "We are 95% sure the law is this way" with a bigger firm you get "We are 99% sure the law is this way."

The other messed up part of the US legal system is the bigger the law firm, the more time they have to chase down discovery rabbit holes looking for wins and (potentially) legally bankrupting their opponents. "Document A references document B written by Foo? Well, lets have a deposition of Foo and a request for Document B". It ends up looking a lot like refactoring spaghetti code in a dynamically typed language.
Go up SpaceX's Starship-catching robotic launch tower with Elon Musk
A company I used to work at had an in-app chat feature that ran entirely on XMPP, specifically using ejabberd which scaled really well. Can't say it was super intuitive to setup and run though, there was definitely a learning curve.
You always have the option of connecting to PM over tor [0] if you are concerned about this. You can also use any of the VPN services that are available. Get yourself an anonymous mulvad account, and pay with some laundered btc good luck to anyone that wants to track down your IP.

[0] https://protonmailrmez3lotccipshtkleegetolb73fuirgj7r4o4vfu7...
For vectorizable workloads, there's Halide. It can be set up in multiple ways, one of which is a JIT that auto-detects CPU capabilities and cache sizes (to better optimize scheduling).
To spare everyone the confusion, the author was extorted, not blackmailed.

"Any YouTuber" isn't vulnerable to blackmail unless the bad actor has specific compromising information about the YouTuber to threaten with.
They have libraries for: iOS, Android, React Native, Javascript, Ruby, Python, Go, PHP, Java, .NET. Have you seen how prevalent Elixir is statistically? It's actually pretty niche and downtrending[0]. Where do you draw the line? Where's the Nix, Julia, Nim, Rust, and Crystal libraries? It's good to express the desire for it so that it might be next in line, but these comments make it seem like it's an expectation, even when those libraries are all open source and are able to be whipped up by the community. You're correct that these are the downsides in building on something that isn't very mainstream.

[0] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=java%2Cjavasc...
Thanks to Jonathan Stark book and podcast I stopped doing billable hours and go with flat fees and flat monthly and my income sky rocketed. I just offer more for my consulting services for a flat fee and customers seems to love it. I always over deliver and was frustrated with crappy time tracking and having to justify it.
You have to show a pretty strong need to keep PII after a user has expressly withdrawn their permission for you to carry on processing it.

No, it's not uncommon to "tombstone" data, but when you do that, you should remove data you have no rights to any more. Order numbers, accounting, payments that sort of stuff is all fair game (for limited time), but the point here is it appears they're not deleting anything, they're just moving it to be inaccessible to the user.

They keep the data. And that's a) scummy and b) illegal in several jurisdictions.
Clickbaity simplification of an arxiv preprint.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.08061

There are other preprints of a similar nature:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.01730

Take my advice. Visit arxiv.org, avoid this rubbish article.
The point is that it sucks and is largely avoidable.

Sure people can not work at companies that don't provide 10 year exercise options. Its not like they are slaves.

But that doesn't mean there aren't better ways of structuring options and it is bad to point this out.
Discussed yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31511047
Awesome site! I always go here first when looking for retail devices!
Just to follow up, here's a quick example[0] I threw together. I really need to turn this into a plugin, but because it somewhat depends on things like how journal tiddlers are titled and tagged, it's currently more of a distro. I hope it's interesting!

[0]: https://rpdillon.net/NotedeckExample.html
Microsoft Azure to spin up AMD MI200 GPU clusters for 'large scale' AI training
Not to sound cliche but with great power comes great responsibly. Police should be held to a higher standard. As far as pattern-matching goes, very simply, they need to do better. They are being lazy if they refuse to consider alternatives, these are people’s lives we are talking about here.

The couple in this story went through hell then the police make it even worse, that’s not ok. I don’t think it’s too much to ask that they don’t jump to conclusions like this. The police ignored evidence at the scene that corroborated what the couple told them and continued to insist they were right even though they had no evidence backing up their charges. Just their gut feeling and “pattern-matching”.

When we here multiple stories about the other professions doing the things you mentioned and, this is key, them getting away with it, no repercussions, we can talk. The police are the only (aside from maybe very rich people/corporations who in some cases use the police to exercise their will) people who have this kind of impunity.

The police have the power to kill you with impunity. The police have the power to absolutely ruin your life even if you did nothing wrong. The have the power to take your belonging and require you prove their innocence. They should have to answer for the times they get it wrong.
You mean why would developers actually care about solving business problems?
I have never once in nearly 10 years had any problem with my emails getting through to anyone from PM
I don’t see how anything else could have happened.
Can’t buy foreign goods.
Can’t accept foreign currency.
Still selling oil and gas, so have to take payment in rubles.
Ergo…

I don’t know maybe it’s not as obvious as that.
Aaaa I needed this -- ty!
>It'd be quite surprising for European schools to be so far behind

Using Pen and Paper isn't so far behind, it is the wisdom to avoid hype.
The fundamental problem with cost plus contracting in a nutshell.
>In every culture the native costume is the first thing to go, native architecture is next. Food is one of the last to go, even in modern places where people are wearing blue jeans. So these days I like to go to places where there is still native costume and native architecture. Unfortunately these areas are shrinking. I'm not nostalgic about it; I understand the reasons behind the changes, and it's a net improvement, but someday they will be gone and I want to capture them.

And with that comes the expansion/availability of flavored sugar water and cigarettes at their local corner shop, and the dissolution of community trust.

Im beginning to question if modernization is the right choice for everyone (or anyone).

Some hard evidence is diet changes negatively affecting certain groups of people (e.g. Aboriginals, possibly African Americans). Some groups' metabolisms have a really difficult time handling wheat and/or sugar, leading to obesity.

Softer evidence includes general happiness (which is an important metric when considering which life is "better"). It's a meme, and a truth, that simpler people in Africa are happier than us modernized folk. Its not often you meet a modern man that is present, undistracted, and unwanting.

The curse for unmodernized societies today is the communication available to the outside world. Humans are cursed to be discontent once they find out there are better options available.
Yeah, I know about that ruling. It’s morally reprehensible and I think it should be struck down. That or we need to strip the vast majority of the powers that the police have.
I've worked in this space in the past, and I think the big weakness of databricks is that for them to be successful as an independent company, they need to charge a lot more than AWS/GCloud/ect, and while historically they had better performance for a lot of Spark jobs, this hasn't been the case for several years now.

What Databricks offers that you can't find in essentially the exact same products from other cloud providers, is that they have a pretty UI and a much more integrated setup for more advanced operations like upserts on a data lake instead of having to manage your own Hudi or Iceberg setup. Their notebook is a better offering than others have, but the money for big data companies is in the long running daily or weekly jobs, not one off queries.

Historically, databricks had been offering major performance improvements to their customers while not updating the Spark open source code with all of the same query optimizations, and other various major spark performance improvements like Dynamic Pruning and Adaptive Execution, they've since done an about face for the most part and have started pushing these improvements into the open source. But as I noted before, for these longer running daily jobs, you'd spend 10x less per instance hour in some cases running on a cloud providers generic offering rather than paying for databricks, as they've made performance improvements of their own such that the price performance almost universally will always beat databricks.

The point is that databricks is absolutely a very innovative company, it's just that it's impossible to compete against the bigger players. The only real major lasting strength of databricks is that Azure fully integrated them into their service as opposed to trying to compete directly like AWS and Gcloud have.
One potential advantage of the billable hour:

My wife works for a company which provides consulting and evaluation services to states and the federal government. Project budgets are fixed and every employee's time must be accounted for precisely. My wife's time is expensive.

What this means it that there are many project meetings to which she is deliberately not invited b/c her time is too expensive to be spent in a meeting. Someone else will summarize the key action items for her afterwards in an email or a five minute call. She is rarely, if ever, in an interminable, useless meeting b/c that costs her firm too much money.

This is not applicable to every business context: fixed budgets and a notion of exactly how much each employee's time costs are probably both crucial.

But if <insert your firm's name here> could implement this, think of the time you might save to do valuable work!
Homebrew NMOS Transistor Step by Step (2010)
> if I can increase efficiency I'll be better able to negotiate higher rates at some point down the road.

How does a client know whether a provider that charges double is also twice as efficient? I suppose it might work if you have a long relationship with said client, but if you are talking to a new client, it seems they'd just go with the lowest price per hour that seems reasonable.
Longtime Proton fan and happy customer. Would love to see data-conscious products "go mainstream".
billable hours are fine, counting hours is what I don't like. as an employee I wasn't worried about that. now I have to question whether I should stop logging hours when going to eat, shit, etc. of course it also depends on your morals, I see people in my field having no shame reporting 3x their hours... 10x of they can.
Ah, so it's actually more marketing, since it's comparing completely different approaches.

I wonder if there are performance tradeoffs sometimes leading to slower than vanilla postgres?
There was a time when most people got their news from the big-3 TV networks. Many read newspapers which 'filtered-out' most of the 'noise' and had editorial standards. For better or worse, we now drink news from a firehose. And all of these outlets try to compete by pumping-up the headlines.

The world is ('Future Shock') changing. Including some very positive trends. The reaction to Ukraine for one. Covid was addressed in a year, not four. But enough is enough, and in most cases our best chances for positive actions are local.
The coal fields in the present-day United States, Britain, Spain, France, and Silesia were all once part of the contiguous Appalachian range.
Here's a simple one: Remittance fees take a non-zero percentage of a developing nations GDP. [1] "The World Bank estimates that globally US$16 billion can be saved annually if remittance costs were reduced by a mere five percentage points." Regardless if the solution utilizes a blockchain or a cryptocurrency, you can agree that there is a problem, and ideally we could get remittance fees down to 0 or near 0.

[1] https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/bang-buck-gett...
i would argue it was never supposed to have scaled. businesses do need to scale engineering teams though, so its natural they tried to scale something that works at a team level.
I had written a comment but thought this article conveyed my thoughts better:

Just the idea of 'independent thought' itself is a contradiction:

Independent thinking connotes the idea of being able to think on your own, to convince oneself on the truthfulness or validity of information received, rather than being swayed by the opinion of others.

However, the premise on which the prevailing conception of independent thought is constructed is faulty.

A Thought is interconnected; no disassociated thinker lives on an island all by themselves.

Can we truly think on our own, independently, in the purest sense of the term? Aren’t our thoughts inevitably contaminated by the ideas, philosophies, and biases we have deliberately and subconsciously imbibed over the course of our lifetime?

Besides, it is hard or impossible to evaluate how “independent” our thoughts truly are, for the simple reason thoughts represent the accumulation of our lived and learned experiences.

Yes, imagination is an important component of thought; yet we do not imagine in a vacuum — we merely adapt and rearrange familiar realities to compose new patterns and entities.

Or to put it more charitably, don’t we all stand on the shoulders of giants — the teachers under whom we studied at their feet; the parents, families, and communities with whom we imbibed their cultural ethos?

Granted, some of the more enlightened among us might experience the occasional “quantum leap” in thought processes, thereby giving birth to innovative approaches to solving problems.

Likewise, when you scratch any of these “independent” thought sequences with the tip of a pencil, underneath you’ll find it is nothing more than existing knowledge repurposed by identifying and combining different patterns and connecting the dots.

Source of the excerpt above: https://medium.com/the-philosophers-stone/how-independent-th...

Some useful books and links:

Naval Ravikant: Let us Not talk Falsely Now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euzoOkBUzsQ

List of Cognitive Biases
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/...

How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life Paperback – March 5, 1993
by Thomas Gilovich

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

Reading most articles from lesswrong.com or slatestarcodex.com

Slightly unrelated: You analyzing yourself in such critical way reminds me of myself.

The only persistent solution to this was meditation using Sam Harris waking up app (it's free if you email them).

https://wakingup.com/
FYI this could have been done really easily in esphome:

switch:
- platform: gpio
pin: 25
name: "Modem relay"
restore_state: ALWAYS_ON
id: modem_relay

interval:
- interval: 1min
if:
condition:
not:
wifi.connected
then:
- switch.turn_off: modem_relay
- delay: 1s
- switch.turn_on: modem_relay
>Bitcoin is the killer app for Blockchain

If the killer app of the Blockchain is Bitcoin, what does it say about the underlaying technology that the "killer app" is useful only as an extremely volatile speculation vehicle, and an ecologically disastrous one at that, with a tertiary use case of paying for illegal goods and services?
Our VC firm just did a response to this... https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/shot-ventures-responds-econom...
State privacy laws are being written by tech companies to minimize protections
If I'm understanding the attack correctly, its surprising there is not more along these lines - specifically the "trigger big tech company's automate banning against someone" attack. It wouldn't be surprising if this is fairly easy across a variety of "services"
Yup. Make Youtube a "common carrier" or something similar.
> Perl 7 there was a mutiny by jealous and bitter collaborators

Look, I hate to harsh on Sawyer X-- he's done a bunch of good stuff for perl over the years, and I hope to see him around again-- but his Perl 7 push was just a mess. He was getting frustrated about things, and tried to plan and push through some big changes before anyone could complain, but he wasn't really that clear on what the big changes were supposed to be-- he left a couple of weeks to figure it out after that big announcement, and even the inner cabal he had talked to about this stuff first seemed more than a little surprised.

One of the major things we got out of all this is it made it clear we needed some work on improved processes and transparency and such, and that's actually happened. There's a steering committee that makes a point of publishing its minutes, and an RFC process to talk over proposed changes. Some of these changes are in fact actually happening, and a number of them are discussed in this v5.36 annoucement (e.g. subroutine signatures are no longer experimental).

This actually seems like a really bright crew in charge, and they're making very sane decisions.

There's really no reason to think that there's some great benefit to breakage-on-upgrade: its a solution in search of a problem.
“Founder Lore” like this, especially from Forbes, assumes an audience of investors who have money and non-investors who have essentially no power. These articles are purely about marketing and looking for lift among those who have money. The list of names who were involved in creating the article are a lot more important than the content.
Also worth noting that if you're using them to hit your 5:2 fast day calories, the nutritional information on their recipe cards is junk. They might have been accurate once upon a time, but I suspect they sub ingredients and suppliers out as the prices change. The "splash of oil" is hilarious. 100kcal a go.

Convenient and interesting as they are, you have to do your own maths and adjust portion sizes accordingly. By the time you've done that, it's easier to just cook something you're used to cooking @500kcal.

https://twitter.com/oliw/status/1490985345521172482
True. Tesla just installed a huge solar farm and battery pack near Las Vegas. It will be interesting to see the grid of the future. I think it would be a shame if mankind never harnessed the power of the atom though.