skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I heard the opinion where people don’t want to pay taxes that they don’t think do something good, and because the government can freeze their accounts if they don’t pay then they believe it’s unfair.

Presumably, there’s understanding that one cannot participate in a complex web of interdependencies that is advanced human society without giving up complete freedom, due to the presence of the aforementioned malicious actors.

So I don’t understand why not assume other people—whom one without immense hubris would assume to be equally smart—and whom hopefully one voted for, directly or not—have struggled with it and arrived at a solution that works? And if one legitimately thinks it’s a bad solution and cares enough about it, why not attempt to fix it instead? Is this a failure of democracy? Could it be that it moves too slowly for the modern age? Or is there a belief in some underlying conspiracy due to which democracy is not a democracy and no change is possible?

Regarding rogue agents exploiting the system to avoid paying taxes, I don’t think should be a factor that affects my decision on whether I should pay taxes (like what a criminal does shouldn’t be my guiding principle).

What I would agree on is that there’re people incentivised to attempt to benefit at someone else’s cost, and that those people exist everywhere including corporations, institutions, and the government. I’d also agree that, regarding government specifically, it’s worse because such malicious actors are incentivised to actively seek power because power converts to money very well. It’s a truly regrettable state of affair, because government corruption leads to corruption elsewhere. I think part of the issue is democracies being liable to be influenced by kleptocracies in other countries, who funnel unjustly extracted money into Western economies much to the benefit of individuals at the receiving end.

I just don’t think this can be solved technically, we either work on people not being jerks or we will have them find ways to be jerks regardless of any checks, barring complete thought control and predictive crime enforcement dystopia.

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As another analogy, it’s like a distinction between the spirit and the letter. The spirit is the guiding principle, and the letter is a lossy way to express it. Automatic conversion between the spirit and a letter is not possible: this is a philosophical issue adjacent to the hard problem of consciousness; one human not being able to convey to another human the entirety of what they think or feel, words being always interpreted through another mind’s lens.

Whether the letter can be expressed on paper or as a smart contract, the letter is never going to be equal fidelity to that of the spirit, and for understandable reasons (such as “fallible humans have written it”) should never have precedence over the spirit.

So I wish we invested the effort that goes into inventing higher and higher fidelity letters into, say, alleviating whatever pushes people to violate the spirit in the first place. It’s a much more complex meatspace problem, though.
At some point, Caffeine started making me feel jittery and anxious, so I stopped taking it.

Is there a way to restore my tolerance for it?
For people who are in a situation like this (account suspended, hacked, inaccessible) and are a resident of the EU (or willing to be pretending to be one), I would highly suggest asking for your information under GDPR.

I was in a similar situation where my Instagram account was suspended and Instagram asked for my phone number so they could "reconsider" my suspension. I instead opted to do a data access request, and they just unsuspended my account after a little bit of back and forth. The process turned out to be a bit annoying so I'll list what I did:

1. Visit https://help.instagram.com/contact/505535973176353, Select "Data Access" as request.

2. Select "I don’t have an Instagram account and I want to access my data", Now this step is weird, but any attempts by me so far using the "I have a instagram account" option ended up with me getting a automated email telling me how to download my data by logging in.

3. Select a EU country of residence, funny thing, Instagram won't show you any EU countries in this list if your IP does not appear to be from EU, use a VPN if needed.

4. The first one or two emails you receive now will be completely automated, and would probably ask for for your instagram account/email and data you want, followed by a automated response on how to download data by logging in, keep replying with your data access request. Consult one of those GDPR data request format sites out there if needed.

At the last step, instead of sending my data by email or something, they just opted to restoring my access to my account. I'm not saying this is a solution, but it doesn't hurt to try.
They discontinued it because of security. And now we have browsers who execute untrusted code.
This is one of the things I was wondering about. How is it enforced that whichever third party app I want to connect to must store data (in some standardized format) on my personal DWN?
Sorry yes you were talking about transitioning from an existing Java situation and you're right, for the spaces that Java typically operates in I don't imagine there is much advantage in considering a switch to Go; it's as much an ecosystem factor as anything, the Java world has had a long time to mature, and while I dislike many aspects of it (assemblages of classes communicating in spooky hard-to-grok ways via oodles of config) it is at least battle-hardened.
Good for you, you did the right thing. Maybe you would have shoe horned some fix, but honestly, screw it. Imagine waking up at 5am and forcing yourself to work on a company that you knew wasn't going to make it.
So war on the blockchain? That sounds like a good example of what is meant by "dystopian." Imagine a world where whether Ukraine gets to stay sovereign or becomes part of Russia is determined by a global consensus of the wealthiest wallet addresses on a blockchain. It's like you took democracy, but got rid of the elements of constitutional republicanism that mitigate the weaknesses of democracy, leaving only the weaknesses. Except not really, because that would be a plain tyranny of the majority of unique human persons and this is a tyranny of a majority of wealth, which may only be a tiny number of people. I guess it's more like returning to feudalism, except the lords and kings no longer have to raise armies and fight each other. The richest coalition just wins automatically.
I was in a very similar situation 2 years ago.

I am too technical, started a startup with 2 amazing co-founders and I now own 10% of the company. The key difference is that for that amount of equity, I’m only responsible for the technical side of the business. Also, because the company is more of a service than a product, having that amount of equity makes sense since my co-founders are doing all of the heavy lifting.

Taking this example into account, it appears to me that the situation in your case should be the opposite.
Given the amount of work and responsibilities you have, it seems like you should own the majority of the equity.
It is also beneficial for your co-founders to give you more equity because, if they see that you are running the company well now, the equity split will motivate you to stick with the company for years to create value, regardless of the amount of shenanigans.

I see making you the minority shareholder as a great risk - the further you progress, the more difficult it becomes. If the startup works, the time commitment is extremely high, and constantly asking yourself, “is this worth all this effort?" won’t help.
If they are concerned about giving up equity, they can use safety mechanisms such as vesting and a cliff, the typical get out of jail free card.
Giving you this much equity does not create long-term motivation to stay with your startup, especially if things aren't going well. The fact that they own more companies and are still trying to pull off such a deal makes me wonder if they are trying to capitalise on your excitement about living your dream.

Because I don't know the entire picture, the best thing I can think of is to try to have a conversation with your co-founders and build a case for why you should have more equity.
It will also help if you know and can afford a business advisor, as they may be very argumentative in their favour given their experience.

This is simply my opinion as a CEO - I am not attempting to persuade you to do anything. Try to think about this for yourself, making sure that you are happy with the equity split and that it motivates you (and your co-founders) to work on your startup for a long period of time.
As in my example earlier, the split can be different from equal, but this is unusual. Try not to make a short term decision, but think long term!
IMHO, this user should be banned from posting as it is a "repost robot".

As per HN guidelines, a submission is "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity", and I should add an "&&" operator with the following criteria "you should already read the article, or at least, visited the page you are about to submit and find it interesting".

Having the above said, I doubt a robot could do this even if it is "GATOed" or "GPT-{3,4..}ed"
We etch runes into stones, imbue them with lightning, and thereby make them come alive and do our bidding... and you want to tell me computers are not magic?!
That's nice, thanks for sharing that.
Show HN: Platform to practice front end problems
Hello everyone
TLDR: I created a website(DevDrills): https://www.devdrills.io/

I recently realized whenever I wanted to practice frontend problems I just googled around, read articles or found questions which weren't auto evaluated. This made me think about creating a platform for devs where they can actually solve problems which we devs face in everyday life.

My intention with the platform is to help people improve their development skills, help them learn about new concepts through problems and hopefully make a dent in how our industry conducts interviews(shift away from leetcode).

The platform is still very young so it only has frontend problems currently and I am working on improving the test cases & adding more questions.

Let me know what you guys think this or any feedback you have :). There might be a few bugs here and there but they should be gone soon.
What’s up with the totally broken syntax highlighting in this post, at least on iOS? 2100 micro services and not one of them is a valid syntax highlighter for blog posts.

Edit: oh I see it highlights red and underlines every keyword. I find that incredibly distracting, so much so I assumed their highlighter was broken, but also just realized they are screenshots.
Love this quote. As a cynical counterpoint to all the apparent glamour to being a CEO of a small startup, especially one that has taken investor money, I came up with this expansion:

CEO = Chief Enslaved Officer.

Enslaved to your investor obviously.

Enslaved to your customers.

And even enslaved to your employees. This one may need some elaboration — the CEO constantly needs to manage their motivation through ups and downs and ensure they are productive, and be responsive to them.
Axie Infinity (AXS) Crypto Game Promised NFT Riches, Gave Ruin
I get no results here in Argentina. Can you explain what it is? Does it work only in France?
Intel didn’t get flack because of minor improvements, they got flack because they couldn’t release 10nm or any other major improvements for the better part of a decade.
Thanks for pointing this out. I would have missed it otherwise.
Western veganism and vegetarianism are not the same as in India.

Indian "veg" cuisine disallows eggs (unlike western vegetarian) but allows milk (unlike western veganism).

There is also a stricter form in which garlic and onions are disallowed, because they are said to inflame the passions.

There was a time when some Westerners believed similar things, which is how the world got corn flakes. And some other things I won't go into here.
Some bounds on this

1) yes you can have a small 100l tank catching rain water for your garden, but you can not drink it. If it became a big tank it would become subject to planning and building control.
2) you need a permit to harvest ground water by digging a well or borehole.
3) you need a permit to entrap water in a pond and to build a dam for this purpose
Can someone outline why its better than x or some key features?
In a "true free market", a vast majority of people would get eaten up because they have no idea how to use their own brains and judgement to evaluate things.
In the US 70 hr work weeks at startups and even certain industry's are not abnormal. Are those people usually making good decisions, thinking clearly, and not being jerks? Nope, but it's what a lot of people willingly do. I've seen people pull 80 hr weeks
They do this because they know what they and every other government does.
> I might write another article on how to tell these tangential feature requests from useful feature requests.

Did you ever get around to writing that article? It sounds interesting
This case comes to mind ...

https://www.politico.eu/article/wife-of-us-diplomat-anne-sac...

At core, as with most things, it's unfortunately a question of power, not legality ...
> I might write an essay

Even if I went through all the trouble of writing an essay, it would be a simple collage of all these arguments, maybe organized in some more coherent form. For what? Those "in favor" would just not see anything new, those "against" it would just use it to nitpick and create strawmen in an attempt to keep their worldview intact.

I'd rather keep the discussion focused on the parts that can be addressed directly to avoid this.

> I practice having to express them again so that I find more eloquent ways of doing so.

I've gotten to the point where I discussed this with so many people that I ran out of ways of conveying the same idea. I am not putting the links out of snark. I am putting them because they already express the same idea that I would've typed out anyway. Would you feel better if I simply copied-and-pasted these responses?

> Imagine people talking by a water cooler; yes I know roughly your view, and you know mine.

I am not telling you to listen to all the battle cries or the "put downs" that have been recorded. I was using these links as a way to advance the conversation to a point where we can actually establish the differences. Can you imagine if everybody only wanted to debate something if they re-hashed all their priors?
Yes, the UK is becoming wetter and the trend is expected to continue.
I am a guy plus it's a quote from a movie.
What's the point in doing this? Don't environmental authorities and weather services record this already?
It sounds like there might be a backhander in play here that this country suddenly decides there’s no competing in a market which has had the same rules for fifth teen years. Given the ongoing scandals of the current British government then that makes sense that their elected officials area easily bribed and corrupt.
A lot of people are not wired this way, we can't expect it from all.
>Trust is a feature, not a bug. If trust is violated by rogue agents, it is because they exist[0], not because trust itself is a folly.

It's about building robust systems. A system that assumes counterparties are trustworthy will fail in the case they aren't (as demonstrated clearly in modern OS/web architecture), whereas a system that assumes counterparties are not trustworthy will not fail in that case.

> we should strive for a future where humans are not motivated to hurt other humans.

This is the same premise as communism and has proven to be a complete failure: it's not possible to change human nature. Even with a massive propaganda and brainwashing apparatus like the Chinese education system.
Please see the HN guidelines:

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken.
A.k.a. IoH - Internet of Humans
I thought only a subset of mortgages were directly backed (VA, FHA, USDA) and that only conforming mortgages were eligible to be sold to Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, with non-confirming (colloquially “jumbos”) being entirely privately funded.

The non-confirming loan share varies widely over time, but is usually double-digit percentage of overall mortgages.
How to Train Your Git Server
I get similar jittery+anxiety and also sweaty palms from coffee, but not from tea. Have you tried different sources?
What would you expect that code to do?

I'd expect to have two different slices, s2 and s3, to contain all the same elements aside from the last.

[a, b, c, x] and [a, b, c, y] and s1 remains [a, b, c]
There you go. Even if Apple allowed more browser engines on their devices, you will still see the same Chrome and Safari market dominance once again. It actually changes little to nothing as we already have seen with Android, I would not expect any significant change if Apple did this and it will result in Chrome still being on top then Safari second.

The harsh truth is that you need a properly executed competitor to both iOS and Android. Unfortunately from the open-source and free-software world, there are just too many failures or potentials never being 'realised'.

We saw Firefox OS being cheered all over the place here as an alternative to the mobile device duopoly and it turned out to be a failure due to little to no usage. The same thing with the promising Ubuntu OS and now again we have low usage with the plethora of Linux-based phones. So it seems that the market just does not care, and Mozilla and others are still unable to bring in something viable to compete against the big two.

It is not 'early days' anymore and it may even be almost too late, unless massive amounts of funding gets poured into an alternative. The same thing is happening with smartwatches with Apple again having a 5+ year lead. We've all waited for Mozilla, Servo and others to become useful and they have all underperformed.
Then also not abandoned.
"I was deciding whether this venture was worth committing to another year of 70+ hour weeks. I need a higher level of certainty than investors do because my time is more valuable to me than their money is to them.Investors place bets in a portfolio of companies, but I only have one life."

You do the real hard work, they provide numbers in a computer database (and often kick you out once this hard work is done).
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Everything is subjective. I find it very straightforward: (x type, y, z type) (a, error) {}.

Golang date formatting on the other hand... I still mad an whoever is responsible for this.
Ok, lets assume it is a real person regurgitating every old successful post. Does that make it better?
> Also for many fields (steam) the papers usually show up in preprinted repositories like arxiv, biorxiv...etc

To my knowledge preprint repositories are popular in physics, math, CS, bio, but not much elsewhere. I work in research in mechanical engineering and no one uses arxiv or anything like it (unfortunately).

That said scihub has not failed me often.
This is true, and why all political ideologies fail. They can't cater for scale, or when they do, they do so by tyranny, which also fails eventually.

Blockchain/Bitcoin has already been thoroughly corrupted, so ironically will prove itself to be entirely untrustworthy before it even gets established as whatever wonderful thing is assumed is still coming from it.
The issue here is not really 'droughts' it's that the UK relies on constant rainfall and hasn't much storage infrastructure or, say, mountains producing melt water in summer.

The UK is quite wet and becoming wetter so I think it will be down to adapting to more rain but perhaps less constant.

The water distribution infrastructure is also notorious for being outdated and full of leaks...
Well, so stem cell research is avoiding US laws because of Puritanism.

Why is crypto avoiding US laws?

Edit: Also, a quick Google of top stem cell research companies show that they are based in the U.S. or Europe, so I’m not sure how correct the claim of US avoidance is. But even if they are avoiding the U.S., they are choosing Europe instead, where “legal flexibility” is still not a thing.
Many people submit things that have been on HN before and the guidelines are clear that reposts are allowed when older than a year. There have been a lot of stories that when resubmitted years later have very interesting discussions surrounding them because of the developments since they were submitted - the context is entirely different.
Have you tried taking theanine with it?
Airports feared losing revenue to Uber and Lyft. Here’s what happened (2019)
Why did you find Twitter's CEO stepping down in 2015 interesting enough to repost? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31688455

Also, when is the last time you slept?
>meaningful camel-case

CamelCase makes it even worse. Short CamelCase is quite okay, but the longer it gets, the harder it on my eyes.

But even with short naming it still like 2-3 words just to name a function. wtf.
> Did you ever get around to writing that article? It sounds interesting

I have not, but you know, I got that request a lot back in 2016 too, so it sounds like i really should write that article.

I promise I will get it written this year.

Who knows, it might even end up here on HN.
WM =/= VM, in case you're curious about downvotes.
>Growing up in northern New England, a lot of mall walkers chose it not because we have too many freeways or lack bike paths or nature trails, but because walking outdoors can be unpleasant in the dark, frigid, and often-slippery depths of winter. An icy path may not be a huge deal for someone my age, but the risks are greater for an older person falling from a standing height (e.g.: one in three adults age 50+ dies within 12 months of getting a hip fracture).

This sounds to me like a matter of infrastructure - street lights and plowing + puttin gravel on walking infrastructure.

>I imagine people in very hot climates appreciate being able to exercise in air conditioning, and you can also schedule it with others (say, every Tuesday and Thursday at 10am) regardless of inclement weather. But I would guess a lot of it has been supplanted by going to the gym (there are a lot more gyms around here than there used to be).

And this also sounds to me kind of like a matter of infrastructure - planting trees to provide shaded paths and cooler microclimates could remedy this issue. This one is less solvable though on account of the ongoing climate catastrophe, but it can at the very least be improved.
Maybe it's an epistemological issue. Firshand perception is realer than secondhand abstraction.

Or maybe he just doesn't trust the government.
It’s pretty cheap common for crypto startups to incorporate as a Delaware corp. Then when you launch the protocol or token you establish a Caymans/BVI/Swiss foundation.

The Delaware corp acts as a service provider to the offshore foundation. The DAO and it’s treasury are directly tied to the BVI foundation.

The advantage of this is that if the equity ends up having value in addition to the token, then you have a nice Delaware corp to wrap that equity value in.
I have written to penguin and the other publishers on social media. Who knows, maybe it helps. I told them that the internet archive is important for research and academia and that I would not buy any books from them ever again if this lawsuit ends up damaging the internet archive. Maybe they will communicate that to someone in sales or marketing, who knows.

Their Instagram accounts are:
@penguinrandomhouse
@harpercollins
@hachetteromans