skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a question of whether or not they can exist. It's a question of whether or not they can be effective enough that the advertisers will pay enough for them to provide enough revenue to keep the site afloat.

Someone reading a print article is probably a much stronger signal that they are interested in things related to the article or the topic of the publication than is someone reading an article on a website.

If some random site runs an article about, say, a meteor shower you probably can't infer that the reader has more than a passing interest in astronomy. Even of a site that is focused on astronomy runs such an article they are still likely to get a lot of casual readers, such as people who heard on the news about an upcoming meteor shower and Googled to find more information.

If on the other hand Sky & Telescope runs an article about a meteor shower in their printed magazine it is probably a safe bet that most people reading that have a fairly serious interest in astronomy.

If I were trying to sell astronomical equipment I'd probably be willing to pay a lot more to run an ad in Sky & Telescope than I'd pay to run the same ad on a "free but with ads" astronomy website and I'd pay even less to run it on some non-astronomy site that happens to be running an astronomy article.

I think this largely invalidates most of the "it worked for print so it will work on the web" arguments I've seen except maybe for websites with well enforced paywalls.
Nope, there is a lot of legitimate concerns but the fact is that they are still here. Taking a trade is about taking a bet with a probability to win/lose, and it's just that betting against Tether is worth at most a meagre 2x with a lot of related risks as outlined in the article, whereas there are much faster and safer way to do a 2x in crypto.

After all, big money tried: spreading cheap FUD at the worst moment (FTX), betting heavy against... It didn't work out for them, but they tried and relative to their size, it didn't even cost them that much, I'm sure and it was worth the shot (as despicable as it looks).
How pervasive is corporate fraud? (2023)
> Abstract

> We provide a lower-bound estimate of the undetected share of corporate fraud. To identify the hidden part of the “iceberg,” we exploit Arthur Andersen’s demise, which triggered added scrutiny on Arthur Andersen’s former clients and thereby increased the detection likelihood of preexisting frauds. Our evidence suggests that in normal times only one-third of corporate frauds are detected. We estimate that on average 10% of large publicly traded firms are committing securities fraud every year, with a 95% confidence interval of 7%-14%. Combining fraud pervasiveness with existing estimates of the costs of detected and undetected fraud, we estimate that corporate fraud destroys 1.6% of equity value each year, equal to $830 billion in 2021.
Sales people need something to sale. Soaring productivity should mean delivery of lots of features wanted by prospective clients, thus an occasion for sales people to contact those prospects, pitch them those features and close a lots of deals.

> Meanwhile you can fire all of the management and the company will still work just fine, if not better.

I wish you could try it and survive to tell the world that story.
“Perfectly fine” and “legal” are different conceptual things. It may be legal, and part of our current system, but I think it is deplorable how easy it is to skirt around paying taxes to support a society.
That thing was named much before the other ADT became popular. The name is spread over a lot of past texts, and not in wide use anymore.

There's no point in changing anything.
Knowledge/Memory between different ChatGPT Sessions is not stored. But you can very easily ask "Please summarize this:"

Then, pasting in however many Paragraphs the chat UI allows. Repeat until fully summarized.
Other useful questions to try after each sub-summary are:

"Were there any points of interest outside of this summary?"
"Could you give me more detail on what the article said about X, Y, Z?"

I once used chatGPT to summarize a 30,000 word article, and after moving chatGPT's summaries to a .txt, it had been reduced to about 3,000 words. The summaries and points of interest also gave me great bits to search for in the full article.
People do change careers & go back. You don’t have to think in all or nothing terms. Just have a bit of savings and manageable cost of living so you’ve got some financial freedom to try things out.
Ask HN: Is there a future for creator brands?
When I think of creator brands, I think of the fact that they are simply not differentiated enough from the competition and how competition eats away at profits.

Yes, some people with buy Chamerberlin coffee (and those are alot of people), but it is still a coffee brand competition with soo many coffee brands.
> A reasonable model of politics is that left-wing parties are norm-driven and right-wing parties are driven by self-interest.

Obviously a right-wing perspective: left-wingers are foolish idealists.

A left-wing perspective is that the left is driven by the self-interests of labor while the right is driven by the self-interests of capital.
If you don't want to be robbed, lock your doors.
Animal ambulances answer growing demand for pet emergency care
> kind of cohesive conceptual understanding of a single object

It doesn't, it just requires character sheets in the training set, the rest is basically a style transfer.
> No, I was talking about the temptation of mining existing biomass.

I clearly missed a step then. So when you say:

"I think the biggest argument against biofuels is that if they achieved large scale use, it would encourage people to mine biomass from existing forests instead of growing it."

So, I drew from that a conclusion that if biofuels were prevalent, you believe there's an incentive to mine forests to create biofuels, rather than the grow new biofuels.

In my mind, that means going into wild forests, ripping trees and other biomass out of the ground, slicing it up and transporting it to some kind of a processing plant, where you'd separate out the useful bits and turn it in to biofuel. The incentive comes from the profits yielded from selling the biofuel after paying the costs of creating it.

I don't disagree that there are challenges growing and harvesting of algae, but it is something that is done, at an industrial scale, already (largely for the harvesting of pigments). They don't produce CO2, but they do pump in a lot of fresh CO2 (and pump out O2) to ensure good yields. It's just not done for purposes of creating biofuel, because there's no demand to justify the costs involved. In a world you're envisioning where there is much more of an incentive to produce biofuels, it seems eminently reasonable those incentives would apply to algae as much as anything else.

> Second, it rapidly reproduces, with a generation time much shorter than a growing season

While there are challenges related to this, this does largely mitigate the turn around time advantage that existing wild forests might have.

> The huge problem with biomass is the land requirement. That yield for rapeseed would be crippling for that crop as a fuel source for an economy.

Rapeseed is currently produced on an industrial basis in places where the HEAR derived from it already yields more profits than say, growing soybeans. It's not a popular crop, because the demand for edible canola products is much higher than the demand for biofuels, but if that demand were to shift...

Where we agree is that I don't see biofuels being a viable strategy, at least for the foreseeable future. I just don't see a future where they become viable, but the incentive to mine existing forests for biofuels becomes significantly more significant than extant incentives to mine forests.
I mean if you have a high bandwidth connection and you want to only transfer raw uncompressed software-rendered images then sure, go nuts. For me that lags horribly and it's pretty much broken if you try to remote a fullscreen window above 1080p. It's not exactly "network transparent" if it only works in a very contrived network situation. What do you think a remoting protocol is supposed to do if not compensating for bandwidth and latency issues? These are really basic things (bandwidth negotiation, latency compensation) but they were just never added to X11. And it's not like people didn't try to add them either!

Edit: I want to say that nearly everything in X11 is like this. It seems to work ok at first glance but it breaks horribly when you get outside the design parameters of a mainframe in 1987. So basically, transferring software-rendered images over a high-bandwidth LAN connection and that's it.
First hand observation aside, the 2 ingredients of truth are authority and plausibility.

Robots make great authorities. They're shiny and speak with confidence.
Songmaster?
Mastodon sees dip in active users after Twitter exodus surge
Because Tether crashing down is very likely to destroy also them.

AKA counterparty risk.
Slipways is built on top of Unity. If your main goal is to make a game (a daunting prospect on its own), having to create an engine on top of that is probably not going to help your chances.

If your main goal is to enjoy yourself, there are very few programming tasks as varied and fulfilling as writing your own game engine. Personally, I'm glad there are alternatives.
Recursion is great due to the implicit stack. The cases where you don't have an implicit stack, ie where tail call optimization works, are usually easier and much clearer to just do in a loop.
Just saw Borg, Omega, Kubernetes: Lessons learned over a decade (2016) (acm.org) https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2898444 pass by.

"
Dependency Management

Standing up a service typically also means standing up a series of related services. If an application has dependencies on other applications, wouldn't it be nice if those dependencies (and any transitive dependencies they may have) were automatically instantiated by the cluster-management system?
"
Trust me. You would mind that citizenship.
The man in the keynote I linked was "Michael Liebreich, Chairman and CEO of Liebreich Associates, through which he provides advisory services and speaks on clean energy and transportation, smart infrastructure, technology, climate finance and sustainable development. In September 2020, he became an official adviser to the UK’s Board of Trade".

...and he didn't know of any better ways of transporting H2 than liquid form.

If it would be "pretty easy" to absorb it to oils, I'm sure that would've been tried already.

the industry's goal seems to be hydrogen->ammonia - transport - ammonia->hydrogen, because ammonia is orders of magnitude easier to transport.
Its a way tax free way to pass on power and influence. Just because other people do it doesn't mean its good.
Anything like this for front end?
If you don't mind my asking... Is there any merit to the pages you're trying to create?

It sounds as if it feels automatable because it's not really something any human needs to read. Is there anything on that page worth searching for?

I'm so sorry that this sounds judgmental. I don't mean it that way. I'm just curious in that it sounds as if the web really is complete, and we're now just repeatedly rearranging it.

That's kind of the open question with all of these AI projects. We deny their creativity because all they can do is rearrange. But it sounds as if we humans are the ones running out of creativity.
I dislike the articles misleading people about taxes to foster more misguided populism. A company giving away 100% of some value to avoid 20% in taxes is not theft from the people in any manner whatsoever. It's more costly to the company to give away money than to simply pay taxes.

If society doesn't want charities, then do away with them. If society wants tax exempt charities, then don't rabble rouse when people or companies donate to them.
A good general rule of thumb is that if you want to know what something is or who someone is, at least if they're at all well-known, it's probably a pretty good rule of thumb that Wikipedia or a broader google search is the way to go. (Or other domain-specific Wikis and databases.)

Somehow it conflated Gell-Mann with confirmation bias. Which is a bit odd as there are plenty of references to Crichton's observation online.

This is less true of questions that require some synthesis of information from different sources--but then it's also harder to evaluate ChatGPT's output.
AFAIK mostly ARM these days. And headless network devices aren't a concern of GUI-related programs like X anyway.
Something I learned from this article is that the CEO of Tripp lite did the same thing but donated it to some far right 'nonprofit'.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/22/us/politics/republican-da...

Won't be buying any of their gear ever again.
the question i had reading this when it came out, and now, is what they mean by "avoid"

it seems the answer is, "avoid paying taxes that they would have owed if they sold the company personally and kept all the proceeds as cash themselves"

the article is mostly critiquing rich people giving low taxed gifts to non profits while retaining control over what that money is used for vs an ostensibly independent board controlling it
> Why not just be honest about what you want?

I've encountered two significant reasons:

1) You don't know what you want

2) What you want is not kosher in your culture so you'll settle for eating dirt
https://motyar.info

Try double click
There's objective aspects of safe driving like leaving enough distance between vehicles (depending on speed) that are wildly ignored. You might get used to that in practice but that doesn't make it safer.
It's strange that you seem to be an absolutist on this topic. What is wrong if inheritance is an elegant solution to a relatively small number of problems? Historical overuse of inheritance doesn't take away from that.
I partake in this trade. There are other DeFi markets than Aave with better rates (6% to 9% range) for borrowing Tether. I also don't only use one market or one chain to hedge a bit smart contract risk. I also didn't sell Tether and just hold cash. Maxing out my I Bonds allocation and then buying treasuries has offset the interest on Tether such that I've been slightly net positive for the last 18 months on my position. This is all gambling money, no money I actually need day to day is tied up in this and my retirement/savings are invested an a traditional portfolio of stocks/bonds/real estate.
Interesting explanation on how it developed historically. I've seen mathbf used in some books, but I guess old conventions are hard to change.
There's room to question whether existing laws create the right incentives.

If they staff the foundation with a bunch of family members and give them well paid jobs with nebulous responsibilities, forgiving the taxes on the money used to establish the foundation can be of less benefit that the taxes would have been.

If the foundation efficiently puts a lot of resources into things that benefit society, then that probably makes more sense.
Could the lecturer sue the school? this doesn't seem like a legitimate reason to fire someone.
Every time there is an act of philanthropy there are multiple articles "exposing" the fact that the philanthropist won't also be paying taxes on the wealth he or she has given away. These articles are pointless at best and misinformation at worst. Lazy journalism.

The headline, for example, strongly suggests that this is just some kind of cynical play by Chouinard to lower his tax bill. I am sure that, from a personal wealth perspective, he would still be much better off had he kept his $3 billion in Patagonia stock and paid whatever taxes he might have avoided here.
> since its inception 109 years ago, the US Dollar has lost 96% of its value

I bet that 109 years after Bitcoin/ETH/FTX/Dogecoin/etc will be created they will fare far worse.
My guess is its not economical.
Philanthropy is always about dodging taxes and improving your public image rather than actually helping people.
Really appreciate this side-by-side guide. Didn't realize Polars could still be used with Python, and the speed improvements seem to be drastic.

May need to scope if it's worth updating our open-source connectors.
This was a fun page to test it with: https://www.oracle.com/cloud/cloud-native/
What kind of agreement are you after? Does not the likes of protonmail suit your needs?
Thanks I’ll look up that stuff. Thanks for the response :)
> massive return

Just around 100%. That's not massive for crypto gambling.

You could just buy BTC and have 600% in less than 3 years if only BTC won't break out of its 12 year trend.

And that's a very conservative gamble.
Since we are on Hacker News (which was Startup News back in the day):

I think for starting a startup, a simple LAMP+Framework setup is still the best approach.

For example Debian+Apache+MySql+Python+Django.

Although I would use SQLite these days instead of MySql.
I am Italian… raised catholic… my high school was owned and managed by the church… and I am an atheist as well! An I can tell you that in my country the problem are the believers not the atheists! The presence of faith implies you are willing to outsource your moral compass to what a bunch of primitive men belived to be right
Ok makes more sense for film. Thanks for the info
How does one consume this road map? Any effective strategy here to use?

I'm not questioning usefulness of this, but how to make use of it to become a better developer? Binge read from top to bottom on topics not having familiarity in it?
Who says personalised ads are better performing?

The companies who make the real money out of ads are ad tech vendors, with publishers often picking up the scraps

It’s not suprising that people who’ve worked in personalised ads often promote them as the only way to fund the internet
Itch.io is great and has single-handedly made it much easier to get an early audience for a freeware game. It's been a great help for me as well. It's harder to actually earn money there (at least in my case, it's orders of magnitude less money than eg. Steam), but you can't beat it for ease of publishing something and seeing what people think of it.
“Increasingly, modern bullshit native apps are being infused with Bullshit bullshits, improving business efficiencies and bullshitting new use cases and bullshits for customers.”
An potential failure case for defi is that some contract:

* Is looking at USDT pairs as well as USD pairs for a price oracle and doesn't handle USDT pairs going to infinity well (i.e. BTC/USDT skyrockets) when tether goes to zero

* Effectively hardcodes the value of Tether to $1 (can happen by accidentally treating a X/USDT pair as an X/USD pair)

I suspect that the major lending protocols (AAVE, Compound) have enough attention and effort to not make such a basic mistake but there's a whole wide world of less competent protocols out there.

This can happen to centralised venues as well of course but as far as OP is concerned those are too risky for the tether trade (an assessment I agree with).
For me it has been enough visiting subsistence farmers. I really don’t want to live like that, and have spent a decade trying to help at some useful scale.
Humans are terrible at gauging risk. I think the parent comment was highlighting the risk component of this.

VTSAX-and-chill is gambling also. But the risks are so wildly different that Tether is closer to buying lottery tickets than index funds.

Everyone does what they want with their money but there seems to have been an explosion of “massive returns” content that I think is generally harmful.

(I’m neither saying that this post is or isn’t harmful.)
I good I’ll give it a more in-depth study. Thanks for the info :)
Wow, I switched to fish a few months ago, and the items explicitly listed here are exactly some of my sticking points from transitioning from bash. In bash I would use both the multicd and !! operations they describe there, along with control-r and removing them from my muscle memory has been some of the only downsides. I'm excited to see that all three of these are possible to set up here as well.
I just tried polars for this first time this week. I ported a data pipeline from pandas and I was blown away by the performance yield. Function went from a 60 min runtime with pandas to ~1:30 in polars!

I’ve been using pandas for years and had no issues picking up the syntax. Can’t recommend giving it a try enough.
> They took a blatantly unfair practice that affects tens of millions of people - I mean it’s literally called a ‘non-compete’ - and banned it. That’s governing. That’s wielding power in service of the public. They also took the idea that employers are allowed to have enormous control over their employees and contractors and said the government no longer allows it. The government’s job is to ensure our liberty from coercion, in all its forms. And for the first time in a very long time, the Federal Trade Commission acted like it.

I love that description of government’s purpose to wield power in favor of the public. Sure banning non-competes infringes on the freedom of employers to coerce their workers but workers gain the freedom to change jobs.
Personally I think the Patagonia thing is mostly marketing, but that aside, I think it's a desirable feature of a tax system that taxes can be avoided in this way.

One way to think of taxes is the government saying "if you're not going to spend money on your own for the public good, well take it and do it for you". Letting people decide which charity / good their money gets spent on as a a first option is more efficient and gives more direct agency over how we spend our money to help society
If only this response came from your first account that I was speaking to directly.
You can also feed Goggle Street View or equivalent for a good start.

(though https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Freedom_of_panora... may matter here)
Identify the difference between dreaming (plausible things) and fantasizing (implausible things). Make a decision about what your imagination is providing to you and that categorization process may relieve you of spending cycles on the thing that won’t happen and which largely functions as a way to keep yourself burdened.

It’s also okay to have a mental funeral for a long-standing dream which is now an unsatisfactory, or not necessary, fantasy. Some thoughts / dreams / imagined paths can become whispers in the mind. And gone.
The "tax free" way costs them 5 times as much. It's cheaper to pay 20% tax than to give away 100%.

This is title is designed to feed a narrative to people that don't understand taxes.

Also, how is giving away 3 billion going to avoid "billions in taxes"? No place on the planet has that kid of tax rate. Even the article makes this clear, past the inflammatory headline.

How about the article title: Patagonia founder gives donates fortune to fight climate change?

Because it doesn't generate outrage like implying somehow they took money that would somehow magically be yours.
i've used it a few times.

golang: 1 bug in 30 lines

d3.js : unusable output (tried several times)

expressjs: works like a charm

plotly.js: worked

bash scripts: awesome
Also podman generate: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-generate.1....
> It would be great if Microsoft some day releases Midori source code.

Waiting for this since years. But it won't happen, I guess, as it didn't happen until now.