skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe, but the first one I got was 5 or 6 years ago and was already an electronic voucher redeemable in the website.
After the apocalypse, the lucky will be wearing electric heated vests. Heater to skin contact is much more efficient than heating the air.
Death makes life fair because we all end up with nothing. The universe itself won't last forever. In terms of justice and equality, this is very comforting.

I don't understand all these people who are funding research to cure death. Even if you manage to cure natural death, you definitely won't be able to cure occupational death.
Don't you think that decline could be explained by the rise of Walmart?
This is the only reference I've known: https://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/AsImplemented.html

It's a little more sophisticated than GET /, as you can also specify a full URL.

> Also, if there is a public, pre-HTTP/1.0 HTTP server available on the internet

Most HTTP/1.0+ web servers still support HTTP/0.9. I don't know of any 0.9-only servers though, but there's probably some.
Technical climbers will often refer to this as an electrician's coil[0] because a daisy chain[1] is a specific type of runner.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaEv9wm6gy0
[1] https://www.rei.com/product/113898/black-diamond-12mm-dynex-...
Drugs that work on mice often fail on people
Actually it is in full production and the goal is to get feedback so that's why it's completely free. The email needs to be verified as this is the address you'll receive contact messages from your created website, thus the need to be correct. It's not about the value but not to send emails to an incorrect address. I have set it to confirmed so you can proceed.
How do you imagine we would be begin to look for the things you're describing?
I'd be curious to see what elements (not chemical elements conceptual building blocks) are required for natural selection to take hold, irrespective of the physical form taken. Surely someone has looked at this on a more abstract level?

Once you have natural selection, intelligence is a conceivable adaptation.
Ex-Russian here: this year I had very pleasant experience with FNS to declare and pay income tax for some extra income (13% flat rate btw). 5 minutes on the web site just to declare the money they were not yet aware of, click submit and choose payment method (could be cash payment in any bank, credit card or via integration with lots of banking APIs - my choice). Few more minutes after I figured out there's a small old debt on property tax, that they never bothered to collect, to pay it too. They started with rather complex desktop app and continuously improved UX, so now it's really good. Worth to mention that they have 2FA option with security token.
I don't remember my Geocities ID in TimesSquare and I am not really inclined to look it up now. But thank you, thank you.

(cries in horror and runs away)
I really dislike research hit jobs like the link you posted. At best they are disingenuous, at worst they are outright lies. The funding attached to the projects is for the total grant amount provided, which may fund multiple projects, staff, or overhead.

From the link:

METHODOLOGY
Specific dollar amounts expended to support each study were not available for the projects
profiled in this report. Most were conducted as parts of more extensive research funded with
government grants or financial support. The costs provided, therefore, represent the total
amount of the grant or grants from which the study was supported and not the precise amount
spent on the individual studies. This is not intended to imply or suggest other research
supported by these grants was wasteful, unnecessary or without merit.
I thought this technique was such common knowledge that I kept waiting for the punchline in the article. It was a good reminder that even the simple stuff deserves to be written about and revisited every so often.
As a member, I get an annual dividend from REI. I can assure you that sending customers money is a great way to engender loyalty.
Some sort of a timeout or feedback would be great I guess. I'm waiting for my opponent for well over a minute now, and I guess they're gone. (But are they? What if I close this now and they win!)
So they strike a random target in retaliation for testing a nuke? What does that accomplish? Now Kim can just test another nuke. Then what do we do? We nuke NK?
I'm not much of a gamer, but still find tiny screen and keyboard limiting gaming experience more than graphic settings.
Windows prior to 95 displayed the same problem, only the max procs was set to one, and instead of goroutines we had entire processes.

Like go now, it was fine most of the time. But anything with heavy computation time could be a serious problem.
What if instead of passing a fetch across the bus, you passed a tiny little program that included conditional indirections - if you want to get x.y.z, you'd have a list of two indirections and an offset in the little program.

Push the latency problem of pointerful code closer to the data.
An interesting philosophy, though not necessarily one I have.
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Definitely not as widely deployed as now, but I believe they were widespread in laptops to allow shutoff of harddrives during fall detection.
Wow, that's a lot of complexity! I remember the various state sales taxes when I visited the US a few years ago (that weren't built into the menu prices). Between that and tipping, I swear Americans must be absolute guns when it comes to quick mental arithmetic.

On the tax complexity, at least on the bright side the only direction is 'up' from here :)
It's because government isn't completely inert.

Even members of US Congress are extremely responsive to issues they think will get them kicked out of office.
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Did you read the article on the study you're criticizing?

> The formula was particularly likely to falsely flag black defendants as future criminals, wrongly labeling them this way at almost twice the rate as white defendants.

The algorithm did not just say black people are more likely to arrested, it said black people were more likely to be arrested than the future data revealed. The algorithm was wrong, and it was wrong even if you take the demonstrably false position that being arrested is the same thing as committing a crime, ignoring the blatant and harmful biases in police behaviors already.

Given that this algorithm is being used to inform sentences by judges today, this is absolutely appalling.

The broader problem is that algorithms have imperfect signals to work with, and given those signals, it's easier to figure out someone's race than it is to figure out your attitude toward crime, so the algorithm overfits to the data it can see. This exacerbates the problem in a positive feedback loop, and we absolutely need to be cognizant of the damaging implications of this.
I'm going to end this conversation before you get too confused
I suspect Wilson was saying "Since 5% of the runtime of the raytracing algorithm cannot be sped up through parallelism, even if the time needed to run the other 95% were reduced to zero due to parallelism (or some other magic), the speedup of raytracing could never exceed 100/(100-95), or 20X."

In essence, Amdahl's Law trumps Moore's Law.
Powerful GPU alone can draw 200-300 W of power.
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Get a metro day pass and try to use it as much as possible. You'd be surprised how much you can do and see without getting in a car once
As an employee of the amazon returns facility a lot of the issue is because of employee error, which is the lack of opening the box and making sure it is the right item being returned, part of the process is sending ot to liquidation to where it is sold at discount prices, warehouse deals sellable to where it becomes a sale although it has cosmetic issues, brand new sellable, and destroy. If they check the box and it is caught as being the wrong item, it is investigated on amazons part to see if it was a item sent back by mistake, an item that was sent out by mistake, or if the costumer is trying to pull a fast one. If it is the wrong item it is an easy fix as long as amazon sells the item that was returned.
And I'm not sure if it's worth trying to overcome it.

Two reasons why hierarchical structures show up:

1. If you want to even have someone looking at the "big picture", due to limits of human cognition, you have to build a hierarchy.

2. Hierarchy shows up as a natural solution to coordination problems. Consider e.g. various forms of the tragedy of commons. The solution to that[0] is that all actors involved agree to be governed by an independent one. This is something that humans end up rediscovering all the time.

Basically, hierarchical governance is what lets humanity build societies larger than couple dozen people.

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[0] - in larger systems, i.e. beyond few people who know each other personally and can mutually agree not to be assholes to one another; we have a strongly developed social skills to handle such issues in small groups.
The unhealthy fascination with burn down charts and Scrum in general continually amazes me. I have witnessed the same debates about what Scrum points system to use so many times and witnessed teams of intelligent people waste days of developer time earnestly discussing relative point values.
I'd say quantum computing is still in a very early stage with many unsolved problems, especially on the implementation side.
I understand what you are saying, but we need to remember one thing: it was all recreational! Good God, the man wasn't being chased by killers, he was doing this for fun!

The fact is, I don't care who you are, there are limits imposed on the 50 year old body. There just are. If you want to keep active, that's great, but what ever happened to being reasonable? Why is everyone in such a rush all the time to have more fun faster and harder than anyone else?

Maybe this is an artifact of civilization? Since we are no longer being chased by tigers we need to "fun" ourselves to death. Who knows.

To be fair, the article makes it clear that he never felt like he was "pushing" too hard before the incident. It may be he didn't notice his body talking to him, or maybe it just didn't until it was too late, which sucks. Everyone is different. I can tell you that I'm over 50 and have definitely noticed the effort and recovery challenges that accompany my age. I'm active and love to run, bike, etc. But it certainly feels different than it did when I was 15. I have to be reasonable about how much I do how fast.

Be reasonable, people.
I've never gotten this stock options thing. I'm a consultant. I do stuff, invoice and get paid. The idea of accepting potential payment in some sort of play money, that I might get if things go well, and that might be worth something at some later date, seems crazy.

Sure, I know that a few founding employees have done very well. But has anyone done very well, recently?
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Norquist started Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) is a politically conservative U.S. taxpayer advocacy group whose stated goal is "a system in which taxes are simpler, flatter, more visible, and lower than they are today."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_for_Tax_Reform

Doesn't sound like you are describing Norquist's organization they way they do in their mission statement. Do you have any references?
Thirty-thousand.org advocates the bill passed by the House in 1789: to require there be at least one Representative for every 50,000 people. At the current population level of approximately 300 million people, that formulation would require a minimum of 6,000 congressional districts.
https://tapastic.com/episode/427055
Fair enough, but... my 2010 desktop was a lot more energy efficient than my 2005 desktop. And my 2017 desktop is probably going to be made from what are effectively laptop parts in a brick the size of a large hardback, with the power supply external like a laptop.

So while most people are moving to laptop-only, even us hold-outs are seeing more energy efficiency in desktops.
Great comment! Also to add to the "folks that lived down the street" aspect of the House of Representatives: when we started out, we had 1 rep for something like 35,000 people. Now it's more like 1 rep per 750,000 people. That undoubtedly makes a big difference in how the rep views their individual constituents.
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Giving a precise definition is hard, since it is easy to twist it and point out that pretty much everyone owns at least a bit of capital and could thus be considered part of the class.

However, the usual definition of the capitalist class is about owners of capital, or people who earn wealth from the work of others.
This includes industrial capitalists, who own the means of production, the land owners and the financial capitalists.

The average Joe may have some little money on the stock market, but he doesn't have any influence in corporations or the global market, contrarily to what your previous comment hinted.
Right, but most of the laptop-only people will dock their laptop at a desk with a big screen and keyboard.
I think you're right, but for the wrong reasons. Introversion does not mean that people have depression nor are unhealthy. Even if you were to exclude people who suffered from mental illness, the world would still include multitudes of personalities. This isn't to say that introversion and depression aren't correlated or confused for one another. They can share similarities. Some people value alone time, and some people like being in a place where they have more control over the situation.

I lived with a guy who was as healthy as a horse. He was very physically fit, mentally sharp, ate well, and as far I know (we were pretty close) he was not mentally ill. We could watch movies, play games, and do whatever to the wee hours of the morning. We'd go get food and occasionally drinks, shoot ball, and we got into distance running for a while - things tough to get into while suffering depression. . Towards the end of the day, he just needed to crawl back into his cave. We could game together online, but that was the limit to his contact once he was spent.

Introversion is not depression. It's a personality trait.
In the US, lots of stores have promotions specifically around tax returns.
I have a Traverse day pack that is > 8 years old that has been used almost everyday. I don't remember it being too expensive, and the quality has been nothing short of amazing. I wish every zipper I own worked as well as they have on this pack.
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Are the zippers YKK?
I was just trying out WordPress.com's personal plan, it was only 36$ a year for hosting and pointing my domain (which is I registered on Namecheap).
The issue here is IMO that the trustless processes deliver consistency and reliability at such huge costs to quality of outcome, that the outcome becomes below average. In other words, an average teacher could do a better job free than directed by standardized testing, but the results would be so varied in quality and direction[0] as to be useless within the current social framework. And it's not that the society couldn't handle it, it's that when building systems, we want to make things more consistent, so they can be more easily built upon.

Basically, think of why you build layers of abstraction in code, even though it almost always costs performance.

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[0] - e.g. one teacher focusing on quality math skills, another on quality outdoors skills, etc.
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The numbers are gotten from the banks and employers so they are always right
Easy to say, and I mostly agree, but it can be tough. I've seen a few of these cases of bully management and what you notice is that the team under the manager (and the teams around the manager) all already realize and communicate (sometimes just glances, sometimes quite openly) that the manager is a problem. So making a dramatic exit to make a point sometimes only makes an obvious point.

There are other factors too. Maybe you have a unique skillset and it takes some time to find similar employment, maybe you stay for family reasons, or for a (probably misguided) sense of loyalty to the team. In my last relevant personal experience, it was obviously a hostile work environment fairly early on but I had made an informal commitment to stay on for X amount of time when I joined.

Abusive managers often actually score big wins in short order and garner favor from higher management, but inevitably we see those managers burn out the systems they build and the systems around them. Employees start bouncing out at an accelerating pace and it's a compounding effect usually because an already overtaxed team is now smaller and has to pick up the slack of the departed.

It usually ends badly.

Which of course factors back into the decision not to make a public display of an exit -- karma usually finds a way to sort these things out.

I think it's probably the case that a lot of these managers are completely oblivious to their actions. I had one manager who proudly claimed (to the team) knowledge of sneaky political tactics and posted articles on fb about Machiavelli and corporate tactics for grabbing and wielding power. It's quite an awkward thing to watch and they're usually not fooling anybody.
Yes people today treat music as if the sound were an end product (consumerism), but music is a medium through which major areas of experience are communicated.

E.g. scales could be thought of buildings. One can hardly make one without inflecting it in some way that reflects values. To the point where evading this inevitability invokes meta-communication.
Think vast codebases that were created by many programmers that weren't you :D
So here's an orthogonal question. In a field like space navigation, where your findings come back after an expedition planned 5-10+ years ago how do you be "agile"?

What is the go to project management style? Can we learn from these disciplines for alternative practices to building software?
As another data point, I also pay $2k - $3k / year for help to file taxes in Japan. But I also know many people who just do it themselves.

My justifications for paying:

- We've done the return ourselves once, but it was stressful to worry about not completely understanding everything and making some expensive mistake.

- Service in English.

- If tax officials ever wanted to ask me something, they would get responses in Japanese from a person who actually knows what they are talking about.

- Nice for making sure I get every deduction.

- Probably just doing the "blue form" return is already worth the expense because of deduction benefits. I probably wouldn't ever get around to figuring out how to do that.

The process in Japan seems reasonable, but seems to me more convoluted than in Finland. I was particularly surprised how you have to pay many different fees which in Finland would have been bundled together. Namely having separate bills coming on varying payment schedules for income tax, municipal tax, entrepreneur tax (5%) and health insurance. This seems inefficient and confusing to me.
US Opensource guys !! - Time for you to take up the problem and solve it with an opensource portal that is easy to use and puts intuit out of business
I don't see the issue with that.

Shortened headlines are supposed to have words elided (so I'd read it as "[is being] paid"), and newsy stuff tends to be about now which means that "paid" as past tense doesn't make sense and it would say "pays" (like the main headline does) if she was the one paying. The sentence ordering (Melania first, Daily Mail last) is to put the thing people are most interested in at the beginning.

It's not a case of dishonesty, it's a case of forgetting that most people don't usually use words that way.
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I think you made some good points, but what I would like to point out is that, even if hierarchy was completely inevitable in some context, we should still struggle to get a just kind of hiearchy.

(A part of) the world already did some good progress on this front with the gradual switch from absolute monarchies to democracies, and I hope it will eventually be able to continue on the path towards a more just world.
My reasoning is that since it made it into the guidelines, some people believe that it's not a UX anti-pattern :)
Thank you. There was no way for me to determine that the project status is more than an email harvester with above average effort at design.

Maybe placing email entry and verification into the relevant technical context might make that clearer. It would also keep users on the page longer, by which I mean that even the legitimate need for email and verification entails: Taking the pure gold of someone who has actually landed on the site and sending them somewhere else to conduct an unpleasant administrative task. Now the caveat is that I hate email in general because my inbox is a todo list of things I have not done (at the very least I have to process everything in it). There are exceptions for actual conversations, but that's not what a confirmation email is.

Anyway, I will check it out and thanks again.
REI is my favorite toy store. I know their prices are higher than, say, Wal-Mart, but I actually feel good supporting them. Plus, you can find insanely good sales if you're a member and you go to their garage sales.

One year I got an entire ski setup (boots, skis, bindings, and installation) for under $300. Ended up reselling them for like $500 3 years later when I moved away from Boston.

Got great boots at a garage sale for like $30, too. You just have to be prepared to get there early and scavenge.
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Haven't thought of it but yeah, it nicely summarizes the idea.
I've taken to referring to the time that I spend filling out US Government tax forms as the "Norquist tax". After all, it's hours of my time which I have to spend giving work to the government.

Maybe if we all start calling it that, Americans for Tax Reform will realize that they are causing more harm than good by lobbying against a more efficient filing system. They may think that having us spend a bunch of time doing our taxes makes us better realize how much taxes we pay. In reality, it's just another form of government waste.
They just don't want the Chinese to get DRAM fab technology and then flood the market with cheap parts.
Walking out instantly is a romantic idea for people who either have fat bank accounts to fall back on or little-to-no responsibility outside of work to worry about. For the rest of us something like that is indeed a reason to immediately seek other employment, but just because you don't walk out instantly doesn't mean you are supporting that behavior.
You have to go with your gut on this.

I've come to believe that most corporate actions can be seen as obstructive to progress. It's just a matter of what you are willing to put up with. It doesn't hurt to always be on the lookout for a new gig.
And unions.