skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having been part of a company that depends entirely on seasonal business (christmas), I would understand why the IRS is unable to complete technical projects.

You spend all year working on a system, then the time comes for you to demonstrate it's capabilities. It is 2 months to BIG_IMPORTANT_SEASON. A few faults are found in your solution. Not wanting to risk downtime during literally the only time your company matters, your superiors put your system on hold and you get relegated to support work.

The IRS probably works the same way. I am guessing the IT division gets about 6 months to do their work before everyone stops the presses because it's tax season and you don't fuck with stuff any time around tax season.
Also, most people aren't developers, and if you don't have the paid Dev account, you can only run for something like two weeks before you have to reauthorise it from what I remember - I think Apple introduced it to make it more difficult to run things like emulators for the average consumer.
Why All Programmers Should Get a Master's Degree
I'm surprised they have thought to move some of their infrastructure in house. The clearly have the scale where this would make sense, but it may be that AWS and GCP provide them with such low special prices that it doesn't make sense...
We can't have a government agency go and be efficient now. That would break decades of "everything should be privatized because government can't do it well" brainwashing.

Doubly so for the IRS.
Just wanted to note that Telegram still supports E2EE in their secret chats. It's just less convenient.
You still owe them the same amount; their delay is just an adds uncertainty to the process.
I ended up making my own setup instead of GnuCash because I tried it and it feels like wearing one size too small shoes. My finances is also something I can work as hobby without PMs on my head and keep myself motivated to work on it for years (now three or four). If you want to have side project doing your own finances is nice choice.
And this, friends, is why it’s important to encrypt information that you want to remain private.
Yeah, I loved that show. If your a fan of Tom Merrit, he has another daily show called DTNS (Daily Tech News Show) which is pretty good as well.
On iOS, press and hold on the brightness slider. It'll go full screen with a "Night Shift" option. And "General -> Accessibility -> Accessibility Shortcut" lets you bind triple-click to various color shift filters (I've recently been using my phone in black & white to try to make it less visually interesting)
I didn't know these were publicly available!

The SCOTUS only has audio, but the Ninth Circuit has a full video channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeIMdiBTNTpeA84wmSRPDPg
I'm interested in contributing, although I don't have much experience with networking code. Any idea what language you're going to be using?
If you're a margin business then certainly. If you're not then there's a lot to be said for keeping your core competency lean and offloading the heavy lifting at a negotiated price.
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Hetzner has pretty bad peering imho. I was trying to use IPSec but it was impossible because at peak times UDP packets got dropped making my latency go into 200ms.
>Or a highly pacified citizenry?

That's still a war, just a very one-sided war.

>What role does Youtube have in making a kumbaya kind of experience?

I'm assuming the question is "what reason does Youtube have", since their role is pretty clear: they control the platform. If they want people to keep using it, they have to keep those people happy. If they want to prevent a revolt, they have to keep people happy. Because unhappy, unstable people can turn violent. Keeping them happy won't necessarily stop all unstable people from turning violent, but you certainly do maximize that risk when you have some unstable people in your community and your community is already on the brink of a user revolt.
It's not that PEDMAS was a new thing in 1971, if you look at the article about the timeline of Parsing (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16856694) then you'll see that the earliest programming languages didn't have operator precedence, and that this annoyed users of those languages.

It's probably either because parsing operators with precedence wasn't really a solved problem in 1964 when Iverson first started working on APL, or because Iverson disagrees with the normal precedence rules. If you look at Notation of a tool of thought (also linked on HN in the recent past ), then there is this passage (when comparing APL with normal math notation):

> In
the
interpretation
of
composite
expressions
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the
right
argument
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entire
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that
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of
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expression
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read
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or
overall
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Internet was supposed to give everybody a voice and the chance to be heard, a wider open door to whatever information they wanted, it was the global village dream, the digital land of freedom and opportunity.

Ha! we were too naïve, it has just given societies the means to be more dysfunctional than they possibly could with non-interactive media. Information is just money, it doesn't need to be true to have a definite value. Your personal information is money, where you are, who you are, what you're browsing is money. Politics don't matter any more, because they can be fixed by retconning and you won't notice, you won't care, because what matters is the constant flow of shiny glimpses of happiness you could get some day or you simply wish you had any chance to get close to, all at your fingertips waiting for your input. All these interactive ephemera are provided by some corporation in exchange for your consumer profile. And if you feel that there's not much freedom nor much opportunity after all, well there's room at the conspiracists alley for you, you're more than welcome.
Here's what the article should be: Russia bans lots of AWS and GCP IPs to see no riot.
Depends on the market. Google's move to 'entities' over keywords means broad search seo is beyond the abilities of "2 guys with some adwords experience" type agencies that were popular circa 2011/12. Quality well thought out sites that (theoretically) align with intent fare better.

That said, if you're targeting a certain city, definitely still works. Most local sites are poorly optimized.
I agree with most of what you say, but if an old computer system could not, say, complete its yearly tasks in a year then replacing with a faster processing system would make sense.

It's not unheard of for a mainframe to take of-the-order of a day to do something that needs doing each day.
I just want thank the GnuCash devs for their hard work over the years. It’s helped me get insights into my personal finances and helped me learn double-entry book keeping.
If it takes you 6 months to 2 years to become prominent in local searches, something has gone very wrong. The answer to the original question is really one of "over how big a part of the internet?" first. Global SEO is a slow process, local SEO should be a matter of months at most, if the site you're optimizing for isn't "yet another one" in a saturated local market.
I agree. If putting [video] on video links is a thing here, so should [paywall] or similar since it's even more annoying than videos.

However, I'm a subscriber to The Information so here's a share link: https://go.theinformation.com/f2b133baedc57a8c - I think it requres an email, alas, but it's something if people are desperate to read the story.
I agree (although in the US, ID is used for bank accounts and proof of age).

I wonder if it would feel different if they didn't ask for a copy of the ID, but just had someone look at it.

I think it also feels different because no one else asks for it (VULTR, AWS, Dig Ocean, etc)

Also a drivers license feels less intrusive (for whatever reason) than a passport, and I believe for foreigners they want a passport.
> Facebook doesn't care about users, laws, and lacks any sense of moral or ethical standards.

its difficult to say with a straight face that a government that runs trillions of deficits, spies constantly on its population, and engages in so called defensive wars abroad, cares about its citizens. The lack of responsibility is rampant among government figures.
Recently I have been beginning to question university education. It seems that today's education system has mismatched priorities which may have an impact on the reproducibility crisis. You see, to come up with a fantastic new alloy, you don't have to be a genius. Or even very good. You have to be persistent, and clever enough to realize when you've found something interesting. You will need to understand your field very well, but there are many, many fields. And each one is quite narrow, so while it is hard to understand your field well, many, many people can do this.

So my less dystopian future goes like this. Train lots and lots of physicists, chemists, engineers, programmers, materials scientists, biologists, mathematicians. And (shock horror) through higher taxes employ them. Employ them on promising ideas, and on impossible ideas. Employ them on the problems of the day, and on arcane research that will almost certainly never bear fruit. And sure, right at the top in the Apples and Googles of the world, you'll have the best and brightest pulling together all of the discoveries made without all these reproducibility issues.

Or we could continue down the dystopian path. The low tax path where there really are only meaningful jobs for the best and the brightest. Where we rely on Apple and Google to decide what ideas are worth pursuing. Where the skills and abilities of a great many are not used. And most of us fight for the crumbs from the oligarch's tables. And the oligarchs? For every Elon Musk, there will be 10 who just want the biggest yacht and the prettiest mistress.

Let me say that again. In a low tax environment, the skills and abilities of a great many will not be used. And we will all be poorer for that. Genuinely poorer, because great discoveries will not be made. And it is happening now.

And I'll go one step further. We are also wasting the talents of our best writers and artists. The BBC and other national broadcasters are squeezed. Squeezed so that the idea of something as original and amazing as Monty Python appearing now is laughable. And again, we are all the poorer for that. Not just the lucky ones who get to make amazing shows or works of art, but all of us who never get to revel in them.

The low tax, small government world is a step backwards. If you wish to sum it up succinctly, you may say it is a world where, in order to placate the very rich, we take away opportunities from many, and impoverish the world as a whole.
Ah yes, I mixed that up. :/ Though who rents movies from Microsoft? And they don't have a subscription-based service for it, like both Amazon and Google do.
What's wrong with w3schools?
It is harder to be a troll when anonymity is removed. People, at least some people, will be more hesitant to post stupid things if their stupidity is associated with their real world identity for all to see. It would also be more challenging to be a criminal or fraudster online when anonymity is voided.

Just think how much less toxic Reddit would be if there were no anonymity and employers, parents, and neighbors could see what people are really thinking about.

Also, privacy is not anonymity.
Can you clarify? Assuming you are talking about Travis Kalanick, are you implying he was ousted by a 3rd party with an interest in surveillance/control?
True, but you didn't pick your country of birth either—although it is possible, for some, to chose their country at a later date. Voting is only a partial choice (at best).
Original YouTube content is really not a huge part of YouTube's offerings. Even if it were a larger component, Google wouldn't jeopardize a large hosting account just to score points against a competitor.

Amazon, on the other hand, will partner and make nice with competitors until they're ready to abandon them. Amazon is planning on supplanting FedEx and UPS and already has its own fleet of cargo planes. Amazon is great for business until they decide they don't need you anymore.
And they're responsible for the collection of over

$3,180,000,000,000 annually

So I see no validity to your point(s).
Interesting to see which regions they're blocking, and how much they're blocking in each region. For IPv4 addresses only:

Region Desc IPs Blocked % Blocked
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo) 1984800 786451 39.62%
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul) 459024 131073 28.55%
ap-northeast-3 Asia Pacific (Osaka-Local) 65808 0 0.00%
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai) 524560 65542 12.49%
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore) 1067552 425990 39.90%
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney) 1147168 163852 14.28%
ca-central-1 Canada (Central) 196880 3 0.00%
cn-north-1 China (Beijing) 231456 0 0.00%
cn-northwest-1 China (Ningxia) 100368 0 0.00%
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt) 1049888 787013 74.96%
eu-north-1 EU (North tba) 65808 0 0.00%
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland) 3757344 1966319 52.33%
eu-west-2 EU (London) 393488 131087 33.31%
eu-west-3 EU (Paris) 131344 1 0.00%
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) 491808 65536 13.33%
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) 10317600 4260203 41.29%
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) 1179920 131079 11.11%
us-gov-east-1 AWS GovCloud (US, East) 65552 0 0.00%
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US) 131088 32768 25.00%
us-west-1 US West (N. California) 1311536 196642 14.99%
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) 4917552 1769549 35.98%
Total 29590544 10913108 36.88%
What are the problems you've been running into with ELB?
Racial 'science' was used by the Nazi's to justify antisemitism, eugenics, and everything they did beyond that.

The scientific method is important to be used, but don't trust something just because another person believes it to be science. You need the hypothesis and the verification method. Others (all of us) have the obligation to challenge both the hypothesis as well as the verification methods.
There is also a TV show which I honestly think is much better than the movie.
The problem with this approach is that once you toss science there is not much left to inform policy decisions (religion? profit? personal views?).

One less drastic solution may be to require a full disclosure of the process for all experimental results (to allow reproduction) and place much higher value in funding decisions on reproducibility.

One particularly egregious approach reproducibility requirement can address is doing enough "independent" studies until you like the result, then report that one study only (e.g., toss a coin 10 times; repeat as a new study until you find 10 tails; report a new discovery). My 2c.
Something owns a domain, and the details of that something need to be known - personal or not. Easy.
The ovens are as close to robotics as you can get, the stages are all automatic and the time the pizza takes through the various stages is determined by the speed of a conveyor belt. The dough is prepared in bulk (as are all the other ingredients). There is very little left to chance in large scale pizza generation when it comes to ingredients and process. The biggest effects that humans can still have on the final result is the speed of delivery and whether or not they followed sanitation rules.
Do you have any proof?
The USA treasury can't do redundancies? Or indeed have their personnel reskill?
New self-assembling protein hydrogels may hold many applications for biomedicine
Is Matrix planning to use MLS for interop with other E2E systems?

https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/mls/about/
> Recently I have been beginning to question university education. Why are we bothering to educate anyone except the very, very best students in physics, maths and engineering? In fact, why aren't we identifying these students and sending them straight to Caltech? It seems intuitive that this would solve one half of the reproducibility crisis.

That doesn't seem intuitive at all.
These are not integers! Integers are exactly represented from -2^53-1 to 2^53-1.
The number of businesses with potential that you can buy for $900 is relatively small.
After this episode AWS would have to be a bit foolish to invest in assets subject to Russian seizure.
Yes! Because paying taxes is so un-American /s
Google also may have a competing service if they ever figure out what they want YouTube Red to be.
DOE steps further toward exascale computing
Build internal tools you can trust, not just use
We want humans to change their behavior because their behavior is releasing a lot of CO2 into the atmosphere.

If microbes proceeed to do it unconditionally, how is that better? Shall we then get them to change THEIR behavior?
Take into account that meta analysis should not only consider the results of its participant studies, but also whether there is enough information to reproduce the study and whether it has accounted for possible confounding factors.
The old man then went home and penned an article titled "The sea needs to tackle the issue of washed-up starfish"; the Moon was blown up, and the tides ceased.
> it wasn't a requirement for new businesses

Companies house asks for director name/address/dob when you register a company
> and needs to be treated as such

What does that even mean?

You have one point "it's a conservative think tank" - which does not mean anything - coupled with another empty statement.

Now I sure don't mind criticism of that entity, but I find it ironic that it is done with such an empty statement that's just a not very cleverly disguised type of ad hominem attack.

May I suggest you take some time actually reading the paper and then coming back with criticism of their actual points?
It's not just the accountancies. Planet Money did a bit about how right leaning organizations like Grover Norquist's "Americans for Tax Reform" opposed pre-filed income tax returns because they believed that making tax compliance less painful would lead people to be less opposed to taxes generally (I can't say they are totally wrong there). Special interest groups (including some thay aren't so special, like anyone with childcare costs) on both sides love "their" special tax deductions.

The accounting firms aren't campaigning for simplification, but they are joined by a legion of others opposing it in various ways as well.
In general, I think it’s a wash. The margins you save on end up costing you in other ways, such as development velocity and having access to easily deployed high-scale solutions like dynamo and managed instances like RDS. it takes time and organizational know-how to get to a point where similar things can be managed in the same way as AWS.

Again, there are niche segments where this might not be true, 500 constant machines churning through massive datasets all day-long, etc, might fall into that category, but it’s not slam dunk.
Designer’s guide to Scrum
If we know nothing else about them but their names (which is a quite big assumption), a person named Deion or Jayla or Latisha is more likely to come from a disadvantaged socioeconomic background than a person named Chad or Emma or Sophia, have a worse job, have a somewhat higher chance of getting arrested in future, and due to these and other factors they causally, objectively have a somewhat higher risk of defaulting on that loan. It's not just bias, prejudice or superstition; it's not a mistake in data or process; it's an indication of some true, factual observation about reality. The correlation isn't huge, but it is there, and it's not a coincidence.

If it's your money that you're choosing to lend (or not lend), would you ignore that information or take it into account when making a decision if you should offer that loan and how much the rate should be adjusted to cover the risk of default? What if it's not your money to do with it as you please, but money entrusted to you to invest for maximum results?

Sure, if you knew what this particular person is actually like, then you'd base the decision on better data than just their name, and it could well be that this Jayla would get a much better deal than this Sophia; but even if you had a perfectly fair system that correctly estimates the individual risk of default without prejudice causing worthy individuals being dragged down by association with some group, then there would still be a correlation with the name simply because in the current reality the proportion of "risky Jaylas" is larger than the proportion of "risky Sophias".
I think what is interesting here is how often do you see a room of executives (the ones who actually make product decisions) watching what their users are saying about their products? Fluff piece aside, working in tech is tough because there is a level of "How do we deliver something new and innovative" mixed with, "What do our users actually need." In this instance, they needed one, fix their flagship product and two, they needed to innovate in the delivery space. If more companies did this type of user-centered retrospective, we would better products across the board.
To explain the "special kind of program" further, the US government has a very strict salary ladder (the "General Schedule" and similar), necessary to keep the enormous federal workforce paid fairly and without corruption. However, the salary ladder has not kept up with the explosion of incomes for very specialized professionals. For example, the scheduled salaries generally lie below the $400k salary for the president; top engineers sometimes earn more than that, and top engineering managers often do. This makes it hard to hire those professionals.

The special kind of program here is a special allowance from Congress to hire people at salaries larger than the general schedule allows; Congress gives this right to some agencies for a limited time when it perceives a need (and politics allow). For another example, Congress gave the FDA the right to do this last year to allow it to hire more drug reviewers (a job pharma companies are willing to pay a lot for).

In this case, Congress allowed the program to run out too soon (perhaps due to budget negotiation issues, perhaps due to oversight). Often that leads to people leaving and a lot of social and organizational capital drying up, just like it did here.
Well, you're in luck. Science has zero effect on government policy in all nations that I'm familiar with.
> . The market may be good at some things but would you desire a governmental system where the rich having more power than the poor was baked into the system?

Most countries around the world are led by the upper class who has large access to capital. Even in democracies power goes to the wealthy, and you dont get to vote for lower class representatives.
So, 'science' not science? Got it. That was a pretty quick Godwining, by the way.
> Facebook doesn't care about users, laws, and lacks any sense of moral or ethical standards.

True, but I can point to many countries (my own USA in many cases) that doesn't care about citizens, laws, and moral ethical standards. I can also point to corporations with high ethical standards, who care deeply about their users and the laws.

Corporations and governments are just groups of people. Groups of people have shown great capacity for good, but also extreme evil.