skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"> Never again would taxpayers have to worry about the IRS filling out a Form 1040 for them against their will."

Because this is an actual problem for some people?
Do you know what would be even more costly? Not having the free content in the first place, ffs. Quit whining just because you have to comply with the licence imposed by someone who is giving up their work for free.
Yeah. To take it a step further - I would argue that for a lot of things, the coding isn’t most difficult part of the innovation process.
Agree. My kids are 7 & 9 and love Minecraft. 24 minutes per session, 2 sessions per weekend day is the limit and they abide it without complaint or anxiety. When we first set the limit, it was a holy war, I was the “worst dad ever”, etc.

Now, it’s just the rules. (24 minutes was approximately “one TV show” and we do time it, but if they run a minute or two over, no one flips out...)
Depends on where you live. Within very easy driving distance from me (or a rigorous bicycle ride) are farmers markets that, put together, are open from 8:30AM to 6:30PM. If you're working the second shift (lucky you, I only ever got first or third) you'll have no problem being able to get to one of those at least once a week.
I wonder how much this is an effect of AutoCAD/ArcGIS/SolidWorks/&c. certification? "Workstation software" vendors don't typically certify "gaming class" cards.
My parents use to lock up my laptop, refused to buy me games and all sorts of other stuff. I learned how to tether my computer to my phone, I learned how to hack into my router, I learned how to pick locks, I learned how to torrent. It's fucking hard to stop kids when they're determined, they have more time than you to figure out how to be deviant.
That's true. I never said the Ted Cruz postcard gimmick was honest; if it was honest, then it couldn't be sabotaged by simplifying the taxpayer experience for the existing schedule of rates and deductions.
Check out https://customerdevlabs.com/

and "How to Run a User Interview" (Twitch's Emmett Shear) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAws7eXItMk
I'm an American who was lived and worked in New Zealand in Australia. I couldn't believe how easy it was to do taxes there, there was basically nothing to do.
A similar group of people are upset at the signs in California highlighting works projects done with the new Gas Tax money (SB 1) that's up for repeal in November. Their argument is that if people see the projects that are benefiting from that tax money, they'll be more in favor of keeping the tax.
> I mean this

How does what the Wikipedia article is describing differ from what you are calling "explanatory"? As far as I can tell, the reasoning used to build scientific models, for example, falls within what is described as "inductive" reasoning in the article (the article's description is very general, leaving room for lots of different kinds of inductive reasoning); but you are saying scientific models aren't built using inductive reasoning but are "explanatory". Is there a one or two sentence description of the difference? Or are we all forced to buy and read Deutsch's book?
Bryan Cantrill: The Summer of RUST
Pretty much this. I was just WHY the entire time I was reading this. Install Windows 8.1 or 10 and just enjoy life.
At an average of 30mph, the first mile took 2 minutes (120 seconds).

At an average of 90mph, the second mile took 40 seconds.

So your average speed was 2 miles / 160 seconds, or 45 mph.
On iOS, the selection popover interferes with the one you designed.
For a few glorious years, I had a manager who was a senior developer but also a PM who was a customer-focused "people person", and the two of them got along great. This is the best situation, if you can manage to find it, and we were a wonderfully functional and efficient team before inevitably it drifted apart as people reshuffled.

The point is, you can have both.
>the "terror" in the childs life is coming from them, and video games are an escape.

I think this kind of story may be present near the beginning of many addictions, painful as it is to consider. On the other hand, there is plenty of additional harm due to the effectiveness of manipulative techniques on the part of tech companies and advertisers.
Is there a meaningful difference between

> "I would like the humans to open the door when I tap the glass."

and

> "I would like the humans to open the door so I'll keep trying stuff until it works"

? I say that because I feel like your description means training is a means of applying a specific input and obtaining the output. Where as, even humans often don't even train dogs - they try random inputs until they obtain the output they desire.

So what would you call it if a human tried random inputs to a dog, eventually getting the desired behavior? If that's not training, what is it? Is the input just as crucial as the output to "training"?
I'm citizen of Austria and resident of the United States.

Austrian tax returns are much simpler because in the majority of cases they don't exist: Your employer and your banks automatically withhold the correct amount of taxes (capital gains are taxed at a flat rate and don't influence regular income taxes). Marriage status doesn't matter for income tax as the same tax brackets apply to everyone. Deductions are much less common but if you have any deductions you can let the government know and they'll automatically refund your tax within a week or so.

One reason why Austrian taxes are so much simpler is because there are much fewer special cases: The US has all those different credits and deductions that lower the taxes in certain situations, e.g., the "First-time homebuyer credit repayment". Meanwhile in Austria all those subsidies for, e.g., lower income people aren't included in the tax system, but are available via completely separate programs (e.g., if your income is very low the government pays parts of your rent and helps you with heating costs in the winter, but you have to submit a separate application for that).

Not sure which system is better. One thing I noticed is that in Austria I never applied for any subsidies even while being a low-income student (why would I apply for social services if I don't really need them?). Meanwhile in the US my tax advisor makes sure that I get all the credits and deductions that I'm eligible for.
> maybe enforce a max disparity in pay between the lowest rung and highest rung of employees to something outrageously constrained like 10 or 20k

A simple multiplier makes more sense. Top position shouldn't be making more than 10x the bottom position (or something like that). A janitor, for instance if full-time and more than just sweeping floors, is making $20-40k/year (big spread, but that's starting at $10/hour and going up to $20/hour which is a reasonable rate in much of the country for that work). So that means top brass is making $200k-400k (on a 10x multiplier between top/bottom incomes). If the big boss wants a pay raise, they have to move at least the bottom of the pay range up with them. If you add a constraint on the mean/median income, they have to bring everyone up with them.
I want to see a study comparing the two: Return-Free and Traditional. If return-free ends up with the government collecting more in taxes than the average traditional+Intuit fees, I would be opposed to it.

I fear that people would consider whatever form the government sent them, with whatever number it had on it, the final say, resulting in the government not being accountable for the taxes they collect.
Man victim of 'vomit fraud,' and his wife found the video to prove it
Wikipedia has a section at the bottom of the article on skinning about the live-skinning thing. Sounds like it is most likely a made up claim.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinning
> All companies use ERP systems like SAP and PeopleSoft

No, not all companies do that. Maybe “most very large companies”, but that's a different thing altogether.
How We Hire Front-End Engineers at The New York Times
Toll roads, long driving, competition and dealing with parking and paying to set up in a high-demand area are all problems farmers face at large city markets. Go almost anywhere else and you'll indeed be surprised.
Kovri FTW
>> Only very few specific people at Google are in a position

Why do you think you know this for sure then?
UK: GCSE Maths for adults who missed out at school. A typical year of evening classes looks like this...

http://www.maths91.uk/2017/

This is the baseline for most progression to university and to what we call level 3 courses (the course that gets you into university)

Textbooks: Pearson, Collins, Stanley Thornes all sell 500 page tomes with lots of exercises in them - widely available in local bookshops for about £20 to £25. More popular are the revision guide/workbook sets for about £10. A popular example of a revision guide...

https://www.cgpbooks.co.uk/Student/books-gcse-maths-range.bo...

(CGP Books is actually quite an interesting company who started as a group of teachers self-publishing.)

Many teachers in the UK provide guides, videos and worksheets. There are a couple of web sites providing curated indexes of resources aimed at teachers...

http://www.skillsworkshop.org/

https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources

and the BBC has got involved (and does some nice quality stuff)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/0/
While some uses are certainly a misunderstanding of one definition, the historical uses and accepted definitions are far broader than many people realize: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/misuse-of-lite...

The gist:

> The use of literally in a fashion that is hyperbolic or metaphoric is not new—evidence of this use dates back to 1769. Its inclusion in a dictionary isn't new either; the entry for literally in our 1909 unabridged dictionary states that the word is “often used hyperbolically; as, he literally flew.” We (and all the other “craven dictionary editors”) have included this definition for a very simple reason: a lot of people use it this way, and our entries are based on evidence of use. Furthermore, the fact that so many people are writing angry letters serves as a sort of secondhand evidence, as they would hardly be complaining about this usage if it had not become common.
Daniel here, had fun implementing these library functions over the last few months, and think some of them are really cool! It's helped me write more concise contracts and I hope it can help some of you out there too.

Let me know if you have any feedback.
They used MB and not MiB on the homepage.
I'm a big fan. Nearly all my limited YouTube consumption is at 2x. Any audio book I am re-listening to is somewhere between 2 and 3x. However, first pass complex stuff I still prefer around 1x.
SpaceChem does have a story though. I gave up on the game after it got too difficult, and at that time I was disappointed that I wouldn't find out what happens in the rest of the story.
I was just thinking this exact thing. It's reckless to provide a third party your direct banking credentials. I feel unsafe entering those credentials into my browser as it is - but to share it with a third party product gives me the creeps. It's so stupidly easy to generate an access token that can be shared with third parties and restrict access to read-only. Why they didn't think of that is beyond me; the tech has been available for a very long time.
Georgian here. A native one too.

Ms. Anderson has been rattling this cage for a long time. She does these rounds semi-regularly with the most recent being a largely ignored treatise on how White Rage (the actual title) won Trump's election. While there may be some truth in that most of it's claims have been largely dismissed or ignored: even the most ardent Democrats are smelling trouble with those pushing identity politics. White Rage was well received but only within it's own echo chambers.

If the governorship of Georgia turns blue this year it will be in spite of this, because candidates like Stacey Abrams appeal positively to blue-collar workers, low income voters, women, and blacks. She's done a pretty good job of avoiding that rhetoric so far.
I've thought about this too, and came to the conclusion that being addicted to playing soccer is an order of magnitude healthier than being addicted to playing starcraft.

First, there's the exercise aspect. Playing soccer during the day allows your hormones to be much more balanced and your mind healthier than being cooped up in your room through the night to play video games.

Then there's the social aspect as well. Playing soccer allows you to have real, physical interactions with others and have a sense of community, whereas virtual interactions provide cheap knockoffs to temporarily meet your social needs. Yes, gaming has become more social than ever before, but the lifestyle and culture that form around gaming make it rather difficult to form lasting, meaningful relationships with people that don't just fade away after giving you dopamine rushes.

I just don't think it's easy to have a healthy life when you're addicted to games. It's too easy to say "one more game" until the sun rises.
Megabits is often used in the context of RAM.
I've flirted with this method off and on, but the consensus between me and people I've spoken to who do the same, is a lack of retention comes along with the speed. You get the feeling of learning something and the pleasure associated with that, but none of it sticks.
Of course this wont hold true across the board but something to factor in before adopting this method.
You agreed to follow the laws of the country in which you reside by continuing to reside there.
OpenStack v2: Project Mulligan
Explaining what an explanatory theory is won't fit in an HN comment. I'll have to refer you to David Deutsch [1] (or Karl Popper) for that.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Fabric-Reality-Parallel-Universes-Imp...
The Rise of the GM and the Case for Variably-Comped Product Managers
The pollution would be internal to the civilization, not something lasting of import to outsiders. The ability to warp spacetime to the point of violating causality, time travel, might be a death nail for a civilization. Literal prescience could be dangerous. As such technology moved though a society it could be described as a pollution.

Maybe such technology involves the creation of unnatural structures, something like stable wormholes on human scales. If those structures outlived their creators, areas of space containing them could be considered polluted, or at least dangerous to later civilizations.

Douglas Adams did some thinking on this for Hitchhicker's, that time travel caused cultures to stagnate and eventually degrade for lack of motivation.
Just curious, bulky in what sense? Look & feel (i.e. busy looking) or size?

I am not sure size should be the primary parameter for a SaaS app as long as the app performance is not degrading during prolong usage. Having a clean UX should far outweigh the size of an app.
You're averaging over distance, but to calculate the average speed you need to average over time. If you drove the first mile at 30 MPH and the second at 90 MPH, you'd spend 120 seconds on the first mile and 40 seconds on the second mile, thus giving an average speed of

(120*30 + 40*90) / (120 + 40) = 45 MPH
XML started out simple, and then caught really nasty FeatureCreep and DesignByCommittee.
In this case, it's a weak correlation across a meta-analysis of 45 independent studies. While I'd agree that further research would probably be beneficial, this is a result that already includes some further research.
If you never filed the tax returns in the first place or willfully evaded, you couldn't discharge that debt in bankruptcy.

Maybe amnesty isn't the solution, but if you're living out of your car and have IRS issues looming over your head, escaping that life could be pretty tough, and that sucks.
> Why?

Because it is more convincing, and will have a wider reach. By stating your initial points, you already make people think, but without triggering their emotional defences.

Arguing "A, B, C, and by the way you're a bad person" is less effective than arguing "A, B, C, think about it." If you want to "be the change", you should see the benefit of effective communication, no?
Hpjs: A JavaScript Library for hyperparameter optimization
Same on Android.

Very neat utility, though!
Maybe Michael Larabel removed the plastic cover first.
Not only do outsiders need endorsement, even if you get one, the arxiv is curated. I don't know why people assume it's just totally wide open like any random person can publish anything to it? It would be inundated with junk!

If you're a member of a recognized academic institution (as determined by email address I think?) then you can skip the endorsement step.
Best programming languages for AI/ML
I don't keep track of time. That system is old technology. I did confirm from a Netflix employee that they still use it a few months ago. Deep learning, LDA (even one of Xavier's pet projects - k-means), did not do better.
Usually when the speed limit bumps up from 55 to 65, it means the stretch of highway is actually more safe. Whether it is a long straight away with few on/off ramps, or the end of construction - the jump in speed limit usually does correspond to the level of safety of the upcoming stretch of roadway.
This seems to work very similarly to how fzf hooks into ctrl+r to let you browse/search your history. fzf is a much more general tool.

https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
Damn, that's quite the conspiracy theory. So are you arguing that radical SCUM-style feminists have pushed the commercialization of persistent estrogenic chemicals? To basically chemically castrate troublesome men?

Although it's quite the SF trope, I can't imagine how it's plausible. Simple careless greed is the most likely reason.
Im laughing so bad!!
"There is basically one straight-forward case where the IRS preparing taxes makes sense: that of full time employees whose only income is from their job which issues W2s."

And as it turns out, this is the vast majority of cases. Just because there are a few other cases where it doesn't work out does not justify not doing this.
You don't need all of jQuery toady. My attempt was to bring you the the part that I think is still most needed - without all the bloat.
Right. I'd love to see the end of Payroll deductions in addition to making it stupid-simple to file and pay. Let me visit a website and toss my bank account info in.

Practically it would never happen so it's difficult to argue for other than on ideological grounds. I think we as a society would find out that a huge amount of the population would simply be incapable of budgeting even quarterly tax payments. The enforcement costs would be immense.
What you're talking about used to be discussed a lot. You can go to Wikipedia, or elsewhere, and read about relations of production, alienation, the expropriation of surplus labor time and what have you.

In the past, those who work organized around these issues, discussed them and had a common philosophy and so forth.

Those benefiting from your labor broke up or supplanted these organizations and now have control of the discourse. Many workers feel as you do, but the ones who benefit from exploiting you have been fairly successful from isolating you from the many who feel as you do.

I would suggest reading about the subject, then seeking out and dipping your toe in local organizations which deal with such things.
Awesome! The one thing I’m missing is the current status of the network. It tracks all the networks and the clients, but I can’t see when the network was last seen. So if I’m tracking for 30 minutes, I can’t see if a client or network is still available. Besides that, I love it!
Man this is cool... I have no reasonable use case for it, but I might just make one up.
Searchable earth surface
On macOS (High Sierra) the Gothic and next font after that (sorry I forgot what the icon was) don't work for capital letters (get a rectangle with some small digits in). The "Courier" font and handwriting style ones work fine.
hard to fault him in this particular case as it's directly pertinent to the original topic.
So would it be impossible to make a system that would allow a person to lie if needed and also prove that their vote was wrongly assigned if needed? I've seen cryptographic solutions to things that seem as impossible initially (like having a system verify you know your password without ever telling the system your password and without the system ever knowing what your password is), so I wouldn't be so quick to write off a potential solution to this problem.
If I remember rightly, they had a phone number you could call for tax advice--probably now it's on a web site--but they wouldn't accept any responsibility if the advice proved to be wrong.

Given that, no. No way would I let the IRS prepare my taxes.
The Fictional Foods We Wish Were Real
I believe this is the implicit main argument behind the "rational aid" movement: it is very hard to save and gather resources, but very easy to squander them. Similarily it's very hard use rational thought to marginally improve the human condition, but its very easy to worsen the human condition by not using rational thought for just a split second...
Notes Nearing Ninety: Learning to Write Less
Saw your first presentation at DEFCON! Great job - will definitely use this when I get back to Australia.
Sorry, forgot about that convention.
I've been looking at Simple.com as it seems to check off some of those features.

If anyone has any feedback about their service, I'd love to hear about it. From what I understand they don't support checks; only debit cards. But that allows them to not charge any fees since all the transactions happen online.
Ask HN: Solving a problem vs grabbing an opportunity?
Solving a problem you have often leads to great startups if the market is big enough, examples are Dropbox and Airbnb. But if I am seeing an opportunity in a specific market which has the possibility of becoming a huge success even though it isn't a problem in the traditional sense and wouldn't make a ton of difference if it didn't exist (probably someone will do it soon, anyway), should I pursue it? Have you pursued such opportunities yourself and have become successful? Or do you know of any examples of big successful companies who have started that way?

Assume : 1. I have enough domain knowledge, insights and expertise to grab the opportunity well. 2. The definition of success here being a market leader or having a significant market share in that category.
Well, what I really mean by "induction" is what it means in the paper pointed to by the OP, i.e. the paper entitled "The new riddle of induction." I pointed to the wikipedia article just to contrast that with mathematical induction, which is NOT what I or anyone else is talking about here.

Yes, explanatory theories rely on observations. But they are not just straightforward extrapolations of the form, "Because we have observed something N times (e.g. we have seen N green emeralds) we can reliably conclude that we will continue to observe it (e.g. all emeralds are green)."
“assuming the idea could survive a likely court challenge.”

...does appear in the first sentence, after all.
I work in the industry and would agree. Also, nobody has software intelligent enough to extract the value out of the data. Maybe one day.
'The Beyoncé of snow sports' is inspiring a sisterhood of shred
Has there been any talk of credit unions pooling resources on some of the IT stuff? Everyone expects a mobile app nowadays, but it doesn't make much economic sense for every single credit union to build their own.
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