skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now that changes the calculus...

Might be time to dust off the resume. Remember, remote jobs receive an order of magnitude more responses. It may take a little while to snag that position.

If you can at all help it, do not make a step down. Try to aim for a lateral move into another company. In most companies, you would qualify as a CTO as the highest ranking technical person.
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I don't understand why the DNC took the results from 2016 and decided that alienating even more voters was the way to go. By 2020 they'll have called so many people a racist bigot that their only reliable voting block will be high schoolers
> People working multiple part time jobs

Multiple part-time jobs makes setting withholding allowances properly tricky, but doesn't substantially complicated year-end taxes, so, no, this isn't a valid point.

> People with non-standard investment portfolios or real estate holdings

People who derive income in a particular way from these Ina given year that isn't trivially applied given documents that are already required to be filed with the IRS would, yes, need to do some kind of filing addendum/adjustment. These are probably a very small share of returns each year.

> Contractors, with or without an LLC

Yes, anyone who has business income on their personal taxes rather than in a non-passthrough entity is going to have to do some kind of business addendum to an IRS-prepared personal return.

> Dual residents

Sure, these (or anyone with foreign tax to report) are going to need something on top of the base IRS return.

> Small retail businesses; Small internet businesses; Megacorps

This whole idea applies only to personal taxes; so many of these are out of scope ab initio. As far as small businesses that would be reported as personal income, that's already addressed.

With IRS-prepared returns, everyone would have substantially less to do, and the vast majority of individual returns would be just review and approve.
The purchase of Monsanto by Beyer has to be dumbest corporate acquisition ever. After all these years it is now that the lawsuits are coming in as the science and leaks start pilling up providing the fodder.

Even dumber is that Beyer is retiring the brand Monsanto which will result in Beyer itself being named in the lawsuits and media.

They probably thought they could shake it off like Dow chemical when they aquired Union Carbide and claimed they are no longer responsible for the Bhopal disaster.

There was no social media in 1994, there is now.
As a recovering academic, I believe it would be good to examine why you want to publish in an academic journal. Are you a consultant, for example, and you think it help you get clients? Are you trying to get a better job and you think the paper would help your resume? Or do you just want to increase the sum of human knowledge?

Peer review is a highly flawed process that has an empirically small effect on paper quality [0]. Moreso, rejection of an article is a poor or completely useless predictor of the ultimate impact of the article if it is published.

Getting a paper through peer review is slow and frustrating. You may get reviewers who reject a paper for incorrect or even bizarre reasons. If your paper casts doubts on an anonymous reviewer's work, you are going to have a hard time. It's just not fun.

What are the benefits? Tech employers generally don't care about publications, just the work involved. Clients probably don't care. NGOs and government don't care either. The only people who care whether something is published are academics, in my experience.

Perhaps you are in an industry where this isn't true, in which case you might have more incentive. But don't assume people will care.

You might have a microscopic chance of your paper becoming highly cited, but without a well-know co-author, that is unlikely even if your paper has important content. Most scientific papers fail to make any kind of splash, with numbers of readers numbering in literally the low dozens. After all that work, chances are that nobody would care.

A better solution is to put it all on a blog, and/or ArXiV or one of the other preprint services for other subjects. That way your research will be available unpaywalled for anyone.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2586872/
That's true, and a worthwhile consideration if you're doing illegal things. If you route your connection through Tor you'd be good to go, right?
It's possibly been replaced by the BAIC EC, at least for the first part of this year. That's unlikely to last, though; the Chinese market is too fragmented for that. The BAIC EC is also of very limited relevance worldwide.
What you say requires "timing the market". It's possible to get lucky and decide to retire at JUST the right time, have kids leave for college at JUST the right time, etc. More likely, the "hot market' will drop before you capitalize.
Where once again we see it isn't "lack of suitable parts" that prevents Apple from producing a decent Macbook pro.

I particularly like the ECC dimms available as I'm the weird guy who worries about bit flips :-). In general (caveat the Lenovo spyware stories) looks like a good candidate to replace my MBP2015.
I’d love to see the end of payroll deductions and to make annual taxes due the Monday before Election Day.

Doesn’t mean that we wouldn’t have taxes, but we’d have a tight temporal and psychological link between what we pay and the selections we make at the ballot box.
i'd start a bank with the following principles:

0. don't tell the customers that we can do anything we can't do

1. cap profits at a low percentage of the capital base to discourage being irresponsible with customer money; enforce corporate austerity to keep costs very low

2. any profits over the cap are returned to customers

that's it, i think. the idea is to have a bank that is rock solid (even when compared to other banks) and profitable for customers. maybe only offer one type of account, and have no minimum deposit. no fees, and offer ATM cost refunds. no personal loans. no credit cards. maybe offer a mortgage package, but probably not. no branches, obviously. customer service would be top priority.

the corporate side of the bank would ride on austerity. no advertising beyond what is necessary to start the bank in motion. no luxuries for the c-suite. maybe enforce a max disparity in pay between the lowest rung and highest rung of employees to something outrageously constrained like 10 or 20k. maybe only have five or six job titles in total, if possible. fill those jobs on a first (somewhat qualified) come first serve basis and a 20 minute interview. advertise the jobs only as necessary.

is this idea crazy? maybe in the banking sector it might be, but you can't trust them. they're drunk on chasing money, and they're reliably unreliable in the long term-- the article even mentions how many banks have gone under.

but there are a lot of great examples of other kinds of companies (i am specifically thinking of the food wholesaler called aldi) which make their money by offering what the customer needs and nothing more. you don't need to go crazy profiteering to make robust profits...
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Does anyone have the PDF to the full article? I'm curious to read more than the summary.
You legally need something like $10 Million in reserve capital to start a bank. Pretty much any business is profitable if you can afford to start with 10 million in savings plus have enough money to run the business.
Regardless of whether glyphosate (the "active ingredient" so they say) is an endocrine disrupter, which is controversial, there is no question that Roundup - the pesticide formula containing glyphosate in certain proportion with a host of other ingredients, the formula which is secret, contains other ingredients with known toxic profiles.

Glyphosate gets most of the (cooked up) research to the detriment of the people being exposed to many other mostly ignored co-formulants. Here is a study that says as much: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4808927/

>It was demonstrated for the first time that endocrine disruption by GBH could not only be due to the declared active ingredient but also to co-formulants. These results...challenge the relevance of the acceptable daily intake (ADI) value for GBHs exposures, currently calculated from toxicity tests of the declared active ingredient alone.
Yes, there are a number of other items also taken out of French payrolls...
Sure, but the people that are responsible for their revenue do. There is an incentive by both parties to keep the speed limits lower than they need to be as long as that means the police department doesn't need to fund its operations through regular taxation. Police chiefs often have easier access to city councils and they pretty clearly aren't lobbying for increased speed limits.
Why Software is so expensive – Dijkstra (1982)
Estonia's tax system sounds like a heaven now. It took me from start to finish 2 minutes (including software installation add 1min) and can be done on Mac, Linux and Windows, with Mobile-ID (requires special SIM card) the support extends to Android, iOS.
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Tor bandwidth and TTFB used to be universally very bad for me, no matter what I was doing.

Some time around ~2 years ago, though, the particular use-case of using Tor to (anonymously) access public-Internet websites got a lot better—both in bandwidth and TTFB.

Access to Tor hidden services is still slow, though.

Which makes me wonder: is the Tor network itself unilaterally faster now, and it's actually just the particular Tor hidden services which are all coincidentally bandwidth-starved?

Comparing apples to apples, DuckDuckGo's hidden-service gateway (https://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion/) still seems a lot worse-off than their clear-net website (https://duckduckgo.com/). And I would bet that they would scale their Tor gateway if they could. So maybe this is a limitation in how Tor handles routing to hidden services? Does a .onion have to route to one physical Tor node, rather than being capable of load-balancing among many?
Ehh, I also was addicted to computing in ways that have paid off by allowing me to drop out of college and get an extremely lucrative job. I still regret the years of staring at a computer instead of socializing or garnering an interest in sports. It didn’t ruin my life, but its effect wasn’t straightforwardly positive either.
How do I buy food in the US that I know hasn't been exposed to such pesticides?
It takes time - we wouldn't know who was elected president until several days after the election was over.

I tried to write that in a neutral tone. However you might find it as amusing as me to read it (with required word changes) in different dialects. I think the stereotypical "valley girl" best captures how I feel about it.
We're already not free to walk around without papers for certain activities. Entering a bar, buying restricted substances (including some medication!), driving a car, leaving and entering the country, etc. None of that means we're in some totalitarian dictatorship.

I've seen plenty of elections come down to 100s of votes. To me this seems like an attack vector we shouldn't ignore.

Besides, we already have the concept of provisional ballots if people end up not having or forgetting their ID.

But again, I don't think we're ready for all this. A half-assed solution would be very bad, and I don't trust the current system to handle this in a partisan way.
I wouldn't call it being hopelessly naive, but is it possible you're experiencing a bit of survivorship bias?

There tends to be little outright conspiring to keep outsiders on the outside, but people tends to include and give benefits to those who look/think like themselves, or have similar backgrounds to themselves.

That doesn't justify having quotas, but there's more at play than blatant racism/sexism that keeps minorities from positions of power and influence.
Doesn't seem so. Link?
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If you were to raise the speed limit to 75mph, people would just use the same logic to drive 90mph instead.

This is easily tested in the western U. S., where there exist states with speed limits of 75mph or higher. There's a point at which I quit getting passed, and start being the one doing most of the passing. That point is just a bit north of 80mph. Anecdotally, same point it was when speed limits were lower. IOW, when I'd ride the interstates of AZ or WY twenty years ago, my ratio of passed/passing at 90mph was about the same as it is now.

But surely someone has done an actual study on this.
94% of all traffic on the internet is malicious. It all depends on your definitions. A legitimate, human, user makes a handful of connections per minute. Someone running a scanner attempts thousands per second. So if we measure attempted connections then Tor and everything is horrible. But that true for actual bandwidth.

The old question: is a simple ping considered an attack? I still here people talking of how their websites are attacked thousands of times every day. Pings and other simple scans are not what I would call actual attacks.
It is in MELPA (https://melpa.org/#/).
I used Nickel Iron batteries in an off grid system. They were already 30years old. Unfortunately, they were too difficult to work with, requiring non standard voltages and maintence. You’ll need charge controllers and inverters that understand the different chemistry. I know of two other people who used them and eventually switched to lead acid batteries.

(P.S. I wonder why my comments above were downvoted?)
> Economic stagnation is a result of living under an aggressive totalitarian state

Your logic is flawed. Try telling that to China.
Another possibility: create good parental controls (time limits, time fencing, insight into usage, etc.)

Wasn't it a group of Apple activist shareholders demanding some of these features get built into iOS?

That's the real solution here... start demanding with your wallet that you would pay for these counter-measures.

One thing I've always appreciated about iOS (and contributed towards my brand loyalty and sales) is better security permissions (no, I'm not going to grant my flashlight app access to my microphone). I hear Android's gotten better about it, but even just the other weekend, an android-using family member asked me if I can figure out why some annoying ad appears somewhere on her lock or home screen (aka who is the spammy app). A walled garden does have its benefits if the gardener is incentivized with devices sales not eyeballs...

Similar attention-control features wouldn't even be for kids -- it's something I would even use myself. The brain-hacking dopamine drip strategies talked in the article don't only affect kids, after all. Start showing there's profit in counter-measures.
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You could totally combine this with some ideas from the Tamagotchi Matrix [0] and create a virtual world of furbies.

[0] - https://hackaday.com/2015/11/24/building-the-infinite-matrix...
I wanted to up vote you, but did some research and turns out that both the FDA and the European Food Safety Authority have not found evidence that it is:

"The current assessment concluded that glyphosate does not have oestrogen, androgen, thyroid and steroidogenesis (EATS)‐mediated endocrine disrupting properties based on the facts that no endocrine‐mediated adverse effects were identified in apical studies; the weak evidence seen in a limited number of supplementary in vitro studies was inconsistent with the findings of the acceptable OECD (Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development) tests and it was not expressed in vivo in the OECD Level 4 and 5 studies; and no EATS‐mediated endocrine mode of action was identified. Since the database available to reach this conclusion was quite comprehensive, it was concluded that the data gap identified in the previous EFSA conclusion (EFSA Journal 2015;13(11):4302) was adequately addressed."

Source: https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.2903/j.efsa...
Just a friendly warning if you're on mobile: the PDF weighs in at 62MB...
Why Bitcoin Cash is winning
Yeah I didn't mean to imply this first step would be easy or result in the survival of these companies. To me it probably looks like the government stepping in, either threatening legislation or imposing it immediately that forces companies to transition off these business models if they meet some criteria which defines them as a public forum of a certain scale. (Of course this is full of potential negative unintended consequences, like cementing their dominance, so my guess is things will end up worse before they get better if this happens.)

Hopefully companies do this on their own accord before we get there. A model where a subset of users pay for the services would be a healthier model. This would likely result in a major loss of market cap and head count for these companies, but I'd imagine it would be sustainable in terms of keeping the services available and would enable these companies to charter a positive future for their users without having a conflict of interest.
I thought both of these two courses on coursera were quite good:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning/

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/deep-learning

First one is a bit older school, but takes you through all the fundamentals and actually explains a lot of the math involved. It also gets you thinking a lot more about how to solve problems from a Linear Algebra standpoint and the types of problems machine learning is good for tackling.

Second one is a much more modern day set of courses specifically focused on Deep Learning techniques and problem solving.

I thought both were great. First one is free as well...
I wrote the recommendation system at Netflix (still in use after 5 years). Primary problem was company politics. Many groups were not happy that one person could write a system that was better in A/B test, had more uptime and cheaper to run. All of it (ML, production, monitoring), was custom code.
California's property tax can't reach 13%. It's been capped at 1% since 1978, and the assessed value can only increase by 2% each year, or when a property is sold. But the tax itself remains 1%...
How exactly are the rich not contributing more, if from your own statistics, the top 1% pay 40% of the taxes, and also pay more % of their income as taxes?
https://youtu.be/8EE_MBc7OT0
Anecdotally speaking, I've driven a lot and 75-80 is ideal speed for me. When I drove in texas where in certain areas, the speed limit is 80-85, I still drove around 80. Once you hit 85/90, a car just becomes too shaky/unstable feeling.
>disabling Location permissions / Location History for Google apps in your app settings should probably do what you want.

Google services automatically re-enable these permissions.
Effortlessly boot, configure, update and monitor your raspberry pi
it's still sad those 1% are being glossed over.

I guess a lot of experts in their respective domain still spend a fraction of their time reading other information sources with low signal to noise ratios: news riddled with advertisement and propaganda, perhaps sports, fiction books movies or television series. EDIT: addition: If they spent a quarter of that time sorting crackpot papers the signal to noise level could be fixed, and they'd still have 3/4 of the time for their usual news binge or whatver)

I'd actually be more than happy to see some tax payer money spent on the following system: authors withoud accreditation can sign up on a government hosted site, and provide their articles (or links or p2p hashes of them). Accredited domain experts can participate and earn money by getting assigned 2 or 3 random papers in the same domain but from probable cranks. They simply sort them in credibility. This way probably crank papers get scored, but the top 1% eventually floats up. Scientists/experts inbetween jobs, or out of office hours can earn money on the side, and BS gets seperated from intesting ideas or insights. Signal to noise level near the top is good.

Edit:

I hereby hand out the idea for free, if you feel like making a startup:

Crack Crucible:

- host (openly tongue in cheek) "crackpots" and their papers, self-categorizing in domains

- domain experts can sign up, the site generates a unique string, the expert inserts the string on his/her researchgate profile, the site scrapes the expert's researchgate profile. (hereby delegating 'expertness' to researchgate), they too self-categorize in domains?

- the site randomly selects 2 or more papers for the expert's applicable domain, weighted by inverse word count of the paper (conciseness is rewarded with opportunity to be seen)

- the expert reads the 2 or more papers and is only asked to sort/rank them, without any implied support since most of the time all the papers wwere nonsense, yet the site demands sorting them by (in)credibility

- the result is interesting outsider papers by domain (without the coming and going of news cycles, since the papers are selected at random, and hence undergo brownian motion up and down)
Unsolicited advice: consistently enforced rules tend to minimize fights. Not to zero, but still. It does not really matter whether you limit gaming to an hour a day, only weekends, 10 hours a week, whatever except "never" and except "always". What matters is that you enforce them consistently so that kids learns them and can anticipate them and is not shocked that game is taken away right now.
If I remember correctly, the Furby was a deinstructioned 6502 copy, somewhat like the Ricoh NES processor.
Join a startup if learning trumps stability
Google Stores Location Data Even with 'Location History' Turned Off
Bobby Axelrod paid wags pretty well.
> the USA has committed many sins of its own but freedom of expression in the USA is still protected

So Americans being able to say what they like is more important than the chaos the American government has wrought on the rest of the world? I'm not sure what you're saying.
There is something called Wikibooks, though I've only spent maybe half an hour reading a particular wikibook years ago and can't speak to overall quality:

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page
I find that my rate of exercise is much higher when watching action movies/shows than when watching sitcoms/dramas. So I save my NCIS: LA for the gym, and watch The Americans while cleaning the kitchen.

I also find that I row the fastest during commercials, so Netflix/Amazon Prime shows are actually worse for me when working out.
Nearly everyone I've talked to (on both sides of the political spectrum) agrees on this issue; if the IRS has the means to verify and audit the data, they might as well prepare the forms and just get authorization (+ any additional info they might be lacking) before tax returns are submitted.

So how is it that lobbying alone is enough to persuade lawmakers to take the side of Intuit et al.? And which lawmakers are so easily "bought" at the detriment of the public? I'm just as pessimistic as anyone when it comes to the corruption of our government, but this seems like a pretty black and white issue. There must be more to it...
a: The one that goes to your destination.
Universal Method to Sort Complex Information Found
Jocko's GOOD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdTMDpizis8
Ask HN: How do you organize your thoughts about an important decision?
If you are facing a difficult decision in life, such as whether to buy a house or take a certain job, how do you organize your thoughts? The result of a decision for these examples will affect your life in many different significant ways; so many, in fact, that it's unlikely you can consider it all at one time. Do you have a way to organize your thoughts to make a more insightful decision in these situations?
There was also a Western Union technical review, but no one reads that.[1]

[1] http://massis.lcs.mit.edu/archives/technical/western-union-t...