skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ... and don't hire sysadmins.

People you hire can be vetted, fired, sued, and even imprisoned for violating your users' privacy. Blindly handing over your users' data to a third-party includes none of these protections. You're simply abdicating responsibility.
Keep in mind that Apple also has a map application that also needs to know the user's whereabouts to give good information, but there's no issue because Apple does not need that data to be collected, stored, analyzed, aggregated, and sold. Google could simply send the map tiles requested then discard the request data from their servers as Apple appears to do.
is there a way to see the average bandwidth a tor end user would get?

seems like a good amount?
Ha! Star Trek: TNG actually had an episode about that.

[0] http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Force_of_Nature_%28episod...
Some people. People with normal levels of alpha-tocopherol (an antioxidant) have the damage repaired and don't go blind. People over 60 should watch out for this, and it's not a small thing, but the article doesn't qualify the risk at all.

Somewhat better discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17724995
Thanks, that's very helpful
Bitmain IPO (BCH gamble failed)
> How hard can it be to nip these kinds of issues in the butt with simple pragmatic solutions?

First, it's “nip...in the bud” (cut off before it flowers) not “nip...in the butt” (annoy it by biting it's backside.)

More to the point, the kind of sharp cutoff you suggest is exactly equivalent to what the parents did here, and would likely produce the same result.
How would that help?

They are trying to fix her thinking. I mean they could also just lock her in cage right?

But that's not the issue, the issue is how she thinks and behaves.

> How hard can it be to nip these kinds of issues in the butt with simple pragmatic solutions?

Very very very very hard. Take a phone away, and a kid will borrow one from a friend, or buy one, or steal one, or go to the library and refuse to come home.

You can't fix these things by focusing on the item, you need to focus on the person.

> This is not a rhetorical question. I will be parent soon and stories like these, terrify me.

They should. Phones are destroying society and rebuilding it, different. Not just kids. Adults too.

Will the new world be better or worse? Time will tell I guess.
Parker Solar Probe Launches on NASA Voyage to ‘Touch the Sun’
It might be useful for above-ground water reservoirs. They sometimes float balls on their surface to reduce evaporation in hot environments (especially ones with a breeze). If you could do the same with large arrays of floating solar panels, you could reduce evaporation and get energy out of it at the same time.
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This is the irony, that in your scenario (which I agree with), My "check" would be to purchase Turbotax or similar and run the numbers.

So whether the IRS pre-fills the 1040 or I do it myself, I'm going to use tax prep software.

I guess they loose the e-filing fees, but most version of the software come with 1 free federal and 1 free state..
Works fine for me, using Firefox 61.0.2.
Everyone else is, what 10% of filers? If you're in the 10% you'll know it and you'll do private preparation.
The people on Capitol Hill are situated at the correct depth?

Isn't it nice to have some positive news for a change!
Thanks for sharing the repo. Was the course on recommender system or just a CS course and you chose to build a recommender system?
What do you mean by giving up income? Do you have a lot of money saved up or something?
Your own Ifttt for Wifi, thanks for sharing!
As a bonus, if you are explicitly NUMA & the OS/code does a good job, there's little line contention or resource sharing (e.g., caches) between die.
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That's untrue, they can petition the law be changed. It's a harder hoop than just getting an existing permit, but to say there's literally no avenue forward is disingenuous.
I really enjoy using ox-hugo to blog as well, it works very well and does everything that I need it to do! @kaushalmodi did a great job developing it
Literally how every IDE works since Eclipse, and may be even earlier
'A storm in a teacup'; NAPLAN results to be released
Since it's paywalled: http://archive.is/f8S0K
To add to that, on Xfce at least it’s not enough to adapt the graphical mouse settings but one also needs to manually set (e.g.) /sys/bus/serio/devices/serio1/serio2/sensitivity to a larger value (I use 220) for a suitably fast mouse.
>Now, with a son of my own - I am constantly thinking about how in the world do I expose my son to technology but also teach him moderation.

Same boat here, same-ish history as you. My theory is that having kids use technology is as essential as setting limits and discussing with them the lessons we've learned as adults. I largely gave up video games just a few weeks ago and understanding the effect of those thousands of hours if committed to better things like physical recreation, reading, programming, or something else has given me the perspective to handle it effectively (not getting angry or condescending) when my kids push back on going out or getting off the computer.
> Nonetheless if a child doesn't have access to a phone/the internet that child won't have access to all these Skinner boxes and whatnot.

That might work on a 9 year old. It doesn't work on a teenager.

> Here honey, here's your phone back. Please don't kill yourself. We cool?" Mother/father of the year award right there.

You have it backward. As a parent you HAVE to teach kids to own a phone, and not let it dominate them. If instead you just take it away, then when they are old enough to get one themself (around age 14-15 I'd say) it will utterly consume them, since they have no ability to resist, and no parents to help them.
it seems weird to count "enthusiastic, uncompensated endorsement from satisfied customers" as "marketing"; maybe it is technically marketing, but it carries none of the negative connotation your comment seems to imply
This isn't Reddit. Please follow the guidelines [1] and engage in discussions in good faith.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
In this scenario, I am quite comfortable checking my own numbers without the aid of specialized software. I use TaxAct today because of e-filing.

In other scenarios, I would prefer to cough up money to talk to a specialist.
I mean the standard deduction is being raised substantially. That's going to make the amount of people hitting the limit far lower.
In answer to the question, I would have, yes.

My spouse has a business now though, so no.
> I think the nib requires to much force to push around.

Adjust the sensitivity upwards and it requires virtually no force at all.
God forgive us.

Reading that you might get the impression that I am now off to bomb a fur facility or something. No; I get it; I eat meat, and I can understand how our use of animals contributes to the survival of their species (if cows weren't good to eat, we'd have far fewer of them, etc.). And I believe people when they say they try to kill in a humane way.

But 500 years from now, when we can grow meat and leather and what-have-you, they will look on us as barbarians.

I don't have a so-what. Just a sense that animal products are in some way sacred, and deserve our respect at the very least.

EDIT: I am reminded of the "stroggification" scene from Quake IV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJwyjWpP4XA (NSFW)
Ian Cutress replied on the article comments that LTCG is indeed used. With LTCG those strange results make sense - it's spending a lot of time on just 4 threads by default - actually majority of the time is on one thread for the Chromium case, it hits some current limitations of the VC++ compiler regarding CPU/memory usage that makes scaling worse for Chromium (but not for smaller programs or with non-LTCG builds). Increasing the number of threads from the default of 4 is possible, but will not help here. The frontend (parsing) work is well parallelized by Ninja, it's probably the reason why the Threadrippers do end up ahead of the faster single-core Intel CPUs.
You may want to consult a tax attorney, if you haven't already...
If IRS owes you money, you need to claim it within 3 years. That's another reason for you to file taxes, even when you think you don't owe them any money.
And they've generally been right, to some extent or another - many social ills can probably be linked (by varying degrees), to commercial (and political) psychological manipulation through media and culture.

Even though the sky hasn't fallen, its definitely something we should be concerned about and understand. Today, such influencers are often working with unprecedented levels of personal data (much of it freely-given) that can be used to manipulate people.
lol, as opposed to politicians and regulators? no thanks.
How did you give up income?
>Are there any HN posters who manage fleets of Lenovo ThinkPads

My employer has a couple thousand X1. No direct insight into stats but it seems fine from what I can tell. Haven't heard anyone complain in a while actually. (Unlike when we had Dell Inspirions - those were lemons). I'd give the X270 a miss too.

The lack of full sized eth port is a little annoying on the x1s. Beyond that no complaints.
I would rather audit the IRS than have the IRS auditing me.
What makes it so hard for "People working multiple part time jobs"?

"And that’s not even considering the moral hazard of misaligned incentives, i.e. the IRS has no incentive to make sure you deduct as much as legally possible from your return."

This article isn't advocating that your taxes would be submitted without your review. It's advocating that they be PREPARED. As in prepared for further editing or review.
Dutch IRS does this for salary, saving accounts and mortage accounts.

You start your filing prefilled. Works like a charm.
The Bolt is cheap and quck compliance car. Its sales have alread dropped like a stone, the Model 3 is outselling it 12:1 and that will increase month over month.

Claiming Tesla quality is not as good as established players is wrong in most regards. Maybe GM built a better frame and maybe the fit and finish is a bit better but thats about it. In terms of battery, electronics, electrical, interial design, software integration, suspention, safty, surounding infrastructure and most other things Tesla is lightyears ahead of the Bolt.

Literllay every single Bolt produced loses about 7000$-10000$. It will not be produced in large not be produced in large numbers for many years at best.
> I gave up income altogether

What does this mean?
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Created an account just to respond to this. This might not be the answer you want to hear but my 2c would be blog. The internet is great publish your own stuff. Why should you care about being marginalized by a community who mostly plagiarize off each other and only think within the limits of what others allow them to think. The same people are the one's who never allow breakthroughs and call anything but incremental improvements pop science. Do things for yourself, for the human spirit. Stop worrying what others think about you. They don't think about you. There's nothing sad in that, it's actually liberating you are free to share and write and create how you want. If you want recognition you've failed before you start.

On writing better articles my advice is to simply start with the end in mind. Explain the idea how you would to a child without using childish language. Leave the thesaurus aside, don't use industry language just cause you have to. Don't not use it just cause you think you'll sound pretentious.

Hope that helps, hopefully I don't come off sounding like a knob. Good luck.
Consider the possibility that some such chemicals are good for society. For example, exposure to pseudoestrogens may reduce violence. Medical literature doesn't really have a category for this -- there is only 'burden and cost' of environmental effects, assuming that any change from evolved human biology is bad.

But it seems like evolved human biology is a little too violent for the society we want, and perhaps we'd benefit from even more X in the water/air/food supply.
Think of it more as "The IRS has prepared this return for you. Look at it. If it's what you expect, you have nothing else to do other than send a check if you owe or a bank account for your refund. If you have extra information (more income, deductions, etc) - then you are free to fill out your own forms.

As such, 60-70% of the population would have nothing to do. People with multiple part time jobs would be fine. The rest would still have more to do. So, at worse, it hasn't become worse, and it is better for the majority of people.
Does not really solve puzzles. Just locates a single piece with sift.
> It is very unlikely that Intel will answer this question satisfactorily because they'd reveal details of the controller's internal architecture.

Amazingly dense. It's like they don't want anyone to use Thunderbolt.
Build quality of Thinkpads is usually a lot better than Apple in terms of robustness, and if something breaks it is usually easy to replace just the part that’s broken (Lenovo offer on-site repair option for most machines). This is their testing standard for most Thinkpads:

https://www.lenovo.com/hk/en/thisisthinkpad/innovation/think...
I second this. Uncle Sam isn't going to just overlook 4+ years of un-filed tax returns.
We're not in Germany. Contract laws vary by country and by state.

In the US, the general law is that verbal contracts are worth the paper they are written on, which is to say, not at all unless other facts/circumstances support the existence of the verbal agreement and its specific terms. Otherwise anyone could claim to have a contract with anyone else.

For example, I claim to have had a verbal agreement with Mark Z for the development of a social networking site owned by me but built by him. In the absence of any other facts, no court would agree that such a contract exists. However, maybe I show copies of emails where we discussed the idea for a social networking site before it launched. That's some evidence that a verbal agreement might have existed, but not as to what the terms were. Most likely, the parties would settle without going to trial, simply because Mark wants to proceed with the IPO without the sword of litigation hanging over his head--even though he would very likely win. The marginal cost of winning at trial is not worth the much larger cost of the harm to the IPO. (This is very loosely based on the Winklevoss saga.)
Another way to increase the diversity and quality of corporate governance would be to outlaw the practice of interlocking boards, where the same people serve as directors on multiple boards. Besides increasing the chances of illegal collusion and insider trading, this practice promotes groupthink, tends to concentrate wealth, and discourages diversity.
Most people have boring taxes. For those people with interesting taxes, they can do them themselves or pay someone else to do them. For the exceptional cases, this is what they already do. Arguing against something that simplifies an act for most people by pointing out that it doesn't apply to everyone does not make sense to me.

I think it's almost important to keep in mind that the IRS already does your taxes. If what they do significantly disagrees with what you do, you have problems. I would much prefer the IRS just sends me their work rather than me having to do it, then send it to them for checking.
Free, unless you earn too much, or if you have any any business income.
Breakthrough in AI technology to improve care for patients
Another related question might be how taking a manager vs engineer position may ease to access to future positions and earning levels.
> I guess you could call it civil disobedience

Willful failure to file is a felony [1].

[1] https://www.irs.gov/irm/part25/irm_25-001-007
Being able to point towards a subset of pollution which is regulated does not necessitate the entirety of pollution as regulated/political. Pollution isn't defined by political fiat.

Your argument also doesn't hold considering that in the case we're talking about right now, the vast majority of spacetime is not inhabited nor is it regulated by anybody. Yet we're still able to talk about pollution because pollution in no way is tied towards a politicization of the conversation.

One could even go so far as to say you've polluted the conversation by including this "but you're making it political" distraction.
Assuming that there is a more intelligent, more capable person available is the optimistic outlook. What if the reality is that the current crop of CEOs are the best-equipped people available to deal with this problem and it's not enough?
What happens when the IRS gets it wrong and the impoverished recipient has nobody to review it for them?

(Still I suppose that may be an improvement over the status quo)
About 2/3rds of people do file a 1040 rather than a 1040A or 1040-EZ which at least suggests that most people do have taxes that are more complex than just just a W2 and a standard deduction.
So avoid using more than 75% of the web? You may be right in that these websites value your privacy less than other things but it certainly doesn't seem like a viable solution for most users. What's the day to day usage look like when you take your privacy this seriously? I'm not well versed with what tools you would use currently to achieve privacy.
If the IRS owes him money nothing will happen other than a reminder letter.

He won't get in trouble or anything.

They will calculate a substitute return and mail it to him. If it shows a refund he can chose to accept, reject, or ignore it.

Accept: They'll send him money. But not as much as if he had done the return himself.

Reject: You do that by filing a correct return.

Ignore: Then he's giving a free gift to the government. Which is his choice I guess.

PS. He may regret his decision later if he wants to get a loan, or apply for government services.
Is the Model 3 not already massivly outselling Leaf month by month? Can you show some date on that?
Who is the correct person to trust with censorship?
In my country (Portugal) they do prepare my taxes and so far I can't complain. Even if something wrong happens you can file for appropriate compensation. Any payment is concluded in less than 2 weeks.
I guess "lower taxes" depends what the extra $200 a month in taxes (on a $70k salary in CA rather than UK) gets you in terms of services. Apparently the average health care cost is $1300 a month, making taxes and other essential expenditure $500 per person per month more in CA than in the UK for a 2 income family on $70k each.
Just back of the napkin, but there are 28 million small businesses and 130 million full time employed adults in the US. So no. It’s likely much higher than 10%.
I for one was glad to see this WaPo article linked. Good reminder.
That has always been one of those pet projects I keep meaning to take another crack at. Once a year or so I spend a weekend toying around with opencv in python and see what I can do.

Unlike the parent post I've always wanted to solve it geometrically, not visually. Think solving a puzzle from the backs of the pieces.
Their workers feature can do all kinds of things like this
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17735324 I assume this comment
+ middle mouse button

Makes using 3D software on a laptop much easier, and also allows using X11's "middle-click to paste".

I've been idly thinking of getting a new laptop, and it's been disappointing to see how few have a true middle mouse button.
If the returns show a refund, then yes, they will.
> Yes, it's possible to use more power than it can deliver, but on average it charges just fine.

I would not pay $2000+ for a laptop that turns off while I am using it. Particularly so for a "workstation" one.
If it wasn't already clear, this is insanely bad advice, and flagrantly disregarding the IRS is an easy method to attain huge fees and possibly jail time.
Too bad. Unfortunately, CaseLabs consistently was out of my budget (dare I say, most budgets) anyways, so the net effect of their demise on the consumer market seems negligible.
That article reeks of bitterness, hatred, and wealth envy. Really, it's not worth reading. The content is irrelevant, it's an incoherent rant against rich nerds.
They don't appear identical to me either. If you flick through from first to last (chronologically, eg from image 2 onwards), watch the star in the very bottom-left (they all behave, but this proximity to the edge makes it more perceptible). It does exactly what it should do.

What does seem interesting (to me), is that if you do the same and watch the opposite (right) edge, you'll the stars on the left edge are travelling right (and upwards), and the stars on the right are travelling left (and upwards).

I find this novel because I've never seen this myself - I'm in Northern Europe, so what I see is stars spinning around the pole. The effect we see here is the camera pointing towards the equator, putting it facing east(ish).

Regardless, this is one area where I'm happy to defer to natgeo's ability to spot shenanigans.
For new graduates or little experience.

One thing to note, education is free in France and the norm is to get a master. You won't get an interview anywhere without a master.
You are not required to file if you earn under around $10k as an individual. That could be the case for this person.
Canada sends you an assessment after you file letting you know their initial thoughts on how much you owe. You can still get audited to see if there were any omissions or factual errors - e.g. Your home office isn't really an office.
What they are doing if feably deversifing their investment fund because all their other initiatives have stalled horribly and they have a huge deficit so this strategy will not save them.
It's always amazing to me when a company has garbage developer support and then wonders why nobody wants to use their stuff or does anything good with it.
I wonder what the explanation for this is.
It's not just that, anti-tax zealot Grover Norquist has outsized interest on the right and he gets republicans to sign a pledge to not raise taxes, and if they violate the pledge Norquist raises money and campaigns against them. The problem is, the pledge also requires signees also do not support legislation to make paying taxes easier.

The radical anti-tax groups are so anti-tax that they see making it easier to pay taxes as support for taxes. So they want it to be difficult to pay taxes to make it easier for them to argue against taxes entirely.

The system is broken in so many places trying to approach it with any rationality gives you a headache.
Simpson's Paradox is my favorite:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
This would be really interesting to do with some sort of move-aware diff algorithm. Does anyone know if such a thing exists?

Instead of getting lines removed + lines added, there could be some sort of content aware diff algorithm that works with 'data chunks' at another granularity (lines = good for code, words ala diff --color-words = good for text)

diff = fancy_diff(c1, c2)
# diff ~ {'added':<int>,
# 'removed':<int>,
# 'changed':<int>,
# 'moved':<int> }

where `moved` represents # of `-` lines in diff that have an identical corresponding `+` line,
and `changed` represents lines where 60%+ of - line matches the text in some + line.

Using such a fancy_diff, moving a 200-line chunk of code from one source file to another source file won't show up as -200s and +200s, but as {'added':0,'removed':0,'moved':200}

Looking at such "fancy diff" numbers will show more what's going on...
>"Media is hyping the fear of 'election hacking' to the point where people I know personally want everything to be done manually, no machine or computer involvement at all."

Whats wrong with this?
As a rule of thumb I would not trust IRS to do my taxes but I am happy if they send me a draft and I have to just sign or make corrections.