skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can probably balance things out a bit.

I don't think that "30% efficiency/loss" is the best way to think about this. Instead, think of it as "extra amount of sunlight reaching Earth" (and subtract the extra amount of radiation, which would probably be a second-order effect). If you've a 100m mirror illuminating the night-side of the planet, you'll need a k \* 100m size mirror shading the day-side part... And you'll probably need to calibrate this depending on the region you illuminate/shade as different parts of the Earth reflect/absorb different amounts of sunlight ("efficiency loss" I guess).

All in all, a very interesting problem indeed! I can't wait until humanity can "afford" such large-scale geo-engineering.
I was hoping they would at least make a passing reference to Amdahl's Law.

As you optimize one part of the system so that it is blazingly fast or lower power or whatever, then the amount taken up by the rest of the system increases proportionally.

(In other words, real performance wins happen gradually as all the parts receive their own little optimizations which add up.)
I use it to control my 3d printers at our local hackerspace.

I have octoprint set up with a IP behind a NAT, and a hidden service. When I'm not at the 'space, I use Orbot on my android and OctoRemote.

I get reasonably good speeds and latency. I can also view my webcam on the printer. It's not 4HD by any means, but is definitely usable.
Yeah,me too, plus another 0.0001% of the computing public.
I'll join you if anyone is starting a bank.
The IRS has actually run trials like this in the past. Very successful, at least for simply W2-based returns, since most people's taxable transactions get reported by companies anyway (i.e., mortgages/interest, other income, etc.) and most people use the standardized deduction.

Inuit and Quicken subsequently lobbied to end those programs and even bar the IRS from running similar programs...
What a good question.

I have a day chair, a chair for home, and a couch at home.

I'm a big fan of flipping between multiple chairs and taking breaks.

Very good question, I've been foam rolling my back per my Dr. of physical therapy which helps a ton with back pain.
then dismay over medical costs, lack of government services and, many little things like cell-phone and cable fees and taxes.
http://www.sehinc.com/news/truth-about-speed-limits-explaine...

There is no guarantee that a speed limit will have any effect on driving behaviors. The fact is, when driving, most motorists choose a speed in which they personally feel both comfortable and safe.
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Unfortunately you got bamboozled.

50000 miles / 12 miles per gallon = 4166 gallons

50000 miles / 10 miles per gallon = 5000 gallons (833 gallons saved)

50000 miles / 60 miles per gallon = 833 gallons

50000 miles / 30 miles per gallon = 1666 gallons (833 gallons saved)
This is the kind of perverse-nightmare-thought I only imagined strummed along in the heads of the psychopathic power hungry.
The following are questions based on the fact that I am ignorant of Cloudflares services/capabilities:

Are you using Cloudflare purely as a CDN?

Can you choose to filter access to your content from geographic regions (i.e. block all IPs from [country])

What key services/offerings are you benefiting most from using Cloudflare?
Haha, I guess this is a fair response, but you're misinterpreting my point. I'll explain.

I don't think he "made it up", and I don't want to accuse him of blaming somebody, but I don't know how else to put it. In so many words, he basically says that, at the end of the day, the culture he's writing about is riddled with it's own shortcomings and needs to be brought to an end. Whether he alludes to historical economic strife or not (he does some), his ultimate assessment is that it's too late to do anything but save these poor souls. He communicates this idea with a lot of contention, because otherwise he would have been dismissed much sooner. A lot of the issues he writes about are legitimate, but he takes a mistaken turn towards accusing the traditions and personalities of his family.

It's not a 2-dimensional issue. Those traditions and parsonalities exist, but they are far more principled than the neoliberal traditions he promotes. And for whatever truth there is to his historical explanations, there is loads more that he avoids. His insistence on attributing present-day tensions to something like "outdatedness" is extremely ignorant.

The word for this turn that he takes is just hopelessly congruent with neoliberalism, and, unfortunately, it does serve his agenda quite well. He's got a partnership with a VC who aims to capitalize on techish business deals in the rust belt. Presumably, the VC aims to play savior and ultimately rip a lot of people off.
You don't travel faster than light with the Alcubierre Drive, you circumvent travel entirely. Spacetime does the traveling, not the ship.
The positive correlation between testosterone and violence is not a myth in animals.

It has also been observed in humans, though the correlation is weak[1].

1. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S135917890...
Precisely my thoughts
I'm surprised more people aren't saying this, but: I've had this happen over the years at multiple large, "upscale" hotels belonging to national chains across the US.

I usually leave the "Do Not Disturb" sign up the entire time I'm in a hotel. (I'm paranoid about having my electronics stolen when I leave for meals, and I usually work during the day in my hotel room when housekeeping is coming in, and I don't want to be interrupted. Besides, I bring my own towels and toiletries so I don't need anything from them.)

I've always been told it's a safety thing and that makes sense to me -- usually, it's a manager who calls and requests just to stick their head in every five days, while I'm there, and they're completely understanding of my fear of theft.
You should check out Elevator (https://www.goelevator.com/) - this is their model and they've successfully placed many teams into excited roles and companies together.
Generally when you hold a big event like this you use a large hotel with an attached convention center.
One of the most pervasive problems of modern tech - discouraging but at this point not surprising to see people dismissively brushing this off in this thread. This is the kind of community end up with when you phantom delete and 'ninja bury' any posts or comments that dare question the ethical and societal implications of the shit going on in SV.
Source? I believe you, just would like to see for myself.
In the countries where the system is place, you get to check the pre-made filing and add missing deductions.
I think I'm the first one who put a video on a Blockchain
Right, but people have to leave their hotel rooms and meet in some central location, otherwise it's not a conference :-)
The course had a section on it, it also covered things such as Bayes nets, it was basically a precursor course for machine learning. I chose to build the document recommendation project as my final project.

https://people.ok.ubc.ca/bowenhui/analytics/
I wonder if a mobile ATX is possible. Today IC size is so small you can have mainboard and daughter boards of average dimensions.

The lack of swapping and replacing is also an economical dread because people feel bad whenever a thing fails.
“Random” noise pours cold water on room-temperature superconductivity
30% of House candidate websites have significant cybersecurity issues
It wouldn't be surprising if hidden services had a lot better performance. Running a guard node is a lot less risky than an exit, so there's probably a lot more capacity available for traffic staying inside the network.
It's shitty bedside manner though, and provably harmful.

This reminds me of the story a few weeks ago of the hemophiliac kid who got HIV and then spent his whole childhood believing he would never grow up, never find love, never have a life.

How many people would just give in and roll over on that sort of news? It's self fulfilling prophecy.
from what i read, facebook was literally a frat house until they brought in a grown up to clean up their graffiti and beer cans, so i think the term is appropriate here.
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You posted pseudoscience of your own to counter pseudoscience.

Where is the evidence that lack of "post cycle therapy," which isn't accepted science in itself, and estrogen causes violence?

I don't see any evidence of what you suggest on Cochrane Collab.

https://us.cochrane.org/
Pretty sure git does this already by calculating a “similarity index”. So if you mv a file even without an explicit `git mv`, git will recognize it at commit time as a file in a different location. Perhaps this is presentational only, though; after all, a mv is fundamentally a delete and create.

Not 100% sure on that though, nor am I sure if the same applies at the line level.
The answer to your first question according to Cloudflare is 94% of Tor traffic is malicious, circa 2016: https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-trouble-with-tor/
Wikipedia has a nice list[1] of existing and upcoming projects where transmission engineers judged HVDC to be the best solution.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HVDC_projects
Yes.

The deeper question I've been trying to work out is how do we better spread out risk, control of the business, and the value created by our work?
I'm disappointed this didn't launch with the i7-8809g as was rumored - having an AMD GPU would be far better for a Linux machine.
Here's a copy that works with JS disabled:

https://gist.github.com/jwilk/6378581ffa8852aa981b65567e51c2...
Same age-old argument as Linux.

You're perpetuating their control over you.

Sorry to be the messenger.
You are correct as far as that goes, but you are partly reversing cause and effect.

Yes, advertising is the motivation to do these tactics. But it's not the problem in and of itself. Any other time-based money maker could replace advertising and nothing would change.

That's an indication the problem does not lie there.

But I put that word "time-based" for a reason: If you make money not based on engagement, but at a fixed rate per person, some things would indeed change. But only to a point: After all they need people addicted in order to convince them to stay, and recommend to others.

So I partly agree with you, partly disagree :)
To put a bit more nuance on this: in the US, verbal contracts are hard to enforce because they're usually hard to prove.

But a verbal contract you can prove is enforceable just like a written contract (with some important exceptions covered by a state's statute of frauds). Even in the case of conflicting stories, a jury can believe one side's testimony over the other.

Elon's problem here is that "I left thinking we could get a deal done if we did some other stuff that could get a deal done" is not a statement about an agreement. The Saudis don't have to honor his private prediction.
That'll clear your login and user data, but google still knows your ip address, os, screen resolution, browser, plugins, and many other small pieces of information that can be used to uniquely identify you and personalize your results
Apple Removes Group FaceTime from iOS 12, MacOS Mojave, Says It'll Launch Later
Brave New World? After all, maybe slavery, exploitation, the Holocaust and potential "AI overlords" (I Robot-the-movie-style) are overall "good" for the (majority of) society. But I'd still try to avoid any (all) of them.
You admit space is uninhabited. Your unnecessary and petulant copy/paste of the definition of pollution includes the words "poisonous" and "harmful". Which isn't possible to do to an uninhabited area. I have no idea why you keep forcing such a contrived idea, other than to draw in a political "bad humans, always polluting" message. Anyway I'm done with this silly conversation. Have fun
I was slightly bothered after moving to Spain from the UK because I had to submit the IRPF and similar. You never have to think of such a thing in the UK unless you see the wrong code on your payslip, and that is always in order to get a refund.

People of the US won't trust a damn thing the government does, probably for pretty good reason, and the whole country suffers for it. IRS can adequately track and report your taxes, even refunding them if they're too high? HELL NO, gotta blow most of that potential refund on a tax adviser to prove that I could get refunded! HMRC can adequately track and report your taxes? Actually, most of the time yes. No need to file unless it's a more complicated setup.
Last year the state introduces fully automated tax filling. It's beautiful. It took me 2 minutes. On the other hand, if I remember correctly its still a java app running on the browser where you have to accept an unsigned certificate and doesn't run on my mac. :/
Skimming filenames in my filesystem etc isn't "very basic".

Respectfully, fuck off.
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Google’s Targeted Ads Are Coming to a Billboard Near You
I wholeheartedly agree. I only finished it because it was his, but I feared he could be «losing it».

Fortunately seveneves was again spectacular.
Since it seems like you won't stop trolling, we've banned the account. We're happy to unban accounts if you email us at hn@ycombinator.com and commit to using the site as intended.
Seriously? That's the basis of saying that the anti-tax pledge prohibits IRS tax prep?

The number of deductions and credits is orthogonal to whether the IRS can save you the effort of collecting the information about what they think you owe.
And Apple got the idea for magnetic break-away connectors on tabletop deep fryers. It should not have been patentable.
You can, you just need to install an alternative launcher. The pixel launcher has those things, but you are more than free to replace it.
That would, in the best case, still require as much effort as filing in the first place or, in the worst case, require as much effort as I have to do now because the disputes are a lot of back/forth/waiting with the IRS.
The VAX 11/780 we had at the university was a dream machine for programming.
Don’t Get the Google Cloud Bill Shock
With Google BigQuery ML you can now predict your own Google Cloud spend in just a few minutes and without leaving your BigQuery Console UI.

Full article: https://blog.doit-intl.com/dont-get-the-google-cloud-bill-shock-465907d5347c
Your generalization is backwards. In general, US contracts do not need paper memorializing. The majority of transactions are not memorialized.

Specific types of transaction and certain value thresholds require memorializing.

Facts and circumstances are required to support verbal contracts, but in general verbal contracts very much are enforceable.
Am I the only one finding the trackpad a lot more usable than that "nipple"? (And I am a trackpad hater).
Most people don't realize you can have very precise movement on the trackpad just by slightly rotating the finger while mantaining it down. Try it: get to the nearest point moving the finger normally, then adjust finely by rotating the finger tip to the wanted direction. Very easy and at least to me much more accurate than that red thing.
but don't you still have to fill out a tax form? in that case, isn't that the same as in US?.
Why do you say low-memory? I got the opposite feeling. I've been drooling over EPYC and TR2 ever since they released the specs for my memory bandwidth limited projects.
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The issue is that you are not getting proper hormone replacement therapy with those. You are getting random levels of chemicals that mess up your hormone balance.

Ask anyone on hormone replacement therapy what happens when they skip a dose or mix up the dosage. Depression, headaches, migraines, suicidal thoughts etc.

Not something you want the entire society to experience.
In France, that 30% tax is on your gross income without deductions, and doesn't include a number of other taxes on your income that were already taken out as payroll taxes, usually about 10-20% of your wage income.

In the US, you face a 24% or 25% tax on your gross income after deductions, not including additional credits that may also apply. Payroll tax deductions are also much smaller in the US.

Not aware of any state which has a 10% property tax and an income tax. I am aware of some states having high property taxes but no income taxes...

Finally...we do have a safety net. It's a safety net, not a dole like the European model.
That makes a lot more sense, regarding in-Tor bandwidth.

I've also had quite a few projects in which I'm trying to normalize Tor usage. My biggest one thus to date is a Tor-ified IoT network that uses your own resources instead of nebulous "cloud" providers.

https://hackaday.io/project/12985-multisite-homeofficehacker...

Long story short, there's a lot of promise to a .onion address, given it acts like a telephone number. Change IPs? Who cares. You retain your "number" no matter where you move :) It's also a lot less scary when talking to people about this, and how Tor is awesome in many areas.
> If you were to raise the speed limit to 75mph, people would just use the same logic to drive 90mph instead.

Luckily there are plenty of places that have done just that that we can learn from. WI just raised a lot of its highway speed limits to 70mph for example.

Anecdotally, people used to drive in the 75mph range before the speed limit was raised and would deal with the occasional ticket for 10 over. In the general case, the average highway speed seems to have stayed at 75mph after the change.

I've noticed something similar in South Dakota where the speed limit is 80. I rarely saw someone go more than 5 over, and would frequently encounter people driving at 75mph.
A great thread on pathfinder with pcwalton all over it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13647146

> Pathfinder's rendering is best-in-class, equaling or exceeding the quality of the other renderers. FreeType, stb_truetype, font-rs, and Pathfinder all use exact trapezoidal area calculations for antialiasing. Most GPU algorithms use lower-quality multisample antialiasing, but matching the system renderer in quality is one of the key goals of Pathfinder.
-- PCWalton
>Your hypothesis is going to be, at best, questionable there and exclusively dependent upon the rural population.

Here's my personal experience

I live in Africa. In my middle-class household, there are 10 adults - 4 Laptops, 14 smart phones and 9 TVs.

In the few African countries I have lived, cyber cafe business/usage is rapidly declining because of a combination of cheaper smartphones and cheaper mobile data.

A brand new dirt cheap smartphone costs approximately 1-2 months of minimum wage salary. It'll work 8 - 48 hours before needing a recharge. A small power bank can triple the hours.

A brand new Core i3 laptop on the other hand costs at least 6 months salary. Battery life 4 - 6 hours. And needs a modem to get online.
Then it's still significantly easier and less confusing and intimidating than what those impoverished recipients have to deal with right now.
If that's true then I feel bad for the guy. Would probably be best for the IRS to give people amnesty in that situation.
I found the SEP article to be a much better explanation of the issues posed [1]. Wish Goodman was known more widely for his other work though. Had some fascinating work trying to establish mereology as an alternative to set theory. And he takes an interesting approach elsewhere by grounding epistemology within aesthetics to some degree. Essentially making true and false subsets of "rightness" and "wrongness". One example iirc we could call a painting "jazzy" and it applying more or less right about it's subject but not necessarily capital T true. Would recommend the Partially Examined Life episode on his epistemology.

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/goodman/#NewRidInd
[2] https://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2010/10/31/episode-28-nels...
note: monsanto's roundup chemical is an endocrine disruptor. we put it on most of our food supply. this contributes to the high cost burden.

secondary note: you don't want to have endocrine disruptors anywhere. they aren't good for you.
Any (well written) data analysis code could benefit from the increased core count and high number of memory channels.

Any kind of process that's batchable too.
The main problem with whitelisting Tor is that you open the door to abuse.

Cloudflare is working on a new solution to this problem that allows us to differentiate between abusive visitors and legitimate users without de-anonymizing them.

If you’re a Cloudflare user and want to sign up for this feature, email onion-beta@cloudflare.com for details.
I just want to remind people what an "Archaeologist Adventure" game used to look like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm_W_OKX7Vo

Vs what it looks like recently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_soGNaCrRiU
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"Beat the IRS with this one simple trick. Auditors hate him."

Reminds me of this video I was watching on tiny homes. This guy converted a school bus into a home for him, his wife, and three children. And he was totally over-selling everything in it. Going on an on about how you can hang stuff here and there to save space. How the counters can be used for this and that and how multipurpose they are (like most flat surfaces). How everything is able to be cleaned. Etc.

And I'm like "Cool, it is a small space and you've managed to fit everyone inside to whatever degree of success you are comfortable with, but your 'dryer' is literally hanging clothes and turning on the heater."

I'm sure you can live like that. I'm sure you can manage living effectively homeless and with the barest of cash to buy whatever you need day to day. But that also requires a level of commitment and hustle I just don't want to deal with. I want to go home, watch Netflix, noodle on my guitar, build some Legos, whatever. Without having to think "Well, where should I sleep tonight that won't get me stabbed or dead from exposure"
There's a pretty good write up on how it works here: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-supports-privacy-pass...
This should probably have a (2015) in the title.

I'm not getting why there's a sudden interest in this. The article is over 3 years old, and it's not even close to tax season.
Perhaps for places with realistic speed limits, but there are places with unrealistic limits: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-12-17/opinion/ct-enf...
>Inuit and Quicken subsequently lobbied to end those programs and even bar the IRS from running similar programs...

They did the same thing in Canada too btw.
How Box Conquered the Enterprise and Became a $1.7B Company in a Decade
You can loathe the actions of these companies and also think it would be hilariously worse if typical 'leadership' were tasked with solving these very obviously novel, unprecedented, and truly challenging problems.

A good first step would be to get rid of the perverse incentives these companies have to manipulate and surveil their users due to their business models. I don't think these problems can be solved as long as the way these companies survive is by charging for the ability to manipulate people's views and actions.
They could. I envision a one time use token for each charity you give to. You give the charity the one time use token issues by the government, and they report your donation directly to the government.

Financial institutions and other companies already give the government a copy of the form they give you for self employment income and taxable financial transactions.

The states also report state taxes and property taxes(?).

This would cover most taxpayers. If you have anything more complicated you would have to add it. This would also make enforcement easier, it could for the most part be automated.
Yes, Tor hidden services are neat technology, using them for IoT is a clever idea. Authenticated, not really scannable and you avoid the typical issue of going out to someone pre-determined to get connectivity from the outside.