skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not the same, is it?

Suppose the number of people cheating on their taxes remains perfectly constant, but that the IRS gets less money to pursue them. Then there will be fewer tax fraud cases, but the exact same amount of tax fraud.
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Ask HN: What skills do you need to become a great UX designer?
Good point. I was thinking more of the movie/music side of their plan.
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For those interested, Hoffstadter's Godel Escher Bach gives a great introduction into formal systems and Godels incompleteness theorem. Highly recommended.
It's trickier than it seems. To take just one example, suppose you have an extension that modifies pages to insert a related link (e.g. an extension that tries to infer a hacker news user's reddit account and link to it from their HN profile page).

The extension needs permission to modify documents on the hacker news domain. But if it can insert an <a> tag, what's to stop it from inserting an invisible <img href> tag, which could be used to exfiltrate data? Or even just inserting an <a> tag with an onClick handler, or a javascript: url?
> TIOBE measures the sheer quantity of search engine hits. PYPL measures how often language tutorials are Googled.

Popularity by who searches for language help like Java or C/C++ is mostly because those are more difficult languages with bigger, historical sprawl and frameworks.

Just using searching for popularity is skewed because people search more so for things they don't know, than ones they do, and harder languages will probably be more searched. Same with tutorials, it only shows what people are learning. However it is somewhat valid in that even languages you use daily you end up searching for solutions and information on docs, community, etc.

The github and repo stats probably give a bigger picture of popularity combined with searching and surveys.

Side note: Personally I think everyone should learn C/C++ and maybe a functional language or a dynamic language like Python in addition to their main languages. Learning C/C++ and building in it is closer to the metal, has memory management and every language you learn after is less difficult. I do love C++ for game development but it helps with learning all other languages as well as all other languages difficulty is downhill from it, and is especially great for memory management, stack/heap understanding, value/reference understanding and C/C++ is empowering in the power/speed of the platforms. To this day still most apps are built with C/C++ under the hood whether directly, exported to or in a virtual machine that is built in it. For highly performant apps/code/systems C/C++ still are king.
It's happening throughout the West with access to rivers and lakes that billionaires have "purchased." It is definitely a cancer since it weakens the idea that some real estate is public domain. (And I'm an unironic capitalist saying this.)
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Thanks, memory fails... a condition of the coalition was having the vote of course.
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There is a certain logic to it. If we cut more then the number if cases will drop even more.

Or maybe the tax cuts made people more honest since their burden got reduced?

Reminds me of the stock market. You can assign whatever causality you like to changing prices.
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Tax Evasion will not skyrocket immediately. Only after people realize they will not be prosecuted.
Questions like this always pop up, and correlate highly with people who didn't read the article.
If the public knows the IRS has less funding to enforce the law, wouldn't more rich people gamble on tax evasion?
Well, there's also nonfinancial reasons to spend more, like the inherent goodness of bringing people to justice.
> subjectively problematic

I might recommend using a word more specific than "problematic" if your goal is to communicate your criticism. It's about as specific as "bad", and seems to form an in-group out-group dynamic for readers who get to fill in the gaps.

I agree with your point, so I've read your comment as "it makes your reply more biased than necessary", whereas people who disagree with you might read it as "I don't like your reply because it hurts my feelings" or some other uncharitable interpretation.

Hope this came across as a friendly recommendation! Communicating over text has so many pitfalls.
Allow you to run a game on $200 hardware that would usually require $1200 hardware.
No problem. I'm glad if you found something useful for your business in our experience.
But suppose in the real world the IRS has less money to pursue cases. Then it's reasonable there will be more cases of tax fraud as it will be easier to get away with it.
That seems more likely. The long term effect may be more fraud though since people will learn that they are less likely to get caught.
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Haven't seen any issues with charging on the XS Max -- neither when charging over Qi nor over cable. Didn't happen on iOS 12 GM, and doesn't happen on iOS 12.1 (beta).

Sure this isn't some stunt to get Apple to relax their security measures?
actually, we don't care how jane street does this and that with ocaml. it's such hype bullshit that makes me wanna vomit. Stop giving it publicity it doesnt deserve.
> I’d say most HN comments were right on.

What were they right about?

> When it first happened many on HN said “it’s not a big deal”, “the SEC won’t care”,

But you just said most HN comments were right?

> “they can’t prove anything” and “they won’t ask him to step down as chairman”.

Can you show me one comment that even talked about chairman?

> And yet here we are.

Yes here we are. Nothings changed. Musk/TSLA got a tiny fine. Gave up his chairman which doesn't really matter since he is the largest shareholder.

Right now shorts are burning. Hopefully you aren't one.
> And we are picky. There's no visa lottery here. A points-based system with high thresholds.

As a practical matter, it seems that the immigration officer you wind up with does have an impact on your application's success. I was initially turned down for a Skilled Migrant visa (which I believe is what you're referring to) because I had work experience in IT, but a degree in electrical and computer engineering, and though the points from those combined were well over the higher threshold (and both on the skills shortage lists at the time, ~2010), they weren't in the same enough field according to my assigned officer. That meant that I had to pick which one I wanted to use, but neither by itself put me over the line... An expat friend of mine had a similar experience.

I don't mean this to be a slight on Immigration NZ, just that the process can feel a bit arbitrary and bureaucratic - like a lottery. It creates a chicken-and-egg problem too: in order to get a skilled migrant visa, you really want a job offer, but you're only going to get a job offer by coming here and looking around in person...
I've seen plenty of people change their behavior as the result of a well-reasoned, rational argument. I'm not sure what Scott Adams' problem is.
There is also the savings from people committing less fraud because they see it's harder get away with it, e.g cases against people they know like friends, relatives, coworkers.
Optimal alertness/health is at a point between "paralyzed with starvation" and "paralyzed by overstuffedness". What you are calling "somewhat hungry" may be better stated as "full, but not overstuffed".

To maintain a consistent energy level, 5+ small snacks is better than 3 large meals.
IMO even that's not sufficient. I've had calls claiming to be my bank that new dollar amounts and dates of 2 charges I had recently disputed. But I've been fooled once before, so I went into my local branch and spoke to the manager face to face. No one from the bank had placed a call regarding my account and there was no issue with my dispute. The phone number was not owned by the bank and after 2 voice mails they stopped trying to contact me and I never had an issue with the charge back. So there is literally no way I would ever trust an inbound phone call again.
Tesla can change so much with over-the-air updates
Using Patents to patent trivial stuff and then getting a monopoly from the government as reward is just rent seeking evil and wrong on so many levels.
The average $1 yielded $1.20, not every $1. The marginal rate of return surely goes down as you spend more, otherwise you could spend $10 trillion dollars and get $2 trillion for free. What would be interesting is what the marginal $1 spent yields.
Mainly that a spreadsheet program is available on most laptop/PCs. And most people have been taught how to use an 'office' package at some point. And the UI is sort of built in and familiar.

Perhaps you will be able to sleep easier when the Raspberry Pi' generation come of age? I recollect that small business people built applications with Hypercard a few decades ago.

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It's the richest country on earth - that's the reason
I felt like the article was just getting going, then it finished.
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Kind of strange they had a whole article about decreasing fraud cases, and don't mention the IRS had to apologize for aggressive targeting of conservative groups in October 2017. Maybe that's why their budget got cut?

https://www.npr.org/2017/10/27/560308997/irs-apologizes-for-...
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At what time were they expect to be making 5000 cars/week in January?
The problem here is the ability to spoof caller ID. This should not be possible. Regulations set up the phone system, regulations need to make this change. I don't care what excuse anyone has, don't care about your stupid PBX or any of that. Caller ID should be mandatory and reliable.

Having said that, always assume someone calling you is a fraud. If your "bank" calls you, tell them you'll call back and don't call a number they provide over the phone or in caller ID. If you can't find a reliable number to the bank, drive over there. The bottom line is that you can't trust anyone who calls you.
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// Really trivial malloc() implementation. We just allocate bytes sequentially from the start of
// the heap, and reset the whole heap to empty at the start of each request.
extern byte __heap_base; // Start of heap -- symbol provided by compiler.

byte* heap = NULL; // Current heap position.
void* last_malloc = NULL; // Last value returned by malloc(), for trivial optimizations.

void* malloc(size_t n) {
last_malloc = heap;
heap += n;
return last_malloc;
}

Am I missing something? How can this work? __heap_base is never used, so first malloc returns a pointer to (void * )NULL;

Shouldn't it be:

byte *heap = &__heap_base;

or something to that effect?

I haven't read the rest of the code, nor know how WebAssembly works, but I can't make sense of that snippet.
No options. Make it mandatory and make it unable to be faked.
I've used the language popularity indexes to show MBA's that my preferred tool chain isn't some weird obscure thing that I just discovered on the Internet. The numbers were good enough for that purpose, and of course they didn't question the underlying methodology. Perhaps the more useful message for them is that there are in fact more than one or two popular languages, and that they are not all commercial products.
It quite often is actually. Until today, about half of all human genes have never been described in any detail at all. We do not know what function they serve, only that they exist and that most of those are probably not that important. Therefore no early career scientist can really dare to investigate any of them, if they do not certainly want to endanger their future careers. If they would have not worry about that, a lot of bright minds that now only study those 5% of genes that promise the most interesting results could diverge and with a high probability discover a new PD-1 here and CTLA4 there. And thats not a question of time (besides the maybe 10 years to study a gene well), that is 100% a problem of funding.
Nice rebound today - over 16%...