skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given how bulky ANY is, and the fact that we're changing the standard anyway, would not just restricting ANY to TCP queries "fix" the DDoS issue? The attempted TCP connection would not be formed (the victim would RST it).

(I agree with other issues pointed out by the article, and there are other reasons why, as a RR type, I would still axe ANY. But the functionality of being able to query all RRs on a server is often useful for debugging, though I think there are other practical ways to work around that. (Issue a query for many common RR types.))
All terrorism is political.

Also, I tire of the constant politically motivated attempts to inflate the usage of words to try to attach awful connotations to relatively innocuous things. Please stop.
Apple charged witness tampering of former Apple employee who works at Google now. Jury dismissed all such rogue allegations
Just going to repeat from the HN thread a few days ago[0]

https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3975

Here's Scott Aaronson arguing that the theoretical work underpinning this experiment is flawed.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19369655
Apple responds to Spotify with words, but no real answers
I'm an NC native myself and always found waffle house more of a last-resort late night meal (hard to pick over bojangles, cookout, zaxbys or showmars for day-time fast and cheap eats), but still glad to see it provided so many folks with positive memories.

Still, strange to read all the romanticising over it. Sure it's diverse, but that's just living in the south for you. One of my mom's friends was a waffle house cook, and to go by her experience it wasn't a great gig. Inconvenient hours, and paid just enough to afford a double wide and old pickup. But a job is better than no job, and a meal at waffle house is better than no meal (or gas station food).
The same amount of work that goes into verification systems to cross check your manual entry against all of your financial data they’re ingesting from payroll, investment firms, and other data providers.

It’s asinine to think the IRS should not be in the business of calculating your tax liability and providing you a friendly way to square up, free of charge, when they’re already doing most of the effort required (and have spent the government funds to do so).
> $600,000 a year

> be wildly rich in a couple of years

pick one
What's puzzling is that the IRS seems to calculate your taxes anyway; if there's a disparity, then they send you a correction a few weeks later.

Why can't they do this beforehand so you have the option of just clicking "OK" and being done with it?
The IRS already does most of this work, lest you be tempted to claim that you made $7 last year and nevertheless fed your 118 dependents. It’s just not being shared with you....
You can subscribe to Hulu within the app.
After the NZ Shooting Video, Reddit Bans Two Channels Showing Human Death
Please read the article:

> A monarch count led by the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation in November found only 28,429 of the iconic orange-and-black insects wintering along the California coast. That figure represents an 85% drop from the previous year and a 99.4% plunge compared with 40 years ago.

> “In our grove alone we would have 250,000 monarchs in the 1980s,” said Danielle Bronson, a state park interpreter at Pismo State Beach. “This season we had about 3,000 at our peak.”

> Other butterfly populations have been hit even worse.

> At least 20 species are disappearing faster than the monarch, said Matt Forister, an ecologist at the University of Nevada, Reno.

> They include the large marble butterfly (Euchloe ausonides), the field crescent (Phyciodes campestris campestris), the west coast lady (Vanessa annabella), the common sooty wing (Pholisora catullus) and the California ringlet (Coenonympha tullia california).

It is more than a boom and bust issue, although for painted ladies it does seem to be a cycle:

> Even the painted ladies (Vanessa cardui) appeared to be suffering as recently as last year. In 2018, Shapiro counted just 27 of the butterflies at the 10 sites he monitors on a regular basis. A year earlier, that number was 512.
>I don't think we're that far away from outlawing human driven cars.

I don't know about that. Human driven cars provide police an excuse to stop and question almost anyone they want, as well as lots of revenue from traffic tickets.

Your argument does apply to some other objects though.
Velcro?
The costs are similar to hiring a lawyer at a large law firm, on a per hour basis. Total costs tend to be lower than litigation because it’s not as hours/manpower heavy.
Reddit Bans Gory Subreddits After New Zealand Shooting
> I recall when Star Wars came out, a lot of my friends bought the soundtrack.

I recall Lucas saying in a DVD commentary that he got some push-back in the industry for the idea of using a classical soundtrack in Star Wars.

I’m glad he stuck with it, it’s hard to imagine Empire without the Imperial March.
Yeah, I don't know how Chik-fil-a works, but Waffle Houses are very independent franchises.
Hey, these aren’t mutually exclusive.
Germany does not live in a vacuum.
>It’s not all of California. It’s just in the places with their own higher minimum wage like SF or LA. I’ve seen it a bunch of times, mostly at small family owned restaurants.

if the menu lists a price for a dish, how is it legal to tack on an extra 3% because the owner doesn't like the minimum wage in SF?
Canada more-or-less has this.
Usually people on HN don't read the article, but in this case the title literally answers your question.
Yea it's best to ask design questions over email because then you have a record for both parties to refer back to if either forgets. But in general, you have to understand that solving a problem...is only half of the problem. The other half is keeping that problem solved which means the code needs to be maintainable.
And some European countries (Finland I believe, for example).
I'm largely in the anti-tax camp and I don't want that. Perhaps I'm just not in that martyrdom mindset enough to want such a thing... but even so it would be more of a gimmick than an argument. I don't like these kinds of stupid made up controversies when they come from people and groups I oppose and like them even less from my side of whatever political point is at stake.

As others have mentioned, I do think there should be transparency. So, for example, the employer portions of payroll taxes (in the U.S.) is not usually visible to the employee on who's behalf it is paid; an employee doesn't see the full weight of taxes that ultimately derives from their labor... that to me is hiding, in a fashion, what my real gross pay is and what amount of my earnings is being taken.
I'm guessing here, but I don't think column alignment was a consideration for the ordering.
My partner runs an advocacy non-profit and they definitely influence policy. Lobbying isn't just greasing palms. Most of the work is showing up at public hearings, meeting regularly with politicians, and organizing people to support your position.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Interest_Group
Unfortunately California still thinks that one of the wettest centuries in thousands of years is "normal rainfall."
Any business that has a captive or semi-captive market is going to do all is can to dissuade others from participating in the market. It's the basis for most licensure laws.
What other term would you use for holding the country hostage through flagarant, unapologetic cronyism and regulatory capture?

Edit: None of these replies really captures of the gravity of the situation IMHO.
Isn't the whole idea that it's a sort of verification? We propose what we made and what we owe, and another entity has their own proposal of what you made and what you you owe.

I'm just spit balling here, I don't have a strong opinion on it either way.
I think the business case with the same idea and tech, but a lot better market cap, would be providing a restocking service to businesses who are using tens of thousands of dollars of consumable shop supplies than the small audience of people who are willing to buy coffee from a subscription for $3/mo.

To make the pain point that I'm familiar with on a daily basis crystal clear to you: I'm an engineer at a small, shop that makes industrial automation equipment. Each machine contains (in addition to bill-of-materials listed components, an array of stuff we consider "shop supplies".

Some components I'd inventory include a lot of items from the McMaster Carr, Grainger, Bolt Bin, and Digikey catalogs. We have racks of pneumatic fittings, electrical conduit connectors, dowel pins, electrical connectors, extrusion hardware, labels, and all manner of other industrial Lego. There's a large area with hundreds of drawers holding alloy cap screws in socket, button, and flat-head in metric and SAE from #4-40/M3 to 1/2-18/M10 in quarter inch/5mm increments. Every tool and die shop, industrial facility maintenance department, auto mechanic, construction contractor, and so on has a similar set of drawers, shelves, and ULine bins that contains stuff like this.

Each item only runs a nickel to a couple dollars each, so it's hardly worth adding to a spreadsheet, checking out of inventory, and cutting a purchase order for a replacement, but our little 20-man shop probably goes through $150,000 worth of these consumables each year in the process of building $10M worth of machines. Keep our fabricators supplied with the components they need, and stop our expensive engineers from spending $50 in time every week or two purchasing these components, and I'd be more than happy to pay for the value it would provide. Which is a lot more than the value that would be provided by keeping my home kitchen stocked with coffee.

Also, from my point of view, the equipment to use to measure this stuff is not ESP8266 modules and a soldering iron, it's an off-the-shelf PLC, some DIN rail and screw terminals, and some load cells or maybe strain gauges if you really want to optimize costs. Get a volume of equipment sold before trying to roll your own full-stack hardware supply chain...but that's beside the point.
That wouldn’t work for most people. If you are married, have kids, or own a house, the IRS cannot calculate your taxes correctly.

(Single young people downvoting me. The IRS doesn’t know how many kids live with you, what you pay in mortgage interest, and whether you’re still married to your spouse, all of which are necessary to calculate even simple tax situations.)
I used to keep my beans on the shelf for months. I also have a friend who owns a coffee roasting business. Let me tell you, fresh-roasted coffee tastes WAY better.
Many other European countries do things like require you to register with the government within a week whenever you move to a new place. They track much more information about you.
They actually didn't do it that way. The rod was held in place, and the hollow cylinder got fired towards it.
I added xxh3 to my fork of smhasher: https://github.com/injinj/smhasher

I find it to be the fastest hash in my stable of hashes.

Graphs for 64 / 128:

https://github.com/injinj/smhasher/blob/master/plot64.svg

https://github.com/injinj/smhasher/blob/master/plot128.svg

Latency graphs for 64 / 128

https://github.com/injinj/smhasher/blob/master/plot64lat.svg

https://github.com/injinj/smhasher/blob/master/plot128lat.sv...

Latency is using the hash result after each function, the original smhasher algo does not use the result.
That's the entire point of the article.
The Halting Problem is the reason why you can't prove whether or not any non-trivial program is bug-free, much to the chagrin of developers
> 1040EZ

There is no 1040EZ anymore, with the change to the postcard^W (at least one) full 8x11 sheet of paper that's similar to the EZ but that everyone begins by filling out.
Cost of lobbying? What the heck is this? There is something called democracy. What is wrong with you USA?
You can even do it if you make more than that with the free fillable forms option.
The IRS is friendly enough to accept your proposal and then confirm if you’re right or not (to their standards). It’s not a negotiation. That’s why this is annoying. There is no value in the majority of filers going through the process so Intuit can profit.
>>> Certain opinions or facts are downvoted without any contradicting facts. Now matter how reasonable the opinion or true the fact is.

>> Not really in this case. Take the comment in question: there's no fact or even much opinion there. It's mostly innuendo.

> What are the facts against Huawei ? Do you have any ?

What about Huawei? I was talking about ElBarto's comment, as is everyone in this entire thread. He was just scolded by a mod about his conduct, so I don't think my take was too far off.
Sorry, that's kind of what I meant, though I realize I made a mistake in how I said it.
You could draw the line at $0. That's the usual edge case.
There's a strong argument that lobbying is more of a "legislative subsidy" than it is vote buying or persuasion.

The idea is that most of the information governments need to craft policy is only provided by lobbyists and that government staffers are typically less informed about a given field than expert lobbyists.

Congressional staffers don't make a ton of money and typically aren't PhDs. One way to reduce the impact of lobbying would be to offer very high salaries to staffers so that we could attract world experts to our side of the table.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-s...
So if every company that sells that product at a loss to gain market share is guilty of predatory pricing, that would include almost every VC funded company b
Swarming drones will change warfare
I have Edge TPU, Intel NCS, and vision kit hope to make a comparison among them
Big discussion from two years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13853150

And back in 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5443203
It looks like a nice little language. It looks like Go influenced the syntax (in a good way). Based on the "concurrent" example, can we assume that it does coroutines instead of green threads?

Have you tried converting the C impl of the Computer Language Benchmarks Game to compare runtime performance against other languages?
The Triforce
Speech brigaded with action (fire in a theater) is considered by many to be the only punishable speech. So the time component is a piece, too.

See Brandenberg v Ohio. They're just words. "No law." The First Amendment is very clear.

PS yes I realize we're talking about New Zealand.
This comes up on HN basically every year. I'll put a different spin on it than "big bad company ruins America": America was broken before Intuit got to it.

There will always be bad actors in society. Ideally government officials have the temperament, wisdom, and intelligence to act in the public's behalf.

Unfortunately, that seems to be largely not the case in the US.
This sounds incredibly useful! Care to share? I could see building off of this to find optimal deduction paths, zeroing out liabilities, etc.
No thanks, I'm good
Even in the US you eventually need to basically 'register with the government' (usually in the form of getting your ID/drivers license updated, and notifying USPS of mail service change).
Think about it this way.

They make money from people who don't optimise their taxes
Wow! Yesterday we learned about what happens when dead alligators are dropped to the sea floor of the abyssal plane (a giant isopod smorgasbord), and today we learn about cheese exposed to hip hop. The 2019 IgNobel competition is really heating up.
I live (and grew up) in NY hundreds of miles from any Waffle House, and I still like them enough to usually visit one whenever I'm south of DC. People talk about other things they do than waffles, but I prefer their waffles to IHOP, Denny's or the non-chain diners near me. Many diners will serve you something just like the free waffles at hotels, which I think is sad.
That is a big problem, for now, hope there will a converter script in the stable release
They calculate the taxes on the information you have to supply, right?

(I'm not in the USA, but Canada.)

You could lie on the tax return by not reporting income, or claiming some false deductions and credits; the difference could be thousands of dollars.

They will only be checking the false version for arithmetic or logic errors.

The result might be, say, having to pay $50 more due to some mistake, even when actually it should be $5000 more due to lying.

What this story is about is that the government could provide some service, like a website, where you can just put in your info and have it do the detailed calculations and form filling for you: essentially a government-run version of the software that Intuit and other vendors sell.

The government can't just do this without any input from you, though. They can't just send you a bill for you to agree with or dispute.
Neither of those changes often.

IRS can send you pre-filled taxes using status from last year or provide webpage with a checkbox.
Thank you for posting this report. I live in Germany and didn’t know that the food bank thing is becoming so widespread.
Repair damaged soil by ensuring there is no bare soil, make sure its covered with natural (carbon-based / organic material) mulch or better yet, packed with a diverse set of plants at ALL times. Bare soil becomes compacted, and will resist water infiltration.

Some of the plants will have very good root depth, but all plants together will foster macro and microbiology, especially fungi, which will hold the soil together and at the same time spongify the soil, so that much more water will be absorbed than bare soil.

See the slake and water infiltration test, for a demonstration of bad vs good soil.:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx_hmse9Se8

If your soil falls apart in the presence of water AND doesn't allow fast infiltration, you've got landslide and flood conditions. If your soil holds together and absorbs OR drains water, you've got prime agricultural conditions instead.
And even if you buy a physical game for the Playststion, the game still has to be approved by Sony.
Http clients and Json parsers aren't great examples because both should be about as fast as you can make them. Idk about you but I don't find it credible to claim writing your own http library or Json parser is a reasonable route to go down in most cases. Not to mention the opportunity cost of reinventing those wheels would be quite large.
I remember the last time I tried launching a square enix game I got to the accept dialog and read the terms and conditons.

Since then I think they have reworded their privacy policy.

It used said they could collect basically every interaction you ever had with their games, information on your system unrelated to the game, and when agreeing it was binding, irrevocable and forever.

the current policy is here, and it is still amazing:

https://www.square-enix-games.com/en_US/documents/privacy

read the first section - they basically collect everything they can and can share it with everybody.
More than 32 countries do this: All of Scandinavia, Finland, Spain, Estonia, Macedonia, Australia, India, the Netherlands, Japan, the U.K. and a bunch of others.
More or less has what?

Here it is copy paste from the CRA website:

There are several ways to send your tax return to the CRA. Ultimately, this may be dependent on how you decided to complete your return.

- By software (electronically) If you selected a NETFILE certified software, it will communicate directly with the NETFILE application servers and transmit all required information on your behalf directly to the CRA via the web service.

- By paper: Mail your completed income tax package to your tax centre.

- By phone: Follow the instructions in the invitation letter for File my Return that you received from the CRA.

"By software" means using certified software, like Intuit's TurboTax. This is the very racket they seek to protect.
You're in good company:

"There's a divinity that shapes our ends/ Rough hew them how we will."

Hamlet, to Horatio, in Hamlet Act 5 Scene 2.
Lots of cardboard and paper is recycled in the US. It works fine.

It's also the case that any metal a scrapyard will pay you for is economical to recycle. The majority of discarded steel is recycled.
> the crime is now "facilitating access to an internet-based service".

Does that include cafes that provide internet access to customers?
Neither Brazile, Warren, nor any of the leaked DNC emails provide even the slightest bit of evidence that any voting process was manipulated, any vote totals falsified, or anything else of that nature. They also do not show any evidence of any kind of adverse action against Clinton's opponents. There is a compelling argument that DNC staff were too partial to Clinton, who they viewed as the presumptive nominee. There is also evidence of animus against the Sanders campaign, although that animus must be viewed in the context that the Sanders campaign had previously _sued_ the DNC.

Party organizations involved in the primary process need to avoid even the appearance of favoritism. The DNC under DWS failed in this, and it also demonstrated other forms of unprofessionalism (such as passing around credit card information in unencrypted email!). Cleaning house was necessary. Furthermore, superdelegates had been a controversial issue in the last two contested nomination contest, and were clearly perceived by a substantial number of party supporters as undemocratic. Reforming them was also necessary. But none of that changes the fact that there is no evidence of any form of rigging of the nomination process.

If it's obvious there was some sort of corrupt manipulation of the process, it should be possible to point to at least one single state where there is evidence of electoral manipulation.
Hey stblack - we have that same feature in ZenHub. Feel free to check out https://www.zenhub.com/product
And that's why I do my taxes using Credit Karma.
I've only seen it in cities that have a higher minimum wage than state.

In San Diego it only seems to be at the more expensive end of the restaurant business. They put a sob-story on the menu explaining how they are going to add 3% to my check or else the minimum wage law will drive them out of business. Unfortunately it has the opposite effect for me and makes me think twice about supporting a business who will charge me $40+ for an entree but admit to not paying their staff a living wage.
Don't let me copypaste unnecessarily :0
Huh? If the landlords are willing to rent it to the tenants for $1200, isn't that literally the market rent?
That might be interesting, actually. Has it been done? I've been an advocate for "coin flipping is not random" since I was young and could flip heads or tails on demand (about 80% accurate, but I didn't practice all that much). Caveat being I catch the coin in my hand on the way down (not letting it hit the floor) and know which side was up before flipping.

Essentially, does the beat of the song (or whatever) influence timings and force applied enough to bias the results?
My boss Ryan Postma told me back in 2004, and I quote

The real fun is yet to come. The people that believe the really crazy shit haven't got PC's yet.

So not a resurgence: just the emergence.
what is the deal with these startup company names that have nothing to do with anything the company does? they are just random single words with a logo directly representing that random word in a “cute” way. why not name the company sensible? or is the mentality truly temporary?
The question I ask myself is:

Is it better to do the right thing imperfectly, or the wrong thing perfectly?
I really miss the Stig segments in the (now) old top gear with clarkson, may and hammond. Really unfortunate what happened to that show - it kept me going through some ugly periods in life.
The double punchline is it's about as mathematically sound as the average nutrition study.