skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, and why would they? What they could do is tune their radars and missile guidance systems to combat it, and that is a much greater concern. They could also use aspects of the F-35 such as fiber-mat RAM without having to go whole hog on building a clone.
Comparison doc in the future would be great!

It sounds like there's a bit of overlap. If I'm not up and running yet and just want the most managed solution (least work to run, with the most powerful high level features), is one of these a clear choice?

In my case, I don't care as much about low level access, but I just want my app to run quickly and efficiently. App Engine Flex's ability to run multiple services within an application, get load balancing set up, have versions of the app for testing and rollbacks, etc seems great. However, overall I just want to the easiest way to run my stateless set of services.
I dunno I think my comment was inclusive of the notion that facebook profits off of (i.e.: its users include) propagandists and other bad actors.
If you take a look at different states online legislation you will see the level of tech is very poor. I would say it's around 2000-2001 standards even if the platforms are newer.
The "free" program provided by tax companies only do the simple tax part. Nobody save tax using those free programs.
Why is being stylish so important in this context? If she were not stylish or conventionally attractive, does that detract from your opinion of her?
vidro3 says: "Now I feel like a jerk asking about something that I know is likely a silly error but I just can't see it."

Whenever I need it! I recommend that you phrase it just as you have here, i.e., "I feel foolish asking about this, its probably a silly error, but I just can't see it!"

This kind of thing happens to everyone, especially in an environment with interruptions where you cannot concentrate for long periods of time. Just to make it even more interesting sometimes, when you're explaining the problem, you'll suddenly realize the solution too, without anyone else saying a word! Its as if there's a different problem-solving mechanism that is invoked by talking through the problem.
Here's another potentially related issue: "memory palaces".

I tried memory palaces, place this there, place that here - but really it just failed for me, I couldn't remember any details about the place. I've remembered a full pack of cards just by repetition before (a while back!) but memory palaces just didn't work for me at all.

Maybe that's down to aphantasia??
They didn't "try". They did. (I did not.)

Many times. Unnecessarily, as it turned out.
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It feels like 1/2 the commenters here have aphantasia. Just how common is this, anyway?
Seconding this. I wish more people understood that "lobbying" is largely making a case to congressional staff, not another word for bribery.

And half the problem is that we need more lobbying, not less.

Donor access is an issue, but I think the larger problem that no one knows how to address with campaign finance laws of any kind is that someone with enough money can simply use that money to hire an army of persuasive people, much as you described.
> In 2011, for example, Georgia enacted a strict immigration law that targeted undocumented workers and their employers. Later that year, the state reportedly lost eleven thousand crop workers. To fill the gap, officials established a program whereby nonviolent offenders nearing the end of their prison terms could do paid farmwork. The program had few takers, and many prisoners and probationers who did try it walked off the job, because the work was so hard. Georgia farmers lost more than a hundred and twenty million dollars.

> “It’s very expensive,” Wishnatzki said of the process of getting visas for temporary agricultural workers—they are issued under a program called H-2A —because of all the red tape and the cost of housing. (“Expensive” is a relative term: H-2A workers are still among the lowest paid in the country.) “But at least it guarantees that we have workers, so we’re able to plant a crop,” he continued.

Farmers now have to actually house and pay their workers instead of giving them scraps under the table for back-breaking manual labor under the brutally hot Georgia summer sun? It's difficult to sympathize, to put it lightly.
Get them to join PBS Passport, as well! (:

https://help.pbs.org/support/solutions/articles/12000012972-...

Disclaimer: I work for a PBS member station.
Obvious to everyone except me, it seems, so obvious that it's never mentioned by anybody, is: What about databases?

The answer could be, "Well, obviously, it's not for database-backed websites", or "Obviously it's perfect for database-backed websites, because now you can use their X feature for your database", or "Obviously, you use some other company to host your database but Netlify for everything else, which is a great improvement because...", or whatever.

What am I obviously missing?
I don't actually use any of these services so I had no need to, but just being curious, I downloaded the Windows client; and while it may be smaller than Electron apps and native, it's still quite large for a native app --- over 30MB, and also 64-bit only (why? Do you expect to need more than 4GB of RAM for this?)

To contrast, MSN Messenger 4.7, an app with similar capabilities (IM, voice, and video calling), is only ~2MB --- with several third-party reimplementations being <1MB. Makes you wonder how small you can make an app for today's messaging services if you really tried... they don't need to be that big even if they don't include an entire web browser.
While strawberries are a smaller market, they're also high value and under threat from decreased labor immigration and terrible conditions. If I were working on truck crop robotics, that'd be my first crop to look at (especially because the strawberry industry realizes they're in trouble).

Which are you working on now?
Far from it. Ruby blocks aren't really lambdas or anonymous functions. For example when you use return inside a block, it's not just the code in the block is being returned, but the whole enclosing function. And, you don't really "call" a block but yield to it. It's not even an object that you can inspect. It's syntax. It's really a new kind of control structure. Ruby blocks have few equivalents in other languages.
I am guilty of this. What I wish to see is a better device that doesn’t distract the attention from the road.

A better voice input so I don’t have to type.

The biggest distraction is a notification comes and you want to see what it is.

But you are right. The best soln is not to use your phone.
You see, the tax code is incredibly complicated but for the vast majority it’s rather straight forward. Predatory services like tax preparation feed on the fear and insecurities of average Americans by pitching taxes as some difficult task. In reality, one only needs a handful of pages to get their taxes completed and sent in. This process would be even easier if the IRS did it for you, but politics is not a career of public service, but one to reap maximum personal benefit. We have no laws barring public servants working for the same industries that put them into office so there is a massive conflict of interest, and nobody to do anything about it. The power is not in people’s hands and never has been.
Congress can't permanently bar anything. A future Congress can undo anything a past Congress does.
Assuming they do this right, I mean they won't, but assuming they did, I'd like to see something similar for Operating Systems.

I left my work iPhone 6 on while on vacation and returned to a dead phone. When I charged it up and powered it back on to be met with the "we're throttling your phone because of a power event" message. So I went on the adventure to nope out of that. Holy crap, Apple does not want you to turn it off once they've enabled it. And they apparently they enable it anyway they can because the phone battery is 95% capacity and it runs like a top.
It's really a problem for other businesses even more so than consumers. Productivity is probably halved while everyone is thinking and talking about taxes for several weeks. It's all I hear at work. I am surprised there is no business SuperPAC to fight against this.
Thanks for the support, everyone! If there's any other topics you're keen to read about, let me know as I'm keen to write. :)
We are not talking about real problems here. Reality is so far from linear, so path dependent, so temporally dependent that by the time you gather 10 data points to try and match some function to the function is already outdated and error prone.

This is infinitely truer for when you try and find absolute maxima and minima and not just local ones.
Either, you could even have both as options.

The simplest way to do it would just be to pause js 5 (or maybe 15) seconds after page load, and have a button beside the url to resume/repause js.

The devtools keep working with js paused though, so it should be possible to do something like have a onclick handler that resumes and starts a timer to repause the js.

Ideally I think I'd like click's to resume js for a few seconds unless they are clicking on a link (with a href that leads to another page). I'm not certain that would be technically easy but it seems likely it would be.
So... maybe it's time someone build (or fund others to build) a free, online, tax prep service. Something that handles all but the really challenging cases. Do it just to screw the people behind this sort of idiocy.
A relative of mine manages a huge .NET shop in Texas and has said the same thing to me many times.
The website price is rarely what someone pays in reality. Typically you buy it one year, at a store for some special price, and every year they mail you a CD with special reduced pricing to renew.

I paid $39 this year for H&R Block Deluxe, which took care of everything you listed above. Includes 5 e-files too, so you can share it with friends/family.
McConnell: Net neutrality bill 'dead on arrival' in Senate
For devices that are directly connected to the grid, I can somewhat see your point.

However, a large portion of devices on the internet run on batteries, and don't have huge quantities of reserve power.

Back to things such as desktop computers, though: am I supposed to close my browser before doing anything CPU intensive?

Someday, will I need to close StackOverflow to avoid negatively impacting the time it takes to compile my code? That's a trade-off I'm not willing to make.
Huh, wow. I was expecting this to be about deep-brain stimulation, but it looks like they used a non-invasive technique. And it sounds fascinating.

It looks like they analyzed peoples' theta and gamma waves in different regions of their brain, and tried to 'nudge' them towards staying in sync.

Theta/gamma/whatever waves are defined by the frequency at which the signal occurs, sort of like radio bands, and it sounds like this study presents the brain as a bunch of analog circuits which eventually develop stuff like noise and clock drift.

>Here we show that a core feature of cognitive decline may emerge from the temporal decoupling of neural codes theorized to constitute a flexible frontotemporal circuit for the monitoring and storage of memory contents of real-world information. The work supports theories of neurocognitive aging that propose cortical disconnection underlies age related cognitive decline...

Neat. Sounds like we need thicker wires.
If complicated taxes are a Republican anti-tax strategy, why did Reagan and the 1980s republicans pursue a strategy of vastly simplifying the tax code?

Doing taxes is a tax -- in hours and fees. Only the wealthiest people who can spend $10K on tax prep to save $100K via loophole deductions, oh.
Get rid of most deductions that aren't easily reported by third parties.

Problem solved.

(The recent tax bill went a long way in this direction by increasing the standard deduction)
"Breaking the law" and "infringing copyright" are orthogonal. It becomes the responsibility of the copyright holder to sue for infringement. In this case, however, it's in the copyright holder's interest to not do that: as a result of these documents being referenced into law, others must obtain a license (e.g. by paying a fee) to access them.

However, if the government acted as expected, incorporating a copyrighted work into law would necessarily place the work into the public domain, as are all other laws that were directly written into the legal code, thus removing the copyright from the owner. This, I suspect, would indeed result in a lawsuit against the government for attempting to reallocate copyright without due process (or some such legal complaint.)

When an engineering firm spends considerable revenue designing specifications that should become regulations, how should we compensate them and still maintain free access? I don't have any good answers myself.
All we need is a robot to eat the people that are no longer needed in the area.
Thus preserving our "beloved" private e-filing companies.

I've said it often, we are all mere resources to government, law enforcement and corporations.
There's several fine replies already. Another aspect to consider is that inheritance is tied up with polymorphism. If your B class inherits from an A class, then anywhere that an A is expected, a B may be supplied instead.

If another body of code entirely was written and tested using As, without knowing that Bs exist, it may not work if given a B, unless that B happened to perform exactly the same as an A in whatever (unknown, unknowable) ways matter to that other body of code.

An object's interface is its specification. But most objects are woefully underspecified, with types (if you're lucky) and perhaps a bit of prose explaining what it's supposed to do. Preconditions and postconditions are rare, laws and properties are rarer still. Languages that are able to test those things hold are even rarer.

My own recommendation is to inherit only from abstract parents, and if your language supports it, to make any concrete class final. If you need some behaviour to be overridable at time of use, apply the Strategy pattern. There's a cost to this: you need to implement Strategy, and you will not think of all cases where behaviour should be overridable. But the cost of random errors that crop up at run time is IMO likely to be higher.
I can absolutely replay music in my mind at will. I often will wake up with a song "stuck" in my head. But, I cannot visualize things. I cannot re-hear the voice of loved ones. I have absolutely no idea what it means to be able to re-feel/smell/taste. That is well and truly beyond my ability to comprehend.
I'm using it from https://superjavascript.com and the reason I picked them:

1. It's free.

2. Deployment steps are just push to git and you're done. Since I am using git anyway this is as easy as it gets.

3. Fast edge CDN (get's 100% on Google Speed Check).

4. https is taken care of.

5. DNS cname stuff is taken care of. and they didn't screw me over here, and let me use a different provide for email.
Except the tax preparation industry must be taking a significant enough cut to make it lucrative to spend money lobbying. Is that cut smaller than the total extra tax that would be paid due to mistakes in the auto filing system? I'm skeptical.
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It has information about RESTful API Designs, HATEOAS, Caching, Compression, etc.
Very useful
That's a fair position to hold but it doesn't scale. It's extremely hard to actually convince people to buy something regardless of how much they like it, doubly so if it's something nonphysical like online content.

I would also love to live in a world where I could just deposit some reasonable amount of money every month and have it fairly distributed to pay for all the things I love, but I can see that that's not viable in the real world. Having websites silently use my unused computer resources is a perfectly viable alternative to me in a way that forcing me to stare at things I don't care about is not.
No cloud computing training, no success
Any chance for you to publish it on F-Droid?
In Brazil it has been by software for many years, recently there is a mobile version.
For all tax payers.
Well, India's trying, maybe take a look there?
Mark Cuban has a TV show?
"[2] become less variable over the remaining time to expiration ... And it's just not true, as can be seen even in a simple random-walk model."

Dear @aubreyclayton, I'm genuinely interested in seeing how you arrived at this conclusion. Would you kindly share the proof, or at least explain the logic behind it. Thank you.
Every event is a one-off event. In particular the Trump election was the most one-off event in recent memory :)

Kidding aside, your observation is correct, you need to perform repeated predictions. 538 does just that. They keep predicting a whole lot of outcomes, so you can check their track record. They even have a challenge for the audience, where you can record your own predictions and compare them with their corresponding predictions (see for example [1] for NFL games). The scoring of the predictions uses the Brier score [2], which is just a version of R-squared for classification problems.

In the case of the November 2016 election, other prediction sites were giving the Trump team a 1-2% chance, 538 was giving them a 20% change. Considering that, 538 comes out as the clear winner.

Which brings us to what I consider to be the best measure of prediction accuracy (my own invention, it doesn't have a scientific name yet): you can compare two sequences of predictions (let's say yours agains 538) by simulating bets at some mid-odds level. For example if I say Trump's probability of winning 2020 is 45% and you say it's 35%, then I'm willing to give you 2-to-3 odds, while you're willing to take that. We then see who stays ahead most of the time in this betting simulation.

For what is worth, here's a recent survey of different scoring types for predictions: "Assessing the performance of prediction models: a framework for traditional and novel measures" [3]

[1] https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/nfl-predictions-game/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brier_score
[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20010215
Paying for access is a bribe. What confuses people is that yes it really is incredibly cheap to bribe Congress and get crazy high ROI, because Intuit can get organized (it's already a corporation with management) afford $6Million in bribes but Americans for sane tax policy can't.

This is what "moneyed special interests" refers to.
Of course IRS can go back to congress and revoke this..
Yes, this this make the GOP reps willing to sign on.

The question is: why we want this bill? It is not giving any benefit.

That's what "ban the IRS from creating a free e-filing system" means.
Spain was named by the Phoenicians after the huge number of rabbits they saw there. But they had no word for rabbit, so they used their word for hyraxes.

Which are, by the way, the closest extant taxon to the elephants. Which themselves are named just for their thick skin.
Annual strawberry sales are $3B in California alone. That's a heck of a specialty crop.

https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/statistics/
Do you have any details on the US driven sanctions regime in effect on Venezuela and its impact? Here is the official UN release [1] on the results of illegal US sanctions on Venezuela and an interview with the UN rapporteur for Venezuela.[2]

So these conditions are being artificially created by the US and its allies in another brazen regime change operation. How can commentators talk about 'suffering' without mentioning the sanctions? It's absurd to claim to care about 'suffering' while actively implementing sanctions at the same time.

Here is the latest UN resolution on the sanctions and their impact on the people of Venezuela. [3] And here is US National security advisor Michael Bolton openly orchestrating regime change and admitting its about oil. [4]

The same regime change playbook driven by greed cannot be executed everytime with the same results of millions of people suffering and entire countries destroyed and people playing 'innocent' everytime affecting 'concern' for ordinary people.

[1] https://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?N...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii5MlQgGXyk

[3] https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/Pages/NewsDetail.aspx?...

[4] http://time.com/5516920/inside-john-boltons-month-long-p-r-c...
It’s got a fair amount of volatility. The Reward (last 24h) 1,688 + 115.2 BTC https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/ So, 115.2 / ( 1,688 + 115.2) = 6.4% not 2%.

However, looking at historical data the current fees are well below the cap. https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-transactionfees...

Now, currently Bitcoin can’t scale transactions so extrapolation is kind of up in the air. But, in practice if it’s going to survive it needs to create value to offset the cost of mining.
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Or, just get rid of the income tax altogether as it's pretty draconian.
As I said in another comment this is about consent.

It's not that the testing the conversion rates of button a versus button b is in and of itself immoral, it's that experimenting on people without their informed consent, under any circumstances, is. I'm intimately familiar with FBs platform as a developer and a user and its my intuition that 9/10 people aren't aware of the degree to which they are being experimented on via multivariate testing and I think a reasonable person would say they have a right to be informed of this.

Another note is that after years of using the platform I can tell that when non-technical people DO become aware of the fact that their experience using the application is sometimes fundamentally different from others because they're in a non-control bucket they generally react pretty negatively to the notion. Sure, some of this is the standard "users always hate every UI change no matter what it is" syndrome but I've noted a lot of "this is creepy and i wonder how much it's been happening before" which is, imo, a super legitimate response, and shouldn't be disregarded because its inconvenient for fb to get consent.
My imagined hearing is bordering on hallucination, and by that I mean an imagined "un-real" experience that is so present and detailed that it can be hard to distinguish it from actual sound. I can distinguish it, but it's right on the line.

If I want to hear a guitar I'll hear it with all the clarity of a real guitar. I hear the echo of the vibration. The sound of phantom fingers moving along the frets. Tiny metallic sounds as dry calluses squeak across the strings. And my chest will swell in excitement at the rich sound that I heard but didn't hear.

To test this I played the first ~30 seconds of The General by Dispatch in my head, then compared it to a Youtube video. I haven't heard the song for about a month, but I'd say my memory of it was about 95% correct with only a few notes out of place and a small number of missing/added aural details. In fact the sound memory was even more emotionally intense than the recording, like the difference between hearing a song live vs. a recording.

I can only imagine how crazy this must sound from your perspective. I am a productive member of society and not some kind of crystal spiritualist.