skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is definitely a nuanced issue, and some people in this thread are being alarmist. Another legitimate issue that many people cite is that by creating a system whereby people can just click a button to pay their taxes is that it can cause people to pay more taxes in general by not fighting for every deduction that they can. People are complacent, and if they are told by the government that they owe some dollar figure, the great majority of people will just click the button and put in their bank account info to make the problem go away.

Say what you will about the greed of tax companies, there absolutely is merit in those arguments. However, there is also something to be said for the effect of large numbers of people being lazy and not fighting to keep every dollar they are entitled to.
If I understand you correctly, there is one in UK - Association of C and C++ programmers association (https://www.accu.org/)
I guess I assumed this was a blog engine or SSG of some like kind. After reading the article I guess I gather that I assumed incorrectly. Good article though and nice looking blog actually.
Link to audio:

https://www.npr.org/player/embed/708195702/709698927
I can say that any sort of auto play previews are immensely annoying. I watch more Prime than Netflix now, and that autoplay preview is high on the list of why.

Free content is similarly irrating because it's loaded with commercials that you can't even fast forward through.
This seems pretty in line with 18F's mission and skillset.
Yes, that's another good option.
Pinduoduo – Pandata
I have so many batch jobs that run on GCE. Can I run some of them on Cloud Run? I can only run HTTP services now. My use case is very similar to AWS batch.

Currently, I use GCE with create-with-container and Cloud scheduler to manage batch loads.
I don't think either of those are necessarily aphantasia. I'm an excellent navigator, and in general I know the spatial arrangement of things well. Likewise, though I'm pretty stoic about stuff, I can feel shame or other emotions about past events long past.
> Do you expect male CEOs to mention they pay someone to do their laundry and are abdicating their "domestic responsibilities"?

Um, yes, if they're bragging about how much time they spend working? It indicates that their ability to put in that much time comes from a position of privilege (i.e., having the money to pay other people to perform tasks most people would have to take care of themselves), and hence isn't a reasonable expectation to project onto people not in that same position.
If they’re texting, you can ask the phone company if their phone sent a text
We just like creating businesses for everything here. Someone needs to squeeze profits out of each segment. Like healthcare.
Student elections serve no purpose other than to decide who gets to wear the fancy jackets. Normally the election is rigged by having more money to give out free candy and make better posters. Sounds like someone just found a way other than money. If you actually cared about school smarts in a high school election, winning without being popular seems like a better sign of it.
It's an open question whether anything would change between a company giving you $12/hr and a company giving you $8/hr and the government giving you (the equivalent of) $4/hr as a monthly lump sum.

Income from non-salary sources aren't generally covered by flat tax proposals because they're so complex and the existing tax system would still exist to deal with them. However, for the vast majority of citizens, salary is their only source of income and their experience with the government becomes "how much can I convince the government to give to me" rather than "how do I try to avoid the government from taking from me".
The US is fundamentally more adversarial than other developed countries. Our political system reflects that. The Canadian way is one way to do it, but I don’t see why our way is fundamentally wrong.

Also this focus on the “merits” is misguided. The US is too big and diverse for votes to correspond very well to actual policies. By the time you get all the stakeholders on board with something the final result won’t appear anything like the original proposal. So we place a much higher emphasis on people, personality, and party than policy.

I’ll give you a concrete example of this: immigration. Canada is much less divided on immigration than the US. Here, you have one side calling immigrants criminals, and the other side calling for open accommodation of hundreds of thousands of low-skill immigrants illegally crossing the border each year. By contrast, Canada’s right is less vitriolic, but it’s left is also far less idealistic. Even Trudeau generally seems to support Canada’s point-based immigration system, which puts a heavy emphasis on English skills and education. That system would be m demonized as regressive and racist were Republicans to propose it here.

So what good does it do to vote for policy here in the US? You think anyone will hash out an immigration policy that makes both sides happy? No. So instead we raise money to go to war and try to bury the other side.
I would separate visual and spatial. They are not the same thing.

Part of the reason why I didn't realise that others are literal about being able to 'see' with their eyes closed is that I can tell you spatial relationships more precisely than most people I know.

I know and can recall where things are in relation to each other with ease.

E.g if you asked me to sketch rooms in my house, I would be able to reproduce it in a huge amount of detail even though I can't 'see' them,by walking through what is where in relation to what and plot it out.

If I draw from memory rather than from sight or imagination, however, - something I learned as a child without connecting the dots - was that I do tend to draw in a much more 'sanitized' style. Clean lines etc. As if I'm drawing a diagram.
Not the GP, but... It used to bother me, many years ago when my wife and I first started dating. As a result, I've always kept a framed photo of us on my desk. At work at first, also in my car, and of course nowadays I have thousands available on my phone. Working from home full-time, I have one of our engagement photos in a frame on my desk. I guess I just never put together before why I was doing that.
Why would you bother to switch somebody else to using Linux?

That's akin to trying to switch everybody to driving a BMW. It's not going to happen.

Some people don't have the time, money, inclination or knowledge to invest in driving BMWs. Likewise, some people don't have the time, money, inclination or knowledge to invest in using Linux.

The old joke about "When is it going to be the year of the Linux Desktop" is about as relevant as asking "When is it going to be the year of BMW on the road?"

As long as I can drive my Benz and use Linux on my desktop(s), I don't care what the next guy chooses to be happy with.
This book looks really awesome and I want to follow along with it in Java. I don't have the money to buy the book currently being a university student. In the style of r/RandomActsOfPizza, would it be possible for someone to do a RandomActsofBook and buy this book for me? I could pay the money back to them in a couple of months or pay it forward...whichever they would prefer.
I ride a bicycle with a helmet cam and I don't think the helmet cam has made me ride any less safe. It's quite rare that I'll look somewhere for the specific purpose of recording something. I'd fully recommend it to motorcyclists and bicyclists.

The helmet cam also has been quite useful for "post-mortems" of close calls. I can replay the video and think about what I should have done differently.
Fun fact in California: police officers are exempt from being barred from using their phone
It would be incredibly easy to set up a step by step flow to intake basic info or to confirm the numbers and hit send.(if not doing alway with you doing the taxes)

I can only suspect that this hasn’t happened because of strong lobbying.
Hardly, they are worshiped because they have good spin doctors and are/were attention whores.

Value creation is a dangerous proposition to measure people by, after all today's value is tomorrow stock market crash.
Nobel Prize winner argues banning CRISPR babies won’t work
> 40,000 people die every year on our roads.

We're largely talking about only the US market here -- in which only (and I say that word relatively) 37,000 people died in any sort of automobile related accident last year.

To put this in perspective, the common Flu (a totally vaccinatable, preventable, and treatable illness) killed about 52,000 people in the US last year alone.

According to the CDC, in 2016, 10,497 people (or 28%) of all automobile related deaths were alcohol-related deaths. Another 16% of automobile related deaths are attributed to drugs other than alcohol in the same year. That accounts for just about 44% of all vehicle related deaths, leaving the true automobile related deaths due to accident at a low number (relatively) of about 21,000 people per year.

According to the CDC, about 3,477 of all automobile related deaths were caused by distracted driving (of all kinds, not just cell phone usage), which amounts to around 9% of all automobile related deaths.

Sure, that number is a lot of people... but it's not some insane cell-phone induced epidemic folks are making it out to be.

Anecdote: As a vehicle driver, I've seen some insane cyclists violate all sorts of road laws, including peddling through red lights and cross multiple lanes of a road without warning... that's just to say, let's not pretend cyclists are totally innocent in all this.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...

[3] https://www.cdc.gov/Motorvehiclesafety/impaired_driving/impa...

[4] https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/distracted_driving/in...
I would not limit it to “large” online operators. Just make it a rule governing all websites hosted or otherwise based in the United States.

Little guys shouldn’t be given a pass on following the rules.
"It could also submit pre-prepared tax returns for people to approve and then file based on the salary data the agency already has."

That's the dream. Put the onus of doing the calculations on the government, and you get the right to disagree if you find fault with it.

Wouldn't that be great!
You're probably right.

I work with adults doing art work quite a lot. They are often upset that they can't just do it, they've not tried before, or last tried decades ago, but some how expect to just rock up and be great at creating something "artistic" without doing any practice or learning towards it.

I'm one of the "omg I might be aphantasic" set here today, but I've never really tried picturing things in that way I don't think, so perhaps I can but just haven't learnt to.
So wait. Your defense of being forced to pay $$$ to a third party company to data mine your info in a convoluted, frustrating and expensive process rather than using a free, simple, fast service is that maybe possibly it will be SO convenient and friendly that some people will elect not to bother "fighting for every deduction that they can"?

https://www.npr.org/player/embed/708195702/709698927
Why do regular citizens even file their taxes in the first place? The IRS has everything they need, from W2 to financial statements from brokerages. All of this filing is required by law anyways. Do it for me and send me a bill or refund.
That, and also insensitive to builds you might have done of other versions of the source code, etc. I.e. it's not affected by "files left behind" that would require you to do a clean build and lose incrementality.
It's an assumption. Would be happy to be proven wrong if you know otherwise.
Lazy, really? The average person has enough crap to worry about to figure out tax forms. We shouldn’t require effort when much of the process can be automated.
The copy on their product pages is also incredibly deceptive. Buying "Intuit TurboTax Deluxe 2018, Federal with State + Efile" means only the Federal Efile is included, and additional charges are involved with a state E-file. People should be filing complaints with the FTC
My computer is at maybe 20% resource utilization while I'm browsing the internet. Resource utilization only becomes a problem once you run out of resources; there is zero difference to me between 20% and 40% resource utilization other than very minor factors like a negligible increase in power draw and my fans spinning a little harder.

Of course people could (and do) build malicious mining scripts that try to use way too many resources, just like people could (and do) make malicious ads that spam you with INCREASE YOUR DICK SIZE BY 20 INCHES IN 5 MINUTES popups, but that's not an inherent problem with the model itself.
The text of the law is what matters, and it's pretty clear that

> Any large online operator that engages in any form of behavioral or psychological research based on the activity or data of its users shall disclose to its users on a routine basis ... any experiments or studies that user was subjected to or enrolled in

means that every A/B test needs to be disclosed.
GhostBed+vs+Purple+Which+Is+Better
What's your setup like? I've been looking around to set something like this up, mainly for being able to do quick fixes on the go. (Or use my iPad when I'm on holiday)
I am a paramedic with very limited visual imagery. I hadn't really put two and two together until you mentioned it, but I suspect this is a significant advantage.

It would be interesting to study vividness of visual imagery and PTSD in first responders.
Wow, so this means someone could theoretically buy out the House for <$1b?
I'm now going through a process of realisation that is explaining my struggles with learning to draw! I sit down pencil ready, but no 'inspiration' comes and I can't think of what to draw.

I now realise I have not actually been able to visualise in my mind's eye (I can see vague shapes/colour but can't bring it into focus) and have to constantly measure or 'guess' at drawings. I've been wondering why many artists seems to be able to draw 'on the fly' or copy things so quickly where it takes me many checks and measures (which is improving in speed over time with practice).

It has left me feeling like I have no creativity or inspiration, but not being able to visualise explains a lot and gives me an avenue of focus to work on.

Can anyone provide good resources for developing visualisation capability? It appears from comments here it might be a condition that is treatable?
Do you really think that statistically noticeable numbers of people would do that and have perfect opsec preventing those perfect unique identifiers from being linked? I mean, even software developers tend to whine about paying $5 for an app which has far more immediate rewards.
Gotta give the article credit for the interesting perspective. This is something that I've had to deal with on a personal scale when getting clearance but I would have never thought about it like this on a national scale. A data-set containing information that could be readily used to blackmail US citizens being in the hands of foreign governments is exactly the kind of thing that keeps our government up at night.
Credit Karma's "free" tax return service has been a surprising lack of unpleasantness. Other than having to a bit of manual copy/paste for certain income, it's a breeze for my relatively uncomplex return.

I'm not exactly certain what they are getting by providing this info except advertising for more CC and loans. One of which I used and reduced my auto loan rate(this was also to get it out of Wells Fargo's books).
I wrote a computer program which proves this article is wrong.

It avoids exponential runtime by assuming that because newspapers mostly make a mishmash of science articles, that you only need to look at some of the words before deciding whether they made a mishmash of this article.
It's not 100% true, but it's quite true.

...
No, thanks.

I don't like being told what my moral obligation is. I'll figure that out for myself, thank you.
> I think blocking mining scripts is a step backwards, hindering the adoption of something that could finally be an unobtrusive and ethical replacement for the failing advertisement model.

If the content on a website is just a vehicle for delivering advertisements, I would consider such a business model to be fundamentally flawed.

Swapping "delivering advertisements" with "hijacking my processor cycles to mine cryptocurrencies" doesn't exactly offer anything that would convince me to change my mind.

I'm more than happy to pay for quality content, but I'd prefer companies to be forthcoming about the cost involved in providing it, rather than turning me or my data into a product that can be sold to the highest bidder.
I agree that User-Agent is suspiciously leaky, but it's microscopic compared to JavaScript. [1]

It's unfortunate that browsers are privacy-insane by default. Luckily, with a bit of effort, most browsers [2] allow you to mitigate this with plugins (e.g. User-Agent switcher, Cookie/Referrer controller, and JS/Adblocker). Pi-Hole [3] can help too.

Mozilla should be commended for trying to improve the situation.

1. https://panopticlick.eff.org/

2. Chrome's days are numbered: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18973477

3. https://pi-hole.net/
TIL Jess Lee was Mayer's assistant
Courts have held that you can put a lot more restrictions on commercial speech: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_speech
Nope. I'm looking for 538's predictions. You cannot go from the raw data they used back to how they interpreted it.
Great, so best case it takes me 1.13 days to download. Why is this so hard? The whole purpose of a package manager is to know the dependency chain of any given package, yet that information is completely useless because nobody ever considered this simple use case.
Very innovative. I do a lot of excel work and web research with dual monitors. I’m constantly spending time moving my hands too much. Look forward to testing your product in the future!
Similar here. I can reconstruct spatial relationships from memory in great detail, to the extent that before I realised people are literal about being able to see things, I considered myself to be a very visual thinker.

E.g an example I often used is that I remember pieces of code by how they look on screen to the extent that the syntax and formatting is something I'm unusually obsessed with because it affects my recall, and that I remember pages from papers I read 25+ years ago by visual appearance and layout.

But I can't see them, even though I can recall them to the point that I know what they would have looked like had I been able to see them.
Look this clearly is not in the spirit of the argument I'm making. Why would I advocate for rules that restrict a websites ability to change? Again, im talking about consent when it comes to how your behavior is going to be used.

Further I would say that the parent post isn't even about this. It's about protecting the consumer and yes, I would go so far as to say that if the "change" that the websites want to do has violates the rights of the user then yeah they should be restricted in their ability to do so!
Yes, you're right that people in that camp are unlikely to review their tax filings from their 3rd party. However there is an incentive for that 3rd part tax company to save their customer as much as they possibly can. The bigger the refund, the happier the customer and the more likely they are to come back next year and give you more money. In the Planet Money episode they spoke with the Republican dude and his biggest point was that his goal was to support a system where people paid as little tax as possible, and this current system we have is just that.
You're forced to use Jekyll, though, and you're forced to use Github. Netlify lets you generate your site however you want and doesn't tie you to a git provider.
in my neuroscience days there were some students who literally attached wet 9 volt batteries to their heads while studying :) this was inspired by work on EBS. i cannot say if it helped.
Last.fm does this and has existed since the early 2000s. It had such a nice, active community in the audioscrobbler days. The community is a ghost of its former self after the sell-out to CBS, departure of the founders, redesigns that were reviled by the community, and advent of spotify, which slowly implemented many of the features that made last.fm useful.
Horizon Robotics – Pandata
I'm assuming you can wipe it (via itunes?) - it doesn't prevent that does it?!?

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You can't justify 140 hour work weeks with accusations of sexism.

At some point you need to face the fact that you are a useful idiot to the lizard class by only seeing sexism, even when women are being worked to death by other women.
Coalitional Instincts
Nothing about my proposed model is eliminates the adversarial nature of politics, or specifies whether people should vote along "merit" or on people/personality/party axis.

What it does is eliminate the ability of private individuals and companies to purchase time with a candidate. If you allow that, the candidate then will do what you want so they will get money for the next election cycle. It's just bribery with extra steps.

If they know they're going to get money for the next election regardless, no more or less than their opponent, they can focus on things that will improve the lives of Americans (their only donors now) and not private entities.

To your point, Canadians don't have to deal with much illegal immigration (except 18,000 [0.05% of the Canadian population] annually that cross into Canada from the US to escape the Trump administration with smugglers paid $4000USD+ to bring people up North. Many lose limbs and fingers and toes in the winter [1, 2] -- 1 in every 1000 Canadians is now an illegal immigrant who fled America). That's not really relevant to campaign finance, though, it's just horrifying.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/24/canada-vermo...

[2] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-asylum-seek...
Make GPU acceleration work, 1080p YouTube videos play under Linux and I'll consider it.
So now I have to visit the target, then schlep back to the source, then back to the target again. What if it is several hours away? You know, the kind of place likely to not have an internet connection to do it itself?
How to Understand the Image of a Black Hole [video]
> By preventing people from becoming alcoholics, you prevent them from losing their freedom

Why shouldn't it be their right to lose their freedom if they choose so?

Even if you argued that it should not be their right to control their body you would still also have to argue that the side-effect (which restricts the freedom of people that produce alcohol in a way that leads to everyone having to pay much higher prices) is acceptable.
Sorry I'm not sure of the relation to antibiotics, but Hypnagogia is something even aphantasics experience. It's typically more involuntary than not, so it's grouped with dreams rather than visual imagery/thinking.
I agree with you but personally I dont see how its so onerous for blizzard or rockstar to tell me in plain language what it intends to do with its behavior tracking (or really that its tracking my behavior at all.) For me this is about consent, and I'm willing to consent to things that I'm made aware of. I mean, I'm a software developer too, I know there are legitimate use-cases here.
To be fair, the ones I specifically remember were various browser extensions and plug-ins that would modify the browser version of Slack's official client.

However, I could have sworn there were a few full-fledged clients that Slack didn't like. I feel like one of them was a terminal-based client.
Sure, some functions have no global maximum. But the comment I replied to claimed a theorem that every utility function on infinite search space has no global maximum, which isn't true.