skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would be better visually if bars' lengths were interactively changing as you switched tabs, like what Hackerrank does.[1]

[1] https://research.hackerrank.com/student-developer/2018
Ouch, please don't call names like that on HN. It breaks the site guidelines and mars your otherwise fine comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
it turns out that even mp3 encoding audio doesn't actually stop it being audible to other people nearby when played through speakers, the headphones on the other hand, mean only the wearer can hear it...
That's great, but Google seeks to compete with and destroy many users of GCP. I spoke with a pharma CEO who, having no background in cloud, said straightforwardly that he would never even consider letting workloads onto GCP. Google as a business can't be trusted. It's like FedEx deciding to make widgets after seeing how many widgets get shipped. Oracle never did that. Google does it all the time.
> Average != median

Unless given an explicit definition, the word "average" has been abused to an extent that it's currently meaningless.
> Urban areas were the most racist

This the most unexceptional, unoriginal wrong talking point that always comes up in these conversations. I've heard it my entire life growing up in the south, and it constantly betrays the OP's actual experiences when dealing with this matter.

It's a southern apology. And a really dumb one at that, fueled by a bitter "us vs. them" mentality ripe everywhere in the south.

There is absolutely no data point supporting this position. Not one. People who live in cities and metro areas are consistently significantly less racist than people who grow up in homogeneous communities, especially compounded if that community is a rural one. What fits both of those criteria? Generally the south.
Is it though? I heard that when ATMs were introduced, and tellers are still around. There's no shortage of banks in my town, each surely stocked with tellers. What's threatening tellers now?
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Isn't this something that content blockers like umatrix already excel at? Why put it into the core of Firefox?

I would prefer to see Firefox giving more power to extensions. For example, it is still impossible to make an extension that makes a typed in url use https per default. Because it is not possible for an extension to know if a network request stems from the user typing it, using a bookmark or one of the other many ways a browser can be triggered to do a network request. So typing urls in Firefox keeps being dangerous because it will load the url per http by default.
Between those, tic-tac-toe learning systems, the various 20-questions things...

Later I played with various "expert system" stuff, then there was David L. Heiserman's "Machine Intelligence" and "Robot Intelligence" books...

I tried to understand early neural network stuff, but I could not get my then teenage head around it; in fact, none of it became clear until I took Andrew Ng's "ML Class" in 2011 as an adult (part of the key was understanding the role of linear algebra and matrix math in the system - among other things - that class was the first that explained it very clearly, and the use of octave was also a revelation).

Since that class, I've continued to play with ML/AI, mainly via a couple of courses thru Udacity (including their "self-driving car engineer nanodegree").

So - one could say I still have hope? Ha!
The pen. Seriously.

I used TurboTax this year, and honestly I was underwhelmed, especially when it came to the state forms. It didn’t really seem like it did much, and the California form experience were full of obvious bugs. Questions with no context. (“Enter city 2”) Questions being given out of order. PDFs being viewed through a mail slot. PDF forms where the entry blanks and the entries would scroll at different t rates, so you couldn’t read the form. It was super frustrating. The whole thing felt like a cheap unskilled body shop of a program, and made me want to just use a pen.
thats what privacy.resistfingerprinting is for
I care about security, fingerprinting, etc... but most people don't and they don't want to learn about it. They like pretty looking things, pretty looking apps, pretty looking browsers... Apple designs have proven this, there are cheaper products with the similar features yet people want Apple. You would think everybody knows this but Windows still looks like shit. Google has improved their design system a great deal. Logitech realized this and improved its designs a few years ago, now ask them about their sales. Better usability, simplicity and design will increase adoption. It's not an opinion, it's an overlooked fact.
Out of curiosity, do you have insight on how this evolved? Did the government go from requiring paper to offering an electronic equivalent?

In the US, the IRS supported an e-file system that basically allowed electronic versions of forms to be submitted, but it was arcane enough that a cottage industry developed to assist users in prepping documents for e-file.

How does Finland support tax preparation services; what sort of facilities do they offer for people filing on behalf of others?

Even if the US went to an IRS-pre-filled return, there would still be room for third-party tax software that improved on the user experience, so I think if the IRS supported direct filing of taxes it would also be good to preserve the ability for software or designated parties to submit information on the taxpayer's behalf.
So what are we doing about it? Climate Change is the greatest threat to humanity yet we keep on using fossil fuels, we keep on emitting carbon gases that worsens global warming.

Just leaving this here:
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The problem with inheriting from list and dict in Python
I would make a distinction between typography and font rendering. MS has some nice type faces, made with a lot of love and care.

But after reading this http://www.antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/index.h... you can only conclude that font rendering could be a lot better... I bet it isn't because of 'legacy'
I wonder too. I'm completely convinced it will take top-down control by governments or nothing will change. There is absolutely no reason to believe the "will of the people" will do the right thing now for the first time in history.
Harsh criticism for Couchbase, to win that poll by beating Oracle.
Which are the most patient countries in the world?
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>I wonder what more it will take to have something actually be done about this, haha.

It's the CFC/Ozone Hole problem[0], all over again; only at a much larger and far more damaging scale. Humans, despite all of their best qualities, are still going to human.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorofluorocarbon#Environment...
Heck, I'm looking at this survey and wondering if I should put Python on my learning queue. It does seem to be in use across a lot of disciplines, including some of the most popular emerging techs.
Do I read it correctly that fingerprinting is blocked purely with a script/domain blacklist?
Finding Property Tests (2019)
There are multiple technologies for WPS: signal strength, fingerprinting, propagation models, angle of arrival if there are multiple antennas and time of flight.
Yeah you guys are fucked
SO has a somewhat "niche" audience- most of the MS stack has a single source of truth about documentation (and it's detailed). People using MS stack are also the people using MS SQL Server.

Btw, do you know if the MS SQL server perf analysis tools are available for linux?
I agree with you. I'd be very happy if they announced that all uMatrix functionality was being added to the browser. I'd be happy to have overlapping functionality for now if that's the future.

My biggest disappointment is that this doesn't do anything new. My secondary disappointment is that this will make my life a little harder when I can't get a website to work. I hope you're right that this means I eventually won't need to install a plugin for uMatrix functionality.
> We asked respondents to evaluate their own competence, for the specific work they do and years of experience they have, and almost 70% of respondents say they are above average while less than 10% think they are below average. This is statistically unlikely with a sample of over 70,000 developers who answered this question, to put it mildly.

I'm torn here. It's hard to correct for bias. It would be like if a bank had a survey and had people rate their financial stability - but they had to have an account with the bank to participate in the survey. Wouldn't that bias the results in favor of financially responsible people?

I'd be interested how many 0 rep new accounts with lots of downvotes claimed high competence vs. established accounts. It could very well be that people with SO accounts who are willing to take the time for SO's survey are the type of people that are more competent on average than developers that don't have SO accounts and don't participate in surveys.
Sorry but I think the verbiage needs cleaning up. A model can predict a new phase of matter, but not discover it. E.g. dark matter has been predicted, but not discovered.

All models are by definition abstractions and approximations (except perhaps the lonely H atom) so there is absolutely room to be wrong about predictions.
I have used Credit Karma Tax since it came out (I think this year was 3 years) and it has been a great product and is free for both federal and state filings. Doesn't support some more complex scenarios, notably partial year and multi-state returns (you can still file your Federal return with it, though).

Edited to add additional details as to what isn't supported.
Hi, I'm not the OP or connected but do work at Mojeek. We respect your privacy like DuckDuckGo but have our own search index and crawl the web like Google.
Personally I've had B of A for years, they offer a variety of products but I've found them nickel and diming me while offering practically zero interest on the savings I leave there, lest I incur 5 dollars monthly for not having 300 bucks in savings.
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But is it really free? Or are you just paying in a different way?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/03/07/when-ta...
Well, yeah. I was just assuming that the enterprises must want support? Because why else would they be so up in arms? As you correctly pointed out, they can download and use Oracle's JDK for free. So if they don't want support, then I really have no idea at all why they are raising such a stink?
I was very surprised Diane Greene was pushed out and then Google brought in an exec from Oracle of all places. No CIO wants to hear a vendor is following the Oracle playbook which is basically: hire really aggressive sales people who overpromise and win deals at any cost, and then, when customers are locked in, make them pay through the nose for it.
I know we can use OCR but just thinking about how festival lineups are often an image with a crazy font for different bands and yeah the exclusivity or underground elements for this hurts my head. I shall investigate the alt text for festival lineup images
I love minimalist design, but have never understood the point of Tufte CSS. I find it baroque, without a clear design idea (just look at all those font sizes, combined with their apparent non-relationship to padding, for example at those Hacker News quote notices), and quite hard to read.
That's a strategy that is clearly not working out for them.

Based on:

https://www.skyhighnetworks.com/cloud-security-blog/microsof...

AWS holds 41% of the market. Azure 29.4%. GCP 3%. So barely more than a tenth of the second place cloud's size.

For a company with Google's brand recognition, and a cloud platform that has been going for that long, that's not great market penetration.
Please do not take HN threads further into flamewar, regardless of how provocative another comment was. Personal attacks in particular will get you banned here, and your comment contained at least two.

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I am not bitcoin proponent, however to be fair I wouldn't judge only one side.
The World's economy is currently based on assumption of constant growth therefore it is going to be catastrophic as well. I have no hard data but look how much resources the present monetary systems consume, that including cost of running air-condition in any big financial hub offices.
See https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-09439-9 for the original paper
Is this like working/collaborating on glitch.com/codesandbox (auto building, hot reloading) BUT being able to do it offline (train,plane dev) and then just push with one command ?

I guess i can see the value since i do realise im dependant to my internets connection to do some dev this last days (im a hacky ceo).
Just explaining, not taking a side: it's probably a reference to "embrace, extend, and extinguish". So "phase 2" is "extend".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
> contrary to common understanding, it is perfectly valid for more than 50% of people to be above average. Average != median

For this kind of question ('is X above/below average?'), however, I would expect that people are _actually_ thinking of the median.

Consider a high Gini-coefficient country, where the income distribution looks like this: 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 6, 999999.
If you ask people 'is the person earning 5 above or below average?' they will say he is above average, even though he is actually above the median and below the average.
> How does this compare with the medieval warming period as far as impact on agriculture?

It’s been so dry in germany that river levels sunk far enough to make so-called hungerstones visible again. These mark historic low levels that are associated with severe droughts and starvation. The fact that we’re not starving is a testament to how much modern agriculture improved our resilience, but there’s a limit to that.

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungerstein_(Wasserstandsmar...
[answer to a flagged comment] Not really, I think the unfortunately monickered mr assblaster makes a valid point free of bias. We are in an era of unprecedented imagery and data access for the first time. We don't know if the last few years when this technology evolution happened overlaps with outlier weather events. There may well be effects from tripling the atmospheric carbon too.
I do not believe this would be possible. If we stick with 70 degrees being the max temperature of the GPUs^, as we increase the number of GPUs then the coolant will approach 70 degrees but not go over, hovering from 69-70.

To break it down, if you have a comically large stove top heater set to 70 degrees and a regular sized one set to 70 degrees, if you put a pot on either the max temperature of the water in the pot is still 70 degrees. The rate at which it heated to 70 would change but max temp wouldn't.

^Max safe temp of GPUs is around 100c. What will actually happen is that the GPUs will heat the coolant to this temperature, then either the coolant will lose heat through normal means (when water isn't heated it cools), or if the coolant stays hot eventually a GPU will turn itself off through overheat safety mechanisms. Once this GPU is off the coolant loop will drop temperature for a while then slowly approach max temp again, until either another GPU gets turned off or the system finds its equilibrium where the coolant is at a stable temperature and no more GPUs are turning themselves off.
Can you elaborate on what it takes to "make the product offering more compelling for enterprise customers"? Is it a marketing exercise?
Chinese tech firms are throwing out applicants over the age of 30
It is inexhaustible in the sense that fuel is not the limiting factor on how many nuclear power plants we can build.
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Odd that Perl isn't mentioned anywhere, good or bad, in these results. It's usually at least in there among the Most Dreaded. Was it not listed as an option this year?
I don't much like the notion of farming out my "cryptomining blocker" to some unknown-to-me third party. There are a (small) number of sites that do cryptomining after asking for an opt-in permission (e.g. bit.tube). It seems to me that this is an interesting exploration of new, alternate funding models than serving ads, and I, for one, like to (sometimes) support these. I'd hate to see them land up in a blocklist I don't have some degree of control over.
I seem to recall that Matz, creator of Ruby, once said (paraphrasing) that he didn't try to create a popular language, he tried to create a beautiful language.

Python's creator, on the other hand, worked at Google for a while, and like Sun, Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft before them, schools and beginners are naturally drawn to things used by the big companies.
Isn't it normal to graduate college and move to another city for a job? I've never heard of anyone wanting to stick around the same city as their college friends before. Granted the Bay Area is a tech hub so that's a reason to stay if you're in the industry but living in a new city on your own is definitely an experience most people should have.
Authn/Authz needs to be integrated into code already.
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I instantly thought of the incomplete/error prone Zeit Now dev that was introduced a few weeks ago. If this(Netlify Dev) can replicate the entire system stably I might move on to Netlify Edge. Replicating and testing is a pretty big deal :-)

Offtopic, but can anyone explain the differences between Zeit Now v2 and Netlify Edge?
>almost everyone got a tax cut (>90% of taxpayers)

>>Not everyone got a tax cut

>>but if you're moderately well off, have more than one home, and live in a state that actually has a functional state government that provides services to their people

Would you say the percent of the population that fits that criteria is maybe ... 10%? I dont see why you would rebut "90% of people got a tax cut" with "well people who own multiple homes didnt."
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Interesting that WordPress is the most dreaded tech every single year for the last 3+ years, yet WP "market share" is increasing every single year (it's now powering 1/3 of the web). Is it a disconnect between developers and non-developers? Is it just that developers don't like to work on "boring" tech, and working on WP is not a super-great resume builder? Curious to hear what people think.
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One of the biggest benefit of government provided returns is they already have a bunch of information on you so it can come pre-filled. And for a lot of people all they need to do is sign and send back.
I don't use Nu-Opera, but when I used classic Opera the main selling point for me was not needing extensions. I have neither the time nor the expertise to curate extensions and stay up to date with new browser trends. Built-in features mean that I'm only trusting one entity rather than entrusting my privacy to a half-dozen individuals or small teams, it means that there is a stronger guarantee of maintenance and not breaking, there is a stronger guarantee of inter-op, and when something breaks I have one place to complain to rather than wondering if it's an obscure interaction between three pieces of quasi-independent software. The overall experience was much more seamless than what it would take to collect the equivalent set of feature into Firefox.

... the "trusting one entity" was a big part of the sell for me originally, and it a big part of the reason not to use Opera anymore. The company was purchase by a Chinese investment firm, which I'm a little light on details but seem to recall them being heavily invested in advertising.
Even if they are, could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News?
Kudos to the Visual Studio Code team for all its success.

VS Code and TypeScript, are kinds of technologies and tools that just win entirely on their strong merit, in spite the image of who has created them.

.NET Core is getting up there too. MS has always been a developer friendly company but they are definitely earning mindshare back from non .NET developers.
Read the 1040 instructions, and follow them. This works if you don't have a complicated situation, such as business income or if you need to calculate penalties for shortfalls on quarterly filings. Have a CPA do your taxes periodically, then use last year's taxes as a guide for the current year.

Typically what I do is write a small program that asks the questions in the 1040 form, then gives me a print out of what goes in each field.

For my case, I have one source of income (employer), a couple times I've sold stock, and I have a mortgage, am single, but support my SO and her 4-year old grandkid. I've done my own taxes for the last 20 years, and only a couple times took it to a professional (once to H&R block when I sold stocks, and last year to a CPA). Both times the tax forms were exactly what I figured out on my own.
You have a point. It's not hard to imagine that actually using SO in the first place might correlate to you being an above average developer (among all developers).
My first machine was a TRS-80 Color Computer 2 with a cassette tape drive; compared to the PET, due to the "generation difference" (probably in the encoding method?) - plus Radio Shack - it's cassette storage was actually really reliable.

People are still pulling old software and data off of some of their old CoCo tapes, what little problems there are typically can be solved by dumping to digital file and editing in some audio software to clean things up.
You can just add all the percentages and divide by that number and you'll get the number you're talking about.
The adoption of Visual Studio Code by a large part of the respondents in just a few years is impressive (initial release was in April 2015).
No, there is some overlap, but most non-development tasks are not really toxic, just overhead.

I have to interview other developers. This is not a part of a toxic work environment (in fact it can prevent them).

Toxic work environment be entirely development, for instance if they put your computer in the bathroom I'd call that toxic.

I suspect most females mean some form of sexual harassment is tolerated. This is a big problem that men tend to culturally ignore.
Yes, I have the feeling the whole "replicate locally" goes in the wrong direction.

You're just lying to yourself when saying local is the same as cloud...
The game is 20 years old. I think the spoiler warning period has lapsed.