skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your example demonstrates my point. Your CEO made a terrible decision in making you switch. Your co spent much more paying people to migrate to something worse than it would have spent just ponying up for the license.
The benefits of weightlidting are very marginal compared to cardio. There’s very little weifhtlifting does anything for your body besides getting stronger. Cardio on the other hand increases cognitive performance, life expectancy, decreases chances of getting dementia and parkinson’s.
> I like the idea that laypeople might hear whispers among their tech-savvy friends that it's not considered "cool" to have a gmail address

I haven't laughed this hard in a while. How'd that go with convincing people not to join walled gardens like Facebook and Insta?
Does AI Get the Joke?
Large companies have been in the spotlight in the last 12 months for placing corporate interests above the interests of users. The use of 'dark patterns' (subtle, intentional UX changes with the purpose of driving user behavior towards a desired outcome) has been discussed as well.

It is now tax season and many were not as informed on these issues last time they filed as they are now. Looking at the online free filing process under the aforementioned lens generates new observations, discussions, debates, headlines...

Imo it's not so much that this is something new that's happening, it's that people are now aware of and pissed off about it.
In an attempt to avoid google, I kept a non-gmail address that I don’t administer, and instead forwarded it elsewhere.

The administrators of the account decided to outsource the smtp relay to google. It is ridiculously unreliable, and regularly sends “no such address” responses to my synology NAS (which emails me periodically).

Similarly, when I used gmail’s IMAP gateway for work, it was regularly down.

I’m pretty sure Google will succeed at killing email. I hope gmail also goes down in flames if they succeed.
Don't know why you're getting the downvotes.

Thanks for the TL;DR - as the site didn't work for me. Also, the analysis is spot on.
The version you're seeing is the freemium version of TurboTax. While it says it's free, it's attempts to upsell you into paying for filing.

The version that propublica is talking about is actually free for the whole service.
This exactly makes all the difference for me.

When I do anything even remotely exciting, I have harder time falling asleep. Not only that. I will also wake up 1-2 hours earlier and have very hard time getting back to sleep.

If I do something calming, I have none of this issues.

Watching movies is great. Think about something absolutely unrelated to your stress for 90 minutes.

And yes, my insomnia is stress induced. If I’m on a holiday, which I haven’t been for couple years, I have none of those problems.
Nurture Alone Can’t Explain Male Aggression
Whenever I travel somewhere, my yellow WHO vaccination card comes with me. It fills me with some pride that humankind set up a worldwide organization to aid health of both individual /and society/. It's a good feeling to be protected and protect others.

Is the yellow booklet popular in the US?
There's a good Planet Money episode about this, in case you like podcasts: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/03/22/521132960/epis...
Ask HN: How to Understand a Meeting?
Hi guys,

I have a problem when I am on meeting. I don't understand what are being discussed on meeting. I have read the material before the meeting. People are so fast when talking each other.

Any advice?
I'd caution about putting too much stock in calibration, though. It's worth noting that you can achieve perfect calibration just by giving each of n candidates 1/n probability of winning.
I expect any model where fb allowed payment for an ad-free experience would still involve them doing all that targeting for others with my data anyway.

That advertisers might want to reach me isn't especially relevant, because there's no situation under which that is a possible outcome for fb.
What a stupid reckless comment, do you have evidence this is in the realm of statistical variance if no then jeez what a pointless general reckless dismissal of a well researched article.
large scale human access to (and accessed) ring (after it's acquired by Amazon) video footage doesn't count?
Saw that on every page they have, not scrutinised the sanity of their code, but looks like it is part of their site template.

Also the site code - egads, 200+_ blank lines as a header, then clearly some extra padding blank lines here and there.
Huawei is a huge organisation, so it's fair to say that not everyone who works there is involved in mass surveillance, and not everyone is hell-bent on creating an Orwellian nightmare.

Furthermore, many western companies (e.g. Cisco) have been called out for being involved with "dodgy" things like mass surveillance in countries in the Middle East and Asia - but also in western countries too.

IMO it makes to sense to boycott Huawei any more than it makes sense to boycott Cisco.

And if you meant in a "red danger" sense, as opposed to just Huawei, then I think it's safe to say the west is well on its way down the slippery slope to mass surveillance and over-reaching powers - the press likes to make a big deal of how evil China is, but completely ignores what goes on at home.
California’s troubled high-speed rail project was ‘captured’ by consultants
So the solution to you is that citizens should pay for the privilege of giving up their right to privacy so that the government can pretend it's doing something more than it was before. What does pre check do that they didn't already know? It's frankly mind boggling that people aren't up in arms over how plainly silly the idea that the TSA makes you safer than it was too fly before. It's the same people with more toys, less training, and more stress. The solution is to make the security meet the actual risk. Current airport security is more about making money than it is about security.
Oh, it definitely will. Lack of sleep invites panic and anxiety attacks. When well rested they are nonexistent.

After about four years from birth you'll recover though and looking back you won't even remember anything so it's all good.
Because the company that decides to punish their CxO will have a hard time finding one. People job hunting at that level want a guaranteed golden parachute, whether things go well or not. And the board agrees to pick one of these guys up because that person will implement all the shitty decisions while leaving the board with clean hands. Everybody (who's high enough) wins because they all get their paychecks and bonuses by the time the cookie crumbles. And when it does you can blame the "dead guy", the same CxO that already took off with the golden parachute and is off to another company to do the same thing.

I know a few of these people, moving around in similar positions in every company. They are brought in as hatchet men, with full knowledge that it will be a fiasco. But before this becomes obvious everybody gets to tout cost savings, optimizations, etc. to get their bonuses. Then the person is paid handsomely to leave and take all the blame with them. Their LinkedIn profiles are chock full of 12-24 month stints at all kinds of companies with "successful" projects... until you ask someone involved with those projects.
Here’s a good point near the end of the article.

>On the cancer cluster question, ATSDR cites data from the Georgia Comprehensive Cancer Registry to make the case that there isn’t one. GCCR data from the past decade shows childhood cancer incidence has been below the state average here. GCCR’s Waycross-area data, however, doesn’t include people who are diagnosed at hospitals in other cities, as Lexi, Harris, Gage, and Raylee all were.

I’m a Georgia native but from Atlanta. I’ve never been to Waycross. I lived in South Georgia for about a year a couple hours away.

For anyone who read the Vidalia Onion article on the front page it’s about 1.5 hours north of here. There’s a beautiful college in Valdosta an hour away. The region is nice because it transitions into more of a Florida type of landscape.
> Bad engineers that have worked with the same system for three years are way better with it than super-engineers that have never touched it for at-least a couple of months.

It's when that bad engineer starts protecting "their" turf at the expense of the rest of the org in order to provide themselves with job security that things start to really go south.
Sure, but that would be fraudulent, and generates no economic value, so I've got no sympathy for that.
Boeing’s Homicides Will Give Way to Safety Reforms if Flyers Organize
Totally. I think that we need to start conceiving of email as the first widely used social network, in terms of the tendencies of large companies to try and balkanize the internet, and what a decentralized social network can look like.
No, being competitive and pushing down prices for consumers is not viewed as being anti-competitive.

Whether a company makes money or not is its own problem. VC vs bank loan vs bootstrap is the same. Build a working product that brings in enough money to profit before you run out of cash. It’s basically how every business started.
Really makes me appreciate the ATO (Australia). Free online tax filing has been a thing for quite a few years. You end up with an accountant only if your tax is somewhat complex, which tends to correspond with higher income.
So... He's missing a spoiler, and he only got what he paid for, nothing more? Oh. also his car depreciated an expected amount.

Nothing to see here but whining Twitter users. _yawn_
"Design" was in the title but I was hoping for a development tutorial. I know its just gtk, but I'm hoping someone with the project can put together a very simple python or js tutorial for making simple apps.
Why do low income people need any software to file taxes in the first place? If you just make a wage taxes are trivial.
I've had mixed-to-excellent Google support on their Cloud and Fi products, as well as my various GSuite accounts.

IMO what "you can tell" is that they have good support where you're actually a paying customer, and no support for their free products.
forgot which book I read about it in first, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9venin%27s_theorem
Are older engineers put out to pasture because they know better than to get caught up in all-night-no-break fervors?

Asking employees to do this is like asking them to extend a line of credit that you can't pay back.
I was literally stunned how MS Office team was announcing icon redesign for their suite and how some part of the community was mindlessly applauding this breathtaking change as improvement in their lives: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YplAU5myNP4

Sure, it's something that looks new and good - minding how current icons are having a rather simple style to put it mildly, but that's not a technological advancement like introducing Ribbon interface in Office 2007. And sadly, that's how MS, Apple and others are trying to portray all these barely significant UI changes - as features.

Don't get me wrong, good looking UI is important but I'd be happy if cosmetic changes would remain cosmetic changes and be treated as such. I can appreciate visual improvements and work by myself and I don't need, want to be instructed by marketing teams to feel "enthusiastic" about such changes.
Isn't MS making hardware now?
Google Gives Free Security Keys to Activists, but Not If You’re in Iran or Syria
I'm one of the PMs for Gmail and hang around HN quite a bit. This is my personal take, not an official reply.

It's simply not true we have no incentive to fix this. Here are a few:

Firstly, Gmail's success is entirely predicated on the health of the global email ecosystem. Gmail does not, inherently, have any network effects (unlike FB, messengers, any other comms tool of Gmail's scale). Email itself, of course has a huge network effect, and that is because you can email anyone in the world, regardless of what email system they use. It's because email is open. If we lose an open, healthy ecosystem with many providers, we'll destroy the base we stand on.

Secondly, we care deeply about having positive relationships with developers and all our users. I can tell you it definitely makes me sad to see articles like this. There are going to be false positives, we will make mistakes, but we certainly care a lot about fixing issues like this when we hear about them.

I agree Postmaster tools has been underinvested in and we could do much better there.
Here's Nader's original:

https://nader.org/2019/04/04/boeings-homicide-will-give-way-...
An archive of both pages in case they try to play the "revise history" game.

https://archive.fo/0WTCE

https://web.archive.org/web/20190423172440/https://turbotax....

https://web.archive.org/web/20190426004701/https://turbotax....
I think this highlights the distinction between book value and market value. GAAP accounting pretty much tries to value the net value of the company based on the holdings/liabilities that it is legally entitled to at that second. Because a Slack customer can stop paying at any time, it would be wrong to say Slack already had that money in the bank.

However the idea you point out is why on the stock market people value companies completely differently than their book value. It would be pretty interesting if there was a standardized balance sheet like document that could be made with projected value.
I thought the mafia was still influential in Italy, albeit less as a criminal organization and more a system of business cartels?
> well hey, my ribs are broken, my colon is falling out of my inguinal canal and I vomit every time I cough, but at least I don't have vaccine poisoning

Did she use modern medicine to treat the bacteria?
the most interesting thing in this S1 is that Slack has a dual-class supervoting share structure but has a sunset provision after which the class B shares convert to class A and all have the same voting power.
I know it's going to be an unpopular opinion in this thread, but my opinion is that email is one of the things that most businesses shouldn't run themselves.
There are Beyond Burgers in Safeway. We buy them every week. They are delicious.
WatchMe – Watch for Changes on a Page
> Apparently, saying "Hey Siri, whose phone is this?" will disable biometrics as well.

This does not work on 7+, at least. Nor does holding side button + volume up. Pressing the side button 5 times will bring up the emergency screen (just press "cancel" when it shows up) and disable biometrics.
If you have a single address space you don't need Spectre to be able to discover any aspect of the running system.
He’s been using the same IP address for his mail server for 15 years. It’s possible his IP is on a subnet range that regularly gets blacklisted by Gmail due to other actors on the subnet sending malicious email/spam to Gmail.
I had to stop at "quasi-experiment"
It's funny reading the comments in here; when this first got retweeted onto my twitter timeline I thought it was just a picture of someone's dressing table and the tweet was a joke about (lots of) men not being able to recognise makeup products ...
At what point did I say that other cars aren’t status symbols? I also singled out garage queen race cars in another thread.

But if you want to attack my vehicle choices; I ditched the Subaru when I left Colorado, a location where it was useful, and switched to a small sedan when I moved to LA. More reasonable, more efficient, and cheaper to operate.
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But why would you? “Hey boss I’m going to take up a bunch of everyone’s time getting everyone on boarded and retrained, as well as doing a nontrivial data migration, because some hot new email client is marginally better”
And Snap spends $400mm a year with Google Cloud, not to mention another $50mm on AWS.
Never Split the Difference: Summary and Review
even that is too much excitement for me , dim lights or total darkness and just silent meditation sitting on a cushion for about 30-60 minutes is what it takes.
I wish they would change the title of the article to powerlifting, not weightlifting. I blame the sub-editor of the website. It's correct in the article text.

Anyway, here is a pic of Oliver Sacks squatting 600lbs/272kg: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1200/0*3-yWU2in-5YvucmG....

Truly a renaissance man.
Maybe but it's not their main source of revenue like with Google and Facebook. So they don't have to go crazy doing unethical stuff in that area (privacy) which is what people tend to care most about these days.
Roll it back to the start of the 20th century.

Probably paints a pretty telling picture.
I'm a little confused by the thesis of the article, and how it relates to the title.

Unless I'm reading it wrong, this is the thrust of the facts:

* The Android design team describes their design process.
* In their description, they cite a paper that suggests giving people at least 3 positive experiences for every negative experience they have.
* That paper was debunked.

How does that translate to "much of the 'science' used in design is bullshit"? That bogus paper they cited doesn't affect the actual content of Android's design; it just influenced the team's design process. How is that bad? How does that discredit all the other things they talk about? The FastCompany article[1] linked from this blog post says:

> the CliffsNotes version is that Google creates design mantras from the point of view of the user, like “keep it brief,” “delight me in surprising ways,” and “it’s not my fault.” Each time an Android feature lives up to these expectations, they get a single marble in the good emotion jar. But every time they fail, that bad feature produces three marbles in the bad emotion jar. The marbles illustrate that bad ideas stack up quickly.

Even if this heuristic isn't scientifically proven, does it really result in worse UX than if you don't use the heuristic? I just don't get the vitriol.

[1] https://www.fastcompany.com/1672657/google-s-dead-simple-too...
It's not like you'd notice the email you're not receiving, so I'm always a little leery of these "it works perfectly for me!" stories for email stuff.
Hey, interesting! Have you seen dodrio from mozilla? Could be a good candidate for your diffing algorithm and improve performance a lot.
Sure, but obviously the middle finger should be the one that disables the biometrics.
FWIW it was a good bootcamp for me and helped me learn about the big lifts and what to use them for, but sleep, diet, and muscle imbalance are all left as an exercise for the reader. Wound up stopping the program to focus more on all those other things.
If you run your own email server check out Postmark's DMARC monitor, it's a free service:

http://dmarc.postmarkapp.com/

(tablix.org doesn't have a DMARC record)
Quote is from Maya Angelou
Let’s not occupy ourselves with establishing narratives. These are all stories and perspectives from which to view the world.

Microsoft has huge swaths of critical legacy systems held hostage. Governments, etc. How many of your tax dollars go to Microsoft? How much of their government influence is due to superiority of product versus lock-in, etc?
The article does conflate the meta tag and the robots.txt though (which means very little in the broader context).
This is regarding his bias. If anything the link is even more relevant. He repeated the similiar mistakes.
This is a reminder that coal, operating under regulation releases more radioactive material over a few decades than a Nuclear power plants worst failure mode.
Sure, though not enough to really be called a hardware company.

The comparison was between MS in the 90s and Apple now, as I understood it. At the time they might have been making peripherals, maybe? But not computers.
The blind spot portion is what I've experienced, but none of the rest. No flickering or even noticeable expansion. I was a kid at the time and was playing an FPS. At one point I realized that I could see all 4 corners of the screen, but a certain sizeable area inside it was not visible without me moving my eyes. It provided for an interesting gaming session, but did go away rather quickly.
Good discussion about the sourcing of that quote: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/5hcclh/did_s..., it's from a Socratic dialogue by Xenophon in his Memorabilia.

Here's one relevant quote from the Memorabilia:

ὁρῶ γὰρ ὥσπερ τὰ τοῦ σώματος ἔργα τοὺς μὴ τὰ σώματα ἀσκοῦντας οὐ δυναμένους ποιεῖν, οὕτω καὶ τὰ τῆς ψυχῆς ἔργα τοὺς μὴ τὴν ψυχὴν ἀσκοῦντας οὐ δυναμένους.

As those who do not train the body cannot perform the functions proper to the body, so those who do not train the soul cannot perform the functions of the soul. (https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Memorabilia_(Xenophon))
You'd have to make it silent, otherwise the kill switch finger would still confirm that the phone is yours, even if it didn't divulge the contents.
By finding a coach to set up a proper form for the lifts. That is, if we are talking about powerlifting, learning how to properly do bench press, squat, and deadlift. Internet is awash with materials about it, but each person is different and you really want someone experienced checking your lifts.

I have been somewhat seriously lifting for more than a year (~350 Wilks, raw), never had a coach and it's my only regret that I had not worked out the forms with someone early on. I didn't think much of the sport at first and was doing it just for fun. But as I hit heavier weights I had to re-learn all the lifts multiple times because the "canonical" forms I learned from youtube were often ill suited for my body structure.
I had my personal domain hosted with Google years ago. One of the reasons I moved away is that emails that I was sending to other Google Apps domains were bouncing as spam when the destination address was an alias. The bounce came from Google Groups, which is what Google used for handling aliases within Apps domains.

e.g. https://pastebin.com/u48DAaLP

That particular example was sent via SMTP, but I had the same problem when sending via the Gmail web interface, and it occurred sending to at least three different Google Apps domains.

After I moved my domain off Google Apps (I switched to Fastmail for a variety of reasons, but that issue was the kicker), I was able to send to those same addresses without issue. In fairness to Google, I was on the Google Apps free tier at the time, so there was nowhere to go for support.
Free is not possible. Someone needs to pay for email, servers need to be repaired/replaced every few years, the power bill needs to be paid, someone needs to ensure that the latest exploit doesn't compromise the server. You are paying for your email, the only question is how.

I use fastmail because the payment is direct: I give them a few bucks each month.

With free email (gmail) the payment is not direct. They are doing something to get money, but what is unknown.
"Lord of the Crates" doesn't quite have the same ring to it
This is directly related, I think. One reason the IRS hasn't made it easier is a deal with the industry group "Free File Alliance", which essentially privatizes this (indeed, the page TurboTax is hiding here is their Free File page).

However, while 70% of taxpayers would be eligible for free filing, in practice only 3% do — no doubt because tax prep companies make it so difficult to find and use this option. These companies are offering products like this as a carrot to prevent the IRS from competing with them, and then deliberately making them as difficult to find and use as possible.

Source: https://www.propublica.org/article/congress-is-about-to-ban-...