skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a stupid article that's (a) only trying to create drama, and (b) by someone who doesn't understand Wikipedia and its rules and guidelines, and (c) doesn't even try to understand those before writing about it.

I mean I usually criticize Wikipedia heavily, as well, but this article is embarassing.
I'm far more into cardio that weightlifting but your comment that weightlifting "does [nothing]... besides getting stronger" is demonstrably false.

> All participants were given cognitive tests at the beginning and end of the study and 12 months after they finished the study. The group that did the weight training scored significantly higher at the end of the study than at the beginning and retained that gain at 12 months. The gain in test scores was also greatest for those who had the greatest gains in strength. The scores of the group who performed stretching exercises declined somewhat.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/weight-training...
Yea but as you point out SSL is only as safe as the public key infrastructure it runs on. Backwards compatibilty is also an issue, afaik default setups below tls 1.2 can be degraded to the point where its only ~70bit encryption which can be broken by state actors.

I was told they have intermediate keys for certificate authorities(probably done legally with the ca permission), generate a new key signed with the real intermediate. This would be detectable as the cert fingerprint would be different from the legit legit one, while SSH checks for this by default SSL does not.

I have tried to detect the above and as far as I can tell they are not doing it, but I believe the people I heard more than I believe my ability to detect it.
Fair play.

I like my emails with pesto sauce, tuna, and cheese ... wicked combination.
Means someone didn't realize what they were writing.

"Based in Plantation, Florida" would be so much more digestible.
Correction: 100% of taxpayers are eligible for free filing, and 70% of them are eligible for free electronic filing.

The options out there for free e-filing are hardly any better than the paper option, though. They're typically just the paper forms translated very directly into an electronic fill-in form. You're still left to your own to make sense of all the byzantine rules and instructions, and to grind through it all yourself.

I know because, for the entirety of the time that I was eligible for free e-filing, I didn't bother. Using the PDF fill-in forms and then just printing them out and mailing them gave me very nearly the same UX, with the added benefit of not having to read a giant pile of legalese in order to figure out exactly how some third party is planning to make money with all the financial information I'm sharing with them.
Will do, thank you.
Many of the non-fiat exchanges don't do KYC. I've signed up to a bunch (and was able to trade, subject to certain volume limits) with just a burner email address and Google Voice number.
I actually think this work is genious. Although I cannot understand it.
The government has a copy of your W2’s and 1099’s so they know how much you make. It’s a shame that the government didn’t make 'ReadyReturn' [0] the new way of filing taxes where the government sends you a packet of all the tax information they have on you and you simply make corrections to it. Many countries have something similar and it’s a breeze to file taxes. Only in the US do people hate filing taxes.

Intuit lobbies hard to make taxes as difficult as possible. Their rational is that they want people to hate tax filing as much as possible so that they vote against taxes and taxes are lowered for big corporations like Intuit.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReadyReturn
Okay. About halfway through. (Philosophical reading is not an activity to do lightly. It's a bit like climbing a mountain.)

I advise anyone to put in the time to read the article, but as someone pretty familiar with Wittgenstein already, I'll try to condense it, and provide some lower level context through which more immediate everyday application of it can be made use of.

For starters:

There are two major flavors of Wittgenstein generally discussed. Early or Tractatus Wittgenstein, or late Philosophical Investigations Wittgenstein.

We're concerned with the latter.

Major points:
Language is a toolbox. Meaning is derived from assigning uses of language through "language games" to "forms of life". Language that cannot be traced back to a language game is meaningless, as the "language game" is basically a nominative signpost through which the underlying linguistic grammars and the forms of life the use of language is meant to represent intersect to confer meaning.

Meaning in reference to language comes in two flavors:

Explicit (surface) meaning: meaning can clearly be articulated grammatically; includes syntax, basically the "what you said" part of an argument with your Significant Other

Implicit: meaning communicated through living. Cultural meaning. The sun will rise tomorrow. You grab a towel to dry off. Know how. You do X which leads to Y, which leads to Z. The "what I meant" part of an argument with your Significant other. Just to make sure I'm getting this across clearly, let's use a Hemmingway story.

For sale: Baby booties. Never worn.

Explicit meaning: A seller is offering to sell something. The something is a pair of baby booties. The baby booties have the quality of never having been worn.

Implicit meaning: The seller is trying to part ways with a pair of baby booties. This suggests someone was expecting a child to be born, normally a happy occasion, but since the seller is trying to get rid of them with the quality of never having been worn, it suggests something tragic has happened; I.e. death of the child, or mother and child.

None of that is explicitly stated, but nevertheless, can be communicated through common experience. Explicit meaning derives from rules, implicit requires common experience to be communicated properly, and is much harder to formalize.

Now that you've had a crash course on Wittgenstein, let me try to condense the rest of the piece.
Breaking laws is not the same as comiting crimes.
iPlayer Has Lost to Netflix, Says BBC
Boeing bought Embraer.
Yes, for sure the whole approval process for the plane needs to be reviewed and repeated where necessary. But if it passed, it should fly again by all means.
What would you recommend as alternatives?
Thanks for your concern. It was not actually sarcasm but exaggeration to express my excitement.
Could you please review the guidelines and stop breaking them?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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It's been really helpful for quickly helping folks who have issues during the early beta.

It's early, so not everything is perfect—we're working at full speed to make improvements and roll out new features.
There's a bit of a nuance here - his grandniece was killed in the Ethiopian 737 accident [1] so it's personal at some level for him.

[1]: https://www.npr.org/2019/04/04/709999296/ralph-nader-calls-f...
Mafia is very much not defunct in Italy.
How is this different from urlwatch?
Just want to address one point: China (and the Qin dynasty) was definitely not a pioneer of authoritarian control!
Ah, I apologize. Good call on adding context. In light of that my above comment is not so useful.
How does this work financially?

I have a lot of vacant retail near me and they're nice spots, but the leases are all sky high. For whatever reason the folks making decisions about what goes in there are happy to sit and wait for yet another Noodles & Company or Chipotle, nails salon, but that's kinda it... and if not those places, empty.

I'd love to find good ways to encourage local shops and things beyond just the business with the highest margins.
> ... because the loss can’t be repaid.

It’s repaid all at the end.
That's not meat. Also, not every one likes that; will you try to force them to eat it via the vote?
Clojure 1.10 (actually Spec) does not work with GraalVM - but 1.9 works fine: https://github.com/l3nz/cli-matic/issues/64#issuecomment-485...
Not living in and avoiding visits to a surveillance dystopia also solves this problem.
Put another way, you're suggesting that "public investors shouldn't have access to loss making companies, regardless of growth". That would eliminate not just tech IPOs, but a majority of publicly traded companies period. Only 2700 (out of about 7500) currently make the cut: https://finviz.com/screener.ashx?v=111&f=fa_netmargin_pos&ft...

Like it or not, tolerating losses (preferably to accomplish growth!) has become a critical part of the capital landscape across industries. At least the tech sector is developing better metrics for comparing healthy and unhealthy growth, and generates enough growth (and later margins) to justify the risk in the first place. You'd be really disadvantaging small investors to not let them make the choice to participate at this stage.
Yeah, Teams is fine when it works, but it definitely has a lot of syncing issues that seem to last for hours and then magically resolve.
I just finished reading this last week. I can see where certain sections need to be updated as they are less relevant in today's coding world.

Some of the topics covered in the book grew and became more popular (Unit testing frameworks like JUnit) and some did not (Blackboards).
It is priced sustainably already. They lose money due to sales and marketing, which they could scale back to operate a profitable business (but grow more slowly).
It is not part of their site template.

The Turbotax home page has "yes, do index" meta tags. So does their deceptive "free edition" page at https://turbotax.intuit.com/personal-taxes/online/free-editi...:

<meta name="robots" content="index,follow,noodp" />

You've been tricked. Imagine how easily people who can't read source code get sucked into the wrong version.
Boeing was trying to build a new plane to fit the technical specs of a previously approved plane to save some cash.

Boeing's practice of cutting corners is why 300+ people are dead
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If you’ve got only W2 income then a 401k would be much more common. A normal IRA is “common” as well, but not nearly as much so I’d argue.

As another comment pointed out it could have been a Roth IRA, which has different rules. It could also have simply been some other oddity or quirk of the tax software at the time.

None of the specifics negate anything related to complexity vs cost.
"inherently safe" - for which definition of "safe"?
Once upon a time, people were allowed to express positive, personal opinions about China without being accused of shilling.
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That's ostensibly what I said wasn't it? Sorry but I can't tell if you were agreeing or disagreeing with me.
>I'm getting pretty tired of this story. I read an article a few weeks ago that mentioned CreditKarma has free tools for tax prep, so I signed up for it and I'm planning on using it next year.

This is exactly what I did this year and it went incredibly smoothly. It felt a lot like Turbotax, but Credit Karma was noticeably faster without all the confusing upsells (I did my and my wife's taxes in ~30 minutes, including three W2s and investment income from two banks; almost entirely within the iphone app).

Personally I think the writing is on the wall for Turbotax et al. Credit Karma got much better from year 1 to 2 and I predict it will be increasingly recommended in future years, starting a race to the bottom in the industry.
So a blimp?
Is this unexpected? Just like anywhere. 10% of the people are doing 90% of the work.
The way you see things leads to the society of today, where big companies have powers close to the state, and very little accountability.

If it's ok to accumulate immense wealth and power by misbehaving for 20 years, and just with switching a head and orienting PR, it's all forgiven, then why not keep doing it ?
One more reason to de-Googlify my life. AWS has WorkMail I think it is time to try it out.
Huh I didn't realize that ProPublica did blog posts (I'm used to seeing long articles from them, often with partners, like that great Katrina piece).

I used to be dismissive of newspapers re-reporting things that were not news. I probably would have been surprised to see an entire news article basically re-reporting a Twitter message and a reddit post. In retrospect though this attitude I used to have is unfair and mean. Who cares if the re-hashed reporting about the tax-filing industry's regulatory capture is brand new or just a reminder? Reminders are important.
Boeing has sued Bombardier to keep it from selling their C-Series aircraft in the US which ultimately led to Bombardier basically giving away the aircraft to Airbus to stop bleeding out money.
Now that I look at it again, there definitely is a wall in the back left. MCS succeeded where I failed because I guess I have an implicit "walls aren't interesting" filter that threw out the only positively identifiable object.
Can you definitively say that data collected from all the other Google BU's are siloed from Google's Ad BU?
Better than Skype for Business in my experience. It can even do video calls and screen sharing with the pro version
Didn't mean to imply that Google's stance is a good thing.

It absolutely should not be the case that you need a pal in the right department to get something done, but that seems to be where we are - our Politburos are just privatized.

Edit - My mail issue specifically is with WorldNet. I believe that's run by an ATT spinoff call "Maillennium", but maybe that changed. I don't especially care from a practical perspective; there is exactly one person whom this affects and we worked around it forever ago. I just see it as a barometer of ATT's interest in being a competent network operator.
"They are not as bad as they could be" is not an argument.
No it didn't, you uninformed person. The two companies are in talks about a joint venture, but it's not yet ratified because the antitrust authorities in several countries haven't finished their due diligence yet.
It has been a long slog to convince people that fly-by-wire systems can be trusted. Airbus has worked a long time to get the bugs out. (including some accidents, however failures in hydraulic control systems have caused accidents too)

In a modern fly-by-wire aircraft, "flight envelope protection" is deeply integrated into the control system. It is something that pilots are trained about; when the system is in a degraded mode because of a sensor failure, it tells the pilot, and pilots are trained how to deal with that.

Fly-by-wire brings large benefits such as a reduction in weight, lower assembly costs, lower maintenance cost, and better comfort because fly-by-wire can counteract turbulence. These are passed on to the consumer in the end.

To avoid any investment in engineering or pilot training, Boeing bolted a half-baked "flight envelope protection" system on when moving the engines caused a change in the flight envelope. Too bad they didn't tell the pilots...

I wouldn't say that the 737 MAX should never fly again but the plane should get a new type certificate and pilots should be retrained.

As a passenger one thing you can do is fly Jetblue because they don't have any 737s in their fleet. Also ask airlines about the A220 and E195-2 airliners. These are smaller than the 737 but feel larger from a passenger perspective and also have lower seat*mile cost. Try them out, you'll be impressed!
With Facebook the average person doesn't really lose anything though, whereas with Gmail is like the mailman decides to drop some mail in the garbage every now and then (and it is on you to also check the garbage in addition to your mailbox in case the mailman decided to drop some mail in there too).
I am looking forward to the Librem 5. I am concerned about the philosophy of "avoiding preferences" since deep control and customization of phone and application behavior is one of the draws of something like the Librem 5.

I would be comfortable with that philosophy as long as it's coupled with something along the lines of the Windows Registry, where it is common to find many preferences and configuration options that were simply not exposed in an application's user interface. But reducing the ability of users to adapt software to their needs without some countermeasure is chilling my interest a bit.
i called after paying 150$, i was a student for most of last years tax filing, they told me because i signed their user agreement im not eligible for a refund even though i qualified for free service
I don't think of traversing a hex path as following the "drunken" trajectories shown in the article. The hexes are just a guide to estimate distance; the trajectory "actually followed" is simply a line from A to B.

This article is about a weird, arbitrarily chosen, ultra-pedantic interpretation of the tool, and not at all about its practical use.
How to stop climate change? Nationalise the oil companies
The song "Prisencolinensinainciusol" has a similar effect: it's meant to sound exactly like American English to non-native speakers, but is actually just gibberish. Works amazingly well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8
The MAX has flight envelopes that are inherently unstable. The plan can get into a state where the aerodynamics of the plane make a stall worse, not better.

For instance, the fact that the center of thrust is further forward (compared to other 737s) means that the plane pitches up when you give it more throttle. The default response to a stall is to increase the power, which pitches the nose up, which raises the angle of attack, which makes the stall worse. This inherent instability is why the MCAS was added to the MAX.
I agree, I was trying to write the same thing. The body should be redesigned for the bigger engine.
> if we disagree we may ask you to pay more

The opposite can happen, too. The last time they disagreed with me on how much tax I should have paid, they mailed me a check for the difference.
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Anyone know what the chance of being infected is if you've been exposed to someone with measles and had both measles vaccinations?

As best as I can gather, the probability of being protected is 97%, but that seems to be a general probability during the average persons lifetime. I can't seem to find a number for when its known you've been exposed.
Bad takeoff performance does not mean a bad airframe. Takeoff performance and things like global warming (fuel efficiency) are often inversely related. No aircraft is perfect at all things. The big wings needed for shorter takeoff during a Nevada summer can mean more drag at altitude. Boeing builds for average customer conditions, not just the special case that is Vegas. (Altitude+heat+dry air = low air density = need bigger wings, bigger engines, and/or longer takeoff roll.)*

*There is probably some room here for a joke about how people leave Vegas heavier than they were when they landed.
I don't know why, but all of this "privatization" bugs the hell out of me.

Maybe it has something to with wanting to see my taxes being used properly, rather than going to a private company's profits. Maybe it's the abstraction; that'd I like to know that the workers I see doing the work for the government are government employees, and that I am, in some small way, helping them?

I mean, sure, with a private company that's still a thing - but maybe I also like seeing road crews with the city's emblem and such working on issues - not a private company doing it?

You know that here in the USA, there is virtually a single private company that handles emergency and construction signage in every state? When you see signs out that say "Road Construction Ahead" or the flashing signs on trailers, or even just some construction cones - all of those are owned and placed by virtually one company?

The name of the company is "United Rentals" - and while if you look on the back of those signs they may have different company names printed on them, when you call the number, it will always patch you through to the United Rentals phone bank/answering service. You might call "Bob's Signs" - but United Rentals will answer.

We can't even handle placing road signs out using public means and employees.

I'm sure somewhere in all of this, it was done as part of the whole process of breaking up (public) worker's unions.
The Ukrainian version seems to be a particular thing, at least for the Ukrainians:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/06/salo-ukraine-n...
Most combat jets "disagree". Most combat jets also have ejection seats for all occupants...
Stealing a line from from https://github.com/l3nz/SlicedBread - "..the over 400 rich pages of 'Java concurrency in practice' show how hard it is to write and debug a good-mannered multithreaded application in standard Java."
> Use your AI to put email into the spam folder. Refusing it outright is a case for the European Commission which hopefully will slap you another few billions of fine onto the wrist until you remember to play nicely with the other kids.

I prefer getting a bounce than ending in the spam folder by far. Lots of relatives on Gmail never look into the spam folder so I never know if they get to see my email or not and I end up having to ping them on eg. WhatsApp.
At least with a bounce, I know they did not get my email.
He he, this. E-mail rised in the 90s and was hugely popular very soon, because it brought real benefits. I was under impression that in today's world the number of emails is going down (on account of social networks and whatnot).
Isn't so much "highest margins" as "deepest pockets". I would think that an independent business can have margins as high or higher than a chain.
I still don't get the aversion and outcry at any sign of data collection from software companies. It just seems so cultish. Media tells you data being collected is bad so you grab your pitchfork.
If a company is collecting my data without my consent non-anonymously and selling it for profit then yes I don't like that. But why the outcry of a company collecting data anonymously to make a product I use regularly better for me?
The key takeaway here is that the public will decide if they want the 737 Max or not. Boeing may have to shift to promoting Embraer designs (which they now own) while it develops a new small aircraft the public can trust, if such thing is even necessary.

Public confidence in the DC-10 was destroyed after it had a series of related and back-to-back accidents. The plane was relegated to cargo status and Douglas never recovered financially, eventually selling to Boeing.
Your original comment was still valuable though because it makes people consider another, and important angle. Someone will probably do the math and show that even after considering statistical variance, this is still an outlier, but I feel like I have a more complete view with your comment.
I think you meant...
crappy content aggregator -> crappy content aggregator -> crappy content aggregator -> crappy content aggregator -> acceptable content aggregator
To me fixing gmail would mean fixing in-message quoting, so that it actually works, and adding some option to discourage top-posting in e-mail conversations that obviously don't use this style of responding.

Bonus points if the gmail webmail would re-flow quotations correctly and not break the lines inappropriately.

Hiding some icons fixes nothing. It's just a style chnage.