skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The underlying technology behind (almost?) all of these is TOTP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based_One-time_Password_a...) which pretty much just depends on both systems having clocks that are reasonably close to synced. The initial value is basically a random number generator seed, and given the seed and a number of iterations (based on the time differential from a set starting point) calculating a code is fairly simple.

There would be problems on fully-isolated systems experiencing clock drift, but on any modern Internet-connected system using NTP or on any cell phone with time synced to the network it shouldn't be a factor. The most likely problem scenario is probably a corporate network using only an internal time source that drifts.

Doing a single code as validation only makes sense to catch transcription errors since in case of problems someone could end up locked out of an account.
There's like a 33% chance the submitter (using an adblocker, like I do) didn't see any ads (like I do).
All of those things, though, are inherently hard to test in a way that's fair, representative, and not easily cheated. Anyone who had a reproducible, consistent way to evaluate which candidates are good at those things would be able to make a whole lot of money.
Yes they do. Gas stations have a Cash Price for not using a credit card. The ones who don't are just pocketing the difference because so many people don't think about what they're paying for.
His politics are more closely aligned with the right. In fact I can’t think of one thing that’s liberal about him.
Electric violin (by e.g. Ed Alleyne-Johnson) [1] imitates the guitar, as do Infected Mushroom's synths (cover on guitar [2] [3]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Alleyne-Johnson

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb2dWd2ssfA

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmkl1ym9pr4
So waterfall can be agile as long as everyone is on the same page about it? I'm afraid I'm lost.

Incidentally, it turns out I'm a late comer to the "stop saying agile" point–an author of the Agile Manifesto was saying that 5 years ago https://pragdave.me/blog/2014/03/04/time-to-kill-agile.html
So I wrote my own payroll software a couple years ago. I knew full well in advance how complex it would be. I spent weeks digging into specs (both state and federal). I tried to validate everything. There were tests. I still got hassled by the IRS and FTB for getting things. The FTB was especially bad, but even the IRS isn't too keen to help out.

I'm still trying to figure out how to unwind the mess with California. I've just been hit with this warning (after trying to log in, being forced to change my password, and attempting to find the landing page):

You are about to leave the EDD's Employer Services Online website and will be taken to the EDD's Employer Services Online web page. The Employer Services Online web page will open in a new tab.
Have to agree!
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True.

Which is why I put the disclaimers in the last two paragraphs ("If it is actually used" and "Don't ... trust this administration...")

The restricting scope, application purpose, and effective oversight are the anchor points and crampons that enable us to not slide down the slippery slope, but get to the top.
I believe the PR person have the knowledge by proxy, someone is directing him. I also believe that DHS won't give them sensitive information without requiring them to conform to the relevant regulations.

I can't say I'm certain it is fail-proof, and it defiantly can feel spooky but not everybody is lying to you all the time.

From the article the PR quoted, I arrived to the relevant executive order that facilitated this, section 8:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-or...
You're suggesting Julius Steicher shouldn't have been charged in the Nuremberg trials?

There is a direct comparison to the actions taken leading up to and during WWII and now. It's the exact same material being published again.

In fact in some cases it's literally the exact same "Jew pulling puppet strings of <X> from above" posters/ads as were in WWII. You can look up some of the ads Brexit leave campaigns have put out.

There absolutely is a direct plan to incite violence, check the emails. These guys just know if they don't directly say it they're not accountable.

One of a few Nazi Jewish puppet master posters: https://www.ushmm.org/media/emu/get?irn=542389&mm_irn=44098&...
One of a few Soros puppet master posters:
https://morningmail.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/soros-pup...

And of course a video of Bannon laying things out: https://twitter.com/brexit_sham/status/1117536807242149893
> but how exactly are Milo Yiannopolous and Paul Joseph Watson "dangerous"?

They are dangerous to ad revenue.

Maybe they are also dangerous in other ways, but those discussions are a red herring.

Danger to ad revenue is the only danger large publicly traded internet companies actually care about.
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Is the agile manifesto actionable in any clear way?
I've been meaning to invest some time into learning Julia. I'll definitely try my hand soon
Literally nothing whatsoever in Google's history suggests what you are describing is true.
>Yiannopolous is Jewish and is married to a black man.

He's Catholic, nobody has ever seen his husband, and there is no public record of his marriage.
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Sure. But as I already said, syntax is not a domain that "traditionally only applied to spoken languages". Its application to sign languages differs in no way from its application to spoken languages. And syntax is the relevant domain for asking whether sign languages are as expressive as spoken languages are.

So your original claim looks like this hypothetical one:

> Pete Ricketts is the governor of Nebraska, so it is now widely acknowledged that the sum of the first n consecutive odd numbers is always a perfect square.

The premise is true. The conclusion is true. But this is a terrible argument to make.

> it's not necessarily obvious that sign languages would have phonology or morphology or syntax, but once you've realized that that's true it absolutely does follow that they are as expressive (in the technical sense) as spoken languages.

This is wrong on both points:

- By definition, sign languages do not have phonology, do have morphology, and do have syntax; you can reach those conclusions without needing to investigate any language in particular.

- Many other information channels, such as, say, Python, or bee dancing, do have morphology and syntax (and don't have phonology), but are obviously not as expressive as spoken languages are.
In addition to the penalty you'd incur, the IRS is unlikely to dig into your deductions and credits with your fervor, so they will likely compute a number that is "quite suboptimal".

There are also multiple ways of doing things, and picking one path may be strategic to you (if you expect more or less income in the following years). Giving up on this flexibility and its ramifications will affect your outcome negatively.

For simple filings, yes, it should be possible for them to give you a bill that is close to what you'd compute yourself.

This is my experience for the US system.
Black supremacy should be treated the same as white supremacy. There is nothing wrong with pride in your race, but when it comes at the expense of others, there needs to be a line drawn.
Most people don’t think twice about it. Tax simplification is supported so long as everyone’s tax bill goes down, but huge swaths if the population are utterly convinced that paying an accountant to do their simple W2 taxes is way better than using software or doing it themselves or letting the IRS do it because they think they have a magical ability to get more back by their arcane knowledge of mystical loopholes.

I have had this discussion many many times with many people.
When you install a mach exception handler you can get the port of the previous exception handler, which you can use to forward the messages your newly installed exception handler receives. Of course (as with all raw mach APIs) it is poorly documented and error prone.
Thanks, that is exactly the point I was trying to make. If you need LIDAR, you have a problem in bad weather.
The Google Podcast app (!) refuses to do any related to subscriptions without Web and App activity tracking enabled. Seriously reaching here regarding relevance and consent.
The number of anti-TurboTax articles lately ...

I get it, filing taxes could be easier but it isn't - on the scale of things to worry about, is it really that important? What about on the scale of things that government is inefficient at - does this rank in the top 1000?

Again, I'm not saying we can't improve it, and I agree with calls for the IRS (and CRA) to send pre-filled forms. What I'm calling into question is the outsize coverage that this particular issue got over the last few weeks as certain Democratic nominees (Elizabeth Warren) decided this was the path to their relevance.
>How are Q and Z getting reused so much?

The two- and three-letter words you can make like AX, QI, XI, ZA, QAT, ZOO, and ZOA get used quite a bit. All of these words can have their high-point letter swapped out for something else to free it up again. Sometimes the Q, X, or Z does get locked up on the board for the rest of the game. But if it's not, it's often worth your effort to try to get it back into your hand and use it again.
yeah, this is incredible and has the potential to make a change in the onboarding process.

Well done to the team, constantly impressed with VS Code. Wish it wasn't such a resource hog but other that that amazing product!
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From the article:

> We will continue to allow minified, concatenated, or otherwise machine-generated code as long as the source code is included.

If I understand correctly, Wasm will be allowed as long as the original source code is provided.
I am not really in the camp of blaming either of these companies or any tax filing companies for issues like this.

The real blame is Congress for making such a complex tax system will all their attempts to keep their offices secure. The tax system used to have meaning but generations of politicians found they could reward and punish with it and they did so with abandon.

The system should never had become so complex as to need a program. If your middle class or higher the chances you need more than 1040A/1040EZ put you into the category it just isn't worth the risk to do them without guidance and that is where Congress should be taken to task.

Now one good effect of that "Republican" tax change was the standard deduction got pushed so high most people will never need to itemize again. It also increased the progressiveness of the tax system by that and other changes. I guess if we cannot rid ourselves of all those tax laws that make itemization the punish/reward system it is then just raising the standard deduction is best.
In my case, we actually chose it, as we´re a Microsoft shop. Hasn´t been that bad, but we did experience 2 major outages in 1 year.

Not sure how many outages are there on AWS.
Wow, I never realized the complexity of this. Looking at https://www.bankrate.com/finance/money-guides/home-office-ca..., this gets pretty complicated.
Most relevant details, from the last link [1]:

> It took her photo, comparing her picture to a preloaded photo databased of all the passengers with tickets on this flight, and then she got a check mark, indicating she was cleared to board. The whole process took about five to six seconds.

> The Aruba experiment is expected to last somewhere between 45 and 90 days.

> "We're basically capturing that picture at the boarding gate, providing it to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. They're identifying the traveler," Farrell said. "It's actually the U.S. government that's implementing the biometric matching system that does all the hard analysis and crunching of the data."

> A biometric exit system to track non-U.S. citizens using their faces or fingerprints has long been a congressional mandate, particularly after 9/11, to improve border security and identify people who've overstayed their visas.

> Crockford says people don't know how CBP might share that data with local police. CBP insists it'll discard photos taken of citizens, and only keep a database of non-citizens.

> Customs and Border Protection has been piloting similar biometric tests at airports in Atlanta, New York and the D.C. area. And, according to a customs official, the goal is to deploy facial recognition tech widely by early next year.

I guess it must be comparing with their passport photo? (Or visa photo, for foreigners?) It doesn't seem much different from the way you're already required to show your physical passport and they check your photo manually. It's also always been pretty normal to have your photo taken by countries when passing through passport control. So I don't really see what the problem would be here?

[1] https://www.wbur.org/bostonomix/2017/06/21/jetblue-facial-re...
I agree with that description, but is the conclusion that I'm permanently unhealthy? And is that a useful definition—isn't everyone permanently unhealthy in one way or another?
Azure SQL is totally down for us as well. Unable to resolve the DNS for it, both from within azure (kubernetes pods) and from outside (my laptop).

EDIT (23:37 Oslo/Norway): connectivity is restored for us now
>Horoscropes don't have a victim.

they don't? it's a multi-million dollar industry that sells non-information to people; some of these people so stupid that they ingest it as factual gospel and use it to run their lives.

I'm not against it, but it doesn't take a lot of mental gymnastics to see the harmful aspects of horoscopes. The victimization of Andy Kaufman and Steve Jobs using psychic quackery, although different than a horoscope, comes to mind right away -- it's just not that safe an idea to sell confidence in quackery.
I don't think many people are thinking about it.

Real damage? What do you mean?

Letting people not speak and isolating them radicalises them which is actually harmful. Milo saying some edgy opinions isn't harming you and if you don't like it you don't have to pay attention to it.

People in the past have fought and died for the right to speak their mind and many people today seem to want to easily to throw it away.
On the Flash Gordon soundtrack, Queen does very well with fanfares that would usually be played on trumpets, but instead played on electric guitar. Not that they sound like trumpets. It just sounds awesome!
Reminds me of the fan theory that Disney made a movie called Frozen to dominate the search results for "Walt Disney Frozen" and crowd out the results about his body being frozen.
The DC area is pretty suburbanized. It's not uncommon for people who work in DC to have hour-long commutes - when I lived there, I met people who commuted to DC from as far out as Frederick and Mt Airy - but the MARC is (in my experience) reliable and some of the suburbs aren't bad. Zillow has $300k-$400k houses in Germantown.
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I guess now we all know what the REAL ID act was about.

https://www.dhs.gov/real-id
I think it shouldn't go unmentioned that at the same time, the reliance on those signals is a huge vulnerability that is massively being abused by manipulators? I guess you could say that is how authoritarian leaders get into power. So, it's not so obvious it's actually a useful mechanism. Rather, it seems that it maybe works better in small structures and/or for short time horizons, but regularly leads to catastrophic failures in the long run/in larger groups.
I'm seeing some recovery of services in West US
I’m sure that exists everywhere, but if the magnitude is greater in America, I’d guess it’s because we live in a culture of hyper-optimization. Autism is just another thing that can be deemed as sub-optimal. It doesn’t even help that we’re more individualistic, because at least in conforming cultures there are simple rules that you can follow for social acceptance.
Nobody is forcing you to, but Apple is free to support the needs of all their users if they so choose.
The Mueller report got me thinking.

How hard would it be to put together a machine learning tool that guessed at the redacted material based on:

(a) The context of the surrounding words, and
(b) In cases where just a couple words in a sentence are redacted, using the number of pixels to inform a likely combination of letters that would perfectly "fit" that space?

And what would be the legality?
Waaaayyy too much credit given to these alleged “influencers” and douche bros. They actually aren’t very influential.

Influencers are simply not engaging and interesting enough to be successful on their own. More often than not they are resonating with realities on the ground.

The spinelessness and the one-sided pontifications of those that the douche bro audience members are repelled from needs to be factored into equation.

You can stamp out all the douche bros you want. The reality though, is that there’s nothing offered that placates the urges they feed into, and the vapid attempts at as much placation as can be stomached are often uncanny valley sock puppet versions of what the douche bros are typically offering on tap. Almost a believable forgery, but nutritious ingredients all missing, and it tastes like a zero calorie version.

Then again, the fake news narrative was never a real problem to begin with. It’s just a manufactured narrative that feeds into other objectives. It’s like: well now that our shitty roommate flipped over their car and killed themselves in a drunk driving accident, let’s empty out the garage, and get rid of all their useless hoarder possessions, and start parking our car in there.
I fully acknowledge that conditions affecting the brain will have a much larger impact on one's identity. That much is obvious.

That being said, if I had the option to "correct" most of my personal atypical genetic "variations," I would do so.

Colorblindness? Yep, I don't want that.
Congenital flat feet? I don't need those.
IBS? No thanks.
Hair loss starting at 17? Nope!
Weird neurological symptoms no doctor has ever been able to fully diagnose? I would pay almost any amount of money to make those go away.
This is basically how I invest. I pretty much pick companies at random and then spend my time investigating the management and kicking out the companies run by scumbags and crooks. Once you have more than 20 companies you basically have a mini-index minus the obvious losers.
I see, you make the distinction based on public vs. private. The weird thing is, isn't this just giving private companies the ability to have a more lax set of standards then one we would place on a public good? This seems to just incentives public->private good conversion more, for they don't have to play by the public good playbook.
Given the new Travel ID requirements coming up, I'm not surprised in the slightest by this.
> I would argue that when a website get enough users, it should be seen as a government

That's absurd. It's a website not a government; nobody is forcing you to use facebook, if you dislike how they operate their website don't use it.
Not OP, but I live outside a satellite city to Oslo and I feel like every 5th car I see on the road is a tesla and every other car is an EV of some kind. Many E-golfs, leafs and a ton of other ones. So there are some parts of the world where there are popular. Not having to pay "pollution tax" that can be up to 100% of the initial value of the car nor 25% vat helps drive adoption :)

Incidentally I ordered my first one today, a model x with the new drive trains etc. It will take a few months before it arrives.
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We can’t. But we also can’t interview people for weeks. So we do one hour and we go with our gut feeling. It’s a terrible way to hire, possibly the worst, except for all the other ones.
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> Imagine if everyone in SF with a guest bedroom did this.

And if they cause trouble? Good luck getting rid of them, especially in SF. In many localities, including SF, they'd be tenants with tenants rights, such as just cause eviction and possibly even rent control. I'm usually pro-rent control but it doesn't work well for small numbers of units, and can easily become a nightmare for single family homes, especially if they're in the house and not an in-law.

What people can do is sign-up to accept Section 8 vouchers. Federal law will then immunize you from some of the local tenants' rights regulations, including rent control. Section 8 vouchers will often be for less than market rate, but it'll keep pace with inflation much better than the index used for SF rent control.

Not sure if section 8 will pay for guest bedrooms, but there are federal and local programs to subsidize construction of in-law units. Most SF houses built in the early 20th century were built with unfinished first floors--for shops, work spaces, living spaces, etc. These weren't originally garages, though most ended up being used as garages after the car boom. Most houses can easily fit a small single unit in the garage without having to give up the garage space entirely. It's already quite common (not surprising given they were literally constructed with this in mind).
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