skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you explain why? There are poorer regions in Pest County that would be denied resources just because the average is skewed heavily by the richer people in the capital. Is that fair? Budapest really is on quite a different level than any other part of the country, it makes perfect sense to make it its own region. It's about 20% of Hungary's population and there are 8 NUTS-2 regions in Hungary.
it was successful: there was hope, then there was change to stop Congress from doing any work.
Gday Platforms that censor speech List :-

* Facebook

* Twitter

* Google & Youtube

* TUMBLR

* Pateron

* Stripe

* Paypal

* Twitch

* Spotify

* Apple

* Sony

* pin interest

* LinkedIn

* Mailchimp

* Wordpress

* mastodon

* azure

* Mastercard

* Godaddy

* MEDIUM

* Shopify

* Cloudflare

* pusher

* WIKI

* Reddit

* teespring

* Slack

* coinbase

* GOFUNDME

* VISA

* Square

* Bitpay

* ROKU

* Netflix

* Indiegogo

* Disqus

* VIMEO

Regards,
Charliebrowau
I disagree with the premise, but I don't think the idea is that making the process more painful will make people want lower taxes.

It's just an in-your-face reminder of how much you're paying in taxes, supposedly sending a stronger message to you than if the IRS were to send you a pre-filled return.

So the idea is, if you're more obviously reminded of how/why your tax money is leaving your wallet, you'll hate taxes more and lobby for lower taxes. You understand that doing so won't make filing taxes any less complicated (and in fact it might be more complicated if taxes are lowered through new deductions and credits that you need to prove eligibility for), but you'll expect to be paying less.

It's still stupid, but at least the chain of logic could potentially hold if you squint close enough and agree with the premises.
I'm not saying this is right or wrong, but it's something true I noticed about me:

I learned a long time ago that my sweet spot is when I'm working with people who are better than me -- but not too much better than me.

Working with more skilled engineers gets me juiced, challenges me, and makes me produce better code, and increases my own skill level at a rate faster than I'd otherwise do.

But working with engineers that are far above my skill level discourages me and makes me question my own abilities and value.
Many crowd scenes are full CGI (can't tell at a distance) or composites of many shots of smaller crowds stitched together.
> You’re kidding right? There’s multiple privacy problems.

No, not kidding.

There's a legitimate government interest in identifying people entering and leaving a country. This isn't Facebook, or even cameras on street corners -- this is a government responsible for enforcing legitimate immigration policies at a legitimate location (the border) for a wide variety of reasons (safety, economic, etc.), which absolutely requires knowing who is who.

I don't know any serious thinkers who claim otherwise.

And I don't see a particularly big difference between getting my photo taken for official ID's every few years (passport, driver's license, visas, etc.) and having it taken when I need to prove my identity with one of those.

The government already has photos of me. They already know my flight. How could it possibly affect my privacy that they also have a photo of me when I get on the plane?

I'm just not seeing it.

(Unless you're opposed to the whole concept of passports and photo ID's in general, but that would be a pretty radical position.)
Maybe they can bring the porn back and sell it to PornHub.
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Yeah, rope memory is genius. Practical storage from such as simple structure. There's a demo somewhere on Youtube of someone who made a 7-segment decoder with rope. Pretty simple circuit compared to what you need to read-write core memory.

If you like this kind of things, you might want to check out the amazing ROM implementation of the HP 9100: https://www.hpmuseum.org/tech9100.htm
It takes new ideas a long time to catch on - time that is mainly devoted to evolving the idea into something useful. This fact alone dumps most of the responsibility for early technical innovation in the laps of amateurs, who can afford to take the time. Only those who aren't trying to make money can afford to advance a technology that doesn't pay. [1]

This is how I feel about hacker news. People who have the time to advance technology. And I'm grateful to witness so much of it here.

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And the objective course of action for any neurotypical person is to spend a few years autistic. I imagine you'll be first in line to sign up, given your penchant for objectivity.
is that to say that Ron Paul speaks for the Republican party?

I didn't know they hated wars and spying.
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It’s no secret that data science is a good career path. The jobs are in demand, the salaries are compelling, and the work is interesting. So how does someone break in? In particular, I’m interested in how an experienced IT professional can move into data science.

What advice would you give to someone with, say, five years of computing experience, who wants to break into the field? Tell me about the skills required, where you’d tell your friend to go to acquire them, and how to get a job without a specialized degree. What would make you say, “I want to hire this person, even if the individual lacks the relevant schooling”?
> general inversion of any MxN matrix

??! is there such a thing ? only nonsingular square matrices can be inverted. a general mxn matrix may have a “left inverse” or a “right inverse”, but i don’t think your code is computing that.
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19806616 and marked it off-topic.
Other countries that have pre-filled tax returns also have this problem. They solve it just as you'd expect: you correct your pre-filled return with the information the tax authority doesn't have.

That's still less painful than doing the whole thing from scratch, and the majority of people don't have this situation, so they have very little work to do.

Let's remember that just because there are edge cases, that doesn't mean you should abandon hope for making the common case easy. The best user interfaces make the common case easy and the uncommon case possible.
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Money is just paper, and my ass too
"Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muß man schweigen."

(That's the Wittgenstein, not the German saying.)
Idk how HN will receive this but it's because CNN hard shills for the left. They're circumventing first amendment principles because of their power. They want to I censor anything that disagrees with their propaganda.

I've never voted Republican.
Thanks for answering. I guess I was asking what was it about this super candidate that they miss or got wrong?

I have been on the receiving end of a lot of bad recruiters. I have found that my needs were ignored and anyone who could fog a mirror was thrown my way has made me somewhat cynical of recruiters. If you are doing the right thing then this is fantastic. I wish people like you weren’t so rare.
On HN, please make your substantive points without calling names, as the site guidelines ask: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Part of the problem is given the "spectrum" you can have people from wide ranges (and their supporters, caregivers, detractors) all talking about their truth and getting up in arms when people advocate solutions globally that wouldn't apply on their side.
Such a strange thing for Verizon to hang on to them in first place. They seemed incompatible from the start.
All the responses to you below that fail to give you any examples let's you know all you need to know
Natural Gas is a much better fit with renewables than coal. So, until cheap grid storage or massive over supply of renewables shows up it’s still a great short mid term solution.

Aiming for 20% from natural gas is 1/5th the green house emissions of 50% coal. That’s a massive impact and meaningful change even without vast grid storage.
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This is hilarious. Every single Google conspiracy is basically because some Google Engineer tried to DRY up functionality in an insanely complicated system.
The Coding The Matrix textbook is exactly the type of book you've described that is tailored for programmers.
I've read only the first few chapters and found it a joy even if a little wordy in some parts.

https://codingthematrix.com/
PartsBox (parts inventory and BOM pricing)
I always hear this argument, but all this just doesn't matter. It's optimizing for the wrong things.

The majority of taxpayers are not in that situation. They would benefit greatly from an IRS-provided pre-filled tax return.

For people that are in this situation, the IRS will send them a pre-filled tax return with incorrect data. Then they have the choice to either start with the pre-filled form and make corrections, or start from scratch with their own data. They are no worse off (and possibly much better off, if the corrections are minor) than they are under the current regime.

Regarding itemized deductions, with the 2018 tax year changes, the standard deduction is so much higher (and SALT deductions so much limited), that even fewer people than before will itemize. And the percentage of people who itemize already wasn't that high. But again: people who do itemize could merely correct the pre-filled form the IRS sends, or start from scratch if they really want to.
is it still the 1400s? how frequent did planes land in Britannia from the picts?

more recently, how'd the Maginot line go? what makes defence against warring enemies similar to preventing immigrants?
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This is what we get for letting these shady social media companies get into the center of our discourse. Just remember even if you dislike people who are banned, it could be your people next.

Social media should reflect the first amendment. Let's get with the times here...
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19537807
It's at least twice as noisy. It has more operators, more different punctuators, < > brackets in addition to ( ) and { }.

Not sure what error handling you have in mind, but it's robust. We can interactively call it from gdb with some garbage values:

(gdb) r
Starting program: /home/kaz/txr/txr-dbg
This is the TXR Lisp interactive listener of TXR 215.
Quit with :quit or Ctrl-D on empty line. Ctrl-X ? for cheatsheet.
1> (raise 5)

Program received signal SIGTRAP, Trace/breakpoint trap.
0x00132416 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
(gdb) p do_eval_args(9, 9, 9, 9)
Too few arguments in function call.
(gdb) p do_eval_args(9, 9, 9, 9, 9)
** car: 2 is not a cons
** during evaluation at expr-1:1 of form (raise 5)
** run with --backtrace to enable backtraces
2> _

The function relies on args having enough room for all the values; both callers ensure that. The lookup function can't be wrong, either.
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Going back to your slippery slope argument, where does it end?

Is HN not a public forum as well? Are my constitutional rights being violated when a moderator deletes something a post here on HN?

What about all those shadow banned users, are they entitled to their free speech on any website that allows comments?
> For Mueller, Sandy Hook, and Pizzagate, Alex Jones speculated and reported on these existing conspiracy theories. He did not invent them.

Lewis v. Jones deposition[1] @ 6:15-9:10 you'll find a clip of Jones on the day of the Sandy Hook shooting saying it was staged. If Jones didn't "invent" the ridiculous theory then whoever did got word of it to Alex Jones at record speed.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7siWJ86g40
I'll bet one could use GANs now to generate high res textures for 3D models. Say for video games or other 3D renders. In various styles too.

BRB next startup idea.
Gitlab is also currently reporting issues with GCE. I'm unable to push to their network right now.

Looks like all three major cloud platforms are experiencing problems right now. Could be internet related?

https://downdetector.com/status/windows-azure

https://downdetector.com/status/google-cloud

https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services
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They seem to be converging in quality, based on sloppy biased recent articles and sensationalized headlines from the latter.

I think not differentiating the branding better was a mistake, considering buzzfeed is synonymous with clickbait.
How about a probability of ending up broke and with no work? I don't say that we don't need nuanced ways of dealing with each other. But you need 1D measure to compare incompatible decisions.
> Source: my grandmother, who played these rules with the inventor of Scrabble back in college, before he had sold the game for mass distribution (they changed his rules to simplify them)

The inventor of Scrabble graduated college in 1924. He conceived of and developed the game in the late 30s while he was working full-time as an architect. He didn't start producing the games 'til after WW II, in 1948. He sold the rights in 1952.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Mosher_Butts

I'd love to hear more about how your Grandmother who must have been born no later than 1905 played Scrabble in college with Alfred Butts.
No all life. When we treat animal life as worthless we also come to value human life less. It’s a connection that’s hard to see while you’re still eating meat IMO.

At least in more “primitive” societies they would often acknowledge that the animal had given its life and thank it and treat the act of eating an animal with some solemnity. We instead do our best to forget that what we are eating was ever alive.
Some republicans are too; why does it matter, when the democrats and republicans with power are not?
While I’m totally onboard with the privacy concerns, this is ridiculous FUD to just assume that every company just took on the security and storage risk of holding that data. Find me an enterprise department/exec that would willingly take that on to support a trial.

The corporate bogeyman is a great story but I think you’re being a little unrealistic here. These systems typically allow the picture to be sent in with a name, and the system returns a success or fail response.
Some day more and more movies will have virtual actors, possibly licensing physical/voice tracts from known stars of the past. I would expect also virtual music bands to be created as such.
Except in a few major cities, almost all working adults in the US own a car.
It’s not quite as simple as setting a flag - if the signal is SIGBUS/SIGSEGV then returning from the handler normally will retry the faulting instruction. So, you either have to map dummy memory into place so the fault doesn’t reoccur, or use sigsetjmp/siglongjmp to jump out to a previously configured exception handler (as Sublime Text did here.

I think you’ve mixed up synchronous signals - SEGV, BUS, ABRT - with asynchronous signals like QUIT, INT, USR1. Asynchronous signals can be handled easily with a flag and a loop as you mentioned; synchronous signals are much trickier and much more complicated.
That's Gab's approach. Allow everything that is legal, and crack down on what is illegal. Unfortunately, Gab being perceived as a haven for the alt-right is a self-fulfilling prophecy. The incessant media coverage against it and platform bans (Google and Apple banned their app, Chrome and Firefox banned their browser extension) are designed to scare normal people off from using it (and makes it even more notorious and alluring in the eyes of racists).

If the wider population actually started using Gab and Minds without hesitation like they use Facebook and Twitter, the extremists would be immediately drowned out and only constitute a tiny fraction of 1%, the same as in reality, and their threads would be filled with counter-arguments rather than reaffirmations.
I keep trying to bet people $5 that the new design will be a revolutionary steel and glass penisoid.

No ones taking me up.
thanks, I've always been confused on that one.
Facebook is deciding because society is pressuring them to decide.

Facebook doesn't care about shit, but their bottom line. They have proven that time and time again. This should highlight the social pressures, because they are not legally responsible as far as anyone can tell. Thus, society is deciding.
Even better, many foreign visitors can use the same system to enter Australia. Lots of countries have fully automated entry for citizens but by doing it for foreigners, Oz is ahead of the game.
I agree. It is hard for me to wrap around that corporations can have more say in what the government does than the government doing something good for it’s (voting) public.

If the public would rather have simple tax filing then that is what any reasonable government (that wants to get elected and wants to actually collect tax revenue) should do, regardless of some private corporations quarterly numbers/stock price.
Interesting how in Spain it can be observed that, besides Madrid, the more developed areas are Catalonia and the provinces of the basque country, those preciselly that claim they give too much and receive too little.

Another thing that should be also taken into account (At least in the case of Spain) is area population, as not even 30% of the population live in those areas, being Catalonia the more populated.
No kidding. Especially if said government and audit and hence sue you when you made a mistake where your calculated numbers don’t match up with the government’s calculated numbers. Insane, if you think about it!
Strange title for an article analyzing onboarding.
Yo all that tax dodging by multinationals help !
The article led to some surfing and a revelation ... I didn’t know the old Bernoulli Box was made by Iomega.
Coming from the browser, a tool into which I have personally sunk many hundreds of hours learning APIs, edge cases, and performance characteristics, it was a big surprise to see how effective a minimal programming environment for building games could be. So much complexity that we put up with is due to legacy and sunk costs!

Having a background\career where I've never professionally developed software for the browser or using browser\web tools and frameworks but often interact with people that do ("sofware engineer" now is mostly people building web applications), I'm glad to see this acknowledged. The web is a great deployment platform, and browser focused tools are great for certain types of applications, but there are a lot of people that act like the browser (and by association, browser focused tools and languages) is the only way to write and deploy software. Often there are better tools available, especially if you're doing game like or simulation like software even if your main target is the browser. I've always felt most productive when building small things or prototypes in lightweight frameworks with a simple update\draw loop (Processing, Pico 8, Love 2D, C-Toy, etc.)
> @intToPtr([]allowzero const u8, 0 [0..@ptrToInt(&__end_init)]

vs

> (int*)0

They sure make you pay though the nose to cast in zig -- maybe a good thing?
Ok! changed.
On the importance of language: generating "entire bodies" is a different class of problem then generating images of bodies
Was this an international flight?
Kowloon and Hong Kong Island. The Star Ferry is a great time piece, agreed. However I don't consider Victoria Peak, hiking trails, buses wrapped in advertisements or bilingual signage to be examples that project a sense of history. Yes there is still the odd colonial building but they are pretty exceptional.
"I wonder if an easy hack would be to train a second separate neural network to clean up the kind of artifacting that you get out of the first neural network..."

Shhhh, don't give the evil web overlords ideas for new nasty captchas :)
I'm utterly shocked that somehow Verizon didn't realize they were buying a porn aggregator site.
Yeah, but unless you get the screen, you get a shitty sound system and no heated seats.
Some strains of Judaism do have racism at the core. They believe they are chosen by God and there are many texts that support the idea that non-jews are lesser beings.

In any case what does it matter? What matters is how many people suffer and die at the behest of a religion, regardless if you can pinpoint racism or not.
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Ever since the Oath acquisition Tumblr started to push advertisements more aggressively than before, and its recommendations worsened -- it tries to sheep-herd me into content I never once interacted with but seems to be popular.

I imagine Tumblr isn't making enough advertisement money even with the adult content ban -- and now Verizon wants to plug the leak.

Which was absolutely obvious to everybody except Verizon.

Hilarious.