skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> $400 per year in time and money to file a tax return

That number seems pretty high unless you have very complicated income (in which case you likely have a lot of money too)

Also worth mentioning is that Foreign Income is taxed differently, so while you technically still have to pay taxes, I believe for most people who work mostly in a foreign country don't have to pay very much.
Wow. Fantastic.

1. Can I ask where you learned that? So happy to know this. By virtue of the 0/1 approach, it seems almost more fundamental than sine waves. Or, maybe negative infinity to infinity is more fundamental? Anyhow, that's just metaphysics. I'm also curious what it implies for digital computing

Here is a nice article that taught better than Wikipedia: https://www.mathworks.com/help/signal/ug/walshhadamard-trans...
2. Alpha on a single EEG channel can look pretty sinusoidal. Is there a measure of sinusoidality that would allow me to assert how sinusoidal they are?

:) awesome answers to my easy questions, thanks!
Pursuing Agility
Everybody loves Amazon, doesn't mean they aren't horribly monopolistic and don't have widespread economic/social impact on certain classes of people.
> it should be possible to create a base phone that can be upgraded continuously.

Yes, that is exactly what we need to have happen.
They're headed(ish) in this direction. In both Jira and Confluence, the newer editors support Markdown keystrokes that translate into a wysiwyg view. Jira is currently a mess, though, because it has a random mix of new editor and old wiki-style markup.
That's bad. But imagine these guys chose similarly priced Android phones instead.
Luckily you don't have to be that extreme. Carbon sequestration costs between $100 and $600 per ton. So if you set a carbon tax at $2000 per ton everybody would sequester and nobody would pay the tax and gas would be $6 - $10 per gallon. Which would be the carbon tax and the market economy working as designed. Awesome, and it's incredible we aren't doing it.

And going to the point of the article. $20/pound hamburger would have very similar results. ($20 number completely made up)
How to Know If You Talk Too Much (2015)
TL;DR: We think of the 'electric eel' a single species, but it could be considered three distinct species.
This is actually a pretty well known, but not generally accepted alternative theory of dark energy called backreaction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-reaction#Cosmology
Well yes, you see i can time travel, but I don't want to break causality. So I won't use my power. But you said worship me and give me money, because I time travel!
And that reasoning is working. The longer we do mock debate over climate change real / not real, the slower we go.

Reminds me of the GMO / non-GMO debate. The longer we keep that simple frame the slower we go. GMO isn’t any one thing, GMO is the future of most living things and things we haven’t imagined.

This is our first climate, our first planet. We will be a part of many others, as living intelligence and more.
A problem that often isn't considered is firmware/drivers. In the smartphone world you often can't simply install a driver for your new 5G module, for example. I haven't seen a solution for this, yet.
if you’re building a product for engineers, that makes sense. your product managers are then former engineers.

if you’re building a product for normies, you want to hire normies as your PMs.
Yep. I wouldn't even say I necessarily have a cycle, I just upgrade when I wanted to. I passed on the 7 and 8 because they didn't have anything overly compelling. The X had FaceID, more gesture control which I like, and the better camera so I jumped on that one. Now I'm debating the 11 Pro just because that new camera also has my interest, and I really like the Midnight Green color, but I'm not sold just yet. I think I'll wait and see how long it takes Apple to start shifting units before I decide for sure.
The problem is that browser windows have different sizes, so pages will be of different size. Formatting a document to fit on a page size is not rocket-science but also not trivial to do nicely.
They’re right
Blaming Apple for the general human desire to demonstrate status to one another seems like a bit much, and IMO grants them a level of implied power over society that they haven’t earned.

I mean... is your theory that if Apple didn’t exist, people wouldn’t buy things to look cool?

> A lot of people are intelligent and strong enough to resist this brainwash, but a lot of others are not.

Speaking of signaling status... somehow comments like this are always posted by folks who sort themselves into the first category.

Maybe people buy things you don’t want to buy just because they like them, not because they’re too dumb to resist “brainwashing.”
No, the idea that giving up a burger now and then and saying "I did my part" is the single most significant trick to stop folks from doing something more effective.

Recognize truth, like the statement quoted, and move on to helping promote real solutions. That would be a significant act.
You learn what 'fn' means once, and then you know it forever. It's a non-issue.
Who owns the HKSE, that's the real question first. Are the owners Chinese?
The excerpt on Miami U's website, linked early in the article, is worth reading. A tale of Egyptian Gods and Kings...but if not for Plato's writing, we wouldn't know these days that Socrates was with King Thamus on this one back then. Or do we really know any of that? Thanks for the paradox, philosophers.
Put a Number on It! did a piece a while ago going through some psychology pieces that were part of a replication effort. They found that half failed to replicate but that people in a betting market could often tell which ones were going to replicate or not. The author also did a blind test himself and was also able to guess which ones would replicate. He laid out several rules of thumb, most significantly to the article Jacob’s Rule of Anti-Significance: A result with a p-value just above 0.05 could well be true. A result with a p-value just below 0.05 is almost certainly false.

More importantly, p=0.06 means that the researchers are honest. They could have easily p-hacked the results below 0.05 but chose not to. The opposite is true when p=0.049.

https://putanumonit.com/2018/09/07/the-scent-of-bad-psycholo...
> But it was not led by elites, if by "elite" you mean "nobility"

It was led by the landed elites, which didn't happen to generally have titles of nobility in the colonies, because the evolution from a feudal to a capitalist property structure had progressed pretty far before the US was colonized.

OTOH, the difference between a slave estate and an English feudal estate is mainly that the master of the former has even greater power over and less obligation to the subjects, so the difference between the elites you are distinguishing may be even less substantive than it seems at first glance.
I'm against writing too when the first sentence includes an affectation like "wait for it":

> ... an excerpt from The Phaedrus, a dialog between Socrates and someone named — wait for it — Phaedrus...
Revealed: The true cost of running a failed crypto IEO
Not sure how well that would go over with the average American, suddenly seeing their usual $200-$300'ish monthly bill on gas suddenly change to $2000 - $3000/month.

And who would get all that extra tax revenue? I assume the US Government, but does anyone have any belief that the US Government would actually put that money towards carbon offsets?
Keithhhol
living and making a living are two different things-- when you make over a certain amount.
What Drove the Solar PV Price Reductions over Last 40 Years?
I'm not sure if the Aeon article explains what Everett really meant, at least I still have questions.

Suppose we're eternally branching, as in the example about the up/down spin. If there's no way to visit other branches, how will we ever confirm this?

Second, what is the benefit of the branching interpretation? It seems to simply be a way to think about probabilities?
> For starters, Mozilla said that after it turns on DoH by default for US users, Firefox will contain a mechanism to detect the presence of any local parental control software or enterprise configurations.

> Additionally, Mozilla is also working with ISPs to make sure users won't use DoH as a way to bypass legally-set blocklists.

> The organization said it's been asking ISPs and providers of network-based parental control solutions to add a "canary domain" to their blocklists. When Firefox will detect that this canary domain is blocked, it will disable DoH to prevent the feature to be used as a filter-bypassing solution.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-to-gradually-enable-dn...

And I'm already set for the DoH switch
https://i.imgur.com/GuP5a8F.png
This seems like a bit of a silly question seeing that nobody can actually know the answer and therefore you will only get opinions.
Intel claimed that DDIO would boost performance up to 2.3x. that's a pretty big performance hit.

https://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Intel-Xeon-E5-2690-Sandy-Brid...
One minor correction to this (although I agree with you conceptually) is that there are no formal security proofs of the complexity class of hash function attacks for actually-existing hash functions. So there is no guarantee that the most efficient way to break a hash function security property is a generalizable attack on NP problems! It might just be that the specific hash function is weak in a previously unknown way.

A sort-of precedent for that kind of problem which I mentioned in my sibling comment is the correlation weaknesses in RC4. While they're not the most powerful possible break of RC4, by any means, they are unanticipated flaws in the structure of RC4 specifically, and they might well have been discovered by software tools that can't solve NP problems in general. It seems to me that we don't have security proofs for symmetric cryptography at all, including for block cipher security properties as well as hash function security properties, and so while your observation is totally right in general, in any specific case it might just turn out that the cryptographic primitive we were using was weak in an unanticipated way that's specific to that class of functions.

Compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_oracle (although reading that article reminds me of how much I don't understand about this topic)!
This has been tested and debated for months. Initial support for Firefox rolled out 9 months ago or so: https://miketabor.com/enable-dns-over-https-and-encrypted-sn...

The conclusion of the debate was that it vastly improves the privacy for most users. Which is why it shipped in Firefox.

Take that into account when you read (misleading, factually wrong) push-back like the original article.
a lot of times pasture allows you to use marginal land that wouldn't be suitable for other cultures. Outside the developed world this happens a lot. In plenty of places there's not an option between corn and goats, but between inedible brush and goats.
This doesn't apply too much to countries like the US, where cattle is feed with grains, that indeed could be consumed directly by humans without the energy losses created by the metabolic processes of raising said animals. But for free-range cattle in the less developed world, meat means having a biological factory to transform inedible cellulose into calories and proteins.
And even for agricultural land of higher quality, suitable for crops, it is a good sustainable practice to alternate cultures with an occasional year of growing pasture, and letting cattle graze upon it and fertilize it with manure.
So, the matter is more nuanced here.
A big part of the problem are the subsides and non-tariff barriers that incentive farmers to raise cattle with feed on developed countries.
How about cooking them? Refrigerating them? Selling them?

I see the idea of marginal cost is getting through. But consider all the costs to get a real sense of how the origination marginal cost contributes.

And don't dismiss transportation. It has to get home from the grocery store, in that 10-burger one-person vehicular trip through city traffic. That's a marginal cost too.
Uniloc 2017 vs. Apple: The EFF Weighs In
The article puts forth 10 reasons to think twice before implementing infinite scrolling, but many of them are just a variation of the final reason: Terrible user experience.

For the sake of argument, there are several very successful websites that use infinite scrolling in one way or another. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit just to name a few. Is infinite scrolling on these sites disorienting the user? hard to navigate? rendering a "terrible user experience"? One could certainly argue that the data says otherwise.

The article doesn't even suggest that there might be situations where infinite scrolling might befit the site. I'm not a big fan of infinite scroll but black-and-white rants like this often leave out the vital context and nuances in the topic they aim to analyze.
A) and now you’re competing in a commoditized market where they can easily hire someone cheaply. This would be the type of skillset I would keep up to date if I need a job/contract now and I wasn’t on the market by choice.

B) There are still a relatively few jobs in Go and they don’t seem to be paying more than your standard enterprise language. I’m not wasting my time learning a language/technology with both a smaller market and no pay premium.

But K8s while I think is overhyped and something being chased because of the ooh shiny effect, it is the type of technology I would jump on, insist on a pay premium and ride the hype curve.

C) you still need to do RDD. Who you know will only get you so far. Who you know gives you the inside scoop on opportunities but you get jobs based on what you know. No one is going to stick their neck out for someone who is objectively unqualified.
Even for 100 Euros, but non-tech people don't always know that. Many of them think that to stay current they need "an iPhone", and 100 Euro iPhones simply don't exist.
To be fair, the article poured the pool of gasoline and lit the match. It was pretty clearly blue-team material, and bound to generate exactly this response.
As far as I can tell from the article, he's looking at only the direct emissions from agriculture, and ignoring land use changes, like being able to plant trees where we used to grow grain for beef.
The 7th Gen is still lacking the quad speaker setup, ProMotion 120Hz refresh rate, True Tone and does not feature a fully laminated screen. At least, it has retained the 3.5mm audio jack. Although, the 10.5" (2017) iPad Pro will remain the superior choice for those willing to hunt it down; the new entry level model has a very attractive price tag.
> In other words, if a child grew up alone with a Kindle containing all of the books in the Library of Congress, could he gain the same kind of knowledge which a normal person gains via social interaction? Or more pragmatically, could you understand the true, intended and complete meaning of the words you are now reading if we didn’t share the same knowledge?

Even if you understand the words completely, in every field there's a distinction between "yeah that's the proper way the book says to do it" and "this is what we do in real life".

For example, my car's owner manual says you should let the engine idle for 5 minutes after driving to let it cool down, and my state driver's manual says I need to do an inspection (all lights, etc) before each drive -- but come on.
So what happens to Thumbtack's business model now?
If this persons definition of social media is only Facebook and Instagram then I removed social media for the last 3 or more years.

Removing these (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) were nothing and easy for me. I just logged out and never bothered to log in. I haven't bothered with these in years.

Now, not visiting places like Reddit, maybe Hacker News, and consider removing other similar like internet communities for a year as well was a lot harder and still is at times. So, I have delegated to limit myself for now and not make an account. At least I try.

I found myself having trouble of finding something to read while I eat dinner every night, so I try to only limit myself to reading and browsing Reddit while I eat dinner each night for example.

However, my Hacker News addiction continues.
Stop trying to make everything a "business opportunity". There will always be a competitive advantage in exploiting people and destroying the environment. People don't burn down rainforests for the fun of it.

If civilization is going to survive it's because we collectively recognize the destructive nature of markets based around profits and start doing things for the sake of life.
Benefits of Mobile Apps in the Healthcare Sector
Fun fact, Hugh Everett is “E” Mark Oliver Everett’s father, lead singer of The Eels.
I just tried Twitter on my iPhone and it fails as described if I manually put in a new URL and then go back from there. Google gets it wrong in their search results. When it’s that common to have this bug I’d say it’s fair to just consider it to be part of the technique.
? You can easily get all those things as a non-citizen resident. Do you mean undocumented immigrants or something?
am I correct in thinking that some things you don't sell to outsiders? For security reasons at least...stock markets are pretty much everything in a modern economy.
I’d like to hear more about the compiled stack.

In extremely latency sensitive applications, the mix of stack and instruction cacheline faults can cause significant overhead.
From the perspective of the American experiment in democratic rule of law, my feeling is that Snowden's work has had both positive and negative impacts. Maybe net positive because of increased scrutiny over the natsec apparatus and elevation of "privacy" from a govt perspective (though IMV corporate invasions of privacy are far more profound and impactful and have only deepened); net negative because of the increase in chaos and distrust in governing (I see a direct line from Snowden to Trump).

It's one thing if these are the ebbs and flows of an open society.

Many people in the natsec apparatus- yes, at the institutional level attacked by Snowden- have counterclaims that Snowden's narrative of his actions and motivations is incomplete, that there is more to the story, that there are other reasons he lives now in Russia, which is not an entity that is conducting an experiment in democracy.

To put Snowden's work in better perspective, I would like to see- his use and sources of cash. That's all. And that's not this book.
Mozilla is only applying this in the US.
For those who are uneasy to use CF DoH, here's a list of alternative DoH Resolvers

https://github.com/curl/curl/wiki/DNS-over-HTTPS#publicly-av...
Opioid crackdown forces pain patients to taper off drugs they say they need
> Speaking of signaling status... somehow comments like this are always posted by folks who sort themselves into the first category.

I mean, I can't think of a person who'd be aware enough of it and be willing to state this as a member of the second category?
We are having zero problems with the current decentralized DNS architecture.

Evidently, Mozilla plays the role of a Google's darling once again. Those financial "donations" have some interesting effects, aren't they? Aside from an official "Google Search Bar in Firefox" line.

What's even more interesting is that Hacker News moderator deranked the topic.

Probably all the actors represent the same mafia ring, as they painfully in need to defend those interests to stay commercially relevant in changing world (hello IPFS).
you can even get an iPhone 7/8 for reasonable price right now, if Apple is a requirement. I'm still on my 7 from late 2016 and will stick to it through this cycle as well.
Peter Woit in his blog "Not Even Wrong" [0] sometimes deals with the Many Worlds interpretation. He doesn't seem to be a fan.

He had a recent post [1] about Everett that's interesting.

[0] https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/
[1] http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=11202
[2] https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=10522
Most Lispers and some Schemers are quite pragmatic in that regard. With the former favouring OOP and looping over recursion and the latter using imperative code when it matters.

With developer mindshare flocking to the Haskell view of FP, for the Lisp family, only the Clojure users seem to still hold purity in high regard.
My understanding (Someone please correct me if I'm wrong) is that while the values can range from limx->0 and limx->1 , the actual distribution will be skewed in cases where it is statistically significant. E.g. If you repeat the experiment 100x you could find a p=.999999 but more likely they'll be close to .05 (or whatever alpha you choose)
Fair enough! I was thrown off the fact that it hasn't been released by the Worldcat page saying that there were three editions. I assumed that it was not possible to have data quality issues of that magnitude.
I scoff at the idea that Comcast is more trustworthy than Cloudflare.
Hey right on, that’s a nice twist, appreciate it! That’s obvious to me now that you say it but wasn’t before. Yes, there’s the beginnings of a market ceiling to the price. We need to get the supply of that $100-$600 capture up. Either using it for new products or burying it. Thanks again!
Anything that the CIA is doing now is protected with "national security".
They can do it with anything they are related to.

Former CIA Officer Kevin Shipp [explains how this works and how it is completely misused](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQouKi7xDpM)
First announcements were even longer ago: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/05/a-cartoon-intro-to-dns-ove...
I know right! I used to have domains.microsoft.com and that gave me 500 free emails for any domain... I'm waiting for them to fix this. I just want my email under NameCheap + Microsoft. GoDaddy was such an awful experience, and then years later they supported SOPA? No thanks.
> applications should not override system level settings

I wish Windows 10 and other operating systems natively supported DNS-over-HTTPS, but many don't. So they have to work around that lack of support.
I can't speak for the US but this man has shifted so much of the political debate in my country and I think also in the EU in general. If you talked about the massive surveillance from governments people tossed you aside as a paranoid lunatic. After Snowden no one could ignore you anymore and privacy is an aspect in any public debate.
No surprise he thought mere book-learning was inferior.

"Real knowledge, Socrates said, can only be gathered via dialog: a give and take of questions and answers where ideas are interrogated until the knowledge is truly understood. But with a book, that cannot be done unless one has access to the author."

What I have finally been able to articulate for myself is that education is not information, it is the effect of a relationship and practice.

When you isolate information in the dynamic, it describes how ostensibly educated people can be starkly ignorant of facts, and how autodidacts aren't reliable no matter what truths they might be in possession of. The internet gives us unlimited information, with only some means to practice it if you code, and it simulates relationships that do not materially exist. It is making us stupid in a way we can't readily appreciate, which is perhaps what being stupid itself means.

The perspective doesn't matter much other than to give some mental respite from the nonsense of echo chambers and social hall of mirrors most people seem to be preoccupied with, but then again, that is the comfort philosophy was meant to provide, so YMMV.
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