skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He immediately admitted that he warns guests in his own home about being recorded, and the article discusses the fact that the cameras have an LED light that turns on when recording. So it's clearly not true that he hadn't thought of this before.
Actually, nevermind, I'll just go home again. Its been fun meeting you old friend
Can computational horsepower be thrown at this problem? To put some bounds on how wrong the equations are? We have enormous capacity these days with racks of GPUs and 64 core EPYCs and so on.
> is that the only way? or do alternatives exist?

Are there legitimate alternatives to the scientific method?
Can someone from US explain how come there is still no open source alternative to TurboTax?
I don't see why a functional language would be any harder to start with. It might even be easier.
Hm I'm not sure I understand, because the answer seems very simple: because they dramatically increase ratio of the number of meaningful transactions describing real economic activity to a MB of valueable block space (and therefore per watt of total global PoW calculation).
WireGuard and the Crypto API
Implicit also means a tradeoff in estimating performance, an instance of an abstraction leaking.

I've been trying to think of a totally clean functional abstraction, i.e. that's functional under the hood, but there's no way to tell. Perhaps in a compiler?
I think Google Maps not saving your history as you described is an incredibly bad, frustrating experience.

FFS, my phone has gigs of RAM, why can’t Google Maps remember the address I searched for ten minutes ago? One minute ago? This is 2019. It has been this bad for a decade plus. Embarrassing IMO and demonstrates true UX myopia and true UX incompetence.
link to Troopr Assistant: https://www.troopr.ai/about
Back in college, I remember waiting in a buffet line and there were, what I gathered to be, two of the cafeteria managers in front of me.

They were chatting about the efficiency of buffet lines and one of them mentioned "It's well known that a buffet line with a server is 30% faster than a line with no server."

Made total sense at the time because in a self service line, people have to:

- stop

- pick up the utensil

- some people then take a while deciding which piece of food is the best

- grab the food

- put the utensil down and move on etc

With a food server, it goes so much quicker if only because the server isn't waiting around to pick the best piece for you.
probably to suggest destinations
Your point being? This discussion refers to an article about tax filing and Intuit’s efforts to retain tax code complexity and self-beneficial regulatory conditions.

Yes, companies like the ones you cited spend significant amounts of money to educate and persuade lawmakers. Academically I’d like to see what a world without lobbying looks like, but honestly, I’m not confident it would be significantly better for citizens (and may be significantly worse in some ways).

But that’s a tangential topic for a different discussion.
You mean slower
Numbers quoted in comment and link are total spent on lobbying, not on preventing easy tax filing.
It's a good analogy! But it also shows that in FP you have to specify what is needed for what and what happens why. If you wrote that imperatively, you could include steps like "go outside, count clouds, return" or "place a metal bowl next to everything, put some cereals inside". And then never return to that bowl again, just leave it like that. The programmer wanted to use this bowl for something, but then forgot it was there.

And then, when someone returns to that code, they have no idea that these steps are unnecessary and why each step was taken. (Or maybe they are necessary, because cloud counting ensures there is time for ingredients to permeate?). So probably these steps will be left and more mess and jungle will accumulate.
They also use Clojure at Grammarly AFAIK.
Feynman speaks of "Cargo Cult Science" in 1974:

http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm
Maybe I'm totally wrong here, but I don't see much of a difference between extorsionist tax filing software and scam callers warning me about the IRS suing me.

Can the government please make something that's easy to use? Filing taxes isn't something that requires a separate company to help with, and I see no reason why these products have a right to exist (and especially not be canonized), especially with how exploitive they are or can be.
> Why do gun control advocates never discuss disarming the police?

Of course you disarm the police. Police in Poland shoots less than 100 bullets a year (in action). Most don't even carry a gun, because there's no point in day-to-day service.
They are still an unnecessarily painful solution.

I did do these last year to finally kick TurboTax to the curb. However, they’re shamefully complex especially considering how they’re already a piece of software. They barely do basic arithmetic.

The restrictions are entirely artificial, and the system is gamed so that you either spend a lot of time learning tax form rules and lingo or you just pay TurboTax to do it for you.

The IRS could very easily send a pre-filled tax form for most Americans to verify and sign like other countries do. All the relevant information is already reported to the IRS. Only business owners and people with exotic tax situations would ever have to fill anything out - especially considering our now-higher standard deduction that most people don’t hit.

Despite my complaints I still highly recommend everyone use free fillable forms. You’ll actually understand what is happening with your taxes by the end of it. And without that understanding you have no idea if TurboTax is doing it right.
A ‘Modern’ Depression Is Creeping into Japanese Workplaces
Mozilla revenue is still something like 90% from Google. The Yahoo deal did help, but they are still very dependent on Google for finance.

Historically Google has been a really close Mozilla partner, not only sponsoring search, but also developers.

Today, Mozillas relationship with Google is extremely complicated.

ZDNET had an article back in April [1], that somewhat sums up how the relationship soured, but doesn't really touch on why and how they are still intermingled.

> Google, including services that track users such as Analytics?

Mozilla has a special deal with Google, that does not allow Google to use that information as part of their greater analytics or sell it to 3rd parties, as per [2].

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/former-mozilla-exec-google-has...

[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697436#c14
I open everything for which I don't need to be logged in, in an incognito window, and this page worked fine.
I was a huge Google Fan but this is becoming lunacy.

I understood trading some data and privacy for great search results, maps and free quality email.

But people willingly bringing always on listening devices in to their homes (beyond what smartphones are already capable of) I just can't comprehend it.

Why would people voluntarily do this in exchange for being able to ask for weather, play a playlist, add a todo and a few other parlor tricks.

I guess I value my privacy more than others and don't like the idea of entities compiling a record of my data that they can sell and market.

Imagine how some governments could use this data to limit freedoms, crack down on their opposition.

And what about the first data breech that includes transcripts or even audio of all your household conversations/activities over the past three years matched up to your email or even address?

It just sounds like we are heading down the wrong road.
Fun fact: the official tax filing application in Germany which has been around for a few decades is called "ELSTER" (apronym for Elektronische Steuererklärung, "Electronic Tax Return") which literally translates to "MAGPIE", as in "thieving magpie" ("Diebische Elster"). This is a form of self-irony which is quite unusual for the German tax offices.

OS portability has greatly improved with their online app [0], which is actually very good and easy to use. Before, the only stable way to run their Desktop application on Linux was through wine.

[0] https://www.elster.de/eportal/login
This, a thousand times over.
This seems to make the hn front page every 60 days or so. Is there anything new here?
So, I DO believe that this earnest high-level programmer is very earnest, I just don't think that he is starting with a full deck of cards. The manner in which he quickly brings up "C" and it's "killer app" being systems programming, and then jumps into the Javascript morass, it sort of suggests that he should start with first principles on how computers function.

Computers are imperative devices. I don't think that a for-loop or a map function fundamentally impede understanding of this concept. I DO think that pretending that languages that run on top of Virtual Machines need to aknowledge their dependency heirarchy and stop attempting to "level/equalize" the languages in question.
One would use C in order to write a VM like V8 that then could run your scripting language.
The core of Autocad is surely C++ with some lower-level C (and possibly assembler) regardless of whichever scripting language has then been implemented inside of this codebase, again, on a virtual machine.

The Operating System is a virtual machine. The memory management subsystem is a virtual machine.

Javascript runs on browsers. (Or V8, but then that was originally the JS engine of a browser) and has inherent flaws (lack of type system, for one) that limit it's use in specifying/driving code generation that could provide lower level functionality.
THAT is the essential issue. VHDL and Verilog can specify digital logic up to a certain level of abstraction.
C++ and C code generation frameworks can be used to generate HDL code to some degree, to the degree that libraries make them aware of the lower-level constructs such HDL's work in.
I have no doubt that Pythons MyHDL presents a very low learning curve in terms of having the Python interface, but then the developer needs to be aware of what sort of HDL MyHDL will output and how it will actually perform in synthesis and on a real FPGA.

We don't need MORE layers of opaque abstraction. People need to learn more about how computers work as abstraction doesn't obviate the need to know how the lower levels work in order to optimize ones higher level code.

I can provide specific examples regarding libraries that purport to provide a somewhat blackbox interface, but upon deeper examination DO, in fact, require intimate knowledge of what is inside.

Abstractions are imperfect human attempts to separate concerns and they are temporary and social membranes.

Now, having said all of this: If a person ran a Symbolics Lisp system, such a system was holistic and the higher-level Lisp programmer could drill down into anything in the system and modify it or see how it was made.

I digress... read the source code for any magical black boxes you are thinking of employing in your work.
I had an app that refused to work unless high accuracy location was turned on. There was a location aspect to it but demanding the highest setting of location sharing was vastly overreaching and I just uninstalled the app.
Its very, very, VERY hard to keep such a company culture when you grow company big time.

You would effectively have to have people dedicated simply to this task, with massive managerial powers checking all management decisions and keep reminding all folks to stick to them (I can't imagine any other way). Its not only about things on paper like benefits and working hours, but overall company culture, agility to change and corner cases. If you manage that, kudos to you, but you are rather an exception.

I've seen it first hand - an amazing, startup-like company, growing super fast, and culture suffered.
Is there any advantage/difference to using ProxyCommand with netcat vs just saying "ProxyJump bastion.example.com"?
100 and 110 you might see more differences in the aggregate.

That's the other thing, you do have to look at the whole. Because there is likely overlap. But the trend of note is that IQ tracks through it.

If you sort people by earning potential, you'll find that as average income goes up, so does average IQ.

When you sort by health outcomes. As average healthiness goes up, so does average IQ.

Even the outcomes that are colloquially contrasted with intelligence actually correlate well. In other words, if you sorted people by EQ, you'll find that better average EQ means better average IQ.

IQ is the aspartame of psychology. So maligned that it's been probably studied more than other things. And just like aspartame is perfectly fine, IQ does what it says on the tin.
Probably because accountants aren't silly enough to work for free.
Damnit I'll have to start watching SP again.
MRA plagiarizes feminist novel, buys fake reviews, Amazon doesn’t react
Firefox 70 is suppose to have a big performance boost on Mac.
Here is a link to Sprint published in Compute's Gazette from January 1986 -- https://archive.org/details/1986-01-computegazette/page/n73

Integer and string only, no parentheses (strict left to right evaluation), array sizes were limited to 126 elements and one dimension, but longer variable names. Converting a normal C= 64 program to work with it was daunting.

This issue also has a machine language assembler, which I did use extensively.
It takes work to keep up with changes to the tax laws in every state and at the federal level. I don’t know many open source accountants.
Naah I'm good thanks though, why should I strive for lots of votes? like Elixir, voting on hackernews is meaningless
Dark Matter is not a specific theory. Are you talking about WIMPs?
Comparing Elixir and Go is reasonable, but I don't think Elixir and Rust have much overlap in the types of projects you would choose them for.
Excellent response, thank you for all that information. I wanted to try and see a positive side to it as energy independence is a good thing for a nation. But it doesn't look like it's worth it. Hopefully renewables make it unprofitable sooner rather than later.
Worry about vendor lock-in is real.

RedHat OpenShift (yes yes IBM) is gaining momentum because of it. But the field is still wide open. And the burden will fall on small ISVs to provide open solutions around data portability, redundancy, security, and a host of other concerns.

In the early days of Cloud technologies, the original vision was highly commoditized. You'd pull a Docker container from a registry hub and perhaps not even know where it ran. Perhaps even an exchange would handle pricing and performance. Instead, we have the Big 4 vendors in a highly fragmented space offering roughly the same services.
If only the author knew about GNUnet...
Similar case in Spain.
There should have been an X at the top right corner.

Also, do you have reader mode on your device? That would fix it too.
Here in Brazil the mascot of the Income Tax is a Lion, it's of an old ad campaign the government ran, comparing taxes with lions and saying "the lion is tame".
I don’t think I agree with that. If we imagine people can pass through each other but must still obey the rules of the queue (one person at an item at a time) the overall wait time is not going to change much. When you think back to your buffets, I hope it’s not the physical difficult of maneuvering around people stalled at an item you don’t want that takes up the most time.

Queuing theory is very appropriate for this. It’s a queue.
Which one? I'm from Moraña myself
I was referring to filtering spam phone calls.
No, it's just still amusing to the rest of the world. We're like "This is 2019, not 1920".
This article hurt to read.
So, a different-but-related question: Putting aside the desired addictive nature, are there any gamers out there who actually prefer microtransaction-driven loot box mechanics to more conventional item drops?

Or is this just a UX element that most people dislike or don't care about, but some people get badly addicted to?

There's so much argument about gambling, etc, but I'm yet to hear a compelling argument for why these should be allowed to exist, from a game design perspective, short of "we can make a lot of money from gamblers".
A bit of background on this (I am involved in the ultrasound industry):

- The chip Samsung uses is by Qualcomm. Their big claim is that their ultrasound fingerprint scanner is the only US government approved non-optical way of electronically scanning a fingerprint (those sensors they have at airports use basically the same technology)

- It's supposed to be more secure than the capacitive technology Apple used to use since it grabs a true image of the fingerprint and not just a low-res representation

- Given this, it's probably a problem with the software on Samsung's part, not Qualcomm

- However, it's interesting that adding the screen protector is what broke it. It suggests that there could be any number of unintentional biometric security holes

- It demonstrates that consumer tech companies (with possible exception of Apple) don't really have the expertise or motivation to properly implement biometric authentication

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The post was intended to educate the general public. Physicists already know about this problem.

Most pop science, even the ones featuring physicists, present speculative ideas as if they were well established facts. (Hello string theory)

Finally, criticism of a theory does not require presenting an alternate theory. She presents an argument. If you don’t agree with her conclusion then you need to rebut her argument.
What exactly are you looking for when you say shockwave? As far as we understand it, the big bang didn't explode into something, so there isn't an outer medium to "hold" a shockwave in the obvious sense of a radially expanding region of turbulence.

Also the frequently depicted diagram of expanding from a point doesn't really intend to depict the shape of it. The universe might still be infinitely large and the big bang occurred "everywhere" within it. Where is the shockwave in something that has no edge?
This topic hits people in the wallet and makes them stupid as a result - I think they're being sincere, not malicious.
Know how much the reporters you watch/read earn
It seems to be someone's talking points or more charitably a meme (differentiated by how organic the idea is). The publisher/platform dichotomy is a flat out wrong myth which keeps on being repeated - and often from high places.

I would call it outright propaganda at this point because the dogged insistence on not listening to objective facts seems more "big lie" style opinion shaping than mere ignorance which has caught on. At this point I reflexive downvote all who repeat it uncritically as "fact".
Why gaming is necessary for crypto adoption
Designing accessible color system
I agree. I haven’t done a lot of FP but, as a person who is used to knowing how my code will be executed, I find it very difficult to map what I want the machine to do onto functional code.

Functional Programming might have great advantages in correctness but sooner or later the code is going to be run on a real CPU with real instructions and all the mathematical abstractions don’t mean much there.

That said, I can see they have their place for specialized areas.
I'm a TurboTax user myself (b/c I almost always procrastinate to the last day/week), but my guess is because tax forms and rules change every year. Maybe the general situation for free filers is easy enough to code for, though? Though one of Turbotax's purported features is that it'll tell you how easy/complex your taxes can or should be, depending on your situation.

Also, one of TurboTax's features is e-filing. Maybe there are free e-file alternatives (as in free, with no upsell or strings-attached whatsoever), but it seems you have to be an "authorized IRS e-file provider" to do this, i.e. there's not a developer API: https://www.irs.gov/filing/e-file-options
Work hazards are not politics. There is a major difference between a construction worker wanting to discuss democrat vs republican, or if they need to bring up the lack of hard hats and steel shoes at work. If you need to bring national politics in order to address work safety then the issue is no longer between the employee and employer. Unions sometimes mix work place issues with national politics but it can also limit the effectiveness of unions by splitting members along national political lines. Having two construction unions, one that is republican and an other that is democrat decreases the power the union have to push against the employer, so even for them a policy of not discussing politics might be a good strategy in order to be as inclusive as possible.

A salary disparity is also not a political discussion but its not a easy topic to bring up as in any company there will be multiple disparities. Work hour disparities. Work freedom disparities. Perks disparities. External disparities such as commuting distance between work and home. Flexibility disparities. Skill and social contact disparities. Education disparities. There are even game theory issues such as optimizing for retention might not always end up with all employees being identical cogs that can simply be replaced.

Just recently I know a very skilled employee that left his company after almost 10 years because the company had a policy of having every employee under the same title, same wage system, and same heavily rotating schedule. That place suffer a very heavy turnover and looking at their strategy for handling employees it is not that surprising, but in fairness they have no salary disparities if you account for hours worked. Everyone is treated as an identical cogs in the machine.
Typically open source projects come from two places; a company needs software, or an individual thinks writing it would be fun or at least save them time. Preparing individual tax returns falls into neither category; companies have no interest in individual tax returns (they don't pay that kind of tax), and individuals only have to do it once a year so it's not time-efficient to write a program to do it.
Thanks for posting that. Have to be careful not to rush to judgement on anything these days.
Exactly the commuting problem from my comment. Thanks!
Gifted Students with Autism Find an Intellectual Oasis in Iowa
Seems more like false advertising
We need to move away from the 40-hour week
SpaceX says rideshare missions will launch on time, even if partly empty
The fingerprint sensor on the back of the phone is something I like so much I will avoid upgrading to a device that has it anywhere else (I fear I may be using my Pixel 3 for a very long time). I think it's a genius spot for it. It's right where my finger naturally falls as I'm bringing my phone out of my pocket, so it's unlocked before my eyes ever got the screen.
Damn it, came here to say this. Web is currently showing error 503. Oopsie!
Does Google allow politicians to lie on their advertising platform like Facebook? Genuinely asking, as it's a stated policy of Facebook but I haven't heard or seen analysis comparing Google's ad network. I realize this decision by Mozilla was based on a previous Facebook blunder.
There are...you can download any tax form for free and fill it in by hand or in a PDF program.

You will see articles regularly attacking TurboTax because SV has been wildly unsuccessful in producing a startup that can compete with TurboTax, so instead a lot of effort is spent attacking them in the media.

Google, Microsoft, Facebook all spend significantly more on lobbying to ensure market hegemony. Don't be surprised at the pattern, attack TurboTax in the media, then up pops a new startup that will disrupt the industry. Rinse and repeat.
"For over 30 years, Stallman has been a tireless advocate of a world that hasn’t mattered for the past 15 years."

I think that, if anything, the exact opposite is true after Snowden's revelations.