skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I being stupid or is the terminal window not responding to typing?

edit: my bad: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21283632
Would be neat if we could get one of these for politicians that lie!
Biology paper written by a group of 10-year-old kids
I would sure as fuck would blame TurboTax, assuming you filed with them. Why else would you (be forced to) pay them if they can't perform their primary function of navigating overly complex tax law correctly?
I'm in the weird position of being too angry about Elixir to make a "meaningful" criticism of it any more.

I'd love to contribute, but I don't know how to phrase anything other than a useless rant.

And I would love for the contribution to boil down to anything else than:

> life without a static type checker is hard when you're writing a server. That needs to stay, like, on.

Which is, arguably, not necessarily a jab at Elixir itself.

Sorry.
> This article seems to be starting from a conclusion and then working its way up to an explanation. That's not how science works.

No, it's starting from a phenomena and providing a possible hypothesis for why that phenomena is occurring. This is explaining an existing, untested hypothesis.

> There is lots of experimental evidence that on a quantum scale there is inherent randomness.

No, there isn't, at least not as far as I know. The experimental evidence I'm aware of shows that we cannot, with current measurements, model the phenomena on a quantum scale, except probablistically. It does not show that there isn't any determinism, it only shows that, with current techniques, we don't have access to the determinism (if it exists).

In short, this is explaining the "Team E" position:

> [W]e debated whether randomness or determinism lies at the heart of quantum mechanics, which I characterized as team B (Niels Bohr) versus team E (Albert Einstein). Team B sees the unpredictability of particle behavior as evidence that at the fundamental level of the universe, determinism is replaced by intrinsic, objective randomness. Team E contends that this randomness is merely a sign of our ignorance of a deeper level of deterministic causation.

To be clear, I'm not saying that quanta are deterministic. I don't know.

> One thought experiment that comes to mind is, imagine a perfect Galton board where all the pegs are perfectly identical in a closed perfectly isometric system. Without subtle factors like air currents or imperfections in the pegs or the marbles, where does the marble land? I think personally if all other factors are ruled out the thought experiment reduces to the double slit experiment.

Assuming a perfectly drop as well, my hypothesis is that the ball would land on the top peg and balance there, perhaps after bouncing if we're assuming some elasticity in the components of the system. A "perfect drop" being in this case, one where the ball is perfectly centered, with no spin or side-to-side motion.

But I think this is getting into why analogies aren't a very good way to talk about science--analogies don't prove anything, and always fall apart on some details.
I have wondered about this also. The employee has given consent for their employer to record them, but does that automatically mean they've consented to being recorded by the caller? I don't know that this is true, and it could depend by state.

Regardless, I can't imagine a jury ever finding anyone guilty of breaking the law for doing this (if a company had the nerve to press charges). More relevantly, I would think that judges would be generous in allowing the recording as evidence in a civil suit, where there is discretion. And I'd imagine that in most states there would be room for judicial interpretation, since it's unlikely that a state has a specific law or appellate case that addresses this issue.
What I would like to see implemented is "Touch to Factory Reset". That would allow you to define an unlikely combination of touch sensor presses - say your right pinky finger followed within 1 second by your left pinky finger, that would silently perform a factory reset on the device. That would be handy if you believe your phone is about to be stolen or confiscated by the police.
Perhaps the title should be "Why policymakers should support fiber over cable and 5G". This is about public policy, it's not a technical discussion.
We Have No Reason to Believe 5G Is Safe
Sigh. I use TurboTax because I had an accountant who retired and sold his bussiness to some Class A assholes who managed to fuck up what should have been a fairly simple return for them given I explained everything in detail if they had bothered to read it. I had to fire them over it, leaving me with no return for 2017 about a week before April 15. It was extremely stressful because it involves a lot of stock cost basis issues related to some inherited equities and capital gains, etc. I could have filed an extension, but I was able to figure it all out using TT and get my taxes done correctly. The assholes would have had me paying $15K incorrectly! Shitheads! So even accounting firms are not at all reliable.

If someone came along and made a free (e.g. open source) version that was halfway decent, I would use it. I could do the paper forms, it's not really that difficult, just time consuming. Time is money. TT charged me like $100 for the whole dealie.

I don't want TT standing in the way of needed reform. I think our tax code is patently ridiculous and only computers have allowed it to be that way and lobbyists keep it that way.

Forget the "wealth tax"--that is bullshit, too. Inflation will bring you dead center into whatever tax scheme is cooked up which is already why we're in the mess we're in.
That is incorrect because PostgreSQL has XML operators.
All experiments involving quantum theory affirm the mathematics, but are interpreted differently based on how one translates the mathematics into physical reality.

For example, in Everettian interpretations there is no fundamental randomness. There is a universal wave function evolving continuously and deterministically, but decoherence processes lead to the appearance of randomness.

In some Copenhagen type interpretations it only makes sense to talk about a wavefunction in the context of the system it describes, and there is a real physical collapse of the system's wavefunction which results in genuine fundamental randomness.

Still other interpretations are agnostic about whether randomness is fundamental or merely apparent.

No experiment to date has proved the supremacy of one class of these interpretations over the others.
Pivotal Labs in fact has an entire practice focusing on teaching and evolving the practice of "Platform as a Product". Operations is more than "just" operations, it's an engineering practice. You're delivering capabilities to a customer, looking for ways to make everyone's lives easier and better and faster.

I think that like folks at Azure, we evolved the approach based on experiences dogfooding various platforms, applying our existing thinking about product development and lots of learning from industry peers.
Conveniently moving the burden of privacy awareness from the company to the consumer. Sort of like how big oil wants us all to think the climate emergency is about our choices as individuals rather than their massive horrendous enterprises.
I'd say the next step up would be something like the Morgan RepRap: https://reprap.org/wiki/RepRap_Morgan
Are you using chrome? We can occasionally have some issues on some browsers. Sorry to hear that. A refresh will probably help
They were primarily concerned about infectious diseases, and most people were kept in holding until it passed or they died.
Take it to an absurd extreme: should a bureaucrat in Potsdam make decisions about a farmer’s water dispute with their neighbor in rural Utah? That’s what “world government” ends up looking like. Despite a bunch of wires crisscrossing the global, all politics, as Tip O’Neil famously said, is local.
It comes to rest perfectly balanced on the peg. I intuit that the quantum effects are a wash on the macro scale, but maybe I'm talking out my ass.
Under European law, sure. But the American government is not and cannot be bound by European law, only by bi-lateral treaty. In fact, not doing so would be a violation of American law, and deleting that data in compliance with GDPR would be illegal under American law. Regardless of your moral stance on the issue, one law does not have a greater legal significance. This is exactly why we have bi-lateral treaties.
My take on it is actually that the phrasing they all use, "this call may be recorded" never specifies ONLY BY THEM. It's very reasonable to interpret that as "you may (also) record this". Like them, I'm also recording it for "quality assurance purposes" - to assure that they provide me quality, honest service. But see my other comment for why I bother telling them sometimes anyway...
Never written even a simple C compiler, but I, and most c++ programmers that care about performance I think, do have a decent idea what code g++ is going to generate.
The claim isn’t that subdivisions are evil, it is that we should aim for a tree, not a forest.

When “city” was the top-level structure, there was more than one, and cities had conflicts (economical and wars).

Countries solve that problem, but, because there’s more than one country, introduce the problem that countries had conflicts.

Country groups (Germany, the USA, the EU, NATO, Warschau pact) solve that problem, but, because there’s more than one, introduce the problem that country groups have confocts.

The UN, in theory, solves that, and, because there’s only one, don’t introduce another, but it isn’t powerful enough.
This only works well if they staff/build infrastructure for a reasonably short wait time for everyone, because too many disgruntled users will cost you also.
Firefox, but it's happening in both browsers I try.

edit: Apologies, it was due to my work's restrictive proxy that stopped several components from loading.
That is not entirely true, it all depends on who the target of the speech is. Law enforcement certainly can lie to the public.

I am always of the opinion, government first. As in, want to apply an accountability rule; or any law for that matter, apply it to those who write the law first and make their penalties more severe.

In this case, this is a lot of election year posturing. We already have accounts of government officials leaking private information and that rarely lands with anyone being penalized.
Well the idea behind Crud is easy but it doesn't mean every crud app is easy. Is Wikipedia or base camp easy to write without a framework?
Recent Site Isolation Improvements
I struggle to understand what points you are making. Are you saying that since these people are making life difficult for themselves, there can be no external causes behind that behavior? It sounds a lot like "their own fault, not my problem" to be honest.
Very cool! What kind of software do you use on your machines?

- Are you doing docker in a Linux VM?

- Any graphical Applications other than Firefox and emacs?
Google "free tax filing" and these organizations all promise free tax filing on the first page: IRS, eFile, FreeTaxUSA, TurboTax, H&R Block, TaxAct, and others. Intuit's not the top organic or paid slot. Are all of these equally misleading or is Intuit just called out for being the market leader?
Ok great, thank you for the very interesting reply!

> python a_streamlit_sctipt.py

This is golden, well done.

I'll do some further tinkering and create a discuss thread once I have some further insights.
Thanks :)
However, they're not significantly less-ordered than bank teller queues; They're hardly a "crowd" of independent actors following no rules beyond physics + goal that would necessitate treatment as a particle simulation.

You're right if you wanted a really in-depth and granular model, but it's doubtful you'll find significantly improved insights versus treating it as a simple queue, and ignoring the fact that people are a little dynamic.

As far as I've seen, most buffets constitute a line with a little bit of people skipping around. But it's very close to well-ordered.
Double layer of graphene helps to control spin currents
Because they want your data. If they didn't, no need to give the user any options.
How do they get you to the right department? If you call the wrong dept at Comcast, for example, they transfer you into the queue for the proper department, which would take just as long as calling in on your own.
Daniel Kahneman: Putting Your Intuition on Ice
And Demolition Man where he used an eyeball on a pen to fool the optical scanner.
Don't buy servos from Amazon though: you could get anything.

Spend a few more bucks at e.g. Digikey, eh?
In Canada the CRA has a list of free tax software listed on its website.

For the last two years I literally filed my tax return with two mouse clicks. Click 1 Autofill Click 2 Efile.

At some point I expect the government to just send a notice "your taxes have been filed. If you have concerns contact us".

I could have been doing it for ten years but I was stuck in the past of only using electronic tax software. And I still made a paper copy for myself.
Europe claims that the GDPR applies to data stored outside Europe, USA claims that their search warrants apply to data stored outside the USA. Seems pretty symmetrical to me.
> How baking a cake in FP looks like:

> * A cake is a hot cake that [...]

The difference between a functional programmer and an imperative programmer is an imperative programmer looks at that and says “yeah, great takedown of FP”, while a functional programmer says, “what’s with the unbounded recursion?”

But, more seriously, it's long been established that real programming benefits from use of both imperative and declarative (the latter including—but not limited to—functional) idioms, which is why mainstream imperative OO languages have for more than decade importing functional features at a mad clip, and why functional languages have historically either been impure (e.g., Lisp and ML and many of their descendants) or included embedded syntax sugar that supports expressing imperative sequences using more conventionally imperative idioms (e.g., Haskell do-notation.)

The difference is that embedding functional idioms in imperative languages often requires warnings about what you can and cannot do safely to data without causing chaos, while imperative embeddings in functional code have no such problems.
This is a very interesting approach of merging crypto with the legacy system. Good luck in your endeavours!
To be fair, most of the set of optimization parameters enabled for the various for -Ox, including x=fast, is usually documented.

At least in GCC though, there are a few optimizations included in the various -O flags that have no corresponding fine grained flag (usually because they affect optimization pass ordering or tuning parameters).
If “to get the machine to do exactly what you want” is an important goal, I'd recommend C or C++. Those are well known tools for those purposes. FP languages are rather about getting more ideas from math into how you structure your code.
I wonder what percent of taxpayers actually owe a different amount than the IRS can compute on its own. My guess is it’s not much more than 30% (the percentage who itemize deductions).

Is it really worth making 100% of taxpayers do their own just to handle the edge case of people who actually have to?
It seems that in most countries few control most of the wealth, regardless of whether they're dictatorships or democracies.
Personally, I think Andrew Yang has a bold position for data privacy that I hope Congress will embrace.

Data as a property right: https://www.yang2020.com/policies/data-property-right/
New parent here - there's a learning curve and once you are over it (ie have balanced your anxieties with the realities that your child is probably ok seeping at night) you will have traded off your privacy for a device that to your own language you wouldn't trust 100%. It feels like this is just a push for positive stories on privacy infringement to make it easier to buy the products. I.e. "We got these spy devices in our house, but for the first 3-6 months of our new child being in the house, it monitored them for breathing"
Okay, so first of all this is an excellent joke. But it's not that great of an analogy.

This quote chooses one of many FP syntaxes. It's cherry picking. It uses "a = b where c = d." That's equivalent to "let c = d in a = b." Let will allow you to write things like:

let
cake_ingredients = [butter, white sugar, sugar]
batter = cream(ingredients=cake_ingredients,
dish=large_bowl,
condition=LIGHT_AND_FLUFFY)
prepped_pans = pans_full_of(batter)
oven = preheat(your_over, 175 C)
cake = bake(cake, 30 minutes)
in
dessert_tonight = cooled(cake)

This isn't where FP and imperative are different.

What's really different is that the let statement doesn't define execution order. That's not so relevant to this part of the mental modeling though.

I think it's great that I can choose between "let ... in ..." or "... where ...". In real life, for a complex bit of language, I happen to often like putting the main point at the top (like a thesis statement), then progressively giving more details. Mix and match however's clear.
3) Take a semester or two of high margin 100 and 200 level classes (e.g. entry level classes that only require one professor and a lecture hall) before dropping out.
AC or DC?
Sure, but TVs aren't always on like this Nest device.
IRS Tax Migration – How $2T Moved Between the States
Personally I am very excited for a couple years from now when prices on used dual socket epyc servers come down because I want a workstation with 128 physical cores. It will be glorious.
No, you haven't expressed any opinion here. You've alleged that you do have some though:

> around sensitive topics that happen to involve race and national origin.
I think Kubernetes-the-scheduler and Kubernetes-the-patterns-with-reified-examples have diverged and are going to continue diverging.

The latter is more of a microkernel for distributed control systems.

My hunch is that this means OAM may be dead letter in the long run. Abstract from Kubernetes-as-scheduler, fine and good. But Kubernetes-as-microkernel is close to doing that already. Whatever my gripes about the details, the mechanisms and affordances are consistent and predictable. That's very valuable.
It was 2006 IIRC. I was a teenager at the time and the raids were my favorite thing about /b/. I think we made up like 80% of the callers to Tom Green's online talk show - he was really getting a taste of his own medicine, after having grown out of such antics himself

I didn't take part in anything like trying to drive people to suicide as described in the boingboing post in another comment in this thread. Once 4chan banned raids I moved on (and also aged out of such behavior).

4chan was a different place then. It's hard to imagine people assembling in Guy Fawkes masks to protest scientology today
Is it that social media is worse, or that returns on advertising for local businesses have always been bad but only when we could track them have we noticed?

We (a local micro-business) tried tracking our print adverts by including coupons and found nearly the only people using them were current customers.

Direct word-of-mouth was by far our most successful advertising (either from customers, or staff handing out leaflets in the street).
Maybe start with the president?
Can’t you just removed the hardware from the device? It’s not like microphones are magical.
The fun, and funny, and maybe (probably) even terrible, thing about javascript is that while it -is- functional, and (IIRC) always has been, historically it wasn't originally used that way!

Only relatively recently have programmers embraced its functional aspects; prior to that it was mostly used as a procedural language.

Then people started to used functional aspects of it to "shoehorn" it into allowing a quasi-OOP form of programming style, and this form has been baked (in no small part) into the latest version of ECMAScript.

But people following this path, coupled with (I believe) using JQuery, NodeJS, and other tools (and now React) have led most of them (raising hand here) to more fully embrace it as a functional language.

But here's the thing:

You can still use it as a procedural language - and an OOP language - and a functional language! All at the same time if you want - it doesn't care (much)! It's like this weird mismash of a language, a Frankenstein's Monster coupled to Hardware's killer robot.

Yes - with today's Javascript you can still write a unicorn farting stars that follows your mouse on a webpage while playing a MIDI file - and do it all procedurally. In fact, there's tons of code examples out there still showing this method.

You can mix in simple class-like constructs using anonymous functions and other weirdness - or just use the latest supported ECMAScript OOP keywords and such - go for it!

Want to mix it up? Combine them both together - it don't care!

Oh - and why not pass a function in and return one back - or an entire class for that matter! It's crazy, it's weird, it's fun!

It's maddening!

And yes - it's a crazy quirk of history - a language that was created by a single programmer over the course of a weekend (or so legend goes) at Netscape has and is seemingly taking over the world of software development.

Not to mention Web Assembly and all that weirdness.

I need to find an interview with that developer; I wonder what he thinks about his creation (which is greatly expanded over what he started with, granted) and it's role in software today - for good or ill...
The best part of course being is that what they learn will eventually make it to public uses and improve air safety for all. Plus this of course applies to drones which are pilot-less from day one, let alone the fantasy of flying cars
Awesome! Yeah websockets can be tricky in some environments
> No, it's starting from a phenomena and providing a possible hypothesis for why that phenomena is occurring. This is explaining an existing, untested hypothesis.

There is no hypothesis presented, merely that there are deterministic factors that we don't know of. That's not a hypothesis.

> No, there isn't, at least not as far as I know. The experimental evidence I'm aware of shows that we cannot, with current measurements, model the phenomena on a quantum scale, except probablistically. It does not show that there isn't any determinism, it only shows that, with current techniques, we don't have access to the determinism (if it exists).

I think you are presenting a semantics argument that has little value.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_fluctuation

> the uncertainty principle actually states a fundamental property of quantum systems and is not a statement about the observational success of current technology

Science doesn't work backwards from conclusions. If you think that there is determinism, there needs to be a testable theory that explains what these deterministic factors are. Like I said, we can simply attribute this supposed determinism to invisible unicorns and it'd be an equally valid explanation.
As a conservative I usually roll my eyes when I hear the latest legislation passed by the Berkeley City Council. But they are 100% right on this one. Long live liberty and anonymity (to those who want it)!
I don't think the thermostats are included in this. The article talks about Nest Cameras
What does having a Nest thermostat get you? I'm a tech dude, I build modern software, but I live in a dumb, old fashioned house. My programmable Honeywell thermostat, which has no internet connection, does a perfectly fine job of keeping my home the right temperature. My door locks use a key, and keys have great battery life, and my smoke detectors beep instead of speaking to me. What am I missing by not having internet connected stuff?
This article is a nationalist piece with few to no logical arguments. It's meant to spread a flamewar online.
I uploaded your file to Streamable: https://streamable.com/o5g3f