skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aquameta has been the life project of Eric Hanson for close to 20 years off-and-on. Functional prototypes have been developed in XML, RDF and MySQL, but PostgreSQL is the first database discovered that has the functionality necessary to achieve something close to practical, and huge advances in web technology like WebRTC, ES6 modules, and more have shown some light at the end of the tunnel.

Aquameta is an experimental project, still in early stages of development. It is not suitable for production development and should not be used in an untrusted or mission-critical environment.

Not really the basis for ’reference success stories’ approach to evaluation. More, check out the repo and hack at Postgres, see where the hypothesis can be made pragmatic.
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There haven’t been any “scholar-activist” heads of the AEA, have there, because there have been of the ASA.
The SEC does not agree with you

https://www.sec.gov/fast-answers/answersinsiderhtm.html
Brain Mechanisms of Concept Learning
What's the point of a security camera if it can't record strangers?
4chan raids are pretty passé. When was the last high-profile activity associated with /pol/, /b/, or Anonymous?

Hasn't the media turned to vilifying 8chan? That's double the chan, right, so it must be twice as bad.

Also, link is 503'd. Must've been a raid.
But people don't obey the rules of abstract queues at buffets. People circle around, bump into each other so that both change directions, squeeze themselves between others, and so on. To model this, you need to (IMO) model them as a system of interacting particles with properties that vary as the 'pressure' in the system increases (e.g. the 'diameter' of the particle increases by people holding in their arms, their speed varies as people slow down when it gets more crowded, etc.

Buffets are not like bank teller queues. Or maybe I should just visit different restaurants.
Can we not cross gaming (a good thing) and cryptocurrencies (a very very bad thing)?
Capability, yes. Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't believe it's enabled by default?
Cloudflare is a good way to mitigate those attacks. They have a pipe much bigger than what most attackers can get together.

You don't stand a chance against a DDoS and you have to work with your upstream ISP to mitigate some of it. They might not have the tools to help you though.
It's a webpage in the UK, takes about 10 minutes if you have all the data you need (how much interest etc you earned, how many charitable deductions) -- that's assuming you're self assessed. Most people don't need to fill in anything.
How was Guido treated?
Can someone post/comment a more critical analysis of elixir if they can?

It's really hard to figure out how useful it is because people always build up hype when it's not always worth it. All I ever see is how wonderful and magical elixir is and how it's literally life changing. I want to believe but I've seen technologies with lots of hype that didn't live up to it. Plus elixir is different enough that I have a really hard time jumping into it to try it out.

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I'll also add that recently I had to build a backend for a long term project I've been working on. I seriously looked at elixir/phoenix, but from my research it didn't seem like the pros outweighed the cons. Like there are some technologies that are so useful they're worth the lack of a robust ecosystem or the steep learning curve that may be necessary. And I am not sure Elixir meets that criteria.

There's already existing technologies like python/ruby for fast development, java/groovy for stability and groovy for modern features, and finally golang which is really good for concurrency and building web related microservices. Golang in particular is nice because it solves issues like python's slowness and it's slimmer than java in many ways. And these solutions are already pretty good. It's not like it's all that hard to write a backend. Like the productivity gains from js to typescript are huge because js can be bad enough that there's a lot of room for improvement. Whereas how much faster and MORE productive can someone really be in elixir?

And I am not even going to get into functional programming which is a whole other beast. It requires significantly different style of thinking, making a lot of my experience less valuable, I don't think it solves solutions for an oop system that's well designed, and often times the implementation can be bad if the right tools aren't there. From my limited experience, FP provides some really powerful features, but at the builtin cost of being more rigid when I don't need it to be.
I think you mean the worst case scenario for a fingerprint is that it's a username.
Not to mention how annoying it is to start hearing people snapping their fingers everywhere, like in the office or on any mass transit.
18F has really changed the game in government IT and software. https://18f.gsa.gov/

They brought in a bunch of dedicated experienced software pros who among other things rescued the federal health insurance exchange site.

I think they could do a fine job with tax software.
There are really many places in code where you really don't care about performance that much. And in that case conciseness/expressiveness/correctness can be extremely valuable.

Also there are different aspects to performance, and when (for example) it comes to latency, a platform like Erlang/BEAM makes it particularly easy to get low latency in certain contexts without thinking about implementation much. In Haskell you can accomplish similar things with green threads. It will probably need more clock cycles for a given action than a tuned C implementation but that's not always what matters, and the code will probably be cleaner.
Do you own a cell phone?
It's the same in Denmark and it feels right to me. It's not like they are doing detective work (per default). If you have a concealed source of income, I'd expect them not to know about it. Of course, you'd still be breaking the law by not reporting it and it could turn up if they notice something that doesn't add up somewhere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_servoing seems related.
Keyword that I like was PRIVACY

It's meaning is fading today too much.
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I'm afraid you're going to have to learn emacs (org).
Facial recognition AI can’t identify trans and non-binary people
that's one nasty GDPR nag screen. 10 clicks deep and still no way to opt out.
I think you're comparing apples and oranges here.

We're talking about just keeping track of who owns what amounts of a commodity. That part is using terawatt hours per year! I am very doubtful that the "keeping track of who owns what amounts" part of the stock market is anywhere near that.
Your point about how the IRS already has all of the relevant information is something that has always puzzled me. Why are we performing this bizarre, ever-changing ritual with the threat of IRS audits hanging over us if they already know everything?

I think that is part of why TurboTax has such a foothold. I use it because it walks me through the frankly byzantine process and explains a good deal of the arcane terminology for me.
It sounds right to me, when running thru cron for example, I need to load env vars as part of my script startup otherwise even path is missing.
>> I would not advertise Python as a language with good IDE support nor package management.

VS Code, VIM works for me. Conda or PIP also. Not sure what is missing for you.

>> but not everything in the world is glue code

I never claimed that.

>> and as soon as you need to do something O(n) on your dataset, you’re either paying an enormous performance penalty or you’re not writing that bit in Python

Depends what you need to do.

My entire comment was about that details matter and you can't just blindly pick a language because of out of the box performance.
One of the best sites to 'do stuff' in the UK is gov.uk

I've just filled in a new ESTA application on the US gov site too, simple (albeit stupid), and worked.

This morning however I tried using enterprise b2b to book a hire car, it took 6 attempts before it actually worked. Almost all corporate tools seem to be terrible.
>My dream is that one day most streets in Manhattan will be closed to car traffic and replaced with green space full of trees, flowers, children playing, and usable public space.

This is the hypothetical that GP responded to by saying it's not realistic...so you're acting like he was the one who constructed a straw man argument when he was making a reasonable point directly relevant to what another poster said.

If there's any hysteria in this conversation it's from your unreasonable response.
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> Our developers are using PHP, Python, and Visual Basic so none of it gets used.

Why aren't they being used? Even for single threaded languages you can spawn multiple processes.
IRS Followed BTC Transactions, Takedown of the Largest Child Exploitation Site
That's really interesting. Could you cite that for me? I had a quick look around but didn't see anything super reliable.
Tax lobbyists like Intuit benefit too much from all of this really. Planet money podcast episode that outlines some of this.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/03/22/521132960/epis...

Also Reply All did an episode recently on the Propublica Intuit story.

https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/6nhgol
Andrew McAfee Bets on More from Less
I think they are "painful" because they are tedious and unnecessary assuming the government can already pre-fill the information.

You also have to understand that many people may not have the same reading comprehension skills as you do.
When Internet Access Is a Public Utility
Twitter, an American company, attempts to control the discourse - just as most other American media companies attempt to control the discourse, in order to deflect from attention on American's gargantuan list of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Twitter is just one in a long line of goose-stepping corporations doing the bidding of the military-industrial-pharmaceutical complex which stands to profit greatly from its efforts ..
Sounds like the same strategy you need for when your Google account gets banned.
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Having a cell phone does not invalidate their legitimate critique.
There are a few things that are always extremely odd to figure out (or at least, I always waste a lot of time on them) when preparing the forms. What's deductible vs what isn't with retirement accounts, student loan repayments, and - for the love of God - the Health Savings Account stuff. It's been a long time since I had to think about it but I'm sure some hn users have struggles figuring out their stock options.

TurboTax asks you questions and guides you through entering the data. It's all fairly intuitive and you'll have a feel for whether you've done everything completely. Free Fillable Forms, which I've used the last couple of times, is just one step up from doing everything on paper. It is not bad if you know what you're in for, but it is not the same experience as something like TurboTax or the H&R Block tool.
found this out the hard way with a paranoid ex.

now I just use the 8 digit pin to login
>> "The systems were most accurate with cisgender men and women, who on average were accurately classified 98% of the time. Researchers found that trans men were wrongly categorized roughly 30% of the time. The tools fared far worse with non-binary or genderqueer people, inaccurately classifying them in all instances. "

I guarantee this sort of tech will be misused by every kiosk in malls and every sample person in stores to push products on individuals.

Amazon at least tried to pre-empt this concern, but this really isn't enough. Not that I know what is. I know the technology is coming, so pointing out what an ill-considered folly the whole thing is won't do much.

>> "Scheuerman said that while he believed Amazon’s guidelines were well-intended, the study points out what’s wrong with the service. There’s no guarantee that Rekognition’s clients are using the facial analysis tool as Amazon intended. And even if such data is viewed in aggregate, it would very likely still be incorrect."
What Type Soundness Theorem Do You Want to Prove?
I have to say that the UK's HMRC web-based self-assessment site has always struck me as being a really good example of tax returns done right.

It presents as the equivalent of the paper form but with many of the fields autocalculating for you, and offering contextual help. Quite nifty.
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I got another question. Why don't those prophets leave intelligent people alone and let them use whatever tooling/approach they find appropriate for solving particular problem instead of heating the air trying to propagate/force whatever ideology they carry.
ah yes. uncountable. was trying to find the correct terms. thanks.
The government has issues holding private companies accountable when they fail to deliver.
California is actively trying to make everything a crime so that they have the power to press criminal charges against anybody they dislike without violating 1A. Unfortunately, there's no Constitutional Amendment prohibiting selective enforcement of the law, otherwise these idiotic laws would have been killed as soon as they were signed.
You're likely not at all living "Google free". https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-google-out-of-my-life-it-screwed-u...
Same in Chile. If you have a regular, salaried job, your employer reports your earnings and all income taxes that have been paid, your bank reports your interest income, etc.

It takes less than 5 minutes to do your taxes unless you have unusual sources of income.
It's not useless. Higher TDP means more electricity and more heat. Running costs add up.
Yup. So another excuse for the "smart speaker"[0] to be always listening and always transmitting data.

And honestly, I'm not against a microphone that's always on. But I am against a microphone that sends what it hears to the cloud, to be owned, stored and processed by some third parties in unknown ways. Ambient computing is a very fine concept on its own - but what it needs is to be pried out from the hands of commercial entities driving it. It should be implemented in such a way that the user owns the data, storage of that data is entirely decoupled from the software that's being run on it and from the cloud that brings the two together. That is, I should be able to choose software that operates on a data I own, in a place I want it to, and that software should not exfiltrate that data.

I guess it won't happen without a long legal fight that's still ahead of us. But until then, there's no way in hell I'm going to let such a device be anywhere near my kid.

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[0] - It's funny how the name emphasizes the speaker aspect, whereas the core competency of such devices is the microphone.
Or you know, people could not put popovers on blogs.
Make your own IoT Devices people!
> My issue is that the article, and many posters here, make it sound like all the ills of the US tax system trace back to Intuit.

Nobody except you is taking the article to imply that.
Filing taxes does not actually require a separate company to help with. You can download the PDFs (or go to the post office), read the directions and fill them out yourself.

I have never actually done that; but my parents did well after I was using software, which sure is more convenient.
Why wouldn't they though? Astroturfing gets around adblockers entirely and reaches those who are ad-adverse because they don't necessarily realize it's an ad. It's nothing new either, it's just the internet equivalent of sitcoms having name brand products visible (and "coincidentally" turned turned so the logo faces the camera) during the show or "I, Robot" having "retro" chucks featured prominently (although obviously way more subtle than that).

My assumption is that McDonalds pays advertising companies to put ads together and distribute them. Why wouldn't they throw a couple hundred bucks at a few low-key ads in a few reddit posts. Doesn't take that many people to buy McDonalds before it pays for itself.
I think the point is that this wasn’t a representative vote done by area.

“Scotland” didn’t vote anything.

Voters in Scotland contributed to the overall result just like everyone one else.

Bigger questions for me:

Why such a small majority can bring in such a devastating change?

Why are the wreckers allowed to have multiple attempts but those that are want to save UK’s current membership and sweetheart rebate deal one allowed one referendum where the details of the “deal” are not known?
I also write CRUD apps for a living. Not every project needs Elixir, but here's several reasons why I might choose Phoenix for a project:

1. Phoenix's channels make communication between a frontend and backend pretty effortless. Create a channel, publish a message, and anyone listening to the channel picks it up. Communicating updates from the server to the client is simple. Communicating between clients is equally simple.

2. Elixir has great support for spawning and managing background processes. My go-to is Rails, and if I want to manage background work I have to use something like Sidekiq and Redis. It works, but Elixir is much nicer. I've written systems that need to manage heavy amounts of background work and I dream of rewriting them in Elixir.

Just a few data points that might be helpful.
Yep. Something like that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmdBFoQtVvU .
It's kind of outrageous the hoops we make nonprofit researchers operating transparently jump through when for-profit researchers who hide their results can basically do whatever they like as long as they make money.

Of course, I guess that's the thing here: the admissions officers are working for a nonprofit but they are a key part of revenue generation.
> This is "whataboutism" at it's finest.

That's not "whataboutism" at all, as I'm not defending Intuit's behavior.

> This article is on Intuit. It's focused on Intuit's bad behaviour. ProPublica has other articles on the issues you are complaining about.

I'm saying ProPublica should have referenced those articles, rather than making statements that imply everything is the tax preparation industry's fault.
He mentions that he does.

The thing is everyone has a cellphone, even many kids. Invite half a dozen people over and you’ll get half a dozen cellphones.

I have a couple of Amazon Echos, plus iOS devices that occasionally activate Siri for no reason.

I love them. My feeling is that I’m willing to live with it for now. Hopefully, a decade from now, voice technology is perfected and more is done on device.
Is it possible for anthropology to be a science the way we look at physics or chemistry? I'm not trying to bash anthropology, but I think we should be honest with what the "social sciences" really are. I personally don't think economics is a science, despite that being my field of focus. In fields where it is difficult or impossible to run controlled experiments, claiming to be a science is often misleading.

But maybe we just have different definitions of science?
Yeah, that sounds great. The amount and size of roads (and parking space) definitely can be reduced dramatically. Although I imagine this would be a massive endeavor for cities whose urban planning has been based entirely around driving/people owning cars.
I’ve always heard that the root servers are not capable of handling that amount of load. Is this no longer a major concern?
The 'Blob'
Copy line 13 of form 8765 to line 32 of form 5432... This is more tedious, except that it gets very easy to miss one of those steps in the list of things that don't apply. (most people have never worked for the railroad and skip a bunch of steps for railroad retirees)
I'm sure any 0-day capable of eavesdropping on your phone can also disable the LED.
It does for me. Let me give you an example:

You make an app using Ruby on Rails, keep developing it, and it keeps growing. You monitor your traffic and it gets bigger, now you add more servers to handle the traffic (it costs you $20/server, now you need 4). A couple more developments, memory usage starts to grow also.. Now, you need to increase memory of your server.. but now you also need Websockets, so you add both and need to add more resources to handle the scale, and the cycle continues.

When you use Elixir/Erlang and it’s BEAM VM, it’s highly efficient and scalable out of the box, so you won’t need to do “much” of the above. A simplistic explanation but shows the point.
OMG Thank you!

I’ve only read the first quarter, but excellent job... the extreme clarity is hugely awesome!

“What goes in it” and “what does not go in it” thank you thank you thank you thank you!
Personally I switched to Apple Maps after the iOS 13 release and haven't looked back. Because it's integrated into the OS, Apple Maps can look into your messages and auto-complete addresses from that. It can also save places without you signing into an account.

The only thing I miss is google's "offline" mode. I live in Michigan, and I frequently go on trips up north into heavily wooded areas. I don't always get cell service, so being able to save map data locally is a huge benefit. I can still search for nearby gas stations or stores even if I do not have cell service.

From what I tried, there's no way to save data in Apple Maps - it assumes the device is always connected to the internet.
This is just a convenient excuse for 3 layers of politicians with their own filing requirements, each one trying to get tax breaks for their favorite constituents. If we had a simple tax system there would be less power for politicians and less they can negotiate with. Blaming Turbo Tax is silly.
What I meant was that agent behaviour is linear and predictable, assumptions that don't hold when modeling actual people in the wild (it's fine for modeling e.g. factory queues and stuff, not knocking on queue theory as a field). Reasonable people can disagree on the assumptions made here though.
While I agree with you on that, I encourage you to read on. The author does make some interesting points later in the text which are not related to that statement.
That's not what intuitive means.

('intuitive' is over used as a goal, but a form where you look up the instructions line by line in a separate book and where you occasionally have to search out how to fill out a subform is not intuitive at all.)