skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here in the US there are actually individuals who view their IRS tax refund check that they get back each year from filing their taxes as "getting free money from the government".

They simply do not understand the fact that, no, that check is not "free government money" but is instead money that the government took, held onto for free all year, interest free, and then let you have back after you filed the proper forms.

So the suggestions to have people cut checks to the government (quarterly, monthly, annually) is generally made from trying to overcome that viewpoint that too many folks view their tax return as some form of "gift" from the government, and instead get them to recognize just how much tax money is being consumed.
Or model what fingerprints look like, which was their job after all. What you do for people with disfigurements and birth defects, I couldn’t say. But you should be able to flag the data as sketchy.

Is this an example of AI gone bad, or something else?
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tldr: health care spending is high because prices are high

That seems obvious in general, but should be extra obvious to anyone who has ever received a bill from anything in the US health system.
> You know FB owns Instagram though right? Why do they care if you spend money there or on FB proper?

Because the audiences are different?
I don’t think you need to go that low level. I find it much easier to optimize around things like memory layout, allocation patterns and cache effects even in Java and C# compared to (essentially) any functional language.

I think this is just a feature of imperative languages over functional ones. Functional languages are excellent for many things, but not for this stuff.
Pick which teddybear drawing is more suitable as an illustration for the "WOOPSIE BIG COMPUTER DID A POOPIE :angryemoji:" chldish error messages.

Ah, also how to break their promises of privacy to promote a TV show.

/rant
So, QM at the small scale and GR everywhere else? Where is the line between QM and GR? Atomic level? Quark level?
I mean, things could be that way. It's not so hard to imagine a universe where some events just happen without any causation or correlation with past events. The astonishing thing is that there is any causation at all! That events at different times are related to each other.
Clearly :) It was a (terrible) joke.
It gets you troubles. Just bought a house that had some installed. Had weird "lost connection" failures, and the "smartness" trying to learn what's the right temperature for you doesn't work. After two months, I still have to wake up in the middle of the night to manually reset the temperature to something reasonable.
This inspired me to (quickly) write down my own Stupid Bash Tricks: https://gist.io/@tsutsu/2c11fc0a36000a46566e9fd62c60dea4

Most of it might be somewhat obvious; but scroll down to "Bash Hooks" for a cool trick I've never seen anywhere else.
Mid-career quality of life is a thing.

The doctor making 200k stitching up chainsaw mishaps in some small city can live on several acres (or in the nicest suburb of that city if that's his preference), send his kids to private school, he drinks $2 milk and fills his car up with $2 gas. Try living like that in SF or any other "tech hub" on 200k.

I'm not saying tech isn't easier and doesn't start off making big bucks faster but doctor probably takes the lead around age 30 or so. If you wanna make big bucks without going into management doctor seems like the better route.
The sexual suppression/repression in the West has increased so this is no surprise. Sexuality is suppresed from early childhood and there are all kinds of written and unwritten rules of how you are allowed to interact with the opposite sex. It has become difficult, tedious and even dangerous. Just look at all the drama and scandals these days. Not coincidentally, mental damage and sexual perversion has increased as people try to find other ways to release sexual energy. Now they are even taught to have 'pride' in that so expect things to get worse instead of better.
Hats off to you, sir. Please don't stop the work you do. Thank you!

After college I quickly weaned myself off TurboTax in favor of filing taxes for free with CalFile & Free Fillable Forms with an occasional paper mailing of PDFs that I download and fill out. Much like my opposition to using proprietary word processors, my disdain of paid tax return services that own your data is deep and profound.

While a bit painful and limited in feature set, the mere existence of a free filing option is crucial to keeping Intuit from forcing me to pay to file my returns. I find Intuit to be a rather evil company. Filing a return is mandated by law with steep penalties. They intentionally keep the process complicated and convoluted. It's a plundering of everyone's time for unproductive work and overspending on something that should be quick and easy.
If Fiddletown, California were forced to pay for its own road construction and upkeep, instead of getting free money from the state or federal government, they'd have to massively raise their taxes, and the town would become a ghost town as people moved to the large cities that have lower per-capita infrastructure costs.
I don't think FB cares, but if you are the one spending your own money, you probably care an awful lot.
> 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?

IMHO the latter. Returns were and are always terrible, with occasional "home runs" that then get parroted by every marketing guru as an example of how powerful social marketing campaigns can be. But of course, your plumbing business, or accounting firm doesn't have the same business model, market or customers as said example.

My point is that social media is no worse, or better than traditional marketing, it's just that, we can prove it's terrible with data. Of course, if everything is "terrible" ... none of it is.
I feel like this headline is a bit misleading. If you read the actual conversation, the question posed to this Google Exec seems to be more about manners than anything else. The question reads to me as: "Do you think you should let your houseguests know that you have a camera in the house?" to which the answer is clearly yes. The way this headline is structured seems to imply that the Google Exec is warning users that they're always being watched/recorded.

Again, this is simply my interpretation of the conversation, but I feel as though it's a reasonable one. And one that was likely shared by the Google Exec in this article.
Not very helpful.

Interestingly, coming to Elixir from another dynamically typed language (Python), I tend to do much fewer runtime/typing errors than ever before. I might be more experienced, or the tooling and compiler are good enough to catch the most common bugs.

I get a few "no matching clause" with my data ingestion tool on my Sentry log because external APIs are flaky and a cosmic ray flipped a bit so that I'm reading incorrect data. A GenServer somewhere crashes, restarts and the data comes back clean, without any user disruption at all.
Not going to school, not doing anything for most of my late teenage years, going into software engineering.
This highlights the issue with criminalizing "lying," because these are not all the same.

George H.W. Bush broke a promise, which is not (always) lying.
Bill Clinton lied.
George W. Bush, it's still not clear, but more likely lying than not.
Barack Obama made a promise it turned out was out of his control to keep.

The only one of the four we can say for certain lied is Clinton. And, of course, the current president.
> /pol/ is a far right echo chamber (I swear I remember years and years ago it used to be more left leaning?

I noticed a lot of conspiracy or somewhat alternative sites went very right wing several years back. I used to love visiting sites like AboveTopSecret for entertainment value as it used to have a lot of in depth threads about ayys, for example. Nowadays it's a right wing political board.
Excerpt:

"For a Galton board with any given number of rows, the number of different paths a marble can take to reach a bin placed at a given row is exactly equal to the corresponding number in Pascal’s triangle"
I rather they start with the financial companies. How many bankers were even charged after 2008? Rhetorical question of course.
> Just wondering - is the best solution to rape also to just "let it happen and deal with the rapist later"?

You're responding to someone who calls self-defense "murder", so I think the answer is rather obvious here.
>That is not true. Participation rates have been very high in some of the countries that are now low. Participation rates in some of those countries are currently high.

Yes, and my point is that when those women got more power, more choice, more money and more freedom they started to become less likely to choose software development and more likely to select other professions. Other professions that had historically been male dominated.

So it could be that if you are free to choose there are certain professions that will have a larger part male or female and that will amplify in a culture of freedom. You will choose what your friends choose.

For example I don't think that you would ever have 50% men/women that are interested in working in kindergarten. I think there is some biology in that and then it is amplified by most men not wanting it making it less likely for those that might want it to actually choose.
AFAICT, every part of the health care system is abnormally expensive in the US. Basically every article that says "The healthcare system in the US is expensive because of X" is partially right. X is part of what's driving costs up.
I never understood the appeal of Docker for mac. It just runs a Linux VM under the covers. If I need to use docker, I just run it in a Linux VM.
Is there anything like this for of the other big states like NY, Texas, and Florida?
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I mean in wallstreetbets. I think a story about a massive literal Wall Street bet is well within reason for Bloomberg news
MarkF from the Azure team here. The idea is to provide a function like experience with any programming language and then have common capabilities like saving state, sending events that your app can use with local host calls. And make this all extensible with components
Have whatever pleases you, but for the life of me I will never understand corn on pizza.
More than that, creating a joint governing body tends to create possibilities and incentives for peaceful conflict resolution that stabilize the area. For example, Europe has been war-torn for many centuries before the unification started after World War II. Since then, central and west Europe have had the longest period of peace in 500 years.
Indeed these were the major downsides.

Further, in my Oracle instance, relying on the late-1990s Oracle database server to also run our business logic came with performance and scalability concerns, especially around licensing.

In my other case, the custom language was terrible, but that's not a complaint about the use of the db engine. The interpreter was implemented in stored procedures, the pages were stored in text fields ... every bit of the stack depended entirely on this off-brand database that had its own issues (like corrupt indexes that needed repairing about once per month.)

I think ultimately, in both cases it just felt so much like putting all your eggs in one basket and then hoping you never needed to augment the basket with additional baskets, nor replace the basket with one of a different shape or made of other materials.
I apologize here, should have been more clear.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/first_amendment

This explains how lying is not protected in some cases,
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/fTrials/conlaw/lying.h...

or this https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/08/does-th...
Of course, but surely that aren't going to charge you anywhere near $1000.
Keeping up on medical news? Aging issues making progress weekly. Colonies in space? How many different billionaires are working on that now?
And let's be fair, Stallman's own supporters have often defended his behavior with their own armchair diagnoses of autism or neuro-atypicality[0,1]. So the horse has kind of fled the barn on this being a valid topic of discussion.

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I can understand why some people think fighting discrimination with discrimination sounds bad, especially when you say it that way. But I very much disagree, and framing it that way is exactly that: it's a frame intended to make positive actions look bad. On the one had you have permanent negative cultural discrimination that is keeping some people down who don't deserve it, and on the other you have an attempt to counter that with positive, visible, out-in-the-open affirmative action that is boosting the group that's being discriminated against. (And only until they're no longer being discriminated.)

The symmetry you're trying to imply doesn't really exist. Victims of cultural discrimination in history have been killed, enslaved, raped, harassed, etc. There is no analogue to that for the receivers of affirmative action. It's frequently quite difficult to show who's being materially harmed by affirmative actions as a group. It's common to say that giving a job to a women or black person because of affirmative action is discrimination, but it's not always zero-sum, it doesn't always mean someone else lost the job. And you just can't forget that if someone did lose the job, they still, as a group, already had unfairly high numbers of that job.

Another problem with your judgement is that the whole idea with affirmative action is to favor whoever is the underdog and only until they no longer are, where cultural racism doesn't change sides.

> when “positive racism” became fashionable some 8 years ago or so.

This comment sounds like it doesn't know any history. Affirmative actions have been used globally for a very long time in repose to times & places when discrimination occurs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action

> The obvious alternative is to discourage racism and promote (real) equality.

Ah, so you do you do that? People have been trying that for a very long time. How well is it working? When has it worked better than affirmative actions?

To make a more subtle and deeper point about the irony of what you're saying, how do you actually "discourage" racism without in some way, shape or form giving preference to the downtrodden group? Isn't "discouraging" racism discriminatory against someone? If all discrimination is deplorable, is "discouraging" racism then deplorable because it's discriminatory against racists?

> But even if you do nothing, it's strictly better

Disagree. And note that proponents of actually fixing the problem would call doing nothing deplorable, because it in effect protects existing known discrimination by refusing to fix it.
> Since there are African Americans and people with very little “indian blood”

I mean there are white people with little current Indian blood who meet the requirements because of an old ancestor. Why single out the African Americans?

> Citizenship is also based on ancestry in the USA (natural born citizen).

Sure, but the US is already a multicultural, multi-ethnic society, so... it would be more akin to a hypothetical US that ceased all immigration and naturalization, and only allowed natural born citizenship for a hundred years or so. I do agree that many other countries do this kind of thing, and I'm not sure it's good there either.
Welcome to hacker news, where facts don't matter and big tech is always out to get you.
Okay, fine, but "your taxes are automatically filed for you" is a specific campaign issue for Elizabeth Warren, and in addition she's introduced legislation specifically aimed at this issue (https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/912). Pointing her out as a potential solution in a thread about this particular issue is appropriate.

On the other hand, "everybody in every party sucks and it doesn't matter who anyone votes for because it won't change anything" is a comment that could go on any post about any aspect of politics and doesn't contribute to a productive conversation.
I'm fond of this Lego acid house machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fat8ptpiufA
Star Trek is a post scarcity society. There is no capitalism, commumism or even an economy. Every basic need is met. People join Starfleet and work as officers purely so they can better themselves and explore the stars. This is incredibly optimistic vision of the future.

We are far more likely to end up in a cyberpunk nightmare where corporations are richer than entire nations and technology is used to subjugate and control people.
I Use ~/src for ad-hocs and ~/git to home all of the git projects
> The original way of sending the output of this program to Receita Federal was to write it to a floppy disk and take it to a bank

My cousin started work as a company messenger back in the early 80s and these are the sort of tasks he used to do. Its amazing that the profession has died out in in such relatively short space of time. I guess courier companies have filled in the slot but courier companies would never have coped with the number of documents that needed to be ferried about town in the old days.
That's likely the memory training that every modern machine has to do when first seeing new memory (or if the training data is cleared from "CMOS"). Basically they have to discover exactly how tight the timings are for each bank so they can drive the memory efficiently and properly. Timings and latency just didn't used to be so tight compared to the good old days of EDO ram.

https://github.com/librecore-org/librecore/wiki/Understandin...
Of course it's simpler for the IRS. Simpler does not imply less work.
Oh, here's a random idea that might integrate with your business model.

Some companies like to offer profit sharing. You could support that by allowing the company to issue a token of some kind to employees on a regular basis as part of their pay check or manually as a bonus.

Either the ownership of their tokens could make them eligible for proportionate distribution of profit share payouts (during the holidays, or whatever) or the token itself could hold the value and the employee could convert it to another crypto when they want to cash out.
Yup. Exactly what I meant. Subdivisions are necessary to manage complexity, but as you said, it's about having a tree rather than a forest. It's about having an organization at the top capable of encouraging cooperation and preventing competition between nation states.
I'm sorry to break this to you, but I think all photos taken on Android are automatically uploaded to Google Photos regardless
It’s not just education – credentials are a maze in the workforce too
>4chan doesn't seem to be as active or popular anymore

That's what you get with a heavily-centralized Internet: Everyone and their dog consumes all their media and spends most of their day on the same handful of platforms--not that spending it on 4chan, of all places, would be better, but you know what I mean.
How would the US enforce anything against a EU company hosting data in the EU?
That may be true, but I see it in practice being used by CEOs whose annual salary is far bigger than my life savings, and who still walk away with Golden Parachutes.

If the goal is specifically to assist startups, then let's find some way to codify that. It sounds like one of those cases of unintended consequences. Is it trying to help out the little guy? It sure looks like it's helping the rich stay rich.
Excellent analogy! I'm so happy that telephone carriers do nothing to prevent my phone from being called by spammers 10x daily.
I’m thinking more of most of these: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_social_science
Amazing! Everyone should gamble with options more, because, winnings.

I can't see how Bloomberg could possibly benefit from that.
First we have to colonize it.

And maybe then we'll pick up on the pattern and go straight for the United Federation of Planets.
Maybe we could try not making things cost 5 times as much as over in Europe?

Seriously; (western) Europe isn't exactly known as a cheap-labor place, and is generally regarded as having a lot of bureaucracy and high taxes, according to conservative Americans. So if it still costs us 5x as much to build things, then there's something obviously f-ed up here.
I have codebases which scale almost linearly with cores. I built a 56-thread Xeon machine. One of my projects compiles in two minutes with single threaded make and two seconds with all 56 threads going.
Yes, with deep learning model of Woodie Guthrie style and intention.
Or use Pale Moon, where yes, the devs can be difficult, but they're also right more often than not.
All the interesting code is in the next post, http://felixmulder.com/writing/2019/10/05/Designing-testable....

I'm not sure why they use a generic monad rather than ST, they don't need continuations for this.

The Reader monad with a big record is standard Haskell, it's basically what GHC uses: https://github.com/ghc/ghc/blob/1219f8e8a3d1b58263bea7682232...

data-has is less standard, it only seems to have been used seriously by one project, which has a bug on file to stop using it: https://github.com/myfreeweb/magicbane/issues/20

But overall it's interesting, we'll see where the series goes.
For block length, if you can't use context or control character/symbols, then the label would be required to specific the length of the payload in bytes, or similar. When you reach the end of the given length, then the next token should be the closing payload tag/brace.

The important thing here is that everything gets described. The structures within a field, such as label, meta, validators, etc. always follow the specification set by the previous label. That label then sets the specifications for the next payload. And since the validators and such are Turing complete, the specifications can be anything, rebuilt within dit schemas.
Ok, but what on this list actually requires an internet connection? I guess the integration with your power company. But aside from that?

You could put a local AI model into the Nest, and it shouldn't need to talk to the internet at all. It can keep the data locally, and be programmed to draw inferences without help from the mothership.

For some reason we've decided it's ok to gratuitously connect everything to the internet "just cause". Sort of like how data maximization has become a thing because the costs are low, so why not?
Can you not participate in Craigslist?

The biggest draw to me with Facebook markets is that I am talking with real people with real reputations, not some anonymous anyone who can come and go without repercussions.
I've read multiple times that the dust from the sahara makes it over the atlantic and works as fertilizer for the amazonian rain forests. That is relatively new knowledge, since about a decade or so. Has been featured in nature documentations also.
What is not known is how much dependence there is on this input. Whereas i'm asking myself what about the other sand deserts then, like the Namib, or Gobi?
Maybe the EU could've tried becoming GDPR compliant themselves before it went into effect? That way they would've had an idea of what it would take to do so.
Read my lips: no new Taxes - Bush Sr.
This was a statement of intent that he wasn't able to fulfil, not a lie.

I did not have sexual relations with that woman - Clinton
This was a lie.

We found the weapons of mass destruction. - G.W. Bush
Some people lied, I'm not entirely sure it was G.W. Bush.

If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep it. - Obama
I don't think this was an intentional lie, but an overly broad statement.