skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How exactly? Apple doesn't prevent the sale, it just educates the purchaser who then acknowledges that they were warned.
Hi I don’t like responding to all messages in a thread I started.. but since no one else is, there are a zillion reasons why the map stopped updating. But fun fact, you didn’t actually know the plane was doing a 180 turn unless someone told you. In the pitch black or in clouds without reference, your brain loses sync of its inner ear balance and starts making up directions. You could be in level flight and your troll brain will tell you you are descending in a high rate spin. If you look at your instruments you’ll know this is a lie, but it is very difficult to overcome.. passengers don’t have instruments so troll brain fills the gap. This is also why flying into clouds who are not prepared is fatal for pilots.

That’s not why I responded tho, I responded because I used to be just like you. I hate turbulence, more importantly I hate negative Gs. It’s not normal and so your brain creates scenarios but the reality is, it’s just a pothole in the sky. One thing that made me get over my turbulence fears was getting into a simulator (or behind the controls of a real plane if you find the opportunity). I did exactly what the I hate so much. Over power the takeoff and pushed forward on the yolk to compensate and keep a slow climb. If I were a passenger I would have felt like we were climbing at a fast rate and then suddenly dropping as I corrected. My wings weren’t level until I hit autopilot and throttles fell back to 20%, passengers would think we were falling out of the sky because thrust disappeared and engines went quiet. Then I set the flight level and the throttles picked up again and we start climbing normally, calm and relaxed passengers again. I broke into a hysterical laughter and realized all of my flying fears stemmed from not only a lack of control but a lack of understanding what’s happening in the cockpit.

Watch some YouTube videos from the cockpit of cross country airbus or 737 flights. Watch turbulent landings and what the pilots are doing. In America, pilots are seriously over trained and know their craft like the back of their hand (source: pilot neighbor). Sit back and relax, sip some wine to ease the nerves. Flight is the safest mode of transport.
The IRS accepts most statements made regarding facts on return unless there is clear error, in particular because refunds are due (per statute) much faster than the IRS is able to gather all relevant information on whether it is factually owed or not in some edge cases.

The backstopping function is that stealing from the IRS is a really bad idea because you'll probably be interacting with them the rest of your life and because you probably want access to the US financial system at some point.
The people I've seen that fit the bill, tend to have a really strong knowledge base and are quickly able to understand the relevant code base/systems.

They're then able to easily debug/optimize the system and know how to implement features in the best/simplest/most scalable way almost immediately.
I feel like this misses the point

Those projects are organized around one monolithic package of code that could be broken out into there separate libs and composed together in novel ways.

A GUI is just the set of default compositions an opinionated team felt would connect best with an abstract perfect customer in mind.

Each chunk of code could be managed then by smaller teams, and the inputs/output spec more easily understood by all.

Unix composability at scale is what the web and devops has been peddling philosophically, IMO.

Lots of people like the desktop metaphor. Personally more of a “computer is a text editor I use to compose interesting outputs”.
Thanks for making me look, the numbers are even more extreme in some cases:

https://www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-members-news/irs-budg...

> IRS Research Division estimates in the 2003 GAO report, however, placed returns for activities such as tax enforcement at more than ten – and in some cases more than 20 – dollars collected for every dollar spent. Phone calls to follow up on tax debts owed were estimated to return 13 dollars for every dollar spent. Audits by mail returned as much as 11 dollars for every dollar spent. Using the overall rate of a four to one return, this year’s $100 million budget cut translates to a $400 million loss.

Imagine 20 dollars per dollar spent, that's the type of unicorn investment that basically every VC hunts for.
As a data point, I'm bilingual, and have been for about 30 years (my first language isn't English), and I'm kind of an idiot. So there's that.

In all seriousness though, this is something that's only debated in very large countries with a dominant culture and common language (US, Russia, UK, France, etc). Growing up in a smaller country that has its own language, pretty much everyone has to read/write and speak English at some level.
Wow, $500 million! That's nearly what Jeff Bezos makes in three days [0].

0: https://www.businessinsider.com/what-amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-m...
No, they asked me to sign a form (on an iPhone, FWIW) stating that I knew that strangers calling out of the blue and asking for payment in iTunes cards was a scam.
https://lmgtfy.com/?q=what+does+a+member+of+a+board+of+direc...
In Brazil they're taxed, but the published numbers are after tax. So you essentially get more than what's advertised, then taxes are applied at the source, and you end up with exactly what you expected.
There is indeed a fine line between NIH and minimalism. They have a strong correlation. You have to compromise between unnecessary features/bloat/crap or simply do it yourself. It's often surprising how easy it is to make something from the scratch. Hence NIH.
Is that the Auto-Train, where you can take your car along?
In my opinion, Assimil for learning the grammar and Pimsleur for speaking and listening comprehension. That’s how I learned German by myself enough in a year to get a job in Germany

More important than the method, though, is that you never miss a day of practice
Having studied a few languages, I don't agree with the idea that "another language is an entire other way of thinking about the world". That's not how it felt to me.

There's a linguistic-philosophical debate over this topic: Linguistic Relativity (or Sapir-Whorf) vs Universal Grammar (generally attributed to Chomsky). Though both theories are plausible, I find the Universal Grammar theory more convincing. There are good arguments on both sides.
There’s an old story about a Marine left alone in a room with two bowling balls for thirty minutes.

At the end of the thirty minutes one bowling ball was in a bunch of little pieces scattered all over the room and the other one was pregnant.
Highly unlikely for a few reasons.

1. IRS and prosecution would've determined this and hence this case wouldn't've been brought forward. There's a case because both felt these were the ones that did it. Also, they were convicted, which is an even higher bar.

2. "Shortly after law enforcement left, despite warnings not to do so, K. Edmonson went to his bank to attempt to withdraw the funds from the account that received the fraudulent refund check."

Not something an innocent person, a victim of identity fraud, does.

3. Cheques were sent to them, presumably to the address on file, which was probably also their actual residence.

4. "D. Edmonson deposited this tax refund check into her bank account and used the funds to purchase a luxury vehicle."

I'd bet that vehicle was sitting in her driveway when law enforcement came.
The smartphone is our era's cigarette – and just as hard to quit
Language semantics; libraries; runtime; tooling; talent pool; ...

[p.s.: point is not that X is better than Y.]
What I've learned sending proposals to conferences
> In terms of reducing bytes per message gzipped json was ahead of all of them

Try gzipping the protobuf. Binary encoding and compression are different things which can be stacked. Gzipped protobuf should be smaller and faster than gzipped json in basically all cases.
There is no replacement for hands-on experience.
That amazes me too, especially since people might still be innocent.

They do this in other countries too. Like Belgium, where after the Zaventum airport bombings the wrong guy was arrested as 'the terrorist with the hat that got away'. His full name published all over the place. His life destroyed now, lost girlfriend, friends, job, etc. Plus Belgium police keeps arresting him to nail him for something, anything really, to make good for their initial blunder.
Yup. In case all the dependencies are bug-free.
How to Become Irreplaceable: A Quick Tip for Software Developers
I can speak 3 languages and can understand close to 3 more.

And I think I am the dumbest person at work, damn why is my Brain so slow? :(
What one study, listens or believe is their choice, regardless of the medium through which one acquire that learnings (be it a professor or guru. By your argument all professor and accounts are almost always correct because?)

Also, just because something is science does not make people believe it (for the most part of our civilization earth was flat and for many global warning is hoax) Similarly, just because something is NOT science does not make people NOT believe it too.(the whole world of placebo is not science that has shown to work for many)

cheers,
Out of curiosity, why Hebrew? (I'm a Hebrew speaker)

> Language is an artifact of the culture that created it, and it crystallizes the values and beliefs of that culture. By learning the language, you can enter into an entire other world.

A common take, although I don't know if I would take it too far. Hebrew specifically has the advantage of having been re-created from nothing only a relatively short time ago (150 years more or less), so maybe in a sense it's more explicitly codified.

I'm genuinely curious what kind of things you think that learning Hebrew shows about Hebrew-speaking culture though - I'd love to be proven wrong!
Personally I even like this more since this feels much more explicit. The idea of depending on being set to the null value or unset at all gets my spider sense shivering and shuddering; someone is going to miss this, probably me.
As per the documentation, the library supports a subset of the PCRE syntax.

https://intel.github.io/hyperscan/dev-reference/compilation....
Some of the activities in the last decade includes significant improvements in the documentation, build and test automation. The code might have been good before, but the usability and quality of testing has improved significantly.
Absolutely. This is highly correlated. Seems many minimalist geniuses are from Germany.
I'm curious how this compares to the techniques that METAFONT uses. I'll try and make it a point to dig up that book this holiday.
Category Theory for Programmers (2014) [pdf]
Not the case with "Mortal Kombat", for instance.
Disney Acquisitions
Because ignorance is bliss.
The more you know the more you know you don't know.

Which 3?
Don’t forget to look at the more detailed companion to this excellent article!

https://www.thirtythreeforty.net/posts/2019/12/designing-my-...
or:

https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-p...

or 20-video lecture series:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbgaMIhjbmEnaH_LTkxLI...
> (everyone is a brand ambassador)

So word of mouth? The already known highest quality way to gain new customers: friends of existing customers.

All you gotta do is have a product good enough to be recommended. And maybe a nice built-in viral loop or twenty.
Most people done care enough to put in the effort to tune their application
Scale (YC S16) is hiring engineers to build infrastructure for AI
I find it disturbing how long ketchup lasts.

It’s not natural.
It took 100m of fraud to get caught. Would they have gotten away with 1m?
While I agree with alecbenzer's original point, I don't think that Dean and Sanjay created protobuf is a signal that they made the best decisions. Everyone has strengths and weaknesses even within the same job family.

I've encountered plenty of genius-level engineers when it comes to algorithms, architectures, and distributed system design that wrote GOD-AWFUL unreadable and unmaintainable code. I wouldn't trust them to design an API or a common framework optimized for usability.

In fact I almost wonder if intelligence is a hinderence in such cases. When you're too much like Cypher, and "don't even see the code", all code and all library choices feel equivalent.
I haven't mentioned Vietnam either.

And if I were you, I wouldn't bring up Afghanistan, because the US was on the side of Islamic extremists.
The main recipient of American weapons was the guy who had been throwing acid into faces of female students.
I don't think you could buy $100M of Monero, or even Bitcoin, quickly without being noticed or causing market swings. There's not enough liquidity. And even if you could you'd have some issue cashing out that cryptocurrency into useful fiat afterwards. And eventually, assuming you were able to cash out $100M over some time, it wouldn't be worth $100M by the time you cashed it out.
I don't really buy into the political debate. The arguments for open source as applied to non-technical users don't really work as advertised from my experience. Sure, you could potentially find someone to maintain it if the version you depend on goes bottom up. But the contexts where that's the preferred solution are few and far between.

More important in my mind is that open source software is strictly higher quality from a technical perspective. Because it's not prostitution most of the time, it's passion and wider perspectives such as sharing knowledge. And a higher quality foundation means better software, because whatever commercial cruft someone adds on top it will still work better.

I recently reinstalled a laptop that was running Windows 10 with Kubuntu for a non-technical friend, which is not an excellent example but still applies since Canonical is semi-commercial. And it's a total win, because Windows is simply crap from the bottom up.

Android is another example, as is macOS.
I think the word you're looking for is "foolproof"
Let me get this straight: You think it's OK for people to steal half a billion dollars from the U.S. Treasury because Jeff Bezos has made a lot of money?
Yep... unfortunately their tickets tend to be pretty expensive. A sleeper bed in a 3-bed compartment is between 110-140EUR one-way for the itinerary I usually travel. In comparison, I usually manage to get return airline tickets for about 150-200EUR for the same destination, which makes the train a very expensive option :/
Autism risk in offspring assessed through quantification of male sperm mosaicism
USA: makers of tax software donate millions to help politicians run for office

Everyone else: don’t allow unlimited donations by corporations to political offices
In my experience, learning a second language has clogged my brain up a bit. Maybe it’s healthier and more engaged, but it’s sometimes hard to say if it’s truly been beneficial from a cognitive perspective.

I’ve certainly been humbled and become more confident in pushing through mistakes made in public. It’s also a really cool skill. But it often feels like my memory for words is like a unordered linked list. Sometimes I get the wrong language and must iterate over the list to find the correct language version.
> I know French and English and several programming languages, and they do seem very similar to me.

I don't know, there are lots of obvious differences. I mean, just the fact that human languages have much larger vocabularies makes it so that learning a human language exercises the memory part of your brain way more than learning a programming language.

(And yes, I'm pretty sure human languages have vastly larger vocabularies, even if you include things like standard libraries, etc. Especially since most programmers don't know most standard libraries by heart, as opposed to vocabulary.)
Hey man, why you have to burn someone so hard that they curl up in their bed crying tears of agony like a little pussy?

Slow clap
Nope, Auto-Train is Virginia to Florida.
Atari Jaguar
It’s not clear whether HN has ever approached the same level of signal as subreddits. If you visit reddit front page then surely you’re looking for comedy and chatter, but if you consider the tech subreddits I don’t think Reddit was ever outperformed, such as for the Rust subreddit. In a way HN is all front page, even if its front page is higher signal than Reddit.
These responses are just copied off reddit verbatim without validation. I've seen the flight nurse and a couple of others before.
That was the biggest problem for anyone jumping on to Ruby Rails in regions that has little to Zero Mac market shares and all Windows PC. With WSL2 this was (?) solved, but that is assuming everyone is on Windows 10 and latest version.

This has been hurting RoR adoption for long, although at this point it probably no longer matters.
Perhaps "another language is an entire other way of thinking about the world" is incorrect as long as that another language is another natural language.

You might find http://www.lojban.org/files/why-lojban/whylojb.txt interesting.
Move to somewhere they speak it and force yourself to use it. Even if you could get away with using a language you know better.
Accepting that you would get it wrong, and keep trying even if you sound stupid and it feels hard would also help.
This is a decent article that could stand on its own.

It is also a PR piece by TimescaleDB which has all interest in convincing people/investors that an open-source company is a good deal:

> (Disclaimer: Our company TimescaleDB is an open-source time-series database startup and shares investors with several of these companies, including Elastic, MongoDB, Hortonworks, Confluent, and Databricks.)

There were more paragraphs, but I only picked 2 to comment:

> If you are an individual, your project (or your contributions to someone else’s open-source project) will get you visibility and help your long-term career. If you want, you’ll travel the world, deliver talks on your work, and meet like-minded people along the way.

I doubt this is still the case. With GitHub/Universities promoting open source contributions all over the place, it offers much less leverage. Maybe a very popular project helps the career but otherwise I think it's just a work out of passion. Might even hinder your career.

>Some think that open-source foundations should fund open-source projects directly through stipends or fellowships. But these foundations are not money-making machines: e.g., the Apache Foundation barely made $500,000 in 2011. Perhaps these foundations can fund individual developers, but are extremely unlikely to be able to support open-source projects at scale.

True. But some foundations do fund specific areas in need, eg. FreeBSD Foundation. Apache is a bad example as they don't fund anything. What do they need $500,000 for is unclear to me since infrastructure for projects can't cost so much (and nowadays it's offloaded to GitHub, etc).
If you are not thinking on a 10-year timespan, but more of a 10-month, 10-day, or 10-minute timespan, it will take a while before long-term doom is reflected in the price. Even in the late 1970's, when GM's fate was more or less sealed, their price was holding up reasonably well. http://omurtlak69.blogspot.com/2012/01/general-motors-stock-...
Those people taking "first time home buyers" tax break are not the same ones lobbying to throttle IRS funding. Follow the money.
> because "bilingual advantage" is subjective

Yes, without any further qualifications, "bilingual advantage" is subjective... but then you're making a straw man argument. Here's that quote again:

> Because of enduring experience of managing two languages, bilinguals have been argued to develop superior executive functioning compared with monolinguals. Despite extensive investigation, there is, however, no consensus regarding the existence of such a bilingual advantage

The use of "advantage" here is with respect to some measure of "executive functioning", and I see no reason to suspect that in that paper the authors don't fully define what constitutes "executive function".

> bordering on defining the purpose of life to become objective

Where do the authors suggest anything remotely like this?

To step away from the topic at hand for moment: when one speaks of the efficacy of various running techniques, do you immediately dismiss them as if they were presuming that the purpose of life is to come first place in foot races? Your goals in life may not include coming first place in foot races, but that doesn't make the criteria for "winning" the race itself any less objective.

Similarly, you may find some or all of the models of "executive function" to be useless for your needs in that ranking high in these models doesn't mean living a prosperous and/or meaningful life for you. And that's perfectly fine, but that doesn't mean that speaking of an advantage with respect to these models is inherently subjective.
Sure. But a computer can check/crosscheck this. If someone wins a lottery, for example, I imagine the lottery provider has to send an IRS form. A computer can easily crosscheck to see if a form exists with that amount. If not, manual review.

Similarly, a simple cross-check to see if the refund is feasible considering the other filings by the same individual/entity.

Certain refunds cannot be cross-checked as easily by a computer (eg reclaiming VAT on purchased goods). But basic refund fraud on lotteries? That shouldn't really be a thing in almost 2020.
Will this be the next holistic take on a legendary mind that spurs an overreaction in popular culture due to the novelty of being able to objectively criticise a giant, a la Edison? It's even got Aristotle in Tesla's place as the underappreciated adjacent figure.
Humble brag: Stephen Hedetniemi was my first advisor at Clemson, and I took CS101 with him back in 1985. Both faculty and students were in awe of his intellect, kindness, and modesty. What a delight to stumble upon him this morning. Thanks for posting.
Yeah, most big Google services -- including Search -- rely pretty heavily on unknown field retention. Google has been building large services out of microservices since a decade before anyone ever said the word "microservice". When one service is updated to emit a new field, and another service is updated to consume it, it's important that the feature can then work, without updating all the middlemen.
You could buy $100m in bitcoin over a few weeks without causing >5% move in the price. (not as a single market order, obviously). Probably not even a 1% move in the price over 2 weeks.
I recommend Gazelle for importing third-party Go dependencies but not for your own Go code. If you are using Bazel, just write the BUILD.bazel file yourself with the appropriate go_library / go_binary / go_test rules.
yeah no shit. multilingual people usually have more money.
Yes. There is a reason commercial packages are big/bloated/complex etc. This is an opportunity for all of us.
Amtrak has several coastal overnight routes with room options.
I wonder if neclei were "invented" by viruses as those safe rooms. There are already theories that DNA was first invented by viruses to protect against cleaving by RNAases, and the presence of UDNA viruses suggests it. It would also explain how DNA had immediate selective advantage over RNA.
Possible. Tax agencies open up random investigations, as well, all the time. They can open an investigation 5-10 years back, depending on type of return, country, etc.

There's a chance they could've had such a random investigation and been caught. There's also a chance no investigation would be opened and they could've gotten away with it. I don't know why they pushed it so hard, though. At that point you're begging for a targeted investigation.
And a decade before, the distributor DigiKey presented as a one-column advertisement in Popular Electronics, selling 7400 DIP ICs for $0.29 . Inflation-adjusted, that $0.29 now buys a an IC that can run Linux.