skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is they could come back (depending on your region) and advertising settings are spread out so you may have to go through the settings disabling them all. Basically any option that's labelled as a "tip" or "suggestion" might be a license to advertise. The start menu one is:

Settings -> Personalisation -> Start -> "Show suggestions occasionally in Start".

There was also an issue with a feature update that reset some settings. Feature updates basically do a reinstall of the OS and then copy your settings back over so sometimes things get missed (accidentally or on purpose, whichever explanation you prefer). The solution is to delay feature updates for at least a week or two. By that time these issues should have been fixed. Personally I delay feature updates for 30 days.
Please note 'Show HN' is meant for something you've made https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Why do your employee's systems need to be "Administrated" in the first place?

Why do you need Active Directory or LDAP? Why do you need group policy or anything else? Why are your endpoints not as close to vanilla simple desktop/laptops as possible? Is it that employees can't handle using a computer?

I've worked in one of the largest businesses in the world for many years now, and I don't think we even have an IT department that manages desktop installations. I've certainly never interacted with them. You either figure out how to use the computer they give you, or you don't, in which case why should they employ you? Computers are a basic skill.
My pet peeve: I've used freefillableforms or whatever it is called for several years. It's the only (free, online) option (I think) for someone in my income bracket. It's not a bad system, but it is deliberately hobbled: it will do about 90% of the math for you, and about 90% of the "put this computed value on line N of some other form".

But ... not the remaining 10%. And there will be no errors if you fail to do them (other than your return being incorrect).

I don't know if it is better or worse to offer a deliberately crippled system.
Why is it difficult? TLS 1.3 has a much smaller set of cipher suites than previous versions. Does that help?
Then there is no limit to the power of the Federal government. If they can say, “We can do a better job than you, person or State”, then can run roughshod over personal and State’s rights. I guess that’s fine as long as they are running over people and States you don’t like. What happens if Trump goes into California and takes over due to the humanitarian crisis that the State brought in itself ie the tent cities?
> We pick one of the three coins at random, toss it 300 times and count the number of heads.

This is the procedure. One of the coins is chosen, and that same coin is flipped 300 times. Conditional on which coin was chosen, the number of heads is Binomial, so the unconditional distribution is a mixture of three Binomials.
Personal anecdote warning

Marijuana is a reasonably effective pain treatment which is readily available without prescription. Even without the really scary stuff surrounding Opiates, I'm far more likely to use the pain meds I can pick up at the corner dispensary. The cost of weed is far less and more important, availability and bullshit hoops I have to go through are far less.

About the only downside to weed is you gotta smoke it unless you process it first and making edibles or an infusion with a sous vide is not very difficult at all.

https://www.sousweed.com/blog/2015/6/13/sous-vide-cannabis-b...
https://medium.com/sous-vide/sous-vide-thc-infused-cocktails...
> Want to be constantly spied on and probably also hacked? Use Android.

Most of the spying is done by phone apps. This affects iOS and Android in the same way in recent versions. The extra bit that gets sent to Google directly seems like a small part of it.
With all the promise of computers being erased over the last few years I've always thought: this is a market opportunity.

But nobody has stepped up to the plate.
one of the tools mentioned, http://statcheck.io/, sounds pretty neat:

> statcheck is a program that checks for errors in statistical reporting in APA-formatted documents. ... Using statcheck/web, you can check any PDF for statistical errors without installing the R programming language on your computer.
Soccer, Baseball, Basketball being replace by Asian sports. Should be titled The Great Replacement.
The key mechanism that enables 'group think' in academia is access (or lack of access) to funding for research. Generally, funding for research is fairly limited relative to the number of interested researchers (ask any grad student). The control over journal publications and conference speaking slots is only useful in that it enables researchers to increase their odds of receiving future funding. If one is able to get funding without those credentials, say by going to industry players with aligned interests, then the 'academic cabals' really don't have the power and influence to be a 'cabal'.

It is worth noting, that part of the reason the Alzheimer 'cabal' existed in the first place was because the pharmaceutical industry was willing to go along with it. And part of the reason the 'cabal' is finally falling apart is because the industry is no longer willing to fund the research.

Here is a fun question for you (or anyone who is skeptical). Can you name one example where industry and academics were diametrically opposed on a particular topic, and where it turned out that the academics were wrong? I can point out quite a few examples where the opposite was true, but I am struggling to think of a single example that would qualify the above prompt.
All rules are just as arbitrary as other rules. A state constitution holds more power than other rule sets but that doesn't make them non-arbitrary.
This is all rationalizing whatever you were trying to say about performance stalling. People only talk about 'the intent' when they realize they have been regurgitating news headlines and haven't looked any deeper. The point is that performance hasn't stalled at all just because clock rates aren't going up. Faster clocks are diminishing returns in performance due to memory latency. Transistor density was the point and performance is still increasing due to transistor density, even if you don't know how to use multiple cores.
Literally all of that information is already being reported to the IRS by the relevant companies on forms 1098, 1099-whatever, W-2, W-4 and whatever other schedules apply.

But not instantly. And not all of it in time for April 15th. Sometimes those details don't make it to the IRS for years.

We don't yet live in a world of instantaneous information transfer about every American citizen to the government.

Some people also see that as a good thing.
That's only partly true, fragmentation can and does massively effect SSD performance both on read and write, can effect write latency, but not read latency.

(think of it in terms of an SSD being a huge pile of 4MB blocks where each block needs to be completely erased to clear out old content to get a clearer picture)
Plants in a super habitable planet might look purple
Yup, my employer would often host big celebrations throughout the year. I’d much rather have a $500 bonus for each one of them (or whatever it cost them).

Paying for perks is a great way to avoid paying a higher salary.
UX Designer (at Google) here. I feel your pain. For any design to work, it needs to be grounded in a firm understanding of the user's behavior. I agree that design intuition is limited by one's own view of the world, so it's critical to gather the right data before going further than speculative designs. This can be accomplished through a variety of means, but observation and qualitative interviews prior to "design" are usually effective.

The design should be validated with different users from the same cohort prior to building it. Functional prototypes work well here. Ignoring user feedback here is a huge mistake on the part of the designer. Design is relatively cheap, and it's easy to iterate and check your assumptions with users before anything is set in stone. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this step would have increased trust with your engineering team. Often due to ignorance, some designers don't appreciate how much effort goes into these builds, and how early architectural decisions shape the product in ways that make it difficult to change later.

Acknowledged, that this is a "perfect world" scenario and business pressure might require augmenting the process. An experienced designer would understand how to do this and still get meaningful results.
Store it as mass!
Some architects are surprised by the requirement to have load bearing walls.
The M6 toll is a pretty nice road as roads go. I believe it was privately funded.
"What have the Romans ever done for us?" [0][1]

...

"All right... all right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us?"

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7tvauOJMHo
[1] http://www.epicure.demon.co.uk/whattheromans.html
>I don’t understand why federal legalization has been so difficult.

Alcohol and opioid manufacturing buying off politicians. Mass incarceration as a policy to preserve slavery in the US economy and to serve as a jobs program for police and guard forces.
"real serious conversations about difficult topics are near impossible."

Basic conversations about basic things are almost impossible.

Sciency/hackery software devs are a unique breed, we like to talk, debate, consider. To everyone else it's just 'disagreeable'.

Making people like and respect you is sadly, the only way to get most people to agree with you.

The most important 'tactic' when trying to get people to agree with you is ... to be tall, slightly good looking, reasonably well kept, and for the other person to believe you are listening to them, and that you agree with them maybe about 'some issue' but more importantly about some deeply held value they have. Then you are 'right' about whatever it is you are supposed to be talking about.

In other words, it's not about facts, but about relationships, which is why so much of sales is about that, and not product/price.

For some reason humans are really, really bad at objectivity and I think we information nerds are only just a little bit better than the rest.
> There is also a system called TCAS

I've been on a few private planes, and I don't think either of them had this.
IsThisYourPaperOnSingleServingSites.com (2008)
“If your tax situation has changed in any of the following ways, please check the appropriate box(es) and mail this back to us or submit online; we’ll issue a revised estimate within 30 days and extend your review deadline accordingly.”
You're still not actually answering the question of how you are HA and backing things up with only a single physical server and nothing else.

If you're backing things up to the same server, that's not enough.
If the HA instances are running in the same server, that's not enough.

If there are other things besides that one physical server and it's power/network, you didn't include them in the cost, so the comparison is disingenuous there.
> I don’t understand why federal legalization has been so difficult.

Drug laws are enforced unequally across different racial groups. Those who benefit from oppressing racial minorities, especially via voter suppression through felony disenfranchisement, are understandably reluctant to relinquish their tools.
Could not agree more, and it's incredible to me how few people feel this way. I'm not an accountant but I have a lot of friends who are (I was a software eng at a tax software company) and they all say the same thing as you. IMHO it comes down to psychology. Out of sight, out of mind is universal and will bite even very attentive people.
Don't they know that from the W-4? Or does that not go to the IRS
Lobbying by the pharma and alcohol industries has been one of largest impediments to progress on cannabis.

There’s a tremendous amount of money that does not want legalization to happen.
But...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle
Normal reason: brown people like weed. https://www.aclu.org/blog/criminal-law-reform/drug-law-refor...
As someone who has worked in a union shop, it’s not always a great way to achieve meritocracy.

It’s usually based on seniority.
While true. That disconnect is not related to the automation system consistently doing the wrong thing. The 'thing the pilots didn't know' enough about was how to turn off the automation. Which was what saved the Lion Air flight the day before was that a jump seat pilot knew how to disable the automation. Increasing the automation in this scenario, does the opposite of what they hope.
Actually, even with apple's proclamation that "privacy is a right", macos phones home all the time too. ios compounds this by removing any real insight or control over your device or apps.
Just FYI - this is primarily for NodeJs
This is rad, now I need to find some iso dungeon tiles.
1. Forcing people to use registry edit hacks is not an acceptable UI. There's no guarantee that those registry hacks won't stop working tomorrow. There needs to a real documented way to do it.

I have Windows 10 Pro. I used to disable Windows search doing web search with the Policy Editor (forcing me to do that was already boarderline unacceptable). Now that has stopped working, and even though I enable/disable many things in the Policy Editor, web search still happens. I will be switching to Linux.
I'm sure that if normal people try to do this they will be charged with something generic as fraud.
(Edited to correct an error)

About 20% of people (particularly low income people) have simple tax returns and file using 1040EZ. If the IRS computed that form, then what they send out would be ideal for the majority of taxpayers. So it would benefit those by eliminating the expense of tax preparation without actually costing them more in taxes.

Then there are those like myself who fall into an in-between area. I have more complex taxes, although not as complex as a lot of people, but would gladly pay more than is strictly necessary in order to not have to bother with figuring them out. In fact, I already do, in the form of paying a tax preparer (I fully consider the expense of tax preparation as a tax itself.)

Those whose taxes are more complex are very likely aware of that fact, and would continue to do their own tax preparation.

Also, if the IRS provided a prefilled 1040EZ, that would make computing your own taxes easier because you could use the figures supplied as a reference.
I think it's because the people in charge just don't understand or care about the culture. They see the few problems that stem from marijuana and write off the entire idea. Only slowly has marijuana crept into the mainstream for who we might consider "adults."
our resources are limited. We have crossed carrying capacity 2 centuries ago.

The world population has doubled in the past 50 years. I would hazard a guess that 4 billion is bearable. Optimal would be 2 billion.
They could compare states that have legalized with those that haven’t. I don’t know if that’s what they did in this study.
Yes. It’s not a term that I’ve ever heard before.
Microplastics are generally smaller than sesame seed. Think of getting a drink from fast food in a styrofoam cup. The acidity of tea or, particularly, soda will eat away the styrofoam into microparticles which you then drink. Tasty drink, yes?
My thought was "Your calendar is bad and you should feel bad." It's a reference and I don't actually mean that, except as a reaction to seeing it after clicking the title on HN which had me expecting something I might want to use.
Here is an idea from Russia: flat 13% income tax with deductible educational, medical, real estate and some other expenses.
The funniest and most ridiculous thing is when they cut taxes so they need to cut back on federal agencies so they cut the resources OF THE IRS so now the IRS can’t afford to audit rich people and their staff, only poor people. Perhaps it was intentional?

(By the same people who complained the IRS was targeting them for audits.)
It's a focus, I don't know why people expect luxury service for a 30K car. I had a shelby 350 and ford would even give me a loner while in regular service if I wanted. The tesla in the article is priced at 57k, I'd expect pretty good service for that price.
"Swing" was known even in the Baroque era, actually. It was called notes inégales (which literally means "non-equal notes"), while playing eighths "straight" would be called notes égales ("equal notes"). Some of these other variations are inherent in how notation has evolved over time - by the time of Beethoven, lots of indications would be written into the piece to try and convey how it should be played. You don't get that kind of thing from Bach-era scores, and sometimes people play them a bit too mechanically as a result. It's very much a matter of finding the right balance for every subgenre or tradition.
Not only that, but the Prison-Industrial complex is a real thing. Private prisons are an outrage.
Show HN: CLI tool for managing bash environments
I enjoyed this talk, and accompanying transcript on defunctionalization. Despite the verbose name, the concept is quite simple and does come up a lot. http://www.pathsensitive.com/2019/07/the-best-refactoring-yo...
Not to their patients in my personal experience.

I understand that 99% of patients are clueless and that most providing information are likely misinformed by whatever they read on google, but every so often you meet a patient that actually knows more than you about their problems. The experience for this rare patient is almost always very poor.
Big Pharma once fought rec cannabis, now they are trying to take over it.

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/oct/22...

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-12/big-pharma-takeove...
Ford would give me a loaner for regular service for my shelby gt 350. Literally 4-5 hours, and they'd let me ride around in a newer mustang GT or bullit.
Sousweed eds are also more potent than store bought ones [1], and deliver more effect that smoking the source. Given I live in a legal state and enjoy cooking, especially experimental cooking, I'm considering very small-scale distributing in 2020.

[1]: IMO, I use top-shelf for my eds; generic ones are probably a lot of shwag, and the "mg THC" ratings are incredibly inconsistent.
Ha oh snap - I missed that :P
I've been reading a lot about harmine and suspected people would have clued into it being basically a wonder drug.
Think about putting a non-tech person on linux and that whole thing just grinds to a halt. There is a lot of fiddling.
The number you stated has to be divided by units sold, IMHO
This is not a case of Program X messing with registry. This is the user explicitly setting Program X to be the default application.

I guess there is no way (given the current registry design) to differentiate between the user modifying the registry and a program modifying the registry.

Again, coming back to the original message - the case scenario is not that some program is changing the preferences. It the user changing the setting, and Win10 silently discarding the user input (after a reboot or some automated update).
Tax brackets are the simplest thing in the world but I've heard this argument several times. Is it made it good faith? Are there really people who think tax brackets make taxes complicated and not 401ks, mortgage interest tax deductions, capital gains, etc?

A flat tax is completely orthoganal to the complexity of the tax system(which is almost entirely what counts as income, and what type of income does it count as).

If tomorrow we merged all tax brackets into one, no one's taxes would get any simpler, just the poor would pay far more in taxes and the rich far less.
I don’t understand why intel and amd can’t give us access to the cpu cache the same way NVidia does with CUDA for local and shared memory on the gpu. I just don’t buy the hand waiving that the cpu can magically do branch prediction better than a programmer with a static c compiler who actually know what they want in the future. maybe if they had offered cache control on the itanium or phi they wouldn’t have had to cancel them despite the need for reprogramming user software which didn’t stop CUDA.
I read an article on this recently. Fascinating.

Lots of progress over the years in mfg. the right plastic that doesn't flake off inside your body.

If it works, great. But if there's side-effects like infection, boy, rough.
Phase change yes. Or water chillers.

I can't imagine why anyone would be more inclined to use a peltier as wattage increases. Higher wattages make that idea progressively worse unless you have some very specific and strange requirements.
> touchbar freezing(seriously wtf).

Had mine taking 1.5GB RAM the other day. That was amusing.
> Why do you need Active Directory or LDAP?

Primarily authentication, authorization, and accounting[0]. Setting up a new user account on every single computer that an employee may at some point sit at gets very expensive. Many businesses (if not immediately then eventually) have security concerns that require Administrators have the ability to immediately lock users out of the system or be able to audit recent activity. AD/LDAP facilitates this. It can also automate standard settings like network drives, screen lockout settings, homepages, and all sorts of other settings.

> You either figure out how to use the computer they give you, or you don't

Standardization of processes and training can reduce training time considerably. For industries with high turnover, this can make a difference. You've gotta remember, not everyone is a knowledge worker. Tons of people are more like cogs in the machine of the company, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.

[0] https://www.techopedia.com/definition/24130/authentication-a...
> As a former marijuana user this seems obvious to me

That's a key point, you've used it and have actual experience with it.

Marijuana has long been misunderstood and misinformation abound, but as more people use it or know those who do, that's been quickly changing. Add to that increasing medical evidence and more doctors coming onboard. It's just a matter of time now.

Indeed it seems we've already hit the tipping point. Public opinion flipped in recent years on whether it should be legalized, most are now in support: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/11/14/americans-s...
Seems like you were doing something naively. Probably would have been much faster if you'd written a simple conversion script to do batch inserts.

Perhaps something pathological like commiting (or flushing to disk) after every row?
Then by all means, make citizens send in the relevant documents to the IRS- but don't force them to have to figure it out on their own if the IRS's software can already do it with those docs!
And they're trying the same thing with kratom: https://www.kratomutopia.org/real-reason-fda-targeting-krato...
I've heard it paraphrased that men communicate to solve problems, women communicate to share information. That's heavily reductionist, but I've found it to be a helpful idea to keep in mind when navigating conversations.

"Is this person trying to solve a problem, or are they trying to be heard and commiserated with?"
"Good people don't smoke marijuana" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGx72wL4gx4
Most cars will limp to the dealer (except BMWs but they get as much flak as teslas for the behavior).

Most cars will absolutely not die while parked or turned off (I'm sure some will, but it won't be a common occurrence).

Most luxury brands will offer full service and a loaner (this is a 57k vehicle, well into M3/RS4/Porsche/AMG territory, which are considered premium vehicles on already luxury brands)
Show HN: This year resolution's first open-source project: PHP-Spellchecker