skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think there's any silver bullet. But what helps me is pre-scheduling my runs or exercise in my calendar at the beginning of the week/month. That kind of tips "default-mode" into just listening to the calendar notification and doing the run.
Haven't tried XSV. In the same space is Q: https://harelba.github.io/q/
I used to run in -20C every day, its doable. Its never going to be as easy as non-freezing temps unfortunately.

Personally, for -30 to -10C I wore running shoes with spikes that slip over the shoe to stop slipping. For body warmth I wore thermal underwear underneath some running shorts and then two long shirt layers (wool or something insulating) and a thin/thick jacket depending on how fast I was going to run (slower = bigger jacket). I protected my face/neck with a buff and a warm hat. For hands I wore mits, not gloves (keeping fingers together for warmth).

Another trick I used is to do pushups before going out to pre-warm yourself and to ensure that you don't have too many layers. After all that, its important to fall into the right running pace where you are not too hot or too cold.
Python 2.7 no longer supported
As of Catalina, MacOS no longer runs 32-bit programs.
Yes.

The amount of land, excluding Antarctica, is less than five acres (about 2 hectares).

The notional "40 acres and a mule" threshold was crossed in 1800.

When you consider that land are translates directly to renewable energy flux, this becomes all the more interesting.

Some growth trends from a few years back:

https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/_bi5uhywbdyukhfy-eayjw
It's also anti-tax activist like Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform who hate automatic filing and prefilled forms too. Their reasoning is if taxes are "too easy" then somehow Americans will blindly accept tax increases so they actually want to keep tax filing as difficult as possible.
The vote for the CA bill was effectively along partisan lines and national opposition to tax filing reform receives significant financial/political support from Grover Norquist.
Most things in Settings aren't in the Control Panel and a lot of what is in the Control Panel opens the Settings app (e.g. Control Panel -> Default Programs -> Set your default programs)
Government is still ahead of you (or maybe lobbyists?)

> Fourteen and 15-year-olds, however, may be employed in approved school-administered and school-supervised Work Experience and Career Exploration Programs (WECEP) or Work Study Programs (WSP). Such programs allow variations in the rules and permit employment during school hours. WECEP participants may also be employed in otherwise prohibited occupations for which an official exception has been authorized by the Department of Labor.

Four hours a day won't be a problem

> WECEP permits the employment of 14- and 15-year-old youth during school hours and for up to 23 hours per week when school is in session. These rules are more lenient than those permitted by the Fair Labor Standards Act for other similar aged youth not enrolled in WECEP. WECEP also permits variances, on a limited basis, from certain child labor hazardous occupation standards. These variances are approved by the Wage and Hour Administrator on a case by case basis.

(See my sibling comment to yours and the link on that page labelled with the name of this program for citations)
> Anyone have first-hand experience with CreditKarma tax filing?

I've used it for the last 3 years in California. Quite simple, free, supports backdoor Roths. Tax returns were quickly accepted and paid out into my bank account.

Dunno about more complex use-cases (I don't own a home or a business, and I work in one state year-round), but definitely worth a look.
The `join` command does a similar job and is included by default on at least Mac OS X (10.14) and Ubuntu 16.04.

I think it's much more common than that implies, but have not looked beyond two machines I had immediate access to.

The interface is clumsier in some ways, but it's already there, which is often a win when writing scripts.
> Also makes me wonder if people could DDOS an entire company with DMCA takedown requests.

Fastest way to make change will probably be using their own game against them and have them lobby on your behalf
I built: https://www.emailmynotes.com/

Its a simple hack, and a niche use case. But I enjoyed building it.
If you've got snow, XC skiing is the best cross training you can do. You don't need tracks, just get some BC XC skis and go.

I also like snowshoeing up mountains, although you should really take all the same precautions you would when backcountry skiing, so it's hard to fit it into routine training.
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I was expecting the answer to involve SQLite and .import and am happy to have learned about this cool new tool.
Oh wow, a reference to Laws of Form (George Spencer-Brown), takes me back!
Doesn't the practice of minimum wage and labor rights also allow the worker to "extract rents above those the market would ordinarily bear"? Do those practices make society as a whole worse off?
A question for all you runners:

How many of you have ever gotten what's called a "runner's high"?
Run with shorter strides, wear shoes with better traction. Have some fun with it. Watch YouTube videos of runners in snow competing in ultra trail races. Running on ice adds an element of risk and danger that makes is more fun IMHO. If you can pull it off, be proud of it.
Cool then we can stop providing structures that make the demand side of labor much stronger at the negotiating table than the supply side. I'm in, let's do it.
In the 2004 and 2006 election cycle, Intuit donated substantially more to Republicans than Democrats: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/totals.php?id=D000026667

Bush campaigned on (among other things) rewriting and simplifying the tax code. Bush's executive order pushing that forward was signed January 2005: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13369

Maybe Intuit's donations and lobbying were not caused by that, but doesn't it seem really strange that a popular initiative suddenly changed direction after a big pile of money was given to Republicans?

Politicians shouldn't be willing to change their stance for money. It's as much Intuit's fault as it is the people that took the money.
> I just hope someone reading this doesn't know it yet :-)

I didn't, thank you. It works both in bash and powershell.
I agree with you, but I think people should still live densely but surrounded by combined acreage that not only staves climate change but also makes cities sustainable.

The reason why the PTB oversell high density is because of high paying jobs and high property taxes.

Funny..in CA, only Bay Area has a high density general plan. Not Visalia or Healdsburg. Because high density has nothing to do with sustainability. It only promises sustainability for the care and feeding of public sector employees who are guaranteed a pension and are racking up unfunded pension liabilities in CA.

A 400k home in Visalia with 3 acres gets much less property tax than a 1500 sq ft 1.5 million dollar condo in Bay Area. So it is ok to stress the Bay Area resources. None of the services are cheaper. We are not gaining economies of scale due to the high density. What gives?

As we automate and find alternative renewable energy(the only solution is nuclear), two things will happen..UBI and sustainability.

From my POV, clusters of high density townships(Dunbar number is a good community head count) surrounded by enough land for sustainable closed loop systems networked and interconnected to other small townships to form a large townships and large townships clustered to network etc. This fractal design would ensure that cities are decentralized and yet the veins exist.

A good example is Paris. The city’s design of Paris with its snail shape is close ..but there are other issues, but from city design perspective, it is a good functioning example.

The problem with achieving sustainability goal is government.

Edited to add: also..schools are another example. After California instituted the general plan to build more, all tax monies went into a single pot and redistributed

https://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/fd/ec/documents/currentexpense1718...

Higher density areas get less money per student and lower density get more. But you can buy more in Oroville than in Berkeley. Or the value of a dollar is less in Berkeley than in Oroville. So people in high density areas.. usually highly educated with smaller family sizes and paying more taxes get less out of the public education system.

This is to say that California should have get equal opportunity for education regardless of economic status. Because in a strange world of progressive politics in California, a school in Bay Area doesn’t have a proper swimming pool or PT equip and AP classes are cancelled because of anorexic school budget. But a blue collar town in Southern California has new buildings and smaller class sizes. It’s just bizarro world.
In an alternate reality where there was a bunch of unused land and commercial real estate for lease in MTV and Sunnyvale, and/or where their city councils were open to building more, I agree. However, that's not the world we live in, so the situation you describe would be an unlikely result.
It’s free to download.
Important Lessons from the 2010s
Yeah. When you start anything remotely complex with GraalVM it starts to break, i.e.: anything related to eval (and this wasn't my code actually, however a good part of Clojure ecosystem depends on eval).
The big problem here is that without good validation being used, the system could be subject to data compromise/identity theft type attacks.
There's also a political lobby (see: Grover Norquist) for the idea that filing taxes must never be made easier, because that will make them more palatable. Combined with their axiom that taxes are inherently bad, the result is an argument that tax filing should actually be as painful as possible. (The surprising strength of this lobby is one possible reason that the "file your taxes on a postcard" idea died a few years ago.)
I've used credit karma for the last 2 or 3 years - it's very easy if your taxes are simple (e.g. a job change mid-year, a spouse, itemized deductible, all very easy). It was even ok when my taxes included some weird forms last year because a previous employer was sold and my options were worth a few k - had to figure out where to enter things, but i paid roughly the amount of taxes i expected to so i assumed i filled out karma credit's app correctly.

Overall i think CreditKarma is fine if you don't mind that you're sharing data with a company that would love to middleman you into signing up for a new credit card or something. I find their emails pretty easy to ignore and it's felt like a fair trade thus far, though I may look into the IRS offerings this spring and see what else is available.

edit: in California.
Finally all American parents can simply just buy a one-way plane ticket for their kids and put them on a bus back! So much cheaper!
Isn't it a predicable consequence of MADD, rather than specifically due to any grudges that Putin might have?

As I understand it, the goal of MADD is to prevent a preemptive first strike by having an effective second-strike method?.

Eg, supercavitating nuclear torpedoes are not useful in a preemptive first strike as they can only take out port cities and spread fallout downwind.

But they are an effective second strike weapon as they are impossible to intercept, so make it harder for the US decide to attack.
The mantra for Intuit, indeed for every for-profit company in the Valley, is to grow or die. Even a rockstar exec like Bill Campbell couldn't escape that imperative. Intuit decided they had to keep growing their market to survive and they chose to go after the huge majority of taxpayers who really didn't need their services. Once that decision was made, the logic of eliminating your competition followed as a matter of course, and the IRS itself was and still is their biggest potential competitor.
Whoops - changed from http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655-S00/readings/mocking....

This was an invited repost of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=890715 and I forgot to update the link from long ago.

See https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... for more about invited reposts. There is a list of them at https://news.ycombinator.com/invited.
This is why I created the Bountysource campaign to fund the MODE_CC conversion of the m68k backend which luckily succeeded:

> https://www.bountysource.com/issues/80706251-m68k-convert-th...
What I’m Thinking about This New Year’s Eve: Year in Review by Bill Gates
> You're probably not going to get any actionable, meaningful information from news sources like those, especially day to day.

Not day to day perhaps, but I did once learn from the news that a certain French airline company had just gone bankrupt. This was about a month before I intended to fly with them, so I had enough time to rebook the tickets, avoiding the stress and additional expenses.
Learning about this bankruptcy in time was very helpful, as the company did not care enough to send a warning email to its customers, so if it were not for the breaking news headline, I would have to buy the replacement tickets on a much shorter notice.

Skimming through the headlines can pay off in some unexpected ways, and does not take too much time/effort.
For goodness sake, you can run classic Mac in the browser

https://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/

What could prevent MS from developing an emulation layer?
The article clearly states that Intuit deliberately used Republicans to lobby against ReadyReturn.

Intuit had just given $1 million to a Republican running to unseat John Chiang, an FTB member who supported ReadyReturn. The chair of the FTB, Steve Westly, says the support drummed up by Bankman gave them more political space to vote for a program they felt strongly about.

Let's not ignore the fact that the Republican platform fundamentally lines up closer to Intuit's business interests.

When Ronald Reagan was governor of California, he opposed a reform that would make paying taxes more seamless on the grounds that “paying taxes should hurt.”

...

That morning, Frommer polled his colleagues in the Assembly and found they were a vote short. No Republicans would vote for the bill, and some Democrats would vote ‘no’ too.
Explain to me why region controls exist on digital products and then let's talk about "extracting rents above what the market would ordinarily bear". This is how markets function, and in our current state of affairs we need to benefit the lives of ordinary people that exist within a completely marketized existence.
> in a perfect world labor unions would be illegal
I've seen DMCAs take down GitHub repos where the code was a clean room reimplementations of proprietary software.
There isn't anything really neutral to recommend. People are pretty adamant about "the right way". Start with ABCs of Socialism[0] and take a look at the texts they recommend. You'll have to come to your own conclusion about what you like and dislike about what it says.

The problem with this stuff is that the left is extremely sectarian so I might have someone jumping down my throat for recommending something published by Jacobin.

[0]:https://s3.jacobinmag.com/issues/jacobin-abcs.pdf
Whenever I forget to stretch AFTER a run, I feel pain the next day, and more often than not, do not run that day.

I consider that pain to be a mild injury, since it gets in the way of my daily running routine.
See the sibling comments about Grover Norquist; this wasn't incompetence: there's actually a pretty strong political group in favor of this kind of thing.
There is a difference. Distributions are tested in practice, for example, by using a goodness-of-fit test. Often if the hypothesis of normality is not rejected, people think this implies normality.
There’s also a nice VS Code extension for Coq I used when taking Adam’s class.
I'd really like a good book on the legal basis and evolution of unions in different countries. My sense is that there's a lot about US versus, say, Danish unions that works differently and Japanese unions are generally specific to a given company making them something else again.
I think it comes down to who people trust.

Americans on the whole don't trust their government quite a lot. If the government just said "you owe X in tax this year", nearly everyone's knee jerk reaction would be that the government is overestimating and cheating them.

On the other hand, you can pay a flat fee to let a third party fight the government on your behalf. That's something that many Americans like the sound of.

I think the real problem is that the tax system is complicated, and turbo tax does a good job of making it feel even more complicated than it is. You can fill out your own 1040EZ, if you even know what that is, but people have this sense that the tax system is full of loopholes and they want to exploit that.
Yup, that works only for those who have run before and like running. For anyone starting off and/or not really fit enough to run for a few minutes without difficulty, it's easy to give up quickly. Walking is a less strenuous activity for such people (though getting out to walk may itself be a difficult action to take).
You are not being overly pedantic, writing about the maintenance procedures and goals when maintaining nuclear medical equipment is technical writing, a Neil Stephenson novel is not.
There is less than there was 10 years ago but you have to be willing to give up a lot in the way of "I'd like something else than exactly how it comes out of the box" in order to avoid a large amount of twiddling.
The original numbered Inside Mac volumes are frequently more accurate than the later 90's revision. They also contain some useful implementation detail (along with, granted, a good deal of extremely obsolete information if you're targeting later system releases).

Edited to add: Pascal interfaces and examples should be easy to follow if you're reasonably proficient in C. The type system is not dissimilar and there's very little difference in control flow.
The WSJ has great content. But, with the WSJ, Economist, and even WaPo, I stopped subscribing to each because the editorials / opinion pages were vile. Look, I'm all about critical dialog, but when propagandists are given a soap box to spread nonsense (IE: flat out gaslighting lies), the purpose of the press in public good is abused. As the saying goes, people are entitled to opinions, not facts.
The both parties argument is so stale at this point. While the Dems might not be perfect, they aren't actively sabotaging our democracy. The Republicans just passed a huge tax bill and what did it do? Oh, huge handouts to the wealthy. Nice!
I know a QA ex Google engineer that refused to ever work for a company with a cafeteria again solely because he got tired of people complaining about food that was free. It annoyed him that much.
Well, all of Google's shareholders are banding together against thousands of individual workers. We don't penalize them banding together. We just call it "a company". Why is it any different when some of the workers band together to be on equal footing?
They are not Google employees here they are employed by a third party.
The thing about Archlinux is that apparently it requires constant updates or you won't be able to keep up with the current distro at some point. That's not really a recipe for stability, especially if you care about actively using the system and not just testing/playing with the bleeding edge stuff.
I believe that Americans in the past and maybe even today have preferred the freedom of doing things independently of the government. While it is true the government receives all reported income, it is not true that they know about all your deductions/expenses. While many Americans are oblivious to such things in general the government gives you control over your own taxes. In reality, it's a small amount of responsibility and lets a person take ownership of the process. It is NOT difficult at all, especially for W-2 with the standard deduction. The whining in this thread is ridiculous imho.

The one time I underpayed I promptly received official letters from the federal and state governments giving me time to pay them with a very minor penalty (it was well under 1% due to the short time frame). It was simple and easy.

Ironically the Trump tax cuts made this even easier as the standard deduction was doubled making it much less attractive to itemize.
How did filing requirements change since 2008? I didn’t notice any differences. Also, you can use online tax preparations now as they seem to support 2555 and 1116 forms now, which wasn’t an option in 2008.
Google has net income of almost $30.7 billion and payed only $4.2 billion in tax. If they gave all 2,300 cafeteria workers a raise of $25,000 that would reduce their net income from $30.7 billion to $30.64 billion.

Google has become a social parasite - one that propels greater and greater wealth inequality. The parasite profits tremendously from public infrastructure and open source - while giving nothing back.
I understand that this is effective, but I don’t understand people’s motivations for doing this unless it is explicitly required to do their job (management, sales). I would rather be thought of by some people (almost always people who I don’t like anyway) as an asshole than become a sycophant. Although I agree that argument for its own sake is not worth it
The Apollo flights used NM on their screens for nautical mile.

[pic (right-most screen)] https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/liebe...
[article] https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/12/apollo-flight-contro...
Screen actors guild is the most famous current example. While less well known they have made a significant difference in actor safety.
Democracy = people get a vote. Not necc equality.

There's a long history of well intentioned policy experiments such as these manifesting in massive suboptimal outcomes. USSR had some ideas too.

If you put a limit on the voting power of the largest shareholders for public companies, you radically disincentive companies from going public.

Access to the financial returns from the best companies in the world, and participation therein through public equity markets seems like a good thing for equality and something we shouldn't be fighting.

I like a world where founders and owners have a vote consistent with their economics, and if they make bad decisions, have to sell more shares and get diluted.

A world where founders and owners don't go public, and employees don't get any access to financial returns or voting stakes seems like a likely outcomes from ^ proposal.
0. Do less than you think you're capable of, especially if you are a novice, or if you are coming back from injury or a long layoff. You will hurt less and enjoy yourself more... so you'll keep running!
I think your analysis lacks distinction that not all hierarchies structurally are hierarchies of power. For example, in Linux Kernel development, there is a hierarchy with Linus on top, but the hierarchy has very little actual power over other developers. Anybody can fork a Linux kernel. So even when there is a hierarchy, the power doesn't have to be concentrated in it.

In fact, I consider democracy to be explicitly against power hierarchies. (In this sense, it is very leftist concept.)

From my perspective, the whole problem with holacracy is the lack of rules that guarantee the distribution of power, unlike in democracy, where this is guaranteed by agreement of participants with the decision-making method (i.e. votes of all people are equal).

Finally, you still state that hierarchy is a natural phenomenon, but that still doesn't explain why people insist on it even culturally. Just like the fact that humans evolved on African savannah doesn't mean that they would like to continue do so. But humans are surprisingly insistent on hierarchies of power even in the face of f-ups mentioned in the article.
You mean the guy that got 95% of GOP congressmen to sign his tax pledge? Lobbying Norquist is lobbying the GOP.