skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. The commissioner of the IRS is appointed by the President (current one appointed by Trump) and can be dismissed at any time without cause. So if you want to continue in that role, you will do what the President wishes. You can always resign if you find the instructions not to your liking, of course.

Richard Nixon demanded that the IRS investigate his enemies, but the IRS commissioner at the time refused to do so and eventually testified against Nixon on this issue.
People quote that frequently. Does anyone have counter examples? Eg, did DooM, the witness, Windows “rewrites” (I read certain releases were not really incremental, correct me if im wrong), or the nasa shuttle systems evolve from smaller versions? (Doom has WolfenStein, I forget if it was evolved from it though)
The first three of these are synonyms. I've had all three job titles, over six different companies for roughly the same work.
Your maximum ALE coverage ("Temp Housing") is unconscionably low for any major metro area, metro area with a tight housing market, or area with rent control.
Ask HN: Defeating infinite scroll: a bureaucratic defense mechanism
Formality: This is a non-political post if you want access to information it should cross party lines.

This URL will direct you to the Facebook Ad library for the president's reelection campaign.
[https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/?active_status=all&ad_type=all&country=US&impression_search_field=has_impressions_lifetime&view_all_page_id=153080620724]
And this to an article in The Atlantic that will provide some needed context: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/03/the-2020-disinformation-war/605530/

My point and my question:
The article linked reports a phenomenal number of paid advertisements distributed by the Trump campaign that target users of the Facebook platform based on 3000+ data points on American voters. In an effort to try to reverse engineer this massive dataset to see how Trump's social media team are applying this data, I would like to scrape the Facebook Ad Library. Problem is that the library loads only a couple of ads at a time and $32,552,007 dollars worth of ads would take years to load... if I had a machine capable of it.
A chrome extension that would auto-scroll crashed my browser after about 30 mins. I had only loaded ads up until February 13th, 2020.

While Facebook touts that it has made this information available and transparent, it is closely guarded from critical eyes by way of website mechanisms that limit access and in this case, inhibit access altogether. Literally speaking, the information is accessible, but only in a very limited capacity.

I have searched around looking for a way to defeat or spoof the javascript infinite scroll functionality but to no avail. Facebook does not make this easy.

So I am asking you all, who are way more able than I am to debug this issue: how can we see the complete history of these political ads?
Compiling this data in an open-source project on all political candidates could take considerable strides in achieving a more open discourse.
How will this impact calls? If somebody is wearing this in a public space then any callers in surrounding area will have problems, no?

It would be interesting to evaluate this device’s impact on telephonic conversation!

I hope there is a switch to turn the device on/off. Otherwise you won’t be able to talk on the phone :-)
pretty much all games in the early 80's had [so called] pixel perfect scrolling. Each frame showed exactly what was required.

Today it is entirely acceptable for a map to be a jerky stuttering pile of crap. The same goes for the infinite scroll implementations. Its preposterous to start loading things after they are needed.

There is a good analogy with making things in the physical world. The professional doesn't start a job before he has everything he needs to do it, the amateur obtains what he needs after he needs them.
Looks like he encountered the one officer assigned to enforcing the HTA in the whole of the province.
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I don't know either. If you visit any manufacturing plant, you'll see passwords written in permanent marker on pretty much every enclosure.

Maybe badge swipe and personal pin? (how long until the pin gets written on the badge?)
>I also did library searches, and they were insanely slow, and prone to the exact same "don't click while it loads"

Not the person you asked, but around 2002 at my university library the computers were running a DOS like application, on the top part of the screen there were printed the commands and you can put your search and hit enter, after a few years it was replaced with a Win98 like GUI, you had to open the app if someone else closed it, then use the mouse to find the right dropdowns and select the options then input the search term then click Search. Before you would type something like "a=John Smith" hit enter and it would show all the books of that author.

The problem with us developers is that most of the time we are not heavy users of the applications we create, we create since test projects and simple test to check the application but our users might use the application many hours a day and all the little issues would add up.
also C4ADS seem to offer receivers for free: https://twitter.com/C4ADS/status/1143160239132479488
Personally, I don’t know what the alternatives are. I barely understand DNS as it is.

But I would be surprised if the whole of the tech world can only think of two possible ways of managing it.
A year or two would be fantastic! I replaced all the halogen bulbs in my house with Uberhaus GU10 and PAR20 LEDs. They last on average about 6 months.

They were a dollar Canadian after government incentive. You get what you pay for.
Dan Luu's post on computer latency is my favorite data driven approach to this topic:
https://danluu.com/input-lag/
That's not always the case. The mainstream media - both the news media and entertainment media more broadly - was extremely accommodative and deferential to the Obama administration largely because he was on the mainstream media's political "side".

Given this, many actions taken by the Obama administration that would have dominated the news cycle as impeachment-worthy if taken by the Trump administration were simply ignored or brushed aside by the Obama administration's media allies.
There's no point to doing coding bootcamps. I know plenty of individuals who were non-CS majors, not even STEM, switch to software developers after self-study and building up a portfolio.

if you decide you want an accredited university degree, then you can get FAFSA to fund community college, then transfer an online university such as Florida
>It doesn't matter that the routers respond to ICMP, it matters that they generate them, and that they're addressed properly, and that intermediate routers don't drop them.

>Some routers will generate the ICMPs, but are rate limited, and the underlying poor configuration means that the rate limits are hit continously and most connections are effectively in a path mtu blackhole.

Sure. But I'm not about to sit here and name all the different reasons for folks. And since most here do not have a strong networking background running consumer grade routers at home, it seemed most applicable.

I could have used a more encompassing term like PMTU-D blackhole, but I didn't.
Oh, and throw IPsec and a bunch of other protocols into the mix- networking is often a fragile beast:

https://www.networkworld.com/article/2224654/mtu-size-issues...
Yes, he also had a Porsche he purchased stuck in customs and got a law passed to allow him to import it. He is a huge Porsche fan.
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Paranoid much? Other ways could be intelligence work: the FBI might be monitoring "hacker" hangouts and someone bragged about it/is selling access.

If it was a nation state: The CIA might be inside their system (technically or personnel-wise) and saw evidence, and told the FBI.
I'm fine with keeping the original link. But the original post doesn't actually explain why this is happening, while the suggested replacement explains the problem.
Half the technology in JPEG XL is from Google but hopefully people won't get petty about that.

A bigger problem is that various companies just did a lot of work to adopt HEIF so they're not going to be eager to churn onto JPEG XL. Generally people wait 5-10 years before they're open to upgrading.
If any company does it they all must do it. Punishment has to start some place.
My bad, didn't realize that it's been out for a while.
This is a great episode. He also discussed seeing people take parts marked with red paint (a signal that the parts were deemed unsatisfactory/broken) and installing them just to keep the line moving and meet deadlines.

He was asked at the end of the episode if he'd ever allow himself to fly on one of the planes that went out of the factory he worked in and IIRC his reply was an emphatic "no".
One of the humblest smart guys I worked with years ago would try to convince me over lunch that the Next Big Language would have syntactic sugar to make composition as easy as inheritance. I think in part because I had intimated that I was trying to create a language (narrator: he didn't. It went nowhere)

There are a couple languages that have added something like this in the interim, but nobody seems to have made it an idiomatic thing. Which is a shame, because I still think I might like to work in the world he dreamed up.

You get a little more composition in languages like NodeJS for the very pragmatic reason that inheritance, at least historically, was not seamless and hence had a high degree of friction.
Is a 1982 Commodore 64 faster than a new MacBook Pro?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI3C9yLVsVE
Yes, 90% of the population is fooled by this.
I've never heard of that description in all my years as an EE. Do you have a citation or reference to that description?
Secondary education is high school. I think you mean post-secondary education, right?
key bit, many comments here instead are unrelated speculation

>The IRS argues that Facebook understated the value of the intellectual property it sold to an Irish subsidiary in 2010…
I'm curious what exactly happens if say you get a 55K job doing 'marketing' at a startup

are they collecting 17% of your paycheck?
C#'s pattern matching does not include the ability to check for exhaustiveness, which is need to make pattern matching comparable in utility and power to inheritance (i.e. so you can actually replace inheritance w/ pattern matching.)

Much like how the compiler assists you when writing subclasseses so that you've implemented all the required methods, real Pattern Matching (F#) gives you the same guarantees from the compiler that you've handled all the possible cases appropriately.

Exhaustiveness checking is what elevates pattern matching to the other side of the expression problem, which is about getting feedback from the compiler to help you write programs.

a glorified switch statement does not help you do that, and so you still have to write subclasses to get compiler feedback.
Totally agree.

The only thing I'd add - I'm not sure of the exact timeline, or the exact causation chain - but I feel like Susan Fowler's article was one of the lead-ups to the MeToo movement. So in a sense, what she did wasn't just an important moment for our industry, but for all industries.
> and didn't have to write CSS hacks for electronics stores

could you explain that?
This is true but - especially if your house is not well insulated - getting heat in the right place matters too - most people don't need to heat their roofs or ceiling spaces. There's also a more minor point on time of day you want heat or not.
China's CO2 emissions have dropped by least 100M metric tonnes due to COVID-19
It is tough indeed, especially if you don't have a use case for it.

Experience > theory for such a topic. Go ahead if you find it interesting, but don't expect to become an expert on the topic just by reading about it ;)
This literally sounds like apples and apples to me, unless you really think "cloud computing" occurs in space or something. If the servers are in Ireland, then their physical assets are offshore.
> I wrote a little project called dpp because I’m lazy

I can confirm that Atila is a very lazy man. He's always figuring out ways to have his computer do the work for him. He's so successful at avoiding work, people keep giving him more work to do, making him a very hard working lazy man.
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> they were able to find help more local to them so I didn't join up but all around good experience

Dodged a bullet there.

If there's a preference for a co-located candidate, that means their processes are not built to put a remote candidate on equal footing.

Remote work is hard.

NOTHING beats the bandwidth and fidelity of face to face conversations.

As a result, remote workers need MORE help, not less to be successful.

One way of MORE help is to have an async work flow.

Let me guess:

1. this company has most of their employees live in the same city or state although they all "work from home most of the time"?

2. this company has a slack channel where their employees hang out and are almost always available?
Does it actually make the soap more cleansing, or is it just a perception thing?

My understanding was that, when companies add lathering agents to their products, it's the same as dyes and fragrances: really just there for cosmetic purposes.
I don't think you can, not really. Practically all the slowdown you see comes from increasing levels of abstractions, and basically all good abstractions have a performance cost.

Abstractions in general buy you faster development and more reliable/stable software. UI abstractions buy you intuitive and easy to use UX. All of these benefits define the modern era of software that has spawned countless valuable software programs, and it's naive to think you can skip the bill.
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While I understand you've clearly run the numbers, it still boggles my mind that you can cover $100,000 with $5/mo, and even more for higher tiers. It's fairly hard to see how it all works out, could you maybe ELI5?
Sooner? Two 737-MAX8s have gone down already!
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As time goes by, I'm slowly becoming more and more convinced that the only way to accurately and fairly interview programmers is to give them some real world contract work assignments that match the kind of work you want them to do at the job position, and then see how they perform.

This approach has a lot of upsides:

1. Real work gets done

2. The developer gets fairly compensated for their efforts

3. You get to gauge them objectively, based on their actual results
Late 1970s. Two interns are reading system call manuals; we're on a v6 Unix system, running on a PDP-11/45.

Like many bad ideas, it starts with an innocent question: "What happens if we recursively fork?"

Five minutes and a couple of C compiles later, we're sitting at the DEC printing console watching the system panic. The sysadmin comes running in a minute later.

"What did you THINK would happen?"

We explained that we didn't know, and we wanted to find out. He rebooted the system, fixed up a couple of busted inodes with ncheck and clri and so forth (this, children, was in the days before fsck...) and went back to his meeting, grumbling "... (inaudible) interns..."

And that's when I got seriously interested in how kernels worked.
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Legibility of text on a reflective surface (i.e.: license plate) and the eye strain caused by staring at a light emitting screen don't necessarily relate. You can still have a sufficient contrast ratio between the background and text colors in your text editor, using a dark theme, while reducing eye strain, while still keeping things legible.
Tesla has world class fit and finish... even Bob Lutz agrees.

"But, when next to the car, I was stunned. Not only was the paint without any discernible flaw, but the various panels formed a body of precision that was beyond reproach. Gaps from hood to fenders, doors to frame, and all the others appeared to be perfectly even, equal side-to-side, and completely parallel. Gaps of 3.5 to 4.5mm are considered word-class. This Model 3 measured up."

https://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/a28008116/tesla-model-...
If I understand right, US citizens only owe income tax if what they already paid is less than the US rate. (Edit: "IRS Form 1116. If your income was taxed by a foreign country, you can subtract that tax from your US tax")

If something similar were applied to the tax on corporate profits, then it would not change much, as the US rate (21% I think) is pretty low by world standards. But there are exceptions, like Ireland (6-12%, IIRC).

But isn't the Irish company a different entity anyway? How far down the chain of ownership / authorized-importer-relationship would such a rule go?
I think it's really important to show how things were made with visuals like this. This is very cool, and will likely inspire others into using KiCad and then being able to show their family and less tech-savvy friends how they progressed. :-)
Are they requiring them to #ad the posts?
I'm sure Facebook just got confused and didn't look at the details to realize that it didn't make sense for the lion's share of their profits worldwide to come from Ireland.

I mean, it's well known that there are leprechauns with massive pots of gold in Ireland, so it's easy to assume they might be an extremely lucrative market for targeted ads for rainbow-dissipaters. If not for the complicated tax code, I'm sure they'd have happily paid more tax.
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My problem is that I remember hard drives randomly and audibly grinding for several seconds, making me unable to do anything else.

I remember old word processors lagging behind my typing.

I remember waiting for greenscreen systems to pull down results from a search on a remote server.

When everything was great and optimized (and optimal), many things could be instant, back in the day. Funnily enough, the same is true now.
Repo in question: https://gitlab.com/wg1/jpeg-xl

FWIW, AVIF is a project of the Alliance for Open Media, which all the major browser vendors are founding members.[0] AVIF should get browser support soon.

[0] https://aomedia.org/membership/members/
> There is too much stuff in the world to present on a map without absolutely overwhelming people

Nevertheless, I think that Google Maps et al. typically show far too little on the screen. My Dad tells me that he still prefers paper maps because he doesn't have to fiddle around with the zoom level to get things to show up. While I'm sure that Google has more data on most places than it could fit in a small window, when I look at my location in Google Maps, it looks very barren: in fact, it seems to prioritize showing me little 3d models of buildings over things that I care about, like street and place names. Paper maps are typically much denser, but I don't think that people 30 years ago were constantly "overwhelmed" by them.
This is just totally untrue. Even my Windows 10 computer boots from BIOS screen to login screen in under 8 seconds.

I remember what it was like running windows in 1994, even after waiting 40 seconds for windows to start up, I'd wait upwards of an additional 3 minutes before the computer was actually usable. I remember with keen frustration waiting for the churning disk noise to die down as a signal that the computer was no usable. Since the mid 2000s or so this has just never been a problem.
We still have a generation of programers who never learned the whole stack, because St.Moore would save them from the sin of sloppyness forever.
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Some of these are reasonable concerns. Regarding sizing, however - there's no reason our system couldn't scale to match conventional wind turbines.
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> If the servers are in Ireland, then their physical assets are offshore

This is correct. But the fraction of assets which are physical are high for Halliburton and low for Facebook.
Some of us do not like the dumpster fire and do not warm ourselves with it.
If Bloomberg succeeds in buying the election, we will never have another president who isn’t a billionaire again. This is a far greater, long term threat to American democracy than anything posed by the Trump administration’s lawlessness.
USN submarines haven't had double hulls for 70 years almost. Hopefully things have improved
Was the hope that the code would be temporary, or that the external conditions the code was dealing with would be temporary? Remember this is flight control software. There might be transient conditions that the system can handle fine, but could lead to failure if they persist.
A self-hosted and keyboard oriented task management app
In no way shape or form does DOS-era UX beat current-era UX (there may be specific programs that do so, but writ large this is incorrect). Getting away from command lines is one of the core reasons that computing exploded. Getting farther away from abstraction with touch is another reason that computing is exploding further.

Command-line systems simply do not map well to a lot of users' mental models. In particular, they suffer from very poor discoverability.

It is true that if you are trained up on a command-line system you can often do specific actions and commands quickly but without training and documentation, it is often quite hard to know what to do and why. Command-line systems also provide feedback that is hard for many people to understand.

Here are some guidelines for thoughtful product designs. DOS-era systems often violate quite a few of these: https://uxdesign.cc/guidelines-for-thoughtful-product-design...

Yes, it is true that many current-era systems violate these guidelines as well. This is because UX has become too visual design focused in recent years, but that's a symptom of execs not understanding the true value of design.
I'll preface by saying I don't agree with epicgiga's position. But... that is one of the weirdest videos I've ever watched. Between the mickey mouse imitation, the odd costuming, the bizarre props, and the funny lighting, I made it only about five minutes in. Why couldn't this person have just written a normal article? It's almost always faster to read than to watch a video, anyway.
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Is Steele's dossier what we're talking about? What I'm finding squares with my understanding that almost all of it's 1) pretty solidly corroborated, or 2) isn't confirmed but is plausible as supported by surrounding events, often with a lot of smoke-but-no-as-yet-discovered-fire sorts of public info surrounding it. Where's the info so thoroughly discrediting its claims that it makes sense to call the whole thing "fake"? Again, what I'm seeing (normal-ass sites and Wikipedia, not like The Nation or something, if that's a concern) strongly supports pretty much the polar opposite of that, and even a fairly strong refutation of much of that would still leave so much that labelling the whole thing "fake" would be unfair. What's up?