skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But what are those based on? Do you really need to reenter/recalculate them each year?

Countries like Estonia prefill the tax filing and they say somewhere above 90% of people don't need to make any changes when they file. Most people file within the first day and get their rebate within less than a week. If you had no significant changes (eg opened foreign bank accounts or sjmjlsr) you likely have no need to change anything. There's little fraud possible as data gathered is good and even less mistakes are possible. No one spends a day on their taxes and few need tla tax advisor for regular filing. This is increasingly common across at least Europe but sadly in few countries does it reach such sophistication yet.

Are you sure the US system works that well?
Tarka
The WordPress Merging Problem
This is amazingly simple, but what about in mobile? There's pdf printing here too but it's not as simple as command P! Any ideas?
> For #1: When you consolidate two (or more) local delivery operations that do the same thing, you can increase the efficiency of your operation as a whole.

The problem with that is delivery services have a fixed cost per order that does not significantly decrease just because you are fulfilling more orders, especially across multiple regions. You can group multiple orders per delivery, but the amount you pay the driver can only go so low before it is not viable for them to work for you.
It is possible the computer pays as much attention to its own subjective experience as you or I but we have not given it the tools necessary to express itself.
I tried many source contributions to OPENBSD when I was in school, but only one was accepted—-to fix a “house purchase overflow bug” in the command-line monopoly game from the BSD games collection, lol :)

I stopped hacking on it some years ago, but always contribute $$ when I’m well employed (currently not, sigh)

I’ve yet to work at a $JOB with anyone else who wishes to use OpenBSD, even in the places it is most appropriate, my most recent employer had someone under qualified as the devops lead so we had to use pfSense, an endless source of frustration of issues that couldn’t be addressed, but that I knew exactly how to address with OpenBSD, but, such is life. The most experienced people seem to have the least control, a common complaint in all industries, I’m sure.

I always encourage everyone to use many different Unix’s, it provides a much deeper understanding of everything you use, even if you end up only using Linux, anyway, it provides a much better perspective of what a distribution is and how to select the correct one even if you end up being forced into Linux anyway.

But just like how I always end up using python and JavaScript and Ubuntu Linux everywhere —- unless you’re in charge, it’s much like school, the whole team has to succumb to the lowest common denominator, the lowest also often being the boss or lead, who does very little hands-on work but feels making decisions of which Linux and which Language to use is their best contributing factor, lol
US Bill of Rights was originally written more to protect the states against the federal government. It couldn't even be enforced against the states until the 14th Amendment provided some vehicles for incorporation, and the courts acknowledged them. And even then the process of incorporation is still ongoing - e.g. the 7th is still not incorporated.
What's the point of a Rift since you can stream to your Quest now?
> Benefits of starting a company in a recession: lower rents, cheaper salaries.

This recession is potentially so short and wages are so sticky that I'm not sure that this actually will pan out.
Spleeter – Music Source-Separation Engine
Leveraging a state-of-the-art source separation algorithm for music information retrieval

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=42&v=JIR6HJISrtY...
Links are only preserved if you use Chrome's PDF export... This is not true for Firefox. (At least on Windows. I haven't tried Firefox on macOS.)
Haha. Good one it gave me a laugh as I realized that the clown-in-chief is doing the same. In fact he finds crisis so valuable he creates them on a daily basis if he can find one ready made.
Yeah, I get this a lot.

I spend hours every day dedicated to doing things to improve my skills to become more valuable in IT. People think I'm crazy, but in the time frame I have begun to do this (since my daughter was born) I can now probably run circles around anyone else who would have started at the same time.

Hours of dedication, every day, is not normal. It's probably not healthy either, but I got a late start and I need to catch up.
The Maji Maji Rebellion
Chrome OS has a proper shell now (runs in a VM in the background). Give it a go.
Cell-tower attacks by idiots who claim 5G spreads Covid-19 reportedly hit US
Designing for DynamoDB Success – Webinar
What makes DynamoDB's abstractions uniquely powerful for your cloud-native applications.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23203020
3300x won't work on anything lower than b5xx, afaik.
Judge denies Shkreli’s “delusional self-aggrandizing” plea to get out of jail
Agreed - and we don't do enough to support groups like this.

I would totally by VLC branded swag. Coffee cup, underwear, "I supported VLC and all I got was this t-shirt"... etc... Or maybe stuff more on brand, like bluetooth ear buds or something?

Lots of good will to be had by such a giant fan-base.

EDIT: Looks like they're already thinking about that. Hope they launch before xmas!

http://www.videolan.org/goodies.html#clothing
The "more" pagination button appears to only be visible on the first page of comments....you need to update the URL manually to get to comment pages 3+
Faster way is to just use Modafinil (barely addictive) or Adderall (very addictive).
Counting install base doesn't matter when you are comparing such different devices. There are more shoes than cars in the world, but that doesn't mean you are going to sell hood ornaments to people who only have shoes. The large number of cheap smartphones simply aren't going to be useful to run your office app, regardless of the size of the install base. And for the types of phones that will run your app well and give you access to the customers with the spending power you care about, you will discover that they cost a lot more than a standard desktop and about as much as a decent laptop. People who can afford those phones have options to use the best form factor and will use their phone when mobility is much more important than a lousy interface, which is why there has been so little success in the mobile app world outside of the top 10 apps, which are stuff like Uber, google maps, etc. But if your reasoning is to be followed, it must be the case that billions of people care mostly about maps, connecting with friends on facebook, and getting taxis than about using other applications, which isn't the case at all, it's just that's what people do on their phones.
If you are doing whatever makes you happy, what is this style of article for? If you are trying to alter what makes you happy to be successful then maybe that is a recipe for unhappiness.
Members of Congress can vote from home for now–but not by using tech
> Blocking some routes is the same as blocking all the routes in many cities

You literally described inconvenience and told me that it's not inconvenience. That's Olympic level mental gymnastics ;)

> I am not religious but there are many ways in which they are correct to make that claim as well.

Sure...

> Sounds like you agree that protesters blocking infrastructure is malice.

Last time I checked protests are not illegal. Using public roads to protest - not breaking rules.
Humble Book Bundle: Learn You Some Python by No Starch Press
In a sense that is what you would expect... It is consistent for Ballmer to claim that it was the wrong side of history and that they made the right choice at the time.

The fact that they lost on their side does not mean they would have surely won had they joined open source sooner. It is conceivable that they would have poisoned the ecosystem and delayed the community by years.

Microsoft is not Mozilla, of course they think they can make money with OSS, the criticism should either be that they took a long time to realize or that they might be abusing OSS.

In the article they say that the vision/estimations they had for the future of OSS was wrong, nothing more nothing less.
My approach is to start something exciting to get into the swing of it, and then gradually mix in the less exciting things that nevertheless need to be done. I consider any kind of "inbox zero" or list writing an absurd waste of time. The only list I do is a broad strokes plan for the week, which I email to self at the beginning of the week, but I don't stick super close to it.
If I need to save a page I've read on mobile, I mail myself the link to my desktop and print it there, where the PDF Archive lives. Its muscle memory at this point.

Still, would be nice if the Browser vendors would cotton on to how powerful this is, and make the whole thing a bit more seamless for the mobile/desktop bridge, or just make Print-to-PDF work more smoothly for this case on mobile.

Either way, I also have a list of every mail I've ever sent myself containing a URL from mobile, which is handy in and of itself at times, hehe ..
Wonder if he shines light up his butt and gargles with Clorox too?
Lol this comment is absurdly condescending. I think the issue is more with picking "abnormal" as a goal, from reading this book, and then trying to develop abnormal traits to get there; in contrast to being intrinsically motivated to work hard on and specialize in something, which is obviously fine.

Additionally, one could argue that fixating on the "abnormal" language is a surface level reading of this and an unfair criticism, which I think is partially true. But if I were to rephrase "be abnormal" based on this article, it would just end up at "be unusually good", which isn't very insightful.
And if you're early enough in the development process, as in pre-launch, the marketplace won't be much of an impediment.
Note that they will eventually tighten SELinux policy to forbid exec() outside of userspace of the process

https://github.com/termux/termux-app/issues/1072#issuecommen...

So the app will not work on the OS level
Qanon is more important than you think
Where will the next set of young self-made billionaires come from?
Obviously you choose the ‘boundary of the whole’ according to the location of the instance of hate speech. E.g., Jews were a minority in 1930s Germany; LGBTQ individuals are a minority more or less everywhere; Muslims are a minority in London, etc. etc. There’s nothing about this that’s difficult to understand, and you really just seem to be trolling at this point.

As to your ‘so what’, you now seem to accept that there is a connection between minorities and hate speech, which was the point at issue.
The Wrong Question About Docker and Kubernetes
Also id ran software on NeXTSTEP, itself a precursor of OSX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTSTEP#Legacy
The linked article is a very indepth, clearly presented breakdown and analysis of the hardware. It's well written and educational. Works like this get hella karma on this site.
Somalia became a failed state after their 21-year socialist experiment completely destroyed the economy and they haven't recovered from it since:

> The Somali Democratic Republic, the Marxist–Leninist military government gave to Somalia under President Major General Mohamed Siad Barre, after seizing power in a coup d'état on 21 October 1969.

> Barre's administration ruled Somalia for the next 21 years until Somalia collapsed into anarchy in 1991.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali_Democratic_Republic

This idea that they are some sort of capitalist economy rooted in libertarian ideas is a baseless position.

Just because a state fails doesn't suddenly make their economy libertarian or even capitalist. The word anarchy is used for a reason.

Today, the two major parties in Somalia are both Islamic centrist parties:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himilo_Qaran

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_for_Peace_and_Developmen...

2020 is the first time since 1969 that Somalians will have a one-man one-vote election. Probably not the best place from which to base your economic/political attacks...

Besides, the vast majority of libertarians want a smaller gov, not no government. Stable courts/police/military run by the state is almost always assumed. Only the fringiest of fringe left/right groups calling for stateless anarchy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night-watchman_state
I want a self-hosted version of something like this. I currently use historio.us, which is one of the only services I pay for, but I'd much rather have a good self hosted option. I've been looking for years.
And? We didn't ship everything to China overnight.

However, it doesn't take that long. The problem is that there is no continuity in American businesses:

https://operationsroom.wordpress.com/2012/12/06/why-is-ge-br...

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190912005862/en/GE-...

GE learned the lessons and brought it back. Then shipped it back out. And now are bringing it back again.

The problem is nobody gets promoted for being solid--everybody needs to be a rockstar.

We need some innovation where small domestic businesses run rings around the big guns. The problem is--those aren't home-run businesses--they're solid and profitable so nobody wants to invest in them.
I developed tooling for real time data through graphql subscriptions and grpc streaming. I built a protobuf to graphql schema generator tool. I have extensive experience with React hooks and making Redux-less applications. I was on the Uber Elevate team and brought several applications from 0-1.
I'm not saying anything about anyone's intent, but replacing "man-year" with "person-year" is a painless, traditional-grammar-friendly way to go gender-neutral.
Of course it made the market bigger, because it forced the competitors to lower prices to unsustainable levels. Lower prices = more demand = more supply = bigger market. For now.

It's also true that the more fast neutrons hit your fissile matter, the more energy you can extract faster. Yet it doesn't make an atomic bomb work as a viable power source.
Ad blockers block all types of ad networks.
Maybe you should stop being an entitled freeloader?
I use Safari and Firefox mostly, and haven't yet run into any of the issues you bring up - pdftotext gives me full text search with ease. All the links still work, PDF's are easy to read (assuming the page doesn't do weird layout tricks), and for the worst case, I at least can search my "bookmark" PDF archive and go back to the original live web page if needed.
While I agree with you, the problem is that shorting does have its own risks.

The saying goes: The market will stay irrational, longer than you can stay solvent.

So while your thesis is correct, it may be too soon. So you’d be wrong. You can also get caught up in a short squeeze, in which case you will be carrying heavy losses. Or if you buy a Put, then the derivative may expire worthless.

There are just too many insider trading manipulations that can happen behind the scenes, that you as a random investor are not privy to.

But, if you are lucky, and if you timed it correctly, then shorting a stock can net you a significant amount of money.
There's your Startup Idea!
As an exercice, I’m building my neighborhood newspaper website without any classes. It is surprisingly easy. With Grid and min(), I don’t even need media queries. CSS and HTML in 2020 is great, if you take the time to choose only the latest solutions.
> I've always mused that we could somehow recover some of the "wasted" time of sleeping. 8 hours every night - a third of a human's lifespan - is just so much time.

Given the option, would you want to be slower and less energetic if you could stay up 24/7? We seem to make a trade-off. We sleep for 8 hours so that we can be at optimal performance the rest of the time.

> Uberman

I have never seen anyone that could sustain this. This is probably by design, the body has several mechanisms to make you go to bed. If not doing so was actually beneficial, it is likely that adaptations to this end would be more common.

> I truly wish one day we can isolate and synthesize whatever magical thing happens during sleep and recover some useful time.

Even our real world machines require maintenance stops. Don't hold your breath. Maybe we could make this more efficient in the future and speed up the processes.
Grandparent's description is exactly how I read the interview too.
So, per you, This is much less about covid and more about a unprofitable business preparing for fundamental (And so far perceived) shifts in its market. I conclude that because yes we don’t know how long Exactly will covid will last but we do the range (~2-3 years)and after that the their market would return unless that market is now fundamentally changed/smaller etc. which is what their move suggests.
Discussion was buried low the comments because it was "down-weighted" by the moderators:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23223555#23225685
I'm sure it does. Your ownership is in proportion to equity. It's not as if your life situation suddenly changes when you make that last mortgage payment.

Your point makes me wonder if mortgages just had the effect of transferring rents from landlords over to banks.
I don't remember exactly, but originally my comment wasn't top-level. Did the mods do that, or is that automatic with high karma comments or something?
> You are creating a test for platform vs. publisher that is not in the law.

There's a clear distinction between "publisher" (information content provider) and "platform" (interactive computer service) in the law. But the law provides no test for which category a particular entity falls into, so we have to provide this. No one is claiming that the proposed test is the current test, just that it's a good test, consistent with both the letter and the spirit of the law.

> That doesn’t mean you get to change what the law does on your own

Of course I don't. But the courts do, and when they do so, they consider the legislature's intent. If an interpretation is consistent with both the wording and intent, even if it isn't the original interpretation, it's possible to convince judges to adopt it.

> It might feel cathartic to use the power of government to force Google to do what you feel is expedient right now, but it’s something you’ll come to regret.

That sounds like fear mongering. If we can trust the US government to do anything, its to respect the first amendment. And if the day comes when we can no longer trust the US government to respect the first amendment, then this discussion is pointless, because at that point we'll have lost all freedoms.

But it's clear now that we cannot trust Google to respect freedom of speech. Of the two, in this narrow case, the government is more trustworthy than Google.
VLC Escape Game
Good work
https://www.multimeter-uses-hindi.com/
We have nothing but respect for Norway, but HN is an English-language site, so articles here need to be in English.

I'm sorry, but we have enough trouble getting this audience to read the articles as it is.
The real question is whether you will take an Uber for $25 instead of a Lyft for $20.
The YouTube example was a bug from 2018. https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/25/17611444/how-to-speed-up-...

It's since been fixed.
How are you planning to attack mobile use? More than half my browsing happens on mobile now!
Safari for the win! ;)

(Seems like a bug in Firefox to me.. maybe this should be a config option..)
Show HN: Web development – Self evaluation checklist
Delete Entire YouTube History
Sounds like a product idea. I can imagine a service that uses google puppeteer on a server somewhere to print a pdf of a URL and then emailing it to the user.
Help curl: the user survey 2020
It would be impossible for the organism to operate effectively if they were conscious of every single thing going on in their brain at all times. In fact many things you aren't normally conscious of, if you focus, you can become conscious of for the moment.
Collapsing comments doesn't seem to work in subsequent pages
You put your ntp stratum one where it can receive the signal
I get the “vibe” because of the misuse. I regret using the colloquialism since people seem to have such a strong reaction to it. I just meant my skepticism went up from what I was hearing.
Could you point me to some of these studies, ie. one that's a good starting reference.
The major difference being that if you have a statically compiled binary from linux 2.4 it will work on linux 5.5

The only difference will be any shared libraries and potentially the libc. But if we're speaking from a pure technical perspective, the libc is not linux.
Giving zero days notice to your 3rd-party developers is one way to anger a relatively powerful bunch of your users. Many people will find today that their hobby/side-project is now dead in the water. I hope nobody was relying on any income from software using these APIs. But the 'best' bit:

"We realize these changes could be especially challenging for some of you, so they’ll be non-breaking for 30 days, returning empty data during that time so you can make necessary adjustments"

What on earth is non-breaking about this? I have not enjoyed working with the Strava API myself but thankfully I have not wasted as much time as some poor devs. The thing is a total mess as it is, parts of the API were effectively crippled beyond use following some bizarre privacy-based change some time ago.

Get your act together Strava.
You must not remember the Athlon 64 era.
I am not aware of any country that has mandatory paternity leave. Do you have an example of this?
Is Conservapedia satire?

> Ciaramella, who has been derided by critics as a beta male, is represented by kiddie-porn lawyer Mark Zaid.

Regardless of political leaning, you can't take anything like this seriously, surely.
Clear Entire YouTube History from App/Browsers
I think that releasing a product is still completely orthogonal to building an autonomous vehicle at this point, so it's maybe a smarter approach for their bottom line but doesn't get them to autonomy any faster.

I think to accept that delivering incrementally is helpful for making an L4 car you have to believe that having more data is the bottleneck, which probably isn't the case after a few million miles.
You are completely wrong.

I worked for 3 years as a part time taxi driver in first world mega city while doing my post grad at University. Taxis are heavily regulated. If I had refused a fare, I could be taken to court. Especially if the passenger belonged to a certain category like disabled or children needing a ride home after school.

This was pre GPS days so I had to pass 4 different computerised exams about the city and major roads. I had a through police check and had to display my taxi driver license on the dash.

There was proper commercial driver & vehicle insurance that was automatically taken out the day's earning. There was camera in the car including infrared mode. There was a panic button to start broadcasting location, video and audio.

Uber's advantage was completely ignoring any regulations. No insurance. No driver check. No driver safety infrastructure.

And their best move was the marketing bullshit. Even now people like you spout the same talking points.
I agree it's annoying, but you _can_ turn it off in the bios.
Fair. But that would, at least in the US, require a complete overhaul of the justice system. As it is, the justice belongs to those who can spend more on lawyers, so few individuals are willing to accept a realistic risk of having their lives forever ruined on the off chance they'll win against a corporation that can easily outspend them in court.
grubhub was profitable for years