skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The number if people in your household does not alter your tax liability, only the number of dependents in that group. Those who qualify as dependents are: “your biological child, stepchild, foster child, sibling, step-sibling, or a descendant of any of these individually... but the child can’t turn 19 at any time during the tax year (age 24 if a full-time student).”

From: https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tips/family/what-are-depende...
Ahh yes the rising tide....

I'm still waiting for my 'trickles' mouth wide open, just awaitin'.
Glad he floats your boat, but I jokingly call him my audiobook nemesis, as he narrates many books I am interested in, and can't really listen to him anymore.
That's not the question, though — we're talking about what the theoretical bounds of the Constitution are. The ACLU appears to be arguing that a local government restricting access to some municipal/public property on the basis of residency is a violation of the Federal constitution (which part of it?). If that's the case, then what's the limiting principle?
I suppose if you're price sensitive or play a lot games or both then physical makes sense. Personally I'll play 1-3 new games per year and all bought on release. The few bucks difference doesn't make a difference for how much value per hour of entertainment I receive. On the other hand, not having to store and swap out the games each time I switch is actually a tangible benefit to me.
> Instead, I have to dig YAML with a pickaxe in the YAML-mine without any technology to assist me.

Someone here talked about the joys of using the API with protobufs. Something I want to try out because it sounds clean.
> You still haven't stated anything other than your opinion.

That's all either of us have been doing. [EDIT] and an opinion can be a reason! They're not mutually exclusive. Do you need an itemized list of problems I have with webapps, with figures backing them all up (else they'd be opinions again, I guess)? I figured that'd been discussed to death, especially on HN.

> Having a choice is always better than not having one with regards personal preferences. That's my standard. What's yours aside from "I don't like web apps"?

I like being able to choose a platform that makes it hard for developers to get by with a webapp, pushing them toward native apps. See? I like choice too.
This is really nice. I have my airpod double tap set to pause, play but I miss having siri available for hands free. This makes it easy to have both!
Another related change I'd like to see is that &(foo * )(NULL)->bar - (foo * )NULL be made well-defined. Effectively, allowing a generalization of offset_of to be written in C/C++.
Shouldnt be "history of led" should be future lol
Avoid avoid avoid. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/09/review-we-do-not-reco...
But what if it's a state/local library?

Whatever article/amendment of the US Constitution proscribes restriction to local parks on the basis of residency would ostensibly also proscribe any public government institution from discriminating on the basis of residency.
Conservancy Requests Three DMCA Exemptions to Let People Control Their Devices
It's been a hack for years, not merely recently. Maltron keyboards used to switch layouts between the "PC" and "Maltron" layouts by the keyboard moving scancodes around, in response to a physical switch at the back of the keyboard, back in the days of PS/2 keyboards.
Does it take into account purchasing power / cost of living? That seems relevant when comparing across countries and talking about poverty.
I wonder how many of the exonerations are 'not guilty' rather than 'innocent'.

That is, they were convicted wrongly, but still did the crime. I don't suppose we could ever find that out.
Im not making any assumptions about that.

The parent implied that that AAA revenue models didn’t have most sales up front (or at least that’s how I read it).

I have no clue if most pirates could afford it or not
> Surely Apple could implement a setting to disable all requests for push notifications?

That’s an option in macOS. Ultimately it doesn’t make the UX any better though, as web developers still present JS-based dialogs asking for notification permissions
Planting trees: a silver bullet for climate change?
No. I remember trying to play Batman Arkham Asylum back in the day and it was a pain in the ass. First Steam. Then it wanted me to log in to some silly Windows Game system. Why? It's a single player game and I bought it via Steam, where I'm already logged in. Anyway, I couldn't register and got tons of errors until I finally managed it. Then it wanted me to download a ton of updates (almost as much as the original download) over a slow internet connection. It's a single player game, for crying out loud -- let me choose whether I want the updates! I had downloaded the game the day before, I had a couple of spare hours and wanted to play the goddamn game (spoiler: I wasn't able to that day).

Had I downloaded the warezed version, I wouldn't have needed: a- Steam, b- the Windows whatever login, c- the updates. Best experience goes to: pirated version. (Had I wanted the patches: pirates eventually release updated versions, too).

For the record, these days I do like Steam, though I far prefer GOG and DRM-free games (when I have the time to play games at all, that is. Which is almost never).
I think GP's concern is legit, especially if the colleague was a subordinate, or could become a subordinate in the future.

Not only could the colleague bring a claim of harassment if things didn't go well, but other colleagues could as well — on the grounds that this female colleague received special treatment as a result of her relationship with GP.
JA WOHL!
Helm is probably the worst influence I've experienced on the kubernetes ecosystem. It takes something that could have been really good (metaconfig) and makes it illegable, complex, and impossible to debug.

Kustomize, too, doesn't get at the root of all the needs I've found myself having.

A metaconfig language like Jsonnet, Dhall, or Cuelang seems to be where it's at. If you're using jsonnet I can also highly recommend kubecfg [0] as it's a tool that "just works" and is built at the perfect level of abstraction: "just give me something and I'll find all the kubernetes objects inside of it". It's remarkably simple and forgiving and it makes it possible to describe even the most complex application configs + kube configs in a single language. You can also take it a step further and describe your CI stages (pre-merge, release, builds, etc), kube yaml, and infrastructure provisioning (terraform) all in one language.

> What are the benefits of using helm?

The main benefit is redistribution. Since everyone uses helm it's easy to give someone a chart because they know what to do with it. That's pretty much the only upside I've found.

[0] - https://github.com/bitnami/kubecfg
https://joplinapp.org/ is a very nice tool in this space as well. Open source, lots of features.
With the member deals, Audible is cheap, and I treat audiobooks as a transient form of amusement and edutainment. They have a generous return policy. The membership is even better now with access to a library of audiobooks. The value I've received so far has been well worth the chunk of change I've forked over even if I lose my library due to Audible shenanigans.

Of all companies, I think Audible treats its customers well.
> I realize it's very possible publishers will continue to expand the use of microtransactions anyway, but, well, at least now they'll have the ability to not do that. Before, it was basically a lost cause.

It was very much possible before too, just look at what the indie scene is capable of at much lower prices.
Show HN: A Failed CRM for WhatsApp
This Electrical Transmission Tower Has a Problem. Can You Spot It?
Son of a gun, I went and researched and turns out my Mac can produce a "similar" spatialization effect in VLC from 5.1 audio at least, under Window > Audio Effects > Filter > Headphone virtualization. Not that I've ever heard anyone mention its existence before. But I'm definitely using that from now on. Thanks for setting me on that track!

As for comparing the two... the iOS one is absolutely better, but the VLC one is still a really nice improvement. But it's definitely not just the head tracking. The VLC one somehow feels like it spreads the audio out "horizontally", so background sound comes from outside the head, but people speaking still sound "between my ears". Whereas with iOS, the people speaking genuinely sound like they're in front of me -- it puts the center audio forwards -- and nothing sounds "between my ears".

I would guess Apple can produce something superior because they know the exact shape and positioning of their own headphones, as opposed to a generic stereo headphone plugin?

Not to mention, of course, the lack of head tracking in VLC. I just researched Dolby Atmos for Headphones to compare, and it looks intriguing but appears to be Windows only.
My Android 10 Realme Pro2 has a option to desaturate screen every day at a fixed schedule.
In my experience, the audio quality of OverDrive audiobooks is poor, almost to the extent that I can't listen to them. I don't know if it is because I never figured out the right setting (I don't think so) but I prefer Audible.
Gerrymandering can be much worse than that. The unpopular party could win 8 districts and leave one for the more popular party.

Math: Assume 900 people, so 495 voting for the popular party and 405 for the unpopular party. Put 100 popular voters in district 1. Split the remaining equally (395 popular, 405 unpopular). All districts except the first will be won 51%-49% by the unpopular party. (This is the "pack and crack" gerrymandering strategy, packing the party into some districts and cracking them across the other.)
And Nethack/Slashem servers :D.

So you can play RPGs remotely from any crap built from the 80's with serial support and a 80x24 display (WIFI232), on the display, a Spectrum +3 would suffice.
Right so how could they possibly define/prove/enforce it, since reverse engineering is essentially the act of understanding how something works by looking at it.
I see your position, but I don't view placing an ad as an initiation. He still initiated the conversation by clicking on the ad like he would've if he had called a phone number or anything else and therefore could still have been scammed.
Chrome still crashes all the time for me - in fact, it seems to be crashing more than it used to. It's just that now the crash is isolated to a particular tab.
I guess the first section of what I wrote in my blog could show why it failed, at least it was at the very start...

This was supposed to be a personal CRM, after some brainstorming about how to display the data and what was supposed to be the main functionalities of the project, I was disappointed to find, while I built the MVP, that Whatsapp has no easy way to generate a backup of any readable kind from all the contacts, you can only backup a user or a group each time, and with a limit of around 40 thousand messages so there is also a great chance that big and old groups would be lost in the manual backup, and also it doesn’t link the media messages to its correct location, media are exported as «media-type»-date-WAxxxx, so I could only know if the message is from that day, and not its correct location in the chat.

The Whatsapp backup which is usually created daily at mid dawn can only be used by the Whatsapp app, amazing! Even Instagram backup allow one to download every single message in JSON, well, Whatsapp does not have persistent online storage, so yeah, I can understand the lack of a full backup functionality, but can’t understand why we use Whatsapp so much … well, I guess this is a rant for another day.

But at least I still made it functional so I could try Blazor a little bit.
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The mental gymnastics some commenters use to turn this into bad news...

Occam must be spinning in his grave.
Are you claiming that those references support the idea that Bill Clinton's administration acted motivated primarily by humanitarian motivations unalloyed with the longstanding desire (and repeated demonstration¹) of the United States to systematically destroy all oppositions to its control of most of the world's economy?

That seems like a "fringe" opinion to anyone that has looked in even a half-objective manner at the easily available history.

1. https://sites.evergreen.edu/zoltan/interventions/
Do you think the less-powerful PS5 costs more to make than the Series X? Why?
Australian stinging trees inject scorpion-like venom. The pain lasts for days
If HN comments are a fair representation of software developers then a course like this is essential. I am frequently astonished at how many software developers are so hopelessly lost on such basic understandings of ethics in such an immediately and direct way.
I have often found that organizations (government or private) have no idea how to configure privacy for their FB announcements so there is no way to view public content without logging in, even if it is ordinarily available to anyone with a FB account.
Ask HN: How do I feel better about working for Amazon?
I’m an L4 at Amazon and will make about $150k this year (inclusive of stock growth). My job is fine, but I constantly struggle and wrestle with the fact that my job is considered unimpressive by my peers, and that regaining a positive total compensation trajectory is difficult to impossible now (for example, my peers at Lyft and Facebook make in excess of $300k with 2 years tenure. If I get promoted within the same time period I’ll make less than $200k). In addition, seeing constant microaggressions from people that work at elite companies like Google (identifying as “Googler” on social media, bragging about the fact that they get a WFH bonus or get fancy gifts or Hawaii offsites etc) has driven me into dark places in the last few months especially. Even when I try to study and prep for interviews it weighs on me like a brick because it feels like they’re just made to be superior.

I’ve tried therapy, but it hasn’t been effective. What are good strategies to mitigate this feeling?
The reason it doesn’t bother anyone Is that the conversion is mindless. Calibre automatically converts when you send books to your Kindle.
> The 2019 real median earnings of men ($57,456) and women ($47,299) who worked full-time, year-round increased by 2.1 percent and 3.0 percent, respectively

If individual earnings gains are less than household income gains, it means people aren't necessarily making more money, it means they're working more total hours. I don't consider this a good thing for the richest country in the world. It's also interesting to note that women earnings increased almost a full percentage more than mens.
They include retirement income as income, but do they exclude retirement savings? In US there’s a huge burden to save for your own retirement, and modern retirement vehicles (e.g. 401k and IRA) pay out in full even if you die young (no longevity risk pooling), so they’re a lot more expensive to fund.
> What do you expect them to do?

Who are 'them'? The executives of these companies? Yes, of course some of them will act this way at least some of the time, and the question is what do we do, if we don't like it? We have some options, such as preferring candidates who favor stronger accountability and effective protection of whistle-blowers, and who are opposed to installing, as the political appointees heading the regulatory bodies such as the FAA, people to whom these executives can go to to get pressure applied to the professional regulators to back off their objections to what is going on. We can also support responsible investigative journalism by subscribing to it.

So, yeah, I'm not expecting things to improve anytime soon.
Try using two fingers (or both hands). It works really well when you use one hand to swipe and the other to move.
It doesn’t need to happen often. Just sometimes would be enough for me to switch the publisher to a list of "never buy-always pirate". Unless it came with a big warning, then I just wouldn’t care and not get the game in the first place.
The specs are really good for the price and clean design is aesthetically pleasing, but I won't be able to enjoy it knowing that facebook is behind it.

I can wait for their competitors to catch up :)
What conclusion should I draw from these seemingly inconsistent statistics?
What you're looking for is called Service Topology it is in Alpha.

https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/serv...
That is somewhat above my pay grade, so to speak, but I imagine that you would need to write a plugin that talks to a language server (I think this is true for Code and other LSP-aware editors, too). You'd probably start by checking "show extension development items in the Extensions menu," then select "Create New Extension..." in that menu and choose "Language Server Extension" in the pane that comes up next. That looks like it creates a skeleton extension for you with the basic details filled in.
Cross agency collaboration is difficult in any government environment, but especially across the sprawling Federal workforce.

End of the day, these groups probably ultimately save money and provide a higher level of professionalism as opposed to practices like deputizing local police.
Its basically been growing like crazy since 2008. Check out the difference between the US growth vs most first world countries growth. The GDP per capita was 45k in 2008 and 48k in 2019. The US when from 48k to 63k.
> That's why democracies generally divide districts by population. Geography is largely irrelevant.

That's kind of my point: No it is not. Districts are meant to be contiguous geographical areas.

Even if you adjust the geographical size of each district to have similar population sizes (which was your point), my point still stands: Because of the geographical nature of districts, cities will always have a larger Democratic percentage, and it will always look like Republicans have gerrymandered things.
This doesn't seem ready for use yet. Another Roam alternative I've been using that seems pretty much complete and has the benefit of letting the user host the data is

https://obsidian.md/
Thanks. It may be that the exception was stuck in my head. :)
There are examples of this specific provision of the DMCA being enforced (or at the very least being used to threaten into submission) on EFF's website. Dmitry Sklyarov, a Russian national, was even arrested and sent to jail in the US:

https://www.eff.org/pages/unintended-consequences-fifteen-ye...

EDIT: Probably worth noting Dmitry Sklyarov was released from jail after testifying at the trial of his employer, who were themselves then found not guilty of violating the DMCA.
Dhall continues to a be a glimmer of hope in this space. I agree that helm caused the entire space to distort. There is so little reusability in charts.
Dhall seems to be the start of reversing this, but I hesitate to mention it since the ergonomics are still rough.

If YAML is the assembly language of k8s, Dhall looks like what you would write the compiler in.
Making Instagram Faster
Not really, or not many more than normal
> Maybe Netflix loses the rights and it disappears.

That is interesting because it happened to me in the most annoying way possible:

I was watching Donnie Darko, a rather obscure movie that requires (or at least for me required) a bit of brainpower to watch. So I watched the first half of it and planned to watch the remainder the next day. Come the next day, and where is the movie? Nowhere to be found.
Several points:

- Do we trust the CDC this week? Yesterday they were corrupt liars and not to be trusted. See also next point.

- Is this a political stunt to push off blame? "Jeez if everyone just wore a mask we would be done with it, not my fault X people died".

- What happens once it's "under control"? Do we continue lockdowns and lifestyle restrictions as they exist today? I have yet to see any country with reasonable conditions to end their lockdowns. Under what conditions will the lockdowns and lifestyle changes end?

The definition of "under control" seems to be ever changing.
I think at a high level they are right. It probably is true that being a different race or sex or whatever results in different experiences on average which inform worldview. The problem is that any differences that might arise are largely out of scope of work. My domain knowledge, acuity, communication style, and professionalism really have nothing to do with experience relating to race, sex, orientation, or any other factor these people are concerned about.

In reality these diversity programs are basically societal anti-discrimination programs in disguise. While those types of programs aren't necessarily bad, proponents know that if they pitched them purely in this way they would never get management buy in because that's largely not work related; hence all the ill supported talk about diversity automatically yielding better teams.
In Vim, I would love to be able to map Ctrl-[ (which is what I use instead of Esc to change modes) to Ctrl-thumbkey just to relieve the right pinky. I'm using a standard mechanical TKL layout now. Or maybe just map Esc to a single thumb key.
I would actually have serious respect for someone who is in such an intellectually impoverished environment that they think the world is flat, yet they have the intellectual humility to say they're not totally sure.

The video doesn't actually say what Penn's objections to carbon credits are. Googling a bit, Wiki's episode summary for "Being Green" says: "Attacks the concept of carbon credits as a method of profiting off guilt, and compares them to indulgences"—well, is he wrong? I also see comments indicating that he says Al Gore buys carbon credits from a company he owns, which sounds at least like an "appearance of impropriety" which Gore maybe should have avoided.

> Clearly principles get trumped by fossil fuel funding.

Do you really think Penn got funding from fossil fuel companies and ... The steelman is that fossil fuel companies have paid unscrupulous individuals in think tanks that libertarians subscribe to, to write mendacious reports that libertarians believe. That's possible. I wonder if any other group has been fooled by mendacious reports.

I wonder what the best strategy is for defeating mendacious reports in general. Perhaps encouraging everyone engaged in a scientific debate to be as scrupulously honest and precise as they can be—and to recognize dishonest tactics. A failure mode in that is seeing dishonest tactics where none exist, so perhaps one can (encourage everyone to) adopt practices that make it easier for everyone to tell the difference. Things like publishing all raw data, preregistering experiments, and offering rewards for neutral parties to reproduce an experiment, seem helpful.
What is it? I can't find a description.
Lol americans are much much richer compare to the rest of the world especially the first world. And debt is considered.
But the survey being discussed doesn't seem to be using tax definitions.
Holy shit, this is amazing!
I recommend against getting any Occulus Quest device. They won't give you a good VR experience.
Depends where you live as well. In Taiwan I find that I never get the deep discounts on physical games which I became accustomed to in Canada. Prices seem to remain at the $40 level for about three years. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is about CDN$55 new, still. It’s on sale in the Xbox store for about $20.

I have an xbox one and I rarely buy new games. Once every three months, I get an offer to try Gamepass for a dollar.

Selection can be an issue as well. I was in the local game store yesterday and they didn’t have a copy of Red Dead Redemption 2. I already have it but it’s kind of funny that I couldn’t buy a physical copy here of one of the biggest selling games if I wanted to.

For me, saving $100 on a digital-only console isn’t such a terrible purchase.
You might find these funny and/or thought provoking:

https://xkcd.com/743/

https://xkcd.com/488/

https://xkcd.com/129/

https://xkcd.com/511/