skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can honestly say that SimpleTax has been life changing for me, and is a great example of just how important UX can be. My partner used to have literal panic attacks trying to file taxes, even with TurboTax/UFile/etc. Since we've started using SimpleTax, it's done in one sitting and is not even a source of stress anymore.
Google stops selling its Cardboard VR goggles after seven years
Those are some killer numbers!
I've had similar thoughts. I realised that learning is a constant struggle of competing models of reality formed by the conflicting elements of prediction and surprise.
I think there’s a saying, “when in doubt, don’t” or something like that, but seriously

As a guy I kind of get where you’re coming from. Sort of. I think being “scared” is a bit much (or can at least be portrayed as the “wrong” connotation to those that care). The way I’d phrase this is, “I want to respect people’s boundaries and certain situations can be trickier to navigate than others and I’d rather not mess it up.”

You can’t account for how someone else will perceive your actions/intentions. In fact, they could probably vary (ie what if someone is looking to be hit on on Tuesday but not Wednesday? What if a person thinks “everyone hits on them”).

For me, I try to treat everyone with respect. Maybe I want to talk more about something, but the other person doesn’t—I’m aware this could be the case so I always try to leave/create/make space for them (ie always provide a way out of the convo for the other person).

I also try to ask myself if “grabbing a coffee” over some conversation is necessary. Interesting people have a ton of people wanting to grab coffee, so maybe a group thing would be better. I also try to consider the persons time (male or female); of course I’d love to steal some time from them or make a professional connection, but you can’t always get what you want.
I would have had much less of a problem with Flash if it had been a runtime built with web technologies like that.
Thanks, this is very interesting, and certainly gives me something to think about. Is the causation the right way round though (i.e. that the deflation has caused low interest rates)?

Could it be rather that because of the deflationary situation, the government tries to stimulate the economy with cheap money, and without that action, the natural rates of interest would be set by supply and demand and would be much higher?
No it's not FUD and I can absolutely prove this to you. Just open Activity Monitor -> Disk and then watch disk writes. Then check how SMART report changes and you'll see it's exactly match what MacOS itself reports.

MacOS is heavily rely on swap at least on M1 hardware for absolutely no reason.
Oh thanks a lot for letting me know. I will investigate this, since I really don't know.
As someone with an almost solely intuitive understanding of mathematics, I still find the "repeated addition" idea useful when it comes to fractions. If 4 * 4 is 4 repeated 4 times (4 + 4 + 4 + 4). Then 1/2 * 1/2 is a half repeated half times, or a half of a half, which is a quarter. The numbers get hard to work with but the intuitive idea is still there.
Wow, that is a remarkably terrible default behavior. Virtually all other platforms behave in the opposite manner.

If the goal of the environment is to provide a new standard for cross-platform development, your default behaviors are extremely important decisions.
given amazon's historical strategy of attack against open source platforms and resulting trail of dead, this does not bode well for eth. i still expect the price to jump in anticipation
It seems to me that the way to build people's confidence in their ability to learn is to allow them to learn. That means not making oversimplified statements because you don't think they're "ready" for more details. It means giving them the details, and letting them decide when they've had enough for now. (Of course one's time, say in a classroom, will be limited, so at some point one has to say "we don't have time to go into this further in class now"--but that's still letting them know that there are more details, and they can dig into them further on their own.)
Instead of reading this press release, please read this seminal article from 2001 rebutting it: https://nakamotoinstitute.org/trusted-third-parties/

“Amazon managed blockchain” is an amazing phrase. All three words are wrong. “Blockchain” is a distributed technology created specifically for censorship resistance. A “managed blockchain” should just be replaced with a database. Databases are faster & cheaper.

Meanwhile, Amazon is a company that has engaged in censorship many times over the years.

And that’s not even addressing the issues with ethereum.
Is hyperbole? "Criminally", really?

Analogies are perfectly fine ways to throw away superfluous detail to focus on salient matters. Of course there are bad analogies, including, as you imply, those deliberately chosen so as to throw away relevant detail, however one can still improve such analogies rather than reject them -- let alone all analogies -- out of hand.

Not only are they tools for arguments -- proof by existence -- but they are frequently useful tools for resolving arguments, precisely because they can help choose which are the important details in the real scenario.

"Your analogy can be improved by <insert idea>" is also simply more friendly than "all analogies are terrible" or even "your analogy is terrible", which is something to bear in mind if you enjoy friendly debates.
A long write-up of an equivalent for the F-1 engine is here: https://arstechnica.com/science/2013/04/how-nasa-brought-the...

The analogy to out-of-date software documentation is very apt. As problems or inefficiencies popped up in the factory, they'd change things and just not write them down (because of deadline pressure, often). If you wanted to build new ones you'd have to either get the factory workers to show you how the thing was actually built, or tear down a working example to reverse engineer it. (Which has been done!)
I cannot believe how high tech salaries are right now in my city (Seattle) versus even three years ago the last time I had a "real" job.

What would have been a low 100s salary three years ago is easily pushing over 200k now.

This is all well and good except for when one of those folks tries to go to buy a house here and is outbid by 15 people all offering cash with 200k in escalation clauses...
What about research that shows religious people are also happier than non religious people?
Depends on the use. For low distortion, tubes fare better because their operating point is more linear than any single transistor. Ge doesn't make a huge difference here iirc.

Outside their operating point is another story. As said elsewhere, Ge has a smaller and less sharp drop than Si, which is worlds different for all sorts of clipping distortion applications. The classic example is the Fuzz Face, where the gentler clip made for a warmer sound. Think early Hendrix versus late Hendrix. But the transistors were so inconsistent and the circuit so sensitive to the gain that only one in fifty would sound good!
I’m not sure what you’re going on about:

1. The average community college can cost and usually does cost less than the full pell grant.

2. Discrimination against voucher recipients does exist, but the fact remains section 8 is generally enough to cover all of your housing in most places in the USA.

I believe it is better to be in the 5th percentile in the USA than most places. Feel free to show a counter example if you want.
Part of the growth of the narrative is that new people are getting brought in and act like you and I did when we first got in. Meanwhile we are being quietly worried at this point.
Using a touchscreen pre-iPhone usually felt like executing commands on a computer application.

Using an iPhone felt like directly manipulating the underlying content. It was a qualitatively different experience that only superficially resembled previous touchscreen devices insofar as it used similar input hardware.

Note that Apple didn't invent the concept of a responsive UI thread with physics-based UI metaphors, for example Jeff Han demonstrated a fairly sophisticated example at TED2006[1] the year before. But to my knowledge the iPhone was the first mass-produced device with a direct manipulation interface.

[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/jeff_han_the_radical_promise_of_th...
I think it's a positive. If large institutions replace chunks of their legacy financial infrastructure with decentralized, lower-cost infrastructure running over large, distributed blockchains (Bitcoin, Ethereum), we would all be better off.
Ask HN: You discover how to easily factorize any integer. How do you exploit it?
Say you've just discovered a method of factorizing arbitrary integers that is both fast and cheap. How do you maximize your personal gain from this scenario? Generally, I'm thinking monetary gains, though power is an option if you can swing it.

Things you might want to consider:

- It might be risky for others to find out. Presumably your new-found knowledge is valuable to all sorts of dangerous people. Nation state level actors. Organized criminals. Suddenly shifty-looking friends and family.
- Even if they don't know who you are in the real world, you'd probably be a target for hacks and people trying to steal your tech by any means possible.
- Cryptocurrency hijinks are attractive, but it could be hard to get your gains back to fiat due to (a) the value crashing when people realize, and/or (b) it possibly being illegal to exploit your invention in this way.
- Opting for fiat directly--say, by simply selling factorizations to the highest bidder--means you'll have to deal with the banking apparatus and tax agencies. If explaining crypto gains was hard, imagine trying to un-freeze your account by explaining how un-multiplying numbers got you however many millions of dollars.

Personally I'd probably panic and try to air gap everything first, with keyboard-only input to the magical factorizer. Then end up never exploiting it due to overly worrying about the consequences.
> That being said, it sucks. I tried it and I couldn’t do it. Not eating any of the foods you like fucking sucks. And the adjustment period is brutal, with nausea and watery stools. Electrolytes are a constant problem. Once you get past the one month mark it’s supposed to level out, but I’ve never been tough enough to last a month.

Yeap, everything you just said here was exactly my experience too.
USbased Ambedkar International Centre moves CA court over caste discrimination
The first graph in the spectrum article seems wrong (eg some companies only have a bar for 2018 when they ought to only have one for 2020), and the interpretation doesn’t line up with it either, but maybe they are referring to something different.
> No, but we'll totally sponsor/fund research into things like mind control and astral projection. Funding something totally useful like reverse engineering skills is totally anathema. Just really sad commentary

I don't get your point. The government does invest in reverse engineering, and much more than they invest into mind control and astral projection. It's nonsense to say that investing in useful skills is "totally anathema".

What GP was saying was not that they don't invest in reverse engineering, but they wouldn't try to backdoor it or secret the experience into the industry with some project like this. They wouldn't try to "trick" the industry into developing the experience by putting out smaller contracts like this. They do invest in it, but directly. That one program office has put out a contract for reverse engineering of one system does not mean that the general capability is ignored, within the government or the industry.
Silent Data Corruptions at Scale
Working for small and privately held companies implies a major opportunity cost
And even if they did, no one remembers that well the things they did decades ago.
> These views about piracy not mattering are practically survivor bias.

It's not about survivorship bias. It's about where he was starting from and the risks involved given that. An indie game dev's largest risk is remaining in obscurity and never making anything. In comparison, piracy is basically a non-factor. Of course large, well known studios care about piracy. Because they're already large and well known - they don't have to worry about making literally $0 in revenue on a title.
Pure nonsense, phonegap has been renamed Cordova and is widely used. The Electron of smartphones is Ionic which is a sexy and performant superset of Cordova.
PhoneGap (Cordova + Ionic marketshare) has a bigger marketshare than flutter and react native!
Source: https://www.appbrain.com/stats/libraries/tag/app-framework/a...
Ionic is a gift and it will only get more widespread, the myth that chromium is slow is increasingly dying. Also, did you notice the irony/hypocrisy that flutter is using the rendering engine made by chrome developers for Chrome developers ?
Interesting hypothesis
Really? I am in this space and didn't see this at all. Auth0 (and other competitors) seemed to be growing quickly. I don't know why they wanted to sell; must be a really good offer + some synergies.
Trusted Third Parties Are Security Holes – Nick Szabo (2001)
We're disturbing all those pristine impact craters.
How a strong network of women changed the course of my career at Google
With ups and downs throughout the journey in life, how a Googler finds her way through the support of women network.
I actually read the whole thing as I have been wondering what this new word is, PipeWire, for a while now. I actually understood like 30% of this and think I'll get even more out of it in the future having read this.
will I be cancelled or praised in India if I launch pajeeth? feel like it could go either way
- Wordgrinder/groff+mom+jstar as word processors. Well,
the second is not a "word processor" as today, but the
syntax is dumbed down from groff with the Mom macros to
write up something complex without getting mad with the troff/nfroff syntax. And, yes, you can use eqn(1)/pic(1)/tbl(1)/grap(1) and chem(1) on it in the exact
same way.

- scm-im + gnuplot with the dumb display for term
Again you're describing something very different from what is being suggested - and this is not a weird experimental theory - MANY countries have deeply complex tax codes and have also implemented an auto-file system where LARGE portions of the population can file in minutes due to a pre-filled return.

I've yet to hear any stories where anything like your nightmare scenario has actually happened. Perhaps you would not be part of the group who could rely on a pre-filled return - and you would still have to file manually, but nobody is proposing taking that option away or even making it harder than it already is.
Not every undesirable behavior can be blocked by firm rules without catching non-problematic behavior. Using a license which that errs on the side of being permissive rather than restrictive at the boundary and using social pressure to try to mitigate undesirable behavior in that boundary area seems a reasonable approach. (True for law, too, and lots of other domains.)

There's some domains where you need to (given that perfect calibration is unattainable) err on the side of being restrictive, but that's definitely not always the right choice.
It's incredible to me that most of the surplus wealth generated by all of humanity's innovation in the 21st century has basically accumulated to property owners in the Bay Area and Seattle. This is only a slight exaggeration.
Thanks for the mention. We already do see quite a few Auth0 converts. I expect to gain a lot of new customers as a result of this merger in the coming months. No complaints here.
This is a generic tangent veering into outright offtopicness. We try to avoid generic tangents in HN threads because such discussions are more or less all the same, and replacing an interesting specific discussion with a repetitive generic one is a bad trade.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

That goes 10x when the topic is an ideological one. It's clear you weren't starting an ideological flamewar on purpose but that's what generic ideological tangents lead to.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

The best way to avoid this is to stay grounded in the specifics of the article, especially the ones which have the richest diffs from past repetitive discussion.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
I fear that the individual might even be serious...
From the conversation, admittedly 20 years ago. Not documenting was highly intentional, and why I was being informed.
I agree in principle, but for some reason, the underlying implementation for fs.promises is completely separate.

I think this is where fs.promises.readFile reads the actual file https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/lib/internal/fs/p..., with many layers of indirection before that

fs.readFile is this one function: https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/lib/fs.js#L327-L3...
A tax preparer could presumably still help you make the decision about what information to share with the IRS. I guess they would be something else, but you get the point.
> At any rate we have to impose that n·0=0, which can't be writen cleverly as "repeated addition" and worked up backwards.

Are you kidding? This is the exact opposite of the truth; the nature of multiplication as repeated addition is the entire reason why multiplying by 0 gives the additive identity. It's exactly the same as how exponentiating by 0 gives the multiplicative identity, since exponentiation is just repeated multiplication. And this is so fundamental that 1 is frequently referred to by this property, as "the empty product".
"Rational" has a very loose definition so "because it's cool" is also a rational reason.
How interesting! Would love to see come quantative research into Contrarian Oscillations.
> Flash apps were also "true web apps"

Not really. They were not portable. NPAPI was not a web standard in any meaningful sense (hint: the first N stood for Netscape).

> That's why there has never been a UI toolkit as successful as the web.

The web's success in terms of active users and in terms of deployed content is astounding, certainly. I think I'm relatively well placed to understand why, and I don't think it's because the web restricted developers to one scripting language or one set of controls. I think it is very much _despite_ that.
Define π times e in terms of repeated addition.

I wouldn't say multiplication is literally repeated addition. I'd say it reduces to repeated addition when the multiplier is a natural number.
Ok, that's fair.

My point being that it's the wrong takeaway to get mad at shorts for calling something bullshit and getting reward for it, and it sound rather irrational to me.

The dog / cat shit pile was junk mortgage bundled into a CDO and getting a AAA rating, in which pension funds buys it thinking it's safe. In the absence of the shorts, those mortgage would have gone into default, the CDOs would have become worthless, or downgraded, forcing pension funds to sell.

It's still the people holding the bag. The shorts weren't the ones initiating the bad behaviour, they made money on someone else's bad behaviour.

And of course, the government bailed the FIs out just the same.
Thanks for this, I was wondering if a future Arch update would just auto install this and I would be left wondering what happened when it broke. I am going to remember your post here and try to upgrade to it soon!
> Apache 2.0 is also a strange license for anything that's not code, too; it refers to "source" and "object" form throughout.

Fonts are code. And very often have a clear source vs. object form.
Reproducibility.

Have others come in and follow the directions.
Glad to see other people that enjoy building guitar pedals. That seems increasingly rare. There are some interesting read if you like electronics and guitars:

https://www.analogman.com/fuzzface.htm

http://www.geofex.com/article_folders/fuzzface/fftech.htm

Another one

https://jacquespedals.com/the-ac128-transistor/

An excerpt:

"EPILOGUE : When supply will dry…

In a very close future, all stocks, including mine, of original germanium AC128 or any usable germanium transistor will dry.

Forever.

After this extinction, that only a few aficionados will notice, there will be no other possiblities to obtain THE original fuzz tone than a used Germanium fuzz box or a digital model."
> I think it's an arbitrary perspective, whether you treat the whole number case as primary or the generalization as primary.

Axiomatically, I think it can go either way. But one still has to recognize, as you do, that there are more cases than just the whole number case, and that what works for the whole number case might not work for other cases.

> the generalization can be done in multiple ways

There are certainly cases of this, but I don't think the case under discussion is one of them. There is only one generalization of the whole numbers under discussion here, the one from whole numbers to rationals to reals (and on to complex numbers if you want to take it that far, and still further on to matrices for some people in this discussion). There aren't multiple ways to do that: the rationals, reals, and complex numbers are all unique sets.
You forgot blaze and prob uncountable other projects
I still disagree on the latter part. Our OS is largely cobbled together by our brains on the fly, and so everyone's is quite unique and based on their life experience.
It seemed pretty clear that it's a joke to me, with the thinky-face emoji after it, but that's just my reading of it.
Stop "personalizing" my "experiences" and you’ll have my trust.
All analogies are imperfect, as is mine, though I would hesitate to say that it could be considered to be one of the worst. I would agree with other opinions which point out that it's more of a co-operative club run by and for the benefit of the members.

I disagree with your point about the the UK not asking to ship things to Poland or Slovakia or France. This is just plain wrong. Of course we are asking to do these things. In fact I have personal experience of this, as we actually do ship things from the UK to Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and the EU. I now have to fill out custom forms and get approval before I can do this. Most bizarrely, I have to do it if I want to ship from where we are in Liverpool (in the UK) to Belfast (also in the UK). I have to get a permit to go into the county of Kent if I want to send a vehicle through the Channel Tunnel to France (£300 fine if I don't). I sometimes think that I have fallen into a dystopian parallel universe.

You are correct that NI and the Republic have a long and ingrained relationship, but the separation between them was largely removed only quite recently by the Good Friday Agreement which has brought relative peace to the region. It has everything to do with the EU because the EU were sensible enough to not countenance the re-imposition of a border between Northern and Southern Ireland and so an agreement (the Northern Ireland Protocol) was agreed between the EU and the UK which puts the border relatively speaking in the Irish Sea. So Northern Ireland is still effectively in the EU customs union and single market. If you think that's complicated, we haven't even started yet :) I'm not surprised you're tired.

As far as the EU is concerned, I don't think that many people in mainland Europe really care that much. They have much more interesting things to do. Those that do care think we're a bit stupid. The EU project will carry on quite happily without the UK. I don't see much evidence of rejoicing on the part of Europeans. Also, quite a few Europeans don't have a terribly high opinion of the EU and certainly don't see it as a Nirvana; and the UK will not be marching to hell. Things are getting more expensive and some opportunities have diminished, but it's not an Armageddon as some would have you believe. Leaving the EU was rather pointless, that's all :|