skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also have no idea what it does, something with student loans, but the description just feels like buzzwords: "Give your products student loan superpowers" and "create life-changing student loan outcomes"
There's been a rust runtime for lambda for a couple years now. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/rust-runtime-for-aws...

Rust's low cold start times and relatively minimal memory footprint combined with C like efficiency would be particularly attractive for lambda.
> the brokerages generally track your basis.

Yes, but IIRC if you transfer investments between brokers you are back to tracking basis yourself (if you're lucky, the new broker will allow you to enter the basis after the transfer).

But agree in the general case that it's not a problem for younger people. (Gen X and older may indeed have some of those pretty old investments lurking in their portfolios.)
Sure, I'm not lobbying the law to be changed on my feelings, but someone able to risk _infinity_ money in the hopes of a company's value decreasing does "feel" dangerous and wrong.
I guess. The Jesuits taught me they were all pretty much the same dude.
Children are hard if the parents are separated. You get child support to figure out. And who gets what share of the tax credit is tricky as well. (This is one way for one parent to abuse the other - file fast and claim all the credits, whoever files second now has to prove the first did the wrong thing at their expense)
And why should they be? It's not like you'll be booking tickets.
The part you're missing is that as a part of the acquisition, Intuit was required by the Justice Department to divest the "tax" portion of Credit Karma - so no, they're not the same company. Credit Karma, the main app, is Intuit. The tax portion of Credit Karma is not.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-requires-d...
And it's rare to get malicious software from official binaries, right? You got less exposure to malware by avoiding Sony Music CD's and pirating them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...
Yep. The INI files were the original ways to store config info...

The registry was the next step. What would be great is an online serve for such - a machine gets booted and it asks for your config unam UUID etc - and then just slurps your snapshot down.
Hey congrats Yaseer and team! Exciting to watch your progress.
Even if it turns out to be better, my question is how are they practically going to onboard users like me (and the people I know.) Like I might try it out of curiosity because I saw it here on HN but I really doubt a lot of people care. DDG works fine for them.
Correct. Companies like Intuit lobby the government to keep complex tax codes so they can provide services that make it easy.
How do you continue once you are big enough to be a threat to Google?
Does that not depend on your perspective? There might not be an alignment between what Google’s executives and shareholders want out of the company, and what an ethics researcher might consider ethical behavior.
A swedish guy I go to school had to file taxes...while not generating any income or allowed to generate income. He almost got in trouble with whatever US dept handles immigrants cause his advisor in the foreign affairs office didn't tell him this.
>JACK applications are supported through a re-implementation of the JACK client libraries and the pw-jack tool if both native and PipeWire JACK libraries are installed in parallel

>unlike JACK, PipeWire uses timer-based audio scheduling. A dynamically reconfigurable timer is used for scheduling wake-ups to fill the audio buffer instead of depending on a constant rate of sound card interrupts. Beside the power-saving benefits, this allows the audio daemon to provide dynamic latency: higher for power-saving and consumer-grade audio like music playback; low for latency-sensitive workloads like professional audio.

That's pretty interesting. It sounds like it's backwards compatible with jack programs but uses timer based scheduling similar to pulseaudio. Can you actually get the same low levels of latency needed for audio production without realtime scheduling?

JACK's used over pulse for professional audio typically because of its realtime scheduling. How does pipewire provide low enough latency for recording or other audio production using timer based scheduling?

Does anyone have any experience using pipewire for music recording or production?

It would be nice to have one sound server, instead of three layered on top of eachother precariously, if it works well for music production.
I haven't used layers enough to give you any useful guidance, but when they released layers they claimed that they'd allow alternative languages to be deployed. IIRC they released a few new languages at the same time and claimed they were all built using layers. So this might well already be possible.
The phrase 'if you're not the customer, you're the product' comes to mind. I could easily see malware being installed that flies under the radar, and the type of person that runs random executable code willy nilly is not the sort of person that would be able to trace malware back to one vector.
You also have to trust the accountant, and the accountant is not liable at the end of the day anyway.

If you are a W-2 employee, even with having to file a Sch 1/2/3/B/D/etc, it shouldn’t take more than a couple hours. And you get to know you did it right.

Of course, if you don’t enjoy reading tax instructions, I highly recommend parting with a couple hundred dollars and letting someone else do it.
re. the "usual suspects", I got an M1 air late last year, and I've decided to keep it completely separate from my work laptop, so all it has installed is basically firefox, a couple of code editors, and whatever came with it. It absolutely screams compared to my other laptop, but I wonder how much of that is the M1 processor, and how much of it is because I don't have all this garbage running all the time.
Modern Fortran (2008/2018) syntax is a bliss. You would almost not notice if your are coding in MATLAB or Fortran with the advantage of your code being orders of magnitude faster in Fortran. Those who criticize the syntax of Fortran have probably not learned anything beyond F77, or at best F90.
It might be controversial, but I still think Mozilla would be in a better place today if Eich was still in charge.
Would there be improvements for remote audio streaming over pulseaudio with ssh?
Chapter 7 means liquidating all assets - business gone, creditors can pick over the pieces to try to recoup something. Chapter 11 business is functioning and tries to restructure debts in a way to pay creditors back, maybe not wholly back but at least partly or with an extended time window. It provides a shield from creditors while doing this.

For someone like Alamo so adversely affected by Covid but with an otherwise (AFIACT) healthy business in non-covid times its a reasonable approach to try to get out from under-water without undue pressure from creditors.

You see Chapter 11 more around extraordinary operating circumstances, recesssions etc. Where businesses think they can get back on their feet given some time.
Microsoft Teams aims to boost productivity by tracking employee mental health
I think it is because they're also behind BAT which is a cryptocurrency.
An officially supported Rust SDK should be a high priority, IMO. The de facto AWS library Rusoto (https://github.com/rusoto/rusoto) went into maintenance mode is in need of maintainers (https://github.com/rusoto/rusoto/issues/1651).

Microsoft has an Azure SDK under their organization (https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-rust), but oddly, it's marked as "unofficial". It looks like Google doesn't have one for GCP, but there is a community-built one: https://github.com/Byron/google-apis-rs

Given all these companies are part of the Rust Foundation (https://foundation.rust-lang.org/members/), maybe I just expect more.
We need something like ombudsmans. Roles with true independence. Built in checks and balances.

I have no idea how to make that work.

Maybe something like legal codification, so that publicly traded companies and the various parties are granted some temporary liability armor when vulnerabilities (or equiv) are identified.

PS- Just had a notion. Probably dumb: Maybe the liability (re)insurer gets a seat on the board of directors.
While they may be unborn, their parents and grand-parents aren't. As long as there's a carbon tax on the energy consumption (for everybody, not a single industry) and energy comes from increasingly green sources, I don't see any problem with it, I don't expect us to be burning coal for energy in 30+ years from now.
give me the option to block certain sites from results and prioritize others, I would pay a monthly fee just for that level of customization. I hate searching to download something and only finding spam in the top 5 results.
Of course they can change hands outside the ledger. We could create paper wallets and exchange them on the street and the blockchain isn't going to know that happened. A tumbler is just a more complex version of that.

Imagine this scenario: You have 10 BTC of illegal funds you'd like to launder. I, and 3 of my friends each have 5 BTC and they're all wanting to do the same.

I transfer some money into a new wallet from 2 of my friends and give it to you. Your money goes to me and 1 of my other friends.

This way the blockchain has no link between your source funds and the money that you received.

This is a simple example. If you split the money into random amounts and do this a few times with new wallets each time it can easily become untraceable.
Sometimes I have the same thought—people know what they are doing and wouldn't just fork out money on the basis of hype—and then I remember that similar stuff seems to happen quite often. Even relatively recent examples – Yahoo! and Tumblr, eBay and Skype, News Corp and Myspace, even Google and Nest.
But what is that number? You only described an algorithm that relies on a vague definition of “part to the right”. See, you can’t even write it down (unlike 1 + 3.14 = 4.14), because pi is not really a number, in a sense. It is an infinite calculation that happens to converge between 3.14 and 3.15. You can never get rid of “pi” in your calculations unless it cancels out naturally, so for practical reasons it’s 3.14 and for theoretical reasons it’s “pi”.

Let’s make it clear: you cannot add pi or take pi times at all. You only can add to factors to the left of it (same as a+bi). That’s why you cannot multiply by pi by repeated addition, not because the numeric method is wrong.

Wouldn't it be better to just admit up front that multiplication is not repeated addition, although the two are similar for some types of numbers?

For generalized reasoning, yes. For teaching, not sure. Which is better, a student who knows that mul is rep-add, or a student who gave up and doesn’t know even that? When they learn, they ask themselves why and it’s a rabbit hole. You should stop somewhere before turning into maths professor, if that’s not your goal.
Square owns Credit Karma Tax. Intuit was required to divest that part of the company as a part of the merger.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-requires-d...
> restrict buying and selling altogether

Robinhood is a brokerage, they are not the entire stock market.

Robinhood has 0 ability to prevent people from selling GME in the market at large.

It kind of feels like some people don't understand that Robinhood is only a gateway into a much larger system, and is fundamentally different than an "app/game" that controls the entire system on it's own servers.
I wouldn't worry too much about it. A mailing list is usually a means to an end. Most people writing on Substack are also writing a book manuscript behind the scenes, because that's a reliable way to monetize one's following.

It's a different type of relationship if you're a 'personality' on Twitch or IG, and your audiovisual presence is what gets people to follow you. Books don't monetize nearly as well, and a lot of the people in this area don't really have anything to write about. So they pitch what they can: energy drinks, mattresses, Audible subscriptions.
> However, across quantum mechanics, there is at least unity on the 'quantum' part. And that's really the point of contention here in terms of integer values, right?

I don't know what this means, but there is this idea that quantum mechanics leads to integer valued stuff because the first models studied were things like the hydrogen atom and the simple harmonic oscillator which both have a natural integer valued observable (the energy). This is not generally the case, however and in quantum mechanics there are many observables which are not integer valued, for example the kinetic energy of a free particle can be any non-negative real.
Jane Does vs. GirlsDoPorn: How 22 millennial women brought down a porn empire
i applied for employment in a casino in the past, part of the application asked for familial references.

application denied, due to criminal contacts- as in they investigated my familial references and found an extended family member with unsavoury past.

summary- no hire due to the conduct of a person other than yourself
We have the following data about you: [...] Does it look correct? [Y/n]

That's how it's done in France for example.
I love rxjs but I wouldn't call it user friendly. It's essentially a text encoding of data flow programming and requires a totally different mental model to react. The explicit coding of time is great, but for most reactive js code react's own logic is simpler and more idiomatic.
> What is the point of the legal system if everyone is just going to apply extra-legal, -arbitrary- punishments on top of it?

To control the application of violence and to make sure the preexisting rules are being followed before it is applied.

If you don't have any verification that the rules are being followed, those in power tend to do pretty horrible things. At the same time, if those in power use no violence, the populace tend to resort to extra-legal violence to deliver what they see as justice, which results in a different class or horrible things happening (and threatens the government's monopoly on legitimized violence).

It's basically a local maximum that still kind of sucks, but works better than anything else we've tried at scale.

We've tried getting the government involved in social punishment, but it tends to work out very poorly and it seems best just to have them not enter that sphere.

> what's the point in trying to cooperate with a society that brands you as a criminal no matter

Potentially nothing, but that's a question for society, not for the government/legal system. Society is supposed to control the government, not the other way around (or at least that's the theory, practice is sometimes pretty spotty).

It should also be noted that there's no requirement for people to add these extra punishments. So, it should be pretty easy to turn around if people ever pull their heads out of their asses.
I've recently been reading a bit about the history of Israel and the prolific tech industry there. Funny enough the founders are Israeli (company was in NYC), and one of them had a leadership role in the Talpiot program--something akin to the Navy seals for science and technology in the IDF.

Really remarkable country, seemingly overflowing with human capital. A population smaller than New Jersey but so much innovation and startups.
I will say what we did work thru some multiplication of integers as repeated addition and scaling, just to show that the answers "come out the same". I used the scaling by a fraction to show that the repeated addition method doesn't work on all classes of numbers. (We've talked some about the difference between integers and real numbers.)

The gist of my statement was something like: Adding repeatedly is a fine method to solve this kind of problem but it doesn't for all classes of numbers. We can't say, like we can w/ addition and subtraction, that multiplication implies a specific direction of movement (towards or away from zero) on the number line.
Without experimental data to back it up (e.g. implementation and benchmarks), I'd consider this claim veeeery dubious - regardless of who it came from.

Extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence, and in this case it would be easy to provide such evidence - by cracking appropriately-sized challenge primes in a transparent way that can be independently verified.

On the other hand, the theoretical approach in the paper is quite complex and hard to follow - even for professional cryptographers.
Turing incomplete. Thanks, will get a correction to the reporter.
Glad to hear they're not planning on disappearing.

Spent many hours in Austin TX Alamo's during the SXSW festivals. A wonderful experience. A little like the UKs Everyman chain (but with stunningly entertaining kookie ads running).
Yeah what is the cohort size and how many cohorts can a person be part of? This sounds like an underhanded way Google can say they don't track individuals while in practice it is almost the same.
Instagram. C3.ai. Uber. Heck, Tesla. Curv has the advantage of actually being profitable.
You said a lot of wild things without any real assertions.
Mostly because it's an unpleasant task that can involve large sums of money if you put things in the wrong boxes. And even relatively straightforward brokerage accounts and second income sources start cranking up the complexity in a hurry.
You say "you" but I have no particular complaints about letting someone who ran a Bittorrent tracker run a DNS registry. They committed a thought crime, not a murder. If their DNS registry is mismanaged, I can easily take my business elsewhere. What's next, you can't get a job because you got a parking ticket one time? Why would you let someone who can't read parking signs write software, after all?

I'd prefer to get some data on what the risk is here. Among criminals, how many commit their second crime while running a DNS registry? If we don't know, I am not sure it's rational to give someone a life sentence in that domain. It's just punitive, not intelligent risk management.
I don’t know. But if you’ve opened up the IRS free fillable forms website, and put up the accompanying instructions on your second monitor, and know how to read English, I don’t see how it’s difficult, if you’re income is from a W-2. Everything is kind of labeled and laid out for you.
I’m not going to support anyone that makes a profit breaking the rules, gets caught, says sorry not sorry, continues to profit off breaking the rules in the name of privacy and free internet, and then cries that they’re no longer trusted to break the rules.
Lol. Not everyone lives within sight of an Amazon warehouse. I ordered 4 books yesterday, prime + sold by amazon. Delivery estimate is by end of next week. That isn't all that different a service than was available in the 90s when I would have just called a store and had them mail me the product. And if you think Amazon carries a wide ranger of products, just look at any number of Chinese alternatives to see what 'selection' actually means.
Except for the fact that Bitcoin's current 24hr trading volume is in the billions.
Copes totally fine and it's trivial to memoise them anyway.
Maybe start by having an AWS SDK for Rust that isn't community supported by one or two employees on their off time?

https://github.com/rusoto/rusoto
The business does. The individual doesn't. If that were the case, literally every business would be unlendable. Did you ever stop to wonder why commercial entities don't have a credit system? Commercial loans are devised based off of the old fashioned way lending was done. Look at several years of your income and financial discrimination on your risk.
https://www.runnaroo.com/blog/the-search-engine-hacker-news-...

Uses Google index for organic search, but respects quotes unlike Google, Bing, or DDG. I'm the creator.

Gigablast also mentioned here is very cool as well.
And if you don't know exactly how many pages there are? Normaly you would just do binary search.
They did address it as an error on their part. [https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/06/09/brave-ceo-apolog...]
It looks like they have a job posting for this: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1424393/software-development...
Maybe it's because English is my second language, but tenet is to me just another word for principle or axiom? Nothing cult/religious/military about it?
A large part of it has been. The standard deduction is high enough now that most people can't take advantage of the deduction based approach. Of course most tax people will tell you to save all receipts, they will happily charge you to look through them and calculate that they are not big enough to matter. If people knew how simple their taxes really were most people wouldn't be willing to pay as much for it.
Yes, those docs are filed with the IRS, but charitable contributions, child status (are they dependents or not this year?), expenses (home office, side hustle, property management etc), and many other things aren't.

If all your tax returns reference are the handful of items you mention, your tax return can be done in a matter of minutes on a short form.

Yes, it could be better, but it's a fantasy to think it should be as simple as getting a bill from the IRS at the end of the year.
Because then SEOs would write bots to keep clicking that their site is relevant to everything.
(Unrelated to pedagogy, but related to when multiplication is not repeated addition.)

When I was an early college student I started to become curious about the prime numbers. Why are some numbers in particular prime, and others aren't? I started with a thought experiment:

What if it were that 2*2 = 5 ?

Pretty quickly I realized that the relationship between addition and multiplication could not remain the same, because the distributive property guarantees that 2*2=4

2*2 = (1+1) * (1+1) = 1+1+1+1 = 4

So I sought to define some form of multiplication that was as close to regular multiplication as possible, but without the distributive property. I ended up defining this generalized form of multiplication as a function m:NxN -> N (N = the natural numbers 1,2,3,4,...) with the following properties

1. Associative

2. Commutative

3. Multiplicative Identity

4. Increasing ( If i,j > 1, then m(i,j) > i,j )

5. Bigger number, bigger product ( If j > i, then m(j,k) > m(i,k) )

6. Uniqueness of Prime Factorization

An easy example is the odd numbers.

1,2,3,4,5, ... n
1,3,5,7,9, ... odd(n)

odd(n) = 2n-1
inverse_odd(x) = (x+1)/2
m(i,j) = inverse_odd( odd(i) * odd(j) ) = 2ij - i - j + 1

Indeed, for the odd numbers m(2,2) = 5! The second odd number (3) multiplied with the second odd number (3) equals the fifth odd number (9).

It turns out that this definition is really a (nice) subset of something known as the Beurling Integers. The Beurling Integers are neat, because you can basically choose whatever distribution of prime factorizations you want (following the rules 4, 5, 6 above) and find a sequence of real numbers that satisfies that distribution. The catch is that we had to sever the ties of addition and multiplication.
> Personal opinion: I think the part you are missing here is that lots of transactions shouldn't be occurring on the base layer.

What you're really saying is that you don't think BTC should help banking the unbanked (because they often live in poor countries where their weekly salary is your cup of coffee).

> Why is it "laughable" for the lightning network to use BTC as a settlement layer?

It's laughable because people will just use another crypto, so they don't have to pay the +2 large and expensive BTC on-chain fees.
I honestly miss even moronic banter in theaters. It heightens the experience imo.
It's an optional reward, and that is the key difference in my opinion.
This was published in 2016. The title should reflect that.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2976749.2978408
Idaho House Introduces Law to Ban Mask Mandates
Branch Covidians are cultists! Where is Janet Reno when you actually need her? Bring in the tanks!