skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This can’t possibly be true, in general. Work products produced by a contractor from a federally-funded project are not automatically in the public domain. Government-held, unclassified data can be sensitive, proprietary, confidential, or contain private information about citizens. None of this is public domain.
Very cool Matt!

My only feedback is that it would be good if the source of the instant answer was displayed and linked to so that I could go to the underlying webpage source directly.
Valheim, a game made by just five people, sells 5M copies on Steam
LaTex coming soon! https://github.com/athensresearch/athens/issues/575
I program in Rust and am greatly considering applying at Amazon but I fear what people say about work/life balance?

I know a systems engineer that works at Amazon and he seemed overworked the last time I saw him...
CLAIM: Graph shows that over 100,000 votes for Joe Biden in Wisconsin “came out of nowhere.”

AP’S ASSESSMENT: Missing context. Milwaukee didn’t finish counting absentee ballots until 3 a.m. The outstanding ballots at that point -- including 169,000 from Milwaukee -- overwhelmingly broke for the Democrat. Based on the counting of in-person votes, President Donald Trump initially had the lead in Wisconsin on election night, but once all the votes were counted, Biden picked up the win. The counting of those outstanding ballots shows up as a big surge in the tally, but those votes didn’t come “out of nowhere.”

From https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-afs:Content:9647421...
Please let us know if that changes.

Brave buying Cliqz is the first corporate acquisition that's actually made me feel better about the acquirer, ever. I have no idea how to react to that. Keeping up the dev blog would probably make me start recommending Brave, where before I recommended against it.

Incidentally, do you know what's happening to the Cliqz browser?
As others have mentioned, they run ads — based on the search query of the page they appear on. They also (not unlike Brave) participate in affiliate programs. They get referral commissions when they funnel people to Amazon or eBay, whether through their shopping carousels or through !bangs.

> use them anyway because they at least claim to be private

Me too, at least there's probably some chance they get sued if they’re as terrible as Google. But

> haven’t yet given me specific reason to doubt it

I do doubt they’re as private as they could be, because they act a lot like I imagine a honeypot does, hide their source code, and have had serious past privacy problems in other products (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23708166 ‘We’re not collecting your info, our servers are receiving it but just trust us we just throw it away’).
As someone who doesn't follow Joe Rogan, what is his involvement here?
Dreaming: A Metaskill for the Future
> For example, now that studios can own theaters I wouldn't be surprised to see Disney buy one of the chains to show only their movies.

DOJ vacated the consent decree on studios owning theaters, but that doesn't mean that a studio exclusively screening its films at its own theaters will be allowed.

I kind of doubt there will be a big investment in studio owned theaters anyway. Maybe studios will pick up some of the closing locations to make sure there's a theater within reasonable drive of everyone, and maybe some flagship theaters in Hollywood.
You're assuming that hedge funds trade like self-professed WSB autists rather than professionals. There is a difference in being stupid and being completely nonsensical. You don't ask stochastic calculus interview questions, and simultaneously risk your entire holdings on HODLing all your shorts.

> We've closed our positions. Now please sell GME

Nobody would expect anyone to behave that way. Hedge funds have clients and need to reassure them that they aren't going to lose all their money. Any rational investor knew that Melvin could have opened up new short positions after GME had skyrocketed.

Hedge funds may not be smart enough be beat the market, but they're certainly smarter than a group of people who learned what a "short" is, after the squeeze.
The complicated business of disguising 5G equipment
Google Cloud products in 4 words or less
Somehow if you have that kind of memory it tends to fill up.
Yes, and you should understand how it works. That means doing it a few times. Like learning how to multiply before using a calculator.
I think pretty much all developers run random code willy nilly. People don't check the stuff they install through their package managers nor the dependencies of those packages, except the most anal ones.
I believe the current direction is to piggy-back off of subresource integrity:

https://w3c.github.io/webappsec-subresource-integrity/

As written, it's more about a page validating the asset from a CDN, but it wouldn't be hard to also have a browser extension which pops up an SSL-like badge when all script resources on a page are marked as trusted by some validating third party.
One might argue that the original sin of RH is marketing to people who don't have a grasp of how these systems work and not being used to having to learn these things when dealing with a consumer product.

Some of the barriers to dealing with traditional brokerages created opportunities to learn, and to put one's self into the mindset that this is a thing that is new and complex (on your first encounter), and your general approach should be researching each new thing you're trying. Heck, just the signup and annual reporting requirements on IB will make you think long and hard about each type of transaction you might want to do.

I can get behind making a business out of it, but I wonder what the long-term effects of trying to gamify and consumerify stock trading is going to have on laws, regulations, and the overall market conditions going forward. (I know what RH would say, they're "levelling the playing field for the average Joe!" But, you know, Fidelity & co. did that a long time ago - they just didn't gamify it, they gave you access to it largely as it was.)
What'd you think the killer app for Neuralink was gonna be? Just joking, of course
But you can get SEOs to fake metrics, too.
"How the AWS team will contribute to Rust's success" why not "How the AWS team contributed to Rust's success".

Why not first do something and then look for applause? A lot can change from now till then.
AI-Powered Billiard Training
We have released today an iOS app that uses computer vision to track billiard games, and provide stats for users.
not to rain on the parade here but reading the date on a dime puts you well into sub-milliarcsecond territory, well past what is possible to resolve with even a diffraction limited optical light telescope of any kind from space.

Bigger telescope systems can resolve smaller objects, but even if you were to yeet an enormous, optically perfect, 10m telescope into the very lowest earth orbit possible (not maintainable due to atmospheric drag) you would still be a couple orders of magnitude away from being able to read the date on a dime.
I don't know exactly what "credit system" means here, but the only difference I see is that certain types of lending are so low risk or low amount, that lenders find it possible to automate the job via the use of the credit reporting agencies, who (in the US) use social security numbers to summarize people's history of repaying debts.

For any sufficiently large transaction, even for a person, such as a home mortgage, there will be manual review of people's incomes and assets, just like there is for businesses.
for anyone else about to go down the e2e testing road - I recommend checking out cypress.io
> They have what they call 'focus mode', where the edges of the video lose quality before the middle (where the data matters the most).

If the latency is low enough it would be nice if they could incorporate eye tracking into that in the future, and move around the high quality region with your eyes. And maybe feed it from a gimballess 360 camera so you have full freedom to look around. Stereo cameras would also be nice, maybe with some differential compression between eyes to keep bandwidth down (would need a gimbal for that most likely, to keep line between cameras horizontal).
The rendering feature of Immerse and the level of interactivity of Immerse is really amazing
...which is a simple form of pattern matching.
Thanks, noted! The crane is kind of our mascot at this point, he's been there since the very beginning (even when the product idea was quite different).
Nothing direct to Alamo, but he's moved to Austin and is trying to convince all his rich LA friends to move there so they can essentially take it over and run their own scene.
Customer service is expensive.
Cookie popups are now part of our superstitions, our Internet rites. A decent web page, it doesn't just track you and molest your integrity -- it asks first!

I don't think we'll get away from the cookie popups, ever. It's just like the "I agree to the TOS / EULA" checkboxes. Legally toothless, but you'd better have one, just in case.
My worry with that business model is that people concerned about privacy enough to switch to DDG probably are really likely to use adblock
craft beer, and pretty good food.

They do? Looks like typical mediocre American pub fare...

https://s3.drafthouse.com/menus/NOVA_DigitalMenu_JAN21_9x12....
California has a had a wizard-style site for... I'm not sure a decade or so.
AWS employs several people who are making ongoing contributions to Rust.
I've itemized the past couple of years for various reasons and I have some other complexities. But, yeah, most people--especially if they don't have a mortgage--are just going to take the standard deduction.
Cuanto (YC 19) | REMOTE (everyone in the company) | Full-time | Full Stack Engineer

The company

We're creating tools to help entrepreneurs in Latin America grow their business through Instagram and WhatsApp. We want to help the region's +200M self-employed bring their businesses online.

Our product is a Shopify-meets-Square for a business run by one person. We believe this will help millions make a living off the internet.

The role

As a small team, we need generalists who can build full features for our users. You'll be working on features related to e-commerce, payments, fraud and social media.

We need you to care about code quality and UX. You love building world class products for users, as well as writing tests and documentation. You know how to build crisp UIs and appreciate the value of quick feedback from a CI pipeline.

You will be a founding team member of our engineering organization. You will have the option of growing into a tech lead or keep killing it as an IC.

Tech Stack: React Native, React, Rails, PostgreSQL, Metabase/Segment/Amplitude.

Why

These products are enabling a lot of people to live off the internet doing what they love.

Our customers are turning passions into revenue, starting companies and quitting their 9-to-5 in a region where human capital is underappreciated.

Send me a message at jose@cuanto.app if you want to know more about the role and what we're doing.
WFH: Aberration or Future?
I don’t think the stock market has correlated with underlying economic realities in a long time, and I don’t think short selling is the cause of that.

Additionally, I’d think that the small constant corrections of short sellers helps avoid most large cost corrections later.
This guy also accuses random heroes of being pedophiles on his twitter.
> when you open it with a Chromium-based browser

Looks like they're using the experimental CSSStyleSheet() constructor [1] to display the pricing table. Ugh.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CSSStyleShe...
I've seen fake news from Reuters before. But there are shades of gray here....RT is the Kremlin's propaganda outlet. Hardly comparable to a neoliberal-leaning bias from Reuters.
> People generally talk about speed of encryption and decryption. You're complaining about time for bruit-force attacks.

If it takes me k time to decrypt something where there are N key variations and where I can run p attempts in parallel, the maximum runtime for a brute force attack is k*N/p. Perfectly linear relationship.

This is why we want large key spaces, and why algorithms needing offline brute force protection like password hashing algorithms artificially increase execution time and resource requirements to very large numbers.
Given that no external domain is contacted to pull the public key to encrypt with, how do we know the proxy won't send its own public key to the browser then forward the query to the search engine via a different encrypted payload?
But I think he's right that's a mind-boggling amount of power. Those are gigantic engines running full out.
The IRS does have income information, but they do not have deduction information. Deductions are mainly where any form of complexity comes in. Without deductions taxes are super easy.
You probably could if you had a record of accomplishment and Rust leadership like Niko does! (And if you did I would assume your personal notes / braindump would be worth reading).
How WiredTiger Revolutionized MongoDB
The fact that an elaborate work around is needed for a dev environment - something that should be very simple.
Good to hear! Hopefully they enforce it somehow, and the trend will continue.
Don't Cookbook
A jury says Intel owes $2.18B for infringing a zombie chip company’s pat
"Financial Services are an entire industry. Lending, transactions, authorizations, contracts, accounting, risk management, asset allocation, it's a gigantic industry."

Right, this is all on ethereum
Having bought Altium (then Protel DXP) in 2004, and still paying for the licenses and subscription for several seats (this is one of our main tools, running a team now) I can say:

- I most likely would have not started using Altium if would have not been exposed to a pirated copy two years earlier by another engineer. Would have used more expensive alternatives instead (Cadence/Mentor Graphics/Zuken).

- At <10k and <2k subscription this tool is very well priced. (Compared to salaries and prototyping costs). I have also used more (10x) expensive tools and can say in many aspects those are not better. On the contrary in most cases.

- The hobby needs are quite filled with GPL3 licensed KiCad it was not always so. I would still not use KiCad in a professional setting as a main tool, but that may change as KiCad has made huge progress ever since CERN started using it. However, CERN electronics development guidelines still have Altium as preferred option. Altium is just much better tool for complex electronics.

- Altium has cheaper CircuitStudio now as an option, that was a very reasonable compromise last time I looked. Also they have free CircuitMaker for tinkering and hobby use, which I have not used so can not comment on.
I really like Skydio's product but they've priced themselves out of being a competitor to most of DJI's drones. Of course, all the hardware for their autonomy engine (Jetson TX2 with six cameras) isn't cheap. I'd still love to see a cheaper version (maybe $400?) with a less sophisticated autonomy engine compete with Mavic Mini. If they could open-source the design and allow for custom flight/autonomy code, it would be a superb value proposition.
> It made popular language design even worse. It also can't be implemented efficiently or quickly, and on its own more than likely contributes to a sizeable portion of world carbon emissions.

V8 JIT is pretty efficient. It's not perfect, but Eich designed JS with JITs in mind.
Big G sponsoring an AI ethics conference would be like Bonnie Parker sponsoring an ethical banking committee ...
Does omnisci require GPUs? Would it support consumer grade hardware like an RTX 3080?
AI Ethics isn't a non-technical field. See the accepted papers at the conference in question:

https://facctconference.org/2021/acceptedpapers.html

it's a mix of "soft" humanities, applied ML, methodology, algorithms/theory, and HCI.

it's not any harder to evaluate an AI ethics researcher than it is any other kind of researcher.
Ok am curious.

Why people hate TurboTax so much ? Is it because its a monopoly (or) does it uses any predatory practices (or) kill other companies that tries to compete.

Disclosure: I used TurboTax to file this year's taxes and kind of like their UI and ease of use (for top $ of course):|
> She routinely falls on her face because of getting herself into ridiculous precarious situations

The clumsiness might be a different thing. Changes in height, weight, strength and sight and probably a load of other things come into this. If you change something about an adult it takes them a while to adapt.

The example that comes to mind is a pregnant woman squeezing though some gap. To any observer the attempt was obviously not going to go smoothly.
And the vendor lock in.
For people who haven't used it: SimpleTax just absolutely nails UI quality, it's so nice and smooth that every year I've used them I've been done in under 15 minutes (other than time spent double-checking because it can't have possible been that easy) and come away so grateful for their existence that I gladly throw money at them. One year the Canadian Revenue Agency even introduced a new API that lets SimpleTax pre-fill most of the information like employment income from the stuff the CRA has on file.

I've since moved to the US and I'm dreading doing my taxes using probably TurboTax for the first time this year. At least it probably won't be as bad as previous years when I had to file non-resident US taxes for internships, where you can't even use TurboTax and have to use Glacier or TaxAct, which were terrible compared to SimpleTax.
"An error in judgment". That's kind of like, I'm sorry we got caught. The fact they thought something this was a good idea at all is telling.
> I think folks in modern times are less & less prone to thinking animals are ‘dumb’. But 1 or 2 generations ago this was not the case. I think humans for a long time have regarded animal intelligence in an inferior light.

Great post. Respectfully, though, I disagree with the excerpt above.

I find that urbanization has led to a disconnect between people and animals. In times past, a person would have regular contact with a host of domesticated animals (cattle, horses, mules, donkeys, sheep, goat, chickens, pigs, etc.) as well as the wild animals that are a part of everyday life in rural settings (rodents, possums, armadillos, foxes, coyotes, snakes, deer, birds, etc.)

Without question, people in the past had a far greater appreciation of the ‘intelligence’ and behavior of animals than modern city-dwellers.

One need look no further than the numerous metaphors that have been passed down from these non-urban times: stubborn as a mule, wise as serpents, cunning like a fox, horse-sense, wise as an owl, etc...

In short, I’d suggest that the more modern (or, perhaps, urbanized is a better word) the LESS appreciation one finds for animal intelligence.
While that may be true, the reality is a lot of the complexity comes from deductions to handle people's "special" situations and needs.
I think the burden is on the person suggesting I take an action (eg, donate money to charity X) to provide evidence that the action will have some desired effect.

My position is that all actions have mostly unintelligible effects until demonstrated otherwise.
To put it in terms of what the audience here can relate to:

multiplication is an overloaded operation, or in more modern terms, it is doing multiple dispatch, depending on whether the input is a whole number or integer or rational or real or complex
I just want to point out that this article is using a really bad definition of monopoly. There are about a dozen if not more ways to file taxes, and just because one is the most most popular and gets a bigger slice on the bell curve doesn't mean it has a monopoly.

It bugs me a little because I keep seeing the definition of monopoly becoming less and less meaningful.

I think the argument, if anything is the opposite: there are dozens of tax filing software, they all more or less do the same thing, and all the resources get wasted on marketing against each other. So I think I would prefer an actual monopoly! And if the government won't make it, why not make an open source one that can drive the for-profit ones out of business!
> I have the exports if I ever need them.

Do yourself a favor and check if the exports actually have what you need, before blindly trusting it.
It doesn't stop, but as you said, the next step (sedenions), and all steps after that have non-trivial zero divisors and aren't division algebras.
I think an important question with the FLOC stuff is sort of brushed aside.

So, you have millions of users, and you make it "k-anonymous", or "anonymous if you squint real good". Is it really possible to find k such that privacy is meaningfully preserved, given the heaps of other information you have?

Say I belong to some cohort, and you know my IP address. I think this would be enough to fingerprint me reliably, never mind OS version, browser, plugins, etc.
Before I pirated PS I used GIMP.

After years of pirating PS, I ended up paying Adobe for 6+ years for Adobe CC because PS and Illustrator didn't even compare to GIMP/other softwares.

If they had perfected the DRM, and wasn't able to pirate. I don't think I would have ever paid for it.
Awesome, let us know if you have any feedback, or if you need any help getting set up!
Hmm, so just go about it differently: x * p/q with p,q integers is (x*p) / q. The first bit is repeated addition. The second bit means, find the number r such that r * q = x * p. Even if r is not integer, q is integer, so we can try different numbers, add them to themselves q times, and close in on the answer.

So I still think conceptually it's fine to think of it as repeated addition? It might be algorithmically a bad way to do it ("increasingly perverse", taking limits when the number is irrational etc.). I don't know how computers actually implement multiplication - though wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_multiplier) says it works via shifts and adds.

Or maybe, it's bad to teach it to kids this way? But then I think we need evidence from educationalists.
you are probably in smaller company. still at least 1 percent of users use it. 1% of revenue increase in big companies is substantial amount of money
Came across this the other day: https://youtu.be/9dqd-_Y1_80

"architects vs. gardners"

Applies to more than just writing.
They don't lobby to make the tax code itself more complex, they just lobby to be the only providers of such services: https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-f...
when you do a query on ddg they have access to your IP address AND your query. so you have to trust ddg quite a bit, and trust the people that work there. But if you use private.sh, no single entity has access to BOTH your query and your IP address. so it just provides more privacy than ddg.
This discussion feels incomplete without mentioning "return-free filing". A lot of countries you don't even need to send a return because the government already has all the info you need.

https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/what-other-cou...
Distributed digital money.
Always Be Coding: How to Land an Engineering Job
Ok, so, what should a software dev who hasn’t worked with power platform before look at to get up to speed on the proper way to use it with their own api’s?
They don't already know. Sometimes they have suspicions, and then perform an audit, or request more information about a particular detail, by which they get the information they might need.

Only then do they actually know.

For example, you yourself may have filed with the status, "Married, filing separately", but the other person in your relationship may have filed with the status, "Single".

The IRS has no idea who is right without actually talking to the two of you. And because they don't know which status is correct, they don't know how much each of you owe.