skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you use Arch Linux, it's really easy to just drop this right in from official packages as a replacement for Pulse/ALSA [0] and start using it. I've been running it for about a month and everything seems to work exactly as I expect it to. I honestly notice no difference other than the pulse audio input/output picker extension I had been using seems confused now (the native GNOME sound control panel applet works just fine though).

On the video front I use obs-xdg-portal for Wayland screen capture as well - finally there's a good story for doing this! You even get a nifty permission dialogue in GNOME. You have to launch OBS in forced wayland mode with 'QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland obs'

[0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pipewire#Audio
Totally. I saw a real shit movie there, I think it was The Accountant. Still one of the better movie-going experiences I've had solely on the basis of the theater itself.

Contrast that with seeing a rat scurry across the floor at The Metreon's AMC.
Philosophical mathematicians trying to confuse the plebs.
User data mostly has short shelf life so what happens is API renting, not selling. That's what Google does via its ad exchange, which is fed by many signals but notably by search. Search ads also make Google the most money, but all their businesses use a single ad exchange.

Firefox has a default search deal with Google that makes most of their revenue. So does Safari (edit: the Safari deal of course does not make most of Apple's revenue, but it is rumored to be big, multiple $B/yr). These are how personal data flows to Google for big money back. (Chrome is worse: if you log into a Google account in any tab, then unless you opt out via your account settings, your navigation is tracked by the mothership.)

Brave doesn't have such a Google deal, and Brave Search won't collect personal or re-identifiable data.
Curious about this use-case "booking on a travel website" - are companies using Axiom during a live request to book flight / hotels? What's the need for using Axiom vs using the booking sites API directly?
It's FreeTaxUSA, not FreeTaxYourState.

Or it's "Free as in freedom from Intuit."
Not all dating apps are equal.

I had Tinder installed for 3 days: it was really really awful, if that was the only option I would have happily given up dating. My view of Tinder is that it's the app for defective people who just want sex.

Bumble on the other hand seems fine. Relatively normal women and I met a great one that I've been dating for 9 months now. I'm sure I'm partially biased because it worked for me, but the difference really was incredible between Tinder and Bumble.
Yes, mispoke scoping strictly to urban cultures, truly wherever you have agricultural practices that grant abundance really, since subsistence living makes keeping extra mouths to feed around a much greater burden.
I love the simplicity of it - just click the link and enter a room. Though I think it might help to let people know what the app does as they're entering. Just as I visited the homepage it asked for access to my camera and mic - not sure how comfortable people are going to be with that.

Best of luck!
I'd pay for the old Google Image Search and the ability to blacklist Pinterest.
How to merge cells in big tables with svelte-windiw
> Apparently, Adobe deliberately allowed pirating of photoshop, to maintain its status as a standard. Deny oxygen to competitors.

I've often wondered about this claim. I've heard it as well, from many different sources. I could never find a source, every time I've looked, it's a web of "I've heard".

Obviously Adobe wouldn't issue a press release to this effect, but does anyone know where this wisdom originated?
How would you compute \pi+\pi using addition?

Irrationals break all our intuitions.
Yes, but that would also apply if what I had was a used car, rather than bitcoin or gold, etc. The requirement for intermediate conversion to another currency in order to realize value implies that bitcoin isn’t (at least yet) a currency (even in the case where foreign currency isn’t local currency, there is a context where it is currency: that foreign country). I can also buy milk by exchanging my car for local currency, and it has at least some intrinsic value. I realize that the currency/money question is far more complex (my car is neither fungible nor easily portable), but I wonder how many of those speculating on bitcoin’s value appreciate that or are capable of explaining why Bitcoin has any advantages over gold or bearer bonds as a repository of value. Or, for that matter, how speculating in Bitcoin in the 20th century is different from speculating in Tulips in the 17th.

Right now, Bitcoin’s primary economic role seems to be as a demonstration of just how many Greater Fools the internet and social media give us access to.
> A vegetarian advocacy site now counts as a source against meat?

That's an ad-hominem, not an argument. Read the article and let me know if you're able to actually counter its points. Besides, there's nothing "against meat" here. Plenty of vegetarians are tricked into believing they need to carefully compliment their proteins, even if they eat eggs and dairy. Beans & rice and all that nonsense.

> Try finding a reasonable plant based diet with enough leucine.

Plants are generally a better source of Leucine than meat. Pea protein and soy protein, which are used in meat substitutes, have several times more leucine than beef. Even raw legumes have a good amount of leucine, easily enough to meet the daily requirements of athletes.

> Not only this will be incredibly tough, but it would introduce a myriad of plant toxins and pesticides.

And exactly what are the "myriad of plant toxins and pesticides" I'm exposing myself to with my bean-heavy diet?

> Let's ignore for a moment this utterly false for protein [2]

It appears you forgot to read your own citation. That paper is talking about the importance of bioavailability in malnourished people. Reread what I wrote above: in any reasonable diet-- like you and I eat every day-- bioavailability has no significant role in meeting our daily protein needs. In other words, you and I and everyone else in the first world have little trouble getting enough protein without ever having to pay attention to availability.

> Unfortunately, some people are incredibly poor converters of beta-carotene, and must rely on the complete form of the vitamin [3]

And again, you forgot to read your own citation. This paper is talking about the importance of high-carotenoid vegetables to prevent vitamin A deficiency. And like your previous citation, the context is developing countries with widespread malnutrition. To make it easy for you, here's a snippet from the abstract:

> Although the vitamin A equivalency of β-carotene is highly variable, the provision of vegetable and fruit sources of β-carotene has significantly increased vitamin A status in women and children in community settings in developing countries; these results support the inclusion of dietary interventions with plant sources of β-carotene as a strategy for increasing vitamin A status in populations at risk of deficiency.

You should read the rest of the paper. It makes a compelling case for increasing the consumption of vegetables for everyone, not just malnourished people.

> That's a separate can of worms. Let's just say that I would much prefer to eat saturated beef fat over seed oil derived slop.

Right. Just for kicks, give me a quick rundown of why Beyond's coconut and canola fats are so much inferior to beef fat. I'm quite curious.
This is actually quite simple.

If google analytics, recaptcha, tag manager,... are going to the graveyard or they becomes payable, there is something to it. If it stays, the google statement is a blatant lie.
Can't find the source, but the CRA will be bringing out their own free software too soon
You may be on to something here. In the past, most search engines started from DMOZ (now defunct) which was a simple, curated, directory.
>For what it's worth, bitcoin aims to deprecate every single brick-and-morter bank as well as all the armored trucks driving paper currency to and from them.

Is this supposed to be some joke? No it doesn't. Someone had to create a fork of Bitcoin called Bitcoin Cash just to increase the block size. You've had your chance and you blew it.

What's going to happen from now on is that Bitcoin will be absorbed by Visa, Mastercard and Paypal who build an actual payment layer on top of Bitcoin and then people will use Visa, Mastercard and Paypal as their bank. It's the Bitcoin you know and love that is going to die.
Like any other platform, it's hard to get started. If you are curious, you can start with this free training materials:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/certifications/exams/...

Or go directly into this module: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/paths/integrate-power...
> Since the IRS already knows what I owe, what's the point of filling out forms by hand?

Complete agreement, though there will in some cases be a need to file forms to supply information that they don't already have. Additional deductions, for instance: charitable contributions, deductible expenses, etc. But those forms should be "here's the information", not "here's the information and a pile of careful calculations implementing an algorithm".
> If your patch doesn't apply on an update, what should happen? Don't upgrade and send you an email?

Get a new version of the patch for that new version from the patch author, which is included in patch metadata.
And TurboTax's lobbying is why you will never see that.

The ProPublica report linked in the OP:

https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-f...
Installing this browser for a look-see as we speak.

So, as a "privacy focused" browser, what's your revenue model?
> Apparently, Adobe deliberately allowed pirating of photoshop, to maintain its status as a standard. Deny oxygen to competitors.

I can't confirm whether it's true, but I once read that Microsoft takes a similar approach to the unlicensed use of Windows in less wealthy nations. Even disregarding that it would likely be a losing battle, they'd rather it remain the norm than push people to the alternatives.
I remember one of those exchanges, two people waged money about compressing random data so that the data + decompress program would be smaller than the original data.

The other guy came back with a program that moved some of the random data into the metadata of the filesystem, in such a way so that the produced files did indeed become small enough.

Don't know if the other guy ever paid out.
If it ever leaked that DDG was tracking user data, they would lose their only competitive advantage and lose all their users
Would you be able to make a living on 15eur/m? If you live in America I would sincerely like to know the answer.
Some software engineers don't know how job roles are named everywhere else. They think it's all just Software Engineer I or II, whatever that's supposed to represent or what their job entails.

Meanwhile, EEs split their roles: Verification Engineers, Hardware Engineers, Power Engineers, QA Engineers. It's straight, well defined and provides a structure. The fact that people mock this is why software quality is looked down upon.
Of course they are logging your info, same as Intuit and so many other companies. SSN isn't a secret; yours is almost certainly already leaked.
I think this pretty much tells me everything I suspected about HN.
I'm Chilean. Chile doesn't have the best system by far, but the SII (IRS equivalent) has made a push to modernize for several years now. Filing taxes for 90% of the people is as easy as going to the website, check that everything is pre-filled correctly (and add anything that needs to be done manually, if for instance you didn't do electronic invoices). Submit. Takes about 10 min.

I've been living in the US for about 10 years now, I really wish we had a simpler system. Today, I just pay a tax consultant because I don't want this to be an extra thing in my head.
> Not surprisingly lots of mining is colocated with hydropower

And, hence, miners’ energy use does not correlate to their carbon footprint directly. That’s often overlooked.

Furthermore, there is a strong economic incentive for Bitcoin miners to save energy to stay more competitive. Bitcoin mining is done on specialized hardware (ASICs), nowadays, and these devices will get more efficient since the market is still in its infancy.

BTW: What do you think is the carbon footprint of Netflix, YouTube or Pornhub? And what’s their economic utility? If we start critizing IT projects for their energy usage, I don’t think Bitcoin & Co are the biggest culprits.
Thanks ryanr23. Yes, some explanation for why they get the popup might help.
They're already doing that
We're seeing Martian robot selfies. Neat.
To be fair, you can get really very far with non-machine-learning automated techniques (I did good-enough algorithms for an in-situ fluorescent gene sequencing image processing pipeline at one job). I suspect any form of good automated processing, regardless of whether it's AI, would be welcome to biologists.

If you'd ever like to chat about the automation parts, I'd be interested in hearing how you're approaching it; the niche of "scientific computing, but repeatable" is quite different than traditional scientific software, and it seems like people are still in early stages of figuring out how to do it.

Would also be interested in hearing how you approach correctness. The best approach I've discovered is metamorphic testing. Basically you modify real inputs, and then ensure the output matches. E.g. you say, "OK, I have this finished algorithm that segments cells, `f(image) -> cells`. Now, if I double brightness on everything, I would expect the same results, so let's see what `f(brighter_image)` is, I would expect same output." Or like "If I merge nuclei-looking splotches that cross what original segmentation boundary was, that should result in fewer cells." Unfortunately only discovered this technique after I left the image processing job, so haven't had chance to try it.
Disclosure: I'm on the Flutter team.

We capture a small amount of analytics from the developer tool itself, primarily to help us spot and fix crashes as well as to help us improve the tooling. Completely anonymous, we prompt you on installation, and you can disable it completely using the command 'flutter config --no-analytics'.

Flutter does not capture or upload any information from users running apps compiled with it. The SDK is all open source, of course, so you can see exactly what we do upload.
If everyone was equal how do you know it wouldn't be attractive women who formed harems?

Society is so incredibly complicated and interconnected, it's pretty much impossible to say what would happen by changing something.
> As amusing as it'd be to let people patch their synapses with buggy/vulnerable code and wreak havoc in our datacenter, we're not going to.

Each Matrix instance is isolated and "dedicated", so one can only wreak havoc on their own instance. Just provide backups and revert when people mess up.
Books have a purpose for negative space on either side of the text. It's to allow you to hold it without obscuring the text. It is also to allow spine to be tightly bound.

For reference, here is a good book that goes in-depth of what and whys of book design, it is hard to find it though: https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Books-Practice-Jost-Hochuli...

Most negative space on the websites is merely designers going "it looks clean".
> The DJI FPV drone seems like a relatively fragile drone. The most annoying part is, that there is apparently no real way to fix anything yourself besides the props.

That seems to be untrue - according to the verge:

"If you’re like me and wreck this drone, you can replace the following items yourself: the top housing shell, propellers, the gimbal / camera module, and the arms. "

[1]https://www.theverge.com/22308345/dji-fpv-review-first-perso...
It looks like males with larger testicles kill their babies more often so females became more promiscuous to confuse the males. Interesting fact!

https://www.tremr.com/Duck-Rabbit/primate-testicle-size-dete...

Everything from elephant seals, to fruit bats, to gorillas, form harems.

Monogomy seems the rarest of all bi-gender mating strategys.
Yeah, that's what I tried to say with my edit.
Version 2 of Google’s Flutter toolkit adds support for desktop and web apps
Face reconstruction of the Roman emperor Vitellius
Free movement of goods and persons is part of the EU's mission.

However, if the British democratically decide they no longer want to participate, then the EU has no option but to respect their wishes.
No, I haven't been talking with Brewster. The Goggles paper is from the Tailcat team.
Also lets you restart either end of the connection transparently to the other end.

With fd passing, if the daemon I'm talking to dies or restarts my fd is now stale and i have to get another.

Also allows starting things on demand similar to inetd.

Also allows transparent multicast.

So yeah, fd passing would be faster, but routing through the daemon is easier.
I think it's important to talk about the difference between interpersonal violations ("rudeness") and legal protections ("crime").

The former really is whatever people feel it is - notch can feel any way he wants about how people get minecraft! He could feel it was rude if people didn't send him extra money. We all get to decide for ourselves how we feel about his feelings and we can impose whatever social penalties we want on people for how they are acting. The legal system doesn't need to come into it.

The latter should (imo) be based on a theory of an information ecosystem. What rights do creators need in order to be able to make fair agreements with others? How do we draw the line between new works that are "derivative" v.s. "inspired by"? Obviously people will have feelings about these things too! But at the end of the day how people feel about the law doesn't impact the proper administration of the law as-it-is-currently-written, though feelings will probably influence how laws are changed in the future (after all, we're talking about how we feel about laws right now!).
Similar experience here. Doing Rails dev at the moment, Ruby, Go, Jetbrains all work great. Using Postgres.app which still runs on Intel under Rosetta, but works fine. There are some Postgres crashes happening intermittently, not sure if that's an emulation problem or the app. Haven't tried native ARM Postgres yet, but heard it works great.

Apps are being updated pretty quickly, and generally makes for a very snappy machine. Comparable to maxed out Corei9/32GB 16"rMBP in performance, but a bit snappier and no fans.
Which other countries have an equivalent to Chapter 11?
I dont know much about Ethereum but the mere existence of it threatens Bitcoin's "world domination" aspirations and who knows, maybe something will come out that will threaten Ethereum.
> you are specifically defending Melvin's position wrt GME.

You need some reading comprehension lessons. That's not what I'm saying at all. The people who made money off the GME squeeze aren't the same people on a moral crusade against hedge funds. DeepFuckingValue bought GME because he performed thoughtful analysis and determined it to be undervalued. Sticking it to hedge funds was just a nice bonus. A schmuck who bought GME at $420.69 did so because someone on the internet told them it would be the best way to get revenge on the hedgies.

> I've already pocketed enough to retire so I'm not concerned about volatility.

Do what you want. I'm not worried about you. I'm worried about the average joe who loses $1000 on GME, declares the market is rigged, and never invests their money again. If there's anything that will kill hedge funds, it would be increasing financial literacy, not short squeeze memes.
This is incorrect. You have to file a federal tax return if your income is above the standard deduction, and there are other rules [1]. Anyone can use this IRS page [2] to determine if they are required to file a tax return.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/07/taxtipfederal.as...

[2] https://www.irs.gov/help/ita/do-i-need-to-file-a-tax-return
Doubt.

Obligatory photoshop piracy for an entire generation was the single biggest advertisement Adobe could have ever had.

This is the happy meal of the 21st century.
Six Dr. Seuss Books Will Stop Being Published Because of Racist Imagery
> Cryptocurrency mining is mostly about Bitcoin.

What cryptocurrency mining is mostly about is entirely irrelevant to either the claim that GPUs, and the power thet consume, are used exclusively for gaming or the counterclaim that, on the contrary, significant sources of GPU use outside of gaming exist, including cryptocurrency mining. It doesn't matter if the coins for which GPU mining is viable are a much smaller share, by whatever measure you care to use, of the cryptocurrency space than Bitcoin, what matters is whether or not mining them (among other non-gaming uses) is significant in the demand for and use of GPUs.

Which it is, which is why Nvidia has recently taken steps to actively cripple mining on some gaming cards so that thet can actually reach the gaming market.

(GPGPU is also a thing, and non-gaming display acceleration; the idea that GPUs are only used for gaming is ridiculous even beyond the cryptocurrency applications.)
Why would this affect bluetooth codecs?
Hi! Michael here - one of the cofounders. That sounds great and would love to chat! What kind of tissues are you looking at and what are you trying to achieve?

As for the size of data - it's definitely a tradeoff here. We're seeing more and more scientists already uploading their data to the cloud however. We even integrate with data stores like S3 already so you can hook into data you've already uploaded.

We're also looking to build out a pipeline builder - where you can process images in real-time, so this would be less painful, as well as a Dropbox-like mini tool so data would be uploaded as you acquire it.
See a Flutter Web demo app here: https://flutterplasma.dev/
> Of course this is in a perfect world, but I remember seeing quizzes which would guess any object given a few yes/no question. Or perhaps it was people.

https://en.akinator.com/
You're saying you can embed all the SVGs onto one page, and then reference them on other pages/domains by using xlink.href? I haven't heard of this?

So what you're describing is having site.com/page1 which has markup:
<body>
<svg id="icon-1">
...
</svg>
</body>

and then on site.com/page2 having

<body>
<svg>
<use href="/page1#icon-1">
</svg>
</body>

Or something of this manner? Haven't encountered this, but sounds awesome; especially since you'd get the power of both inlining and caching the asset.
That is Stupid, it is Freaking Dr. Seuss.
It’s a painful lesson to learn but the key here odd to recognize when someone is a sufficiently large customer than a default represents an existential risk to your business.

Businesses tend to go the other way and be more accommodating to larger customers like continuing to fulfill their orders and not taking action at, say, 90 days late.

Secured credit can be one way to resolve that without being super strict on late payments or wanting repayment of limited credit.
It's exactly the same God. Islam is basically Judaism fanfic, and Muslims accept Jesus as a prophet of God (though denying his divinity). Christians are upset about the Mohammed thing, and about the two other faiths downgrading Jesus, but there's no question that the dude doing the smiting in the Old Testament is the same God in all three Abrahamic traditions.

Different religions are going to have angry doctrinal differences by definition, but you can't let that obscure the obvious. We're not talking about tengrism or Brahma here.
Google Cloud really needs better marketing. I didn't have the most basic awareness of most of these services.
Me too — most image searches need a "-pinterest" term added.