skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back in the day (late 90s) there was a company called Copernic that had a good search engine with a REALLY good desktop client. I remember being able to do all sort of filters, sorting and crazy searches. IIRC It was paid, and it was really way ahead of the simple search operations you can even currently do with Google (actually, Google has constantly removed search abilities as time goes by, like for example, anyone remember when Google Search could show tweeter search results? or that you could "block" domains from search results)
Arbitration is a perversion of justice, I have personally never seen it used for a good cause
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You didn't define what you meant by "explained". You are more then welcome to explain the results of the linked study (once its released) with real numbers only.
> I'm at a loss how you would teach it without explaining that it is repeated addition.

How much will they later have to unlearn when they find out about other kinds of numbers for which multiplication is not repeated addition?

Quite possibly the same approach won't work for all children; some will be better served by telling them multiplication is repeated addition at first, and then later explaining that it isn't always, it only is for whole numbers. Others might be better served by telling them up front that multiplication is a separate operation, but can be "emulated" for whole numbers by repeated addition. (As a child I was in the latter group; I hated it when teachers told me one thing in one grade, and then said "well, what you were taught before isn't actually correct..." in a later grade. How many more times would they change the rules?)
TurboTax works great, until things get a little too complicated, and it quickly becomes terrible. What is needed is a strongly typed DSL where you can copy and paste your entire tax return as a single text document/spreadsheet.
> To me it has completely poisoned any idea of WSB being a force...

Good! WSB was a place to talk about making (reckless or stupid) investments. Pundits and politicians sold a different, mostly harmful narrative.
most aspects of Brave are gross. Their very foundational tech is unethical.
So do you look up to their misleading claims, you believe someone promoting lies is something to look up to greatly?
If they are physically realizable at all in practice, then they very likely will be by 2140.

But I think there's a non-negligible chance that the theory of quantum mechanics will break down as we move to superpositions of 2^1024 classical states that must be faithfully represented with physical elements.
Honestly it seems to only get worse, but I feel that is a function of dating itself getting worse at a much faster rate than any advantage age might convey. How anyone can tolerate the experience of dating in the appified world I'll never know.
What happens if Bitcoin succeeds?
This has been debunked numerous times. Layer 2 settlement (like lighting network as a single example) will batch transactions at an increased rate to the main chain, raising the fees and causing stability.
> Do you mean, this is legal for market makers

Yes. They need to be able to make naked shorts, as this is what allows traders to buy a share without having a willing seller at any given moment and vice versa.

> Is there any other way that the number of shares being shorted, could be greater than the number of shares in existence?

As I mentioned, It's perfectly cromulent to have multiple non-naked shorts on the same shares, so the short interest as a percentage of float can certainly exceed 100% without any illegal behavior. I imagine the reason for this misconception is that people think of a short as an "anti-share" that can't exceed the number of shares being traded, when it's really a more abstract investment tactic or contract.
In America? Are we cutting up the European-American demographic by gender and sexuality, cause that'd be the most immediate way for me to grasp this idea?
This seems to be such a hard concept for people, in Canada cerb caused a a lot of people to say “but that’s more then I make/I can’t pay people more then cerb” - then maybe your business isn’t viable and should stop?
Barriers to entry.
In Czechia, you can ask the court to erase your criminal record. They usually comply after the same amount of years that was your original sentence. Meaning that after spending 3 years in prison, the criminal record stays with you further 3 years and after that if there is no reason to keep it and you ask for it, it gets erased.

Well, erased is not really exact. It won't be accessible by anyone and you will have the right to be treated as if you were never convicted.

So, Peter's original sentence was like 8 months? After so many years I believe nobody should hold his TPB involvement against him anymore.
You're paying for a service that should be provided for free by the IRS, as happens in many other developed countries. It's unnecessary financial drag on the economy.
I'll try selling them
As I pointed out pretty much all modern desktop development frameworks include web view components, it's not particular to mobile.
Sorry, but how is that any different than the role Google and Facebook play today? You're just proposing handing even more personal data over to what will become the next generation of big tech monopolies.
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Double-blind random placebo-controlled doesn't automatically demonstrate causation either. Humans are just too multi-variate.
In my memory Gabe Newell was one of the first to articulate this point in the game dev community, however going back to check the dates, it seems that it was in October or November of 2011, suggesting that Notch may actually have kicked off this thread.
I do not and will not link to Facebook posts; any way you can slap this up somewhere else so I can link to it in the "Last Week in AWS" newsletter?
It's simple.

Short sellers want the price of stocks to go down, which makes them bad people, because everyone currently invested in the market wants stock prices to go up.

People who haven't yet invested in the market don't want prices to go up until they do, but nobody asks for their opinion.

Also, due to the poor state of financial education, people think that a low stock price means a company will go out of business.
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The fact that they raised money through ICO and issued coins on a dubious blockchain just compounds to the suspicion.

I am using Firefox and I trust Mozilla more than I trust Bravo.
And moving towards what?
Here's an expert saying that this paper should be considered unsubstantiated at best: https://crypto.stackexchange.com/a/88590
> I guess define "default choice."

Default choice: The choice that is made with no user configuration.
This proposal won’t protect your privacy. It just helps cement their monopoly and provides a better signal. Pg’s analysis is spot on.
Gab's policies are their business; my goal was to provide examples of such content on Parler.
This issue with this reasoning is it’s after the fact and not on the merits itself.

If someone were to think killing animals for amusement is good or moral (even though you don’t) and they pointed to animals that do it as justification, that wouldn’t sit well with you.

That’s the bit we’re trying to get at. It’s more that you’ve already decided something (in this case eating meat is morally fine or a good reason to kill animals) and you’re fitting the environment to your case afterwards.

This doesn’t work because in places where you think something is immoral (killing animals for amusement) the same justification fails.

You’ve already made up your mind, the justification feels like a flawed rationalization.
> In all fields and rings, multiplication and addition are related by the distributive property.

That's a necessary condition for "repeated addition" to work for multiplication, but not a sufficient one. Try plugging in A = pi to the distributive formula and see how well "repeated addition" works.
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Yes, I just meant that in practice the risks are the same from a security perspective (and most legit blockchains support multi-sig at this point), especially for the shares so I wouldn't call it 'no private key' :D
But it has been acquiring companies, as mentioned in the article. Why didn't those companies face a barrier to entry? Or if they did and it wasn't binding why is it apparently binding to other up and comers?
The big deal is that all the functionality of TurboTax could/should be available for free (as is done - in some form - in other countries).
The issue is that they are so slick that you don't even notice the dark patterns that funnel you into needlessly spending money.
Before Turbo Tax I sheepishly headed down to H&R Block and got reamed.

Besides understanding my taxes (and taxes in general) better, I almost enjoy the process using Turbo Tax.

If there is a better Turbo Tax product out there, it would have to be very compelling to get me to switch. Besides familiarity with Turbo Tax, it pulls in last years data and saves me the more tedious steps.

Like you though I feel like I am locked in at this point.
I like this article, but I feel like it misses the value of teaching analysis to students. It's true that it's not-quite-right to say multiplication is repeated addition, but it's also a really nice demonstration of the analytical/generalization approach anyone could use to "invent" multiplication on their own.

This same pattern can be seen driving discoveries in math.
- Integrals are generalizations of Riemann sums.
- Fractional exponents generalize taking square roots.
- The gamma function sorta generalizes factorials.
It's okay to start with something not-quite-right and explore how it generalizes.
Anecdata:

At work one time I created a machine learning "algorithm" that turned out to be systemically biased in a way that was both unintended and distasteful.

I'm sure I've done it other times, but this is the one time that we actually realized it.

The issue was flagged internally and the model was improved until we felt like we were no longer producing bigoted results.

I certainly did not take offense at the suggestion that my model might be racist. On the contrary, I considered it a very important and serious problem that needed to be resolved.

It's worth mentioning that part of the reason we even caught the problem is that some of my colleagues at the time would have been affected by the adverse outcome, had they been subject to the judgement of the model. If I didn't personally work with people who fell into the affected group, I might never have noticed the problem in the first place.
Filing taxes should be much simpler and free for everyone, but they lobby the government to prevent that, among other things. Quick Google search result: https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-f....
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That should be DMM or PMM or the equivalent designation by the exchange. These are special appointments, you can't just call yourself a market maker and sell short.
Just as a security researcher’s job is to find vulnerabilities and promote best practices, it’s not to hack and then publicly shame their employer. Ethics researchers should be the same, no? Find ethical issues and promote best practices, embarrassing your employer seems counterproductive except perhaps as a last resort.
as I was writing that matrix out from memory I was thinking there was something funny... Thank you for correcting me.
I went down that road for awhile. You start running into problems when you research all of the default behavior that the built-in widgets have, and this is even before you get to accessibility issues.

I love the idea of punting on HTML and writing a ground-up SVG UI toolkit, or even a WebGL based on if you're feeling ambitious, but giving up on the built-in browser behavior and all of the automation tooling around interacting with HTML is a non-starter for most use cases.
Thank you for your comment, it's a great point, the suggestions won't be as good for narrow fields. Over time we believe we can make them good for all fields but at the moment it works less well for narrow fields.

Note though that even with poor suggestions there is still a large positive impact on memory from answering the questions, so it still works even for questions where the suggestions are not so good (its just not quite as efficient).
You never could trust Brave. Their business has been unethical since its founding.
Because the IRS should do it for you, for free, but doesn't because TurboTax uses the money you pay them to sponsor legislation to prevent the IRS from doing that:

https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-f...
So the only reason nobody implemented digital video systems until now is that they weren't sure if it could be done, and DJI locking their stuff down is actually good for the hobby.
>You're paying for a service that should be provided for free by the IRS, as happens in many other developed countries.

But Turbotax is free for 1040EZ filers. It's only in an instance where you would otherwise just hire a tax accountant that they charge you. In terms of SAAS pricing, it comes out to like $15/month annualized. It's a bargain IMO.
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The deadline scheduler is upstream, see "man 7 sched" for a description: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/sched.7.html

What is not upstream (yet) is the PREEMPT_RT patch which makes all kernel threads fully preemptible.
This seems like a clear “sell picks and shovels” play. With more and more companies rushing to add crypto to their services offering to capture some of the highly profitable exchange rate and other fees, it makes sense to provide services to securely hold crypto for these companies.
I was just thinking that an open-source tax engine is the way to go in the future. I would like to see it maintained by the USGOV.
I buy the standalone version every year. I am not sure what dark patterns are in that version that you are talking about.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but Cardano's Proof of Stake seems to be working rather well while rewarding everyone who gets involved. Whale status or not. So I'm not understanding why you seem to disregard PoS as a solution when there are working solutions
How would an eager startup person get funded to build something that competes with TurboTax? How will you bring novel value to the industry at this point?

A monopolized industry is also intentionally difficult to enter. It’s not just about buying existing competitors it’s about also making it as hard as possible to enter.

So even when some startup manages to get funding and deploy a viable product, they’re immediately on the radar for acquisition for monopolists if they weren’t before going to production.

TurboTax has also lobbied to affect US law in their favor. They’re a scumbag organization who makes an excellent product.
Try freetaxusa.com. Its interface is just as easy but it's free.
Google hired these researchers to give them some basic facade of having concerns about AI ethics. They were supposed to write some nonsense papers and just act as shields when questions about AI ethics were raised.

When these people bit Google on the hand, Google got rid of them. Simple story.

Google is a monopoly and needs to be broken up under anti trust rules.
> We can’t rely on the market to protect our privacy.

You don't get from your first point to here.

The cause of the market failure is that once you give your data to someone, you can't know what they do with it. The solution is for them to never have it in the first place.

This has technical solutions. Your data stays on your device, not their servers, or if it is on their servers then it's encrypted. Don't do anything client-server that could be federated or P2P etc. Publish the source code.

This needs a business model. But "you pay money to fund development and then get software including source code that you run on your device" is a business model. If people want this they can have it. Go stuff cash into some open source projects by subscribing to their Patreon or Substack or whatever people are using now, and then use them.

The alternative doesn't actually solve the problem. You give your data to Google, the government says Google can't do X with it, but you still have no way to verify that they're not doing X because once they have your data, X happens entirely at Google where you have no way of observing it.

It also fails to protect against covert defections by both parties where the government gets all your data in exchange for looking the other way while the corporation does whatever they want with it too. You need to be able to prove that it's not happening, or it is.
The ponzi scheme will end one day and it will continue to be traded OTC without a way to redeem it for fiat.
It's unacceptable to argue that it should be free for some, but not for everyone. It's not a bargain, it's unnecessary regulatory capture, for what my government should be providing at no cost to all citizens who are required to file returns.

Private electronic tax filing systems (and the fees they charge) should not exist.
Awesome sauce! Now this is thinking creatively!
Lots of people have talked about these issues, but society's response has been to drive those people away and label them "misogynists" for observing what has happened in the sexual marketplace. A lot of the ideas you talk about are openly discussed in Red Pill/Incel communities, and you know how much everyone hates those groups.

Red Pill is the group of men who understand hypergamy and actively try to elevate themselves to be the "highest value" males so they can benefit from it.

Incels are the group of men who have tried to honestly attract members of the other sex, but continuous failure has lead them to a state of despair to the point where they withdraw completely and instead focus on things that actually make them happy like video games.

But even by mentioning those two groups, this comment is likely to get downvoted and I'm likely to be labeled as a misogynist for considering that they might be right about some things.
Multiplication by rational fractions p/q is just multiplication by whole p, followed by multiplication by 1/q. 1/q is just the number that when multiplied by q gives 1. So you can cash that all out as repeated addition.

Multiplication by irrationals is just an infinite sum of multiplication by rationals, no? x times pi = x times 3, plus x times 1 / 10, plus....

I don't see there's any conceptual issue here. Mathematicians feel free to correct me.
So basically a search engine that is worse than Google and that I will have to pay for. Sign me right up!!
They lobby to make taxes complicated and to prevent the government from doing part of what you’re currently paying for, for free.
Couldn't have said it better myself, thank you!
I'm Power Platform architect, I have been working with Dynamics for more than 10 years. Your post feels more like you were thrown on a project where you didn't know the stack.

I've seen those projects where I'm brought in to fix some internal project gone wrong because they took internal softdev with no knowledge of a platform that exist for more than 15 years.

Meanwhile, I shipped whole systems in half the time you took to "roll your own".

Just try to roll your own ERP/CRM, we saw plenty of time how that goes.
Did you read the article? None of them ever seriously threatened TurboTax as a whole, they were just trying to carve out tiny niches that weren't already under the Borg. They were assimilated.
They can go together, but they can also conflict. There's lots of argumentation on how hate speech and pornography can undermine democratic equality for minority groups and women respectively. See the SEP article on freedom of speech[0].

[0] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freedom-speech/#DemCitPor
Perhaps it's as simple as google was previously paid for access to that data by government(s) but now it's no longer lucrative.
As a developer about to go down the e2e testing pipeline for our new products and chosen puppeteer, I would also be very interested in this.
That's odd, I consistently have problems with it. It's fine if you add some W2s and work straight through to filing. But navigating back and forth through different sections never behaves the way I'd expect.

Things like brokerage transaction imports were simply broken while I was trying to file last year (which, incidentally, is the only reason I pay for it).

And their "UIs" for dealing with forms like K1s are often more confusing (to me at least) than the underlying IRS form.
No, the route is different but the goal is the same: they both want to MAGA.
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