skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Legislators are basically doing triage, responding to perceived consensus. Kinda like a product manager. Think attention economy. There's 10,000s of bills filed every year. No one has the resources or bandwidth to handle that.

Any given legislator has 1 maybe 2 issues that they care about, for which they will advocate an agenda. The rest, they rely on what they're hearing.

Intuit's lobbying effectively drowns out alternative view points. Assuming that anyone anywhere is consistently advocating for something like free auto-filing.

Source: Have lobbied. Know legislators and their staff. Also read many books about legislation. Most legislators would LOVE to hear from their constituents; will bounce out pro lobbyists to give their own people an audience.
I'm not worried about a company knowing I am their customer, with some name and credit card number.

I'm worried about them participating in the global privacy free for all where they sell my info everywhere and abusively correlate it with the info others have to learn things about me.

Search terms are a particularly rich source of this sort of thing.

I don't think "privacy" is much about keeping all info away from people, I think it's about the correlation. Keeping info away is a natural and sensible precaution in an environment of rampant correlation, but if that didn't exist I wouldn't need to resort to complete information starvation.

YMMV.
I got a paywall.
Amazon pays its warehouse workers very well by European standards, so clearly that isn't the whole story. Where are the people demanding that European warehouse workers be paid the same wage as Amazon warehouse workers?

Do you think a European warehouse worker would feel "exploited" by the much higher wages Amazon pays?
No, CryptoArtists Aren’t Harming the Planet
As someone with a pragmatic, visual mind, I rely entirely on this kind of reasoning in order to understand and apply math. For example:

- Multiplication is repeated addition.

- Power is repeated multiplication.

- The square of a number can be visualized as a geometric square when you duplicate a row of x items x number of times.

- The cube of a number can be visualized as a geometric cube when you duplicate a row of x items x number of times and then you take the resulting geometric square and duplicate it x times along the orthogonal axis.

- n to the power of p can be visualized as a tree with height p such that each branch splits up into n branches at each level.

- The logarithm base x of y is the height 'number of levels' of the tree when each branch splits into x branches at each level until the number of tips is equal to y.

- A factorial can be visualized as a tree whose branches split up in such a way that there is one fewer branch at each level until the branches cannot be split anymore.
This makes me sad. I _really_ enjoy the drafthouse and I rarely see movies anywhere else because all other major theater chains prioritize squeezing dollars vs the experience.

I see that the founder(s) are still involved but I can't help think that it'll just be a slow decline until the drafthouse is indistinguishable from AMC or other chains and their infinite commercial pre-rolls and dirty theaters.

I hope I am proven wrong OR another theater that respects the art springs up to fill the potential void.
tl;dr Amazon is still a terrible employer and company

I’ll continue writing Rust anywhere else.
What he says is true for games with a multiplayer component, lots of replayability, very long lifetime, continuous development, frequent updates etc. (so – Minecraft). However, a majority of single player releases don't fall into this category. The reason why DRM like Denuvo is so widespread is that most sales for such games happen in the first few weeks of release, and people forget about them after 10-20 hours of play time. A $60 single player game which can be pirated on day 1 will absolutely lose a large chunk of its real sales to piracy.
I still haven't made it to the New Parkway. Thanks for the nudge.
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Sorry because I do not understand your wording very well (English is not my FL), so the answer to your question is yes, you can:

e^(-at)*(A cos(bt) + C sin(bt))

where b is the frequency and a the dampening.

(But you might not be asking for an answer).
Is jQuery worth learning in 2021?

I started studying web development 2 years ago and I never feel the need to reach for jQuery. From the very beginning I wanted to get a solid knowledge of front end technologies without libraries or frameworks. After working for some time in this field I do feel the need for stuff like Bootstrap, Tailwind, Vue/React, but not jQuery.
What's is selling point considering that DOM manipulation and HTTP requests has improved over the years in vanilla JS?

I've read through most of the comments and I see a lot of:

I'm used to jQuery syntax

$ is shorter than document.querySelector

jQuery provides better support for older browsers

First two aren't really meaningful to me, and for the last one, I'd say if you care about browser support you are probably compiling your code anyway.

I'm not familiar with using jQuery but I work with people that use it and I've realized it promotes some bad practices like:

Repeated DOM node selection due to the ease of use of $(selector)

Manipulation of CSS that should be done in CSS

jQuery is not JavaScript. Some people use it as a crutch and it shows

So my main question, if someone is comfortable with vanilla JS, does it make any sense learning jQuery?
I wrote my thesis on post-quantum public key cryptosystems, though I'm not currently a practitioner and haven't been academically active since ~2017 or so. With those provisos in mind, I'll try to give the summary as I see it. As a basic tl;dr I'm skeptical of the paper. Crypto-twitter is lit up about this right now and as far as I can tell, harbors the same skepticism.

- For context and background: yes, there are well-established links between factoring problems and lattice problems. These links have been known from at least the early 90s. There are many complexity theoretic reductions between specific factoring problems and specific lattice problems, and the approximate variants of the latter. There hasn't been an arbitrary reduction yet, it's mostly on a problem by problem basis.

- That first bullet point means that this research is at least structurally built on, and engages with, prior work in the academic community. Schnorr in particular has been pursuing this since the 90s. Schnorr is an accomplished and established cryptographer.

- I consider the context of that second bullet point unfortunate, because it means the research gets outsized attention even though it is otherwise, as of now, unsubstantiated. It gives the paper a lot more charity than it would ordinarily receive.

- Critically: Schnorr has not empirically demonstrated a break in RSA. He has demonstrated - in theory - faster factoring methods using SVP and CVP solving techniques which rely on a reduction of the factoring problem.

- The paper may not be worthless even if it doesn't break RSA. If he has indeed found a polynomial time way to solve a subset of lattice (and factoring) problems, that will be impressive. I'll have to read the paper a few more times to come to a belief on this point though.

Many comparisons are being drawn online between Schnorr and Atiyah, because the latter kept insisting he found a proof of the Riemann Hypothesis towards the end of his life. It would be sad if this is the case for Schnorr, but it's personally what I believe at this time pending an empirical demonstration of his work and/or critical substantiation from the rest of the academic community. I'm skeptical of this result the same way I'm skeptical when highly established mathematicians publish purported proofs of long standing open problems.
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> Our European visitors are important to us.

> This site is currently unavailable to visitors from the European Economic Area while we work to ensure your data is protected in accordance with applicable EU laws.
“What if we could give customers a button. They’d press it at the end of the year and it would automagically file their taxes for them.”
Literally is like this where I live. It's done through a government website.
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I've heard opinions that SwiftUI is inspired by React.
Generally no. Data you get from FOIA requests is generally limited with what you can do with it. State specific laws, your use-case not withstanding
How far into the future should a criminal be an outcast? 5 years? 10 years? 20 years? Forever?
There's more to the paper, though only six cuttlefish:

>The other part of the experiment was to test how good the six cuttlefish were at learning. They were shown two different visual cues, a grey square and a white one. When they approached one, the other would be removed from the tank; if they made the "correct" choice, they would be rewarded with a snack.

>Once they had learnt to associate a square with a reward, the researchers switched the cues, so that the other square now became the reward cue. Interestingly, the cuttlefish that learnt to adapt to this change the quickest were also the cuttlefish that were able to wait longer for the shrimp reward.

https://rs.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Data_set_raw_traini...
There was no tracking on Cliqz, nor it will be any in Brave. To know more about the underlying tech of Cliqz there are interesting posts at https://0x65.dev, some of them covering how signals are collected, data, but no tracking.
I did work at Cliqz and now I work at Brave. I can tell for a fact, that all data was, is and will be, record-unlinkable. That means that no-one, not me, not the government, not the ad department can reconstruct a session with your activity. Again, there is no tracking, full anonymity, Brave would not do it any other way.
Matching the accuracy of Google results will be a challenge. It's remarkable how (at least for the topics I tend to search for) good the results are compared to every alternative (Bing, DDG etc). I made a search tool that filters, modifies, resorts, and adds to results from Bing's API. I no longer use it, because the base Bing results (This applies to everything else I've tried too) aren't on the same level as Google's.
Pretty wild comparison.

Tracking is amoral, human trafficking is immoral.
>And the neurological development to process and produce speech.

I put gorilla in there specifically for this reason - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koko_(gorilla)

Gorillas can't produce speech but they can process language at about the level of a 2-3 year old human.
Which is roughly the level of intelligence that dogs were being described as having in the article I linked earlier.

>I'm no cognitive scientist but I think verbal speech and reasoning is a huge amount of what we call "intelligence" in humans and goes beyond simple communication of immediate facts or commands.

well I'm no cognitive scientist and I think differently than you do!

>but I think it's disingenuous to throw out speech just because a dog hasn't evolved vocal chords.

and I think it's disingenuous for out cephalopod overlords to claim I lack the ability to reason about potential threats because I don't shoot ink out of my fingers when in danger.

I mean I don't actually know or care that dogs might be as smart as a three year old or that any of the other animals I named might be; I just accept the findings of experts in the manner as being more likely to be correct than what I might think is the case. Still I am supposing none of the named animals are as smart as I am so I am certainly not threatened by the concept.
I wasn't aware that you previously had access to same-day delivery of basically any consumer product imaginable.

I agree that it isn't "sexy", in the same way that SpaceX or Google are "sexy", but that doesn't make it "not a technology company". There's plenty of sexy tech companies out there doing fuck-all for anybody but collecting nice VC paychecks.

If you're making the same argument as Peter Thiel, that there's a lot more 1-N (incremental) innovation now than there is 0-1 (brand-new) innovation, I agree and I think that sucks. I think that's why many people (including myself) cheerlead for Elon - he's actually leading companies doing cool sci-fi-style innovation.
you look at a normal distribution of returns using SPY mean return and SPY stdev as the parameters and then calculate the chance of his returns or better 6 years in a row.

There's a lot of things wrong with my calculation, but it was illustrative of how P < 0.05 in this case, no matter how you calculate it.
If you think that proof of stake will take over, do you think that Bitcoin will crash? When will Bitcoin stop having the insane environmental impact it has now? If proof of stake is the future, why is the market cap of BTC so high compared to other cryptocurrencies?
Honestly, I'd say he was making the same logical fallacies that pretty much every other human on Earth is making. But it is the case that the output of his errors were extremely socially unacceptable.

This is how I feel about most situations where someone tries to claim they are good and the other is bad. To me, it's really just that one is lucky and the other is not. Neither is substantially more aware of their own cognitive shortcomings, and -- even when they are -- that's a form of luck as well.

Of all the privileges in life, I think the last I'd be willing to trade is sanity. And sanity is basically just more or less fallacies per thought.

I'm tired of the words "good" and "bad" being applied amidst people who are all running the same OS.
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quickly fixed because they got caught
Just so you know, outside of your bizarro-world America-brain, the world was well aware that Covid-19 "was going to be a big problem" without the help of your stock market games.
There are millions of pirate so you can assume this doesn't happen to most people. If the expected return on piracy was negative people would not pirate.
With trusted uploaders you can also reduce the risk further because if they release malware their reputation will be ruined.
That's not even taking into account the fact that people already run non-pirate executable code without auditing it from basically anywhere so the risk is about even I'd think.
> Turntide’s patented Smart Motor System is built around a type of electric motor known as a switched reluctance motor, or SRM. ... There’s only one moving part: a solid steel rotor that turns in a switchable magnetic field.

sounds interesting, then this:

> Turntide’s cloud-based software platform makes SRMs more controllable and allows them to run at much greater efficiency than legacy motors.

what??
Well, that starts to get into the hairy territory of what women say they want vs. what they actually want. And due to inflated standards from dating applications (constant swiping due to thinking there's something better around the corner), I think you see what I'm getting at.
Neglecting the DS component, it just requires a lot of weird behavior like parking money in channels in order to send/receive money, nodes having to be online in order to receive transactions, etc. Why go to all this trouble to build a second layer when you can just use a different protocol? It's the sort of thing that makes sense only if you're completely wedded to BTC.
If your notes look like "Polonius and the case of the hereditary harrop predicate", sure why not.

http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2019/01/21/here...
Oh yeah, definitely! I was just RAM-constrained on my previous machine (8GB) when running Docker workloads, so I made sure to future-proof this one.
It could open a company to a hostile takeover, or cripple them if they were reliant on a realistic share price to raise necessary capital.

Shorting a company itself isn't so bad. Orchestrating bad PR to boost your short option earnings is bad.
> Maybe I'm just not seeing which promise it was that was broken so badly.

The unspoken promise that web browsers should be impartial user agents that render the content as its authors intended, rather than man-in-the-middle agents that modify the content as they see fit.

The fact this change also benefitted Brave authors directly is an additional breach of trust.

Inexcusable in my opinion, and with the other shady cryptocurrency dealings mentioned in a sibling comment, it's enough for me to never want to use their browser or anything associated with them.

I appreciate they're trying to change the status quo of how the web works and is monetized today, but they started on the wrong foot and their reputation is forever tarnished in my eyes.
>Things like "due process" and "innocent until proven guilty" exist for a reason.

In a court of law, yes. However we are currently not in a court of law so I don't need to pretend that there's no evidence of the fact that he tried to get multiple people killed even though it never formally made it onto the list of charges. And if you think 'a few chat logs' are the only thing connecting him to the murders, I suggest you familiarise yourself with the actual case. It also included an undercover FBI agent being asked by Ulbricht to kill Curtis Clark Green, which included a fake death and faked torture footage being exchanged with Ulbricht[1]. Green himself corroborated this.

Al Capone was sentenced based on tax evasion, that doesn't mean I need to pretend that the mob didn't also kill people.

[1]http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/11/7/is-this-the-...
> There's no possible way that Google is going to make a change to their biggest money maker

To be fair, Google's biggest money maker is their SEA, which doesn't rely on your behavioral data, since user intent is given through a search query.
Electric long-haul trucking is nowhere close to being a reality and the limiting factor is not battery supply.

Weight: Electric semis will have a reduced load of over 4 MT (~9,000 lbs) due to increased weight in the batteries

Range: Even with a ~500 mile range, that is not even close to satisfying long-haul trucking needs

Recharge: With a 150kW supercharger, you are looking at 7+ hour recharge time

Charging infra: You can charge your electric car at home, you aren't gonna be charging your semi at home. Many owner-operators store their trucks in a truck yard along with dozens of other trucks. Even just 10 trucks @ 120kWh = 1.2MWh, large company fleets will be even harder. On the road, this will be even less feasible in the short term

In the end, what you have is a more expensive truck, with a decreased payload capacity, that cannot drive as far, that will have more downtime due to charging, and will require massive updates to electric infrastructure.

The only case where they might make sense are in shorter routes, with a vertically integrated company like Amazon going from one distribution center to another where truckers can switch trucks on arrival and let the previous one charge. But even then, it will be a long time before running these trucks will be as profitable as the existing ones.
You realize Intuit owns Credit Karma now, right?
If Frederic Jacobs says he communicated with Schnorr, he thinks he communicated with Schnorr. It's possible that someone is impersonating Schnorr.
So you are telling me he was based as fuck?
If you think the IRS aren't able to work out how much tax you need to pay... how do you think they're catching people who don't pay enough tax? They must already know!
That is a wild, painfully irrelevant analogy, even for HN. The amount of hate people have for crypto here knows no bounds.
>- stock sales (your broker may not know your basis)

This used to be a real nightmare especially when there were acquisitions in stock, splits, etc. There were a couple times over the years when I just said F' it and put down a reasonable number.

But these days, unless you have some pretty old investments, the brokerages generally track your basis.
There is no way such a bill could survive a constituanal challenge.
Their business model is simple:

- build a useable search engine

- show ads to users

User acquisition is based on word of mouth and a bit of guerrilla marketing: they are a search engine with decent quality that doesn't spy on you.

Not spying and not selling tracking data to others cost them some opportunities but gives them "free" users that would otherwise have stayed with Google.

The last few years Google has been busily lowering their quality so even if DDG haven't improved much they feel very close to Google these days. (Also, retrying in Google takes 2 seconds from DDG, while retrying in DDG after trying in Google first takes 15 seconds and more thinking.)
I wonder if Adobe putting more effort into anti-piracy would have made the GIMP better. For a while, I saw their stance on piracy as look the other way unless it's a business. Photoshop definitely has a learning curve (probably better than the GIMP's), and I could see amateur designers having experience with Photoshop as an asset.

That said, Photoshop and Minecraft are completely different products and markets.
Microsoft has a lot of history building platforms for novices to produce functional systems.

This one seems to be going in an open source direction, and building upon web standards. This gives it a much better chance of success.

Obviously it requires investment, and there is no certainty of success.

But even just a carbon copy of an existing project like Access 365, but an open source version that targets the web would be very useful. Especially if it could be extended with .NET and put into version control. Although there are competitors in that space.

Reimagining the entire Rapid Application Development model is riskier for sure.
That link is only for people who earn <$72,000 / year. Everyone can use https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/free-file-fillable-form..., though.
> You can't just assume away criticism of technology with the assertion that things will improve in the future.

Unless you're aware of the topic and know that it will continue to improve.

> Blockchains are fundamentally not scalable; since the more throughput a blockchain has, the harder it is to run a node

Statelessness

> Another current problem is the massive energy usage of PoW blockchains.

Proof of Stake

> Concerning is that the biggest cryptocurrency by market cap seems to have no plans to research fixes to these problems

Which is why almost all innovation is happening on Ethereum. Many people look at "crypto" as just bitcoin as if that's the only option.

> Perhaps these problems can be overcome (ETH is trying)

Indeed they can and are being overcome on ETH