skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ... people with the skin color in question signed off on the product.

> ... if you otherwise deploy that model in production without so much as checking to see if your model generalized well to dark-skinned faces, or without attempting to add some post-hoc bias correction, etc

Neither of these would rule out systemic racism in either case, though, since, as you said, the problem is that "the outcome is biased against a certain group of people". Regardless of whether there were BIPOC people signing off or whether you had a perfect training set/etc, the only thing that matters is the outcome.
Last year turbo tax said I could file for free. Every so often it asked if I wanted to upgrade to a deluxe version for $70. I said no. After a couple hours of filling everything out, it told me that my income, from one of the first steps, was too high so I would need to pay $70. Deeply unethical to tell me that at the end when they had the information necessary to do so at the beginning.

Also, fuck them for charging $70 while lobbying for taxes to remain difficult to file.
Aarch64 UEFI and ACPI firmware for Raspberry Pi 3 and 4
> reduced screen real-estate

Don't get me started on how much space we waste on any UI these days. Apart from HN UI, pretty much every website and desktop app has wastage of space.

I suspect, we stopped using borders - thanks to minimalism, that we need to use copious amounts of negative space to separate them. So, now paddings and margins are liberally applied everywhere.
IANAL, or an accountant, etc, but if I’ve learned anything from ravenously consuming Trump family news the past few years, it’s that ignorance of the law actually is a defense in cases around taxes, and the IRS has to satisfy a standard of proving bad intent in order to really screw you.

Again, IANAL, do your taxes, please. But it does seem like the system is legitimately designed with an ethos of just making sure taxes get collected and isn’t about being vindictive.
Why would they bother lowering how much content is there? I don't understand people. It's completely orthogonal whether it's on sftp or ftp or https
> discovering all the lies I believe

I have no problem with discovering lies I believe because I told them to myself (and I think most of the lies anyone believes are lies they've told themselves). What I have a problem with is discovering that someone else deliberately lied to me. But probably not everyone feels the same way I do about such things.
At least you can probably take them to court if you pay for the service and not being tracked but they still do.
Completely uninformed speculation:

* Provide more information to the search for habitable planets/extra-solar life

* Better understand how the Earth's atmosphere and overall ecosystem evolves over time, which may inform our understanding of long-term risks of climate change (and perhaps contribute to our ideas of how to manage terraforming on Earth, if we need to mitigate climate change).
I didn't mean to paint it as a discrete theory (and in fact I added the shoutout to the Loop Quantum Gravity stuff at the end in part because I was concerned about this interpretation).

However, across quantum mechanics, there is at least unity on the 'quantum' part. And that's really the point of contention here in terms of integer values, right?
I imagine you'd find something similar if you asked Uber drivers about job satisfaction. Wouldn't want to get dinged.
Well, that would be true if all children were as smart and analytically adept as you.
I have to say that I tried this out and really loved it. A simple search for monitor arms shows sites that aren’t click bait with links back to Amazon. I was able to see Herman Miller and Humanscale on the front page. Nice job with this. If you ever lose interest in doing this let me know, I have been considering building a search engine myself for awhile now.
Great question!

It's a bit more than that -- the search query is encrypted client-side. This means that the private.sh search proxy cannot see what the query is. Then, the query is delivered to the search engine. The search engine does not know the IP origin of the search query.

This means that the search query and the identity of the searcher is decoupled, providing significantly more privacy.

Hope this is clear!
>> As far as I know, it's still just a long-standing conjecture that breaking RSA is as difficult as factoring.

No, that's not a conjecture. If you factor the modulus you can directly calculate the private key from the public one.

Edit: oh maybe you mean that it's possible to break RSA faster without factoring... Its been too long since I looked at that.
This appears to be a zero-knowledge proxy for web search. It's not clear what search engine they're proxying to, but I wasn't super impressed with the result quality off the bat. I searched for "Brave search engine acquisition" and got a link to the TechCrunch home page with a relevant snippet, but the actual link didn't take me to the relevant article.

It's hard to see what value this adds over something like Duck Duck Go. Yes, it means the search provider can't see your IP... but there are other ways to do that, and you're trusting private.sh with your query and IP anyway.
Learning isn't possible without unlearning whatever temporary construct we used as a crutch, but it doesn't mean using that temporary construct is wrong even if it's not technically correct.

More specifically in mathematics, the interplay between formalism and intuition, like a mental danse or gymnastics, is a powerful process in furthering our understanding of mathematical truths:

From a formal perspective, mathematical objects can be created in so many ways, some constructions being more intuitive and beautiful than others (axioms, groups, rings, fields). The formalism itself let us see what intuition can't.

From an intuitive perspective, it's useful to latch on whatever concept one have to learn the next level of abstraction, while acknowledging that the intuition might not be 100% correct. Like using addition to intuitively understand multiplication, or addition and multiplication to intuitively understand fields. The intuition let us familiarize with otherwise novel ideas.

Ironically, this article wants to be very normative about which mathematical intuition is better (which there isn't, I'm sure many don't think of "multiplicand" as something special), while disregarding any cues from any formalism.
This has been out for a few years in the form of the "DJI FPV" system, Goggles and Air Unit, for DIY drone construction. It's not science fiction - the latency and bitrate taper off a bit at range, but it genuinely works.

If you tear down the hardware, it's using an Imagination IE1000 802.11ac frontend, Skyworks amps, and a custom DJI image processor chip (marked P1). So the air protocol probably looks somewhat like 802.11ac (OFDM etc.) but without the framing overhead and presumably without TCP/IP.
Yeah but their method for proving that you have an isolate is not the same as the one used in academic research.

Typical pseudo-scientific conspiracy theory FUD.
Thats exactly what I got that I felt like the Article didnt seem to get.

Turbo Tax is required to abide by the FreeFile rules. this means that for some customers their software is required to be free.

By some customers I mean like 60%.

So TurboTax moved to seeing their product as an upsell game, start at free and UHOH! You have to pay us! To that they dont have to be upfront because they 'Didn't know you made too much'.

Now, this is where things get fun. How does TurboTax get you to pay?
Three ways:
1. Have your info on file so you don't need to enter it.
2. Make sure to place the payment step at the VERY end of the process when you are deep into the system and offer ways to pay it via your return.
3. Agressive UI and UI dark patterns to make the software appear to work harder and be more trustworthy and to make you feel as if you put in more involvement. There are numarous animations stating things like 'Verifing your maximum money back' and such that are all false loading screens. It all makes the customer trust it more while it's just wasting their time.

TurboTax is a bait and switch company that for many is free and makes their customer feel like they did the work. You can't compete with that concept by offering an automatic engine with no involvement becasue the customer will think it's wrong or they are being screwed and any upfront cost to cover development will make the customer think your product costs more.
> Of course, I don't know what I'm talking about.

I would honestly have no way of knowing either way. It is always fun to get a peek into people working out ideas in fields I have no experience in.
I don't know how you got here today but I:

1. Opened a new tab.
2. Pressed the n key.
3. Pressed enter.

Where does it matter if it's readable if I have bookmarks?
Hey you're passionate about the topic, fine with me.

Oat/Soy/Almond milk in most cases is a sugary flavored drink with a little less sugar than a soft drink. It's marketed with dubious health claims as a substitute, including paid placement on dairy shelves to imply that it is in fact a dairy product.

We call Coffeemate "non dairy creamer", Yoohoo a "chocolate flavored drink", SunnyD "orange drink", cut-up whitefish with red dye "imitation crab". Why should oat water be any different? Why is it important for the private equity people who own Oatly, or the Diamond Nuts people who own Califa, or Coke and Pepsi to market nut/oat based products as milk?
> You just need to break it up infinitely times.

I've responded to this elsewhere in the thread: I don't think adopting increasingly perverse interpretations of "repeated addition" as you try to include more and more numbers is a useful way to teach multiplication.
Repeated addition that ain't...

It boggles my mind that you've been studying Galois theory yet somehow try to reduce the algebraic structures associated to two binary operations to playing with one of them.
Well, I fell for it
You could also store the regenerated energy in a flywheel. That would be even simpler and cheaper than electric.
> I’ve come up with several palettes of my own and they look just as good.

To whom?
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People would prefer it because it counteracts body lift, which reduces traction.

Even if people don't understand the physics of why it works, the handling impacts are pretty apparent, especially out of low-speed city or heavy-traffic driving.
> so I know you respect Brendan.

I really don't. Eich didn't make Firefox. I have respect for the three people who did make Firefox, but none for Eich. Eich hasn't done anything to earn respect.
Money.

https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about/program

https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/auctions
Yeah! We used to use something like that at a place I worked. I think the audience being live put some social pressure against spam. It worked out well for us, especially for big meetings where even the more outgoing folks might have felt uncomfortable putting their hand up and waiting for a microphone.
> Each year, I look around for alternatives so I can avoid giving them money

Why not pay an accountant? Why is everyone trying to do their own taxes? By the time you've spent a couple of hours looking for alternatives... you might as well have just paid a professional to do it!
What Is Distinctively Christian?
As sad as I think this reasoning is, I think it's true. Google wanted someone to shield them from scrutiny with some hand wavy papers, making them feel good about what they are doing (disrupting the market!11!1!), just as pharma pays studies to prove what they want. Those researched probably just didn't get the implicit agreement or requirement, that Google already did everything right and well. And obviously Google isn't racist or biased, and if they are, they are doing everything they can to combat that /s.
lol I’m confused. Do you know how it works?

From what I can read, no one knows how it works, people just know that it works.

Without a simpler design how can I know I’m not being harmed? I think this is one question that will help drive people to adopt a denationalized currency.
Who is the search provider?

I tried looking on the site, didn't find any mention of it, and the language used in the comments here seems somewhat evasive.

Edit: okay this is an initiative by PrivateInternetAccess and they are using https://www.gigablast.com/ as the search provider
It's a bit different, since if you only use a TLS certificate, you'd still be able to see the query.

That said, I agree, you could absolutely do the same with an onion router. This simply provides the benefit without having to do so.
Dual Flywheels
Betaflight already has very rudimentary RTH / "GPS Rescue" functionality, obviously without ground/forward sensors it's not as good, but it does work pretty well for "oh no something has gone wrong" in the form of video or control link loss.
Free Fillable Forms supports every tax form as far as I'm aware.

It's really no different from doing your taxes by hand on paper, except it does almost all the math for you.

I've been using it for years (with about 15 different various forms) simply because I refuse to support the tax prep software companies out of principle.

And each year I just look at the previous year's which I saved as PDF for reference in case I forget which number goes where.
Intuit and HR Block lobby against it every year, and the IRS continues to threaten to do it.
There are definitely lost sales when it comes to video content. Scenarios like geographic restrictions on streaming certain content, or limiting downloads for offline viewing often drive people who are paying for streaming services to pirate content instead because it's easier.
That's actually exactly what happened when I failed to file for over a year one time. They sent me all the forms prefilled and asked me to review them and just send them back if correct. Sadly, they weren't.
To each their own, of course.

But, wow, that's putting oneself at a lot of risk.

Granted, when I was that young, risk wasn't a four-letter-word, so to speak.
I am not so sure. With normal order, if I want to get to page 63 out of 100 pages, I will randomly pick the middle and scan linearly until I hit 63.

With this one, I know the last page is around 50 in the normal order. So I will just invert the stack and scan linearly for 63 from the bottom.
> major problems such as the energy consumption issues

You don’t seem to know much about crypto currencies to name energy usage as a real problem of crypto.

While Bitcoin will keep it’s “proof of work” approach to mining in the foreseeable future, there are now quite a few alternative crypto currencies in circulation employing “proof of stake” that do not suffer from large computer power usage e.g. Cardano, Solana or Algorand just to name a few. Furthermore, Ethereum, the second largest Crypto currency in circulation, plans to migrate to “proof of stake” by 2022. Stakes are already online.

So please inform yourself before stating that Crypto will destroy the planet. No one is forcing you to like Bitcoin but you need to keep in mind this project has been invented over 13 years ago. It would have been impossible for the creator to anticipate its popularity and fix all its technical issues including energy consumption.
No the reader has "account_balance_wallet" (no dashes). It will read as "account_balance_wallet account balance wallet."

It would be trivially easy to use ARIA attributes to indicate which span is the icon's label. Not something most people consider, but this is Google. At least they have an accessibility icon?
Sorry Dang.

I get emotional, as you know...

I'll do better.
In obstructing the exercise of the right for labor to organize, and hiring union busters, even if plausibly deniable, or circumspectly justified through fiduciary duty to shareholders, course.

It's not a legitimate strategy. Labor has the right to organize. End of story. If they've gotten to the point of Union building, obviously, a non-trivial number feel they are being taken advantage of, and believe energy investment in collective bargaining is the way to go. That is their choice, and as much a free market exercise as anything else.

Businesses don't have a right to deal only with workforces who do not organize. They might be able to orchestrate things to prevent that momentum from building; but if you know it's happening, beyond stating your case, as an employer, it is your duty to remain hands off and let them sort it out amongst themselves. The American Laborer has been shortchanged long enough. The growth-at-all-costs economy is a crime against the nation as a whole.

I figured that would be plain as day?
The world at large and Austin in particular are going to take a huge cultural hit because of our failure to deal with COVID-19 properly. NFTs aren't going to solve the fact that people who create art and culture are so vital to our civilization and yet for the most part live on the edge of financial stability. Sad.
I mean the `+incompatible` gets added there for a reason, it's not doing it "blindly" because it "doesn't understand" it. You might not like what what go tooling does with its semver awareness, but it is semver-aware.
I agree with the basic premise that the IRS is nothing to be afraid of if you make a simple mistake. Though if you make a $5,000 error (which is getting out of "simple mistake" territory), they'll tack on a 20% penalty.

That being said, audits are incredibly annoying if you didn't make a mistake, especially if children are involved. The Examinations department of the IRS is hard-headed, to say the least, and they will often make any excuse to deny you credits that you are actually entitled to. In order to get a fair hearing, you have to appeal the case to court. (The U.S. has made the appeal and court processes pretty doable even for taxpayers without an attorney, though.)
I don't charge anything from my end. Your carrier may charge something, depending on your agreement with them.
I think this viewpoint is pernicious. A child doesn't have to be "smart" in order to deserve being told the truth.

Or I could turn your remark around: what makes you, the adult, think you are so much smarter than the child that you can correctly judge what lies are OK to tell them? Are all adults really that smart? (Are any of us?)
> Also, never use Google’s CDN for loading fonts or icons — always self-host them. The CDNs are used to track your users.

Any evidence of this claim? Also, given that the Google CDNs allow caching for 24h, it seems extremely ineffective even if it was done.
Why are people so hesitant of sharing their browsing information? I think it's physiological. I'm happy that there're algorithms that analyze my behavior. Google doesn't identify me personally, it just sees me as a behavioral pattern. But it's nice to have alternative approaches.
Uh it all depends on context like most things.
Sure, but it's probably a good thing he's not at Mozilla now, because he would have also pulled Firefox down the same path Brave has gone with micropayments using BATs, which isn't exactly uncontroversial.

See the Tom Scott and BAT incident. Kinda shady how it was handled.
This was my guess too. I have nothing to back it up, but there's definitely a fear for some people of being labelled a rapist. Unfortunately it's also a fear that gets dismissed because people say that "false rape" claims don't happen or that it's nothing compared to the real rape claims that get brushed off as false.
> Your employer pays the tax on your behalf directly from your salary and updates the tax office as to how much you make. In turn, the tax office tells your employer how much tax to pay from your salary, without any input required from yourself.

Same thing happens in the US. When most people file their taxes here, they get money back because they already overpaid.

For example I spent a few thousand trying to launch a business this year, and that is all tax deductible. So I'll file that with my tax form that my employer sends me (with the salary info prefilled), and I'll end up getting some money back because my taxable income is lower than what the gov't expected.
China’s spending on R&D hits a record $378B
The lobbying push from companies that would rather it wasn't (because it could erode their market position by lowering the entry bar for competitors) is stronger than any current push in the other direction, would be my guess.
GPU databases are amazing
Anyone building (or in this case, buying) a search engine takes a fight they cannot meaningfully make impact.

1. Privacy is a feature, not a platform. If the search engine cannot deliver better results than google or bing (a tall order) then there is no reason to use it no matter how private.

2. Google has a 20+ year head start and billions invested. You will not catch up playing the same game (eg - broad search). Google, for all its faults, is amazing technology. If you try to be a general search engine and compete I do not see a win.

3. Find another strategy, like BETTER search results within a niche. Curated by subject matter experts and enthusiasts.

4. Source your search results from trustworthy data sources. SEO has ruined search. Google setup the rules and the Black/Grey/Whitehat practitioners out-smartted them every step of the way. It is full of crappy data sources.

5. Curation, not scale is the key here. I don't see a win for Brave.
Heh. For this reason I avoid HN threads having to do with gender and sex. There's a florid streak of redpill-ism that converges on these threads. Last week someone used "carousel" unironically. In this thread, "hypergamy". My bingo card is waiting for "Chad". Run away, quick!
I accept my inevitable gray punishment for negative meta discussion but it's worth stating, HN is overwhelmingly corporatist and authoritarian these days.
Former pirate here, I definitely would've shifted some spending around to get a few more games if I'd had to.

I probably would've bought fewer DVDs. My money went to movies - harder to pirate at DVD quality back in the late 90s! - because they were better protected than a lot of the games in the late 90s. Or maybe fewer console games, same story there. But those we could rent, too...

This wasn't "ecosystem" stuff like Photoshop either, this was games we played for a few months and then moved on.
Most people without businesses don't need to worry about audits. IRS, of course, still audit a small percentage of the most simple and honest-looking returns. But that is mostly for how factories spot check products to ensure quality, not because they suspect you did something wrong.

On other hand, if you are audited, it is not a big deal as long as you were not intentionally defrauding IRS. My boss used to get audited almost every year for his business. IRS would ask for receipts, and once he provided those, it was end of story.