skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It'been done for french taxes (even though the online app is government made and free): https://github.com/etalab/taxe-fonciere , https://github.com/etalab/taxe-habitation , and more that I don't remember
'tracking' is a broad term but websites do track what you click on and if you return to the search results and click another link after clicking on the first link - this indicates that the first link didn't give the searcher the correct answer they were looking for. Whether or not that's tracking is up to you. DDG also of course does tracking for security purposes - scraping their search results doesn't go over well unless you also have a financial stake in outwitting their anti-abuse stuff.
Maybe these people never heard of ccache.
Power Automate Desktop require me to sign in even though its free. I don't expect much from MS but I'm still dissapointed.

I might give cracking with dnspy a go but I already have a pretty good desktop automation workflow going on with python
Things like "due process" and "innocent until proven guilty" exist for a reason. If somebody is accused of something as serious as murder for hire they deserve a process about that or everybody should just shut about it.

A Wired article and some chat transcripts are hardly proof.

Ross got double life imprisonment and 40 years without possibility of parole for what is effectively building a website. Let that sink in for a moment.

And if people bring up the craziness of this sentencing the standard reply is "but murder for hire". Which he wasn't even charged one.

It's a classic bait and switch.
Thanks all, for these references! My wife is into cephalopod intelligence. I'll forward this to her and ask if she has any other recommendations.

I do know there are a couple of websites for cephalopod enthusiasts:

https://zapatopi.net/cephnews/
https://tonmo.com/
Tag1 on 20 years of Drupal – an interview with Fabian Franz
According to this chart BTC oscillates between 3 and 5 transactions per second: https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/charts/transactions-per-secon...

What is my blatant lie?
An Australian friend of mine showed me his tax receipt once and it made me yearn for this. It’s ridiculous what the US has created for its citizens, or rather not created.
Idk discovering all the lies I believe is one of the most fun parts of learning for me.
Agreed. Just look all other paid software, computer services, and even computing machines.

Microsoft charges you for a Windows license and still tracks you. I have little doubt Adobe, et al, are selling your data. Amazon surely makes money when I buy something from their site, but they track me anyway. Etc, etc.
If your taxes are super simple, you can use the IRS's free fillable forms:

https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/free-file-fillable-form...

You basically type your numbers in and it does the math for you. Then you print it out and mail it in. It can't do anything complex, though.

In my experience (Minnesota), state filing is even easier, usually just copying numbers from your federal form and doing one table lookup. No reason to give the shitty companies more money.
Volvo Transforms to Only Produce Electric Vehicles, Cancels Physical Sales
The Self-Silencing Majority
Couldn't the legislators just... not do what the lobbyists want? Are they really all that corrupt?
Show HN: RpCheckup – Catch AWS resource policy backdoors like Endgame
I expected the redpill to be popular on HN but this is just absurd and disgusting.

"The bottom of the male market has just fallen out completely."

It's not a market. People aren't commodities.

"you could be the only one available or could woo women through other qualities."

Isn't this just the "last man on the earth" respun as "last guy at the bar?" Since when has there been a shortage of guys at bars?
Yes, sorry, you are right. Natural numbers, not integeres. My bad.
Hey there...my apologies for this being a bit off topic. I saw you had an older post on Hacker News from June last year that you were looking for freelancers of various levels at your early stage company, Wonder. Wanted to check if you still have some vacancies available? And is email on profile current? Thanks
Network effects and also, any chain that starts as a Proof-of-Stake chain suffers from the problem of early investors and early developers essentially controlling huge chunks of the supply (sometimes 80%+), so there is much larger centralization risk and a less distributed community. I think beginning as Proof-of-Work and then many years later transitioning to Proof-of-Stake is one of the fairest distribution methods. In Ethereum (and Bitcoin), for example, no one person controls more than 1% of the supply. That will serve to hopefully make it more resilient to collusion and cartel mechanics.
H&R has a similar desktop product. The prices are in the same range and the lockin feels the same. Not sure what I am locked into though both products never find my W2s correctly anyway and import my stock divs wrong.
Amazon's contract let's them immediately terminate accounts they find offensive. They gave Parler 30 days
Flutter vs Xamarin vs React Native: What's Worst in 2021
Coding is the new literacy, and we're writing pulp fiction
So is Javascript but that hasn't stopped anybody
> But how would a H2 fueling station work?

The one near my home seems to work, by observing people using it (it's colocated with a gas station) pretty much just like a normal gas station. I'm sure the coupling hardware is quite special, and it might take a little longer (or not) for a similar range fuel load, but when people fuel their Mirais it's the same basic flow as with gas vehicles, pull up to the pump, hook it up, fuel, and go from a drive-in pump, not a parking space. So, it's on the same basic ballpark, UX wise, not the “well, if I was on a long trip and needed to fuel, it's okay because i’ll just time it with a meal/rest break” kind of thing that is used to justify BEV charging not being excessively inconvenient.
I simply do not understand folks that pirate executable code. You're practically begging for malware and viruses. All it takes is one piece of malware to keylog your bank details, and it will cost you far more than all the software you pirated over your lifetime.
Brave Search Team: GOGGLES: Democracy dies in darkness, and so does the Web
You're entitled to your opinions, and I think they are beautiful. Sometimes, people will have different opinions based on their own experiences and based on what factors they are looking at.

Regardless of everything you're saying here, you still use Firefox, so I know you respect Brendan.

We're probably not going to get anywhere arguing about the importance of a programming language, etc., but thank you for this conversation and sharing your thoughts, as it did open up my eyes to differing opinions.

Cheers!
> Break-up pi in whatever means you think is reasonable.

You can't. Pi is irrational.
Microsoft is shipping a data centre in a 40-foot container
> That seems like cuttlefish can exert self control, all right, but what's not clear is why. In species such as parrots, primates, and corvids, delayed gratification has been linked to factors such as tool use (because it requires planning ahead), food caching (for obvious reasons) and social competence (because prosocial behaviour - such as making sure everyone has food - benefits social species).
>
> Cuttlefish, as far as we know, don't use tools or cache food, nor are they especially social ...

This feels like an evolutionary attribution error, if that's a thing. Self control is different from a thumb; there aren't necessarily any genes that code for it.

My first guess would be that, in order for a creature to be as smart as a cuttlefish, it needs to have a mental model of spacetime and of itself. Self-control is just one of the many results of such intelligence.
JavaScript Libraries every developer should know
Covid Vaccines – Now for Sale on the Dark Web for $200
> What is the consensus on forwarding any search "terms" to Google and then "scraping" the results back into the user - sort of a "proxy" search.

Isn't this what DuckDuckGo does but with Bing?
Yep. One hedge fund lost billions while a dozen more who could spare the effort to model these pumps made away with every penny the "rebels" spent!
Hey all, we wrote rpCheckup after seeing the Endgame (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26154038) post the other day. A lot of the issues it surfaces are things we routinely check for with our customers, but we are unaware of any open source tools that help AWS customers check on their own.

We would love to get your feedback and we hope you find it useful.
I'm curious as well.

I've seen lots of folks talking about pipewire, but I'm a simple audio user - I want software mixing and audio out via a headphone jack and that's all.

I'm pretty sure for most folks we'll just wait until our distro decides to move over, it'll happen in the background, and we'll not notice or care.
Almost every problem is solvable if you throw enough money at it. My point isn't that we're stuck with an unsolvable situation but that EV manufacturers are driving up sales faster than they, governments, or other companies are building the infrastructure to support them. There are 1.2bn cars on the road, even a fraction of that fast charging is a higher load than anything we regularly do now. And that's on top of what we already consume. Imagine just 5 locomotives running at maximum in close to every gas station today and you'll visualize the magnitude.

And all that is a problem only as far as people planning today under the assumption that they can just quick charge in 15min and it can only get faster. But they ignore the aspect of scaling. We are nowhere near providing quick charge capability as people imagine when they make such assumptions. And we won't be in 2030 either, when many manufacturers decided to have a fully electric fleet. Which isn't to say that we should stop buying EVs, we should just stop making unrealistic assumptions under best case conditions when planning or comparing tech.

It's the kind of assumption people get wrong even when thinking of household items like an electric stove. If each element is 2.5-3KW the assumption is they'll operate at that level even when running together. Then they scratch their head when the food just doesn't seem to get cooked as fast as they expected all of a sudden. Scaling up never comes to mind.

As for hydrogen, the best business case for it probably does not overlap the one for BEVs. It should target everything batteries can't, as many other commenters here pointed out. Some public transport operators are building as we speak fleets of fuel cell trains (to the tune of hundreds of millions) because overhead lines are missing in many areas they service and the alternative is diesel. There's a case to be made for quick "diesel like" refueling especially when in the hands of organized operators.
Do you know if these efforts also only limit the formula describing these Qbit to computable reals?

I think it's a quite interesting crossroad.

Either reals don't exist, and everything is at most turing complete, in which case the universe is detemernistic and predictable, yet there are very hard boundaries to what can be known and proven.

Or reals DO exist in which case the church turing thesis is false, as the universe (with it's operations on reals) is a reified example of a super turing system, in which case we can know a lot more things than in the discrete case, but some of that knowledge can only be grasped intuitively, because the moment you try to articulate it into formulas, it's discretized and thus limited to your sub-universe/brain powerfull turing machine.
Note that Skydio isn't immune to thin branches - AFAIK no current tech can reliably detect them at distance sufficient for avoidance at high speeds. There are Youtube videos demonstrating Skydio crashes caused by these (and similar low visibility obstacles). Also note that while Skydio has technically superior avoidance tech (360 view vs forward only on DJI drones), it failed to capture non-negligible consumer market share and has pivoted to commercial drone niche.
That is what the authors stated means in practice, so your assessment is correct. This seems trivial, like I can just use an onion router for this.
And Wordtsar, but it needs X.
Can you describe or point to a simpler (or any) apparatus that would be capable of this result?
AMD announces it will have ‘significantly more GPUs available’
تحميل لعبة ماي بلاي هوم My Play Home جميع الإصدارات مجانا
I pay for a stand-alone and the only upsell I can recall seeing over and over again is "audit protection" for ~$59 or so. Is the free version filled with add-ons?
Thanks - so it sounds like a 100% speedup would put it into "decent" territory
Yes, they are two binary operations and depending on the sets you consider and which properties you impose for those operations you have different algebraic structures. (This used to be taught at school before "modern mathematics" were considered harmful, maybe they were but at least they were correct).

The thing is that as you can write m (let it be a positive integer) as m=1+...+1 (m-times), you can write n·m=n·(1+...+1), invoke the distributive property for · wrt + and express it as: n·m=n+...+n (m-times), so it looks like "repeated addition" for integers in this case. But it's not a good idea to let ourselves get carried away, we still have two binary operations going on. At any rate we have to impose that n·0=0, which can't be writen cleverly as "repeated addition" and worked up backwards.
The content "trending_up" is almost useless, a voiceover will not interpret the underscore as a space.

There are no ARIA attributes that link any of the text to the buttons.
one that comes to mind is urbit.org :)
> You can't. Pi is irrational.

You just need to break it up infinitely times. We usually call the sequence 31415926...
yeah it drives me wild that so many strongly typed languages (graphQL and typescript immediately come to mind) allow null/undefined values by default. I should have to opt-in to make a value optional! At least then both the compiler and I are aware of where I need to test for nullsy values.
Parler's CEO claimed they did not.
As a tangent, I wonder if Bitcoin mining could re-ignite the nuclear power industry. Nuclear power plants involve a high upfront capital cost, then produce a long-life of fixed electricity output at near-zero marginal cost.

My understanding is that one reason more plants were built in the 60s was because electricity prices were fixed by regulators. That made financial modeling easier, because investors could legibly forecast their payback on the capital investment. When electricity moved to free floating price markets, it introduced much more risk and therefore increased the cost of capital.

Seems like nuclear power and bitcoin mining are a match made in heaven. Demand remains smooth and predictable, even from minute to minute. The marginal cost of electricity is near zero. Many of the large mining pools are so large and well capitalized that they could afford to commission a dedicated plant.
The issue isn't the lobbying per se, but rather that it's not hard to look at the situation and conclude that Congress is favoring the interests of TurboTax over the interests of their constituents.

It's difficult for me to believe that my representatives actually believe it's in my best interest to pay TurboTax $100 every year, compared to having the IRS automatically file my taxes.

On the other hard, it's easy to believe that my representatives have been cheaply bought with political donations.
And to have all that with budget and time constraints >90% of SW development is faced with is unrealistic - so guess what - performance is the first tradeoff. Which is why people here lamenting on performance being like this holy grail feature are out of touch with the realities of SW development.
Like it or not, the dating pool is a function of supply and demand. That makes it a market.

Social media has expanded the potential dating pool while removing anonymity. This changes behaviors.
Somewhat orthogonal to this discussion, but I'm so glad Urbit is gaining steam every day.
Schnorr got close to making such a claim in a previous version of the paper [1, Section 6]. Namely, that NTRU is close to being broken if a sufficiently short vector (it is not specified how short) is found.

The main claim of Schnorr's, as far as I can gather, is that for lattices where the shortest vector(s) are much shorter than the maximum shortest vector(s) for the same dimension, i.e., low-density lattices, those vectors can be found in heuristic polynomial time with his enumeration approach.

Now, low-density lattices are fairly common in cryptographic settings, where the solution, discoverable by finding shortest vectors, is unusually short/close relatively to what one would expect in a random lattice.

As such, if true, I would expect Schnorr's idea to lead to more breaks than just RSA. But I don't personally think it's true. At the same time, I'm not a lattice expert, so make of that what you will.

[1] https://www.math.uni-frankfurt.de/~dmst/research/papers/SVP2...
https://www.blockchain.com/charts/transactions-per-second

The maximum is about 8. But who cares at the end of the day. Settlement will be a rare event and needs to be for the reasons I just mentioned. Its the only system that works for decentralization and to deal with the bloating issue.
Fundraising for Video Game Developers
The proof of the pudding is in factoring these numbers and collecting the prize money: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_Factoring_Challenge
> Redistributing against payment implies that the purchaser is willing to pay in the first place and of course that payment should be made to the original creator / rights holder.

This argument can get muddy because of parties that are involved between the creator and the consumer, like record companies. Where sometimes the original creator does not see any money (or an unfair low amount) and all the intermediates reap the most profit for basically sitting on an acquired IP or copyright.

I'd love to give money to a original creator for their effort in creating their art to support them to create more, but I hate to fuel an industry that is actively fighting creation and innovation by lobbying for extended copyright and artificially fragmenting supply and hindering paying users with DRM (digital restrictions management).
A similar interesting lens is the 5200 mm f/14 that Canon built in the 60s: https://petapixel.com/2010/01/06/ginormous-5200mm-canon-lens...
Looks like Brendan is, in a sense, in the process of cloning Google, only in reverse order: browser, ads, and now search!
I used to work near a college, this is a very real thing.
In that same thread someone mentioned OpenFisca [0], which is used to codify tax law. Have you considering utilising it instead of re-inventing the wheel?

[0] https://github.com/openfisca
DDG makes me nervous because I don’t actually understand their business model. Which isn’t to say they don’t have a well-known and viable one but I haven’t personally looked into it and as a result my gut feeling is that they are probably not an exception to this.

I use them anyway because they at least claim to be private and haven’t yet given me specific reason to doubt it. I probably should at some point take the time, though, to try to actually understand how they can viably exist in a way that isn’t going to succumb to the same corrupting incentives as google.
>> If you do try modularize JavaScript, you're going to need a compilation chain to package it all together - so you're not getting away from that.

That's not always the case on the front end (it's still possible to code on the front end without a bundler). And it's certainly not the case on the backend (I.e. Node.js).

>> Sure it adds up, but it's a tradeoff. If you're writing a dinky little web app for your grandma, maybe that trade-off isn't worth it.

This could not be further from my own experience having gone back and forth between JavaScript and TypeScript multiple times both professionally and as part of my open source work for over a decade.

I've built highly complex scalable distributed pub/sub systems, P2P systems, blockchains and a decentralized exchange using plain JavaScript in record time with no bugs found for over a year.
In the episode they actually tackle this issue. They say that fintech may well be the solution to decentralizing from London, creating fintech hubs all around the uk
Eich (Brave CEO) co-founded Mozilla, FYI
Deliverr scores $170M to bring fast delivery to every e-commerce vendor
I have never had problems with audio on Linux. What problems does this solve?
Cubed – An Open Source Data Mart as a Service Platform
I wonder if someone could FOIA their audit software stack and put that up on GitHub and Docker Hub
For whatever reason, this never bothered me. The service wasn't any worse for it, I didn't really feel taken advantage of... technically they were part of how I might have gotten to one of those links.

I guess there's the loss in privacy where it's known what browser I use, but that's not the kind of privacy loss that worries me.

They've got to pay the bills somehow, and while they should have been more up-front about doing it this way, and it is a breach of trust, it still landed in the realm of "reasonable asking for forgiveness" to me.

> I don't trust their promises.

Maybe I'm just not seeing which promise it was that was broken so badly.
Dismantling the shit one turd at a time.
How does shorting destroy a company destroy it?
I hope we figure out how to terraform Earth first
Yes I believe search produces the lion's share of revenue for the company still. But yeah, all of their products/services work together to build a comprehensive dataset about the user.
There are tons of SARS-CoV-2 isolates. It took me about a minute to locate two papers detailing isolation of the virus:

* "Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 from Patient with Coronavirus Disease, United States": https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2606.200516

* "Isolation and characterization of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 in Turkey": https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0238614

The website also has an article titled, "Die Virusexistenzbehauptungen von SARS-CoV-2 sind eindeutig widerlegt," which translates to, "The claims of the existence of the virus SARS-CoV-2 are definitively disproved."
> That really only leaves two kinds of claims that might have legs: arguing that Robinhood violated securities laws, and arguing conspiracy on the part of hedge funds. The first part is difficult to win on because many of the complainants will simply lack the standing to do so (you have to have owned the stocks in question and bought/sold at a manipulated price to show standing, and since the complaints are generally on the theme of "we tried to buy but couldn't", they fail that)

Someone that owned GME shares could argue that by restricting buying but not selling shares, Robinhood was acting to lower the value of this asset. They might argue that in this situation the only fair thing to do is to restrict buying and selling altogether.
Law and Regulation on AI
Why not just say:

There is the symbol '*'. And when there's two integers it does one thing, and you can think about it as repeated addition. But when there's something different, it works differently. But now we're just going to concentrate on integers.
100%. And single young men with no prospect of a family life are not going to just accept their lot. The director of the FBI in the last few days listed “incels” as a group of “extremists” that they are concerned about. But society can’t subdue 30% of men through law enforcement. It has to give them a place in society. And as you point out, that is the function of monogamous marriage. We are in trouble.