skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't mind paying for a service, but with a URL that includes the word "free" I was surprised to see at the top of the page "State Returns $14.99 $12.95 — 12 more days to save on state filing"
Because everyone (for certain values of everyone) has a niche issue that current software doesn't address or addresses poorly, or they just don't want to pay for something that the government should provide. It's their damn tax code, the least they could do is make it as simple as possible to PAY THEM MONEY.
Science
Which of the following factors contribute to the periodic changes in Earth's temperature known as the Milankovitch cycles?
Tuesday at Boston.pm: Perl subroutine signatures and type validation
This was also the ACB take on Second Amendment rights which you may remember from recent confirmation hearings: yes, we can let felons have guns, because a felony "includes everything from Kanter's offense, mail fraud, to selling pigs without a license in Massachusetts, redeeming large quantities of out-of-state bottle deposits in Michigan, and countless other state and federal offenses." Thus it's very poorly related to the risk levels involved. (DC vs Heller.)

Overreliance on the category "felon" also shows up in a recent Gorsuch take on the Fourth Amendment: "We live in a world in which everything has been criminalized. And some professors have even opined that there's not an American alive who hasn't committed a felony in some—under some state law. And in a world like that, why doesn't it make sense to retreat back to the original meaning of the Fourth Amendment, which I'm going to oversimplify, but generally says that you get to go into a home without a warrant if the officer sees a violent action or something that's likely to lead to imminent violence… Why isn't that the right approach?
(Lange v. California)
I get no paywall but no content that way.

http://archive.is/0ggPB
When was it? I've never heard of a time when the system wasn't opt-in.
Joshua Bardwell (a prominent FPV YouTuber) has a review video up. It looks very cool and performant. Unfortunately one of his units broke an arm after a relatively common looking crash during his review.
Part of the point is perfect DEn costs. Even shotty DRM costs a lot. To develop, to maintain and upgrade as it is defeated. On top of that is costs to customer frustration and loss of utility.

It is better to spend on making your product better, your customers happier. Then chase tiny amount hostile users.
> Piracy is a driver for so much software becoming a "service" with components (or even the whole app) that live only in the cloud.

There are many reasons for moving into saas space:

You move into cloud and now your client doesn't have to maintain additional servers, they probably get support too. This becomes a trap because if they decide they don't like your service... now you hold their data too and since it's in your service you control how locked-in with you they've become and how difficult it's to replace you.

Now you charge in subscription, you get monies all the time! If your clients are individuals you can now have all manner of stoppers and dark patterns to keep them subscribed!

To me... greed, and then more greed are two main drivers for saas.

> Cheap catchy low-brow pop aims at a younger and less educated audience that doesn't know how to pirate.

Be careful on that high horse up there, if you fall you'll break your neck.
Wikipedia Size in Volumes
>Most people qualify for free filing

For that matter, everyone qualifies for free filing--although in practice it gets too complicated for most past some point. I know it sounds like something savages would do but it's actually possible to just fill out the forms by hand if your taxes are fairly simple.

I use an accountant who I've been using for years but if you just have a W-2, a 1099 or two, and just use the standard deduction, it'ls likely pretty simple to just fill out a 1040 form and a state tax form.
It does, exactly the same way as JACK, and you can even do it with pulseaudio apps! I could pipe audio from a firefox tab through guitarix (guitar amp emulator) into a second firefox tab if I wanted to. With just JACK or just Pulse this wouldn't be possible. And if I understand it correctly, it should work for video streams too. I'm imagining piping a screenshare through OBS before going into discord or something, should be very useful.
Multisig needs to be on-chain, and involves multiple disparate signatures. MPC creates a single signature offchain without any one party having a complete private key.
Pretty impressive outcome after less than 6 months on the market. I’m using mine for dev work but it’s mostly as a terminal at the moment to stuff in AWS. Oh and PyCharm which works perfectly.
yes cloud engineer
yes front end engineer
yes senior software cloud dev potato computer engineer
yes architectural neural network cloud potato software enterprise senior architect engineer

what does cloud engineer even mean?
A couple of thousand years ago, humans built massive engineering projects, including the Pyramids, massive irrigation and earthwork systems, and tunnels, and bridges, domesticated wild animals, produced metals - including steel - out nothing but wood, water, and low grade ore, etc, etc.

They did not have internal combustion engines, or electricity, or the ability to machine parts to high tolerances, but ancient engineers cared deeply about efficiently transforming mechanical energy from one form to another.
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> it is urgent to crack open this technology

Just as easy as putting the baby back in. It would be more constructive to work on ways to detect and reduce harm.
>> "I can't pirate Photoshop...so I'm just going to give up on graphics editing!"

Jasc's Paint Shop Pro was ~ $99, Corel was about half the price of PhotoShop...
By the way, why doesn't exponentiation have units in physics?

E.g. why don't we ever have something like kg^s?
The strategy is dominant, but amongst apes, its just that, dominant. Gorilla paternity testing reveals this lack of exclusivity, but the theory is that male testicle size amongst ape species tracks how exclusive females are. Promiscuity is rampant, its a question to what degree.
Google launches Flutter 2.0 to target developers across all platforms
Eh, I think it varies. All of the FAANG are such a huge gap of eachother.

About 6 years ago, Netflix and Google offered me far and away the most. Facebook Was Closer to them but still lower. Apple and Amazon were on par with the lower end of the spectrum.

I recently moved to Austin and started interviewing again, so far, AWS offered better wages than Apple and Oracle, especially for the area (was comparable to Seattle wage even), and Netflix and Google basically demanded I move (Netflix to Cali, Google to NYC). And Facebook I don't know because I refuse to work there.

So I think mileage may vary. AWS seems to pay a "Flat Rate" across the board, so if you live somewhere other than NYC, Seattle, or SF, your pay will likely be better than the adjusted wages other companies factor in for smaller cities.

Although I ended up taking an offer for Salesforce because they blew everyone else away pay wise.
The other comments provided a great overview, but I would really recommend read ProPublica's reporting about them [1]

Some very brief highlights:

- They use dark patterns and other trickery to prevent people from filing for free (the vast majority of Americans can file for free via IRS free-file), instead directing them to the "free" up-sell laden product

- Lobbying against literally anything that would make filing taxes easier or cheaper. It doesn't have to be this way (and it's not in many countries), but it's how they make their money.

[1] https://www.propublica.org/series/the-turbotax-trap
As long as you administer the tests properly, I shouldn't care whether you oppose the basis for those tests politically.
Those aren't fuels - those are chemicals found in crude oil. You don't burn crude oil in power plants. Burning less coal or natural gas doesn't decrease access to plastics and other organic chemicals.

That there are starving people in africa is not a valid argument for Americans to over eat, likewise the lack of cheap reliable alternatives to fossil fuels in the third world is not a reason for the developed world to also keep burning fossil fuels.
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https://github.com/gregsramblings/google-cloud-4-words -> this is where the PDF appears to be generated from, and it has searchable text of the content in its README on the main page, and links to docs on each, and the mobile content that got left off the PDF.
Despite the 20+ mile drive I prefer Alamo to any other theatre in no small part due to their - depending on your view
- strict but reasonable or utterly draconian [1] no using your phone rules. Having said that, when they got aggressive about expanding they shrunk their menu and removed local variations of both food and beer. Frankly, Alamo without a Honey I Shrimped The Pigs just ain't the same Alamo. I'd like them to let local managers add back a bit of flavor, maybe do pop ups in conjunction with local restaurants [2] and otherwise improve their food and drink offerings back to the quality they were when the chain started. Prior to the pandemic I still went to Alamo for my movies, but I ate beforehand.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L3eeC2lJZs

[2] https://www.houstoniamag.com/eat-and-drink/southern-smoke-is...

Chris Shepherd's Southern Smoke Foundation is doing pop ups in conjunction with other businesses and donating the profits to help food service workers impacted by the pandemic; both financial aid and mental health care. Laudable and his food is good.
FAANG using hyped language to recruit.
fs.promises.readFile is 40% slower than fs.readFile
This is way beyond wishful thinking. Apple will do what it makes most sense in their business strategy. Due to their past transgressions against the open source community, what makes you think that community fits in their business strategy?
This study [1] does a good job rigorously comparing 1/N to various alternative trading strategies. It also talks about situations where 1/N is more or less likely to dominate.

"Our simulations show that optimal diversification policies will dominate the 1/N rule only for very high levels of idiosyncratic volatility."

[1] http://faculty.london.edu/avmiguel/DeMiguel-Garlappi-Uppal-R...
The Axios version [0] of this is so much more palatable, to the point and not behind a paywall. Can we maybe consider swapping to this instead?

https://www.axios.com/google-goodbye-individual-user-trackin...
I believe the word you are looking for is "critique", and it is not a BS term, it is accurate use of the correct word:

https://www.dailywritingtips.com/critique-vs-criticism/
The AT&T Pixel Machine: A modern GPU in 1988 (VCFMW 2019)
A task being easier than it used to be doesn't mean that task's process shouldn't be improved or that its existence shouldn't be questioned altogether as a matter of course.
The product is amazing, but I'm sad that the first amazing integrated fpv product out is coming from DJI. It makes perfect sense, but I hate giving them money as each DJI purchase is a positive reinforcement for their abhorrent approach to consumer privacy.

I'll probably get one, but continue to complain loudly online that every DJI product, including the offline ones, requires an account and email address and registration and the transmission of your serial number for it to work - including their little handheld, no-internet, record-to-sd-card cameras. :/
They have publications:

https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/modernized-e-file-mef-u...
Jeff Hawkins claims he’s figured out how intelligence works
With Coinbase going public and another crypto start up to be acquired. Anyone else here believes that "dumb people buy crypto, smart people make marketplace"?

To me, it seems that is the main money maker and not 'day trading bitcoin/eth/ and alt-coins'? Unless you the founder of a brand new coin and make truck load of money from ICO only - which has been the case so far.
Your argument starts from the premise that just because you have a goal, method and precedent you can continue to justify industrialised cruelty.
As with every vaping-panic story, incredibly light on details. They don't even really say what they mean by "vaping weed", which you'd think would be important to nail down.

I'm guessing they mean weed pens, which have cartridges filled with concentrates and are often totally unregulated and therefore could contain god-knows-what. And I'm guessing they don't mean putting cannabis buds in a vaporizer, nor taking a concentrate and vaporizing it directly (called "dabbing").

But you know, who knows! Let's just say "vaping weed is bad" and leave it at that!
"Cancelled"

(They just haven't announced many of them yet)
> But how charming, after all, when men grow dainty and women daring! Today might and tomorrow will bring such miracles to pass. Definitions are losing something of their definiteness. Sex is a technicality for the consideration of pathology and physiology; the psychologist is after the individual. It is no longer a question of are you a Man? or are you a Woman?—the answer is, I am an Individual. “I am what I am and so will I be,” as the old lines go. There are men who wear their hair long; there are women who wear their hair short; and yet there are those who still say, “A man’s a man for a’ that!” Trousers, and other things, I hold to be mere arbitrary symbols of sex which I, for one, think obsolete. [emphasis in original]

It only took another few decades for this idea to become more commonplace.
The namespace issue was frequently brought up with the crates.io team on Discord, Github, and focus groups at various points over the life of the service. The takeaway is that the lack of namespaces isn't a funding issue, they did not, and still do not believe it is the right design. I personally don't think this is correct, and squatting is very prevalent right now. It's been a bit of a broken record at this point, but at the end of the day it's a volunteer run project and the volunteers that are willing to spend the time to maintain it don't want the feature. I think overall this is a pain point, but by no means a deal breaker.
It had a great run. The silver lining is that there's now absolutely no reason one ever has to go to sixth street!
How Zoom Is Changing American Sign Language
I must say, this repo is awesome
Peak Design Calls Out Amazon for ‘Copycatting’ the Everyday Sling Bag
Being glue and expanding your graph
It's a kind of developer and operations role that focuses on cloud technologies, typically the big three (AWS/GCP/Azure).

Why? Do you care or are you just making fun of the job title? If someone wrote "as a Windows Engineer" would you have scoffed?
While I completely agree with your point, and the number required is probably pretty low, the point of FLOC is that no one will need to identify a real person for any “proper” reason.

Advertising rarely is about targeting “John doe” but usually about targeting “[men] && [in Springfield] && [searching for a baldness cures]”.

(I still will do everything in my technical power to disable floc, and still will never trust google). But I do think the implementation removes most of the advertising incentive to track on an individual person level.
> One need look no further than the numerous metaphors that have been passed down from these non-urban times: stubborn as a mule, wise as serpents, cunning like a fox, horse-sense, wise as an owl, etc...

Are you sure that comes from nature observation ?

Satire used to criticize the powerful of the world picturing them as animals. So these associations might not come from where you think they do. La Fontaine's fables are a good example of that. He was not the only one to do that.
After research I went with the Radiomaster TX16s. There are several specs and I went for the mid-range version that has Hall effect gimbals for the sticks. You can get more console controller style radios as well but I fancied the bigger screen and a bit more space.
I'm reminded of the way health concerns are handled for pilots. As I understand it, you get your medical from an authorized doctor, and that certifies that in health terms you're fit for the job. Different roles require different levels of medical certificate. With that done, your employer has no business prying further regarding your health.
The food selection is better, but every time I have been the actual execution has been pretty poor which is why I stopped going to the Alamo near me. I would rather eat before or after and see the movie in my other local theater which also has lower ticket prices and more comfortable seating.
“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.”

This is exactly how it works in Chile, you pretty much check the numbers and make sure they match with your figures and done. For free.
Sharks That Glow in the Dark?
Flutter 2.0 reaches stable and adds support for foldable and dual-screen devices
> The real problem with ethics is that it's not a science

This is simply untrue. The goal of AI ethics research is (also) to build algorithms where one of the _inputs_ is a set of ethics. It doesn't matter what those ethics are. It just so happens that the "set of ethics" currently fed in tends to have a particular flavor ("woke liberal" ethics), which you seem to disagree with. Finding the algorithms matters, and it's likely that the standard ethics put in are going to come from some dominant ideology, but we still need the algorithms if we are to understand how to make AI that aligns with humanity's interests (however they are defined).

I'd call that computer science.
I'm in ATX. It's ludicrous pandering to his base to keep his job rather than considering public health during an on-going pandemic that can resurge at any time. The
twitterverse is also enraged that stores like H-E-B dropped their mandatory mask requirements also. This signals I'm going to have to stay inside even more because another large wave of an extremely-contagious mutant SARS-CoV-2 strain is now inevitable due to myopic, political idiocy. Abbott and his ilk are proud of their risky anti-intellectualism.
> I’m not going to support anyone that makes a profit breaking the rules, gets caught, says sorry not sorry, continues to profit off breaking the rules

So no Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, etc?
Yes. Because every idea that makes me uncomfortable is worth my time exploring. /s Presumptive of you to think I haven't, though. Red pill ideology is garbage.
While true that has nothing to do with shorts.
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There is none. Plug it in, call it a day. As long as the IP address on your router doesn't shift too frequently, it's basically maintenance free. A Pi 4 doesn't heat up too much unless you're CPU-bound and running without an additional cooler. I routinely have days of uptime in a row, and the only time I reboot is when I'm bored.
Maybe mirrored props could form a LIDAR?! :)
You don't have to type; you can copy&paste. Still annoying though
You are the second person I have come across that uses PI to get software estimates. "I am not sure why but it works, except when it doesnt then I know exactly why"

What I found was most people over/under estimate things. They also tend to do it consistently at the same rate. Typically they have a scaling factor you can use. Around 3 seems to be the sweet spot for most people. You could just as easily use 3.1 or 3.2 and get a similar answer. I usually go for 3 because I can do that in my head without a calculator.
You're absolutely right. This is a much better explanation, and we'll improve our language with this advice in mind.

Thank you so much for your help and input!
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> "Don't dismiss them all because you disagree with some of them." was rather thoughtless.

Th OP refered to them as a back scratching "mob", but when I say don't dismiss them all you accuse me of being "rather thoughtless" and using a "playground dismissal" when I gave specific reasons why they are qualified for the job.
No worries. If there's just one thing I want to get across though, it's that as drone operators, we are collectively responsible for how the broader community views us and drones.

Random drones floating through neighborhoods is sketchy from a safety standpoint but also it tends to upset people, who often think that any drone they see is spying on them. Just a consideration.

Personally I like to fly around abandoned buildings and decrepit structures. Lots of interesting flying to be done and cool vids to be taken, and there's nobody around to complain :)
> Maybe it's "bull pucky" to you

and a lot of other people too

> big on opinion

&

> Right now, the system we have is pretty good.
> I have vivid memories...

Sounds like the whole discussion is rife with opinion.

BTW, you have my sympathy, but your story doesn't shore up your argument. It only sounds like tax filing in the States has gotten better. And better locally is not best globally, by a long shot.

In general the States has been shot through for so long with so much corruption (aka special interests and campaign contributions and lobbying) that the citizenry has a perversely skewed idea of what is normal. /rant
In most of the country (by area) you can still buy a house for few months salary. There have been examples of sea view land given away (If you promise to build and move in)

Land (and thus homes) is expensive near cities, but cheap elsewhere.
On a side note, randomservices.org is a great resource. Used it as a reference often through my statistics undergrad.
In that case, will Google remove the "X-Client-Data" identifier, which is sent every time you visit any third-party site that uses any google resource, such as Google Fonts, Google Analytics, or DoubleClick? I doubt so. They and by extension the government will still track your specific web browsing– as in the title, they just won't sell ads based on it.
Interesting.

Did it say how they measured BMI? Was it the lazy height/weight way or the real way? I can't see the full study due to a pay wall and it doesn't say in the abstract. I would also be interested to see if they had any selection criteria based on lifestyle (exercise and healthy food selections) and family history since it only mentions adjustments for age, sex, and race.

Also, I would like to see the BMI by subgroup. Based on their breakdown they are comparing omnivores to vegans but leave out the vegetarian and pesectarian results.

Here's one that compares a healthy Mediterranean diet with a healthy vegetarian one. The conclusion was that they are comparable.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29483085/
I work in the research arm of a certain extremely famous hospital in a small town in the midwest, and once you guys get your histo package up and running, I'll definitely check it out. It's a crowded space, but we're always on the lookout for the next big thing.

I do wonder, though, about the wisdom of doing that sort of analysis in the cloud. Our projects routinely use several terabytes of images (we have about 150TB stored right now, most of which is full-slide images), and uploading them somewhere isn't just a simple fire-and-forget procedure. Cool analysis algorithms might not be enough to make up for the headache of having to wait for days on end for the uploads to reach the cloud.